The Mercy Bowl was the name to two one-off charity

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s played at the

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. The first was played between

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and

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on November 23, 1961, as a special fundraiser in memory of sixteen

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football players killed in a plane crash following a game against Bowling Green a year earlier. Foldesy, Jody. "Bowls burgeon as big business", ''The Washington Times''. December 21, 1997. Page A1. The game raised $200,000 for the surviving widows and children and for a memorial in their honor. A second Mercy Bowl was staged in 1971 between CSUF and Fresno State University to benefit the fourteen surviving children of three CSUF assistant coaches and a pilot who died in an airplane crash a month earlier.

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