The Boise Junior College football team is presented the trophy for winning the 1951 Potato Bowl in Bakersfield, California. Rex Miller is directly to the right of the Shriner wearing the fez; John Milani (still wearing his football helmet) is...
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Coach George Blankley carried by #31 Noland Ford after winning the Potato Bowl in Bakersfield, California, for a second time. #29 Pete Quinn , #47 Dwight Winslow (behind Blankley).
Shirley Giminiani, Potato Bowl Queen, and Pat Dolan, Boise Junior College Homecoming Queen, riding through Bakersfield, California, in a convertible promoting the seventh annual Potato Bowl Game sponsored by the Kern County Shrine Club. That year...
Eugene M. Johnson, superintendent of schools for Kern County, California (left) and Boise Junior College president Dr. Eugene B. Chaffee (left) pose with an Al Malaikah Shriner at the 1949 Kern County Shrine Club Potato Bowl in Bakersfield,...
Boise Junior College president Eugene Chaffee is presented Kern County potatoes as part of the ceremonies for the Potato Bowl in Bakersfield, California. The BJC football team played the Compton Junior College in the Bronco's third visit to...
The trophy presentation at the Kern County Shrine Club's 4th annual Potato Bowl, which featured Boise Junior College vs Bakersfield Junior College. From left to right: #20 Merlin Howard (BJC), #47 Dwight Winslow (BJC), Bowl Queen Ruth Armstrong,...
Head Coach Lyle Smith (far left), and Junior College President Eugene Chaffee (second left), on the sideline with the football team during the 1949 Potato Bowl in Bakersfield California.
In BJC's second appearance at the Potato Bowl, Dwight Winslow (fullback) runs the ball for a first down. The BJC player on the ground to the left of him is probably John Milani.
L to R: BJC cheerleaders Jerry Hill, Virginia Oliason, Joan Edwards, and Don Urry cheering the BJC football team at the 1949 Potato Bowl in Bakersfield, California, the college's first bowl appearance. Caption from yearbook: "The entire student...
