Rose bowl Stadium

The Rose Bowl is one of the post-season college football bowl game played between the No. 1 ranked club from the Pac-10 and the No. 1 ranked club from the Big-Ten. The Rose Bowl is also recognized as New Year's Day football game since 1923. The Rose Bowl was first played in the year 1902 and was a big failure because of the disruptive crowd. Even the game was called off and was substituted with chariot races, ostrich races and elephant against camel race. For the next 14 seasons, the Rose Bowl football game remained dormant. It made another comeback in 1916. That season Washington State defeated Brown (14-0). In 1923, the playoffs moved to the new arena viz. the Rose Bowl and were named after its new venue. To take the benefit of the Rose Bowl's growing popularity, the game was baptized the Orange Bowl in 1935. In the year 1992, the bowl organizers availed the opportunity keeping in view the perpetual cry for a true national college football championship. They formed the Bowl Coalition to sponsor a yearly championship game between the Nation's two leading teams as adjudged by the Associated Press and USA Today/CNN poll. This Bowl Championship Series comprised a quartet of major bowl games ( the Cotton, Fiesta, Orange and Sugar ). Preceding the current pact, till the year 1946, the Tournament of Roses called upon a West Coast team, which selected an Eastern team as their opponent.