1984 Rose Bowl
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| 1984 Rose Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | January 2, 1984 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Rose Bowl | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Pasadena, California | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MVP | Rick Neuheisel (UCLA QB) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National anthem | UCLA Band | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Halftime show | UCLA Band and Marching Illini | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 103,217 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| United States TV coverage | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Network | NBC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Announcers | Dick Enberg, Merlin Olsen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 1984 Rose Bowl game, played on January 2, was the 70th Rose Bowl game. The UCLA Bruins defeated the Illinois Fighting Illini by a score of 45-9. Rick Neuheisel, UCLA quarterback, was named the Rose Bowl Player Of The Game.[1] He completed 22 of 32 passes for 298 yards and four touchdowns. Neuheisel, who was named head coach of Bruins in December 2007, threw two touchdown passes to his eventual predecessor as Bruin head coach, Karl Dorrell. The game was played on January 2, as New Year's Day fell on a Sunday.
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[edit] Scoreboard prank
A prank played by students from the California Institute of Technology altered the scoreboard display, an incident reminiscent of the Great Rose Bowl Hoax of 1961. A pair of Caltech students evaded security at the Rose Bowl, hacked into the electronic system and installed a computer that could be remotely controlled to alter the display on the stadium's digital scoreboard. During the game, the students from Caltech remotely altered the scoreboard display to show the teams playing in the game as Caltech and M.I.T., in place of UCLA and Illinois.[2] One of the prank's perpetrators had received approval from his Caltech professor for the prank, which earned college credit for the course "Experimental Projects in Electrical Circuits".[3][4]
[edit] Teams
[edit] University of Illinois Fighting Illini
Illinois opened the 1983 season with a loss to Missouri. The Illini then swept through the rest of their games including defeats of #4 Iowa, a 17-13 win over #6 Ohio State, and a 16-6 win over #8 Michigan. They became the first team in Big Ten history to defeat all nine of their conference opponents. This was the fourth appearance for the Illini in the Rose Bowl, with previous appearances in the 1947 Rose Bowl, 1952 Rose Bowl, and 1964 Rose Bowl. The Illini were 3-0 in Rose Bowl appearances.
[edit] UCLA Bruins
UCLA opened the season with a loss at Georgia, a tie with Arizona State and then a 42-10 loss at #1-ranked Nebraska. Starting quarterback Rick Neuheisel was benched after the Nebraska loss in favor of Steve Bono.[5] On October 1, the Bruins lost to BYU to start the season 0-3-1. Bono was injured during the BYU game, and Neuheisel came back to finish the season. The Bruins then won five straight Pac-10 games, including a defeat of #11 Washington. The Bruins then lost at Arizona. They came back to defeat USC 27-17. A win by Washington State over Washington in the Apple Cup game put UCLA in sole possession of first place in the Pac-10. UCLA became the only four-loss team to play in the Rose Bowl. This was the eighth appearance for UCLA in the Rose Bowl. They were previously in the 1943 Rose Bowl, 1947 Rose Bowl, 1954 Rose Bowl, 1956 Rose Bowl, 1966 Rose Bowl, 1976 Rose Bowl and most recently the 1983 Rose Bowl. The Bruins had a 3-4 record in previous Rose Bowl games. This was the second season for the Bruins with the Rose Bowl stadium as their home stadium.
[edit] Game summary
The weather was sunny and 84 degrees. The UCLA Bruins wore their white road jerseys with gold pants, and the Illinois fighting Illini wore their black home jerseys with orange pants. The game was the second Rose Bowl meeting between the two schools. They met in the 1947 Rose Bowl following the Big 10-PCC agreement in 1947. This was the eighth overall meeting between the two schools with Illinois having a 5-2 edge since the first meeting in 1947. The game was played on a Monday due to the Rose Bowl tradition of not holding the Tournament of Roses Parade and Rose Bowl on a Sunday.
Quarterback Neuheisel and several other Bruins awoke with food poisoning that morning. Some UCLA players were unable to play, including starting defensive tackle David Randle, punter Kevin Buenafe and reserve defensive lineman Tory Pankopf. Bruin Coach Terry Donahue realized that Rick Neuheisel was so sick that his presence on the team bus might psych out the rest of the team. Donahue put Neuheisel into a private car for the trip to the stadium.[6]
The Bruins kicked off. Don Rogers, the 1983 Rose Bowl player of the game, intercepted a pass from Jack Trudeau on the third play of the game with only 43 seconds off the clock. At the end of the drive, John Lee attempted the field goal. It was blocked by Luke Sewall of the Illini, and was picked up by the Illini safety Craig Swoope. Swoope ran with the ball and fumbled, which was recovered by the Bruins. The first score by the Bruins came on the following drive. The first of four touchdown passes by Rick Neuheisel was to Paul Bergmann.
The Illini barely used their rushing game passing 79% of the time, and Trudeau threw 14 straight passes in the first half. They had the ball on the UCLA 28-yard line starting the second period. Trudeau threw two incomplete passes and a four-yard completion. Chris White kicked a 41-yard field goal to make the score 7-3 with 13:59 left in the half. Kevin Nelson completed the next score for the Bruins with a 28 yard run. Don Rogers got a second interception from Trudeau, which tied a Rose Bowl record. On the following drive Neuheisel finished off with a 16 yard touchdown pass to Karl Dorrell to take a 21-3 lead. On the Bruins next drive, Mike Young scored another touchdown from a Neuheisel pass.
In the second half, Neuheisel threw his record-setting fourth touchdown pass to Karl Dorrell to put the Bruins up 35-3. The Illini were still struggling to get the passing and ground game going and failed to convert on third down. Another Bruin field goal by John Lee put the Bruins up 38-3. This is when the scoreboard was changed to read Caltech 38, M.I.T. 3. The Rose Bowl officials could not get the scoreboard straightened out, so time and score were kept on the field spoken over the public address system. At this point, Illini coach Mike White was battling the clock. The Bruins allowed the Illini short passes and Thomas Rooks of the Illini would score. UCLA finished off with one more running touchdown to make the final score 45-9.
[edit] Scoring
[edit] First quarter
- UCLA — Paul Bergmann, three-yard pass from Rick Neuheisel. John Lee converts.
[edit] Second Quarter
- Illinois — Chris White, 41-yard field goal.
- UCLA — Kevin Nelson 28-yard run. Lee converts.
- UCLA — Karl Dorrell reception touchdown on 16-yard pass from Neuheisel. Lee converts.
- UCLA — Mike Young reception touchdown on 53-yard pass from Neuheisel. Lee converts.
[edit] Third quarter
- UCLA — Dorrell, 15-yard pass from Neuheisel. Lee converts.
- UCLA — Lee, 29-yard field goal.
[edit] Fourth quarter
- Illinois — Thomas Rooks, five-yard pass from Jack Trudeau. Pass failed.
- UCLA — Bryan Wiley, eight-yard run. Lee converts.
[edit] Aftermath
Illinois finished with 0 rushing yards on 17 carries. Jack Trudeau went 23 completions on 39 attempts for 178 yards and 3 interceptions. The interceptions is a Rose Bowl record that still stands as of the 2008 Rose Bowl. Rick Neuheisel went 22 for 31 and 298 with no interceptions. Terry Donahue was later to state that the man coverage by the Illini was one of the reasons that they were able to be successful. Karl Dorrell in particular was able to beat Illinois freshman cornerback Keith Taylor. Rick Neuheisel tied the touchdown passes record with 4, set by Pete Beathard in the 1963 Rose Bowl, and later tied by Chad Henne in the 2005 Rose Bowl. Don Rogers two interceptions tied eight other individuals, and has been tied again by four more. Jack Trudeau would later go on to set an NCAA record of 215 pass attempts without an interception in the 1985 football season.
The loss by Illinois paved the way for the #5 Miami Hurricanes, who defeated the #1 Nebraska Cornhuskers in the 1984 Orange Bowl, to get voted national champions.
The international broadcast of the Rose Bowl also helped introduce the world to the audience wave, as UCLA and Illinois fans kept the wave going around the Rose Bowl stadium.
Eventual Minnesota head coach Tim Brewster was the captain of the the Fighting Illini. Rick Neuheisel would eventually become coach of the Washington Huskies and coach them to victory in the 2001 Rose Bowl, the first time a Rose Bowl MVP coached a Rose Bowl winning team. Neuheisel eventually became the coach of the UCLA Bruins, replacing Rose Bowl teammate Karl Dorrell.
It was the first time that an unranked team defeated a top five team in a bowl game. The only other time this has happened was in when Purdue won on an 80 yard drive led by Drew Brees with 1:25 left in the 1998 Builders Square Alamo Bowl versus #4 ranked Kansas State. Drew Brees and Purdue would later meet the Washington Huskies coached by Rick Neuheisel in the 2001 Rose Bowl.
On June 27, 1986, Don Rogers died of a cocaine overdose at his mother's home, only eight days after Maryland basketball player Len Bias died also of a cocaine overdose.
[edit] External links
- Summary at Rosebowlhistory.org - 1984 Rose Bowl
- Rose Bowl Game official site
- Game Summary of the 1984 Rose Bowl
[edit] References
- ^ 2008 Rose Bowl Program, 2008 Rose Bowl. Accessed January 26, 2008.
- ^ Boese, Alex. The Great Rose Bowl Hoax. The Museum of Hoaxes, 2002. Accessed December 9, 2007.
- ^ "SPORTS PEOPLE; Prank Pays Off", The New York Times, January 4, 1984. Accessed January 6, 2008.
- ^ "Topics Getting the Message", The New York Times, January 5, 1984. Accessed January 6, 2008.
- ^ RETURN OF THE RICK CONTROVERSIAL NEUHEISEL BACK FOR REUNION OF '80S BRUINS. Los Angeles Daily News, October 18, 2003 (hosted at thefreelibrary.com) Quote:Neuheisel was a senior quarterback at UCLA in 1983 and was benched after an 0-2-1 start. "(Terry) Donahue told me when things like that happen to a football team, one of two things usually happens," he said. "Either the head coach gets fired or the quarterback gets fired. He said he was sorry to tell me, but he wasn't getting fired."
- ^ Rose, Adam - What's Bruin; Terry Donahue: UCLA Alumnus of the Year Los Angeles Times, May 6, 2008
[edit] Bibliography
- Jim Barnhart - 1984: Illini no match for Neuheisel, UCLA, Bloomington-Normal, Illinois Pantagraph (Pantagraph.com), December 15, 2007
- Bob Timmerman - The Rose Bowl and me: Part two: January 2, 1984 - UCLA vs. Illinois. Baseball Toaster (Griddle), December 27, 2006
- MATT HURST - Illinois' 1984 Rose Bowl loss is one the team would like to forget. The (Riverside) Press-Enterprise, December 26, 2007
- TRACY DODDS - Ailing Quarterback Leads UCLA to 45-9 Win in Rose Bowl. Los Angeles Times, January 3, 1984
- Los Angeles Times Staff - Caltech at It Again. Credit Beavers for Sabotaging Rose Bowl Scoreboard. Los Angeles Times, January 3, 1984. Quote:"In the fourth quarter, UCLA was leading Illinois, 38-9, but the scoreboard read: Caltech 38, MIT 9."
- Los Angeles Times Staff - Favorites Bowled Over. Neuheisel Leads Bruins to Glory; Nebraska Loses. Los Angeles Times, January 3, 1984. Quote:"In a day of bowl game upsets, UCLA swamped Illinois, 45-9, No. 2-ranked Texas was defeated, 10-9, by Georgia and previously unbeaten Nebraska, rated No. 1 in all polls, was surprised by Miami, 31-30."
- CHRIS BAKER - Neuheisel Proves to Be Poison to Illinois. Four Scoring Passes Are a Tough Act for Illini to Stomach. Los Angeles Times, January 3, 1984. Quote:"UCLA quarterback Rick Neuheisel had trouble sleeping before Monday's Rose Bowl game, but it wasn't because he was having nightmares about facing Illinois' defense."
- UCLA Bruins Football Media Guide (PDF copy available at www.uclabruins.com)
[edit] See also
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Succeeded by 1985 Rose Bowl |
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