The Bowls

Wisconsin seemed to own Pasadena's Rose Bowl even before the kickoff. Matched against outweighed Washington, Wisconsin was a solid 6 1/2-point favorite to continue the haughty Big Ten's annual devastation (12 victories in 13 years) of any team the West Coast could field. "I don't know why I keep coming back," complained one silver-flasked fan. "All I do each year is get drunk and start crying."

The West Coast figured without Washington's Bob Schloredt, 20, a strapping (6 ft., 190 Ibs.) junior quarterback who conspicuously lacks his trade's traditional egotism. Says he: "I consider myself just adequate." More remarkable still, Schloredt has only one good eye: as a boy back in Moorcroft, Wyo., he lost 90% of the vision of his left eye when a chum exploded a firecracker in a bottle.

But against complacent Wisconsin, Quarterback Schloredt was a cocky signal caller who knew that Schloredt himself was Washington's best showdown runner. Early in the first quarter, he twice gambled and twice won by running himself on fourth down and short yardage to go, accounted for 37 yds. in his team's 49-yd. drive for the touchdown that numbed Wisconsin then and there. When Wisconsin quick-kicked, the ball was blocked. Recovering, Wisconsin punted again, and fleet Halfback George Fleming gathered in the ball, scampered 53 yds. into the end zone. Making Wisconsin look slow-witted and heavy-footed, Schloredt powered four straight plays through All-America Tackle Dan Lanphear (6 ft. 2 in., 222 Ibs.), gained 42 yds. and sent the lineman limping off the field. In the fourth quarter, Schloredt countermanded Coach Jim Owens' order to punt when he had the ball on his own 16 with fourth down and one, rammed like a fullback to make the first down that started another touchdown drive. Final score: Washington 44, Wisconsin 8.

Other major bowls:

P: For nine bitter weeks, Mississippi had brooded about its regular-season 7-3 loss to Louisiana State, convinced that it was the better team, despite the score. In New Orleans' windswept Sugar Bowl, second-ranked Mississippi got its chance for revenge. "Go out there and take charge!" snapped Mississippi Coach Johnny Vaught at his team. Ole Miss did. Calm and grim, Mississippi tacklers crushed L.S.U.'s running game for a minus 15 yds., gave up only 8 yds. in six tries to All-America Halfback Billy Cannon, who had won the first game with an 89-yd. punt return (TIME, Nov. 9). On offense, Mississippi turned radical, riddled L.S.U. defenses with passes like buckshot (15 completions in 27 attempts). Final score: Mississippi 21, L.S.U. o.

P: Top-ranked Syracuse (10-0) had a touchdown lead over Texas (9-1) almost before the crowd of 75,000 had settled into their seats in Dallas' Cotton Bowl. On the game's third play, Syracuse's Negro Halfback Ernie Davis (6 ft. 2 in., 205 Ibs.) sprinted downfield, then cut across the middle to take a 37-yd. pass from Halfback Ger ("Der Fuehrer") Schwedes, and dashed 50 yds. untouched across the goal line. But after that, Syracuse did not develop full power, and the ragged, rough game turned ugly with charges of racism. Said Syracuse Negro Fullback Art Baker: "One of them spit in my face as I carried the ball through the line." Syracuse's Civil War cannon that salutes touchdowns got only three chances to fire its mixture of used nylon stockings and torn newspaper into the laps of un-amused end-zone fans. By game's end Coach Ben Schwartzwalder was willing to settle for the 23-14 score and call it a season. Said he: "Old Ben's tired."

P: For years they had been saying that the round little man was washed up. By modern standards, the hard-nosed methods of Georgia's Coach Wally Butts, 54, seemed woefully out of date: in rugged practice sessions he cursed his players, expected everyone to live football by his own adage: "You've got to pay the price." Picked for no higher than fifth in the Southeastern Conference, Georgia's players this year decided to pay the price for Coach Butts, won the championship with an undefeated conference record. In Miami's Orange Bowl against Missouri (6-4), Butts muttered on the sidelines ("Taylor didn't block"), did not relax until his team had won 14-0 to cap one of the year's most remarkable comebacks.

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