| 1916 Tournament East-West football game | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 2nd Rose Bowl Game | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | January 1, 1916 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 1915 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Tournament Park | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Pasadena, California | ||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Carl Dietz, Washington State | ||||||||||||||||||
| Favorite | Brown by 2 to 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Walter Eckersall | ||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 10,000 (estimated)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||
Originally titled the "Tournament East-West football game," the second of what is now known as the Rose Bowl Game was played on January 1, 1916. The Rose Bowl game has been played annually since this game.
The first game, the 1902 Tournament East-West football game, was so lopsided that for the next 13 years, the Tournament of Roses officials ran chariot races, ostrich races, and other various events instead of football.[2] But, on New Year's Day 1916, football returned to stay as undefeated Washington State College defeated Brown University in this first annual Tournament of Roses football game.
- ^ Washington State Cougars in the 1916 Rose Bowl Archived November 7, 2006, at the Wayback Machine - Washington State athletic department
- ^ Bowl Games: College Football's Greatest Tradition, by Robert Ours, 2004, pgs. 3-4