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The East Carolina Pirates are a college football team that represents East Carolina University (variously "East Carolina" or "ECU"). The team is a member of the American Athletic Conference, which is in Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Blake Harrell is the head ...
East Carolina won its first championship—the North State Conference championship—in 1953. In its 15 years as a member of the North State Conference, the Pirates won two championships and went to two bowl games. In 1962, the team left the conference and returned to its previous status as a football independent. During two of those years, the ...
1978 Independence Bowl; 1992 Peach Bowl; 1994 Liberty Bowl; 1995 Liberty Bowl; 1999 Mobile Alabama Bowl; 2000 Galleryfurniture.com Bowl; 2001 GMAC Bowl; 2006 PapaJohns.com Bowl; 2007 Hawaii Bowl; 2009 Liberty Bowl; 2010 Liberty Bowl (January) 2010 Military Bowl; 2012 New Orleans Bowl; 2013 Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl; 2015 Birmingham Bowl (January ...
East Carolina also played in the 1965 Tangerine Bowl and then moved to the University Division in 1966, and have since played in multiple bowl games at the Division I (now FBS) level. Massachusetts played in the Boardwalk Bowl in 1972; the team moved to the new Division I-AA (now FCS) in 1978, and then to FBS in 2012.
The 1995 Liberty Bowl (December) game was a college football bowl game played on December 30, 1995, at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee. The 37th edition of the Liberty Bowl , it featured the Stanford Cardinal and the East Carolina Pirates .
The 1994 Liberty Bowl was held on December 31, 1994, in Memphis, Tennessee, at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium. The 36th edition of the Liberty Bowl, the game featured the Illinois Fighting Illini of the Big Ten Conference and the East Carolina Pirates, a football independent. Illinois won the game, 30–0.
East Carolina moved up to the University Division for the next season but the Pirates did not play in a bowl game until 1978, in the Independence Bowl. The Black Bears did not win another conference title until 1974 , sharing it with UMass .
The 1995 East Carolina Pirates football team was an American football team that represented East Carolina University as an independent during the 1995 NCAA Division I-A football season. In their fourth season under head coach Steve Logan , the team compiled a 9–3 record and won the 1995 Liberty Bowl . [ 1 ]