page_title: Tournament Park
section_title: Bowl games at Tournament Park
hierarchical_section_title: Tournament Park / Bowl games at Tournament Park
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: Tournament Park is a park and athletics venue in Pasadena, California, United States, northeast of Los Angeles. Currently maintained by the California Institute of Technology, it was simply known as the "town lot" before being renamed "Tournament Park" in 1900. Tournament Park gets its name from the Tournament of Roses, and it served as a venue in the early 20th century for events associated with the Tournament, such as chariot races, ostrich races, and even a race between a camel and an elephant. Besides hosting Tournament of Roses events, the venue hosted other events at the turn of the 20th century, such as the Southern California Horse Show Association's annual horse show. Tournament Park is best known as the site of the first eight Rose Bowl Games.
  Its seating capacity in 1922 was 43,000, many of which were in temporary wooden bleachers that the city deemed unsafe, thus necessitating the construction of the Rose Bowl stadium, about two miles northwest.
caption: The first Rose Bowl Game in 1902
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