Dixie Rotary Bowl
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The Dixie Rotary Bowl is a college bowl game hosted in St. George, Utah and initiated by the St. George Rotary Club. 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 a transition to the NCAA Division II in 2006 and expects to complete that transition in 2008.
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[edit] 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 Northwestern 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] All-Time Scores
[edit] NJCAA Bowl Contests
| Year 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 |
| 1991 | Navarro (TX) | 27 | Dixie State (UT) | 22 |
| 1992 | Grand Rapids (MI) | 42 | Snow College (MI) | 35 |
| 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 |
| 2000 | Dixie State (UT) | 17 | Harper (IL) | 15 |
| 2001 | Dixie State (UT) | 40 | Rochester CTC (MN) | 14 |
| 2002 | Dixie State (UT) | 31 | Butler (KS) | 18 |
| 2003 | Butler (KS) | 14 | Dixie State (UT) | 10 |
| 2004 | Dixie State (UT) | 27 | Grand Rapids (MI) | 20 |
| 2005 | Dixie State (UT) | 35 | Garden City (KS) | 31 |
[edit] NCAA Division II Bowl Contests
| Year played | Winning team | Losing team | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Fort Lewis (CO) | 24 | Dixie State (UT) | 14 |
| 2007 | Western Oregon | 26 | Colorado Mines | 12 |
[edit] References
- Dixie Rotary Bowl Association, Inc., rotarybowl.com.
