Holy Cross vs. Miami

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  The Waterbury Democrat, January 2, 1946, page 10

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  LESS DEFENSE STRESS LIKELY NEXT CAMP AIGN Renewed emphasis on scoring with less and less attention to dee fense appeared to be in the oftine for l946 football fans today # the results of the New Years Day bowl games can be used as Q measuring stick. Throughout the West and South. land where Q record array of lS games was offered for holiday fans, there was a parade of cleated feet to the goal lines, and 1t appeared to be significant that only two teams among the 26 antagonists failed to score a touchdown. The top team performance was at Pasadena, Cal, where Alabama’S Crimson Tloe engulfed Southern California, 34 10 l4, handing the Trojans their first defeat in nine Rose Bowl appearances. More than 9S,000 fans saw the Pacific Coast eleven go down to defeat. The Tro- janS were able to score only in the fourth period after most of Ala bama’s first Strlngers had been re- moved. LOnghOrns Swamp Mules By far the most individual per- formanee was at Dallas, Tex, where home townel Bobby Layne thrilled 46,O00 Cotton Bowl fans by ace counting for every one of the points the Texas Lon5horns scored in . 40 to 27 victory over Missouri, Layne made four touchdowns, threw two touchdown passes, kicked four out of five extra points that he attempted and completed II out of l2 passes, nine in d row. The most thrilling game was re- served for tho 38,000 Orange Bowl fans at Miami Fla, who saw an- other home town youth, Al. Hud- son, intercept Holy Cross pass in the last 10 seconds and run sS yards for the touchdown that gave Miami University Q 13 to 6 vic- tory. Two all-America backs enlivened the scene at New Orleans in the Sugar Bowl where 7S,O00 fans watched Bob Fenimore and his Oklahoma A. & M. team mates win a B to IS decision over game but outmanned St. Mary’S, led by Hawaiian Herman WedemeyOr. Fen imore made two touchdowns and scored & third himself while Wede- meyer, whose supporting cast wasn’t as powerful foreward passed for one St Mary’s touchdown and lateraled to guard Carl De Salvo for the other

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Miami leads 2–⁠0 in two meetings, counting the one since this game.