Word: pageants
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...famous "Tournament Park," acquired several years ago by the city of Pasadena. In this is the finest football field in Southern California and the only turf field. Here for many years winning teams from all sections of the world struggled in championship polo games the afternoon after the Pageant of Flowers, and the sport side of the festival has never been lost sight...
Football was now displaced polo as the great sport which attracts the crowds to the pageant. Although games between eastern and western teams have been held in various parts of the country, it was not until the New Year's festival of 1916 that the management first carried out the plan of having a football game in Pasadena between the best players of West and East. In that year the University of Washington defeated Brown by a 14 to 0 score, and the year after Oregon and Pennsylvania met and the former won by the same score...
...Donald G. Herring, a famous Princeton football player of former days, arrived in Cambridge yesterday to see Dean Briggs, chairman of the Athletic Committee, concerning the participation of the University in the Football Pageant to be held in Princeton on November 28. One of the chief features of this event is to be a football game between Princeton and Rutgers...
...Brookline Village Town Hall this evening, the Pierian Sodality Orchestra will give its first regular concert since the United States entered the war. The concert will be a part of a pageant to be held at the same place, and the music will include several light selections from popular operettas...
...Twelve volunteers are wanted to act as an escort at the Pageant to be given in Brookline on the afternoon...