... 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 a...

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