A thin rain hung its veils over 70,000 people assembled in the Rose Bowl at Pasadena on New Year's Day for the supreme intersectional football game of the season the "Tournament of Roses." Washington State, Pacific Coast champions, had on new red silk jerseys, red pants, red shoes, red helmets. Less flashily arrayed but more dangerously colored by its reputation as the greatest team that ever came from the South, Alabama's Crimson Tide was playing for the last time under supervision of Coach Wallace Wade.* Betters were favoring Alabama principally because the...
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