{"id":5379,"date":"2015-12-22T13:42:30","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T13:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/liblog\/?p=5379"},"modified":"2016-01-04T18:07:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T18:07:48","slug":"footage-of-uas-first-bowl-appearance-now-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/liblog\/2015\/12\/22\/footage-of-uas-first-bowl-appearance-now-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Footage of UA\u2019s First Bowl Appearance Now Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As The University of Akron Football Team heads to Boise this week to take part in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, it is only appropriate to take a look back at past UA bowl appearances. The first bowl game the Zips appeared in was the 1968 Grantland Rice Bowl, named after popular early 20th-century American sportswriter Grantland Rice. The game took place on December 13, 1968 in Mufreesboro, Tennessee. The Zips, who went 7-3-1 that year, met the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs, who were also making their first bowl appearance. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uakron.edu\/libraries\/archives\/about\/archival-news_detail.dot?id=3b899574-1901-4726-8204-ad7cdf48b285\" target=\"_blank\">To read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As The University of Akron Football Team heads to Boise this week to take part in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, it is only appropriate to take a look back at past UA bowl appearances. The first bowl game the Zips appeared in was the 1968 Grantland Rice Bowl, named after popular early 20th-century American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38746],"tags":[7440,20694,57683,5836],"class_list":["post-5379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","tag-akron-zips","tag-archives","tag-college-football","tag-the-university-of-akron"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5379"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5395,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5379\/revisions\/5395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}