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Tournament Park is a park and athletics venue in Pasadena, California, United States, northeast of Los Angeles. Currently maintained by the California Institute of Technology, it was simply known as the "town lot" before being renamed "Tournament Park" in 1900.
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- It’s located in Pasadena, California. The Rose Bowl is located in the city of Pasadena in Los Angeles County. The city is located just 11 miles (18 kilometers) to the northeast of Downtown Los Angeles.
- The Rose Bowl was named after a special annual game. The first Rose Bowl game was played in the year 1902 and has been an annual tradition since 1916.
- The original Rose Bowl was played just 3 miles away. One of the most interesting facts about the history of the Rose Bowl is that the games played before 1923 were played just 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) away, in a stadium referred to as “Tournament Park.”
- The stadium was built because the crowd rose to over 40,000 people. As you can see from the image above, the stands were pretty awful and as the Rose Bowl grew in popularity, it quickly outgrew the number of visitors that Tournament Park could accommodate.
Tournament Park. Before the Rose Bowl stadium was built for the 1923 game, the Rose Bowl was played in Pasadena's Tournament Park, approximately three miles (5 km) from the current stadium. It is best known for being the site of the first edition in 1902, and the second to eighth (1916 to 1922) before the current stadium opened in the fall of 1922.
- 10,000 (estimated)
- Pasadena, California
- January 1, 1916
- 1915
Jan 7, 2021 · Tournament Park was the site of the first eight Rose Bowl Games. The stadium site is now the South Athletic Field, and continues to serve as Caltech's track and field venue. In 1910, publisher William Randolph Hearst offered a prize of $50,000 to the first aviator to fly coast to coast in less than 30 days.
Presented 1962 by Pasadena Pioneer Association and Pasadena Historical Society. Information about Tournament Park in Pasadena, CA, including reservations, park status, photos, and history of this park, the site of the first Rose Bowl Game and terminus of the first U.S. transcontinental flight.
HISTORY OF THE ROSE BOWL GAME. The first Tournament of Roses football game, which was the first post-season football game in the nation, was staged at Tournament Park on January 1, 1902. The game matched the West Coast’s Stanford against Midwestern Michigan.
The Memorial Tournament is a PGA Tour golf tournament founded in 1976 by Jack Nicklaus. It is played on a Nicklaus-designed course at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio, a suburb north of Columbus.
