The late A.F. `Bud’ Dudley, the game’s founder, had held the 1964 Liberty Bowl at an indoor facility in New Jersey — the Atlantic City Convention Hall — after five years in frigid ...

There were only 9 postseason games in 1965 when the Liberty Bowl relocated to the Bluff City from Philadelphia to its new Memphis Memorial Stadium.

When former Villanova athletic director A. F. "Bud" Dudley started the Liberty Bowl in 1959, in Philadelphia, it was the only cold-weather bowl game. The attendance showed it. In 1964, the game ...

The Liberty Bowl moved the following year to Memphis, Tenn., where it has remained since then. West Virginia was back in the game this year for the first time, losing 45-37 to Texas A&M on Dec. 19.

Founded in 1959, the Liberty Bowl is the eighth-oldest continuously played bowl game. It did not, ... Atlantic City offered something unique for the 1964 game – an indoor venue.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) West Virginia will make its first Liberty Bowl appearance in half a century when it meets Texas A&M on Dec. 29. The Mountaineers (7-5) lost 32-6 to Utah in the 1964 Liberty ...