The glut causes oil prices to drop to 3 cents per barrel. Victims included 40 worshippers at a church who were killed or injured. The book would lead to a movie, and, in the 1960s, a television series. The game isn't played again until 1916. In 1923 the event would become the Rose Bowl.
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