[NU Sports] CFB Postseason...Survey Says... (fwd)

[cherron604 at aol.com]

Well, there were some college games and the annual Chicago Prep Bowl (Catholic league vs Public League)

1929 ND-USC estimated at 112,000
1937 Prep Bowl Leo vs Austin estimated at 120,000

We played a few games there as well, before the Bears showed up

There is also the police estimate (kind of hard to believe) of 260,000 for a mass during the Marian Year celebration in 1954.? I remember a police estimate of 1 million for John Paul 2's mass in Grant Park, but many people after that event measured the dimensions of the park (and the dimensions of a person) and said it wasn't possible.

Chuck Herron?? Tech '85


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Another question

Wasn't the  College All Star Game the only football game played at Soldier Field 
for awhile when the Bears played at wrigley ? 

Harry
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> Is anyone, other then John and myself, old enough to remember the annual
> game between the College All Stars and the championship team of the NFL 
> held
> annually at Soldiers Field, Chicago and sponsored by the Chicago Tribune?
> Don Williams
> C55

Yes, I am.  Jerry Kramer described how the Packers entered the game not 
caring less who won and promptly lost, the only such loss the pros ever had 
against the college all-stars.  Needless to say, Lombardi went ballistic. 

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