Rose Bowl

Rose Bowl
(in the US) the oldest and best-known of the college football bowl games. It is played on New Year’s Day in Pasadena, California, in the Rose Bowl stadium which has 102 000 seats. The game follows the Rose Bowl Parade, in which many vehicles decorated with flowers take part.

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formally Pasadena Tournament of Roses

Oldest U.S. postseason college gridiron football contest.

It is held annually in Pasadena, Calif., usually on New Year's Day. Each Rose Bowl game is preceded by a "Rose Parade" featuring floats of elaborate floral design. The first festival was held in 1890 and the first football game in 1902. The Rose Bowl stadium opened in 1922. From 1947 to 2001 participation was limited to teams from the Big Ten and Pacific Ten conferences. Starting in 2002, this arrangement was suspended every fourth year to allow the Rose Bowl to host a national championship game.

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formally  Pasadena Tournament of Roses 
  oldest American postseason college gridiron football (football, gridiron) contest, held annually in Pasadena, Calif. Each Rose Bowl game is preceded by a Tournament of Roses Parade, or Rose Parade, which is one of the world's most elaborate and famous annual parades. Since 1998 the Rose Bowl has participated in the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) (BCS) along with the Fiesta Bowl, Orange Bowl, and Sugar Bowl. Every year, on a rotating basis, one of these bowls hosts an additional game, the Division I national championship, which is generally played about a week after the BCS bowl games. The Rose Bowl is played on New Year's Day (or on January 2 if New Year's Day falls on a Sunday or within a few days of New Year's Day when the Rose Bowl also hosts the BCS championship game).

 The first festival, originally called the Battle of Flowers, was held on Jan. 1, 1890, under the auspices of the Valley Hunt Club and consisted of local citizens decorating their carriages and buggies with flowers and driving over a prearranged route; the parade was followed by amateur athletic events. From 1897 the tournament was conducted by a newly established Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association. The morning parade now consists of about 60 floats of intricate design, elaborately decorated with flowers and illustrating some aspect of the parade's theme of the year. Interspersed among the floats are marching bands and costumed horses and riders, and included in the 5.5-mile- (8.9-km-) long procession are a grand marshal and a Rose queen.

      In 1902 the first football game was held (between the University of Michigan and Stanford University) in Tournament Park, but chariot races and other contests were thereafter substituted, and football was not introduced as the annual contest until 1916. The Rose Bowl stadium opened in 1922, in time for the 1923 game. (Because of restrictions on crowds on the West Coast during World War II, the 1942 game was relocated to Durham, N.C.) Originally, the championship team of the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (now the Pacific-10 (Pacific-10 Conference)) simply invited a winning team from anywhere in the eastern United States to be its opponent. Beginning in 1947, however, the Rose Bowl brought together teams from the Big Ten (Big Ten Conference) (in the Midwest) and Pacific-10 (Pacific-10 Conference) conferences and their forerunners; with the advent of the BCS system, the bowl has maintained its tie-in with these two conferences, generally matching their champions unless one or both of them play in the national championship. (Under the format the BCS used until 2007, each year, on a rotating basis, one of the predicating bowls became the national championship game, so that in 2002 the Rose Bowl was played by the Universities of Miami and Nebraska and in 2006 by the Universities of Texas and Southern California.)

       Rose Bowl Table A list of Rose Bowl results is provided in the table.

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