Английская Википедия:Grantland Rice Bowl

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Collegebowl The Grantland Rice Bowl was an annual college football bowl game held from 1964 through 1977. The game originated as an NCAA College Division regional final, then became a playoff game for Division II. It was named in honor of Grantland Rice, an early 20th century American sportswriter known for his elegant prose, and was originally played in his hometown of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

History

College Division

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Mideast regional states of the College Division are shown in green; Louisiana was added in 1967.

The Grantland Rice Bowl originated as one of the four regional finals of the College Division, before it was subdivided into Division II and Division III in 1973. The game served as the championship for the Mideast Region from 1964 through 1972. The other three regional finals were the Tangerine (later Boardwalk), Pecan (later Pioneer), and Camellia bowls. At the time, there were no playoffs at any level of NCAA football. For the smaller colleges and universities, as for the major programs, the national champion was determined by polls conducted by the leading news wire services.

The bowl was created in August 1964, when the NCAA awarded the Mideast Region championship game to Murfreesboro, though the Grantland Rice name did not become official until two months later. The Murfreesboro Junior Chamber of Commerce (Jaycees) served as the local sponsor. The intent for the Mideast game was to match the two best non-major teams from a region of nine states: Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and Wisconsin. The bowl was played at Horace Jones Field, the home stadium of Middle Tennessee State. The home team played in, and won, the inaugural game, witnessed by a disappointing crowd of just 4,000. Three of the next four games were plagued by poor attendance and/or cold weather, most notably the 1968 game, won by Terry Bradshaw's Louisiana Tech squad in a snow squall before 2,500 fans.

Louisiana Tech was eligible for the 1968 game because, in 1967, the NCAA moved the state of Louisiana from the Midwest Region to the Mideast Region. In April 1969, the NCAA moved the bowl to Baton Rouge, where it was played at Memorial Stadium, a 21,500-seat facility. The Downtown Lions Club of Baton Rouge assumed the role of local sponsor. With Bradshaw and Louisiana Tech again participating, the 1969 game drew a crowd of 16,000. The 1970 game attracted a record 17,000 fans, but local interest leveled off thereafter. Bowl organizers decided to keep the Grantland Rice name, even though the game's new home city and state had no connection to the late sportswriter. When the Rice Council of America was added as a sponsor, the name was shortened to the Rice Bowl, but only for the 1975 game. Sportswriters covering the game took no notice, and continued to refer to it as the Grantland Rice Bowl.

Division II

In 1973, the College Division was realigned into Division II and Division III, with full eight-team playoffs to determine a national champion in both divisions. The Grantland Rice Bowl became a national semifinal game in Division II, along with the Pioneer Bowl in Wichita Falls, Texas, with the winners advancing to the Camellia Bowl championship game in Sacramento, California. In 1974 and 1975, the game was played in a much larger venue, Tiger Stadium on the campus of LSU, though the crowds it attracted did not justify the move.

Starting in 1976, the NCAA gave up on neutral sites for the Division II semifinals, but the games retained their bowl designations even though they were now played on the home field of one of the participating teams. The Grantland Rice Bowl (with its original name officially restored) was hosted by North Dakota State in Fargo, North Dakota in 1976, and by Jacksonville State in Anniston, Alabama in 1977. The other semifinal in those two seasons was the Knute Rockne Bowl, likewise played on campus sites, while the championship game remained a neutral-site contest, moved to the Pioneer Bowl in Texas. The Grantland Rice Bowl was no longer contested after 1977, when the NCAA stopped attaching "bowl" designations to the Division II semifinals.

Game results

Season	Date	Winner		Loser		Ref.	Location	NCAA playoff
1964	December 12, 1964	Middle Tennessee State	20	Muskingum	0	notes	Murfreesboro, TN	College Division Regional Final
1965	December 11, 1965	Tennessee State 14, Ball State 14				notes	Murfreesboro, TN
1966	December 10, 1966	Tennessee State	34	Muskingum	7	notes	Murfreesboro, TN
1967	December 9, 1967	Eastern Kentucky	27	Ball State	13	notes	Murfreesboro, TN
1968	December 14, 1968	Louisiana Tech	33	Akron	13	notes	Murfreesboro, TN
1969	December 13, 1969	East Tennessee State	34	Louisiana Tech	14	notes	Baton Rouge, LA
1970	December 12, 1970	Tennessee State	26	Southwestern Louisiana	25	notes	Baton Rouge, LA
1971	December 11, 1971	Tennessee State	26	McNeese State	23	notes	Baton Rouge, LA
1972	December 10, 1972	Louisiana Tech	35	Tennessee Tech	0	notes	Baton Rouge, LA
1973	December 8, 1973	Western Kentucky	28	Grambling	20	notes	Baton Rouge, LA	Division II semifinal
1974	December 7, 1974	Delaware	49	UNLV	11	notes	Baton Rouge, LA
1975	December 6, 1975	Western Kentucky	14	New Hampshire	3	notes	Baton Rouge, LA
1976	December 4, 1976	Montana State	10	North Dakota State	3	notes	Fargo, ND
1977	December 3, 1977	Jacksonville State	31	North Dakota State	7	notes	Anniston, AL

Appearances by team

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Ticket stub from the 1975 game, reflecting the shortened "Rice Bowl" name.

Teams with more than one appearance are listed.

Rank	Team	Appearances	Record
1	Tennessee State	4	3–0–1
2	Louisiana Tech	3	2–1
T3	Western Kentucky	2	2–0
T3	Ball State	2	0–1–1
T3	Muskingum	2	0–2
T3	North Dakota State	2	0–2

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