Lex Anteinternet: The 1917 Tournament East-West Football Game (The Rose Bowl). Webfoots 14, Quakers 0.

Sunday, January 1, 2017

The 1917 Tournament East-West Football Game (The Rose Bowl). Webfoots 14, Quakers 0.

The Oregon Webfoots defeated the Penn Quakers by the score of 14–0 in the Third Tournament East West Football Game, which we know as the Rose Bowl.

Not being a football fan, I'm fairly amazed, frankly, the Rose Bowl is that old, but it is.

The game was scoreless until the third quarter when Oregon scored on a forward pass. It did again, with a short one yard to go, in the fourth quarter.

Photograph from the Special Collections of the University of Oregon Libraries uploaded to Wikipedia and reported as Public Domain with this caption: "If you choose to use the image, acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries is requested.

University of Oregon football team, with head coach Hugo Bezdek on the right. This team was the Pacific Coast Conference champions and defeated the University of Pennsylvania in the Rose Bowl on January 1, 1917."

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