Dick Tomey Legacy Game
The Dick Tomey Legacy Game is the name given to the Hawaiʻi–San José State football rivalry. It is a college football rivalry between the Hawaiʻi Rainbow Warriors football team of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and the San José State Spartans football team of San José State University. Since 1936, the two teams have played each other 46 times. Beginning in 2019 the winner of the game receives the Dick Tomey Legacy Trophy. As of 2023, San Jose State leads, 23–22–1. Historical overview The series between San José State and Hawaiʻi began in 1936 with a game in Honolulu, which San José State won 13–8. Two years later in 1938, Hawaiʻi won their first game of the series, a 13–12 victory in Honolulu. In 1941, the San José State Spartans football team served unexpectedly with the Honolulu Police Department during World War II. The team had just arrived in Hawaii to play a series of postseason bowl games, known as the Shrine Bowl, against the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors and the Willamette University Bearcats when the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941. The team was stranded on the islands for a number of weeks