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Throwback Thursday: 1948 Sugar Bowl, Alabama vs. Texas
Alabama has had a lot of great games in New Orleans, but the 1948 Sugar Bowl wasn t one of them
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Jan 14, 2021
Some of the most celebrated backs in Southeastern Conference history saw their collegiate careers end in disappointment in New Orleans, with a Sugar Bowl loss to mark their final game.
The list includes Billy Cannon (1960), Johnny Majors (1957), Hank Lauricella (1952), and Alabama s Harry Gilmer in 1948.
Three years previous, Gilmer had enjoyed nearly everything the Sugar Bowl had to offer even though Alabama took a narrow loss to a much-older Duke team. Grantland Rice called the then 18-year-old Gilmer “the greatest college passer I ever saw.”