Sunday, December 16, 2007

1951 Illinois

Wow, has it really been a week already? That's the thing about vacations, they never seen to last long enough. Such is life.

So now I have a week of football practice and then it's off to Shreveport on Christmas morning for the Independence Bowl. That's one of the problems with covering a team, where they go, you go, even on a big-time holiday.

Billy Tate had 150 rushing yards on 20 carries and scored two touchdowns as Illinois crushed Stanford in the 1952Rose Bowl, 40-7. John Karras, Don Stevens and John Ryan also scored in the second half when the game turned into a rout. Despite the 9-0-1 finish, most services had Maryland, Michigan State or Tennessee at No. 1. Courtesy of the Tournament of Roses archives.

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