Vulcan Bowl

The Vulcan Bowl was a college football bowl game played at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama. The game was played on New Year's Day between 1941 and 1949 and again in 1952, between historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). The game was one of the longer-lasting bowls for HBCUs established in the 1940s.[1] The first game in the series was called the "Steel Bowl," and the bowl game served as an early era black college football national championship game by matching the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference champion against the best team from the other HBCU conferences.[2]

Game results

A total of ten games were played.[3]

Date	Winner		Loser		Ref.
January 1, 1941	Morris Brown	19	Wilberforce	3	[4]
January 1, 1942	Langston	13	Morris Brown	0
January 1, 1943	Texas College	13	Tuskegee	0
January 1, 1944	Tuskegee	12	Clark (GA)	7
January 1, 1945	Tennessee A&I	12	Tuskegee	7
January 1, 1946	Tennessee A&I	33	Texas College	6
January 1, 1947	Tennessee A&I	32	Louisville Municipal	0
January 1, 1948	Wilberforce State	27	Grambling	21
January 1, 1949	Kentucky State	23	North Carolina A&T	13
January 1, 1952	Bethune–Cookman	27	Texas College	13

References

1. Roger B., Saylor (May 2000). "Black College Football" (PDF). College Football Historical Society Newsletter. p. 6.
2. "Vulcan Bowl Game Set". Tuscaloosa (Ala.) News (p. 11). 7 November 1941.
3. http://www.cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/bowls/bowl_results.php?bowlid=317
4. John Rodgers (11 January 1941). "Morris Brown Tops Wilberforce In Thrilling Steel Bowl Game". Durham Carolina Times (p. 5).