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Show Pokes Lose In Bowl (Continued from Page 6) Editor John Mooney replied: "That was written by an anonymous fan and not a sports writer, thank goodness." We agree. 'Wyoming, where?" stories of lesser tones appeared throughout Dixie. Cowboy coach Lloyd Eaton pasted them on the team bulletin board to fire his Pokes up. This move almost resulted in a victory. Las Vegas accurately picked the Tigers as a touchdown favorite. The football-crazy South picked LSU as a bigger favorite than that. "The Sugar Bowl will be more onesided one-sided than punching bag," said a few Southerners. But then the South picked themselves them-selves as the odds-on favorite to win the Civil War handily. Alabama, Tennessee, and Miami all went down to defeat. Mississippi to University of Texas at El Paso (who?) and Miami to Colorado (where?). It was the South's darkest period since General Sherman cut his fire swarth through Georgia. Wyoming's fans, the most loyal in the West, traveled 10,000 strong to New Orleans. That's three per cent of their population! Kind of makes you wonder just how many football fans there are next door. Cowboy Joe, the Pokes' mascot, was there, too as was evident evrey time Wyoming scored. But loud as those 10,000 fans were, their decibels didn't match the more numerous, more delirious LSU fans. But the Cowboy football team was a match for LSU's and then some. The score was in favor of LSU, but the nation's heart was with little, upstart, unknown Wyoming. Wyom-ing. Wyoming, where? The South prides itself on playing the best football in the country. Is that why the South lost four Bowl Games and won only one this season. sea-son. That's right, LSU provided Dixie's only win while Mississippi, |