Boardwalk Bowl

Boardwalk Bowl (defunct)
NCAA College Division regional final (1968–1972) NCAA Division II quarterfinal (1973)
Stadium	Atlantic City Convention Center
Location	Atlantic City, New Jersey
Operated	1961–1973

The Boardwalk Bowl was a post-season college football game held at the former Atlantic City Convention Center (now Boardwalk Hall) in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The game, inaugurated in 1961, featured an annual matchup between Pennsylvania Military College (now Widener University) and the United States Merchant Marine Academy, known as the "Little Army–Navy Game" until 1967. The playing surface in the earlier years consisted of natural grass sod that was grown outside and then moved indoors for the game.

It succeeded the Tangerine Bowl in 1968 as the NCAA College Division East regional final. The other three regionals were the Pecan (later Pioneer), Grantland Rice, and Camellia bowls. After the 1972 season, the College Division became Division II (and III). In 1973, under a new playoff system, the Boardwalk Bowl became a Division II national quarterfinal, while the other three were nameless and played at campus sites. The semifinals were the Pioneer and Grantland Rice bowls, and the Camellia was the championship game. After 1973, the Boardwalk Bowl was discontinued.

The Boardwalk Bowl, along with the Liberty Bowl (played in the Convention Center in December 1964), showed the feasibility of playing football indoors and led the promoters of football games to look seriously at developing indoor facilities primarily for this purpose.

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