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Arts Dec 19, 2013
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As this year is the 100th playing of the Rose Bowl game, appearing in it will be Stanford University of the Pac-12 and Michigan State University from the Big 10 on Jan. 1.
This will mark the first Rose Bowl appearance since the 1987 season and its first appearance in a BCS bowl for Michigan State. The Spartans have reached a bowl game in all seven seasons under head coach Mark Dantonio after making no bowl appearances from 2004-06.
For Stanford this is its second consecutive appearance in the Rose Bowl (def. Wisconsin 20-14 last season). The Cardinal are making back-to-back Rose Bowl appearances for the first time since 1970-71. Stanford has reached a BCS bowl in four straight seasons after making just one from 1998-2009.
And playing in the BCS National Championship Game on Jan. 6 will be Auburn University and Florida State University.
For Florida State, after beating Northern Illinois in last year’s Orange Bowl, the Seminoles return to a BCS bowl game. It marks their first back-to-back BCS bowl appearances since 2002-03. This will be their first BCS Championship Game appearance since 2000 and fourth overall.
For Auburn, this is its second BCS Championship Game appearance, first since winning the national title over Oregon in the 2010 season. This marks the third BCS bowl appearance for the Tigers, who are unbeaten in such games thus far.
The first Rose Bowl was played in 1902. And Rose Bowl Stadium – which recently went through an amazing renovation – first hosted the Rose Bowl game in 1923. The stadium’s design was taken from the Yale Bowl in New Haven, Conn.
That 1902 game was called “Tournament East-West Football Game,” but wasn’t completely loved by the fans. So, for the next several years the association ran chariot races, ostrich races and a variety of other events to please the crowds.
Elected into the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame Class of 2013 are Lloyd H. Carr, Orlando Pace and Lynn Swann. They will be installed at an induction ceremony at noon on Dec. 30 at the Pasadena Convention Center.
Over the past 24 years, a total of 110 inductees have been added to the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame. Inductees are honored with a permanent plaque that includes their name and year of induction at The Court of Champions at the Rose Bowl Stadium and are announced on the field during the 100th Rose Bowl Game.
Lloyd H. Carr coached at the University of Michigan for 28 years from 1980-2007, first with defensive backs, then as defensive coordinator before finally taking over the Wolverine head coaching post from 1995 until he retired in 2007. Over that span, Carr’s Michigan teams came to nine Rose Bowl Games, including four under his reign as head coach.
Orlando Pace was a two-time consensus first-team All-American offensive tackle for the Ohio State Buckeyes from 1993-1996. Pace won the Outland Trophy, given annually for the best interior lineman in college football, in 1996, and the Lombardi Award, given to the best lineman or linebacker in 1995 and 1996.
Pace’s Buckeyes’ defeated previously unbeaten Arizona State, 20-17, in the 1997 Rose Bowl Game, playing for 2012 Rose Bowl Hall of Fame inductee John Cooper.
Lynn Swann was a member of two Rose Bowl Game teams during his time at the University of Southern California. In the 1972 Rose Bowl Game, Swann led the Trojans with six passes for 108 yards and a touchdown, in a 42-17 win over Ohio State.
(Shel Segal can be reached at ssegal@beaconmedianews.com. Follow him via Twitter @segallanded.)
