The 1917 Rose Bowl, known at the time as the Tournament East-West Football Game, was a college football

College football

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 bowl game

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 played on Jan 1, 1917. It was the 3rd Rose Bowl Game

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. The Oregon Ducks

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 defeated the Penn Quakers

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 by a score of 14–0. This remains the last, and to date, only Rose Bowl win ever for the Ducks. Oregon team captain John Beckett was named the Rose Bowl Player of the Game when the award was created in 1953 and selections were made retroactively.

Oregon and Washington were both unbeaten in the Pacific Coast Conference

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 that year, having tied in their head-to-head meeting. Oregon was invited to participate in the Tournament of Roses game prior to their final game, despite the fact that Washington

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 had one more conference win that the Ducks, having beaten California

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 twice. On the basis of the extra victory, Washington is credited with having won the conference that year.

Game summary

Oregon was led by the two Huntington brothers, Shy

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 and Hollis. Following a scoreless first half, the Ducks scored on a 15-yard pass in the 3rd quarter from Shy Huntington to Lloyd Tegert. Oregon scored again in the 4th quarter on a 1-yard run from Shy to lead the Ducks to a 14–0 upset win. Shy Huntington also had three interceptions in the game. Oregon captain John Beckett

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 was named MVP of the game.

Game notes

Attendance was swelled to 25,000 when the Pasadena Tournament of Roses

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 put up temporary grandstand seating.

Further reading

• Danzig, Allison (1956), The History of American Football: Its Great Teams, Players, and Coaches. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
• Hibner, John Charles (1993). The Rose Bowl, 1902–1929: A Game-by-Game History of Football's Foremost Event, from its Advent through its Golden Era. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc. Publishers. ISBN
  International Standard Book Number
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   ISBN 0-89950-775-1 pp. 22–30.
• Lyons, Robert S. (2010). On Any Given Sunday, A Life of Bert Bell. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. ISBN 978-1-59213-731-2
• MacCambridge, Michael (2009), ESPN College Football Encyclopedia: The Complete History of the Game. New York: ESPN Books, Inc. ISBN 1-4013-3703-1
• Schmidt, Raymond (2007), Shaping college football : the transformation of an American sport, 1919-1930. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9780815608868
• Smith, Myron J. Jr. (1994), The College Football Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0313290261
• Weyand, Alexander M. (1957), The Saga of American Football. New York: The MacMillan Company.