Sport: The Bowls

Monday, Dec. 08, 1952

Though post-season football bowl games are now forbidden by at least three college conferences (Southern, Big Seven and the Ivy League), the big bowl games this New Year's Day looked as attractive as ever to the nation's insatiable football fans. The bowl promoters, desperately looking downfield for eligible receivers, hit the mark with invitations to ten teams among the U.S.'s top 20.

The lineup:

ROSE (Pasadena): Once-beaten Southern California (see above) will meet the Big Ten's Wisconsin.

SUGAR (New Orleans): Undefeated Georgia Tech, which came from behind to beat Georgia 23-9 last week for its eleventh straight this season, will face Mississippi, unbeaten but twice tied (by Kentucky and Vanderbilt).

COTTON (Dallas): Southwest Conference Champion Texas (8-2) will meet a perennial bowl contender, Tennessee (8-1-1), runner-up for the Southeast Conference title.

ORANGE (Miami): Alabama (9-2), which beat Auburn 21-0 last week, will face the leading Eastern independent, Syracuse (7-2).

GATOR (Jacksonville): Florida plays host to up & coming Tulsa (8-1-1).

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