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Originally titled the "Tournament East–West football game", what is now known as the Rose Bowl Game was first played on January 1, 1902, at Tournament Park in Pasadena, California, starting the tradition of New Year's Day bowl games.
The very first Rose Bowl Game at Tournament park in 1902: Michigan v Stanford. Before the Rose Bowl was built, games were played in Pasadena's Tournament Park, approximately three miles (5 km) southeast of the current Rose Bowl stadium, near the campus of Caltech. Tournament Park was found to be unsuitable for the increasingly large crowds ...
In 1946, the then-Big Nine and Pacific Coast conferences agreed to have their champions meet in the Rose Bowl. The first game under the agreement in 1947 saw the Illinois Illini beat the UCLA ...
The very first collegiate football bowl game was played following the 1901 season. Originally titled the "Tournament East-West football game" what is now known as the Rose Bowl Game was first played on January 1, 1902, in Pasadena, California. Michigan defeated Stanford 49–0.
In their first year under head coach Fielding H. Yost, the team compiled a perfect 11–0 record, outscored its opponents by a combined total of 550 to 0, tied with Wisconsin for the Western Conference championship, and defeated Stanford by a 49 to 0 score in the inaugural Rose Bowl game, the first college bowl game ever played.
The Rose Bowl game has been played annually since this game. The first game, the 1902 Tournament East-West football game, was so lopsided that for the next 13 years, the Tournament of Roses officials ran chariot races, ostrich races, and other various events instead of football. [2] But, on New Year's Day 1916, football returned to stay as ...
Rose Bowl: No. 1 Michigan (13-0, Big Ten) vs. No. 4 Alabama (12-1, SEC), Jan. 1, 5 p.m. Eastern (ESPN) ... This is the Crimson Tide’s first Rose Bowl game in Pasadena since 1946. They defeated ...
The 1901 team was invited to play in the first Rose Bowl game on January 1, 1902, a 49–0 win over Stanford. Snow scored five touchdowns in the 1902 Rose Bowl, as follows: A five-yard run for a touchdown in the first half for the game's first points; A two-yard run for a touchdown in the second half to extend Michigan's lead to 22–0;