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College Bowl Tournament Marks Alpha And Omega Of A Dream
The Big Eight College Bowl Tournament at KU last Sunday was both the beginning and end of a dream.
The four-team tournament was the result of two years' work and planning. Frank Thompson Jr., chairman of the College Bowl Committee, has been promoting the idea of Big Eight College Bowl competition since then.
He hopes that the competition will include the whole Big Eight next year and other schools and conferences in the future.
THOMPSON'S first step in working toward the tournament held this year was to have a bill concerning College Bowl competition introduced in the Big Eight Student Government Conference held in Columbia, Mo., last December.
The bill was passed with only one dissenting vote, but no committee was set up to administer the program. Instead of letting the idea die, the KU College Bowl Committee took over the job of organizing the first tournament.
Early this year they sent a pamphlet explaining the operation of the previously existing KU College Bowl tournament to all the Big Eight schools.
THE FOUR-SCHOOL tournament was the result, but Thompson is sure that next year more of the Big Eight schools will take part. He said that all of the teams involved this year plan to participate again, and he hopes the publicity from the tournament will interest the other schools.
However he also said that KU
will not assume the responsibility and payment for next year's tournament. He said he hopes that when the proposal to extend the program is brought before the Big Eight Student Government Conference this year, another school will take the initiative.
After experience in the Big Eight tournament, Thompson feels that College Bowl competition might spread to the Southern Conference. He has corresponded with Alabama University, which is interested in establishing a College Bowl on its campus.
Eventually the small schools in this area may also be included, Thompson said.
We just started with the Big Eight because we wanted to shoot big to generate interest," Thompson said.
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