The first Rose Bowl and others

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The Athletic has had a series of articles on bowl history:

The first Rose Bowl: How Michigan routing Stanford led to chariot and animal races before a football tradition was born

Michigan and Stanford met in Pasadena on Jan. 1, 1902, with many of the ingredients of a modern bowl game, just far ahead of its time.

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How West Virginia's 70-33 Orange Bowl beatdown of Clemson was the 'jumping point' for Tigers' remarkable run

Nonstop snow, a wild overtime and a near-death experience: When a Shreveport blizzard produced bowl immortality

Two evenly matched teams and a whole lot of snow gave college football a classic not soon forgotten in the 2000 Independence Bowl.

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How Iowa's raucous trip to the 1982 Rose Bowl led to a shutout loss and a new approach to postseason preparation

The Hawkeyes enjoyed every bit of their Rose Bowl trip in Dec. 1981, so much that it led to the school building an indoor practice facility.

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I wonder how many of you know that when the Rose Parade committee decided to return to having football games on 1/1/1916, Syracuse was invited to play in that game? But they'd already had a western trip that season and the university didn't want to pay for another one. SU could have taken part in the start of continuous Rose Bowls that have been going on for 105 years. We were also invited after the 1923 season but the Chancellor was a Skinflint, (literally, his name was Charles W. Flint:
Previous Chancellors | Chancellor ), and he said 'No'. We've been to the Cotton, Sugar, Orange and Fiesta Bowls multiple times each but never to the Rose Bowl.