The 1927 Rose Bowl Game was a college football

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 bowl game

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 held on January 1, 1927 in Pasadena, California

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. The game featured the Alabama Crimson Tide, of the Southern Conference

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, and Stanford

1926 Stanford football team

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, of the Pacific Coast Conference

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, now the Pacific-10 Conference. It was Stanford's second Rose Bowl game in three years. The game ended in a 7–7 tie, the last Rose Bowl game to end in a tie.

Game summary

United Press called the 1927 Rose Bowl "the football championship of America", and the game was considered the most exciting in the series up to that time. The crowd of 57,417 set an attendance record. Stanford's George Bogue missed an 18 yard field goal attempt in the first quarter, then threw a touchdown pass to Ed Walker and kicked the point after to put Stanford up, 7-0. Stanford held that lead through most of the rest of the game, but in the final minutes, they were forced to punt on fourth down. Frankie Wilton's

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kick was blocked, and Alabama took over 14 yards from goal. Four plays later, and with a minute left, Jimmy Johnson carried the ball for a touchdown, making it 7-6. The two point conversion, and overtime, were decades in the future. Stanford's only hope was to block the point after, but Alabama ran the play quickly and Herschel Caldwell's kick tied Stanford, and took away a Stanford victory in the final minute.

External links

• Rose Bowl 1927 at RoseBowlHistory.org
• Bowl History – University of Alabama Athletics