Moritz doesn't even have a nose guard or hip pads but he's one of the most valuable members of the Longhorn team that will be heavily favored Saturday over Oklahoma in the Cotton Bowl.

The main entrance of the Cotton Bowl

The Cotton Bowl is a stadium which opened in 1932 and became known as " The House That Doak Built " due to the immense crowds that former SMU running back Doak Walker drew to the stadium during his college career in the late 1940s.

The Cotton Bowl was the longtime home of the annual Cotton Bowl Classic college football bowl game, for which the stadium is named.

( Beginning with the January 2010 game, the Cotton Bowl Classic has been played at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington.

) The Dallas Cowboys called the Cotton Bowl home for 11 years, from the team's formation in 1960 until 1971, when the Cowboys moved to Texas Stadium.

The Cowboys hosted the Green Bay Packers for the 1966 NFL Championship at the Cotton Bowl.

After failed negotiations to build a new stadium on the site of the Cotton Bowl, Jerry Jones along with the city of Arlington, Texas a suburb of Fort Worth, funded the stadium at a cost of $ 1. 3 billion.

In the playoffs, Dallas defeated the Detroit Lions in sunny weather at the Cotton Bowl, 5-0, with a field goal and a safety.

He also called the 1965 Cotton Bowl Classic for CBS.

In 1966 Hayes caught six passes for 195 yards against the New York Giants at the Cotton Bowl.

In June 1972 Norman was one of the featured performers at " probably the high-water mark of the Jesus Movement ", Explo ' 72, the " Jesus Woodstock ", " Godapalooza ", or " Godstock ", which attracted 80, 000 young people to the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas, On June 17, the final night of Explo ' 72, with " the thousands who showed up included everything from short-hairs out of conservative Bible colleges to hair-to-your-waist devotees of Larry Norman, Christian rock, and the Jesus People ".

* Warren Lyles, former Noseguard for the University of Alabama and member of the Cotton Bowl Hall of Fame

The event was held at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas and featured many of the legends of various musical genres who play guitar as their primary instrument.

* 1976 Cotton Bowl Classic ( January 1 )-Arkansas beats Georgia 31-10.

* Penn St. Nittany Lions beats Texas Longhorns 30 – 6 in Cotton Bowl.

With the demise of the Southwestern Conference in 1995, the Cotton Bowl lost its status as a major bowl hosting a top-tier conference champion, and the Fiesta Bowl replaced it by picking up the conference champion of the new Big 12 Conference.

Penn State went on to win the game over # 20 Texas 38-15, while BYU defeated # 14 Kansas State in the Cotton Bowl Classic 19-15.

The Cotton Bowl Classic is a college football bowl game that pits the second-choice team of the Big 12 against the third-or fourth-choice team of the SEC.

Panoramic view of the 2008 Cotton Bowl Classic between 2007 Missouri Tigers football team | Missouri and 2007 Arkansas Razorbacks football team | Arkansas

In April 2008, Cotton Bowl Classic officials announced that in 2009 and 2010 the game would be moved from its traditional start time of 10 a. m. CST on January 1 to 1 p. m. CST on January 2.

The American-Negro Suite is in a sense an extension of the Cotton Club songs in that it is a collection of Negro songs, not for a night club, but for the concert stage.

It is no coincidence that the Texas Cotton Ginner's Association is meeting here this week for the 46th time in their 52-year history.

Cotton processing equipment is a sizable segment of Dallas business economy.

It receives its name from its soil ( weathered from the weak underlying limestone ), which is black in colour, almost destitute of sand and loam, and rich in limestone and marl formations, especially adapted to the production of cotton ; hence the region is also called the Cotton Belt.

Between the Cotton Belt and the Tennessee Valley is the mineral region, the Old Land area — a region of resistant rocks — whose soils, also derived from weathering in silu, are of varied fertility, the best coming from the granites, sandstones and limestones, the poorest from the gneisses, schists and slates.

The earliest known owner of the Beowulf manuscript is the 16th-century scholar Laurence Nowell, after whom the manuscript is named, though its official designation is British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. XV because it was one of Robert Bruce Cotton's holdings in the Cotton Library in the middle of the 17th century.

The poem appears in what is today called the Beowulf manuscript or Nowell Codex ( British Library MS Cotton Vitellius A. xv ), along with other works.

Cotton Mather's relationship with his well-known father, Increase Mather, is thought by some to have been a strained and difficult one.

Upham shows a balanced and complicated view of Cotton Mather such as this first mention: " One of Cotton Mather's most characteristic productions is the tribute to his venerated master.

In 1914, the historian George Lincoln Burr sided with Upham in a note on Thomas Brattle's letter, " The strange suggestion of W. F. Poole that Brattle here means Cotton Mather himself, is adequately answered by Upham ..." Burr also reprinted Calef in full and dug deep into the historical record for information on the man and concludes "... that he had else any grievance against the Mathers or their colleagues there is no reason to think.

Poole's views have found followers and the revision of Cotton Mather continues, while Calef's book is arguably less well-known.

* Cotton Mather's "~ Resolved ~" is A Puritan Father's Lesson Plan.

In the final Cotton Bowl Classic game to be held in the Cotton Bowl stadium, the 8-4, # 20 Ole Miss Rebels defeated the 11-1, # 7 Texas Tech Red Raiders.

The Cotton Bowl is a stadium which opened in 1932 and became known as " The House That Doak Built " due to the immense crowds that former SMU running back Doak Walker drew to the stadium during his college career in the late 1940s.

After failed negotiations to return the Cowboys to the Cotton Bowl, Jerry Jones along with the city of Arlington, Texas funded the stadium at a cost of $ 1. 15 billion.

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Few men have played the part of the voice of Big Tex since its inception ; One of the best was Sonny Ray Stolz, winner of the original statewide competition for the voice of Big Tex, held live in 2001 at the Cotton Bowl stadium.

* Cotton Bowl ( stadium ), American football stadium located in Fair Park, Dallas, Texas ; former venue for Cotton Bowl Classic

The Cotton Bowl was the longtime home of the annual Cotton Bowl Classic college football bowl game, for which the stadium is named.

As originally built, Rice Stadium seated 70, 000, the second-largest stadium in the Southwest Conference ( behind the Cotton Bowl ).

Scott Stadium, with a capacity of 61, 500, is the 27th largest university-owned college football stadium and is tied with Soldier Field, home of the Chicago Bears, as the 69th largest stadium by capacity in America when including the 31 National Football League professional venues and college stadia not owned by any university, such as the Cotton Bowl and the Rose Bowl.

The first Crossroads concert was held at the Cotton Bowl stadium in Dallas, Texas, from June 4, 2004, to June 6, 2004.