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...Gang-tackling Tennessee Volunteers held Texas A. & M. scoreless by grinding the Aggies' great halfback. John Crow, deep into the wet turf of Florida's 'Gator Bowl. Crow, in turn, stopped one Tennessee touchdown by separating Volunteer Tailback Bobby Gordon from both ball and senses with a vicious tackle, saved another by hitting Gordon so hard that oxygen was needed to revive him. But Crow could not keep Tennessee's Sammy Burklow from kicking his only field goal of the season and winning the game...
...GATOR BOWL (Jacksonville)-Tennessee v. Texas...
...record of seven successful bowl games was going on the line against Pitt's hungry Panthers, but Bobby Dodd, professionally casual coach of Georgia Tech's unbeaten Yellow Jackets, saw no reason to get steamed up about his trip to Jacksonville for the 'Gator Bowl game last week. As usual, he let his boys horse around in practice; as usual, he promised them that all they had to do to win was play for the breaks and trust in Dodd...
Coach Johnny Michelosen's Panthers stuck to familiar tactics too. All season long they had not run up a single first-period score; they did no better at the 'Gator Bowl. A pass interception by Tech Halfback Paul Rotenberry gave the Jackets the kind of break they have learned to look for, and they went out in front, 7-0. Tech's defense kept the Panthers' offense continually off balance. A Pitt drive died on the Tech one, and the Engineers pushed out in front, 14-0. Only a 42-yd. desperation pass that Halfback Dick...
...Governor James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, whose pleasure sortie in a National Guard plane to a Texas football game drew fire from the Pentagon (TIME, Dec. 12), called off a similar mission he had scheduled for New Year's Eve. Determined to take in the "Gator" Bowl game in Jacksonville, Fla., Kissin' Jim had planned to launch a grandiose air armada on the pretext of "inspectin' " the runways at a Jacksonville airport. By last week he had reconsidered, decided instead to forgo the aerial junket in favor of rolling down the road a piece in Montgomery...