File:1st-Rose-Bowl-game-1902.jpg
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The very first Tournament East-West football game, hosted by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tournament_of_Roses" class="extiw" title="en:Tournament of Roses">Tournament of Roses</a>. The game would become known as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Bowl_Game" class="extiw" title="en:Rose Bowl Game">Rose Bowl Game</a> and like (nearly) all subsequent games it was played on New Years Day: January 1, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1902" class="extiw" title="en:1902">1902</a>. The first game featured <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fielding_H._Yost" class="extiw" title="en:Fielding H. Yost">Fielding H. Yost</a>'s dominating 1901 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Michigan" class="extiw" title="en:University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a> (representing the East) crushing previously 3-1-2 Stanford (representing the West) by a score of 49-0. Michigan would end the season 11-0-0 and considered the National Champions. Yost had been Stanford's coach the previous year. The game was so lopsided that the game wasn't played again until 1916, when it would become a yearly tradition. Courtesy of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Public_Library" class="extiw" title="en:Los Angeles Public Library">Los Angeles Public Library</a>'s Photo Collection<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://catalog1.lapl.org/">[1]</a>.
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| current | 03:29, 7 January 2017 | | 720 × 186 (40 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | The very first Tournament East-West football game, hosted by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tournament_of_Roses" class="extiw" title="en:Tournament of Roses">Tournament of Roses</a>. The game would become known as the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Bowl_Game" class="extiw" title="en:Rose Bowl Game">Rose Bowl Game</a></b> and like (nearly) all subsequent games it was played on New Years Day: January 1, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1902" class="extiw" title="en:1902">1902</a>. The first game featured <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fielding_H._Yost" class="extiw" title="en:Fielding H. Yost">Fielding H. Yost</a>'s dominating 1901 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Michigan" class="extiw" title="en:University of Michigan">University of Michigan</a> (representing the East) crushing previously 3-1-2 Stanford (representing the West) by a score of 49-0. Michigan would end the season 11-0-0 and considered the National Champions. Yost had been Stanford's coach the previous year. The game was so lopsided that the game wasn't played again until 1916, when it would become a yearly tradition. Courtesy of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Public_Library" class="extiw" title="en:Los Angeles Public Library">Los Angeles Public Library</a>'s Photo Collection<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://catalog1.lapl.org/">[1]</a>. |
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