Author and historian Joe Ziemba of the When Football was Football Podcast joins us to discuss the 1984 Rose Bowl game between UCLA and Illinois. The people, plays, and great stories associated with the 70th Rose Bowl Game. Joe has a fantastic book on Chicago area pro football titled Bears versus Cardinals, that is an excellent piece of reading for any fan of football history!
The 70th Rose Bowl Game
Remembering the 1984 Rose Bowl game
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1984 Rose Bowl
The 70th edition of the annual Rose Bowl game was played on Monday, January 2, 1984. The participants were the unranked UCLA Bruins against the country’s #4 ranked team, the Illinois Fighting Illini. Terry Donahue coached UCLA, and Illinois had Head Coach Mike White.
The Illini had one loss, a setback in the season opener against Missouri. The Bruins had four losses on their regular season ledger from Georgia, Nebraska, BYU, and Washington. A quarterback controversy was evident midseason as the team switched back and forth between starting signal caller Steve Bono and Rick Neuheisel. Illinois was favored by 4-½ points, but the game was far from that prediction. UCLA had their way from start to finish in a 45-9 upset defeat of the Illini.
Rick Neuheisel got the nod to start as the UCLA quarterback and was named the Player of the Game. He completed 22 of 32 passes for 298 yards and four touchdowns.
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