Rose Bowl
Tickets
 It's almost time for "the granddaddy of
them all," the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California on New
Year's Day, 2009. No other bowl game shines as much as the
Rose Bowl and the
2009 Rose Bowl
tickets are in highest demand!
With the USC Trojans battling the Penn
State Nittany Lions, the 2009 Rose Bowl is destined to
be an explosion of talent and excitement you won't soon
forget! Besides the mega match-up between teams from the
Pac-10 and the Big 10, the Rose Bowl Parade is a time honored
tradition you won't want to miss! Get your Rose Bowl tickets
and be there as these teams take the field in search of one of
the most prestigious championships in sports.
Rose Bowl Tickets
- History of the Rose Bowl
Originally dubbed the "Tournament East-West football game," the
first Rose Bowl played on January 1, 1902, kicking-off the
longstanding tradition of New Year's Day bowl games. The
inaugural game featured Fielding Yost's dominating 1901
Michigan team, representing the East, who crushed a previously
3-1-2 team from Stanford University, representing the West, by
a score of 49-0 after Stanford quit in the third quarter. With
its massive destruction of the Stanford team, Michigan
completed the season 11-0-0 as the national champion. This game
was so horrible and lopsided in its match-up that for the next
15 years, the Tournament of Roses officials ran chariot races,
ostrich races, and other various events instead of football.
Imagine buying
Rose Bowl tickets that entertained its crowd with an
ostrich race! Not the exciting bowl game we've come to know and
love! On New Year's Day of 1916, football returned to stay as
the true crowd pleaser, as Washington State University defeated
Brown University in the first annual Rose Bowl.
In the game's early years, excluding the World
War I years, the Rose Bowl always rivaled a team from the
Pacific Coast Conference (PCC), the predecessor of the current
Pacific-10 Conference, against an opponent from the Eastern
U.S. This didn't always include the conference campion, though.
During the last two years of World War I, Military base teams
met in the Rose Bowl. A number of notable matchups were made
with the top football teams and top coaches of the time. These
included the 1925 Rose Bowl featuring Knute Rockne's Notre Dame
team against Pop Warner's Stanford team. The 1926 featuring
Alabama Crimson Tide's win over Washington (the first
southeastern team to beat a northern team, and the 1940 Rose
Bowl, featuring Howard Jones' USC Trojans against Bob Neyland's
Tennessee Volunteers. There were 10 games matching two
undefeated teams during this time.
With the United States' entry into World War
II, on December 7, 1941, there was much concern about a
Japanese attack on the West Coast, especially in concentrated
areas where crowds might gather. One possibility that couldn't
be overlooked was the Rose parade with a million watchers and
the Rose Bowl itself with 90,000 spectators. Ideal targets for
the Japanese, Lieutenant General John L. DeWitt recommended
that the Rose Parade and Rose Bowl festivities be canceled. The
Rose Bowl committee agreed to cancel the game, but on December
16, 1941, Duke University invited the game and Oregon State to
Duke's home stadium in Durham, North Carolina for the
match.
For many years the Rose Bowl eschewed
sponsorship, but for the 1999 Rose Bowl, AT&T hosted the
bowl game. Unlike other bowl games, the sponsor was not added
to the title of the game, but instead as a presenter. In 2002
it was branded The Rose Bowl Game presented by PlayStation 2.
Since 2003, when the agreement with Sony expired, the game has
been presented by Citi.
From 1952 to 1988, the Rose Bowl was televised
by NBC in a 1 p.m. PST time slot, the only New Year's bowl
airing at that time. The 1962 Rose Bowl was the first college
football game broadcast in color. Since 1989, it has been
broadcast on ABC, usually at 2 p.m. PST. While FOX has secured
the broadcasting rights to the other Bowl Championship Series
games, the Rose Bowl, which negotiates its own television
contracts independent of the BCS, has agreed to keep the game
on ABC. The 2005 Rose Bowl was the first one broadcast in
HDTV.
Except in the years when the Rose Bowl served
as the BCS National Championship Game, the Rose Bowl Game has
continued to be played in the afternoon. (Starting with the
2006 season (2007 game), there has been a separate BCS National
Championship Game.) In 2010, the Tournament of Roses will host
the BCS National Championship in a separate game to be held on
January 7th at 5:00 P.M.
Rose Bowl Tickets
- Past Match-Ups of the Rose Bowl
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
2005 Texas 38
Michigan 37
2006 Texas 41
USC 38
2007 USC 32
Michigan 18
2008 USC 49
Illinois 17
2009 ????? Grab Your
2009 Rose Bowl
Tickets now!
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