Sport: The Mighty Felled

The first week in November, a large part of the U. S. population comes down with Rose Bowl fever. At Los Angeles last week the epidemic was most pronounced. Over 95,000 football fans, snuggled in University of Southern California's Memorial Coliseum, suffered chills up & down their spines as they watched the two top-ranking teams in the Pacific Coast Conference match wits and strength in a struggle to determine the West Coast's representative* in the annual Rose Bowl game on New Year's Day.

One was undefeated California, last year's Rose Bowl winner, which had...

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