Rose Bowl

For the cricket ground in Southampton, England, see Rose Bowl, Southampton.

The Rose Bowl is both the name of an annual American college football game usually played on January 1, and also the name of the stadium in Pasadena, California where the game is played.

The Stadium

The stadium, built in 1923, is not only used for the Rose Bowl game itself, but has also been the home football field for UCLA since 1982. In addition, it is one of two stadiums to have hosted the FIFA World Cup finals for both men and women; it hosted the men's final in 1994 and the women's final in 1999. The other stadium with this honor is the Råsunda Stadium near Stockholm, which hosted the men's final in 1958 and the women's final in 1995.

The 1999 women's final was the most-attended women's sports event in history, with an official attendance of 90,185.

The coliseum is a National Historic Landmark.

The Game

The Rose Bowl game, sometimes called "The Granddaddy of Them All", is part of the annual Tournament of Roses event. It was first played in 1902, although the next game was not played until 1916. The Tournament also includes a parade with floats covered with flower petals. Before the stadium was built in 1923, previous games were played in Pasadena's Tournament Park, approximately 3 miles southeast of the current stadium.

In its early years (except during the first world war), the game always featured a team (not necessarily the conference champion) from the Pacific Coast Conference (ancestor to today's Pac 10), as well as a team invited from further east. Beginning with the 1947 game, the game's participants were established as the champions of the Big Ten and Pacific 10 Conferences. Since 2002, however, with the creation of the Bowl Championship Series system, team selection for the Rose Bowl is now tied into the other three BCS Bowls, although in any given year the Rose Bowl still attempts, if possible, to maintain the traditional Pac-10 - Big 10 format. The 2002 game was the first since 1946 to not feature the traditional pairing. As one of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) bowl games (the others being the Sugar, Fiesta, and Orange Bowls), the Rose Bowl hosts the national championship game once every four years under the BCS system.

Years listed here indicate the January game date; for example, the 2003 game was played following the 2002 autumn football season. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the 1942 game was moved to Durham, North Carolina due to World War II travel restrictions.

• 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
• 1923 USC 14 Penn State 3
• 1924 Washington 14 Navy 14
• 1925 Notre Dame 27 Stanford 10
• 1926 Alabama 20 Washington 19
• 1927 Stanford 7 Alabama 7
• 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 37 Nebraska 14*
• 2003 Oklahoma 34 Washington State 14
• 2004 USC 28 Michigan 14

Asterix denotes BCS National Champtionship Games

External link

• Official Website of the Rose Bowl (http://www.tournamentofroses.com/current/rbg.htm)