The agreement was later renegotiation with the newly formed Athletic Association of Western Universities (AAWU; later known as the Pacific-8, Pacific-10, and Pac-12) following the disbandment of the PCC in mid-1959.
Ohio State was the next Big Ten team to participate what they lost to California 0-28 in the 1921 Rose Bowl.
The Big Nine and PCC were of the same accord when it came to treating players as amateurs, as compared to the semi-professional status that the Southern Universities proposed.
Coming into the November 23, 1946 UCLA–USC rivalry football game, the Rose Bowl was on the line for both USC and UCLA.
[citation needed] All-conference quarterback Ernie Case called the plays for a prolific offense featuring pass-catching ends Burr Baldwin and future hall-of-famer Tom Fears, and bolstered by the breakout running of fullbacks Cal Rossi and Johnny Roesh and halfback Gene Rowland.
Several linemen in the 230 lb range (as big as they came in the days of one-platoon football[citation needed]) made for an intimidating and forceful UCLA front which stampeded west coast rivals with apparent ease.
The 5’4" speedster made an immediate impact as a freshman in 1944, scoring sixty-four and thirty yard touchdowns on his first two touches vs. Illinois State.
Young finished the season with thirteen touchdowns, breaking Red Grange's 1924 Big Ten Conference record and landing the freshman on several all-America lists.
After being drafted into the navy in January 1945 he starred the following fall for the Fleet City California Naval Base football team, almost single-handedly winning the west coast service team championship with three touchdowns, including two kick returns of 93 and 88 yards in front of 65,000 fans at the L.A.
Young shared the backfield with fellow halfback Art Dufelmeier, known fondly as the "Flying Dutchman".
Despite Young and Dufelmeier rushing for over 900 combined yards, Illinois’ only all-conference and all-America selection was right guard Alex Agase.
Alex Agase had scored twice as a sophomore against Minnesota in 1942, making him only the second guard to notch a multiple touchdown performance in collegiate history.
Regardless of any apparent size mis-match, history repeated itself as Illinois out-witted and out-played the bigger Bruins in the same convincing style in which Alabama had blow past the larger Trojans a year earlier.
The Agase brothers and Illini captain center Mack Wenskunas opened gaping holes all day, often simply cutting the Bruins down at the knees for Young, Dufelmeier, and Co. to skip over and around.
UCLA coach Bert Labrucherie used virtually every player on his three-deep trying to counter Illinois’ unstoppable blocking.
The New York Times post-game report claimed that the affair "looked like a college line blocking against high school forwards."
After a kickoff return set UCLA up at midfield Case responded in kind with a 40-yard strike to his diminutive but elusive halfback Al Hoisch.
Young finished another long drive, this time fifty-one yards, with a short scoring run on the first play of the fourth quarter.
Stanley Green, a fourth-string Illinois back, added insult to injury with a second six-point interception return in the game's final minutes.
Most incredibly, the Illini held a team that had run roughshod over the west coast to a paltry sixty-two rushing yards.
Despite their lesser physical stature Illinois racked up 320 team rushing yards, including 100-yard performances from both Young and Dufelmeier.
The 1946 season marked the first visit to Pasadena from the Big Ten champion since Ohio State fell 28-0 to Cal in 1921.
[3][9][10] Hoisch also still holds the modern Rose Bowl record for Highest average Gain Per Return at 44.5 yards.