The 1918 Rose Bowl, known at the time as the Tournament East-West Football Game, was a bowl game played on Jan 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 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."
Notes
- January 1, 1918 – Hugo Bezdek was the first college football coach to lead two separate schools (Oregon, 1917 and Mare Island, 1918) to victories; He also led Penn State to a win in the 1923 Rose Bowl
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