1947 Tangerine Bowl

Catawba Indians	Maryville Scots
31	6

	1	2	3	4	Total
Catawba	0	18	7	6	31
Maryville	0	0	0	6	6

Date

January 1, 1947

Season

1946

Stadium

Tangerine Bowl

Location

Orlando, Florida

Attendance

9,000

The 1947 Tangerine Bowl was the inaugural Tangerine Bowl, and saw Catawba College defeat Maryville, 31–6.

Game summary

The first quarter of the game saw no scoring, while the second quarter saw Catawba find the end zone three times (11-yard pass, 6-yard rush, and a 35-yard interception return), though all three extra point attempts failed and the game went to halftime 18–0 Catawba.

Catawba found the end zone again in the third quarter, on a 10-yard rush. The third quarter ended 25–0.

The fourth quarter saw Catawba find the end zone one last time, on a 20-yard pass. Maryville scored for the first time in the game. Both extra point attempts failed, and the game finished 31–6 to Catawba.

Reference

1946–47 NCAA football bowl game season

Glass (Dec. 7) Tobacco (Dec. 14) Optimist (Dec. 21) Rose (Jan. 1) Sugar (Jan. 1) Orange (Jan. 1) Cotton (Jan. 1) Oil (Jan. 1) Sun (Jan. 1) Gator (Jan. 1) Raisin (Jan. 1) Harbor (Jan. 1) Tangerine (Jan. 1) Cigar (Jan. 1) Cotton-Tobacco (Jan. 1) Flower (Jan. 1) Pineapple (Jan. 1) Vulcan (Jan. 1) Will Rogers (Jan. 1) Alamo (Jan. 4)

All-Star Games: Blue-Gray Football Classic (Dec. 28) East–West Shrine Game (Jan. 1) North-South Shrine Game (Jan. 1)

Tangerine / Florida Citrus / Capital One / Citrus Bowl

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Notes	There was a Citrus Bowl in January and December in 1958, 1960 and 2016. There was no Citrus Bowl in 1959.

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