1947 Tangerine Bowl

Catawba Indians	Maryville Scots
(9–2)	(9–0)
North State Intercollegiate Conference
31	6
Head coach: Gordon Kirkland	Head coach: Lombe Honaker

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

Date

January 1, 1947

Season

1946

Stadium

Greater Orlando Stadium^[1]

Location

Orlando, Florida

Attendance

9,000

The 1947 Tangerine Bowl was an American college football bowl game played after the 1946 season, on January 1, 1947, at Greater Orlando Stadium in Orlando, Florida. The game was the inaugural playing of the Tangerine Bowl, now known as the Citrus Bowl, and saw the Catawba Indians defeat the Maryville Scots, 31–6.^[2]

Game summary

Program cover for 1947 game

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.

References

↑ "Maryville, Catawba Tangle at Orlando". The Tennessean. Nashville, Tennessee. AP. December 2, 1946. Retrieved March 8, 2017 – via newspapers.com.
↑ http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/active/c/catawba/1945-1949_yearly_results.php

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)

Tangerine / Florida Citrus / Capital One / Citrus Bowl
History & conference tie-ins	History Stadium Broadcasters Big Ten Conference Southeastern Conference Atlantic Coast Conference
Tangerine Bowl	1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1958 1960 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982
Florida Citrus Bowl	1983 1984 1985 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
Capital One Bowl	2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Citrus Bowl	2015 2016 2016
Notes	There was a game in January and December of 1958, 1960, and 2016. There was no game in 1959 or 1986.

Maryville Scots football
Venues	Lloyd L. Thornton Stadium
Bowls & rivalries	1947 Tangerine Bowl
People	Head coaches
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