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The 1947 Rose Bowl was a college football bowl game, the 33rd edition of the Rose Bowl Game.The Illinois Fighting Illini defeated the UCLA Bruins, 45–14.Illinois halfbacks Buddy Young and Jules Rykovich shared the Player of the Game award, named when the award was created in 1953 and selections were made retroactively.
UCLA lost the game, 14-45, they were favored to win by 14 points. Illinois rushed for a combined 320 yards, a then Rose Bowl record (Harrison 2018). [ 10 ] UCLA Bruins kick returner, and member of the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame, Al Hoisch, returned a kickoff 103 yards for a touchdown, a current Rose Bowl record (Bowman).
0–9. 1943 Rose Bowl; 1947 Rose Bowl; 1954 Rose Bowl; 1956 Rose Bowl; 1962 Rose Bowl; 1966 Rose Bowl; 1976 Liberty Bowl; 1976 Rose Bowl; 1978 Fiesta Bowl; 1981 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl
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 1952 game was the first nationally televised bowl game and the first nationally televised college game of any sport. [54] From 1952 to 1988 , [ 55 ] the Rose Bowl was televised by NBC at 2 p.m. PST , and in most years was the only New Year's Day bowl airing at that time.
November 22 No. 1 Michigan closed its season at 9–0–0 with a 21–0 win over Ohio State, and accepted an invitation to meet No. 4 USC (which beat No. 18 UCLA 6–0) in the Rose Bowl. Meanwhile, No. 3 SMU won 10–0 at Baylor, and No. 5 Penn State won at Pitt, 29–0. Both unbeaten, they accepted invitations to the Cotton Bowl Classic.
With the Pac-12 set to experience a mass exodus next year, here's a look at the five greatest football games in the UCLA vs. Oregon State rivalry.
The 1947 UCLA Bruins football team was an American football team that represented the University of California, Los Angeles in the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) during the 1947 college football season. In their third year under head coach Bert LaBrucherie, the Bruins compiled a 5–4 record (4–2 in PCC, fourth). [1]