In January of 1942, the Rose Bowl had a new PCC member—Oregon State—and a different venue. With World War II in full gear, U.S. military offi cials ordered can- cellation of the Rose Bowl, along with the East-West Shrine Game and horse racing at Santa Anita. Oregon State athletic direc- tor Percy Locey convinced No. 2-ranked Duke to host the game in Durham, North Carolina, and the Beavers upset the heav- ily favored Blue Devils 20–16.
FOOTBALL FACT*
National 29 Championships
The PCC couldn’t outrun the war forever, though. In 1943 and 1944, only USC, UCLA, Washington, and Cal continued to play foot- ball. And with restrictions on cross-country travel, the 1944 Rose Bowl pitted two teams from the same conference for the fi rst time, Washington and USC. General Dwight D. Eisenhower gave every sol- dier who wasn’t on the fi ring line permission to listen to the Trojans’ 29–0 victory on Armed Forces Radio.
Mel Hein
UCLA emerged with a powerhouse team after the war, going 10–0 in the 1946 regular season before getting crushed by Illinois in the Rose Bowl; it was the fi rst installment of the bowl game under a new pact that annually pitted the champions of the PCC and the Big Ten. Cal had fallen into the doldrums in the 1940s, but that changed when Lynn (Pappy) Waldorf took over in 1947. The “Wise Walrus of
INNOVATION: T-FORMATION Stanford was coming off a 1–7–1 season in 1939, and on the face of it
there was little reason to believe new coach Clark Shaughnessy would improve the situation. After all, his University of Chicago team had been outscored 318–0 the previous year by Michigan, Illinois, Ohio State, Harvard, and West Virginia.
But Shaughnessy had a secret weapon: the T-formation.
The T was an old alignment, actually. Coaches such as Walter Camp and Amos Alonzo Stagg used it at the turn of the 20th century. But Shaughnessy, who had been helping the NFL’s Chicago Bears install the system, had a different version. He spread his ends wider, used motion out of the backfi eld, and wasn’t afraid to pass the ball.
When Stanford coaching legend Pop Warner got wind of Shaughnessy’s tinkering, he said: “If Stanford wins a single game with that crazy forma- tion, you can throw all the football I ever knew into the Pacifi c Ocean.”
Clark Shaughnessy
Shaughnessy had the makings of a talented backfi eld—especially quarterback Frankie Albert, whose manual dexterity made him perfect for the T’s misdirection—and Stanford romped to a 10–0 season. The football world noticed. Within one year, half the college teams in America had adopted the T-formation. Within two years, it was more like 90 percent.
22 *Note: All Pac-12 statistics are through the 2010 season.
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