HOME OF THE BIG TEN AND PAC–12 CHAMPIONS 1 CONTENTS COMMITTEES 2 ROSE BOWL GAME CONTACTS 3 TOURNAMENT OF ROSES HISTORY 4 THE GRANDDADDY OF THEM ALL 5 QUICK FACTS 6 ROSE BOWL STADIUM HISTORY 7 ROSE BOWL STADIUM FACTS 8 ROSE BOWL GAME TIMELINE 9 ROSE BOWL GAME RESULTS 11 ROSE BOWL GAME RECAPS 15 ALL-TIME ROSE BOWL GAME ROSTER 112 ROSE BOWL GAME PLAYERS OF THE GAME 177 COACHING RECORDS 178 RECORDS BY TEAM 180 RECORDS BY CONFERENCE 181 MISCELLANEOUS FACTS 182 ROSE BOWL HALL OF FAME 183 Vince Young – Texas, 2006 Rose Bowl Game presented by Citi COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME 184 The 2012 Historical Media Guide has been produced by the Rose Bowl NATIONAL AWARD WINNERS 185 Game Media Relations Staff along with the assistance and research of ALL-AMERICANS Brener Zwikel and Associates, Tex Noel, Robert Willis and Jim Gigliotti. 186 th Its purpose is to assist media members with their coverage of the 98 INDIVIDUAL RECORDS 188 Rose Bowl Game presented by VIZIO. Please report any questions or concerns about its content to the Rose Bowl Game Media Relations Staff. TEAM RECORDS 192 COMBINED TEAM RECORDS 198 COVER & INTERIOR DESIGN HISTORICAL RESEARCH Gavieres Design, LLC Brener Zwikel and Associates NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 201 COLLEGE FOOTBALL’S WINNINGEST TEAMS 203 PHOTOGRAPHY STATISTICAL RESEARCH Tournament of Roses Archives Tex Noel MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS 204 SPECIAL THANKS TO ALL TIME ROSTER RESEARCH RUSHING, PASSING AND RECEIVING RECORDS 207 BCS Robert Willis SPONSORSHIP AND BROADCASTING RIGHTS 208 Fiesta Bowl Orange Bowl COPYWRITER FIRST-ROUND NFL DRAFT PICKS 209 Sugar Bowl Jim Gigliotti AP RANKINGS 211 EDITORS BOWL CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES 213 Gina Chappin Stephanie Montano 2 98TH ROSE BOWL GAME PRESENTED BY VIZIO COMMITTEES The Tournament of Roses, Big Ten Conference and Pac-12 Conference entered into their bowl partnership agreement in 1946. The agreement, which was modified in 1960, is the oldest college football agreement between two major conferences in the United States. Teams from the two conferences have met 63 times in the Rose Bowl Game. ROSE BOWL MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE Functioning and operating as a tri-party agreement, the Rose Bowl Management Committee (RBMC) is composed of athletic directors from the Big Ten and Pac-12 Conferences, the conference commissioners and members of the Tournament of Roses. Back Row, left to right: Dave Brandon, Gina Chappin, Pat Haden, Rob Muellens, John Henderson, Sally Bixby, Scott Jenkins, Ed Corey, Jeff Throop and Kevin Ash Front Row, left to right: Dan Guerrero, Jim Phillips, Ron Guenther, Jim Delany, Rick Jackson, Libby Wright, Larry Scott, Rich Chinen, Kevin Weiberg and Christianne Kerns TOURNAMENT OF ROSES EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEDIA OPERATIONS COMMITTEE Back Row, left to right: Back row, left to right: Jocelyn Manilay-Yan, Lance Tibbet, Brad Ratliff, Gerald Freeny David Hopf, Gary Davis, Bruce Toomer, James Gorton and Dean Billman and Mike Matthiessen Middle row, left to right: Middle Row, left to right: David Chavez, Edward Pearson, Jeffrey Sheldon, Stanley Maack and Terry Cross Dennis Wong, Carlos Clayton, Cynthia Amerio and Sindee Riboli Front row, left to right: Front row, left to right: Carole Klove, Stephen Macala (Vice Chair), James Zeutzius (Chair) Jeff Throop, Sally Bixby, Rick Jackson, Scott Jenkins and Rich Chinen and Sandra Rittenhouse Not pictured: Daniel Hayes HOME OF THE BIG TEN AND PAC–12 CHAMPIONS 3 ROSE BOWL GAME CONTACTS WILLIAM FLINN KEVIN ASH GINA CHAPPIN STEPHANIE MONTANO Interim Executive Director Chief Administrating Officer Director of Media Media Coordinator and Chief Operating Officer [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] T: 626.449.4100 (Work) T: 626.449.4100 (Work) T: 626.449.4100 (Work) T: 626.449.4100 (Work) C: 626.255.5674 C: 626.399.8751 C: 510.672.1118 PASADENA TOURNAMENT OF ROSES 391 SOUTH ORANGE GROVE BOULEVARD • PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 91184 • T: 626.449.4100 • F: 626.449.9066 TOURNAMENT OF ROSES MEDIA CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS HEADQUARTERS A.J. BERTONNEAU WILLIAM G. LAWSON Manager Executive Secretary & Manager 1916 – 1918 1973 – 1980 MRS. R.C. BARTOW WALTER HOEFFLIN Secretary Executive Secretary & Manager 1919 – 1923 1980 – 1981 MALCOLM A. FRASER JOHN H.B. “JACK” FRENCH Secretary & Manager Chief Executive Officer 1924 – 1927 1981 – 2000 HARLAN W. HALL JOHN M. “MITCH” DORGER Secretary & Manager Chief Executive Officer 1928 – 1930 2000 – 2010 WILLIAM DUNKERLEY P. SCOTT MCKIBBEN Executive Secretary & Manager Executive Director 1931 –1947 2010 – 2011 98TH ROSE BOWL GAME THEODORE J. BRODHEAD WILLIAM FLINN Executive Secretary & Manager Interim Executive Director PRESENTED BY VIZIO 1948 – 1952 & Chief Operating Officer Marriott Los Angeles Downtown 2011 – Present 333 South Figueroa St. MAX COLWELL Executive Secretary & Manager Los Angeles, CA 90071 1952 – 1973 T: 213.617.1133 4 98TH ROSE BOWL GAME PRESENTED BY VIZIO TOURNAMENT OF ROSES® The first Tournament of Roses was staged in 1890 by members of Pasadena’s Valley Hunt Club, former residents of the East and Midwest eager to showcase their new home’s mild winter weather. “In New York, people are buried in snow,” announced Professor Charles F. Holder at a club meeting. “Here, our flowers are blooming and our oranges are about to bear. Let’s hold a festival to tell the world about our paradise.” More than 2,000 people turned out on New Year’s Day to watch The Tournament of Roses has come a long way since its early a parade of flower-covered carriages, followed by foot races, polo days. The Rose Parade’s elaborate floats now feature high-tech, matches and tugs-of-war on the town lot—a festival patterned after computerized animation and exotic, natural materials from around the “Battle of the Flowers” in Nice, France. The tournament games the world. Although a few floats are still built exclusively by and the abundance of flowers prompted Professor Holder to suggest volunteers from their sponsoring communities, most are built by “Tournament of Roses” as a suitable name for the festival. professional float-building companies and take nearly a year to During the next few years, the festival expanded to include construct. The effort pays off on New Year’s morning, when millions marching bands and motorized floats. The games on the town lot of viewers around the world enjoy the Rose Parade®. (which was re-named Tournament Park in 1900) included ostrich Nicknamed The Granddaddy of Them All® the Rose Bowl Game® races, bronco-busting demonstrations, and a race between a camel has been a sellout attraction every year since 1947. That year’s and an elephant. (The elephant won.) Reviewing stands were built contest was the first game played under the Tournament’s exclusive along the parade route, and Eastern newspapers began to take agreement with the Big Ten and Pac-12 conferences, which notice of the event. In 1895, the Tournament of Roses Association continues to serve as the longest bowl association. As part of the was formed to take charge of the festival, which had grown too large Bowl Championship Series (BCS), the Rose Bowl Game has hosted for the Valley Hunt Club to handle. the National Championship Game between the top two teams in the In 1902, the Tournament of Roses decided to enhance the day’s nation in 2002, 2006 and 2010. festivities by adding a football game—the first postseason college football game ever held. Stanford University accepted the invitation to take on the powerhouse University of Michigan, but the West Coast team was flattened 49–0 and conceded in the second half. The lopsided score prompted the Tournament to give up football in favor of Roman-style chariot races. In 1916, football returned to stay, and the crowds soon outgrew the stands in Tournament Park. William L. Leishman, the Tournament’s 1920 President, envisioned a stadium similar to the Yale Bowl, the first great modern football stadium, to be built in Pasadena’s Arroyo Seco area. The new stadium hosted its first New Year’s football game in 1923 and soon earned the nickname the, “Rose Bowl.” HOME OF THE BIG TEN AND PAC–12 CHAMPIONS 5 THE GRANDDADDY OF THEM ALL Every January, the world focuses its attention on Pasadena, Calif., home of the Rose Parade and Rose Bowl Game. It’s a celebration more than a century old—a festival of flowers, music and sports unequaled anywhere in the world. The Tournament of Roses is more than just a parade and football game. It’s America’s New Year Celebration®, a greeting to the world on the first day of the year, and a salute to the community spirit and love of pageantry that has thrived in Pasadena since 1902. The 123rd Rose Parade presented by Honda, themed “Just In 1916, football was permanently reinstated. Imagine...,” takes place on Monday, Jan. 2, 2012, at 8 a.m. The Rose Bowl Game agreement between the powerful Big (PST), featuring majestic floral floats, high-stepping equestrian Ten and Pac-12 conferences required a long courtship before units and spirited marching bands from throughout the nation. At today’s exclusive pact was signed. Initially, the Tournament of 2:10 p.m. (PST), the 98th Rose Bowl Game presented by VIZIO Roses Association invited teams to compete on the gridiron. will feature an exciting matchup between two of the top teams in Beginning in 1924, the Tournament invited only the Western the nation. team, which in turn selected its Eastern opponent. Then, in Known as the oldest of bowls, the Rose Bowl Game kicked 1935, the Pacific Coast Conference began choosing one of its off a myriad of college football legacies in 1902. Since then, the own teams to compete on New Year’s Day, and it continued to game has been home to 17 Heisman Trophy winners, produced select opposition.