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Show Fourth Period Score Saves Sugar Bowl Game for Texans j Hr's the kind l power Tsxss Aggla nncorked In coming from behind to beat Tolas In I th Sugar bow I, 14-13. John Klrabrough (39) crasbca right guard for first down on Tulane's I 34-yard Una during the touchdown march that pulled tho gam oat f tho fir In last half. Texas Aggies Rally To Defeat Tulane By nxix Mcknight ' NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 1 (AP) Rulers of college football after Its bold Sugar bowl triumph over Tulane, mighty Texas .A. and M. today pondered the thought of playing Southern California, Cali-fornia, Roc bowl kings, In postseason game for the Finnish t; ,i . .' V' relief fund. Over a banquet table celebration celebra-tion of th 14-13 defeat of Tulane's Green Wave, Coach Homer Norton, Nor-ton, a mild man, threatened only a season ago with dismissal In the snlddl of a disappointing year,' shook off the back slaps, admitted ho bad heard talk of a postseason game with the Rosa bowl winners and commented: "What do wo think of It Well, W love to play football I" Official of A. and M., members at tho athletic council and others were sounded out and all concurred con-curred in th belief that such a gam was a rather remote possibility, possi-bility, but Indicated that It would be considered. Tentative Data Reports ta thla football mad city were that tho game would be played In Lo Angeles "about January Janu-ary 15," with aa expected million-dollar million-dollar gat to go to Finland for relief purposes. To Norton, however, th most Homer Norton . . . This Texae A. and M. oeeh appears Interested ta proposed Finnish relief gam between his ndefeated eleven and Southern California. Important thing was a meeting with th athletic council of Texas A. and M, scheduled In a few days. Then th maa who waa destined tat th funk heap only a few months back la expected to demand a five-year contract with certain changes In the athletlo set-up. It's no secret that Norton, riding a boom year, haa been approached by several major colleges. Including Includ-ing Stanford university. ' Yesterday the Aggies' great fullback, full-back, John Alee Kimbrough, 210-pound 210-pound all America performer, stormed th Sugar bowl with a classic running exhibition before 73,000 fan largest sports crowd in tho history of tho southland to crush a groat Tulane team that couldn't hold th Haskell, Texas, hurricane. Twice he scored and all afternoon after-noon ho thundered up and down the field la 60 minutes of the greatest great-est one-man show aver staged In this part of the country. On 36 carries he crashed through for 153 yards, or a 5.7-yard average. Big John Rallies Deep In th fourth period, after Tulane had hurried across two rapid touchdowns that put th Aggies Ag-gies behind 13-7, Kimbrough got his tiring mates together and put across the winning score on the seventh play of a dramatic 70-yard drive. Walemon (Cotton) Price, Aggie quarterback, booted both extra points, blocked In astounding fash-Ion, fash-Ion, shared In Kimbrough running run-ning sprees and passed the Tu-lanians Tu-lanians silly. On th honor roll also was little Herbi Smith, 160-pound 160-pound end, who blocked tho Tulane try for point that would have tied the game. Denied one after reaching th one-loot line, tho Aggies scored In , th first period from th Tulane 32 on tour plays. ' Not until the third period did Tulane come out from under a thorough beating th Aggie were handing out, Kellogg took a quick kick on hi own 25 and sprinted 75 yards down the sidelines for a touchdown behind marvelous blocking. Soon after, Tulane recovered an Aggie tumble and moved right on -tea touchdown. . '."fil'.''": ' ' |