Sport: Tournament of Roses

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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 climate of Pasadena is more like that of Tuscaloosa, Ala. than the cold, dry mountain airs of Pullman, Wash.

With Rocknesque strategy, Coach Wade sent out his second team to start with. Washington State, unable to gain, was cautious. Both sides kicked, watched for breaks. Suddenly Alabama's huge All-American tackle, Fred Sington. tore off his sweater, rushed onto the field; with him came Backfielders Cain, Suther, Campbell. In a few minutes Jimmy Moore slid in from the end as though in a reverse, took the ball from Campbell, tossed it far down the field to Flash Suther, who had no one to stop him. Eberdt intercepted a Washington State pass and in two plays the Tide had another score. Then Campbell broke through right tackle and got away. The second period was not over yet but the game was won. Essentially a defensive team, the ponderous Statesmen were demoralized. In the third period Guard Whitworth left his place in the line, booted a 30-yard field-goal for the Tide. Alabama 24, Washington State o.