Ole Miss vs. Navy

Saturday, January 1, 1955, Sugar Bowl Share

No. 6 Navy beat No. 7 Ole Miss 21–⁠0. It was their only meeting on record.

Neutral site7Ole Miss9–⁠2 in 1954

Neutral site6Navy8–⁠2 in 1954

FinalTV: ABCAttendance 80,190Referee: Albie Booth (ECAC; split crew: ECAC, SEC)

MVP Joe GattusoWikipedia

In the newspapers

Evening star, January 3, 1955, page 14
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“A Stondouts in Bowl Victories To Attend Touchdown Banquet -Four prominent figures In three major bowl victories will participate in ceremonies ct the goth annual Touchdown Club dinner Saturday night at the Hotel Statler. Woody Hayes. head coach Of Ohio State. which defeated Southern California In the Rose Bowl. viii be present to accept the Grantland Rice Memorial Trophy voted the Buckeyes rs the outstanding college football team Of 1854. Eddie Erdelatz. Navy coach. win present q trophy to Ron Beagle. All-American end who viii be cited as the top college player in the Washington area. Beagle played q fine game as the Midiies crushed Mississippi, 21–⁠0. In the Sugar Bowl. Ralph Guglielmi, Notre Danes brilliant quarterback. who led the East to q 1912 triumph over the West In. the Shrine Bowl at San Francisco. win be awarded the Walter Camp Memorial Trophy as the best college back Of the year. Terry Brennan.

Public-domain newspapers from the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America, found through the American Stories dataset (Dell and Harvard, CC BY 4.0). The text is the machine reading of the page, mistakes and all.

On the newsreel

SUGAR BOWLNavy vs Mississippi at New Orleans. With Quarterback George Welsh at the helm, the Midshipment turn their big guns on Ole Miss, romping to a surprise 21-0 final scoreUniversal Newsreel, January 3, 1955. Catalog record at the National Archives

Universal Newsreel, National Archives (catalog record). Story titles and words as Universal’s release sheet gives them; the films themselves may still be under copyright, so we link to the record rather than show them.

Before kickoff

Our ratings going in

Our ratings (scores only)

Ole Miss 54% to win. Navy won as Elo’s underdog.

The series

Every Ole Miss–Navy game

Navy leads 1–⁠0 in their only meeting.

Around this game