1964 Liberty Bowl
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6th Liberty Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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Date | December 19, 1964 | ||||||||||||||||||
Season | Referee | Gerald Hogan | |||||||||||||||||
Attendance | 6,059 | ||||||||||||||||||
The 1964 Liberty Bowl was a college football bowl game played on December 19, 1964, at the Atlantic City Convention Hall (now known as Boardwalk Hall) in Atlantic City, New Jersey. It was the sixth edition of the Liberty Bowl, and featured the Utah Redskins and the West Virginia Mountaineers.
This was the first major bowl game ever played indoors and the first indoor American football game broadcast nationwide in the United States.[1][2][3] It was played at a temperature of 60 °F (16 °C), in a venue that, earlier in the same year, had already hosted the Boardwalk Bowl (a small college bowl game), the Miss America pageant, the 1964 Democratic National Convention that nominated Lyndon B. Johnson for President, and one of The Beatles' largest concerts during their first American tour.
Background
The venue had been shifted to Atlantic City after the bowl was played for its initial five years outdoors in Philadelphia Municipal Stadium (later
The 1964 Liberty Bowl was the first major bowl game ever played indoors.
In the 1964 postseason, the Liberty Bowl was one of just eight major bowl games.[7] The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) agreed to broadcast the game nationally and brought Paul Christman, Curt Gowdy, and Jim McKay to announce the game, paying $95,000 for the rights to broadcast the first nationwide telecast of an indoor football game.[8]
Game summary
The
This was the last edition of the Liberty Bowl played in the Northeastern United States; it moved to Memphis, Tennessee, for the 1965 edition, where it has remained.
Scoring summary
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References
- ^ Miller, Hack (December 19, 1964). "Indoor bowl game: novel". Deseret News. Salt Lake City. p. A5.
- ^ Nissenson, Herschel (December 20, 1964). "Utah rolls, 32-6". Ocala Star-Banner. Florida. Associated Press. p. 26.
- ^ Green, Russ (December 20, 1964). "Utah bombs West Virginia in Liberty Bowl". Reading Eagle. Pennsylvania. UPI. p. 61.
- ^ a b c Antonik, John. "Unique Game" Archived 2011-05-26 at the Wayback Machine, MSN Sports, June 22, 2005. Accessed September 4, 2008.
- ^ a b Staff. "Who Won", Time (magazine), December 25, 1964. Accessed September 4, 2008. "At the Atlantic City Convention Hall, site of last August's Democratic National Convention, Utah trounced West Virginia 32–6 in the Liberty Bowl—first indoor bowl game ever. The temperature was a pleasantly cool 60°, and Utah Halfback Ron Coleman was red-hot: he gained 154 yds on 15 carries, including a 53-yd. touchdown burst."
- ^ Morris, Ron. "A year indoors enriches Liberty's tradition.", The State (newspaper), December 27, 2006. Accessed September 4, 2008.
- ^ Kragthorpe, Kurt. "Liberty has come a long way since '64", The Salt Lake Tribune, December 21, 2003. Accessed September 4, 2008. "This was 1964, when only four college football bowl games were staged — outside of the four traditional New Year's Day games."
- ^ Adams, Val. "A TV 'FIRST' DUE: INDOOR FOOTBALL; Liberty Bowl Game Moved to Hall in Atlantic City", The New York Times, March 21, 1964. Accessed September 4, 2008.
- ^ White Jr., Gordon S. "UTAH TEAM BEATS W. VIRGINIA, 32-6", The New York Times, December 20, 1964. Accessed September 4, 2008.
- ^ "Captain Pokey Allen named most valuable". Lewiston Morning Tribune. (Idaho). Associated Press. December 20, 1964. p. 11.
- ^ Miller, Hack (December 19, 1964). "Utes scalp W.Va., 32-6 in Liberty Bowl". Deseret News. Salt Lake City. p. 1A.
- ^ UPI (December 20, 1964). "Utes Crush West Virginia, 32-6". The Lincoln Star. Lincoln, Nebraska. Retrieved February 24, 2017 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ Nissenson, Hershel (December 20, 1964). "Utah Romps To 32-6 Win Over W. Va". Arizona Daily Star. Tucson, Arizona. AP. Retrieved February 24, 2017 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ UPI (December 13, 1964). "TV Rosters". Hartford Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. Retrieved February 24, 2017 – via newspapers.com.
Further reading
- "U of U - Jerry Robinson - punter for the Liberty bowl 1964. First indoor football game". Dee Gardner. May 3, 2016. Archived from the original on December 21, 2021. Retrieved February 24, 2017 – via YouTube. (video)
- "Utah's 1964 Liberty Bowl team, Crimson Club Hall of Fame". The Salt Lake Tribune. September 5, 2014. Archived from the original on December 21, 2021. Retrieved February 24, 2017 – via YouTube. (video)