1947 Oil Bowl

(6–2)

(8–2)

Head coach:
James Phelan

Head coach:
Bobby Dodd

	1	2	3	4	Total
Saint Mary's	0	7	6	6	19
Georgia Tech	7	20	7	7	41

Date

January 1, 1947

Season

1946

Stadium

Rice Field

Location

Houston, Texas

Attendance

23,000

The 1947 Oil Bowl was a college football postseason bowl game that featured the Saint Mary's Gaels and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.

Background

In Bobby Dodd's second year as coach of the Yellow Jackets, he guided them to a 4th place finish in the Southeastern Conference, in their fifth bowl appearance in the decade. The Gaels were going to a bowl game for the second straight year.

Game summary

The Gaels had eight passes intercepted, with W.P. McHugh returning one 73 yards for a touchdown. George Brodnax caught two touchdowns.^[1]

Aftermath

Phelan left the program the following year to become coach of the Los Angeles Dons. This was the last bowl game the Gaels participated in before the dismantlement of the football program in 2004. The Yellow Jackets went to seven bowl games in the next 10 years.

References

↑ "Georgia Tech Official Athletic Site - RamblinWreck.com". ramblinwreck.com. Retrieved 2015-12-28.

1946–47 NCAA football bowl game season

Glass (Dec. 7) Tobacco (Dec. 14) Optimist (Dec. 21) Rose (Jan. 1) Sugar (Jan. 1) Orange (Jan. 1) Cotton (Jan. 1) Oil (Jan. 1) Sun (Jan. 1) Gator (Jan. 1) Raisin (Jan. 1) Harbor (Jan. 1) Tangerine (Jan. 1) Cigar (Jan. 1) Cotton-Tobacco (Jan. 1) Flower (Jan. 1) Pineapple (Jan. 1) Vulcan (Jan. 1) Will Rogers (Jan. 1) Alamo (Jan. 4)

All-Star Games: Blue-Gray Football Classic (Dec. 28) East–West Shrine Game (Jan. 1) North-South Shrine Game (Jan. 1)

Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets bowl games

Saint Mary's Gaels bowl games

1939 Cotton Bowl Classic 1946 Sugar Bowl 1947 Oil Bowl

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