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The Bruins have played 12 Rose Bowl games in the stadium. The attendance of 105,464 for the 1976 Rose Bowl is the largest crowd to ever watch a UCLA football game in the stadium. It is a record that is not likely to be broken, as the Rose Bowl seating has been reduced to 91,136 for UCLA Bruins Football [21] and 92,542 for the Rose Bowl Game. [22]
The 1998 season started out as one of the best in the history of UCLA football. [12] The team was high enough in the BCS standings to merit entry to the national championship game, and all UCLA needed to do was beat unranked University of Miami, who were major underdogs after a 66–13 loss to Syracuse the week before. [12]
The facility had a permanent seating capacity of 93,607 for USC football and Rams games, making it the largest football stadium in the Pac-12 Conference and the NFL. [15] The stadium also was the temporary home of the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1958 to 1961 , and was the host venue for games three, four, and five of ...
Football returned in 1916 when Washington State shut out Brown 14-0 to begin the New Year's Day tradition in earnest. The first New Year's game held in the Rose Bowl stadium occurred in 1923 when ...
The spectacle of college football and its rich traditions have been in place for over a century. Loran Smith digs into the history of tailgating...
The Bears went on to win the inaugural game at California Memorial Stadium by a final score of 9–0, beating Stanford for the fifth straight year and securing their fourth straight undefeated season. [12] When California Memorial Stadium opened in 1923, the permanent capacity of the venue was around 75,000 and expandable to around 85,000.
Plans in 1965 to build an on-campus football stadium at UCLA were nixed by wealthy homeowners as well as students. Reviving the notion is a non-starter.
In 1954, the UCLA football team earned a share of the national title with a 9–0 record and a #1 ranking in the Coaches UPI football poll, while Ohio State was ranked No. 1 in the AP Poll. Owing to rules in place at the time, UCLA was unable to face off against Ohio State in the Rose Bowl, which would have resulted in one or the other being ...