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Rose Bowl to help commemorate 100th game with All-Century Class

Will a Wisconsin player make an All-Century team for the Rose Bowl? The Badgers have been well represented recently.
(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
By Chris Dufresne
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The Rose Bowl announced Thursday it is naming an All-Century Class by decade to commemorate the playing of the 100th game on Jan. 1, 2014.

The Rose Bowl and Football Writers Assn. of America have partnered to assemble a panel of more than 50 experts to pick the team. Included among the voters is former L.A. Times columnist Mike Downey and longtime Bay Area writer Art Spander, who has attended every Rose Bowl since the mid-1950s.

A coach or player will be named for each decade with the top three nominees being released weekly beginning Sunday.

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The decade winners will be announced at a Dec. 8 news conference in Pasadena along with the All-Century player and coach.

The 100th Rose Bowl this year will be followed with Pasadena also hosting the final BCS championship game on Jan. 6.

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Chris Dufresne

Chris Dufresne was the Los Angeles Times’ national college football/basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015. He also covered skiing at the Winter Olympics and wrote extensively on most sports. He is a multiple national award winner and was named 2011 California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assn. A Los Angeles native, he started at The Times in 1976 as a truck loader and literally worked his way up (two floors to be exact).

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