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...remind TIME U. S. C. scored on twice before during this year-in the Rose Bowl New Year's game Jan. i, 1932 with Tulane, final score...
...received offers to play professional football next year, J. W. Crickard ocC, stated that he had not received any definite offer from professional teams and had not given the prospect serious thought. Also in regard to the East-West football game to be played in the Rose Bowl, in Pasadena, California, in which Crickard has been mentioned for a position on the eastern team, he denied having made any decision as to his participation. Since he has completed his athletic career at Harvard, a charge of professionalism cannot affect his amateur rating which the University requires...
...football games that Harvard and Yale have played, he has seen all but one. But even Banker Ellis had never seen a Harvard-Yale game quite like the one last week. A gusty south wind from Long Island Sound lashed rain into the Yale Bowl by the cloudful. The 50,000 people (who contributed only $2,315 to solicitors for an unemployment fund) kept away from the field till the last minute and then piled into the Bowl wearing oilskins, rubber boots, blankets, with newspapers folded around their necks for scarves and wrapped around their hats. The storm made...
...reads the papers or listens to the radio needs to be told that college football is no longer a miraculous money-maker. Harvard's team did not play before a single capacity crowd in the stadium during the season just ended. Yale's experience in the bowl was only a little happier. Dartmouth's income from gate receipts this fall was so meagre that the athletic council has been forced to abolish formal freshman teams in all sports except football. The experience of these three New England colleges is probably typical of gridiron conditions throughout the country. Except where...
...article, which was probably written a month or two ago. But, as regards the New England situation at least, one wonders if his announcement of football's demise is not slightly premature. If tickets to the Harvard-Yale game had been $2.50 each instead of $4.00, would not the bowl have been filled last Saturday (assuming, of course, that the sun shone!)? Aren't such games, which serve as much as social gatherings as athletic spectacles, so deeply embedded in tradition that they will continue indefinitely? And, if the non-collegiate public has lost its taste for college games...