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Show 40 'Bov1' Games in Season Seems Like Overdoing Idea (Treat eae fiilnun eelles football game to SO thh) si U story of the kowt-csoM nw. e II good r Wdr Herewith, hi the mmi of three artlelee the bowl situatioa, Internatkmel Ntwi Service examines the ere-grans ere-grans of pasts n as ua um as they KaM today.) , By Charles Bneteta NEW YORK. Nov. 1 (INS) Ouachita collet, situated In Arka- delphla. Ark, with a student an. rollment of 957. bad a rather suo essful football season last year. Ol ten garnet on iu regular season schedule, Ouachita won eight, loving lov-ing only to Arkansas Stat and Magnolia. A. and M. It wai not unreasonable, fai view of this, that Ouachita should be invited to compete la a postseason post-season bowl game. As a matter of fact It was not inconceivable for Ouachita to play la two bowl ' games. As a matter of tact, Oua-; Oua-; chita did. Implicitly, that h Ouachita's business. Playing la a postseason gam that chaoses to call itsef a "bowl" Is not to be calculated as fundamentally harmful. Although It is true that of the half dosen major New Tear's day games, only one the East-Wast gam at Saa Francisco is a charity contest, many of the smaller fames had worthy beneficiaries. I Yari a Cans ' These, according to the bowl roundup written by George Shleb-ler Shleb-ler of the Ivy league for the 1949 NCAA yearbook. Included "hospitals, "hos-pitals, scouting, college funds, orphanages, or-phanages, conference treasuries, stadium expansion, veterans, underprivileged un-derprivileged children's societies, welfare projects, scholarship funds." These wildly assorted causes emanated from an even more wildly assorted group of postseason post-season games. Of the 50-odd bowl games played last year, five were actually played In bowls that Is, stadia with. -rhr-woTd bowl In their original title. Of the 50, moreover, only 20 were played on New Year's day, the accepted ac-cepted afternoon for bowl games. The others dsted as far back into 1948 as Thanksgiving and before. There was not only a Rose bowl, but a Little Rose bowl and a Texas Rose bowl. There were an east-west gsme and two north-south games, not to mention a blue-gray game. There were a Lily bowl In Bermuda, Ber-muda, an Ice bowl In Alaska, a Pineapple bowl In Hawaii, a Silver bowl In Mexico City and Rica bowl In Tokyo. Cold North Has 'ens The tradition of keeping bowl games to the sunny realms of the south and Pacific southwest Interfered Inter-fered not a whit with the Great Lakes bowl at Cleveland, the Refrigerator Re-frigerator bowl at Evansville, Ind, the Wheat bowt at Wichita, Kans., the Pear bowl at-Medford, Ore., or the Navy bowl at Chicago. Nor did it interfere two weeks ago with the playing of the Carver bowl In New Yprk, between a team from Maryland and a team from Ohio, In honor of a man who taught In Alabama. There was no Oil bowl game last year, but there was a Little Oil bowl game. There were Salad, Sun, Cigar, Raisin, Tangerine, Prairie, Vulcan, Orange Blossom, Glass, Fruit, Camelia, Flower, Fish, Grape. Oleander, Spindletop, Barley, Bar-ley, Wheat. Pear, Gold Dust and Paper bowls. Grew Rapidly The first bowl game was' held In 1902, when Michigan went west to victimize Stanford, 49 to 0, In the Rose bowl. This was such a spectacular spec-tacular accomplishment thst It took 14 years for the next Rose bowl gsme to be played. By the time Michigan got back to Pasadena Pasa-dena to beat Southern California by the same score 49 to 0 in the 1948 Rose bowl gsme, there were 40 bowl contests in operation. A spectacle similar to last y ear's Is la prospect this season. It Involves In-volves a certain calculated risk, best exemplified by the city of Jacksonville, Fla which stages not one bowl fame on New Year's day, but two. Missouri played Clemson In the 'Gator . bowl at Jacksonville last Jan. 1 while Florida A. and M. was playing Bethune-Cookman in the Flower bowl in the same metropolis. metrop-olis. "We showed up In the right town," mourned Missouri Coach Don Faurot, after Clemson had upset his Tigers by one point, "but the wrong stadium." |