Flower Bowl (bowl game)

The Flower Bowl was an annual post-season American college football bowl game played at Durkee Field in Jacksonville, Florida, from 1942 to 1948.

Game results[]

Date	Winner		Loser		Ref.
January 1, 1942	Johnson C. Smith	13	Lane	12	^[1]
January 2, 1943	North Carolina A&T	14	Southern	12	^[2]^[3]
January 1, 1944	Allen	33	Winston-Salem State	0	^[4]
January 1, 1945	Texas College	18	North Carolina A&T	0	^[5]
January 1, 1946	Louisiana Normal	19	Lane	6	^[6]
January 1, 1947	Grambling	19	Lane	6	^[7]
January 1, 1948	Bethune–Cookman	6	Lane	0	^[8]^[9]

Note, the 1949 contest scheduled between Bethune–Cookman and Florida A&M did not occur.^[1]^{[better source needed]}

^ ^a ^b https://www.nps.gov/nr/feature/places/pdfs/13000484.pdf^{[bare URL]}
^ Squires, David (September 26, 2019). "Aggie pride built N.C. A&T into a championship football program".
^ Record, Jeff Mills (Greensboro) News &. "Bowl game gives N.C. A&T the gift of extra practice time". Winston-Salem Journal.
^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (1944). The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Guide. A. S. Barnes. pp. 80, 84.
^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (1945). The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Guide. A. S. Barnes. pp. 66, 128.
^ National Collegiate Athletic Association (1946). The Official National Collegiate Athletic Association Football Guide. A. S. Barnes. p. 45.
^ Martin Gitlin (14 August 2014). The Greatest College Football Rivalries of All Time: The Civil War, the Iron Bowl, and Other Memorable Matchups. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. p. 257. ISBN 978-1-4422-2984-6.
^ "Bethune-Cookman Wins Flower Bowl". St. Petersburg Times. January 2, 1948. p. 20 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Bethune-Cookman Beats Lane 6-0 in Flower Bowl". The Pittsburgh Courier. January 10, 1948. p. 14 – via Newspapers.com.

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