1948 Sun Bowl. Need Help!!

[ckvest]

I'm trying to find a recording of the 1948 Sun Bowl-Texas Tech and Miami (Ohio). If anyone has any suggestions or ideas concerning where to find a copy, please let me know. Thanks!

[Mountain Panther]

I have so many original copies cluttering up the house, I'll just send you one. No charge. :confused:

[cosmo here]

I'm trying to find a recording of the 1948 Sun Bowl-Texas Tech and Miami (Ohio). If anyone has any suggestions or ideas concerning where to find a copy, please let me know. Thanks!

Lafayette boycotted the Sun Bowl in 1948 since they wouldn't allow the starting halfback, David Showell, to participate since he was an African-American. The other players unanimously voted to stay home instead of travel to play Texas College of Mines (now UTEP).

http://www.lafayette.edu/news.php/view/9291/ (scroll down about halfway through the story)

[Pards Rule]

YES FOR DAVID SHOWELL & THE LEOPARDS! THIS WAS THE YEAR HHH MADE HIS "SHADOW OF CIVIL RIGHTS" SPEECH AT DEM CONVENTION.

[Ivytalk]

OK, Pards, I'm game. It was also the year that LBJ stole the Senate election from Coke Stevenson!

[Pards Rule]

Yes indeed it was!! He won by a very slim margin!!

[Ivytalk]

Yes indeed it was!! He won by a very slim margin!!

Good old Duval County! "Hey, Lyndon, how many dead Mexicans do you need?"

[Pards Rule]

Good old Duval County! "Hey, Lyndon, how many dead Mexicans do you need?"

"just enough to win"