| 1955 Orange Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| 21st Orange Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | January 1, 1955 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 1954 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Burdine Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Miami, Florida | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Duke by 14 points[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Cliff Ogden (Big Seven; split crew: Big Seven,ACC) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 68,750 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Network | CBS | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Bob Neal | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The1955 Orange Bowl was the 21stedition of thecollege footballbowl game, held inMiami,Florida, on Saturday, January 1. It matched theDuke Blue Devils of theAtlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and theNebraska Cornhuskers of theBig Seven Conference. Duke, ranked fourteenth inboth polls, was favored by two touchdowns,[1] and won, 34–7.[2][3][4]
Unranked Nebraska was the Big Seven runner-up to undefeatedOklahoma, thedefending Orange Bowl champions. The Sooners were not invited due to the conference's no-repeat rule for the postseason.[1][3][5]
Included in the record attendance wasVice PresidentRichard Nixon,[2] an alumnus ofDuke'slaw school.
Both teams were making their first Orange Bowl appearance.
The Blue Devils won all four of their conference games; they tiedPurdue and lost to bothArmy andNavy. This was Duke's fourthbowl game appearance, and the firstin ten years.
The unranked Huskers were making their secondbowl appearance, the other wasfourteen years earlier. Nebraska had four losses in the regular season, the last was a 55–7 drubbing at #3Oklahoma.[5]
| Statistics | Duke | Nebraska |
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| First Downs | 23 | 6 |
| Rushes–yards | 64–288 | 34–84 |
| Passing yards | 82 | 26 |
| Passes (C–A–I) | 7–13–0 | 1–9–2 |
| Total Offense | 77–370 | 43–110 |
| Punts–average | 5–26.6 | 7–28.9 |
| Fumbles–lost | 2–1 | 0–0 |
| Turnovers | 1 | 2 |
| Penalties–yards | 2–30 | 2–20 |