page_title: 1902
section_title: January
hierarchical_section_title: 1902 / Events / January
caption_attribution_description: English: The very first Tournament East-West football game, hosted by the Tournament of Roses. The game would become known as the Rose Bowl Game and like (nearly) all subsequent games it was played on New Years Day: January 1, 1902. The first game featured Fielding H. Yost's dominating 1901 University of Michigan (representing the East) crushing previously 3-1-2 Stanford (representing the West) by a score of 49-0. Michigan would end the season 11-0-0 and considered the National Champions. Yost had been Stanford's coach the previous year. The game was so lopsided that the game wasn't played again until 1916, when it would become a yearly tradition. Courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library's Photo Collection[1].
context_page_description: 1902 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1902nd year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 902nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 2nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1900s decade. As of the start of 1902, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
context_section_description: January 1
  The first college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
  The Nurses Registration Act 1901 comes into effect in New Zealand, making it the first country in the world to require state registration of nurses. On January 10, Ellen Dougherty becomes the world's first registered nurse.
  Nathan Stubblefield demonstrates his wireless telephone device in Kentucky.
  January 8 – A train collision in the New York Central Railroad's Park Avenue Tunnel kills 17, injures 38, and leads to increased demand for electric trains and the banning of steam locomotives in New York City.
  January 12 – The Uddevalla Suffrage Association in Sweden is officially dissolved.
  January 23 – Hakkōda Mountains incident: A snowstorm in the Hakkōda Mountains of northern Honshu, Japan, kills 199 during a military training exercise.
  January 28 – The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, D.C., to promote scientific research with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
caption: January 1: first Rose Bowl college American football game.
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