1953 Sugar Bowl

1953 Sugar Bowl
1234 Total
Georgia Tech 01077 24
Ole Miss 7000 7
DateJanuary 1, 1953
Season1952
StadiumTulane Stadium
LocationNew Orleans, Louisiana
MVPLeon Hardeman
FavoriteGeorgia Tech by 7 [1]
RefereeFred Koster (SEC)
Attendance80,187
United States TV coverage
NetworkABC
AnnouncersJim Britt and Tom Leavitt
Sugar Bowl
 < 1952  1954

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]

  1. ^ a b "Unbeaten Tech, Mississippi in 19th Sugar Bowl". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. (Florida). Associated Press. January 1, 1953. p. 9.