| Year Game Played: | 1918 |
| Game Name: | Tournament East-West football game |
| Subheader: | 4th Rose Bowl Game |
| Football Season: | 1917 |
| Visitor Name Short: | Mare Island |
| Visitor Nickname: | Marines |
| Visitor School: | Mare Island Naval Shipyard |
| Home Name Short: | Camp Lewis |
| Home Nickname: | Army |
| Home School: | 1917 Camp Lewis football team |
| Visitor Record: | 5–0 |
| Visitor Conference: | Independent |
| Home Record: | 5–1–1 |
| Home Conference: | Independent |
| Visitor Coach: | Hugo Bezdek |
| Home Coach: | Fox Stanton |
| Visitor 1Q: | 0 |
| Visitor 2Q: | 9 |
| Visitor 3Q: | 0 |
| Visitor 4Q: | 10 |
| Home 1Q: | 0 |
| Home 2Q: | 7 |
| Home 3Q: | 0 |
| Home 4Q: | 0 |
| Date Game Played: | January 1 |
| Stadium: | Tournament Park |
| City: | Pasadena, California |
| Mvp: | Hollis Huntington (B) – USMC |
| Attendance: | 25,000 |
| Different Previous: | 1917 |
| Different Next: | 1919 |
The 1918 Rose Bowl, known at the time as the Tournament East-West Football Game, was a bowl game played on January 1, 1918, at Tournament Park in Pasadena, California. It was the 4th Rose Bowl Game. With America at war, the game was played with players from the Mare Island Marines of California and the Camp Lewis Army from American Lake, Washington.[1]
Since the Rose Bowl game became so popular and most of the college football players were fighting overseas during World War I, the Pasadena Tournament of Roses decided to stage the game with military units, with the approval from President Woodrow Wilson. The Camp Lewis football team represented the US Army.
| Qtr. | Team | Scoring play | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | MARE | Ambrose 31 yard FG | MARE 3–0 | |
| LEW | Romney 6 yard rush, Sharpe kick | LEW 7–3 | ||
| MARE | Brown 5 yard rush, kick failed | MARE 9–7 | ||
| 4 | MARE | Huntington 1 yard rush, Ambrose kick | MARE 16–7 | |
| MARE | Ambrose 33 yard FG | MARE 19–7 | ||
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According to the Tournament of Roses, "Within weeks of the 1918 Rose Bowl Game, the majority of the players from both teams were scheduled to go overseas. John Beckett, left tackle for Mare Island, acknowledged this fact and said that “this would be the last battle that we would fight in the name of sports."
Hugo Bezdek was the coach to lead two separate schools (Oregon in 1917 and Mare Island in 1918) to victories. He also led Penn State to an appearance in the 1923 Rose Bowl.
Dick Romney, who had been a football star at Utah, played halfback for the Camp Lewis team, scoring the team's only touchdown.[3]