The Los Angeles Christmas Festival was a post-season college football bowl game played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California on December 25, 1924 between the University of Southern California and the University of Missouri. It was Missouri's first bowl appearance, and USC's second (they had played in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day 1924.)[1]
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A group led by Derek Dearwater looked to create a new Christmas Bowl in 2010.[2] According to Dearwater, the game was supposed to pit the Pac-10's No. 7 team (or a school from the Mid-American Conference if the Pac-10 didn't have any more bowl-eligible squads) against the Western Athletic Conference's No. 2 team. The L.A. Coliseum was the planned venue, either on Christmas Eve or the following Monday, December 27. The Children's Miracle Network ("Creating Christmas Miracles for Children in Need") was to be the game's chief benefactor.
However, the bowl proposal "fell short of meeting the NCAA's licensing criteria due to our inability to secure a back-up conference agreement" for the Pac-10's No. 7 selection, according to Dearwater. He says the game will try for certification again in 2011.
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