| Game Name: | Tangerine Bowl |
| Date Game Played: | January 1 |
| Year Game Played: | 1957 |
| Football Season: | 1956 |
| Home School: | Mississippi Southern College |
| Home Name Short: | Mississippi Southern |
| Home Nickname: | Southerners |
| Home Record: | 7–1–1 |
| Home Conference: | Independent |
| Home 1Q: | 0 |
| Home 2Q: | 13 |
| Home 3Q: | 0 |
| Home 4Q: | 0 |
| Mvp: | Ron Mills, West Texas State |
| Visitor School: | West Texas State College |
| Visitor Name Short: | West Texas State |
| Visitor Nickname: | Buffaloes |
| Visitor Record: | 7–2 |
| Visitor 1Q: | 0 |
| Visitor 2Q: | 0 |
| Visitor 3Q: | 6 |
| Visitor 4Q: | 14 |
| Type: | bg |
| Attendance: | 11,000[1] |
| Game Link: | Citrus Bowl |
The 1957 Tangerine Bowl was an American college football bowl game played on January 1, 1957, at Tangerine Bowl in Orlando, Florida. The game pitted the Mississippi Southern Southerners (today's Southern Miss) and the West Texas State Buffaloes (now West Texas A&M).
The Buffaloes finished third in the Border Conference, but they still managed to get invited to the Tangerine Bowl, their second bowl appearance in seven seasons. The Southerners, an NCAA College Division independent, finished 7–1–1 while being invited to their third bowl game in four years.[2]
Mississippi Southern built a 13–0 halftime lead on a J.C. Arvan "Statue of Liberty" touchdown play from 51 yards out along with a 53-yard touchdown pass from Bobby Hughes to Jerry Taylor. However, Ron Mills intercepted an Eagle pass and returned it 75 yards for a touchdown to make it 13–6. Mills added a two-yard plunge to tie the game at 13. Quarterback Bubba Hillman rushed for 19 yards and the touchdown that proved to be the winning points for West Texas State.[3]
The Southerners return to the next Tangerine Bowl a year later. The Buffaloes' next bowl game was the 1962 Sun Bowl.