Reviewing stands were built along the Parade route, and Eastern newspapers began to take notice of the event. In , the Tournament of Roses Association was formed to take charge of the festival, which had grown too large for the Valley Hunt Club to handle. Stanford University accepted the invitation to take on the powerhouse University of Michigan, but the West Coast team was flattened and gave up in the third quarter. The lopsided score prompted the Tournament to give up football in favor of Roman-style chariot races.
In , football returned to stay. The Tournament of Roses has come a long way since its early days. The Rose Parade's elaborate floats now feature high-tech computerized animation and exotic natural materials from around the world.
Although a few floats are still built exclusively by volunteers from their sponsoring communities, most are built by professional float building companies and take nearly a year to construct.
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