In 1945, two fledgling bowl committees were scrambling to secure the funding and paperwork to launch a New Year's Day game. One game is still played today. The other one never got started.
Interesting that they chose "tobacco". When I read the headline, my immediate thought was "why is he writing about a bowl game in Durham?" A name more appropriate to the Real Carolina, such as Sand Gnat Bowl, Fort Jackson Bowl, or Wonderful Iodine Bowl , would have made more sense. (only 1 of those suggestions is actually an intended joke.) I'm guessing, it being South Carolina after all, that some tobacco companies were big political contributors and that swayed the naming process.
Anyway, interesting article and a bit of news I've never heard of before. Keep up the great work.
This is so South Carolina.
Great lost history!
Interesting that they chose "tobacco". When I read the headline, my immediate thought was "why is he writing about a bowl game in Durham?" A name more appropriate to the Real Carolina, such as Sand Gnat Bowl, Fort Jackson Bowl, or Wonderful Iodine Bowl , would have made more sense. (only 1 of those suggestions is actually an intended joke.) I'm guessing, it being South Carolina after all, that some tobacco companies were big political contributors and that swayed the naming process.
Anyway, interesting article and a bit of news I've never heard of before. Keep up the great work.
Just think of the controversy we missed out on when in the 1990s federal regulators would’ve required the game to be played in black and white.