Player and Coach
Eight former players have come back to coach a team in the game (played and coached, as listed by the Tournament of Roses Association):
- Bret Bielema: Iowa (1991); Wisconsin (2011, 2012)
- Terry Donahue: UCLA (1966); UCLA (1983, 1984, 1986, 1994)
- Bump Elliott: Michigan (1948); Michigan (1965)
- Pete Elliott: Michigan (1948); California (1959); Illinois (1964)
- Jess Hill: USC (1930); USC (1953, 1955)
- Rick Neuheisel: UCLA (1983, 1984 – MVP); Washington (2001)
- John Robinson: Oregon (1958); USC (1977, 1979, 1980, 1996)
- Chuck Taylor: Stanford (1941); Stanford (1952)
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Famous quotes containing the words player and/or coach:
“The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all these more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1845)
“President Lowell of Harvard appealed to students ‘to prepare themselves for such services as the Governor may call upon them to render.’ Dean Greenough organized an ‘emergency committee,’ and Coach Fisher was reported by the press as having declared, ‘To hell with football if men are needed.’”
—For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)