1948 Cotton Bowl Classic

(9–0)

(9–0–1)

Head coach:
Bob Higgins

Head coach:
Matty Bell

	1	2	3	4	Total
Penn State	0	7	6	0	13
SMU	7	6	0	0	13

Date

January 1, 1948

Season

1947

Stadium

Cotton Bowl

Location

Dallas, Texas

MVP

G Steve Suhey (Penn State)
RB Doak Walker (SMU)

Attendance

43,000

The 1948 Cotton Bowl Classic was a post-season game between the SMU Mustangs and the Penn State Nittany Lions. The game was a struggle of yardage with the final score being decided on a missed extra point.

Background

SMU was coached by Matty Bell and led by Doak Walker, who was named All-American. SMU went unbeaten and had won the Southwest Conference championship.

Penn State was coached by Bob Higgins, who would retire after next season. They also went unbeaten as an Independent. Coincidentally, Higgins was the coach who had handed SMU their first bowl loss back in 1925.

Game summary

Doak Walker scored the first seven points of the game on a 53 yard touchdown pass to Paul Page. Later in the second quarter, Walker scored again, this time on a two yard touchdown run as the extra point was missed. Penn State roared back with Larry Cooney's 38 yard touchdown catch from Elwood Petchel as the game was 13-7 at half time.

Wallace Triplett caught a touchdown pass from Petchel in the third quarter, but the extra point missed as the game was tied, 13-13. The game had no further points as Walker was limited to 75 yards combined and Penn State lost two fumbles. ^[1]

Statistics

Statistics	SMU	Penn State
First Downs	12	12
Yards Rushing	92	165
Yards Passing	114	93
Total Yards	206	258
Punts-Average	7-33.1	4-33.4
Fumbles-Lost	1-1	2-2
Interceptions	1	1
Penalties-Yards	1-5	3-15

References

↑ "26-37.pmd" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-01-05. Retrieved 2014-12-28.

Cotton Bowl Classic

History & conference tie-ins	History Cotton Bowl AT&T Stadium College Football Playoff Broadcasters Playoff At-Large Group of Five

Games	1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1966 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2015 2017

Notes	There was a Cotton Bowl Classic in January and December in 1966 and 2015. There was no Cotton Bowl Classic in 1967. The game was a College Football Playoff semifinal in its December 2015 edition.

Penn State Nittany Lions bowl games

SMU Mustangs bowl games

1925 Dixie Classic 1936 Rose Bowl 1948 Cotton Bowl Classic 1949 Cotton Bowl Classic 1963 Sun Bowl 1966 Cotton Bowl Classic 1968 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl 1980 Holiday Bowl 1983 Cotton Bowl Classic 1983 Sun Bowl 1984 Aloha Bowl 2009 Hawaii Bowl 2010 Armed Forces Bowl 2012 BBVA Compass Bowl 2012 Hawaii Bowl

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 9/13/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.