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1918 Rose Bowl

American college football game

Field	Value
year_game_played	1918
game_name	Tournament East-West football game
subheader	4th Rose Bowl Game
football_season	1917
visitor_name_short	Mare Island
visitor_nickname	Marines
visitor_school	Mare Island Naval Shipyard
home_name_short	Camp Lewis
home_nickname	Army
home_school	1917 Camp Lewis football team
visitor_record	5–0
visitor_conference	Independent
home_record	5–1–1
home_conference	Independent
visitor_coach	Hugo Bezdek
home_coach	Fox Stanton
visitor_1q	0
visitor_2q	9
visitor_3q	0
visitor_4q	10
home_1q	0
home_2q	7
home_3q	0
home_4q	0
date_game_played	January 1
stadium	Tournament Park
city	Pasadena, California
MVP	Hollis Huntington (B) – USMC
attendance	25,000
different_previous	[1917](1917-rose-bowl)
different_next	[1919](1919-rose-bowl)

The 1918 Rose Bowl, known at the time as the Tournament East-West Football Game, was a bowl game played on January 1, 1918, at Tournament Park in Pasadena, California. It was the 4th Rose Bowl Game. With America at war, the game was played with players from the Mare Island Marines of California and Camp Lewis from Washington.

Game summary

Since the Rose Bowl game became so popular and most of the college football players were fighting overseas during World War I, the Pasadena Tournament of Roses decided to stage the game with military units, with the approval from President Woodrow Wilson. The Camp Lewis football team represented the US Army.

Scoring

Qtr.	Team	Scoring play	Score
2	MARE	Ambrose 31 yard FG	MARE 3–0
LEW	Romney 6 yard rush, Sharpe kick	LEW 7–3
MARE	Brown 5 yard rush, kick failed	MARE 9–7
4	MARE	Huntington 1 yard rush, Ambrose kick	MARE 16–7
MARE	Ambrose 33 yard FG	MARE 19–7

Game notes

According to the Tournament of Roses, "Within weeks of the 1918 Rose Bowl Game, the majority of the players from both teams were scheduled to go overseas. John Beckett, left tackle for Mare Island, acknowledged this fact and said that “this would be the last battle that we would fight in the name of sports."

Hugo Bezdek was the coach to lead two separate schools (Oregon in 1917 and Mare Island in 1918) to victories. He also led Penn State to an appearance in the 1923 Rose Bowl.

Dick Romney, who had been a football star at Utah, played halfback for the Camp Lewis team, scoring the team's only touchdown.

References

[http://www.tournamentofroses.com/photogallery/RBGtimeline/1910s.htm Rose Bowl Game Timeline] {{Webarchive. link. (2010-03-17 , ''Pasadena Tournament of Roses'')
(2005). "ESPN College Football Encyclopedia". ESPN Books.
"Camp Lewis 91st Division football team plays the Mare Island Marines in the Rose Bowl on January 1, 1918". HistoryLink.

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