1959 Bluebonnet Bowl
| 1959 Bluebonnet Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1st Bluebonnet Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||||
Ron Scrudato runs the ball for Clemson | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | December 19, 1959 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 1959 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Rice Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Houston, Texas | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 55,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Network | CBS | ||||||||||||||||||||
The 1959 Bluebonnet Bowl was a college football postseason bowl game between the TCU Horned Frogs and the Clemson Tigers. This was the first Bluebonnet Bowl, a bowl game that usually featured a team from Texas against an out-of-state opponent, with 19 out of the 29 games in this series involving a team from Texas, or from the Southwest Conference.