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...sports are held in the 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...
Basketball as a major sport at least within two years, if not next year, is the hope of the Physical Training Department of the University. It is natural to expect that the 25 Freshmen who are now reporting for the 1923 team will be anxious to form a University five next year; in addition to these, there are many men in the University who have played basketball on their school teams, but have not had the opportunity here at College. Such men as these the Department plans to accommodate by means of informal games throughout the winter. The Freshmen meanwhile...
...hearty support accorded to the 1923 basketball team is an evidence that interest in this sport has revived. Its organization among Freshmen is but a step in the direction of establishing it as a Varsity sport. The formation of class teams should come next. That such action would be favored is shown by the number of men who played last year on the Randolph courts. Without the incentive of a schedule or regular practice, there were always enough players on hand to form two teams; at times as many as four or five...
...generally recognized that no winter sport affords a better opportunity for exercise with the additional features of organized play. Class basketball teams will go a long way to meet the ever-increasing demands for winter exercise...