User:Buggie111/1956 Orange Bowl

The 1956 Orange Bowl was a postseason American college football bowl game between the third-ranked Maryland Terrapins and the first-ranked Oklahoma Sooners. It was the twenty second edition of the Orange Bowl and took place at the Orange Bowl stadium in Miami, Florida on January 2, 1956.

It was the second meeting of the two teams, the first one being the 1954 Orange Bowl. Maryland and Oklahoma were head coached by former colleagues Jim Tatum and Bud Wilkinson, respectively, who had previously coached together at the United States Navy's Iowa Pre-Flight School and the University of Oklahoma.