[3][4] Oregon team captain John Beckett was named the Player of the Game when the award was created in 1953, with selections made retroactively.
This shutout win was Oregon's sole Rose Bowl victory for 95 years, until January 2012; they made appearances in 1920, 1958, 1995, and 2010, and won again in 2015 and 2020.
This was Penn's only appearance; other Ivy League teams at the Rose Bowl were Harvard in 1920 and Columbia in 1934, both winners.
Oregon and Washington were both unbeaten in the new Pacific Coast Conference that year, and tied in their head-to-head meeting.
[9] Following a scoreless first half, the Webfoots scored on a 15-yard pass in the 3rd quarter from Shy Huntington to Lloyd Tegert.