West Virginia made their first bowl since the 1969 Peach Bowl in the 3rd year of Bobby Bowden as coach. The Wolfpack finished 2nd in the Atlantic Coast Conference in Holtz's first year with the team. This was their first bowl game since 1967.[1][2]
Game summaryedit
West Virginia - Frank Nester 27 field goal
West Virginia - Nester 39 field goal
NC State - Don Buckey 37 pass from Dave Buckey (Ron Sewell kick)
West Virginia - Danny Buggs 4 pass from Bernie Galiffa (Nester kick)
1972, peach, bowl, college, football, postseason, bowl, game, between, west, virginia, mountaineers, state, wolfpack, west, virginia, mountaineers, state, wolfpack, independent, acc13, 49head, coach, bobby, bowden, head, coach, holtzap181234, totalwest, virgin. The 1972 Peach Bowl was a college football postseason bowl game between the West Virginia Mountaineers and the NC State Wolfpack 1972 Peach BowlWest Virginia Mountaineers NC State Wolfpack 8 3 7 3 1 Independent ACC13 49Head coach Bobby Bowden Head coach Lou HoltzAP181234 TotalWest Virginia 13000 13NC State 772114 49DateDecember 29 1972Season1972StadiumAtlanta Fulton County StadiumLocationAtlanta GeorgiaMVPQB Dave BuckeyDT George BellRefereeB W Hackney ACC split crew ACC ECAC Attendance52 671Peach Bowl lt 1971 1973 gt Contents 1 Background 2 Game summary 3 Aftermath 4 ReferencesBackground editWest Virginia made their first bowl since the 1969 Peach Bowl in the 3rd year of Bobby Bowden as coach The Wolfpack finished 2nd in the Atlantic Coast Conference in Holtz s first year with the team This was their first bowl game since 1967 1 2 Game summary editWest Virginia Frank Nester 27 field goal West Virginia Nester 39 field goal NC State Don Buckey 37 pass from Dave Buckey Ron Sewell kick West Virginia Danny Buggs 4 pass from Bernie Galiffa Nester kick NC State Stan Fritts 1 run Sewell kick NC State Don Buckey 2 run Sewell kick NC State Fritts 1 run Sewell kick NC State Fritts 4 run Sewell kick NC State Pat Hovance 14 pass from Dave Buckey Sewell kick NC State Willie Burden 7 run Sewell kick Aftermath editThe Wolfpack made five more bowl games in the decade including the Peach Bowl in 1975 which also had the Mountaineers as the opponent This would be the 1st of the 5 matchups between two legendary college football coaches Lou Holtz and Bobby Bowden References edit jholmes20 1972game PDF home comcast net Retrieved August 11 2015 University Relations News December 10 2010 Peach Bowl 35th Anniversary wvutoday wvu edu Retrieved August 11 2015 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint multiple names authors list link CS1 maint numeric names authors list link nbsp This college football bowl article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 1972 Peach Bowl amp oldid 1221698319, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
