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On Jan. 1, the
South Kitsap High School Marching Band will play in the 2010 Rose
Parade. The Parade’s history goes way back.
Before there was a Rose Bowl
Game, there was the Tournament of Roses
Parade, staged in 1890 by members of Pasadena’s Valley Hunt
Club. These former residents of the East and Midwest were eager to
showcase their new home’s milder weather.
“In New York, people are buried in snow,” member Charles F. Holder
is said to have announced at a club meeting. “Here our flowers are
blooming and our oranges are about to bear. Let’s hold a festival
to tell the world about our paradise.”
Set in the City of
Pasadena, the festival included marching bands, motorized
floats and flower bedecked horse-and-carriages. There were games on
the town lot which was renamed
Tournament Park in 1900. These included ostrich races, bronco
busting demonstrations and a race between a camel and an elephant.
The elephant won.
Rose Parade History - An Early Float
Eastern newspapers began to cover the event, which grew until, in
1895, it became too much for the hunt club to handle. That year,
the
Tournament of Roses
Association was formed and has managed the festival ever
since.
In 1902, a football game was added to the festivities. It was the
first post-season college football game ever held,
Stanford University versus the
University of Michigan.
Stanford was thumped 49-0 and gave up in the third quarter.
For the next several years, the Tournament of Roses Association
dumped football in place of Roman-style chariot races. But in 1916,
the association reprised the football game, and it’s been a
tradition ever since.
Within a few years, attendance at the game outgrew the stands in
Tournament Park. The Tournament’s 1920 President William L.
Leishman, spearheaded the construction of a “modern” bowl-type
football stadium, similar to the
Yale
Bowl, in Pasadena’s Arroyo Seco area. The new stadium hosted
its first New Year’s football game in 1923 and soon earned the
nickname “The Rose Bowl.”
Nicknamed “The Granddaddy of Them All,” the Rose Bowl Game has been
a sellout since 1947. That year’s contest was the first game played
under the Tournament’s exclusive agreement with the
Big Ten and
Pac-10 conferences.
These days the Tournament of Roses Parade has gone high tech, with
floats using computerized animation and made with exotic natural
materials from around the world, including — you guessed it —
thousands of roses.
The 2010 Rose Bowl Game
The 96th Rose Bowl Game, following the Rose Bowl Parade on Jan. 1,
pits the Ohio
State Buckeyes against the Oregon
Ducks. Coverage begins at 1:30 p.m. (PST) on ABC and ESPN
radio.
The Rose Bowl will also be the site of the 2010 Citi BCS (Bowl
Championship Series) National Championship
Game on Jan. 7 featuring the Number 2 BCS ranked Texas Longhorns versus the No.
1 BCS ranked Alabama Crimson
Tide. The game will be broadcast on ABC.
Source: Tournament of Roses Association
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