1957 Tangerine Bowl
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| 1957 Tangerine Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | January 1, 1957 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 1956 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Tangerine Bowl | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Orlando, Florida | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Ron Mills, West Texas State[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 11,000[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
The 1957 Tangerine Bowl was an American college football bowl game played on January 1, 1957, at Tangerine Bowl in Orlando, Florida. The game pitted the Mississippi Southern Southerners (today's Southern Miss) and the West Texas State Buffaloes (now West Texas A&M).
The Buffaloes finished third in the Border Conference, but they still managed to get invited to the Tangerine Bowl, their second bowl appearance in seven seasons. The Southerners, an NCAA College Division independent, finished 7–1–1 while being invited to their third bowl game in four years.[2]