The Coal Bowl Classic is a national invitational male/female high school basketball tournament, which is held at Breton Education Centre in New Waterford, Nova Scotia, Canada. A major facilitating factor is that all team members are housed within one wing of the school. Breton Education Centre is a combined junior-senior high school which opened in 1970.
The tournament, first held in 1982, takes its name from the primary industry of New Waterford, coal mining, although all coal mines on Cape Breton are now closed.
Famous quotes containing the words coal and/or bowl:
“And in their blazing solitude
The stars sang in their sockets through the night:
“Blow bright, blow bright
The coal of this unquickened world.””
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or
the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the
cistern.
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit
shall return unto God who gave it.
Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, all is vanity.”
—Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes (l. XII, 6–7)