Word: kezar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Francisco shared his sentiment. Professional football's eastern title had already been won by the Cleveland Browns, but the Forty Niners were still in the race in the west. The city was full of loyal fans, desperate to see the game. The trouble was that Kezar Stadium can only accommodate 60,000 of them, and those who got shut out could not go home to watch the festivities on TV. Unlike big-league baseball, pro football does not give away what it has to sell, blacks out the local area when a home game is being played...
...star contests. At Miami's Orange Bowl, a Northern eleven, led by Oklahoma's All-America Halfback Tommy McDonald and leaning heavily on the good passing arm of Purdue's Len Dawson, beat the pride of the South, 17-7. At San Francisco's Kezar Stadium, Stanford's All-America Passer John Brodie joined forces with U.S.C.'s Jon Arnett and U.C.L.A.'s Pete O'Garro to lead his Western teammates to a 7-6 upset over Notre Dame's Paul Hornung and the Eastern All-Stars...