Rose Bowl Hall of Fame
1999 Rose Bowl Game
2017 Inductee
Quarterback Cade McNown led UCLA to a then-record 538 yards of total offense against Wisconsin in the 1999 Rose Bowl Game, one of the highest scoring Rose Bowl Games at that time. He passed for 340 yards (then the fourth most in Rose Bowl Game history) and two touchdowns, but his Bruins lost to the Badgers and lost 38–31.
That season, McNown was named the Pac-10 Offensive Player of the Year and won the Pop Warner Memorial Trophy as the best senior on the West Coast and the Johnny Unitas Award as the nation’s top quarterback. He set Pac-10 career records (since surpassed) for passing yards (10,708) and total offense (11,285), and finished third in conference history with 68 touchdown passes.
McNown was selected by the Chicago Bears in the first round of the 1999 NFL Draft and spent four years in the league. He was inducted into the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame in 2009.
