The Camellia Bowl was a post-season major
college football bowl game played at
McNaspy Stadium McNaspy Stadium was a 4,500-seat stadium built on the campus of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (then called Southwestern Louisiana Institute) built in 1940, and remained the home for the school's football team until 1971. The stadium was l ...
in
Lafayette, Louisiana, on December 30, 1948, between the
Hardin–Simmons Cowboys and the
Wichita Shockers (now known as Wichita State).
[Foldesy, Jody. "Bowls burgeon as big business", ''The Washington Times''. December 21, 1997. Page A1.]
Background
The Cowboys were from the
Border Conference in their third bowl game of 1948 (a tie to Pacific 35–35 in the Grape Bowl December 11, and a defeat of Ouachita College 40–12 in the Shrine Bowl a week later). Wichita was second place in the
Missouri Valley Conference
The Missouri Valley Conference (also called MVC or simply "The Valley") is the third-oldest collegiate athletic conference in the United States. The conference's members are primarily located in the midwest.
History
The MVC was established ...
in their first bowl game.
Game summary
The Hardin-Simmons Cowboys outrushed and simply overmanned the Shockers, beating them soundly 49–12. The bowl was never played again due to the low attendance.
See also
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List of college bowl games
The following is a list of current, defunct, and proposed college football bowl games. Three bowl games are currently part of the College Football Playoff, a selection system that creates bowl matchups involving four of the top-ranked teams in t ...
References
External links
1948 Bowl report from goldenrankings.com
1948–49 NCAA football bowl games
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Defunct college football bowls
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American football in Louisiana
Sports in Lafayette, Louisiana
December 1948 sports events in the United States
1948 in sports in Louisiana
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