Cotton Bowl Game

January 1

This great college football game was inaugurated in 1937 and pits the Southwest Conference champion against another nationally ranked team. The game is preceded by a music festival, an art contest, and a New Year's Eve parade of marching bands.

CONTACTS:
AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic
P.O. Box 569420
Dallas, TX 75356
888-792-2695; fax: 214-634-7764
www.attcottonbowl.com

SOURCES:
AmerBkDays-2000, p. 12

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For an account on both the policy of racial moderation regarding the Cotton Bowl game and the process of de, segregation in Dallas, see Martin, "Integrating New Year's Day,", 361 - 65; William Brophy, Active Acceptance - Active Containment: The Dallas Story,' in Elizabeth Jacoway and David Colburn, eds., Southern Businessmen and Desegregation (Baton Rouge, 1982), 137-50.

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