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The Cigar Bowl was a post-season college football bowl game featuring small college teams held in Tampa, Florida from 1946 to 1954. It was played at Phillips Field[1], which was located across the Hillsborough River from downtown Tampa at the current site of Tampa Preparatory School and Julian Lane Riverfront Park. The contest was sponsored by the local Egypt Temple Shrine as a fundraising event[2] and was discontinued when the organization decided to withdrawal support in 1955 [3].
There were several attempts to revive the game as a major bowl in subsequent years, but the lack of a larger venue made drawing top college teams impossible[4]. (Phillips Field, which held a maximum of 20,000 fans with added temporary bleachers, was the largest sports venue in the area until the construction of Tampa Stadium in the late 1960s.[5])
The bowl's name was inspired by the local cigar industry, which had been a major factor in Tampa's growth around the turn of the 20th Century.
Game results
Date Winning Team Losing Team December 7, 1946 Southern Miss 55 Havana University 0 January 1, 1947 Delaware 21 Rollins 7 January 1, 1948 Missouri Valley 26 West Chester 7 January 1, 1949 Missouri Valley 13 St. Thomas 13 January 2, 1950 Florida State 19 Wofford 6 January 1, 1951 Wisconsin–La Crosse 47 Valparaiso 14 December 29, 1951 Brooke Army Medical Center 20 Camp Lejeune 0 December 13, 1952 Tampa 21 Lenoir-Rhyne 12 January 1, 1954 Missouri Valley 12 Wisconsin–La Crosse 12 December 17, 1954 Tampa 21 Charleston 0 See also
Notes
- ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=3NEOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=e1UDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3638,2751542&dq=cigar-bowl+tampa&hl=en
- ^ http://egyptshrine.org/history_es.html
- ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=pHgcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5GQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=5032,6385103&dq=cigar-bowl+tampa&hl=en
- ^ http://www.tampabayfootball.net/dabucsdb/obpro.htm
- ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rIEyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tOoFAAAAIBAJ&pg=726,2522666&dq=cigar-bowl+tampa+phillips-field&hl=en
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