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The 1951 Gator Bowl was an American college football bowl game played on January 1, 1951 at Gator Bowl Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida. It was the sixth annual playing of the Gator Bowl. The game pitted the Wyoming Cowboys, champions of the Mountain States Conference, against the Washington & Lee Generals, champions of the the Southern Conference.
The Generals won the Southern Conference with a perfect conference record, led by quarterback Gil Bocetti and fullback Walt Michaels, though Michaels would be out due to an appendicitis. They had wins over West Virginia, Virginia Tech, Louisville, and Richmond while losing to Virginia and Tennessee. They were the first team from Virginia to play in a bowl game. The Cowboys were champions of the Mountain States Conference and had finished the regular season undefeated.
After a scoreless first quarter, the Cowboys started a crucial second quarter with a Eddie Talboom touchdown pass to Dick Campbell. A crucial point in the game came on the following drive by the Generals. Bocetti was driving his team down the field when his pass was intercepted by Selmer Pederson. Talboom drove his team down the field, culminated by a touchdown run by Talboom himself, as it was 13–0 at halftime. Despite outgaining them in yards, the Generals could not capitalize on scoring until it was too late. Meanwhile in the third quarter, fullback John Melton added in his own touchdown run, making it 20–0. With the game already decided, the Generals added a meaningless touchdown run by Gil Bocetti as the Cowboys won their first ever bowl game. Talboom went 10 for 14 for 141 yards and also rushed for 31 yards.
The TaxSlayer Bowl is an annual college football bowl game played at EverBank Field in Jacksonville, Florida. Originally named the Gator Bowl, it has been held continuously since 1946, making it the sixth oldest college bowl, as well as the first one ever televised nationally.TaxSlayer.com became the title sponsor in 2011 and the bowl took its current name in 2014 after a new contract. The bowl is operated by Gator Bowl Sports and will be played on January 2 starting in 2015.
According to writer Anthony C. DiMarco, Charles Hilty, Sr. first conceived of the event. Hilty, together with Ray McCarthy, Maurice Cherry, and W. C. Ivey, put up $10,000 to underwrite the first game, which was held at Jacksonville's football stadium, Fairfield Stadium, on January 1, 1946. The first two years of the event did not sell out the small capacity stadium, drawing only 7,362 to the 1946 match when the Wake Forest Demon Deacons defeated the South Carolina Gamecocks, 26–14. The stadium was expanded in 1948 and renamed the Gator Bowl Stadium in honor of the event. However, it was not until the 1949 match-up between the Clemson Tigers and the Missouri Tigers that the future of the Gator Bowl was assured. The 1948 attendance of 16,666 for a 20–20 tie between Maryland and Georgia, was nearly doubled with 32,939 watching Clemson squeak by Missouri, 24–23, on a late field goal by Jack Miller. By the 1970s, the attendance regularly reached 60,000–70,000.
The Georgia Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Georgia Tech, Tech, or GT) is a public research university in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. It is a part of the University System of Georgia and has satellite campuses in Savannah, Georgia; Metz, France; Athlone, Ireland; Shanghai, China; and Singapore.
The educational institution was founded in 1885 as the Georgia School of Technology as part of Reconstruction plans to build an industrial economy in the post-Civil War Southern United States. Initially, it offered only a degree in mechanical engineering. By 1901, its curriculum had expanded to include electrical, civil, and chemical engineering. In 1948, the school changed its name to reflect its evolution from a trade school to a larger and more capable technical institute and research university.
Today, Georgia Tech is organized into six colleges and contains about 31 departments/units, with emphasis on science and technology. It is well recognized for its degree programs in engineering, computing, business administration, the sciences, architecture, and liberal arts.
The University of Wyoming is a land-grant university located in Laramie, Wyoming, situated on Wyoming's high Laramie Plains, at an elevation of 7,220 feet (2194 m), between the Laramie and Snowy Range mountains. It is known as UW (often pronounced "U-Dub") to people close to the university. The university was founded in March 1886, four years before the territory was admitted as the 44th state, and opened in September 1887. The University of Wyoming is unusual in that its location within the state is written into the state's constitution. The university also offers outreach education in communities throughout Wyoming and online.
The University of Wyoming consists of seven colleges: agriculture and natural resources, arts and sciences, business, education, engineering and applied sciences, health sciences, and law. The university offers over 190 undergraduate, graduate and certificate programs including Doctor of Pharmacy and Juris Doctor. The University of Wyoming was featured in the 2011 Princeton Review Best 373 Colleges.
The 1966 Gator Bowl was a college football postseason bowl game that featured the Tennessee Volunteers and the Syracuse Orangemen.
The Volunteers had finished 5th in the Southeastern Conference, with a 11-10 loss to #3 Alabama being especially damaging. Nevertheless, they were invited to their 2nd straight bowl appearance, the first time they had made consecutive bowl seasons since 1956-57. As for the Orange, this was their fourth bowl appearance in the decade. This was the first Gator Bowl for either team.
Gary Wright kicked two 38 yard field goals to make it 6-0, and Dewey Warren threw touchdown passes to Austin Denney and Richmond Flowers to make it 18-0 at halftime. On the first drive of the second half, Larry Csonka scored on a 8 yard touchdown plunge to make it 18-6 (after a failed conversion play). With only 46 seconds left in the game, Floyd Little made it 18-12 on a 3 yard touchdown plunge (with another failed conversion play), but it wasn't enough. Little (216 on 29 carries) and Csonka (114 on 18 carries) combined for 330 yards rushing in losing efforts. Warren 17-of-29 for 244 yards.
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Video highlights from the 1951 Gator Bowl, where the University of Wyoming defeated Washington and Lee by a score of 20-7. American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming. http://ahc.uwyo.edu
Footage of the 1951 Gator Bowl between the Washington and Lee University Generals and the University of Wyoming Cowboys with added play-by-play commentary by Washington and Lee alumnus Doug Chase that was recorded in 2013 as well as an interview with Washington and Lee University football player Don Ferguson.
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1961 Gator Bowl Penn State vs Georgia Tech football game . a part of my agreement with Georgia Tech. for more information see www.footballvideos.com
1951 Georgia Tech Orange Bowl Champions
Footage of the 1951 Gator Bowl between the Washington and Lee University Generals and the University of Wyoming Cowboys with added play-by-play commentary by Washington and Lee alumnus Doug Chase that was recorded in 2013 as well as an interview with Washington and Lee University football player Don Ferguson.
Video highlights from the 1951 Gator Bowl, where the University of Wyoming defeated Washington and Lee by a score of 20-7. American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming. http://ahc.uwyo.edu
5016 Turning to college football.....a coach with one of the toughest jobs in the country facing him thisseason is George Barclay of North Carolina. The Tarheels this fall must face such national powers as Oklahoma, Maryland, Notre Dame, Duke, Tennessee and Georgia. Barclay, who led the W&L; Generals to the Gator Bowl in 1951, is in the final year of a three-year contract at Carolina. Unless he pulls off an upset or two this season fickle Carolina alumni probably will see that he gets the heave-he. (start negative film) Nevertheless, Barclay is facing the job ahead with a great deal of optimism. (show negative film) He frankly says its the best squad he has had since he took over the head football job at Carolina three seasons ago. However, he admits he is counting heavily on green sophomor...
09/01/55 George Barclay of North Carolina. Turning to college football.....a coach with one of the toughest jobs in the country facing him thisseason is George Barclay of North Carolina. The Tarheels this fall must face such national powers as Oklahoma, Maryland, Notre Dame, Duke, Tennessee and Georgia. Barclay, who led the W&L; Generals to the Gator Bowl in 1951, is in the final year of a three-year contract at Carolina. Unless he pulls off an upset or two this season fickle Carolina alumni probably will see that he gets the heave-he. (start negative film) Nevertheless, Barclay is facing the job ahead with a great deal of optimism. (show negative film) He frankly says it's the best squad he has had since he took over the head football job at Carolina three seasons ago. However, he admits ...
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