PITTSBURG PANTHERS 
PRAISE OUR 
ROCKY MOUNTAIN 
LAWN GRASS 
Upper left shows Head Football Coach Charles W. Bowser 
of the University of Pittsburgh and the first team of the 
Panthers lined up on the ball, lower right. The field is 
Vigilante Stadium of the Helena High School seeded with 
our Famous Rocky Mountain Lawn grass seed. Note their 
Flying Pullman over Mount Helena in the background. 
Pitt Panthers Stop in 
Helena lor Workout for 
Husky Contest Saturday 
The Panthers are ^vrltin^: foot¬ 
ball history as the first major col¬ 
lege football sqund to be ruo’*ed en¬ 
tirely by plane. They left Pitts¬ 
burgh at 5 o'clock Tuesday after¬ 
noon and Bfopp'.'d in Minneapolis 
that night. They were scheduled to 
stop at Spokane last night and to 
arrive In Seattle tonight. They will 
complete their schedule today as 
planned but Helena was fortunate 
in having them stop off here for 
their workout. Included In the load 
being carried by the planes Is the 
players' complete equipment, per¬ 
sonal luggage and even enough 
drinking water to last them for 1 
days. 
Coach Charle.s W. Bowser (Pitts¬ 
burgh ’23) and liis squad of 34 
players and eight assistants and 
doctors really enjoyed the work¬ 
out here. Most interesting to them 
was the fine turf of Vigilante 
field, home of the Helena Crimson 
Bengals. 
liike Field 
"How in the world do you get 
and maintain as fine a turf as 
thiF?" one of the officials asked. 
"We’d give $50,000 to have turf 
like that in the Pitt stadium," he 
exclaimed admiring the thick, rich 
grass with its springy underbase 
—From The Helena Independent, : 
September 28, 1930, 
