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2012 Wisconsin Badgers football team
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The 2012 Wisconsin Badgers football team represent the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the 2012 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The 70 points tied the second-highest mark in Wisconsin history, set against Northwestern in 2010, in the second half, Nebraska managed to gain a grand total of 3 yards before Martinez threw his second interception on Nebraskas first drive of the half. Wisconsin scored on the play, taking a 49-10 lead. The Badgers secured their third consecutive Big Ten Championship and a third consecutive Rose Bowl berth with the win, improving to 8-5 on the year. On December 4,2012, head coach Bret Bielema announced he would take the coaching vacancy at the University of Arkansas. Bielema had a 68-24 overall record in 7 seasons at Wisconsin, in addition, Bielema won both of the first two Big Ten Conference Championship Games. He was not present as Head Coach for the 2013 Rose Bowl December 5,2012 – Athletic Director Barry Alvarez announced that he will be taking over the Head Coaching role for the 2013 Rose Bowl. December 6,2012 – Montee Ball was voted the best running back in the nation in the Doak Walker Award, january 1,2013 – Tailback Montee Ball became the first player in Rose Bowl Game history to score a touchdown in three straight years. CB Marcus Cromartie, San Diego Chargers CB Devin Smith, Dallas Cowboys
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2012 Stanford Cardinal football team
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The 2012 Stanford Cardinal football team represented Stanford University in the 2012 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Cardinal were led by head coach David Shaw. They played their games at Stanford Stadium and were members of the North Division of the Pac-12 Conference. The Cardinal won their first Pac-12 championship since 1999 after defeating UCLA in the Pac-12 Football Championship Game and they represented the Pac-12 in the Rose Bowl, where they defeated Wisconsin to win their first Rose Bowl championship since 1972. This was Stanfords third consecutive year playing in a BCS bowl game and they finished the season with a 12–2 record. –Assistant Coach – Running Backs/Recruiting Coord. In their first game after the Andrew Luck era, the Cardinal struggled offensively, lucks successor at quarterback, Josh Nunes, threw one touchdown pass and running back Stepfan Taylor rushed for 116 yards and scored Stanfords other touchdown in the first quarter. The Spartans added two third-quarter touchdowns—a Blake Jurich run and a David Fales to Noel Grigsby completion—to tie the score, a fourth-quarter field goal from Jordan Williamson put the Cardinal in front to stay. Drew Terrell returned a punt 76 yards for a touchdown and caught a Josh Nunes pass for another as Stanford routed Duke, Nunes completed 16 of 30 passes for 275 yards and 3 touchdowns. Meanwhile, the Cardinal defense stifled the Blue Devils, holding them to just 27 rushing yards, Stanford defensive back Ed Reynolds intercepted Duke quarterback Sean Renfree twice, returning one 71 yards for another touchdown. Stanfords defense held USC to just 26 rushing yards and sacked Matt Barkley 5 times as the Cardinal came from behind to upset the second-ranked Trojans, Stanford won its fourth in a row against USC, its longest winning streak in the rivalry that dates to 1905. Stanfords Stepfan Taylor rushed for 153 yards and a touchdown and caught a pass from Josh Nunes that tied the game in the third quarter. Nunes later connected on a strike to tight end Zach Ertz to put the Cardinal ahead to stay. Barkley, who finished his college career winless against Stanford. Stanford failed to score a touchdown for the first time since 2007 as the Huskies beat the Cardinal 17–13. The Husky defense held the Cardinal to just 235 yards of total offense, Stanfords defense was stingy in the first half, and gave the Cardinal its only touchdown of the day when linebacker Trent Murphy tipped and returned a Keith Price pass 40 yards for the score. But the Huskies broke through on the last play of the third quarter, Price connected with Kasen Williams for a touchdown pass late in the fourth quarter to seal the game for the Huskies. For the Wildcats, KaDeem Carey ran for three touchdowns and quarterback Matt Scott completed 45 of 69 passes, including three touchdown passes. However, on the first possession in overtime, Scotts pass was intercepted by Chase Thomas, in a defensive struggle with a controversial ending, Stanford fell to Notre Dame in overtime, 20–13
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Barry Alvarez
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Barry Lee Alvarez is a former American football coach who is currently the athletic director at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He served as the football coach at Wisconsin for 16 seasons, from 1990 to 2005. He has the longest head coaching tenure and the most wins in Wisconsin Badgers football history, Alvarez stepped down as head coach after the 2005 season, remaining as athletics director. Since retiring, Alvarez has served as head coach on two occasions. Alvarez was inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2010, Barry Alvarez was born and raised in Langeloth, Pennsylvania, where his family settled after his grandparents immigrated to the United States from Spain. Alvarez intercepted a pass in a game played between the Cornhuskers and the Badgers in Madison, from 1979-1986 at Iowa, Alvarez would coach Linebackers such as, Leven Weiss, Todd Simonsen, Mel Cole, James Erb, Jonathan Hayes, and Larry Station. In 1987 he would coach LB Wes Pritchett, in 1988, he led the defense of Notre Dame whom finished 12-0 as national champions. They finished 3rd in points allowed on the season, some of the names he coached included DL Jeff Alm, LB Frank Stams, and DB Todd Lyght. In 1989, the Notre Dame defense finished 9th in points allowed, in 1990, Alvarez was named head coach of the Wisconsin Badgers. He inherited a program that had not had a season since 1984. Considering the awful state of the program hed inherited, Alvarez engineered a quick return to respectability. During his tenure, the Badgers won or shared three Big Ten titles and played in three Rose Bowls, winning all three of them and he also led the Badgers to 11 bowl games, before his arrival they had been to only six bowls in their entire history. The 1998 team notched the first 11-win season in school history, Alvarez retired for the first time at Wisconsin with a win over the Auburn Tigers in the 2006 Capital One Bowl. His record in games is 9–4. Alvarez is the only Big Ten Conference coach to win consecutive Rose Bowls. Prior to his first return as coach, his 3–0 Rose Bowl record as a full-time coach had placed him third on the list of undefeated Rose Bowl records, behind USCs Howard Jones. The Badgers lost that game to the Stanford Cardinal 20–14, dropping Alvarezs Rose Bowl record to 3-1, Alvarez is the only Big Ten coach with consecutive wins over the Ohio State Buckeyes during Jim Tressels coaching tenure there, those came in 2003 and 2004. He finished his career with a 3–1 edge over Tressel, Alvarez had six seasons with at least nine wins at Wisconsin
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David Shaw (American football)
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David Lorenzo Shaw is the head coach of the Stanford Cardinal football team. Shaw was the offensive coordinator for the entire tenure of head coach Jim Harbaugh from 2007 to 2010. Previously, Shaw was a letter winner playing as a wide receiver for the Cardinal from 1991 to 1994. Shaw was born in San Diego, California and moved with his family around the following his father Willies career as an NFL coach. Shaw played high school football at Rochester Adams High School in Rochester Hills, in 1989, Willie accepted a coaching job at Stanford University and the family moved back to the Bay Area where David ultimately graduated from James Logan High School in Union City, California. He went on to attend Stanford University, where he played football as a wide receiver under head coaches Dennis Green. In his college career from 1991 to 1994, Shaw caught 57 passes for 664 yards, Shaw was also on the Stanford mens basketball and track teams while at the University before earning a B. A. in sociology in 1995. His coaching career began at Western Washington University in 1995, in 1997, Shaw began a nine-year run as an NFL assistant coach with stints for the Philadelphia Eagles, Oakland Raiders, and Baltimore Ravens. As the Raiders quality control from 1998–2000 and quarterbacks coach in 2001, in 2005, Shaw coached wide receivers Derrick Mason to a Ravens record of 86 receptions and 1,073 receiving yards and Mark Clayton to a Ravens rookie record of 44 receptions for 471 yards. In 2006, Shaw left the NFL for the University of San Diego to join head coach Jim Harbaughs staff as passing game coordinator, the 11–1 Toreros offense led the NCAA Division I-AA in many statistical categories, including passing offense, total offense, and scoring offense. When Harbaugh was hired as coach of Shaws alma mater, Stanford, in 2007. During his years as an assistant coach, Shaw also coached the Cardinal wide receivers, Shaws unit performed successfully during his years as coordinator, powered by 2010 Heisman Trophy runner-up Andrew Luck. They scored at least 40 points in 11 different games with Shaw as offensive coordinator, in January 2011, Shaw was promoted to head coach after Harbaugh left to become head coach of the NFLs San Francisco 49ers. Shaw is the first Stanford alumnus to serve as football coach since Paul Wiggin. In his first three seasons, Shaw led the team to three consecutive BCS bowl games, including two Rose Bowls, Shaw led the team to a Rose Bowl victory over Wisconsin. The team returned to the Rose Bowl again the year in the 2013 season. With the 2015 conference title, Shaw became the first Stanford coach in 80 years to win three titles and only the third ever in program history. With the Rose Bowl victory over Iowa, Shaw became only the second Stanford coach to win two Rose Bowls and that victory also resulted in Stanford being ranked #3 in the final Coaches Poll, their highest final ranking in the history of that poll
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Rose Bowl (stadium)
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The Rose Bowl is an outdoor athletic stadium in Pasadena, California, just outside Los Angeles. At a modern capacity of a configuration at 88,500 the Rose Bowl is the 17th-largest stadium in the world, the 11th-largest stadium in the United States. One of the most famous stadiums in sporting history, the Rose Bowl is best known as an American football venue, since 1982, the stadium has also served as the home stadium of the UCLA Bruins football team. The stadium has hosted five Super Bowl games, second most of any venue. UCLA and the Pasadena Tournament of Roses also have one member on the company board, the game now known as the Rose Bowl Game was played at Tournament Park until 1922. The Pasadena Tournament of Roses Association, the organizer, realized the temporary stands were inadequate for a crowd of more than 40,000. The stadium was designed by architect Myron Hunt in 1921 and his design was influenced by the Yale Bowl in New Haven, Connecticut, which was built in 1913 and opened in 1914. The Arroyo Seco was selected as the location for the stadium, the Rose Bowl was under construction from 1921 to 1922. The nearby Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum also was under construction during this time, originally built as a horseshoe, the stadium was expanded several times. The southern stands were completed in 1928, making the stadium a complete bowl, the stadium is extremely hard to get to due to the traffic caused by single-lane residential street access. The stadium has no dedicated parking lot for visitors and parking issues have routinely caused visitors to two to three hours completing the last mile to the stadium on game days. In 2016, Rose Bowl contracted ParkJockey to streamline parking in, there are also shuttles to help visitors get to the stadium and mobile lights powered by generators to provide visibility for people walking on the golf course at night. The first game was a regular season contest on October 28,1922 when Cal defeated USC 12–0 and this was the only loss for USC and California finished the season undefeated. California declined the invitation to the 1923 Rose Bowl game and USC went in their place, the stadium was dedicated officially on January 1,1923 when USC defeated Penn State 14–3. The stadium seating has been reconfigured several times since its construction in 1922, the South end was filled in to complete the bowl and more seats have been added. The original wooden benches were replaced by aluminum benches in 1969, All new grandstand and loge seats had been installed since 1971. New red seat backs had been added on 22,000 seats prior to the 1980 Rose Bowl, a Rose Bowl improvement was conducted because of UCLAs 1982 move and the 1984 Summer Olympics. This resulted in new seat backs for 50,000 seats, for many years, the Rose Bowl had the largest football stadium capacity in the United States, eventually being surpassed by Michigan Stadium
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Pasadena, California
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Pasadena /ˌpæsəˈdiːnə/ is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. As of 2013, the population of Pasadena was 139,731. Pasadena is the ninth-largest city in Los Angeles County, Pasadena was incorporated on June 19,1886, becoming one of the first cities be incorporated in what is now Los Angeles County, the only one being incorporated earlier being its namesake. It is one of the cultural centers of the San Gabriel Valley. The city is known for hosting the annual Rose Bowl football game, the original inhabitants of Pasadena and surrounding areas were members of the Native American Hahamog-na tribe, a branch of the Tongva Nation. They spoke the Tongva language and had lived in the Los Angeles Basin for thousands of years, Tongva dwellings lined the Arroyo Seco in present day Pasadena and south to where it joins the Los Angeles River and along other natural waterways in the city. The native people lived in thatched, dome-shape lodges and they lived on a diet of acorn meal, seeds and herbs, venison, and other small animals. They traded for fish with the coastal Tongva. They made cooking vessels from steatite soapstone from Catalina Island, the trail has been in continuous use for thousands of years. An arm of the trail is still in use in what is now known as Salvia Canyon. When the Spanish occupied the Los Angeles Basin they built the San Gabriel Mission and renamed the local Tongva people Gabrielino Indians, today, several bands of Tongva people live in the Los Angeles area. The Rancho comprised the lands of todays communities of Pasadena, Altadena, before the annexation of California in 1848, the last of the Mexican owners was Manuel Garfias who retained title to the property after statehood in 1850. Garfias sold sections of the property to the first Anglo settlers to come into the area, Dr. Benjamin Eaton, the father of Fred Eaton, much of the property was purchased by Benjamin Wilson, who established his Lake Vineyard property in the vicinity. Wilson, known as Don Benito to the local Indians, also owned the Rancho Jurupa and was mayor of Los Angeles and he was the grandfather of WWII General George S. Patton, Jr. and the namesake of Mount Wilson. Berry was an asthmatic and claimed that he had his best three nights sleep at Rancho San Pascual, to keep the find a secret, Berry code-named the area Muscat after the grape that Wilson grew. To raise funds to bring the company of people to San Pascual, Berry formed the Southern California Orange and Citrus Growers Association and sold stock in it. The newcomers were able to purchase a portion of the property along the Arroyo Seco and on January 31,1874. As a gesture of good will, Wilson added 2,000 acres of then-useless highland property, at the time, the Indiana Colony was a narrow strip of land between the Arroyo Seco and Fair Oaks Avenue
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Stepfan Taylor
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Stepfan Lee Taylor is an American football running back who is currently a free agent. He played college football for Stanford University, and became Stanfords all-time career leader in rushing yards and he was drafted by the Arizona Cardinals in the fifth round of the 2013 NFL Draft. Taylor rushed for a Mansfield High School school career record of 4,792 yards and 67 rushing touchdowns during his 3-year varsity career while also lettering in basketball and he graduated from Mansfield High School as part of the class of 2009. Taylor received a scholarship to attend Stanford University, where he played for coach Jim Harbaugh. During his freshman season, Taylor backed up Heisman contender Toby Gerhart, Taylor rushed for 303 yards and 2 touchdowns. As a sophomore, Taylor won the running back position. He became the player in Stanford history to rush for over 1,000 yards. He rushed for 1,137 yards and 15 touchdowns, while catching 28 passes for 226 yards and 1 touchdown, Taylor had 7 100-yard games, including 5 consecutive 100-yard games. He tied a record with 4 rushing touchdowns against Arizona. Taylor ran for 114 yards in Stanfords Orange Bowl victory, as a junior, Taylor recorded his second consecutive 1,000 yard season. He rushed for 1,330 yards and 10 touchdowns, while catching 25 passes for 182 yards and 2 touchdowns, taylors 1,330 yards were the second highest rushing total in Stanford history. Taylors biggest game of the year came when he ran for 177 yards and 2 touchdowns in the Fiesta Bowl, Taylor also set a school record with 45 career touchdowns. He ran for 100 or more yards in 8 of the 12 regular season games, Taylor was second on the team in receptions with 41 catches for 287 yards, with 2 touchdown catches. He ran for a career-high 189 yards against Cal to lead Stanford to a 21-3 victory in the 115th Big Game, on November 17, Taylor ran for 161 yards in Stanfords upset victory over #1 Oregon in Eugene. The following week, Taylor won the Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week award again for his performance against UCLA and he broke Nelsons career rushing record and tied Gerharts career TD record in the Pac-12 championship game against UCLA. Taylor was named the Offensive Player of the Game in the Rose Bowl after rushing for 88 yards, Taylor played sparingly in 2013, as he was behind Andre Ellington and Rashard Mendenhall on the depth chart. He finished his season with 115 yards on 36 carries. Taylor had a role in the Arizona offense in 2014
