Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic

Texas A&M fullback John Kimbrough was big, strong and hard to bring down. Kimbrough's bone jarring collisions were infamous. That's why they called him Jarrin' John. He wasn't the average football player of the 1940s. Standing 6-2 and weighing 222 pounds, the Haskell Hurricane was an imposing force on the gridiron. Opposing defenders often compared tackling Kimbrough with tackling a truck. There wasn't any trickery or shiftiness in his running style. Everyone knew where he was going. They just couldn't stop him. At the 1941 Cotton Bowl, Kimbrough plowed through Fordham defenders for 66 yards on 18 carries and scored the game's decisive touchdown in the third quarter, a one-yard burst around left end. After the game, Ram players agreed that knocking Kimbrough off his feet was just too much to ask.