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5 unusual facts about Rose Bowl


2011 BCS National Championship Game

Auburn's 85 total plays were a new record, exceeding the record set at the January 4, 2006 game between Texas and USC with 82 plays.

TCU was picked by a postseason poll as having won a share of the National Championship, due to their 13-0 perfect record and win over #4 ranked Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl.

TCU ended the season as the No. 2 team and won the 2011 Rose Bowl game.

Dewey Warren

During his sophomore season, he led the Vols to a win against the Rose Bowl-bound UCLA Bruins and a berth in the Bluebonnet Bowl.

Napoleon McCallum

He was a member of the Navy Midshipmen football team that played in the Army-Navy game at the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena, California in 1983.


1950 Rose Bowl

The 1950 Rose Bowl was a college football bowl game played between Ohio State University and University of California at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.

1966 Pro Bowl

This apparent domination extended to the college ranks as well with the West team winning the East-West college all-star game and the Rose Bowl.

1985 Rose Bowl

The 1985 Rose Bowl Game was a postseason college football bowl game between the USC Trojans of the Pacific-10 Conference and Ohio State Buckeyes of the Big Ten Conference, held on New Year’s Day in the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.

1997 Rose Bowl

The 1997 Rose Bowl Game was a postseason college football bowl game between the Arizona State Sun Devils of the Pacific-10 Conference and the Ohio State Buckeyes of the Big Ten Conference, held on New Year’s Day in the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.

2008 Stanford Cardinal football team

With ten seconds left in this UCLA's homecoming game and the Bruins behind by four points, Bruin quarterback Kevin Craft passed to freshman Cory Harkey for a 7-yard touchdown to win the game, 23-20, over the Stanford Cardinal in the northeast corner of the Rose Bowl Saturday afternoon.

2010 Marshall Thundering Herd football team

Rose Bowl MVP Terrelle Pryor picked up where he left off in Pasadena, California, with three touchdown passes, Brandon Saine ran for 103 yards and two scores and Ohio State coasted past the error-prone Thundering Herd on Thursday night.

2013–14 NCAA football bowl games

The games began on Saturday December 21, 2013 and, aside from the all-star games, ended with the 2014 BCS National Championship at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena that was played on January 6, 2014.

Andre Tippett

In 1981 he helped lead the Hawkeyes to their first winning season, their first Big Ten title, and first Rose Bowl in two decades.

Benny Barnes

He helped teams led by Jim Plunkett in 1971 and Don Bunce in 1972 to two of the biggest upset victories ever in the Rose Bowl.

Bruce Brenn

In 1958, he was part of the Oregon football team that went to the Rose Bowl.

Charlie Weaver

In 1969, he teamed with Al Cowlings and Jimmy Gunn, and the late Tody Smith and Bubba Scott to form a defensive front that powered the Trojans to 10-0-1 record and a win over the University of Michigan in the 1970 Rose Bowl.

Chicagoland Speedway

Architecture and engineering firm HNTB, which has built stadiums and arenas such as the RCA Dome, Los Angeles Coliseum and the Rose Bowl, was selected to lead the design of the facility.

Clinton Portis

In the Rose Bowl against Nebraska, Portis ran for 104 yards and a touchdown.

David Boston

Boston's best-remembered moment remains his game-winning five-yard touchdown reception from quarterback Joe Germaine with 19 seconds remaining in the 1997 Rose Bowl.

Duke Blue Devils men's basketball

Part of its cost was paid for with the proceeds from the Duke football team's appearance in the 1938 Rose Bowl.

Dusty Mangum

Mangum, who began his college football career as a walk-on, is best known for capping UT's 2004-2005 season with a 37-yard game-winning field goal as time expired in the 2005 Rose Bowl versus No. 13 University of Michigan.

Frank Tripp

(Rex Linn, a Texas native later raised in Oklahoma, once missed a day's shooting of CSI: Miami to watch the Rose Bowl when the Texas Longhorns were playing).

George Poschner

During his tenure with the Bulldogs, he participated in the 1941 Orange Bowl and the 1942 Rose Bowl.

Indiana University Marching Hundred

The band's appearances have included: the Kentucky Derby (1939), the Presidential Inaugural Parade (1953), the Rose Bowl (1968), the Holiday Bowl (1979), the All-American Bowl (1986), the Peach Bowl (1988 and 1990), the Liberty Bowl (1988), the Copper Bowl (1991), the Independence Bowl (1993), and the Insight Bowl (2007).

Jack Crabtree

Since Oregon State had gone to the Rose Bowl the previous year, the unranked Ducks earned a berth in the 1958 Rose Bowl against heavily favored and top-ranked Ohio State.

Jerry Planutis

Planutis attended West Hazleton High School, PA, and served in the Army, during his period in Free Territory of Trieste played football with local team, appeared in two Rose Bowl games for the Spartans, and was head football coach at John Adams High School in South Bend, IN.

Jimmy Gunn

In 1969, he teamed with All-Americans Al Cowlings and Charlie Weaver, and the late Tody Smith and Bubba Scott to form a defensive front that powered the Trojans to 10-0-1 record and a win over the University of Michigan in the 1970 Rose Bowl.

John Stocco

With hopes of a Rose Bowl invitation, the Badgers collapsed down the stretch, ending the season with two losses to fall out of BCS contention.

Ken Norton, Jr.

A form of recognition of his continuing work with the USC linebacker corps, he has developed three consecutive Rose Bowl MVPs: Brian Cushing (2007), Rey Maualuga (2008) and Kaluka Maiava (2009).

Keyshawn Johnson

The Trojans then played in the 1996 Rose Bowl, during which Johnson caught 12 passes for a Rose Bowl record 216 yards and one touchdown in the Trojans' 41–32 victory over the Northwestern Wildcats.

LaMichael James

On January 2, 2012, James rushed for 159 yards on 25 carries with one touchdown to help Oregon beat Wisconsin 45-38 in the Rose Bowl.

Lindley Bothwell

Rockne was so impressed with Bothwell that he asked him to be an honorary cheerleader for the Fighting Irish in their upcoming Rose Bowl game with Stanford, a request that Bothwell was more than happy to agree to.

Nathan Scheelhaase

His father, Nate Creer, started at defensive back for the University of Iowa, and started for the 1985 team that lost to UCLA in the Rose Bowl to finish 10-2, and be ranked No. 10 at the end of the season AP Poll.

Pandel Savic

He helped the 1949 Buckeyes to Ohio State's first Rose Bowl win over California, gaining 16 total yards rushing and passing, Including an important 6 yards on the ground to close out the remaining time and seal the Buckeye victory.

Ralph W. Aigler

Aigler's contributions included leading Michigan back into the Big Ten Conference, leading the effort to construct Michigan Stadium, Yost Fieldhouse and other facilities, negotiating the Big Ten's exclusive contract with the Rose Bowl starting in 1946, hiring Fritz Crisler as football coach and athletic director, and acting as a spokesman for the University and Big Ten for many years on NCAA rules and eligibility issues.

Ron Yary

He was inducted into the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame on December 30, 2012 representing USC.

Scott Tolzien

Tolzien made his final collegiate start at Wisconsin in the Rose Bowl against one of the top defenses in the nation, TCU.

Vizio

On October 19, 2010, GreenDane signed a 4-year contract to sponsor college football's annual Rose Bowl game in Pasadena, California, beginning with the 2011 Rose Bowl presented by Vizio and ending with the 2014 Vizio BCS National Championship Game.

Washington Huskies football, 1950–59

With Oregon State's defeat of Oregon, Washington secured their trip to the Rose Bowl behind quarterback Bob Schloredt.

Willie Fleming

In 1959, Fleming and the 7-1-1 Hawkeyes defeated the University of California (and Fleming's future BC Lions teammate, quarterback Joe Kapp) 38-12, in the 1959 Rose Bowl.


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1942 Rose Bowl

After the 1942 Allied victory in the Battle of Midway and the end of the Japanese offensives in the Pacific Theater during 1942, it was deemed that the West Coast was no longer vulnerable to attack, and the Rose Bowl game continued on in the Rose Bowl Stadium.

Lieutenant General John L. DeWitt, commander of the Western Defense Command, recommended that the Rose Parade and Rose Bowl festivities be canceled.

1958 Iowa Hawkeyes football team

The Hawkeyes finished the season with a 7-1-1 record, as in 1957, but this year they would travel to Pasadena to play the Pacific Coast Conference champion California in the Rose Bowl.

1969 Ohio State vs. Michigan football game

Michigan was in the process of rebuilding after a period of mediocrity that saw them only go to one Rose Bowl between 1951 and 1968; the program, known for the winning traditions under Fielding H. Yost and Fritz Crisler, had seemingly lost its way.

1976 Rose Bowl

Until Brian Cushing of USC started in his fourth Rose Bowl in the 2009 Rose Bowl, Griffin was the only player to start in four Rose Bowls.

2000 Rose Bowl

The episode The Luck of the Fryrish Fry's mother mentions the day Wisconsin won the Rose Bowl 17-9 in reference to the day Fry disappeared.

2009 Oregon Ducks football team

The Bruins scored their only touchdown when Akeem Ayers intercepted a Costa pass in the back of the Rose Bowl north end zone by keeping his feet in bound.

2009 Rose Bowl

Mark Sanchez became the third quarterback to pass for more than 400 yards in a Rose Bowl Game, with 413 yards.

2012 Rose Bowl

Teams playing in the Rose Bowl game were the winners of the Pacific-12 and Big Ten conference championship games, unless one team (or both teams) play in the BCS National Championship game.

Bobby Dodd Stadium

December 8, 1928: Georgia Tech 20, Georgia 6
This was the culmination of Georgia Tech's second perfect season and National Championship, though the Yellow Jackets would go on to the Rose Bowl to face Cal in what would turn out to be a famous game itself.

Brad Budde

During his career at USC, Budde started in three Rose Bowls; each time the USC Trojans were Rose Bowl winners.

Don Durdan

In 1946, Durdan married Maxine DeMoss, sister of Oregon golf champion Grace DeMoss (another DeMoss sister married Durdan's Rose Bowl teammate Quentin Greenough).

Hampshire County Cricket Club

Land in West End, on the outskirts of Southampton was chosen as the location for The Rose Bowl.

Jimmy Raye II

In college, as a quarterback, he was the backup for the Michigan State Spartan football team that played in the 1966 Rose Bowl and started for the 1966 Spartans in the famous 10-10 tie with Notre Dame, a game often referred to as "The Game of the Century."

Pete Beathard

Both he and Ron Vander Kelen, the Wisconsin quarterback were named the Rose Bowl Player Of The Game in the 1963 Rose Bowl.

Rex Linn

Linn is a University of Texas Longhorns fan, even taking the day off from his CSI: Miami work to attend the 2005 Rose Bowl game when his beloved team was playing—and winning the 2005 national championship against University of Southern California.

Rose Bowl Aquatics Center

The Rose Bowl Aquatics swim club is home to many well known athletes, including Jason Lezak, Emily Adamczyk, and Kevin Kuhn.