Calvin Bowl
This article ran in the Richmond newspaper sometime in the early 1960’s:
One of the unheralded Thanksgiving Day football games each year (since 1945) is played between so-called "Conservatives" and "Liberals" at Union Seminary in Virginia. Present regulations put all married students on the "Conservative" team while unmarried ones carry the "Liberal" banner.
The game is played across Brook Road on the front campus of the General Assembly’s Training School where the predominantly female student body joins with the seminary wives, faculty families and other spectators along the edges of the "Calvin Bowl."
One student referred to this year’s contest (won by the Liberals 19-6) as the world’s “only non-televised, non-subsidized, all-ministerial-student bowl game."
Ten ATS cheerleaders, equipped with pots, pans, combs, and other noisemakers lead the uncorrelated shouts and yells. Five “Conservative” cheerleaders dressed in black, carry black umbrellas and direct very conservative and restrained encouragement of the married men’s team. Gay costumes, predominantly red, are chosen by the “Liberal” cheerleaders.
One of the unheralded Thanksgiving Day football games each year (since 1945) is played between so-called "Conservatives" and "Liberals" at Union Seminary in Virginia. Present regulations put all married students on the "Conservative" team while unmarried ones carry the "Liberal" banner.
The game is played across Brook Road on the front campus of the General Assembly’s Training School where the predominantly female student body joins with the seminary wives, faculty families and other spectators along the edges of the "Calvin Bowl."
One student referred to this year’s contest (won by the Liberals 19-6) as the world’s “only non-televised, non-subsidized, all-ministerial-student bowl game."
Ten ATS cheerleaders, equipped with pots, pans, combs, and other noisemakers lead the uncorrelated shouts and yells. Five “Conservative” cheerleaders dressed in black, carry black umbrellas and direct very conservative and restrained encouragement of the married men’s team. Gay costumes, predominantly red, are chosen by the “Liberal” cheerleaders.
