Kentucky vs. TCU

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  Evening star, January 2, 1952, page 46

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  Kentucky Defense-ond PoriIE Figure in Cotton Bowl Triumph DALLAS. Tex, Jan. 2.-Kenlucky claimed its savage defense was the reason it smeared Texas Christian in the 10th annual Cot ton Bowl, but the TCU view was that Babe Parilli sure helped run up that 20–⁠7 score. Parilli was magnificent as hi passed, ran and faxed the Horned Frogs into state of confusion Two of his eight completions were for touchdowns. the first covering 8 yards and the second 13. Little Emery Clark, a double-duty back shared both of them. The third Wildcat tally came just Is seconds before the game ended and Eo Hamilton scored it from 4 yards lcut. Texas Christian staged -four scoring drives, but had only one leo all the way. The defense Ken Itucky mounted inside it’s 10-yard lime stopped one on the four, an Iother on the one and another on the two. These were the deepest |penetrations outside Bobby Jack Floyd’s third period 43-yard scorling sprint. $4,000 See Game. A crowd of $4,000 watched the clubs square off. Each team col lected between $4,000 and $124,- 600. Texas Christian has to ante Is per cent of its share to the Southwest Conference. ut was a team job,” Kentucky Coach Paul Bryant, said, adding that the Wildcats defense” wa. the difference. Good protection for Parillr: passing” was a major factor, hi said. Parilli didn’t think he had 8 very good day Che tried 20 passes) but TCU’s assistant coach. Abe Martin, summed up the Horned Frogs feelings when he said “Parilli shot us down” Gilbert Bartosh, who quarter backed TCU’s only touchdown drive, claimed Parilli was the “best paSser I ever saw” It was Bar tosh who ran and passed TCU tc Kentucky’s 43-yard line, ther called on Floyd. Jumping Jack came through with the longest run against a Kentucky first string defense in 81 games. TCU Coach Praises Kentucky. Dutch Meyer, TCU coach, sal after the game in q new Cadillac given him by ex-lettermen of the Fort Worth school and gave Ken lucky credit for having a terrific team. When your kids play the best they can. that’s about all you car expect” he said. = Kentucky blunted 71-yarc TCU drive 4 minutes after the game began. Then the Wildcat: struck back for their first touch down. A 31-yard pass, Parilli tt Steve Meilinger. ate up most ot the distance in the 53-yard, 8-play drive. The second Wildcat score came early in the second quarter, ano

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  The globe-independent, Hagerstown, Md., January 3, 1952, page 1

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  BEHIND HOME PLATE then Crawford dropped back and whipped strike to Buck Martin in ! the end zone for the tally. Pepper Rodgers sure foot booted the extra point and the score was tied at IA IA. With less than five minutes to go, Pete Ferris, the fashy Tech left end, intercepted Larry Isbell pass on his own as and smashed down to Baylor’s Vineyard line-he would have gone all the way, had he not tripped over one of his own block ers. With the Baylor defense stiffening-Tech could only make three yards in three tries-Rodgers, who had kicked the point after touch down that tied the game, booted a field goal to give Tech the three points that won the game. In the fourth big game-The Cot ton Bowl in Dallas between Texas Christian and Kentucky-which also figured to be close, turned out to be a personal triumph for Babe” Pa rilli, the Wildcats great quarter back. In addition to connecting with two touchdown passes to Emory Clark, Parilli gave a superb exhibit ton of broken field running and his field generalship was excellent. TC.U. was bottled up by the pow erful defense set up by the Wildcats and was held to one lone touchdown, which came in the third quarter. The final score was 20 to 7.

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Kentucky leads 1–⁠0 in their only meeting.