Bowl Games
| Bowl game | Home | points | Away | points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rose Bowl | Alabama Crimson Tide | 29 | Stanford Indians | 13 |
| Sugar Bowl | Temple Owls | 14 | Tulane Green Wave | 20 |
| Orange Bowl | Bucknell Bison | 26 | Miami Hurricanes football | 0 |
In the first Sugar Bowl game, Tulane (9-1-0) hosted unbeaten Temple (7-0-2) before a crowd of 30,000 in New Orleans. Temple took a 14-0 lead before Tulane came back to win the game 20-14. Temple had closed its season with a 0-0 tie against Bucknell University, which finished at 6-2-2, and the Bucknell Bison were invited to play the Miami Hurricanes in the first Orange Bowl. The 'Canes best days were still ahead of them, and they made only three first downs altogether. Although 15,000 were expected, only 5,000 turned out to watch Bucknell beat Miami 26-0.
The big game remained the Rose Bowl with Stanford, at 9-0-1, and Alabama, at 9-0-0. With both teams unbeaten, a crowd of 85,000 turned out in Pasadena to watch them. Stanford led 7-0 in the first quarter, but Alabama scored 22 points in the second, with the help of quarterback Millard (Dixie) Howell and future NFL hall of fame receiver Don Hutson, with Alabama winning 29-14. The Sun Bowl was given a test drive, with the El Paso All-Stars beating the visiting Ranger Bulldogs 25-12 before a crowd of 3,000 in El Paso. At Honolulu, Hawaii beat vacationing California 14-0, and in Houston, Tuskegee beat Prairie View A&M 15-6 in a New Year's Day game for negro colleges
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