1925 Rose Bowl - Aftermath

Aftermath

The next year, the University of Southern California would invite Notre Dame to a home and home series, which was the foundation of the Notre Dame – USC rivalry. Previously, the furthest west the Irish ever had traveled was to play at Nebraska and Kansas. Dillon Hall, a dormitory at the University of Notre Dame, was built with the proceeds, $52,000, from the 1925 Rose Bowl.

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 would never again appear in the Rose Bowl game, and would not appear in any bowl game until the 1970 Cotton Bowl Classic game. In the 2007 college football season, the UCLA Bruins would host the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the Rose Bowl stadium where the Irish would win 20-6. With the Rose Bowl Game joining the Bowl Championship Series, the possibility has existed that Notre Dame could again play in the Rose Bowl game.

Knute Rockne died in a plane crash in 1931. Don Miller, who died in 1979 as the last of the living Four Horsemen, said that the 1925 Rose Bowl champion team was Rockne's favorite team.

The Notre Dame – Stanford rivalry game is now one of the many Notre Dame Fighting Irish football rivalries. The teams next played each other in 1942 and again in 1963-64. The modern series began in 1988 and has been played annually except in 1995-96. As of 2010, Notre Dame leads the series 17-8. When the game is played in Palo Alto, it is usually the last game on Stanford's schedule (as has been the case since 1999), one week after the Cardinal plays archrival Cal in The Big Game.