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Show 345,000 Holiday Football Fans Flock to Bowls; Seven Games Offer Bril liaht Spectacles Life was just a bowl of football games Wednesday for nearly 313,-000 313,-000 fans who turned out to see seven New Year's day attractions, ranging from the Orange bowl In Florida to the Pineapple game In sunny Hololulu. The largest single turnout was at Pasadena, Cal., where 00,000 gathered In the Rose bowl to see Stanford battle Nebraska in Ideal weather. A crowd of 1,500,000 persons per-sons witnessed the Tournament of Roses parade which preceded the game. Rain was forecast for New Orleans, Or-leans, but Tennessee, untied and unbeaten, hoped to complete Ita Sugar bowl game with the highly-touted highly-touted Boston Eagles before the storm broke. Warm, sunshiny weather favored the fifth annual Cotton bowl game at Dallas, where 45,500 persons filled the stadium to watch Texas A. & M. and Fordham battle. Skies were overcast at Miami, I where 40,000 gathered for the Orange bowl game between Missls-slpl Missls-slpl Slate's Maroons and Georgetown's George-town's Hoy as. A warm sun and dry field greeted greet-ed Arizona State and Western Reserve Re-serve for their Sun bowl game I before 15.000 fans at El Paso. Kezar stadium's capacity of 62.-000 62.-000 was taxed at San Francisco for the East-West charity game. In Honolulu, the Fresno (Cal.) State eleven was set to battle the University of Hawaii In the Pineapple Pine-apple bowl before 20,000 spectators. |