Let's take a look at the history of the Rose Bowl Game. COLUMBUS, Ohio Following, Ohio State's 73-62 win against Maryland on Wednesday night, Ohio State head coach Chris Holtmann, along with the three seniors, answered questions from reporters. The second day he said, "Okay, I've accomplished the simple feat, now I'm going to walk backwards across the tightrope." And us being underclassmen, we can only do certain things, but Eddie George and Tommy Frazier, they were already seniors and done, so agents could meet with them, it's a little different. . People ask them, "So you played for Northwestern, were you a part of that good team back in 95?" Follow a three-game skid, how has the Cats NCAA Tournament outlook shifted? The retellings and reminiscences render crumbling pages irrelevant as those who were there and others far younger share in the lore of the '49 Rose Bowl champions. My family was a little bit suspect, they said, "Is this a done deal?" It had been 23-straight losing season for the Wildcats as they entered the 1995 season. It's the grand finale. Or write about sports? It was the 50th game in the series featuring the Big Ten Conference and the Pacific-10 Conference. The 'Cats rebounded with a 48-0 thumping of Syracuse, followed by triumphs of 21-7 over Ohio State and 16-7 at Wisconsin. . Baseball Baseball: Twitter Baseball: Schedule Baseball: Roster Baseball: News Basketball Basketball: Twitter Basketball: Instagram Basketball: Tickets Basketball: Schedule Basketball: Roster Basketball: News Cross Country Cross Country: Facebook Cross Country: Twitter Cross Country: Instagram Cross Country: Schedule Cross . Steve Schnur (Junior quarterback): There's this guy that's a stonecutter, and he shows up every day, and his job is to break apart these big boulders, and he takes a hammer and whacks away at this boulder over and over and over all day, and eventually the boulder breaks. Odds & lines subject to change. The full oral history if the 1995 season can be found here. One of the key plays in the game that extended Northwestern's lead to 19-13 was a double-pass. My views on multicultural history were influenced by Ronald Takaki's A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America (Boston: Little, Brown, 1993) and the research I did for my book The Cultural Transformation of a Native American Family and Its Tribe, 1763-1995: A Basket of Apples (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1996). Northwestern's own All-America at fullback, Art Murakowski (SESP51), got the call with the 'Cats on Cal's 1-yard line in the second quarter. And by the end of it, it was the whole campus. . ", Cal mounted a serious last-ditch drive of its own. Use without license or authorization is expressly prohibited. And he gave us a "Go Cats. Don Holmes (Sophomore linebacker): My birthday was December 11, and before I left town, I talked my parents into allowing me to get a Northwestern tattoo, with the mascot in the middle of the N. And I put a rose in its mouth, for the Rose Bowl. The Rose Bowl, the "granddaddy of them all," was first played on Jan. 1, 1902, at Tournament Park. Northwestern defeated No. And [my recruiter at Northwestern] said, "Yeah, sure, why don't you come out to Northwestern!" ), "I broke the linebacker's tackle after running left," says Aschenbrenner, who gives most of the credit to his blockers. Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? But I was too euphoric to feel it. We would not even tell our wives or girlfriends or parents or anything like that. It's crazy that even now, 20 years later, I can remember those names on that wall. Some school's results have been altered by retroactive NCAA penalties. The ref knew exactly what he was doing. "We had great linebackers: Ray Wietecha [SESP51] played with the Giants for years and George Sundheim [C51], who was as good a tackler as I've ever seen and could hit harder than anybody, and of course, Sarkisian. The October 21, 1995 game against Wisconsin (resulting in a 35-0 NU victory) is located on tapes 8A-8C. The University Archives' virtual exhibit on Football at NU: http://www.library.northwestern.edu/archives/exhibits/football/home.htm. 1996 Rose Bowl: Southern California - 41, Northwestern - 32 Between 1948 and 1995, NU football ranged from mediocre to terrible. And he's the best in the world, so people were coming out to see this event. They were always sort of quiet and subdued. Ron Vanderlinden: I'd have to say that was the best [defense I've coached.] ", The out-of-towners received celebrity treatment in other ways. You look around and realize the people around you are high achievers, and many of them have never failed at anything they've done in their lives. There was a question that was asked of me, "What do you say to Larry Curry?" (Read our "'49 Rose Bowl Trivia" to see what Voigts has in common with current Wildcat coach Pat Fitzgerald [SESP97].). Now came the "secret play" with the ball to go to him for an 11th time. About. Every little milestone they reached, the more people got into it. University Archives has more than 2,000 reels of film of Northwestern football games from between 1929 and 1989, including the 1949 Rose Bowl, in its collection. Their ranking didn't last long, however, as the Wildcats dropped their next game to Miami University. Sam Valenzisi (Senior kicker): I remember sitting in Pick-Staiger as a freshman during Welcome Week, and [then-Northwestern University president] Arnie Weber said, "Everybody who was valedictorian of their high school class, stand up. All rights reserved. I'll never forget the first play of the game, I'm on the opposite side of the field as Tim Dwight, and he comes running across the field. And that's not to say there weren't exceptions to that, I just never felt that the administration embraced athletics the way they do today. Word quickly spread in the press box, and there were a couple Northwestern grads up there, and we got all excited. Drew Allar carries Penn State's 2023 season on his shoulders The Northwestern Wild. It's what remains the game's most vivid memory, says Aschenbrenner. For the coach who left Northwestern for Cal, this was the first of three straight Rose Bowls, all tight losses for his Bears. June 5. It was a gradual build-up, and the Michigan game was the big moment, because then it was like, "Oh, okay, this is real. Do you have a blog? He decided instead to stay at Northwestern. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. We were trying to get to our seats, we were snaking through this area underneath the stadium, and we were waiting in this line to get to our seats. Just reaching six wins was a big deal. go to da moon copy and paste. "We weren't in their eyes very intellectual, and they wanted to make sure we knew that.". The game's over, and suddenly there are all your buddies. And I tried to step on his hands getting up. You've got to keep banging away, and eventually this things gonna turn. On October 5, 1996, Northwestern faced Michigan, winning 17-16 (tapes 5A-5C). So Barnett came in between us, and Matt and I started talking again, and then he swung at me around coach Barnett. "I was surprised at how it opened up.". One of the trainers had gone to the graduate assistant on the plane trip home from Iowa. You give 'em a hug, and you'll tell 'em you love 'em, and you'll always be that to each other. If you have any questions or comments, please e-mail the editors at letters@northwestern.edu. But New Year's Day of 1949 seemed to portend the end of the trend, as undefeated and explosive California was the opponent for a two-loss team that got in on a technicality. We come over to the sideline, and our offensive line coach comes up to us with the white board. (such as box scores, recruiting records, rosters, and miscellaneous material). We would fight, and Barnett would break it up, and we would fight, and Barnett would break it up. ", William Bennett: Coming out of the tunnel, the fans would yell, "Give us a good game Northwestern! And not only buy into it, but sell it to other guys. October 6, 1996, Section 8, Page 5 Buy Reprints. . "Dad, I can't tell you." Here are the highlights of what was said. $8.99. So I held this special dislike for Notre Dame. "We went down to the women's quad, and they put us up on the balcony and had a great time. Brian Kardos: In the first quarter, we called a sweep to my side, and I got a really nice block on the defensive end, and I pushed him out of bounds, and we were getting up off the ground, and somebody comes over and grabs my shoulder pad. I gave everyone a shirt and told em what it was. Brian Kardos (Junior offensive tackle): And I remember very early in the game, we had a sweep called around my end. And before our walkthrough on Friday, we walked it out to the field and blew it, and everybody was cracking up. I think Wisconsin was one of them. I turned it off. Casey Dailey: I'm from the L.A. area. 205: . And I remember for the first time, during the fourth quarter, not being able to hear Fitzy make calls. This is like a family. ", After the touchdown, Nemeth says, "We got in the huddle and one player said, 'Hey boys, this is gonna be easy.' "That did an awful lot to get our motors running," says tackle Steve Sawle (EB50). $11.99 (25% off) More colors. Starters are marked with an asterisk (*). Above the masthead on the Daily Northwestern's front page was "No School! We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. Members of the court were: Queen Keli Hutchins, San Marino, San Marino High School; Princesses Lissa Anderson, Pasadena, Blair High School; Sarah Clinton, Arcadia, Arcadia High School; Nancy Grace, South Pasadena, Mayfield Senior School; Katherine Kingston, San Marino, San Marino High School; Jennifer Lai, Pasadena, Westridge School for Girls; and Sara Packer, La Canada, La Canada High School. I knew I wanted to be a sportswriter, and I knew Northwestern had a good journalism school, and I thought it would be cool to get to cover Big Ten sports, and see Michigan, and Ohio State, Penn State, these big name teams. The stadium is known for hosting the annual Rose Bowl Game, but it has also earned its world-class reputation by hosting five NFL Super Bowls, 1984 Olympic soccer matches, the 1994 Men's World Cup, the 1999 Women's World Cup, four BCS . Ryan Padgett: Freshman skit night was fun. We actually slept on the dirty, filthy streets of Pasadena, with trash blowing in the wind. Autry ended up finishing fourth in the voting. "The stories get better. And I remember at least two or three of the games, people jumping and swamping the field after a win. That is until running back Darnell Autry scored on a 2-yard touchdown run, putting Northwestern up 32-31 after a failed two-point conversion. The official athletics website for the Wisconsin Badgers Badgers and just below it was "Roses! And I remember telling here, "I'm gonna go to Northwestern." Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. He had almost like a skeleton facial art. They thought that was the coolest thing ever. That night everyone else went back, but I stayed at The Palace, [the house that some upperclassmen lived in], and took the test on Sunday. And I'm not shy about saying that. No School!" "University of Chicago students came and criticized us for being athletes rather than students," Perricone says. Get into the end zone, Murakowski did, but he fumbled and Cal recovered. Voigts, a former officer in the U.S. Navy, had a squad anchored by veterans, not just of the gridiron but of World War II. Northwestern School History; 1996 Northwestern Statistics; . We end up winning the game, and everybody's going crazy, and they're getting ready to leave coming down the stairs, and everybody's high-fiving, and my neighbor puts Makenzie on his shoulders, and Makenzie pats my wife on the shoulder and says, "Mom, mom, this is so cool, I can't wait till we tell dad that we beat Notre Dame today.". "There was total silence from this gigantic crowd," says Forman. "He had possession when he crossed. The Wildcats opened the 1995 season with a surprise 1715 win at #9 Notre Dame on September 3, 1995. Forman says the team's big-game experiences had the players very upbeat to begin with and Voigts reinforced that as New Year's Day drew near. The rest of us were journeymen compared with those three. Reliving Northwestern football's greatest season ever, through the words of those who lived it the first time 20 years ago. Well, it was the Michigan booster club alumni association, and the bus stops, and they open up the door, and the guy who was the president came onto the bus, and he said, "I just want to tell you guys, if you can beat us in the Big House, we're cheering for you guys to go all the way to Pasadena." He tries to cut you, you step on his hands. We did certain things to make sure they didn't go crazy, but one of the things about Northwestern kids, they're not smarter, they're more responsible. The Wildcats won the rest of their games with a perfect 80 record in the Big Ten Conference. The Wildcats, who were then ranked in the AP poll for the first time since 1971, fell out of the spotlight when they lost to Miami University in their next game. Well, it wasn't. "We were proud of wearing dark jerseys that day because of the flip of a coin," Perrcione says, "and we always seemed to play better when we wore dark jerseys.". Some last minute things. Final score, NU: 20, California: 14. Greg Meyer (Offensive coordinator): My younger daughter, Makenzie, was five years old at the time, and when we went to the Notre Dame game, my wife and both daughters came to the game with one of the neighbors. Not everybody had bought into the idea that a winning football program could have wide-ranging benefits for the university. Dave Eanet: College GameDay was there, which was not what it is today, it was much smaller. Things fell in place, and when Frank broke loose, he just took off," says Nemeth. And I have a big ring, and those guys don't. "We were in various services all over the world, really," says Ed Nemeth (C50), a paratrooper for the 101st Airborne Division in Germany who played guard for the Wildcats and still marvels at the group's maturity and camaraderie. Luckily he slid down to the ground and caught it. Matt Rice: I remember [linebacker] Geoff Shein painted his face for that game. Twenty years ago, in 1995, Northwestern football produced one of the greatest underdog stories that college football and the world of sport have ever seen. As of 670 The Score's 20th Anniversary on January 3rd, the station has begun to reveal (in chronological order) the Top 100 Chicago Sports Stories that have occurred since they first went on the air 20 years ago. And a lot of them fell off. We knew Michigan was playing so many people in the box to stop Autry, and when we threw it outside, those linebackers we're gonna flow, and Drexler would be wide open on the backside. Steve Schnur: I can remember being asked to go outside right away and do interviews, and I didn't even have any shoes on, and that was something we weren't used to, all the microphones in your face. The 1948 Wildcats were predicted to be pretenders after finishing 3-6 and eighth in the conference the year before under rookie head coach Bob Voigts . And I kinda snapped at him and said, "Look, there's not one person that's responsible for that loss. Many of them are high achievers. With the kick, it was 42-21. But the rest of it was, "Well that's good enough for us, that's all we need to hear. Somebody wrote on their window, one of the windows that faced Sheridan Road, "0-11. "[He] took the ball and put it behind him and stood there for a moment and the play made off as if it was going around the left end, and the defense started to follow 'em, and we on the line took a step in that direction, which drew 'em, and Tunnicliff took off around the right end, and the line just swung around this way and set up a wall, so to speak, before they could recover, and he went right down the line. Asher Golden Collection, 31/6/184. It's an exercise in focus. It's almost like part of becoming what we wanted to becoming meant that you had to take this stuff at face value. Nationality: United States. And when coach Barnett called it, I was like, "Okay! And Wisconsin's All-American tight end goes across the middle, and Geoff Shein just put a hit on him that just reverberated through the stadium. Johnson was named the Rose Bowl Player Of The Game. Search all Archival and Manuscript Collections, Statistics and promotional materials, 1995 - 1996, https://www.library.northwestern.edu/libraries-collections/mccormick-library/index.html. The remainder of the collection documents NUs bowl time coverage, including three special sports programs recorded by WNUR that preview Northwesterns upcoming Citrus Bowl game against Tennessee. Stewart Mandel: We did the stupidest thing, but it's cool that we did it. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, there was an explosion that not a soul outside of Evanston saw coming. We're not going to let you skewer this one guy and put his head on the stake. The game resumed 14 years later and has been played at the Rose Bowl Stadium ever sincewith the exception of 1942, when the game was moved to Durham, North Carolina, because of fears of a Japanese attack on the West Coast in the wake of Pearl Harbor. 9 Notre Dame 17-15 in South Bend, putting the school in the AP poll for the first time since 1971. It was our thing. I told them it'd be cheaper to go up there than to stay here. What do you have to say about that?" "He was very cool and confident, and he expressed that to us. Northwestern defeats Michigan, 17-16, in college football; photo (M) . Then, after spotting visiting Minnesota 16 points, Northwestern stormed back to win 19-16. And in reality, he was the only one who had the nerve to go up and say it. It made me realize that the seniors from that season who were trying to do right, it was unfortunate for them. Free shipping for many products! In fact, if Notre Dame is used as a compass, Northwestern should have its way in this Rose Bowl. But Forman, who lives in California, says, "I had friends who played for UC-Berkeley, and for years they'd always give me the business, saying we didn't really beat them. There was a question that was asked of me, I believe by Larry Watts, was, "What do you say to [backup long snapper] Larry Curry?" Trailing 14-13, the 'Cats' chances came down to a desperate drive from their own 12-yard line late in the fourth quarter. Gary Barnett: I would go for a run every day, and that's when I would come up with my ideas. There are professional athletes that are in the Hall of Fame, that have made millions, that don't get the same kind of love that our team gets. When the 'Cats arrived and conducted their first practice before the watchful West Coast media, the Los Angeles Times reported initial impressions: "Onlookers were amazed by the speed, pep and streamlined appearance of the Wildcats, who had engaged in only five exam-hampered drills since the closing of their regular season.". In response to the Wildcats earning a berth in the Rose Bowl, announcer Keith Jackson uttered the quote "We've had all the romance; now let's find out if she can dance.". To this day, that still cheers me up. Earlier in the day, Voigts had taken the team through the customary walk-through in the imposing and empty Rose Bowl. 1. https://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/repositories/6/archival_objects/73075 Accessed March 04, 2023. The band plays for a large crowd assembled for a pep rally in the women's quad after Northwestern topped Illinois to earn a trip to the Rose Bowl. And I thought, "Oh my gosh, we're going to the Rose Bowl." J.A. And Rob looks at him, and about three of us held out our hands and said, "we got this." Brian Kardos: We were coming out of the parking lot, and of course the Big House is 100,000 people, so we're coming out of the parking lot, and the bus started to get mobbed. ", Shannon Jones (Sophomore kicker): I remember Steve Schnur sitting next to me and slapping me on the shoulder and saying, "So what are you gonna do after we win the game? Copyright 2000-2023 Sports Reference LLC. Matt Rice (Junior defensive tackle): I sacked [Notre Dame quarterback] Ron Powlus in the second quarter, and I was laying on top of him, and he grabbed onto my arm, and was holding me down, and I couldn't get off him, and he was trying to draw a penalty on me. February 6, 2012 / 9:00 AM Within each sport, records are grouped chronologically; each season will have folders containing programs, statistics, and press releases, as well as other information generated during the season (such as box scores, recruiting records, rosters, and miscellaneous material). The L.A. Times ran a comparison of the 'Cats' set of twin brothers from Mason City, Iowa: guard "Fatso" Day and safety Loran "Pee Wee" Day (SESP50) Fatso outweighed Pee Wee 215 to 185; Fatso was a lefty, but Pee Wee was a righty; and Pee Wee was married, but Fatso was a bachelor. "A two-day, two-night party. I think I had them at seven "winnable" games and four "miserable" games. Dave Eanet: Right before the game, we got word that the prime minister of Israel had been assassinated. "He didn't want us to spend any time reading the newspapers because of all the negativity toward little old Northwestern," says tackle Bill Forman (WCAS50). But then we walked to the stadium, and we're all kind of dragging, and as soon as you see the stadium, you just light up. Their 10-1 record earned them a spot in the Rose Bowl for the first time since 1949. The Wildcats, coached by Gary Barnett, wouldn't lose another game for the rest of the regular season -- going a perfect 8-0 in the Big Ten. They introduced each of the coaches one by one. And they were responsible, for the most part. Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images. When someone wrote about us or publicly responded to our team and described our team as relentless, then we knew we had arrived.
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