The Liberty Bowl is an annual college football bowl game played
in December of each year from 1959 to 2007 and in January in 2009
and 2010. A. F. “Bud” Dudley, a former Villanova
University athletic-director, created the Liberty Bowl in
Philadelphia in 1959. The game was played at Philadelphia's
Municipal Stadium. It was the only cold-weather bowl game of its
time, and was plagued by poor attendance.
Dudley moved the game to Memphis in 1965, where it has made its
home at what became Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium to much larger
crowds and has established itself as one of the oldest non-BCS
bowls. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Liberty Bowl
offered an automatic invitation to the winner of the
Commander-in-Chief's Trophy, if that team was bowl eligible. From
1996–2004, the regular season champion of Conference USA
served as the host team. From the 2006 through the 2010 football
seasons, the game matched the Conference USA champion with a team
from the SEC.
N 38° 31.ABC
A = In the 197(A) Liberty Bowl the Penn
State Nittany Lions beat the Tulane Green Wave 9 to 6.
B = The 1963 game between Mississippi State
and NC State drew less than (B)0,000 fans and absorbed a
loss in excess of $40,000.
C = In the 197(C) Liberty Bowl the
Alabama Crimson Tide beat the UCLA Bruins 36 to 6.
W 121° 16.DEF
D = QB Cody Carlson from the Baylor Bears won
the 198(D) Liberty Bowl MVP.
E = The first Liberty Bowl game was the most
successful of the five held in Philadelphia, as 3(E),000
fans watched Penn State beat Alabama 7–0 in 1959.
F = Due to a Liberty Bowl being played in
January, technically there was no 200(F) Liberty
Bowl.
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