![]() For many years, the Rose Bowl, which currently seats more than 90,000 for games. This resulted in new seatbacks for 50,000 seats. An improvement project was conducted because of UCLA’s 1982 move into the stadium and because of the 1984 Summer Olympics. New red seat backs were added on 22,000 seats prior to the 1980 Rose Bowl. A new grandstand and loge seats have been installed since 1971. The original wooden benches were replaced by aluminum benches in 1969. The south end was filled in to complete the bowl and more seats have been added. 1, 1923, the first Rose Bowl Game was played with USC defeating Penn State. The Rose Bowl originally had a seating capacity of 57,000 in a horseshoe configuration. The first game played at the Rose Bowl was on Oct. The Rose Bowl looked like a horseshoe shape in 1923 before the full bowl was completed in 1928. He also designed a number of California libraries, including those in Redlands, Palos Verdes Estates, Santa Barbara and the Pasadena Central Library. In 1913, Hunt designed a new wing for the Mission Inn in Riverside. Hunt’s influence as an architect can be found all around Southern California, including the summer ranch home for cereal magnate Will Keith Kellogg at the present-day campus of Cal Poly Pomona. The stadium was designed by architect Myron Hunt. ![]() The stands in Tournament Park were temporary and the city of Pasadena decided it should have a permanent stadium. The first Tournament of Roses Parade was in 1890 and the first football game was held in 1902 (between the University of Michigan and Stanford University) in Tournament Park, but chariot races and other events were substituted, until football became an annual contest in 1916. The stadium famous for its bowl game, has hosted Super Bowls, Olympic events, World Cup soccer matches, sold-out concerts and even a flea market. National Historic Landmark and a California Historic Civil Engineering landmark. The Rose Bowl was built in 1922 and is recognized as a U.S. That would be Franklin Field at the University of Pennsylvania. It’s not the oldest stadium in the nation.
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