Missouri, a team which found itself while losing in the Orange Bowl a year ago, proved again yesterday it could play while finding itself losing. As a result, the Tigers now can put into the trophy room at old Brewer Field House their most prized possession, the state university's first post-season football award.
Six times during the last 20 years Ol' Mizzou had tried and failed to win a bowl game.
And many among the 71,218 spectators in the Orange Bowl a crowd that included President elect John F. Kennedy must have figured early that a Navy victory was as likely here as at Manila bay under Dewey.