1947 cotton bowl program

The Razorbacks were led by fourth year head coach Bobby Petrino and played five home games at Donald W. They are a member of the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference.

The win capped off only the third win season in Arkansas' year football history. They also finished fifth in the final AP Poll—their highest national ranking since finishing third in The Razorbacks played their home games at Donald W. They competed as a member of the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference. They were led by second year head coach Bret Bielema.

They were invited to the Texas Bowl where they defeated Texas. LSU shut out the Longhorns, 13—0. The teams have met twelve times, between November and December They have faced off twice in bowl games, first in the Independence Bowl and second in the Cotton Bowl Classic. The rivalry was formally introduced in , and the Battle Line trophy was first awarded in Paul Eells was an American sportscaster.

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Arkansas Razorbacks. LSU Tigers. Head coach: John Barnhill. Head coach: Bernie Moore. Two of those trips came in the final six minutes of the game. LSU end Jeff Adams looked like he was going to score on a third down, but Arkansas' Clyde Scott - an All-American and future Olympic medalist - pushed him out of bounds at the 1-yard line.

The Tigers' fourth-down plunge was stopped half of a yard shy of the goal line. The Razorbacks opted to punt it back to LSU on an early down, something they had done multiple times throughout the game.

That showed just how important field position was in the game; instead of trying to gain yards and score, Arkansas would rather punt the ball away and keep LSU as far away from the end zone as possible. On the ensuing drive, the Tigers got inside the yard line and decided to try a field goal with about remaining. It would have given them the victory, but the snap went through the holder's hands. That was just one of three fumbles by LSU in the game, while Arkansas fumbled five times.

Arkansas was unsuccessful on four passing attempts. LSU quarterback Y. Tittle, a future Pro Football Hall of Famer, was 5 of 17 passing for 16 yards. Tittle also intercepted a pass on defense. Freshman Leon "Muscles" Campbell - who held the UA single-game rushing record for 24 years with his yard performance in - picked up the Razorbacks' only first down with a yard run in the first quarter.

Campbell played really good defense, as well, according to newspaper reports. In fact, LSU senior fullback "Red" Knight told Campbell that he hit him harder than he had ever been hit before as they walked off the field together after the game. The LSU player even gave Campbell his purple and gold helmet. With the game ending in a tie, both teams got a Cotton Bowl trophy: the original went home with Arkansas after it won a coin toss and LSU had to wait for a copy to be made. The weather was still the biggest storyline, though.

An Associated Press story in the Arkansas Gazette summed it up nicely with its headline: "In which a good time wasn't had by anybody. Instead, the entire Penn State team would be housed at a sequestered Naval air base 14 miles outside the city, the players sleeping in slab-like bunk beds.

Southern Methodist head coach Matty Bell pitching hats on a full-page ad in the Cotton Bowl program. A legend has grown that, in the interim, All-American guard Steve Suhey made a statement during a team meeting in which the Lions voted that all or none of them would be going to Dallas, the black players included.

Few dispute that Suhey spoke up in favor of solidarity behind Triplett and Hoggard. Supposedly, that somehow generated the cheer we know today. Simpson was playing and well before PSU fans ever said it. SMU was a private school in the then-loosely configured Southwest Conference. Unlike today, the private institutions, rather than state schools, were big shots in college football. Blessed with both a pleasant countenance and good looks, Walker was a phenomenon in an age before the National Football League was much of an entity at all and baseball, boxing and horse racing ruled the sports pages.

He would win the Heisman Trophy the next year as a junior and, in an age before cynicism about sports heroes, was the definition of an athletic star.

Southern Methodist Univ. He was in commercials. There were pictures of him all over doing everything, even pumping gas. He was a rock star. He could do everything — run the ball, throw the ball, catch the ball, kick, punt. Penn State team members at the chow line during a Cotton Bowl event. Cotton Bowl. So, the Cotton Bowl was a big deal as a football game.

Tickets flew. The Cotton Bowl quickly sold out 43, seats. They had been through enough of barracks living and wanted to party. Some grumbled that, if not for the black players, they would not be enduring this. The cover of the Cotton Bowl game program.

Further, Triplett and Hoggard, received as heroes in Dallas' black communities, were having the time of their lives nightly hosted by various local groups and escorted by a journalist from the black-oriented Pittsburgh Courier newspaper. One night, he was an honorary judge at a beauty contest. Triplett told Prato in It made strained relations between me and some of my teammates because I was thoroughly enjoying myself. Moreover, Higgins was a precursor to Woody Hayes and actually had two-a-day practices including one on Christmas Day.

The vets had had enough and began sneaking out of the compound at night to find fun any way they could. From all accounts, Higgins mostly looked the other way. Jacob Rubenstein, who would change his name to Jack Ruby, with two of his dancers in front of his Carousel nightclub in Dallas. Our morale was bad and we just had to get out. That would be the same infamous Ruby who 16 years later would stick a revolver in the gut of John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Oswald and pull the trigger on national TV as the latter was being escorted by Texas Rangers and federal marshals.

But the game did not disappoint. A center-spread Chesterfield cigarette ad from the Colgate game program. It turned out this Walker guy was for real. Remember, no TV. After a first down, he faded back and launched a yard touchdown pass to put the hosts ahead. The home crowd, only 3, PSU fans in attendance, went crazy.