Alabama vs. Texas

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  Evening star, January 2, 1948, page 14

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  Smeared Punt Turns Tide for Longhorns In Sugar Bowl Win NEW ORLEANS, JAN 2.-Texans, who won’t even use shrinking violets for funerals, were Dragging prouder and louder than ever today, this time over the great Bobby Layne and his Longhorns who kept the Lone Star escutcheon at the Sugar Bowl masthead with a slash ing 27–⁠7 triumph over Alabamas ebbing Crimson Tide. Equalling the all-time margin OF victory in IA years of Sugar Bowl ing, the University of Texas yesterday whipped the Tide with Laynes stupendous individual exhibition which saw him complete 10 passes for 1873 yards, pitch for one touch down, set up another and score one himself as the Longhorns main tanned the reputation of their States college football of having never lost game in this post season classic in four tries. For a half it was a great ball game with Alabamas mighty line giving the Longhorn wall q classy licking. But the Texans caught their second wind at half time in termission and from there on out the Tide never had a chance. 1t was early in the third period, with the score tied TT, that huge George Petrovich, Texas tackle, blasted through to block Monk Mos ley’s punt on the Alabama 20-yard line and follow the bounding ball across the goal line where it eluded him. Two Alabamans dove at the pigskin but Vic Vasicek, Texas guard, was there before them and gathered the oval into his arms as Petrovich also grabbed the pigskin. That was the turning point of the game. That broke their backs” said Texas Coach Blair Cherry This easily was recognizable to the packed crowd of 72,O00. In the final period the Longhorns got two more touchdowns, both through the efforts of Lew Holder, Texas end. He intercepted pass for one score and recovered a tumble to set up another made by Layne. The real story OF the game was this: Bayle played his best Of the season; Harry Gilmer, heart and soul of the Alabama team, played his worst. Gilmer, who passed for the lone Alabama touchdown, 1as the goat” 1t was one of his lobbihg passes that was intercepted by Holder and it was his tumble that put Texas in position to make the other score.

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Texas leads 8–⁠2–⁠1 in 11 meetings, counting the seven since this game.