The 1988 Eagle Aloha Bowl was a college football

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, the fourth of seventeen in the bowl season of the

1988 NCAA Division I-A football season The 1988 NCAA Division I-A football season ended with Notre Dame winning the national championship. The Fighting Irish won the title via a 34–21 defeat of previously unbeaten West Virginia in the Fiesta Bowl in Tempe, Arizona. With 4 of the f ...

. The seventh edition of the

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, it was played on December 25 at Aloha Stadium in

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. The game matched the of the

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against the of the Underdog Washington State scored all of its points in the second quarter and forced a last-second Houston turnover in notching a win on The bowl appearance was Washington State's second of the 1980s and was the first bowl victory for Washington State since the This was the final game for head coach at WSU; he left for the

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Washington State climbed up to sixteenth in the final AP poll, and Houston dropped

Scoring

First quarter *Houston – Roman Anderson 27-yard field goal (13:13). 3-0 UH Second quarter *WSU – Victor Wood 5-yard fumble run (

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kick). (13:39). 7-3 WSU *WSU – Wood 15-yard pass from

Timm Rosenbach Timm Lane Rosenbach (born October 27, 1966) is an American college football coach and former professional gridiron football player. Rosenbach was the head football coach at Adams State University in Alamosa, Colorado, taking the position at t ...

(Hanson kick). (8:39). 14-3 WSU *WSU – Hanson 33-yard field goal (6:31), 17-3 WSU *Houston –

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1-yard run (kick failed), (4:56), 17-9 WSU *WSU – Rosenbach 1-yard run (Hanson kick), (0:53), 24-9 WSU Third quarter *Houston – Kevin Mason 53-yard pass from David Dacus (pass failed), (4:25), 24-15 WSU Fourth quarter *Houston – Weatherspoon 2-yard pass from Dacus (Anderson kick), (13:16), 24-22 WSU :

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References

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