For Nine years this was an EastWest contest

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The Parade of Roses is older than the football game that bears its name. In 1890, some 12 years before the first football game there, local citizens held a parade with horse drawn carriages adorned with local flowers to the grounds were contests were held such as foot races, tug or wars and even jousting.The planners felt the day needed something a little more special and decided to have a January first football game to add to the pageantry of the parade.That first game was in 1902 and few know it was originally called the Tournament East-West Football Game." It was to match a top team from the East with a Western power.That first game was so bad that it almost killed the whole idea of ever hosting another football game.Michigan came to play Stanford and was beating them so severely that Stanford quit in the third quarter after being pummeled 49-0. For the next 15 years that New Years Day celebration featured ostrich races, chariot races or anything other than football.But on January first1916, not only did football come back to stay, but Western pride was healed when The State College of Washington beat Brown 14-0.For Nine years this was an East-West contest. A committee was formed to invite on the best of the best.Southern football was looked upon by the rest of the nation as Hillbilly Ball and far inferior to the great teams of the North and the powerhouses of the West. And as a result the South was always snubbed from the Rose Bowl, the Biggest and Best."But Southern sports writers keep up the heat, telling how Southern teams could take on the best the rest of the nation had to offer.

Shameless writers did everything but call the Rose Bowl Committee cowards for their reluctance to schedule a Southern power.Following the 1925 Rose Bowl, the committee sought out a Southern team that was good enough to match up with a real national power and set their sights on Alabama.The 1925 Alabama team was led by Coach Wallace Wade and was undefeated yet outside the South, few thought these country boys had a chance against a real team like Washington.The first half certainly cemented that belief as Washington jumped out to 12-0 lead and seemed to have the game under control, but a rousing halftime talk by Wade changed the mood and momentum of the game and the Tide came out and scored 20 unanswered points until Washington came back with six of their own.That 20-19 win did little to change the skeptics minds and many felt it was just a lucky win, but in the South, it was the game that changed football forever. For the first time, not only was a Southern school invited, but they won, and they won the National Championship as well.Alabama was invited back the following year to teach them a lesson and silence the critics from the South who claimed absolute vindication with the Alabama win the year before.1926 saw a Stanford team that was hailed as possibly the best football team ever assembled and no one gave a chance to the boys from 'Bama.In fact, though the game ended in a 7-7 tie game, Stanford dominated the entire game with 305 yards of offense to Alabamas 98. But late in the game after trailing the entire contest Alabamas Clarke Pearce blocked a punt that set up Jimmy Johnsons burst up the middle. Then before Stanford lined up, Alabama did a quick lineup and snapped the ball for the extra point before the Cardinals could line up to attempt a block.North, East and Western sportswriters said Alabama and never proved anything except that they could tie by trickery only. However the Tide ended the season as National Champions for the second straight season.It took five years for Alabama to return after several just so-so seasons, but this team was once again 9-0 and touted as the best in the nation and the 1931 Rose Bowl Committee still wanted to prove that Western teams were far superior and invited the Tide to return and face a 9-0 Washington State.The Rose Bowl had just been enlarged to become one of the largest stadiums in the country, seating 81,000 people and tickets sold out fast.By now, Coach Wallace Wade was an old hand to settling down the boys, many of whom had never traveled more than a few hundred miles from their home.