1962 tangerine bowl9/14/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The Falcons were in their seventh year with Doyt Perry as head coach. Interestingly, the Falcons and the Bulldogs would go on to meet in the California Bowl (which matched the champions of the MAC and the Big West) on three separate occasions: 1982, 19.īowling Green had finished its season with an 8-1 record and as Mid-American Conference (MAC) champions. Although there was another game by the same name played in 1971 for much the same reasons (to raise money after a tragic accident), the 1961 Mercy Bowl is seen essentially as a unique (one-off) event. The game is seen as a bowl game, although it was played before the 1961 regular season was officially over (on Dec. The AP would continue to do so until the 1968-69 season (with the exception of 1965-66) UPI would continue to do so until the 1974-75 season.įresno State (in dark in the above picture) met Bowling Green (in white) to help raise funds for the victims' families and the survivors of the 1960 Cal Poly (San Luis Obispo) plane crash. The AP and UPI named their national champions before the bowl games, at the end of the regular season. Most schools played regular season schedules of 10 games, though the Big Ten, MAC, Ivy and some independents played nine-game regular season schedules. The Horned frogs also beat bowl-bound Kansas, and lost to four other bowl-bound teams: Rice, Baylor, Arkansas, and UCLA. TCU, though it finished with a losing record, played spoiler, tying Ohio State and beating Texas. Bear Bryant wins his first "national championship" at Alabama this was also the Crimson Tide's first consensus major poll (AP, 1936-present UPI/coaches, 1950-present) "national championship." Ohio State's faculty council turns down the Buckeyes' invitation to the Rose Bowl.ģ. Kennedy) becomes the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.Ģ. Syracuse running back Ernie Davis (pictured above meeting President John F. It also planted the seeds for the proliferation of bowl games, for conference expansion and for the disappearance of independents.ġ961-62 was not a major threshold in that sense, but it still can be considered a watershed year for three reasons:ġ. The 1986-87 season marked a major threshold in the college football postseason specifically, the beginnings of what was to become the BCS. In this article, I look to the college football postseason of 50 years ago-two generations (approximately)-when the grandfathers of today's undergraduates were of college age (or thereabouts). ![]() In my previous article, I examined the bowl season of 1986-87 by doing so, I intended to convey to today's college undergraduates (few of whom have any memory of top-tier college football before the Bowl Championship Series (BCS), much less of a Big Ten with exactly 10 member schools) what the college football landscape-especially that of the the postseason-looked like when their fathers were undergraduates (or thereabouts). While the number of FBS (I-A) programs today is actually somewhat smaller than the number of eligible football programs 50 years ago, there are almost three times as many bowl games (12 in 1961-62 35 in 2011-12). Retrieved on 27 November 2009.Fifty years ago, bowl games were more meaningful. Davidson Wildcats football media guide, p. 21. Toledo finished the season with a #20 national ranking in the final AP Poll. Don Fair caught four passed for 78 yards while Charles Cole ran 22 times for 152 yards. Ealey ran nine times for 83 yards and threw for 147 yards and three touchdowns on 10-of-13 passing. Quarterback Chuck Ealey was voted the game's most valuable player. In the game, the Rockets accumulated 324 yards of total offense and scored 42 points in the first half alone. The 1969 Tangerine Bowl is still Davidson's only postseason bowl appearance. They finished their regular season with a 7–4–0 record. The 1969 Toledo Rockets football team was led by All-American defensive tackle Mel Long and quarterback Chuck Ealey.ĭavidson College, meanwhile, qualified as Southern Conference champions for the first time ever. The Rockets also held a #20 Associated Press (AP) national ranking-their first ever appearance in a national poll. Heading into the game, the University of Toledo finished their regular season slate with a first-ever perfect 10–0–0 record. The Tangerine Bowl is a former name of what is now called the Capital One Bowl. The Toledo Rockets of the Mid-American Conference defeated the Davidson Wildcats of the Southern Conference by a score of 56–33. The 1969 Tangerine Bowl was held on Decemat the Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Florida. ![]()
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