Monday, October 16, 2017

Stone Bowl football game was played on (or about) New Years Day at the Penitentiary from 1946 to 1951. Click on images to enlarge for easy reading. Articles are dated but not in chronological order.




Dec 5 1949
Sep 26 1948
Jan 2 1948


Jan 3 1949
Dec 30 1949


in U-B Dec 31 1947
For whom is Bates field named?  Jan 1 1950

Jan 2 1947 

Dec 31 1950
Jan 1 1948


Jan 2 1949
Jan 5 1950


Jan 1 1950
158 Club sponsors  with bananas Joe Denney, Bill Berney, Bill Zeigler, Jan 2 1950

in U-B Dec 31 1948
6th and final Stone Bowl scheduled, Dec 27 1951
Wolverines win 6th and final annual Stone Bowl, Dec 31 1951




Illinois Wesleyan University wants to play in Stone Bowl,
 Nov 29 1951
Jan 2 1951

Jan 2 1951 (cont.)






Buck Bailey speaks at banquet, Jan 18 1952.
(This is the last piece in the U-B on the event -
no more news going forward)