1933 Rose Bowl

American college football game August 2023 December 2025 1933 Official Rose Bowl Football Program.jpg 1933 Rose Bowl 19th Rose Bowl GameNational Championship GameThrough luck and fortuitous scheduling, a "national championship game" was occasionally able to settle the matter on the field, as described in some contemporaneous reports.Barbati Carl Cannizzaro Mark January 3, 1988 Should there be college Super Bowl? https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111956213/should-there-be-college-super-bowl/ The Courier–News Bridgewater, New Jersey October 24, 2022 Only luck ensures one of the many current bowl games gets the No. 1 and No. 2 teams to play each other. October 25, 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20221025034152/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/111956213/should-there-be-college-super-bowl/ live Despite the promotional billing, in several instances there were plausible scenarios for a third team to be selected as national champion by the major selectors, depending on outcomes of other games.:1932 When the Dickinson rankings crowned Michigan as national champion, a "peeved" Jack Rissman, a merchant of Chicago, created a new national championship trophy and announced that it would be awarded to the victor of the Rose Bowl matchup between No. 2 USC and No. 3 Pittsburgh (as ranked by Dickinson). 1932 USC Trojans USC Pittsburgh Panthers Pittsburgh 9–0 PCC 8–0–2 Independent Howard Jones Jock Sutherland 7 0 7 21 0 0 0 0 January 2 Rose Bowl Stadium Pasadena, California Homer Griffith (QB) – USC Dexter Very 85,000 National championshipThis was an ad hoc award by a single upset benefactor. Should it be accorded the same weight as the major selectors? January 2026(ad hoc Rissman Trophy):1932 1932 1963 The 1933 Rose Bowl was the 19th Rose Bowl game, an American post-season college football game that was played on January 2, 1933, at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. While normally played on New Year's Day, the 1933 game was played on the second as New Year's Day was a Sunday. In the game, the undefeated 9–0 1932 USC Trojans football team defeated the 8–0–2 1932 Pittsburgh Panthers football team by a 35–0 score. The score had been 7–0 at halftime, but USC exploded for three touchdowns in the fourth quarter.Troy Skins Panther: Pitt Humbled by Trojans, 35-0; Crowd of 83,000 Fans Sees Southern California in Rose Bowl Triumph Los Angeles Times Bill Henry January 3, 1933 1, 13 https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-troy-skins-panther/163413865/ Newspapers.com The 35-point defeat was the most one-sided loss in Pittsburgh football history up to that time.January 2025 In the final Dickinson System rankings released in early December 1932, USC was ranked No. 2 behind 8–0 Michigan. Jack F. Rissman, a Chicago clothing merchant who had previously donated a trophy presented to the No. 1 team in the Dickinson rankings, had stated publicly that he expected USC to be ranked No. 1 by Dickinson if it defeated Notre Dame in the final game of the regular season.International News Service December 6, 2024 Gridiron Trophy Donor Here To See Big Game https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-jack-rissman-gridi/150549248/ Los Angeles Times July 3, 2024 Jack Rissman, a Chicago merchant, said that thus far the Trojans are slightly in the lead in the race for the trophy, which is now known as the Knute Rockne Cup, and can clinch the honor only by defeating the Irish Saturday. When the Dickinson rankings instead crowned Michigan as national champion, giving the Wolverines the Rockne Trophy,Associated Press Michigan Gets Rockne Trophy as U.S. Champ — USC Rated Second, Pittsburgh Third The Daily Argus-Leader Champaign, Illinois Sioux Falls, South Dakota December 11, 1932 9 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98586842/dickinson-ratings/ Although Southern California's Trojans defeated Notre Dame today to finish their regular season undefeated and untied, the University of Michigan tonight was declared winner of the Knute. K. Rockne memorial trophy, symbolic of the national football championship, under the Dickinson rating system. July 3, 2024 March 28, 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220328200413/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/98586842/dickinson-ratings/ live a "peeved" Rissman created a new national championship trophy (called the Rissman Trophy) and announced that it would be awarded to the victor of the Rose Bowl matchup between No. 2 USC and No. 3 Pittsburgh.United Press December 15, 1932 Troy, Pitt Play for Cup — Winner Will Get National Title Trophy — Donor of Cup Awarded Michigan 'Peeved,' Offers New One https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-long-beach-sun-rissman-trophy-1933-r/150548946/ The Long Beach Sun Los Angeles Long Beach July 3, 2024 A trophy symbolic of the mythical national football championship will be awarded to the winner of the Southern California–Pittsburgh game at Pasadena by Jack Rissman, wealthy Chicago sportsman who donated the Dickinson rating cup. One critic at the time parodied Rissman's proliferation of personal championship trophies, writing: "All that is needed now to make the football season a complete success is for someone to figure out a system to declare Colgate the undisputed national champion and to give the Red Raiders a trophy indicative of the same. [...] More national champions, more systems of picking them and more trophies to give them have long been the crying need of football. [...] It might even be worked out so Slippery Rock and Knox could have very fine trophies for their Y.M.C.A. trophy rooms. [...] Under the Beale system, I hereby award the national football championship to Bucknell (dear old alma mater)." With USC's decisive victory in the Rose Bowl, Rissman presented his trophy to USC on January 6th.Beale George H. United Press December 17, 1932 Sports Parade — Champions, Trophies and Systems — What This Country Needs Is More Sportsmen Willing to Donate Cups to Grid Champions https://www.newspapers.com/article/lincoln-journal-star-george-h-beale-col/150611302/ The Lincoln Journal Los Angeles Lincoln, Nebraska July 4, 2024 Rissman Trophy Given To Southern California Football Champs In Final... News Photo - Getty Images https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/rissman-trophy-given-to-southern-california-football-champs-news-photo/515943188 https://web.archive.org/web/20250119171105/https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/rissman-trophy-given-to-southern-california-football-champs-news-photo/515943188 2026-08-30 2025-01-19 Scoring First Quarter USC – Wehunt, 33-yard pass from Homer Griffith (Smith kick good) 8:24 7-0 USC Third Quarter USC – Homer Griffith, 1-yard pass from Bright (Smith kick good) 4:34 14-0 USC Fourth Quarter USC – Cotton Warburton, 1-yard run (Smith kick good) 13:21 21-0 USC USC – Warburton, 11-yard run (Smith kick good) 8:14 28-0 USC USC – Barber, 2-yard run (Lady kick good) 2:29 35-0 USC Notes References Rose Bowl Category:Rose Bowl Game Category:20th century in Pasadena, California Category:Pittsburgh Panthers football bowl games Category:USC Trojans football bowl games Rose Bowl Category:January 1933 sports events in the United States