What college football bowl is known as The Grandaddy of them all, having been continuously played since 1916?
1916 Rose Bowl 1916 Rose Bowl Originally titled the "Tournament East-West football game," the second of what is now known as the Rose Bowl Game was played on January 1, 1916. The Rose Bowl game has been played annually since this game. The first game, the 1902 Tournament East-West football game, was so lopsided that for the next 13 years, the Tournament of Roses officials ran chariot races, ostrich races, and other various events instead of football. But, on New Year's Day 1916, football returned to stay as Washington State University defeated Brown University in this first annual Tournament of Roses football game.
1916 College Football All-America Team (for the "Chicago Daily Tribune"), Paul Purman, Fielding H. Yost, and the "Boston Post". NCAA recognized selectors for 1916 Other selectors Bold = Consensus All-American 1916 College Football All-America Team The 1916 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans for the 1916 college football season. The only selectors for the 1916 season who have been recognized as "official" by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) are Walter Camp, whose selections were published in "Collier's Weekly", the International News Service (INS), a newswire founded by William Randolph Hearst, and the Frank Menke Syndicate.