Rose Bowl Hall of Fame
1925 Rose Bowl Game
1991 Inductee
“Ernie Nevers was the backbone of my first Rose Bowl team at Stanford,” head coach Pop Warner said.
Nevers established a Rose Bowl Game single-game rushing record in 1925, running for 114 yards on 34 carries against Notre Dame. He also played on nearly 80 percent of Stanford’s defensive plays, even though he had casts taken off both of his broken ankles just 10 days earlier.
Despite Nevers’ heroic efforts, Stanford lost the game to head coach Knute Rockne and Notre Dame’s Four Horsemen 27–10. Nevers was still selected as a co-Player of the Game with Notre Dame fullback Elmer Layden.
Nevers went on to play professional baseball before beginning his professional football career. He holds the NFL record for points in a game, scoring six touchdowns and kicking four extra points in the Chicago Cardinals’ 40–6 victory over the Chicago Bears in 1929. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1963. Nevers died in 1976.
