North Carolina vs. Rice

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  Evening star, January 3, 1950, page 15

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  North Carolina Coach Has No Excuses for 27–⁠13Loss 10 Rice DALLAS, Tex, Jan. 3.-Rics licked North Carolina in the Cot ton Bowl, 27–⁠13. That’s all there is to it.” said North Carolina Coach Carl Snavely. 1--WE were soundly outplayed.” Rice, champion of the Southwest Conference and the Nations fifth ranking team. yesterday used a devastating mixture of pin-point passing by Tobin Rote and hard running by Billy Burkhalter, Cor don Sonny Wyatt and Bobby Lantrip to outplay the Tar Heels. The burly, once-beaten Owls ground out two touchdowns in the second quarter, added another in the third and one more in the fourth. Then they withstood a gall liant but futile fourth-period rally by North Carolina that fell shy of even a tie by two touchdowns and a couple Of extra points. It was this last-quarter rally that saved face for the Southern Conference champs, a team that Snavely said, II am afraid wasn’t bowl team” Rice Gets S126,5O0 Check. For Rice it was a sweet victory and not just because of the $685. 500 check it received. For the latter reason North Carolina’s defeat didn’t sting too deeply. More. over, North Carolina gets to take all its cash back home. Rice must kick in with Is per cent Of its share to the Southwest Confer ence, Cotton Bowl sponsoring agency. It was victory for Jess Neely’s style of straight football-the rock ‘em, sock ‘em brand of blocking and tackling and judicious use of the forward pass. North Carolina’s great Charlie (Choo- -Choo) Justice took back seat to Billy Hayes for starring honors for the Tar Heels. He gained So yards on 16 carries to LOT made by Hayes in 10 attempts. Justice completed seven of IL passes for So yards. Williams Voted Best Lineman. Rice’s all-America end, James Froggy) williams, was tagged the games outstanding lineman by (See RICE. PAGE A-160

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Rice leads 1–⁠0 in their only meeting.