{"id":9710,"date":"2024-03-05T11:41:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T16:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=9710"},"modified":"2024-03-05T11:41:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T16:41:41","slug":"cotton-bowl-trophy-comes-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2024\/03\/05\/cotton-bowl-trophy-comes-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Cotton Bowl trophy comes home\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"Coach<\/a>
Coach Eli Drinkwitz addresses Mizzou Arena during the trophy presentation <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Last Saturday, during the men\u2019s basketball game in Mizzou Arena, we celebrated THE<\/strong> University of Missouri Tiger football team and their incredible victory in the Cotton Bowl<\/a>. On the court were Coach Eliah Drinkwitz, team members and coaching staff to accept the Field Scovell Trophy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joining the recognition were Board Chair Robin Wenneker, Curator Michael Williams and Interim AD Marcy Girton, as well as Cotton Bowl Athletic Association leaders Rick Baker, president\/chief executive officer, and Finn Ewing III, member of the board of directors.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Quarterback<\/a>
Quarterback Brady Cook and defensive lineman Johnny Walker Jr. with the Field Scovell Trophy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

At the halftime ceremony, defensive lineman Johnny Walker Jr. was also awarded the Felix R. McKnight trophy for Most Valuable Defensive Player in the Cotton Bowl. Quarterback Brady Cook received the J. Sanford Trophy for Most Valuable Offensive Player. To conclude, we presented Rick Baker with a personalized Mizzou jersey to commemorate the Tigers\u2019 14-3 win over Ohio State University in the 88th<\/sup> Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mizzou student-athletes are the pride of our state. We\u2019re thrilled to celebrate Mizzou Football and bring home a Cotton Bowl championship to Missouri. I\u2019m confident that we\u2019ll have even greater success in the future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Saturday, during the men\u2019s basketball game in Mizzou Arena, we celebrated THE University of Missouri Tiger football team and their incredible victory in the Cotton Bowl. On the court were Coach Eliah Drinkwitz, team members and coaching staff to accept the Field Scovell Trophy.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}