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Show Rose Bowl oid holiday event Quick now, how many football foot-ball bowl games will be played during the holiday season? Rose, Sugar, Orange, Cotton . . . can you name all of the post season contests ? Probably not. Chances are someone is starting a new bowl game and the word hasn't gotten around yet. You should know, however, that the "daddy" of all the bowl games is the fabulous Rose Bowl game, which started start-ed as a supplement to the Tournament of Roses, way back in 1902. On January 1 of that year, barnstorming Michigan overwhelmed Stan-for Stan-for 49 to 0. This lopsided conquest of the west representative may or may not have had anything to do with it, but the following year chariot races were substituted sub-stituted for football and it was not until 1916 that collegiate football returned to the Tournament Tour-nament of Roses via a contest con-test in which Washington State defeafpfi Rrnum TTnivpfcit-ir Since that time, the Rose Bowl has gained in prestige and annually attracts crowds in excess of 100,000. |