1955 Orange Bowl
| 1955 Orange Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 21st Orange Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | January 1, 1955 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 1954 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Miami Orange Bowl | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Miami, Florida | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Duke by 14 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Cliff Ogden (MVIAA) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 68,750 | ||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||
| Network | CBS | ||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Bob Neal | ||||||||||||||||||
The 1955 Orange Bowl was the twenty-first edition of the college football bowl game, held on January 1, 1955 at the Miami Orange Bowl in Miami, Florida. It matched the Duke Blue Devils of the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Nebraska Cornhuskers of the MVIAA. In the first Orange Bowl appearance for each team, fourteenth-ranked Duke won 34–7 in front of a record crowd.