The UCLA Bruins football program represents the University of California, Los Angeles, in college football as members of the Big Ten Conference at the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) level. The Bruins play their home games off campus at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.
Fred Cozens, UCLA's first head football coach
Jackie Robinson (who broke baseball's color barrier) played on the Bruins from 1939 to 1940
Bruin RB Johnny Hermann catching a pass in a 1955 game against Oregon State
Coach Dick Vermeil was inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2022.
The Rose Bowl is an outdoor athletic stadium located in Pasadena, California. Opened in October 1922, the stadium is recognized as a National Historic Landmark and a California Historic Civil Engineering landmark. At a modern capacity of an all-seated configuration at 92,542, the Rose Bowl is the 16th-largest stadium in the world, the 11th-largest stadium in the United States, and the 10th-largest NCAA stadium. The stadium is 10 miles (16 km) northeast of downtown Los Angeles.
Aerial view from south in 2018
Panorama in October 2004, hosting Arizona
Construction in 1921; note the original horseshoe shape
Exterior of the Rose Bowl stadium before the renovation