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Rose Bowl. In Pasadena, 85,000 including 2,000 sombreroed Texans, watched a favored Southern Methodist attack, led by an All-America mite, Bobby Wilson, falter before Stanford's rugged defense, finally fall 7-to-0. Outstanding star was none of the four All-America players, but Quarterback Bill Paulman who scored Stanford's touchdown in the first period, intercepted four passes, kept Southern Methodist at bay with booming punts...
Texas' rough-&-ready Governor James V. Allred was leaving the Pasadena, Calif., Rose Bowl (see p. 43) when he received a telegram from Secretary of the Texas Senate Robert ("Bob") Barker stating that Acting Governor Wilbourne Collie had called a special session of the legislature. Indignant, Governor Allred summoned a police escort to get through the football crowd, fumed when traffic blocked his car, clambered on the back of a motorcycle, fumed when traffic blocked the motorcycle, hopped off, hurried on foot to his hotel. While packing to board a plane, he learned that the Secretary of the Senate...
Other members of the commission will be Leonard D. White, of Washington, D. C., United States Civil Service Commissioner; William B. Murno, of Pasadena, California, professor of History and Government at the California Institute of Technology; Wallace B. Donham '98, Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration; Harold H. Burbank, professor of Political Economy; and Morris B. Latuble, professor of Government, who will serve as secretary of the commission...
...agitate a bag of wind!" That was in 1873. Last week there was not a corner in the land which did not hold a college president who would not have been delighted to dispatch a trainload of players, coaches, rubbers, managers, bandsmen on the long, expensive trip to Pasadena for the publicity and profit of playing in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. Named by the Pacific Coast Conference week before to represent the West, Stanford was not to select its Eastern opponent until this week. But the regiment of sportswriters and radio commentators that converged...
After the war Bob Fisher became head coach in the fall of 1919 and after the season's close the team was invited to go to Pasadena, where it became the first Eastern team to win a Rose Bowl game, which it did, 7-6, (a touchdown and goal, against two field goals) The number of Yale games which Harvard won 10-8 comprised one unusual phase of Fisher's regime. He held the reins of head coach from 1919 through 1925, when he was followed by Arnle Horween in 1926. Horween's 1928 team had the famous lateral pass...