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Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl

College Division · Regional championship

Date not documented
Phenix City, Ala.

Participants and result

Samford20
Ohio Wesleyan10

Date not documented

Samford’s appearance or championship was vacated by the NCAA. On-field scores are retained; see the source footnote.

Format and selection

NCAA College Division regional bowls

One postseason game.

  1. These bowls served eastern and western College Division regions before the Division III national playoff began.
  2. The consulted championship records do not document the detailed invitation criteria for this season.

These are documented selection procedures. They do not explain why a particular participant was chosen unless the source expressly records that decision.

History

The Stagg Bowl began as a western NCAA College Division regional championship in 1969. It became the Division III national championship game when the national playoffs began in 1973.

The bowl is the final round of the Division III playoff, rather than an independently selected invitation game. The final and the playoff overview share one recorded game.

Related competitions: Division III Football Championship

Sources and coverage

The NCAA records mark a vacated appearance or championship in this season. Consult the championship history footnote; on-field scores are preserved.

An exact game date has not been documented in this edition’s sources.

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