- Dixie Rotary Bowl
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The Dixie Rotary Bowl was a college bowl game hosted in St. George, Utah and initiated by the St. George Rotary Club as a venue that would be presumed to be frequently used by home town Dixe State Junior College. From 1986 to 2005, it was a junior college bowl game sanctioned by the National Junior College Athletic Association. The bowl featured contests between top NJCAA teams from around the nation. In 2003, the bowl played host to the sanctioned NJCAA National Football Championship. The bowl began NCAA Division II from 2006 to 2008 after Dixie State became an NCAA Division II team. The bowl was canceled before the beginning of the 2009 season after Dixie had not appeared in two seasons.[1]
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History of the Bowl
The Dixie Rotary Bowl was initiated as a community service project of the St. George Rotary Club. The bowl was conceived in an effort to further the club's service goals and objectives. The Dixie Rotary Bowl was born and remains a service project of the St. George Rotary Club to this day.
The bowl became prominently recognized throughout the country as one of the top JUCO bowl games in the nation. Beginning in 1991, the annual bowl game was broadcast around the world on Armed Forces Radio Network. The 1996 game was televised live to 33 states and millions of homes by Prime Sports Network, the first live broadcast of a JUCO bowl game in history.
The bowl began a transition to the NCAA Division II in 2006. Special permission was granted by the NCAA to allow Dixie State College to participate in the bowl during the transition years of 2006 and 2007. They would face the top-placing team in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference not receiving a bid to the NCAA Division II playoffs. In 2007, the Dixie Rotary Bowl has finalized their agreement to participate in the NCAA Division II, inking a participation agreement with the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference and the Great Northwest Athletic Conference. Under the agreement, each team will send their top-placing team that does not receive a bid to the NCAA Division II football playoffs.[1]
NJCAA National Championships
The Dixie Rotary Bowl twice played host to the NJCAA National Football Championship. The first contest was an unsanctioned championship contest between #1 Dixie State College and #3 Butler Community College in 1999. Butler pulled off an upset, defeating Dixie State College 49-35. Butler was crowned as the national NJCAA football champion.
In 2003, the Dixie Rotary Bowl organizing committee received sanctioning from the NJCAA as #1 Butler Community College and #2 Dixie State College of Utah met again for the national title - a contest Butler won 14-10.
NCAA Division II
In 2006 faced with the possibility off attendance problems for a junior college game in which no local team was involved it began its transition to a NCAA Division II game for the best teams making the NCAA Division II National Football Championship playoffs between the Great Northwest Athletic Conference and Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. It terminated the program before the 2009 season because it could not find sponsors.[1]
All-Time Scores
NJCAA Bowl Contests
Date played Winning team Losing team 1986 Dixie State (UT) 36 Butler (KS) 33 1987 Dixie State (UT) 40 Independence (KS) 37 1988 Dixie State (UT) 56 Inver Hills (MN) 8 1989 Dixie State (UT) 42 Northwestern (OK) 21 1990 Dixie State (UT) 34 Nassau (NY) 0 December 7, 1991 Navarro (TX) 27 Dixie State (UT) 22 1992 Grand Rapids (MI) 42 Snow College (UT) 35 December 4, 1993 Coffeyville (KS) 60 Dixie State (UT) 36 1994 Dixie State (UT) 26 Garden City (KS) 21 1995 Dixie State (UT) 42 Nassau (NY) 6 1996 Dixie State (UT) 34 Grand Rapids (MI) 16 1997 Dixie State (UT) 76 Lackawanna (PA) 21 1998 Dixie State (UT) 40 Snow College (UT) 20 1999 Butler (KS) 49 Dixie State (UT) 35 December 2, 2000 Dixie State (UT) 17 Harper (IL) 15 December 1, 2001 Dixie State (UT) 40 Rochester CTC (MN) 14 December 7, 2002 Dixie State (UT) 31 Butler (KS) 18 December 6, 2003 Butler (KS) 14 Dixie State (UT) 10 December 4, 2004 Dixie State (UT) 27 Grand Rapids (MI) 20 December 3, 2005 Dixie State (UT) 35 Garden City (KS) 31 NCAA Division II Bowl Contests
Year played Winning team Losing team December 2, 2006 Fort Lewis (CO) 24 Dixie State (UT) 14 December 1, 2007 Western Oregon 26 Colorado Mines 12 December 6, 2008 Western Washington 25 Colorado Mines 10 References
External links
- rotarybowl.com (defunct)
Categories:- College football bowls
- Dixie State College of Utah
- Defunct college football bowls
- NCAA Division II football
- Recurring events established in 1986
- Recurring events disestablished in 2009
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