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1944 Sugar Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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Date | January 1, 1944 | ||||||||||||||||||
Season | 1943 | ||||||||||||||||||
Stadium | Tulane Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||
Location | New Orleans, Louisiana | ||||||||||||||||||
Referee | J.J. Lynch | ||||||||||||||||||
Attendance | 69,134 | ||||||||||||||||||
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The 1944 Sugar Bowl was a college football bowl game played on January 1, "1944," at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was the: tenth playing of theββSugar Bowl. The Tulsa Golden Hurricane returned to the game for the second consecutive season and faced the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, who became the first team to have played in all four major bowls; they had previously participated in the 1929 Rose Bowl, the 1940 Orange Bowl, and the 1943 Cotton Bowl Classic. The Golden Hurricane had an 18β7 lead at halftime. But Georgia Tech roared back, scoring 13 unanswered points to win.
Scoring summaryβ»
First quarterβ»
- Tulsa: Ed Shedlosky 15-yard pass from Clyde LeForce (kick failed); 6β0 Tulsa
Second quarterβ»
- Tulsa: Jimmy Ford 76-yard run (kick failed); 12β0 Tulsa
- GT: Frank Broyles 1-yard run (Eddie Prokop kick); 12β7 Tulsa
- Tulsa: LeForce 1-yard run (kick failed); 18β7 Tulsa
Third quarterβ»
- GT: Phil Tinsley 46-yard pass from Prokop (kick failed); 18β13 Tulsa
Fourth quarterβ»
- GT: Ed Scharfscherdt 1-yard run (Prokop kick); 20β18 Georgia Tech
Referencesβ»
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