| 1937 Orange Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 3rd Orange Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | January 1, 1937 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 1936 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Miami Field | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Miami, Florida | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Tom Thorp | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 9,210 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Network | CBS Radio | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Ted Husing | ||||||||||||||||||
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The1937 Orange Bowl was acollege football postseasonbowl game between theMississippi State Maroons andDuquesne Dukes.
A 5th-place finish in theSoutheastern Conference was an upturn from 9th for the Maroons, in their first official bowl game (not counting the1912 Bacardi Bowl). This was technically Duquesne's first bowl game, as their previous "postseason" bowl game was the 1933 Festival of Palms Bowl, also held in Miami.
Ike Pickle scored first on a touchdown run to give the Maroons a 6-0 lead in the first quarter.Boyd Brumbaugh gave the Dukes a lead in the second quarter on his touchdown run, but Pee Wee Armstrong's pass toFred Walters for a 40-yard touchdown made it 12-7 at halftime. Brumbaugh threw a 72-yard touchdown pass in the fourth quarter to Ernest Hefferle that proved to be the margin of victory as the Maroons' two missed extra points doomed the team.[1]
The Maroons returned to the Orange Bowl four years later. Duquesne has not played in a bowl game since.
| Statistics | Duquesne | Mississippi State |
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| First downs | 14 | 12 |
| Rushing yards | 199 | 111 |
| Passing yards | 110 | 159 |
| Total yards | 309 | 270 |
| Interceptions | 4 | 0 |
| Punts–average | 9–24.7 | 6–43.0 |
| Fumbles | 0 | 0 |
| Penalties–yards | 1–5 | 1–5 |