There were flowery floats and cars and trucks, old-fashioned wagons banked up,and festooned with a multitude of roses. All through the streets of Pasadena they went, and the populace made carnival, rioting, waving, singing, skipping; wearing roses, smelling roses, throwing roses, wading through roses. For months, a committee had planned it all, the parade and pageant of the Tournament of Roses.†
Gradually the streets of Pasadena emptied as the rout and revel wound out to the Rose Bowl for the annual East-West football game. On a bench in the stadium, Coach Knute...
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