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State held off the fifth-ranked Cardinal in the 100th Rose Bowl.
• Cook also threw a TD pass to Trevon Pendleton, and Jeremy Langford rushed for 84 yards and a score as the Spartans overcame their first double-digit deficit of the entire season before surging ahead late and preserving the lead with stalwart defense. Michigan State finished its breakthrough season with 10 straight wins, holding off the Pac-12 champion Cardinal (11-3) for the school's first Rose Bowl victory since 1988.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
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• Today is Thursday, Jan. 2, the second day of 2014. There are 363 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlights in History:
• On Jan. 2, 1974, President Richard Nixon signed legislation requiring states to limit highway speeds to 55 miles an hour as a way of conserving gasoline in the face of an OPEC oil embargo. (The 55 mph limit was effectively phased out in 1987; federal speed limits were abolished in 1995.) "Singing cowboy" star Tex Ritter died in Nashville at age 68.
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• On this date:
• In 1492, Muhammad XII, the sultan of Granada, the last Arab stronghold in Spain, surrendered to Spanish forces.
• In 1788, Georgia became the fourth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
• In 1893, the U.S. Postal Service issued its first commemorative stamp to honor the World's Columbian Expedition and the quadricentennial of Christopher Columbus' voyage.
• In 1900, Secretary of State John Hay announced the "Open Door Policy" to facilitate trade with China.
• In 1921, the play that coined the term "robot," ''R.U.R." (Rossum's Universal Robots) by Karel Capek, was first performed in Czechoslovakia.
• In 1935, Bruno Hauptmann went on trial in Flemington, N.J., on charges of kidnapping and murdering the 20-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. (Hauptmann was found guilty, and executed.)
• In 1942, the Philippine capital of Manila was captured by Japanese forces during (Continued on page 20)
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