The Great Rose Bowl Prank
Nothing is original anymore.
Not even pranks. The flip card prank that Yale pulled on Harvard last week was done a tad more than forty years ago.
For a few seconds the stadium was plunged into a baffled silence. Everyone knew what Caltech was. It was that little Pasadena technical college down the road from the Rose Bowl stadium. What no one could figure out was what its name was doing in the middle of Washington's flip-card show. Throughout the United States, a million minds simultaneously struggled to comprehend this enigma.
In fact, only a handful of people watching the game understood the full significance of what had just happened, and these were the Caltech students who had labored for the past month to secretly alter Washington's flip-card show.
(quasi-recursively via
Tom McMahon)
