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Seventy years later, undefeated Penn State's 1947 team that went to the Cotton Bowl is worth remembering

The 1947 Penn State football team is barely referenced anymore other than to note its breaking of the Southern college football color line at the 1948 Cotton Bowl in Dallas and the first black players ever to play for the Penn State varsity in Wally Triplett and Dennie Hoggard. But none other than PSU football historian Lou Prato calls it "aguably the greatest" in school history. Here's a look back at a time of transition in American history with some old Cotton Bowl memorabilia and commentary from Prato and Cotton Bowl historian Steve Richardson.

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Twenty-four of the most important Nittany Lions, many of their faces reflecting the maturity and advanced age of recent World War II veterans.