1950 Cotton Bowl Classic

1950 Cotton Bowl Classic
North Carolina Tar Heels	Rice Owls
(7–3)	(9–1)
13	27
Head coach: ; Carl Snavely	Head coach: ; Jess Neely
	AP
	16
	AP
	5
Date	January 2, 1950
Season	1949
Stadium	Cotton Bowl
Location	Dallas, Texas
MVP	HB Billy Burkhalter (Rice); C Joe Watson (Rice); End James Williams (Rice)
Attendance	75,000

The 1950 Cotton Bowl Classic featured the Rice Owls and the North Carolina Tar Heels.

Background

The Owls won the Southwest Conference for the fourth time in 15 years. This was their second appearance in the Cotton Bowl Classic, and their first since 1938. The Tar Heels were playing in their first ever Cotton Bowl Classic and their third bowl game in Coach Snavely's fifth season with the team. They were champions of the Southern Conference for the 2nd time in three years. They were looking for their first ever bowl win.

Game summary

The Owls would score 27 straight points before the Tar Heels got on the board, and the Heels never recovered, despite scoring two touchdowns late. The Owls scored early in the second quarter on a Billy Burkhalter touchdown catch from Tobin Rote and Bobby Lantrip scored before the half ended to make it 14-0. James "Froggy" Williams scored in the third quarter on a catch from Rote to make it 21-0, and Burkhalter ended Rice's scoring with his touchdown run to make it 27-0. Not deterred, Paul Rizzo caught a touchdown pass from Charlie Justice to make it 27-7. But the Heels only scored again on a Rizzo run with only :47 seconds left, as the Owls won their second ever Cotton Bowl Classic.^[1]

Aftermath

Snavely would not appear in another bowl game, and he left in 1953. Ten years later, the Tar Heels returned to a bowl game, which they won. The Owls would play in two more Cotton Bowl Classics after winning two more SWC titles before the decade ended, splitting the two.

Statistics

Statistics	Rice	North Carolina
First Downs	18	16
Yards Rushing	226	174
Yards Passing	152	80
Total Yards	378	254
Punts-Average	6-38.0	4-42.8
Fumbles-Lost	2-1	3-1
Interceptions	1	1
Penalties-Yards	3-26	4-30

References

↑ "26-37.pmd" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-01-06. Retrieved 2014-12-28.

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[1] "26-37.pmd" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-01-06. 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 2017 2018
Notes	There was a Cotton Bowl Classic in January and December in 1966, 2015 and 2017 There was no Cotton Bowl Classic in 1967 or 2016 The game was a College Football Playoff semifinal in its December 2015 edition

1949–50 NCAA football bowl game season
Refrigerator (Dec. 3) Glass (Dec. 3) Junior Sugar (Dec. 9) Junior Rose (Dec. 10) Gold Dust (Dec. 16) Silver (Dec. 17) Raisin (Dec. 31) Rose (Jan. 2) Sugar (Jan. 2) Orange (Jan. 2) Cotton (Jan. 2) Sun (Jan. 2) Oleander (Jan. 2) Pineapple (Jan. 2) Gator (Jan. 2) Salad (Jan. 2) Tangerine (Jan. 2)
All-Star Games: North–South Shrine Game (Dec. 26) Blue–Gray Football Classic (Dec. 26) East–West Shrine Game (Dec. 31) Senior Bowl