1916 Rose Bowl

1916 Tournament East-West football game
2nd Rose Bowl Game
Game Poster
1234 Total
Brown 0000 0
Washington State 0077 14
DateJanuary 1, 1916
Season1915
StadiumTournament Park
LocationPasadena, California
MVPCarl Dietz, Washington State
FavoriteBrown by 2 to 1
RefereeWalter Eckersall
Attendance10,000 (estimated)[1]
Tournament East-West football game
 < 1902 1917

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.

  1. ^ Washington State Cougars in the 1916 Rose Bowl Archived November 7, 2006, at the Wayback Machine - Washington State athletic department
  2. ^ Bowl Games: College Football's Greatest Tradition, by Robert Ours, 2004, pgs. 3-4