Great Rose Bowl Hoax: Facts

Categories: Practical jokes | California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, California | Rose Bowl | Hoaxes in the United States

the Great Rose Bowl Hoax was a 1961 prank by students at the California Institute of Technology that was broadcast by NBC to an estimated 30 million viewers in the United States?
in a college prank televised across the United States, spectators at the 1961 Rose Bowl unknowingly displayed the word "CALTECH" in an altered card stunt instead of the nickname of one of the teams on the field?

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