No. 341 - Rose Bowl

On the sports page of the Wall Street Journal today there was a big red "35" with a caption that read: The number of students named the 'worst people on campus' by the University of Wisconsin's student newspaper for allegedly trying to sell their student Rose Bowl tickets online for a profit.

I actually thought to myself that these 35 students were the smartest student at the University of Wisconsin.

I learned that the Rose Bowl was first played on January 1, 1902. Because the game was so lopsided, with Michigan beating Stanford 49-0, for the next fifteen years the Tournament of Roses officials ran chariot races, ostrich races, and other various events instead of football. But on New Year's Day in 1916 football returned to stay as The State College of Washington defeated Brown University in the first annual Rose Bowl.