| 1953 Sugar Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | January 1, 1953 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 1952 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Tulane Stadium | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | New Orleans, Louisiana | ||||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Leon Hardeman | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Georgia Tech by 7 [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Fred Koster (SEC) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 80,187 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Network | ABC | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Jim Britt and Tom Leavitt | ||||||||||||||||||||
The 1953 Sugar Bowl was an American college football bowl game played on January 1, 1953, at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans, Louisiana. The game the featured the second-ranked Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, and the seventh-ranked Ole Miss Rebels. Georgia Tech won 24–7 to complete their national championship season. (Undefeated Michigan State was the top-ranked team in both final polls, released in early December)
This was the first televised Sugar Bowl, carried by ABC.[1]