The Bowlers

Just as if nothing had happened to spoil the fun (see above), football bowl committees last week were busily buttonholing the teams which will still be playing football in January. Arkansas State College hit some sort of a jackpot in the annual grab-bag by accepting two bowl games: the Refrigerator, this week in Evansville, Ind., and the Tangerine, in Orlando, Fla. on New Year's Day. Other bowl lineups:

The Sugar Bowl, in New Orleans: Tennessee, the nation's No. 1 team, v. unbeaten Maryland,* ranked No. 4.

The Rose Bowl, in Pasadena: Stanford, upset last week by California, v. Illinois, which edged Northwestern, 3-0, for the Illini's first unbeaten season since 1927.

The Orange Bowl, in Miami: Georgia Tech, unbeaten but once tied (by Duke), v. a team to be named this week.

The Cotton Bowl, in Dallas: Kentucky, which lost its fourth game last week (to Tennessee, 28-0), v. the winner of the wild & woolly Southwest Conference race, currently led by Texas Christian.

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Among the teams who wound up their 1951 schedules last week: Princeton, with triple-threat Halfback Dick Kazmaier out of action for half the game with a slight concussion, over Dartmouth, 13-0, for the Tigers' second straight undefeated season, second straight Ivy League title, 23rd straight victory, longest major streak in the nation; Michigan State, the nation's No. 2, over Colorado, 45-7, for the Spartans' 15th straight, and first undefeated season since 1913; Harvard and Yale, in a satisfactory 21-21 tie.

* Prompting two former chairmen of the Senate's Crime Investigating Committee, Tennessee's Estes Kefauver and Maryland's Herbert O'Conor, to put up a "friendly forfeit": a coonskin cap v. a barrel of oysters.

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