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.

( 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.

In 1731, the manuscript was badly damaged by a fire that swept through a building housing a collection of Medieval manuscripts assembled by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton.

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.

Reverend Thomas Smith and Humfrey Wanley undertook the task of cataloguing the Cotton library, in which the Nowell Codex was held.

He was the son of Increase Mather, and grandson of both John Cotton and Richard Mather, all also prominent Puritan ministers.

Mather was named after his maternal grandfather, John Cotton.

Cotton Mather was not known for writing in a neutral, unbiased perspective.

Increase Mather was a pastor of the Old North Church and led an accomplished life that Cotton was determined to live up to.

The only reason Cotton Mather had success in it, he said, was because Mather had used it on children, who are naturally more resilient.

Cotton Mather strongly challenged the perception that inoculation was against the will of God and argued that the procedure was not outside of Puritan principles.

While Cotton Mather was experimenting with the procedure, prominent Puritan pastors Benjamin Colman and William Cooper expressed public and theological support for them.

:" Mr Cotton Mather was the most active and forward of any Minister in the Country in those matters Goodwin children and Goody Glover, taking home one of the Children, and managing such intrigues with that Child, and after printing such an account of the whole, in his Memorable Provinces in 1689, as conduced much to the kindling of those Flames, that in Sir Williams time Salem Witch Trials threatened the devouring of this Country.

It was indeed a superstitious age, but made much more so by their operations, influence, and writings, beginning with Increase Mather's movement at the assembly of Ministers in 1681 and ending with Cotton Mather's dealings with the Goodwin children, and the account thereof which he printed and circulated far and wide.

An opinion on the matter was sought from the most esteemed ministers of the area and Cotton Mather took credit for their response when anonymously celebrating himself years later: " drawn up at their desire, by Cotton Mather the younger, as I have been informed.

The last event in Cotton Mather's involvement with witchcraft was his attempt to cure Mercy Short and Margaret Rule.

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This was particularly important because it shows that Cotton Mather had influence in mathematics during the time of Puritan New England.

Cotton processing was tiny: in 1701 only of cotton-wool was imported into England, and by 1730 this had fallen to.

He was also joined for some of the storyline by Nick Cotton ( played by John Altman ), who was imprisoned for a different offence.

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

Cotton farmers and their families are at particular risk from the overuse of agricultural chemicals, both from direct physical contact in the field and from the use of the branches of cotton plants at home for fuel.

In his first series at Fenway Park, Williams batted a double, a home run, and a triple, the first two against Cotton Pippen, who gave Williams his first strikeout as a professional while Williams had been in San Diego.

every heart and every tongue To praise the Saviour's name The day of Jubilee is come ; Return ye ransomed sinners home On March 11, 1792, Nathaniel Gilbert, a white preacher, prayed and preached a sermon under the large Cotton Tree, and Reverend David George preached the first recorded Baptist service in Africa.

It the home of the Georgia Cotton Museum.

Cotton Valley is the home of the Marlon Pope Special Learning Center, named for Chester Marlon Pope ( 1929 – 1987 ), a former Republican member of the Webster Parish School Board.

After a two year period as the Oxford High School, it became a private home once more, belonging to Charlotte Cotton, former Provost of Worcester College.

Lee County has historically been a leader in cotton production in the state and is the home of the South Carolina Cotton Museum.

Now home to the Marlboro Chamber of Commerce and The South Carolina Cotton Trail, the house had been purchased, restored, relocated to its West Main Street location and presented to the county in 1991 by D. D.

At a time when nearly one third of all cotton produced in the United States was handled in New Orleans and the city was home to the Cotton Exchange, the idea for the fair was first advanced by the Cotton Planters Association.

After 1662 he found a home at Farnham Castle with George Morley, bishop of Winchester, to whom he dedicated his Life of George Herbert and also that of Richard Hooker, and from time to time he visited Charles Cotton in his fishing house on the Dove.

The Cotton Bowl Classic called its namesake home since the bowl's inception in 1937 until the 2010 game.

The NFL's 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.

She lived in London as a young adult, and married there an old friend from home, William Hutchinson, after which the couple moved back to Alford where they began following the dynamic preacher named John Cotton in the nearby town of Boston, Lincolnshire.

Cotton was grown mostly for the home weaver, but during the Civil War, cotton was also grown for export, as the regular supply of cotton from the South was not available.

Cotton Mather wrote of Leverett that he was " one to whom the affections of the freemen were signalised his quick advances through the lesser stages of honor and office, unto the highest in the country ; and one whose courage had been as much recommended by martial actions abroad in his younger years, as his wisdom and justice were now at home in his elder.

Built to replace the aging Cotton Bowl, it served as the home field of the NFL's Dallas Cowboys from 1971 to 2008, and had a seating capacity of 65, 675.

Cotton swabs manufactured for home use are usually shorter, about three inches ( 7. 6 cm ) long, and usually double-tipped.

Bradstreet died at his home in Salem on 27 March 1697 at the age of 93 ; due to his advanced age he was called the " Nestor of New England " by Cotton Mather.