1918 Rose Bowl

1918 Tournament East-West football game

4th Rose Bowl Game

Mare Island Marines	Fort Lewis Army
(5–0)	(5–1–1)
19	7
Head coach: Hugo Bezdek	Head coach: Fox Stanton

	1	2	3	4	Total
Mare Island	0	9	0	10	19
Fort Lewis	0	7	0	0	7

Date

January 1, 1918

Season

1917

Stadium

Tournament Park

Location

Pasadena, California

MVP

Hollis Huntington (B) – USMC

Attendance

25,000

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 the Camp Lewis Army from American Lake, Washington.^[1]

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

First quarter

No scoring

Second quarter

MI – Keith Ambrose, 31-yard drop-kick field goal
CL – E.L. Romney, 6-yard run (Sharpe kick good)
MI – Jap Brown, 5-yard run (Ambrose drop kick failed)

Third quarter

No scoring

Fourth quarter

MI – Hollis Huntington, 1-yard run (Ambrose drop kick good)
MI – Keith Ambrose, 33-yard field goal

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 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.^[2]

References

↑ Rose Bowl Game Timeline, Pasadena Tournament of Roses
↑ "Camp Lewis 91st Division football team plays the Mare Island Marines in the Rose Bowl on January 1, 1918". HistoryLink. Retrieved January 16, 2016.

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Notes	No games were held from 1903 to 1915. The 1942 game was played at Duke Stadium in Durham, NC due to the attack on Pearl Harbor. The game was also the national title game for the Bowl Championship Series in 2002 and 2006. The game was a College Football Playoff semifinal in its 2015 edition.

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