Fordham vs. Texas A&M

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  The Daily Alaska empire, January 2, 1941, page 5

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  Cotton Bowl Game Goes 10 Texas Aggies Southern Gridders Defeat Fordham Rams by Score 1912 DALLAS, Texas, Jan. ?. - The Texas Aggies finally broke their hobbies yesterday afternoon and stampeded Fordham’s Rams for weird Cotton Bowl football game triumph by score of 13 to l. After being bottled and capped and just II other guys for 30 minutes, in six brief minutes of the dramatic third period, the Aggies presented a great passing magic in gunning that made them rulers in Southwestern football for a two year period, Early Smith third string half back, started swishing down the sidelines from his own 35 yard line, didn’t look over his shoulder until he reached Fordham’s 35 yard line where he caught a forward pass from Marion Puch then ran the rest of the way for a touchdown. Five minutes later, fake kick. combined with weird display of laterals, forward passing and field running resulted in a touchdown and Puch kicked the winning point. A crowd of 47000 spectators wit essed the game.

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Texas A&M leads 1–⁠0 in their only meeting.