Sport: Busy Bowls

Twice in two years, Big Nine teams had invaded the Rose Bowl and made the Pacific Coast champions look like second-raters. Last week, a Big Nine team won again, but not until Northwestern Halfback Ed Tunnicliff broke loose for a 43-yard run in the last minutes of play. Final score: Northwestern 20, California 14. Some scores in other bowls (16 in all, which did a more than $2,000,000 business before some 600,000 fans):

Cotton. Southern Methodist, with help from Doak Walker and Kyle Rote, chopped heavier Oregon down to size, 21-13.

Orange. Underdog Texas—usually pass-conscious—outplayed Georgia, principally in the line, and marched...

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