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Add this handsome 1976 Rolex Tudor Cotton Bowl watch to your collection. This watch was given to the 250 players and coaching staff at the 1976 Cotton Bowl. Automatic. Steel.
Since the first Cotton Bowl in 1937, game watches have been awarded to players and coaches. From 1967-1976 the game watch was a Rolex or Tudor (a Rolex sister company). For the 1976 Cotton Bowl Classic, the custom game watch was a Tudor 7020/0 Oyster Prince in stainless steel with automatic movement, day and date on the face, and the Cotton Bowl Classic Logo in green. The game was played on January 1, 1976 by the Arkansas Razorbacks and the Georgia Bulldogs, with Arkansas winning, 31-10. 250 of these watches were issued to players and coaching staff.
After 41 years with Arkansas Athletics, Dean Weber joined the Razorback Foundation as Assistant Director on July 1, 2014. He moves into this new role after serving as the Director of Equipment Operations for the past five years. Prior to this, he oversaw all athletic training operations for men's sports teams. During his lengthy career as an athletic trainer, he earned numerous awards and honors. In 1984, Weber was selected to the United States Olympic Team as athletic trainer after previously serving on the athletic training staff at the National Sports Festival three times. He is a 1998 inductee into the Arkansas Athletic Trainers' Association Hall of Fame, a 2000 inductee in the UA Sports Hall of Honor and a member of the Southwest Athletic Trainers' Association Hall of Fame.
Buyer to pick up at Arkansas Children's Foundation in Springdale during pickup hours, or pay shipping.
