Rose Bowl (game)

The Rose Bowl is an annual American college football game, usually played on January 1 at the stadium of the same name in Pasadena, California. Sometimes nicknamed "The Granddaddy of Them All," the Rose Bowl is part of the annual Tournament of Roses event. For years the game bucked tradition by going without a sponsor, but in 1998, the game began being known as The Rose Bowl Game presented by AT&T and in 2002 as The Rose Bowl Game presented by PlayStation 2. Since 2005, when the agreement with Sony expired, the game has been presented by Citi. The game was first played in 1902, pitting Michigan against Stanford, but the next game was not played until 1916. The Tournament also includes a parade with floats covered with flower petals. Before the Rose Bowl stadium was built, in 1923, games were played in Pasadena's Tournament Park, approximately 3 miles southeast of the current stadium. For many years the game was televised by NBC; since 1988 it has aired on ABC.

Rose Bowl trivia

During the 1961 game several students from nearby Caltech pulled a prank on the cheerleaders from Washington. Widely known as "The Great Rose Bowl Hoax" due to its televised audience of nearly 10 million. The prank involved hijacking a flip-card show during the halftime break. The Caltech students managed to substitute the instructions for creating the flip-card images. The resulting changes included: the Caltech Beaver in place of the Washington Husky, the team name "HUSKIES" was inverted to "SEIKSUH", these were then followed with the name "CALTECH" in large letters as seen here.

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1961 - Caltech - The Great Rose Bowl Hoax

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