Alabama at Vanderbilt

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  The times-news. (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, North Carolina, December 1, 1937, page 1

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  CRIMSON TIDE ACCEPTS BID TO ROSE bowl United, Undefeated Team Will Play in Classic for Fifth Time BERKELEY, Cal. Dec. |. (UPD Kenneth PricStlcy. graduate man. ager of athletics at University Of California, last night announced that the University of Alabama had accepted an invitation 20 meet Califorrj ain the Rose Bowl football classic at Pasadena. C2i. New Years dav. PricstlCy’S announcement fol lowed a telephone conversation with II. G.. Crisp. director OF ejhlcticS a, Alabama and ended h.” great football mystery Of 1877 centcring around California : choice OF an opponent for the no. iday classic, II will be- Alabama’s fifth trip 10 the Bowl. Coached by Frank Thomas. the AlabamanS went through Il season Of no defeats and No ties. and were considered the class Of this years crop Of southern teams. Alabama defeated Howard IL o: Scwancc 600; South Carolina 900: Tennessee III; GcOrrc Washington 1870; Kentucky 80; Tulane 9–⁠6; Georgia Tech ~; Vanderbilt 9–⁠7. Alabama scored 225 points against its opponents 20. California played 10 games dur ing the 1897 season, winning nine and ticing University OF Wash ington 90, California won these games: 81. Mays College 3O-7; Oragon State 2I-6; Washington State 27-O; College Of Pacific 200; California Aggics li-lO; Unlvcrsitv of Southern California 20-G; U.C.L.A. 27-l4; University Of Oregon 26-O, and Stanford 1910. California scored POI points to its opponents IS. The southern team has appear ed i’m the Rose Bowl four times, winning three, ticiug one. In 1926 the Crimson Tide noScd out Uni versity of Washington 20-l9; in 1927 Alabama played to a II deadlock with Stanford; in 1881 il defeated Washington State College 24-O and in 1885 defeat ed Stanford 29-l3. California has appeared in the Rose Bowl three times. In 1921, a California “wondcr team” defeated Ohio State $50. The next year the Bears played 70 a scorclCsS tic with Washing ton and Jefferson. In 1929 Gcorgia Tech defeated California 81 in perhaps the most frequently mentioned of the Rose Bowl games. That was the game IN which Roy Ricgcls, California cen ter, ran the wrong way 81 yards toward his own goal line IN ! now-celebrated moment OF contusion.

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Officially, Alabama leads 61–⁠20–⁠4; as played, 64–⁠19–⁠4 in 87 meetings, counting the 69 since this game.