Georgia Tech vs. Texas

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  The daily monitor leader, Mount Clemens, Mich., January 2, 1943, page 1

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  Even Promoters Surprised at Cotton Bowl Results $4,000 Fans II 900 Over Expected Number. See Texas Defect Georgia Tech, 14–⁠7 DALLAS, Jan. 2 Up A Texas team that wasn’t sup posed to win, roundly outplayed Georgia Tech for a AT victory in the Cotton Bowl – and that was Just one Of the surprises. Did YOU ever hear of group of Bowl officials underestimate ing the crowd-by 1000? Well. that’s what they did They predicted checrfully that $4,000 would see the game. But the people must have taken it as sort of a challenge. There were $4,000 there for the kickoff but before Texas had scored its, first touchdown 1000 more had jammed into the bowl to beat last years at tendance despite gas rationing and crowded transportation ia cilities. y Yesterdays game itself was thriller and Texas worthy champion of Southwest Confer ence football. For three periods the Longhorns had the Techs steadily on the run, the big, fast Texas line battering the Yellow Jackets on play after play. FL nally, Tech began to click in the air and the last minutes of the battle gave Texas par s a n s heart failure. Passes led to Techs touch down midway of the fourth Pc Rod, the Yellow Jackets going 81 yards for the score. The first Texas score was on a So yard surge with passes

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  The Daily Alaska empire, Juneau, Alaska, January 2, 1943, page 3

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  GEORGIA Tech IS BEATEN OUT BY TEXAS, TAT Thirty-six thousand Spec tators Witness Annual Cotton Bowl Game DALLAS, Texas, Jan. 2.-Georgia Techs desperate fourth quarter rally IN yesterdays Cotton Bowl game melted one touchdown and they drove to the three-yard line of Texas in the final minutes of play but two early touchdowns by Texas stood the latter up to win IA to 7. 1t was the 10th annual Cotton Bowl classic and $4,000 spectators witnessed the game. Texas led 7 to at the half.

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  Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, California, January 3, 1943, page 4 (results column)

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  BULLDOGS Nations Best II 100000 Fans See 3 Bowl Contest Football departed from the sports scene Saturday after the best pOst-seasOn bowl games program the nation will see I’M til peace comes again. Despite wartime restrictions on trans pOrtatiOn, 302, 900 spectators saw the six New Years Day contests. At Pasadena 10000 fans watched Georgia defeat UCLA, 80, i’m the Rose Bowl. At New Orleans Sugar Bowl. 10000 watched Tennessee tumble Tulsa, AL; San FranciscO’s Shrine charity contest in which the East shaded the West, 1912. drew $1,000; Texas tripped Georgia Tech, 14–⁠7. before $4,000 i’m the Cotton Bowl at Dallas. and 10000 saw Alabama OutscOre Boston College, 1921, in the Orange Bowl at Miami. The Sun Bowl at Ell PasO, where the Second Air Force defeated Hardin Simmons, 1871, drew $4,000.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

Texas leads 1–⁠0 in their only meeting.