BRING BACK THE TOBACCO BOWL
This is the best photo out of the bunch from Library of Virginia. Apparently, there used to be a college football bowl game played in Richmond called the “Tobacco Bowl.” Brilliant! We must revive this tradition, stick a nationally-unknown sponsor’s name on the front, and have ourselves a game. Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you, […]
This is the best photo out of the bunch from Library of Virginia. Apparently, there used to be a college football bowl game played in Richmond called the “Tobacco Bowl.” Brilliant! We must revive this tradition, stick a nationally-unknown sponsor’s name on the front, and have ourselves a game.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you, the Agee’s Bicycles Tobacco Bowl.
This photo is from 1949. The rather sparse attendance could be to blame for why there’s no Tobacco Bowl today.
Adolph B. Rice Studio. Library of Virginia, Prints and Photographs, 800 E. Broad St., Richmond, VA, 23219, USA, digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R
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