Texas A&M vs. Tulane

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  Evening star, District of Columbia, January 2, 1940, page 14

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  Texas Ags Plan Trojan Game ToAid Films Face Fight to Keep Coach Norton After Beating Tulane | ASSUSldlcu 1IeSS SpOItS WTlteG. NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 2.-Rulers of college football after its bold Sugar Bowl triumph over Tulane, mighty Texas A. and M. today pom dered the thought of playing South ern California, Rose Bowl kings, in post-season game for the Finnish relief fund. Over a banquet table celebration of the 14–⁠13 defeat of Tulane’s Green Wave, Coach Homer Norton, a mild man threatened only season ago with dismissal in the middle of a disappointing year, shook off the back slaps. admitted he had heard talk: of post-season game with the Rose Bowl winners and commented: What do we think of it? Well, we love to play football” Willing to Consider 1t. Officials of A. and NJ, members of the Athletic Council and others were sounded out, and all concurred in the belief that such a game was a rather remote possibility, but indi- Gated that it would be considered. Reports in this football l-mad city were that the game would be played in Los Angeles about January l5,” with an expected million dollar gate to go to Finland for relief purposes. To Norton, however, the most i’m portant thing was a meeting with the Athletic Council of Texas A and M, scheduled in few days. Then the man who was destined for the junk heap only a few months back is expected to demand a five-year contract with certain changes in the athletic setup. kimbrough Displays Greatness. Yesterday the Aggies great full back, John Alec Kimbrough, 2lOpound all-America performer, storm ed the Sugar Bowl with a classic running exhibition before $1,000 fans largest sports crowd in the his tory nf the Southland-to crush a great Tulane team that couldn’t hold the Haskell (Tex0 hurricane. Twice he scored and all afternoon he thundered up and down field in 90 minutes of the greatest one-man show ever staged in this part of the country. On 26 carries he crashed through for 152 yards, or a 5.7-yard average. Deep in the fourth period, after Tulane had hurried across two rapid touchdowns that put the Aggies behind, 1877, Kimbrough got his tiring mates together and put across the whining score on the seventh play of a dramatic 70-yard drive. Price Also in Limelight. Walemon (Cotton) Price, Aggie quarterback. booted both extra points, blocked in astounding FASH ion, shared in Kimbrough’s running sprees and passed the Tulanians silly. On the honor roll also was lit tie Herbie Smith 160-pound end, who blocked the Tulane try for point that would have tied the game. Denied once after reaching the l. foot line. the Aggies scored in the first period from the Tulane 80 on four plays. Not until the third period did Tulane come out from under thorough beating the Aggies were handing out. Kellogg took a quick kick on his own Is and sprinted IS yards down the sidelines for a touchdown behind marvellous blocking. Soon after, Tulane recovered an Aggie tumble and moved right on to a touchdown. The Aggies took the kickoff and, led by Kimbrough, surged back for the winning score.

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  The Wilmington morning star, North Carolina, January 2, 1940, page 1

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  ACCIES, TULANE LAUD KIMBR0UCH Roth Sugar Bowl Teams Term Big Fullback AS One OF Greatest Players xEw ORLEANS, Jan. l. Up - ,,.vprs and coaches on the Tulane – Texas A. and M. football teams -ood today – with n dissenting ~. that Earring John” Kim .so,eh of the Aggies is a great football player. THAT negative opinion came from v,n, trough himself, as he sat in the I,gies dressing room, after the T.ysns had nudged Tulane 14–⁠13 in .he sugar Bowl classic. @Those 10 boys with me did the -.r, - asserted the 210-pounder who q ferocious bone-crusher on the A.,d and a pleasant, friendly lad .hon the hostilities were over. .And this boy did it especially - ,o,s the best blocking back in the aountrv.” He patted the knee of ualtback Jim Thomson, who sat next to him. Kimbrough’s coach, Homer Nor .or was the most emphatic of all 4, nraise of the Juggernaut. He’s the greatest football player in the world” Norton declared. “Tulane was all they said it was, but NO inst had too much” Walemon Price, quarterback who heaved the forward-lateral which ended with kimbrough’s second and winning touchdown, said I’VE knew We could beat them with passes hit they’re a great ball club” The margin of a single point made q huge difference between the atmosphere of the two dressing rooms. I’VE didn’t know enough about them” said Coach Lowell Red Dawson. we couldn’t set u de- Tense, They have a mighty good team though and that K~imbrough is a great player”

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Texas A&M leads 9–⁠5 in 14 meetings, counting the two since this game.