College Football Match
(Rec. 9 p.m.) COLLEGE PARK (Maryland), October 19 The Queen relaxed today at a college football game, one of America’s most colourful and uninhibited traditional pastimes. The 43,000 fans in Byrd Stadium gave the Queen a genuine “Wembley roar” of welcome when she arrived with the Duke of Edinburgh. She was wearing a simple coral wool dress and waistless jacket.
The Queen and th? Duke had studied the finer points of the confusing game beforehand but were evidently surprised by its roughness.
At half-time, the show bands of the Maryland and North Carolina Universities paid the Queen a special tribute. Their unifrrmed bandsmen and bandswomen joined together in the formation of her Royal seal.
When the final whistle biew. with Maryland winners 21 to 7. the Duke shook hands with the Governor of Maryland. Mr Theodore McKeldin. and the team captains. He told the Governor: “It was fun: we had a lot of fun.’’
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28413, 21 October 1957, Page 11
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