Vanderbilt University Gator Bowl Pinback Button
date: label: date made
content: 1955
notes: label: Description
content: This round football button with black background and a yellow alligator depicted in the center of the button was created for supporters of the Vanderbilt football team. The button also has "Gator Bowl" and "Jacksonville, Florida" printed in yellow lettering on the front of the button while "Vanderbilt" is printed in black. The button is from the 1955 Gator Bowl (December 31, 1955) in which Vanderbilt defeated the eighth ranked Auburn Tigers 25-13. It is one of the seven bowl games Vanderbilt has ever been to (as of 2014). Vanderbilt would not win another bowl game until 2008. The Gator Bowl was televised by CBS, had an attendance of 32,174 and a payout of $70,000.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Football
label: level of sport
content: collegiate
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: In memory of Gordon Montgomery Connelly
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.3100.10
label: nonaccession number
content: 2003.3100
label: catalog number
content: 2003.3100.10
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Button
label: Object Name
content: button, football
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/4 in; 3.175 cm