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Show School Rejects Offer for Charity Game InLosAngelesi)rLjChrjstmasDay Before recommending the JJew York bid to play in Yankee stadium sta-dium the board rejected offers to play Texas A. and M. in a Christmas Christ-mas day game at Dallas, a charity game in Los Angeles Christmas day against an unnamed opponent and the Sun Bowl game in El Paso. Texas. New Year's day against Texas Tech. The C. U. eleven also was one of the foremost contenders for a bid to the Orange Bowl game in Miami. It was understood that the New York offer would net the university approximately 33 per cent of the gate receipts. However, the feature attraction of the game was the opportunity which it offered to reward the undefeated un-defeated and untied Colorado eleven for its successful season and test the true strength of the Rocky Mountain conference champion, which defeated Missouri university, 14 to 0, in its only game outside the conference. The prospect of the C. U. game against the strong Villanova eleven in New York City offered the greatest great-est opportunity in history for the region to boost its national rating, which has been slowly mounting upward in recent years. Colorado closed its 1937 aeaaon Thanksgiving day with a 14 to 7 trouncing of a strong Denver university uni-versity eleven. |