The Rose Bowl Game is an annual American college football bowl game, usually played on January 1, at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, California. Nicknamed “The Granddaddy of Them All,” the Rose Bowl is the oldest bowl game. It was first played in 1902 and continuously since 1916. Since 1945, it has been the highest attended college football bowl game.
Originally titled the “Tournament East-West football game,” the first Rose Bowl was played on January 1, 1902, starting the tradition of New Year’s Day bowl games. The inaugural game featured Fielding Yost’s dominating 1901 Michigan team, representing the East, who crushed a previously 3-1-2 team from Stanford University, representing the West, by a score of 49-0 after Stanford quit in the third quarter. The game was so lopsided that for the next 15 years, officials ran chariot races, ostrich races and other various events instead of football.
On New Year’s Day in 1916, football returned to stay as Washington State University defeated Brown University in the first annual Rose Bowl. Before the Rose Bowl Stadium was built for the January 1, 1923 match, games were played in Pasadena’s Tournament Park. It was determined to be unsuitable for the larger and larger crowds gathering to watch the game and a new, permanent home for the game was commissioned.
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