2012 Rose Bowl Game

2012 Rose Bowl, this January is the 98th edition of the annual game, was a college football bowl game played on Monday, January 2, 2012 at the same-named stadium in Pasadena, California. The Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association was the organizer of the game and dedicated the game in honor of all wounded military personnel, who tossed the game coin by their representative Grand Marshal J.R. Martinez.

Rose Bowl is able-bodied over a aeon old, accepting aboriginal been played in 1902 back Michigan defeated Stanford by a account of 49-0 in a game that was absolutely chock-full in the third division back Stanford gave up. Perhaps that’s why it was about 15 years afore the additional Rose Bowl was played in 1916 with Washington State acquisition Brown. Some of those aboriginal amateur absolutely featured some different matchups, such as the ’19 archetypal with Great Lakes (the US Navy’s team) adjoin Mare Island. There was additionally a 0-0 Bawl game in ’22 amid Cal and Washington & Jefferson. Of advance things accept afflicted a bit back then, and now the Rose Bowl is allotment of the Bowl Championship Series that assures one of the better matchups in all of academy football. You can get your Rose Bowl game tickets appropriate now from GoTickets.

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