Bowl Season Recaps Highlight Whizzer White Victory Spark
Whizzer White led Colorado in the Cotton Bowl defeat of Rice and passed for a score while rushing 53 yards for another. Rice’s Lain Cordill and Vestel connected on three touchdowns as Rice accumulated 422 total yards. Santa Clara crushed LSU 6 to 0 in New Orleans as Pasadena hosted a Sugar Bowl crowd near 90,000.
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Crimson Tide
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Golden Bears
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California
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Whizzer
Sopho
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Oliie
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Cage Teams Begin Grind
Southeastern Conference basketball action starts with Mississippi State facing Duke in Durham. Vanderbilt hosts Austin Peay while Georgia meets South Carolina and Florida faces Wofford. Mississippi State leads the conference after a winless week for Ole Miss.
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Associated Press
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Gulf of Mexico
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Tennessee
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Tenn
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Panthers
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Durham
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Ala
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University of Chattanooga
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Georgia Tech
Atlanta
Cage Play Opens Decatur League On Central Court
The Decatur Basketball League begins tonight at Central High Gym with Riverside facing Goodyear Wingfoots at 7 30. Alabama meets Moulton Heights Independents in the nightcap as the four teams start an 18 game schedule through March 2.
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Goodyear
Central High Gym
Sugar Bowl track meet crowns three world class stars
In New Orleans 6000 fans watched Glenn Cunningham, Forrest Towns and Don Lash dominate key events. Cunningham set a Southern AAU mile record with 4 13.2, Towns beat Allen Tolmich in a 14.3 hurdles, Lash edged Wayne Rideout in the two mile with 9 21.7, overcoming last year’s Southern mark.
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Kenneth Gregory
New Orleans
Glenn Cunningham
Forrest
Spec) Towns
Don Lash
Cunningham
Kansas
Archie San Romani
Romani
Georgia
Spec Towns
Allen Tolmich
Wayne University
Towns
Robert Osgood
Michigan
Lash
Wayne Rideout
Texas Teachers
Rideout
Indiana
New Year Football Bowl Scores From Rose to Sun
Rose Bowl California 13 Alabama 0 before a 90 000 crowd. Sugar Bowl Santa Clara 6 L 8 0 before 45 000. Orange Bowl Auburn 6 Michigan State 0 before 18 970. Cotton Bowl Rice 28 Colorado 0 West East tie before 59 000. Sun Bowl West Virginia 7 Texas Tech 6 before 13 000.
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California
Alabama
Santa Clara
Auburn
Michigan State
Rice
Colorado
West
West Virginia
Texas Tech
Swimming records fall at Miami Biltmore Pool meets
Katherine Rawls of Fort Lauderdale set a 50 yard breaststroke record in 34.6 seconds. Peter Fick of New York and Dorothy Forbes of Philadelphia broke 60 yard freestyle and 100 meter backstroke marks respectively, surpassing longstanding records from 1926 1928 and 1930.
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Coral Gables
Fia
Miami Biltmore
Katherine Rawls
Fort Lauderdale
Associated Press
Agnes Geraghty
New York
Chicago
Peter Fick
Dorothy Forbes
Philadelphia
Fick
George Kojac
Pittsburgh
Mins Forbes
Eleanor Holm
Jacksonville
Prep Star Remembers City Title Shine Over Rose Bowl
Chicago's Bill De Correvont recalls the city high school championship game as more colorful than the Rose Bowl. He notes the halftime parade by 100 bands during the St. Leo contest and says the game was hard fought.
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Los Angeles
Bill de Correvont
Chicago
Bay
St. Leo
California Bears Win Rose Bowl Without a Hero
California overpowering Alabama 13 to 0 in the Rose Bowl featured a team effort with Vic Bottari scoring two touchdowns and Bob Herwig anchoring the line. The Bears dominated, forcing three Crimson Tide fumbles and making key plays from multiple players, leaving no single hero for the game.
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Paradena
Calif
University of California
University of Alabama
California
Bears
Vic Bottari
Bottari
Bob Herwig
Perry Schwartz
Chuck Holm
Joe Kilgrow
Alabama
Noted football prospect De Correvont hints at college choice
The Rose Bowl game scene frames speculation as De Correvont, touted by midwestern observers as the top college football prospect, spends time with a USC television or film official while denying finalized decisions on his college destination.
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de Correvont
University of Southern California
Relief with Creomulsion for coughs and chest cold
Advertisement promotes Creomulsion as a multi extract remedy with Beechwood Creosote to soothe inflamed mucous membranes and expel coughs. It claims universal use for adults and children and offers money refund if not satisfied after the first bottle.
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