Other Champions
Prior to the integration of sports teams, Miami Orange Bowl stadium hosted the New Year's Day game of the same name, and a December game for historically black colleges, the Orange Blossom Classic. Grambling State (9-0-0) and Florida A & M University (8-0-1) met to determine the best Negro college football team in the nation, with Grambling winning 28-21.
Miami University (Ohio) finished 9-0-0, as did Southeast Missouri State University. Heidelberg College, Hillsdale College, College of Emporia, Maryland State College and Whitworth College. Northern State Teachers College* of South Dakota went 9-0-0, and then lost to Kearney Teachers College in the "Botony Bowl", 34-13, played in Shenandoah, Iowa, on Thanksgiving Day.
Colleges that went 8-0-0 were Alfred University, Drexel University, Albany State College, Centre College, Coe College, Parsons College, Juniata College, Muskingum College, Shepherd College, and Stevens Point College. (7). Trinity College (Connecticut) went 7-0-0.
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