NCAA.com | January 1, 2020

History: Rose Bowl

Mansfield's 2010 reenactment of the first-ever night football game in 1892

The Rose Bowl, the "granddaddy of them all," was first played on Jan. 1, 1902, at Tournament Park. It was not exactly a thriller, as top-ranked Michigan trounced Stanford 49-0. It was started as the centerpiece to the "Tournament of Roses," a yearly festival put on by the Valley Hunt Club that began in 1890. Before the advent of the football game, the parade staged events like tugs-of-war, polo matches and even greased-pig catching.

The inaugural game was such a blowout that the Rose Bowl did not return for 14 years. In its place, parade organizers staged chariot races and even ostrich races. However, in 1916, it returned as Washington State beat Brown 14-0. Seven years later, due to the popularity of the yearly game, the Rose Bowl Stadium was built in Pasadena.

The rest is history. This year, on Jan. 1, 2020, Oregon beat Wisconsin 28-27 in the 106th Rose Bowl.

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Memorable moments

• In 1925, Notre Dame made what is to date its only Rose Bowl appearance. Boy, was it memorable. Elmer Layden, one of the Irish's famed "Four Horsemen" (a defensive unit), scored three touchdowns. Two of those TDs came on interception returns of more than 70 yards.

• In 1929, Cal's Roy "Wrong Way" Riegels earned his nickname at the Rose Bowl, picking up a Georgia Tech fumble and running it 65 yards the wrong way, narroowly avoiding a safety.

• It's likely that even to this day if you mention the name "Joe Germaine" to an Arizona State fan, they probably will twitch. In the final 1:40 of the 1997 game, Germaine, Ohio State's quarterback, drove the Buckeyes down the field, finally connecting on a 5-yard TD pass to David Boston with 19 seconds left to give Arizona State its only loss of the season 20-17.

• In 2005 and 2006, Vince Young made the Rose Bowl his personal playground. In 2005, then a sophomore for Texas, lit up Michigan, scoring all five Longhorn touchdowns and accounting for 372 yards of total offense, including 192 yards rushing in Texas' 38-37 victory against Michigan. In 2006, he went even further, piling up 467 yards of total offense, including 200 yards rushing as Texas beat USC 41-38.

ROSE BOWL RESULTS
YEAR	WINNER	SCORE	LOSER	SCORE
1902	Michigan	49	Stanford	0
1916	Washington State	14	Brown	0
1917	Oregon	14	Pennsylvania	0
1918	Mare Island-USMC	19	Camp Lewis-US Army	7
1919	Great Lakes-US Navy	17	Mare Island	0
1920	Harvard	7	Oregon	6
1921	California	28	Ohio State	0
1922	California	0	Washington & Jefferson	0 (tie)
1923	USC	14	Penn State	3
1924	Washington	14	Navy	14 (tie)
1925	Notre Dame	27	Stanford	10
1926	Alabama	20	Washington	19
1927	Stanford	7	Alabama	7 (tie)
1928	Stanford	7	Pittsburgh	6
1929	Georgia Tech	8	California	7
1930	USC	47	Pittsburgh	14
1931	Alabama	24	Washington State	0
1932	USC	21	Tulane	12
1933	USC	35	Pittsburgh	0
1934	Columbia	7	Stanford	0
1935	Alabama	29	Stanford	13
1936	Stanford	7	SMU	0
1937	Pittsburgh	21	Washington	0
1938	California	13	Alabama	0
1939	USC	7	Duke	3
1940	USC	14	Tennessee	0
1941	Stanford	21	Nebraska	13
*1942	Oregon State	20	Duke	16
1943	Georgia	9	UCLA	0
1944	USC	29	Washington	0
1945	USC	25	Tennessee	0
1946	Alabama	34	USC	14
1947	Illinois	45	UCLA	14
1948	Michigan	49	USC	0
1949	Northwestern	20	California	14
1950	Ohio State	17	California	14
1951	Michigan	14	California	6
1952	Illinois	40	Stanford	7
1953	USC	7	Wisconsin	0
1954	Michigan State	28	UCLA	20
1955	Ohio State	20	USC	7
1956	Michigan State	17	UCLA	14
1957	Iowa	35	Oregon State	19
1958	Ohio State	10	Oregon	7
1959	Iowa	38	California	12
1960	Washington	44	Wisconsin	8
1961	Washington	17	Minnesota	7
1962	Minnesota	21	UCLA	3
1963	USC	42	Wisconsin	37
1964	Illinois	17	Washington	7
1965	Michigan	34	Oregon State	7
1966	UCLA	14	Michigan State	12
1967	Purdue	14	USC	13
1968	USC	14	Indiana	3
1969	Ohio State	27	USC	16
1970	USC	10	Michigan	3
1971	Stanford	27	Ohio State	17
1972	Stanford	13	Michigan	12
1973	USC	42	Ohio State	17
1974	Ohio State	42	USC	21
1975	USC	18	Ohio State	17
1976	UCLA	23	Ohio State	10
1977	USC	14	Michigan	6
1978	Washington	27	Michigan	20
1979	USC	17	Michigan	10
1980	USC	17	Ohio State	16
1981	Michigan	23	Washington	6
1982	Washington	28	Iowa	0
1983	UCLA	24	Michigan	14
1984	UCLA	45	Illinois	9
1985	USC	20	Ohio State	17
1986	UCLA	45	Iowa	28
1987	Arizona State	22	Michigan	15
1988	Michigan State	20	USC	17
1989	Michigan	22	USC	14
1990	USC	17	Michigan	10
1991	Washington	46	Iowa	34
1992	Washington	34	Michigan	14
1993	Michigan	38	Washington	31
1994	Wisconsin	21	UCLA	16
1995	Penn State	38	Oregon	20
1996	USC	41	Northwestern	32
1997	Ohio State	20	Arizona State	17
1998	Michigan	21	Washington State	16
1999	Wisconsin	38	UCLA	31
2000	Wisconsin	17	Stanford	9
2001	Washington	34	Purdue	24
2002	Miami (Fla.)	37	Nebraska	14
2003	Oklahoma	34	Washington State	14
2004	USC	28	Michigan	14
2005	Texas	38	Michigan	37
2006	Texas	41	USC	38
2007	USC	32	Michigan	18
2008	USC	49	Illinois	17
2009	USC	38	Penn State	24
2010	Ohio State	26	Oregon	17
2011	TCU	21	Wisconsin	19
2012	Oregon	45	Wisconsin	38
2013	Stanford	20	Wisconsin	14
2014	Michigan State	24	Stanford	20
2015	Oregon	59	Florida State	20
2016	Stanford	45	Iowa	16
2017	USC	52	Penn State	49
2018	Georgia	54	Oklahoma	48
2019	Ohio State	28	Washington	23
2020	Oregon	28	Wisconsin	27

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