| 1960 Rose Bowl | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| 46th Rose Bowl Game | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date | January 1, 1960 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Season | 1959 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Stadium | Rose Bowl | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Pasadena, California | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Favorite | Wisconsin by6+1⁄2 points[1][2][3] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Referee | Don Hamilton (Big Ten; split crew: Big Ten,AAWU) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Attendance | 100,809 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Network | NBC[4] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nielsen ratings | 29.9 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The1960 Rose Bowl was the 46thedition of thecollege footballbowl game, played at theRose Bowl inPasadena, California, on Friday, January 1, 1960, at the end of the1959 season. This was the first Rose Bowl appearance by the Huskies since1944 and the first appearance by the Badgers since1953.[2] This was the first time these two football programs met on the field. TheWashington Huskies defeated theWisconsin Badgers, 44–8.[5][6][7]
The face value of a game ticket was six dollars.[2]
The Washington Huskies were the first conference champions of the newly-formedAthletic Association of Western Universities (AAWU), commonly referred to as the "Big Five" at the time (and now as thePac-12). The conference formed in the wake of the "pay for play" scandal and collapse of thePacific Coast Conference (PCC) after the1958 season. As a result of the demise of the PCC, the Rose Bowl had no contractual agreement with either the Big Five or Big Ten to send their champions to the game: both teams received "at-large" invitations and accepted.
Washington,USC, andUCLA all finished with 3–1 conference records. Washington had defeated UCLA, which had defeated USC, which had defeated Washington. The USC loss was the only one for Washington, and the Huskies had the best record in the AAWU. Washington entered the game as the West representative, the first champions of the newly-formed AAWU conference. They were led byquarterbackBob Schloredt, a 20-year-old junior who "conspicuously lacked his trade's traditional egotism," stating "I consider myself just adequate." Remarkably, he was also 90% blind in his left eye.[1]
Wisconsin, theBig Ten Conference champion, had a 7–2 regular season record, with losses toPurdue andIllinois. Despite the similarity in thepoll rankings, Wisconsin entered the game as a 6½-point favorite,[2] due in part to recent dominance of the Big Ten in recent Rose Bowl games, winning twelve of thirteen.[1]
1st Quarter
2nd Quarter
3rd Quarter
4th Quarter
Washington quarterback Bob Schloredt andhalfbackGeorge Fleming were named co-Players of the Game. Schloredt was subsequently named the Player of the Game thefollowing year, the first in the history of the Rose Bowl to be twice-honored. In 1970, Fleming became the first African-American to be elected to theWashington state senate.