In 1902 it was called the Tournament East-West Football Game, NOT the Rose Bowl. The “Rose Bowl” appellation was added retroactively after the Rose Bowl Stadium opened in 1923. In 1922 there was NO Rose Bowl game.
Even the 1923 “Rose Bowl” was advertised, as articles show, as The Tournament of Roses East-West Football game, the same name given to the 1922 game that WVU played against Gonzaga.
So the 1922 game was a precursor to the Rose Bowl, which didn’t exist at the time. Only retroactively named the Rose Bowl.
NO Rose Bowl games were played between 1903 to 1915.
It has been played annually since 1916, but NOT under the Rose Bowl name till 1923.
The first Sugar Bowl was played January 1, 1935.
The first Orange Bowl was played January 1, 1935.
The first Cotton Bowl was played January 1, 1937.
The first Fiesta Bowl wasn’t played till January 1, 1971.
But there was NO Rose Bowl Stadium till 1923, after WVU won the Shrine East-West Classic in 1922 for what could legimately be called the national title game. Beat Gonzaga. ONLY undefeated team in WVU history.
Since its 1923 opening, the Rose Bowl stadium has hosted the bowl game every year except in 1942 and 2021. The 1942 Rose Bowl was moved to Durham, North Carolina, at the campus of Duke University. Duke, which played in the game on January 1, volunteered to host the contest because of security concerns on the West Coast in the weeks following the attack on Pearl Harbor. The 2021 Rose Bowl was played at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas due to capacity restrictions in place in California due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
And that is the rest of the story, the accurate story, that WVU won the last post-season game NOT named the Rose Bowl before the true birth of the Rose Bowl in 1923.
Doesn’t that bowl you over? The truth usually does.
Get mad at the truth, not me.
If Shane Lyons is smart he will round up the living children of Coach Clarence “Doc” Spears and every player on that 1922 team for special ceremony at a 2022 game, the 100th anniversary of the ONLY undefeated team in WVU history!
AND put Doc Spears’ name on the stadium along with Sam Huff’s. After all, NO coach in
WVU history has done what Doc Spears did, go undefeated, in more than a century of football!
Even the 1923 “Rose Bowl” was advertised, as articles show, as The Tournament of Roses East-West Football game, the same name given to the 1922 game that WVU played against Gonzaga.
So the 1922 game was a precursor to the Rose Bowl, which didn’t exist at the time. Only retroactively named the Rose Bowl.
NO Rose Bowl games were played between 1903 to 1915.
It has been played annually since 1916, but NOT under the Rose Bowl name till 1923.
The first Sugar Bowl was played January 1, 1935.
The first Orange Bowl was played January 1, 1935.
The first Cotton Bowl was played January 1, 1937.
The first Fiesta Bowl wasn’t played till January 1, 1971.
But there was NO Rose Bowl Stadium till 1923, after WVU won the Shrine East-West Classic in 1922 for what could legimately be called the national title game. Beat Gonzaga. ONLY undefeated team in WVU history.
Since its 1923 opening, the Rose Bowl stadium has hosted the bowl game every year except in 1942 and 2021. The 1942 Rose Bowl was moved to Durham, North Carolina, at the campus of Duke University. Duke, which played in the game on January 1, volunteered to host the contest because of security concerns on the West Coast in the weeks following the attack on Pearl Harbor. The 2021 Rose Bowl was played at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas due to capacity restrictions in place in California due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
And that is the rest of the story, the accurate story, that WVU won the last post-season game NOT named the Rose Bowl before the true birth of the Rose Bowl in 1923.
Doesn’t that bowl you over? The truth usually does.
Get mad at the truth, not me.
If Shane Lyons is smart he will round up the living children of Coach Clarence “Doc” Spears and every player on that 1922 team for special ceremony at a 2022 game, the 100th anniversary of the ONLY undefeated team in WVU history!
AND put Doc Spears’ name on the stadium along with Sam Huff’s. After all, NO coach in
WVU history has done what Doc Spears did, go undefeated, in more than a century of football!
