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2 New Year* 3 Day Sports Events
Bill Goodwin and Betty White will be host and hostess, respectively, at the Tournament of Roses Parade, to be telecast from 12:15 to 1:45 p.m., EST, under the sponsorship of the Minute Maid Corporation. (Time for Radio broadcast to be announced).
This will be followed at 1:45 p.m., EST, by radio and tele¬ vision coverage of the annual Cotton Bowl game in Dallas. This year!s renewal of the classic, the third to be telecast by NBC-TV, matches the amazing Arkansas Razorbacks against Georgia Tech. Radio coverage will be sponsored by the Crosley Division — AVCO Manufacturing Corpo¬ ration.
Arkansas, coached by the former Tennessee All-American end, Bowden Wyatt, gained the bid by winning its first undisputed Southwest Conference championship in 18 years. Arkansas this year compiled an 8-2 record, its best since 1927. In conference play, it won five out of six engagements. The Razorbacks defeated Tulsa, Texas Christian, Baylor, Texas, Mississippi, Texas A. & M., Rice and Houston, losing only to Southern Methodist (21-14) and Louisiana State (7-6).
Bobby Dodd’s Georgia Tech eleven ended its season as runnerup to Mississippi in the Southeastern Conference with a 7-3 record.
The Yellow Jackets topped Tulane, S.M.U., L.S.U., Auburn, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia. Tech was stopped by Florida (13-12), Kentucky (13-6) and Duke (21-20).
Following the Cotton Bowl battle, NBC Radio and NBC-TV will cover the 4lst renewal of the historic Rose Bowl contest in Pasadena at 4:45 p.m., EST. For the third consecutive year, this coverage will be sponsored by the Gillette Safety Razor Company.
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