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Show Three Teams All Seeking Dallas Tilt DALLAS. Texas. Nov. 30 UPtlt will be Byron "Whiaxer" White and the Colorado university Buffalosa against top gridiron talent of tb southwest in a New Year's game in the Dallas Cotton bowL The Rocky mountain champion formally for-mally accepted the Cotton bowl committee's Invitation last night The Buffaloes Indicated they preferred pre-ferred the Cotton bowl game aver a tentative offer to play Villanova TlJaaa) Vaakt fal j - i wwiyir 2 j. The -Whitaer." a triple threat and the nation's leading Individual scorer, will find either Ollle Cor-dell Cor-dell or Ernie Lain attempting ta match his antics if the Rice Insti. lute Owls of Houston win the Southwest South-west conference title here Saturday Satur-day by defeating Southern Methodist. Metho-dist. PoaalMo Teams But -If the Owls lose and Texas Christian university of Fort Worth automatically ascends, the Horned Frogs will present "Utile Man" Da-vey Da-vey O'Brien, Baugh'a succeseor, te play opposite White. A tie between Rico and Southern Methodist would throw the Owls and Frogr In a deadlock for the title, necessitating a choice between be-tween them for the bowl entry. Tb Buffalo finished an tight-gam tight-gam schedule without a defeat or tie, beating seven conference team and Missouri of the Big Six and scoring 348 point of which Quarterback Quar-terback White accounted for 123 to their opponents' 3. . Both Whit and Gene Moon, 100-pound 100-pound center who backs up the line, wer named on the all-conference team for the second year. White I th Rocky mountains' serious threat for all-Amencan nonors. Rlc. boasting three win, las and a tie In conference play t data, loet to Oklahoma, tied Tulsa, won from Auburn of the Souths asttra conference and lost to Louisiana Stat of the same eonfereno la out of circuit play. Only Fair Baeard Texaa Christian, It schedul al- . ready ended, won three, lost on and tied two In th conference. Outside easuU .included a lea to Ohio State, win from Tulsa, 7-6 loa to Fordham and 10- loe to Centenary of Bhreveport, La. J. Curti San ford, president of the Cotton Bowl Athletic Association, Associa-tion, Inc, telegraphed th bowl invitation in-vitation to tb Buffaloes yesterday,, and formal acceptance of th bid' was mad last night after th Colorado Colo-rado faculty executive council approved ap-proved participation. Sanford said Governor Teller Ammona of Colorado had advised him Colorado was elated over th election of th Buffalo and quoted quot-ed Amnions a saying h would lead a movement of several thousand Colorado sportsmen to th gam. Yesterday Governor James V, All-red All-red of Texa urged selection of Colorado. At Boulder Coach Bernard T. (Bunny I Oakes said he hoped to bring hi team her at least a week before th gam to accustom th playar to th warmer weather. BOULDER, Colo, Nov. SO IAPV Coach Bernard F. (Bunny) Oakes of th University of Colorado warned hi Rocky Mountain conference con-ference football champion today fContmuee en Followlns Pas! Three Teams Seek Dallas Invitation (Continued from Preceding Pace) some stiff practice sessions with textbooks must precede their appearance ap-pearance New Year's day in the Cotton bowl game at Dallas. Although Byron (Whizxer) White, pace setter for the triumphant Buffaloes, Buf-faloes, wears a Phi Beta Kappa key as a charm to ward off scholastic pitfalls. Oakes nevertheless indicated indi-cated he did not want any eligibility eligi-bility troubles to crop up when he selects 30 or 35 men to make the Texas trip. The coach said the Buffs would start "easy work," mainly running signals and hitting the dummy, next week, but that concentrated drill for the Cotton bowl game would not begin until after the winter examinations ex-aminations December 17. |