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TRIBUTE TO THE ROSE BOWL STADIUM
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HON. ADAM B. SCHIFF
of california
in the house of representatives
Friday, July 15, 2022
Mr. SCHIFF. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor the centennial anniversary of the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, California.
On January 1, 1890, in celebration of the balmy California winter weather, the Valley Hunt Club organized a parade with floats, flowers, and equestrian displays. This celebration would come to be known as the Rose Parade and would grow to such popularity that a separate organization, the Tournament of Roses Association, was created to facilitate its annual planning and operation. In 1902, a football game was created to finance the cost of the parade. It was called the
``Tournament East-West football game,'' with the University of Michigan defeating Stanford University 49-0. This would later be renamed the
``Rose Bowl Game,'' and nicknamed ``The Grandaddy of Them All''--the oldest currently operating bowl game.
By 1922, the parade had outgrown its former venue of Tournament Park and construction began on a new stadium, designed by notable architect Myron Hunt who had been inspired by the design of the Yale Bowl in Connecticut. Over the decades, many additions and refurbishments have been carried out ranging from an entire new southern wing of stands, which turned the stadium from a horseshoe into an actual bowl, to over seventy thousand new seat backs. The stadium is now recognized as a National Historic Landmark and a California Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.
The first game at the stadium was in 1922 between the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Southern California (USC), ending in a Berkeley victory. The stadium was officially dedicated on January 1, 1923, with a game between USC and Pennsylvania State University that ended in a USC victory. Since then, the Rose Bowl has been home to numerous historic achievements in the world of sports and entertainment, such as the first transcontinental radio broadcast of a sporting event in 1927 and the first national color telecast of a college football game in 1962.
Today, the Rose Bowl Stadium hosts the annual Rose Bowl Game. It also has hosted the University of California, Los Angeles Bruins home games since 1982 and five Super Bowls. Beyond football, the stadium has served as the venue for the 1994 FIFA World Cup Final, the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup Final, and participated in two Olympic Games. It will host events for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games, and this past Independence Day, hosted its 96th Annual Americafest Fireworks Show on July 4, 2022. Notable celebrities such as Whitney Houston, Beyonce, Jennifer Lopez, Justin Timberlake and Taylor Swift have all performed at the venue, as well as many world-renowned bands, such as The Rolling Stones, Journey, The Eagles, Coldplay, and BTS.
I consider it a great privilege to recognize the Rose Bowl Stadium upon its one-hundredth anniversary, and I ask all Members to join me in congratulating this venerable, historic stadium.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 117(1), Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 117(2)
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