The Bowl Games (Universal Newsreel, Jan 1965)

Description

The original release sheet reads: THE BOWL GAMES MICHIGAN..........34 OREGON STATE.....7 More than 100,000 in Pasadena's ROSE Bowl see Michigan, Big Ten Champs, meet the Oregon State Beavers. Oregon surprises early in the game by driving 84 yards in ten plays for a touchdown...but that's all for the day. Sparked by Bob TImberlake, Michigan goes on to score almost at will and wind up on top...34 to 7. ARKANSAS.......10 NEBRASKA.........7 In the Dallas COTTON Bowl, Big Eight Champion Nebraska meets undefeated Arkansas. The Cornhuskers score first, but the Razorbacks are not to be denied and Fred Marshall drives his team and they pick up a TD to combine with a field goal and win...10 to 7. L S U . . . . . . . 13 SYRACUSE......10 Syracuse and Louisiana mount some sweet football in the SUGAR Bowl at New Orleans. In the first half an LSU punt is blocked and the Orange score first blood. LSU gets going in the second half as they score and make a two-point conversion to tie it up. In the last minutes a field goal spells an LSU victory....13 to 10. TEXAS. . . . . . . 21 ALABAMA. . . . 17 The ORANGE Bowl proves to be THE game of games among the Bowl tilts as Alabama - the nation's number one team, meets Texas. Ernie Koy makes like a take-charge guy as he romps 79 yards for Texas in the first quarter. Texas then really stages a stampede...when the dust settles Alabama has been hit with everything in the book with Texas victor. . . 21 to [1]7.

Collection

MCA/Universal Pictures Collection

Series

Motion Picture Releases of the Universal Newsreel Library