1925 Rose Bowl

The game featured two legendary coaches, Knute Rockne of Notre Dame, and Pop Warner in his first year at Stanford.

Elmer Layden of Notre Dame and Ernie Nevers of Stanford were named the Rose Bowl Players Of The Game when the award was created in 1953 and selections were made retroactively.

Notre Dame garnered interest from the Rose Bowl committee to play a PCC opponent for the 1925 football season.

[4] Rockne and the Notre Dame administration realized how lucrative an annual trip to Los Angeles would be for the football program.

[4] Notre Dame's west coast alumni began lobbying Rockne to bring the team to the Rose Bowl as a season finale on a yearly basis.

[4] Quarterback Harry Stuhldreher, left halfback Jim Crowley, right halfback Don Miller and fullback Elmer Layden had run rampant through Irish opponents' defenses since coach Knute Rockne devised the lineup in 1922 during their sophomore season.

A legendary quote from Grantland Rice, a sportswriter for the former New York Herald Tribune, gave them football immortality.

They formed the crest of the South Bend cyclone before which another fighting Army team was swept over the precipice at the Polo Grounds this afternoon as 55,000 spectators peered down upon the bewildering panorama spread out upon the green plain below.

Notre Dame would later notch its 200th victory in a 34–3 win over Georgia Tech in the homecoming game on November 1.

Dillon Hall, a dormitory at the University of Notre Dame, was built with the proceeds, $52,000, from the 1925 Rose Bowl.

[1] Elmer Layden of Notre Dame and Ernie Nevers of Stanford were named the Rose Bowl Players of the Game when the award was created in 1953 and selections were made retroactively.

In 2020, Notre Dame qualified for the College Football Playoff and lost to Alabama in the 2021 Rose Bowl, which was moved from Pasadena to Arlington, Texas due to the COVID-19 pandemic, by a score of 31-14.