The Refrigerator Bowl was a
college football bowl game
In North America, a bowl game is one of a number of post-season college football games that are primarily played by teams belonging to the NCAA's Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). For most of its history, the Division I Bowl Subdivi ...
played annually from 1948 until 1956 in
Evansville, Indiana
Evansville is a city in, and the county seat of, Vanderburgh County, Indiana, United States. The population was 118,414 at the 2020 census, making it the state's third-most populous city after Indianapolis and Fort Wayne, the largest city in ...
. The game was named for the local
refrigerator production. With 3,800 units a day being manufactured, Evansville at the time was known as the "refrigerator capital of the United States".
Game results
References
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Defunct college football bowls
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1948 establishments in Indiana
1956 disestablishments in Indiana
Recurring sporting events established in 1948
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 1956