Wisconsin Badgers, Rose Bowl & Discrimination
In honor of the Wisconsin Badgers in the Rose Bowl this year, here is a women’s page reference from a previous Badger Rose Bowl appearance – from a former Wisconsin women’s page journalist Dorothy Kincaid. Dorothy was the longtime food journalist at the Milwaukee Sentinel. (The cookbook that she edited is pictured above – I found it on eBay.)
When she retired, she shared this memory of banned from the press box during the 1963 Rose Bowl she traveled to California with the University of Wisconsin Badgers football team.
Her assignment was to write a color piece about the parade and game. She
had tried to make advance plans to cover the game knowing she would
likely not be allowed in the press box due to her gender. The plans
fell through and she asked if she could have space to file her story.
Instead, she had to file her story from a public phone booth under the
stadium as the University of Southern California marching band was
practicing.
Here is a link to the story.
