Football
Temple’s Unbeaten Season Helped Give the First Sugar Bowl Its Start
Before the Sugar Bowl could become a New Year’s Day fixture, it needed something more immediate: two teams people would want to see play.
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1930s
Published stories from the 1930s archive.
Baseball
Chuck Klein Hit .386. The Phillies Still Lost 102 Games.
The Phillies had 27 hits against Pittsburgh on July 23, 1930. Don Hurst hit two home runs. They scored 15 times, enough to win almost any ordinary baseball game.
Baseball
The Philadelphia Stars Won the Pennant. The Argument Outlived It.
Philadelphia’s 1934 Stars won the pennant in eight games. The dispute over how they won still tests what the surviving record can say.
Rowing
A Place on the Row, a Race of Their Own
How Philadelphia women built a rowing club, claimed a place on Boathouse Row, and made room to race.