1918 Rose Bowl

American college football game August 2023 December 2025 1918 Tournament East-West football game 4th Rose Bowl Game 1917 Mare Island Marines Mare Island Naval Shipyard Camp Lewis Army 1917 Camp Lewis football team 5–0 Independent 5–1–1 Independent Hugo Bezdek Fox Stanton 0 9 0 10 0 7 0 0 January 1 Tournament Park Pasadena, California Hollis Huntington (B) – USMC 25,000 1917 1919 The 1918 Rose Bowl, known at the time as the Tournament East-West Football Game, was a bowl game played on January 1, 1918, at Tournament Park in Pasadena, California. It was the 4th Rose Bowl Game. With America at war, the game was played with players from the Mare Island Marines of California and Camp Lewis from Washington.Rose Bowl Game Timeline https://web.archive.org/web/20100317130143/http://www.tournamentofroses.com/photogallery/RBGtimeline/1910s.htm 2010-03-17 , Pasadena Tournament of Roses Game summary Since the Rose Bowl game became so popular and most of the college football players were fighting overseas during World War I, the Pasadena Tournament of Roses decided to stage the game with military units, with the approval from President Woodrow Wilson. The Camp Lewis football team represented the US Army. Scoring Mare Island 0 9 0 10 Camp Lewis 0 7 0 0 Qtr. Team Scoring play Score2MAREAmbrose 31 yard FGMARE 3–0LEWRomney 6 yard rush, Sharpe kickLEW 7–3MAREBrown 5 yard rush, kick failedMARE 9–74MAREHuntington 1 yard rush, Ambrose kickMARE 16–7MAREAmbrose 33 yard FGMARE 19–7Source:MacCambridge Michael ESPN College Football Encyclopedia 2005 ESPN Books New York, N.Y. 1-4013-3703-1 1440 Game notes According to the Tournament of Roses, "Within weeks of the 1918 Rose Bowl Game, the majority of the players from both teams were scheduled to go overseas. John Beckett, left tackle for Mare Island, acknowledged this fact and said that “this would be the last battle that we would fight in the name of sports." Hugo Bezdek was the coach to lead two separate schools (Oregon in 1917 and Mare Island in 1918) to victories. He also led Penn State to an appearance in the 1923 Rose Bowl. Dick Romney, who had been a football star at Utah, played halfback for the Camp Lewis team, scoring the team's only touchdown.http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=10686 Camp Lewis 91st Division football team plays the Mare Island Marines in the Rose Bowl on January 1, 1918 HistoryLink January 16, 2016 References Rose Bowl Category:Rose Bowl Game Category:20th century in Pasadena, California Category:Mare Island Marines football Category:Military competitions in American football Category:1918 in sports in California Category:January 1918 sports events in the United States