The Ice Bowl was a

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game held in

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between 1948 and 1952 and contested by the

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football team and a team from the

Ladd Air Force Base Ladd Army Airfield is the military airfield located at Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks, Alaska. It was originally called Fairbanks Air Base, but was renamed Ladd Field on 1 December 1939, in honor of Major Arthur K. Ladd, a pilot in the U.S. ...

. The game took place in the first week of January, around the same time as the major

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s in the Continental United States. The series featured two scoreless tie games and a win apiece for each team before being discontinued in 1952, as interest in football at UAF began to decline in the early 1950s, with the school devoting its athletic resources to more "northern" sports such as

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and

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Game result

''Italics denote a tie game.''

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Game result

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