The Boardwalk Bowl was a post-season collegiate football game held at the Atlantic City Convention Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The playing surface in the earlier years consisted of natural grass sod that was grown outside and then moved indoors for the game. This game was first held in 1961 and continued annually through 1973. From 1968 through 1972, it was the NCAA College Division II mideast championhip game. In 1973, under a new playoff system, it became the Division II national semefinal. It was discontinued after the 1973 game. The Boardwalk Bowl along with the Liberty Bowl (played in the Convention Center in 1964), showed the feasibility of playing football indoors and led the promoters of football games to look seriously at developing indoor facilities primarily for this purpose.
NCAA College Division Eastern Region
