The Big Game

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The "Big Game" is the annual football game between Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley (known simply as "California" or "Cal"), held in November. The first Big Game was held in March 19, 1892 on San Francisco's Haight Street grounds when Stanford beat Cal 14-10. It is the tenth longest rivalry in NCAA Division 1A football. Through 2005, Stanford leads the series record at 54-43-11 (wins-losses-ties; 49-40-10 if you do not include rugby games from 1906 to 1914). California has won the past four games (2002-2005), but Stanford won the previous seven meetings (1995-2001). The location of the game alternates between the two schools each year. In even numbered years, the game is played at Berkeley, in odd numbered years, at Stanford. Image File history File links Stanfordcal. ... United States simply as football, is a competitive team sport that is both fast-paced and strategic. ... Stanford redirects here. ... The University of California, Berkeley (also known as UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, and by other names, see below) is the oldest and flagship campus of the ten-campus University of California system. ... March 19 is the 78th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (79th in leap years). ... 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Nickname: The City by the Bay; Fog City Location of the City and County of San Francisco, California Coordinates: City-County San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom Area    - City 122 km²  (47 sq mi)  - Land 121. ... A sports rivalry is intense competition between two athletic teams. ... A college football game between Colorado State University and the Air Force Academy. ...

It is the biggest college football event in the Bay Area, and has a rich history. Future U.S. President Herbert Hoover was the Stanford team manager for the first Big Game. The first-ever card stunts were performed at the halftime of the 1910 Big Game. Since 1933, the victor of the game has been granted possession of the Stanford Axe. If the game ended in a tie, the Axe stayed on the side that already possessed it; however, college football games can no longer end in ties. The Axe is a key part of the rich history, having been stolen on several occasions by both sides. USGS Satellite photo of the San Francisco Bay Area. ... Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964), the 31st President of the United States (1929-1933), was a successful mining engineer, humanitarian, and administrator. ... The Stanford Axe is a trophy awarded to the winner of the annual Big Game between the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University. ...

In the week before the game, both schools celebrate the occasion with rallies, reunions and luncheons. Cal students hold a traditional pep rally and bonfire at the Greek Theatre on the eve of the game, while Stanford students stage the Gaieties, a theatrical production that both celebrates and pokes fun at the rivalry. The week also includes various other athletic events including The Big Splash (water polo) and The Big Freeze (ice hockey). The overall athletic rivalry between the schools has been solidifed into The Lexus Gauntlet, an annual award given to the school winning the most rivalries and championships under a point system. Water polo is a team water sport, which can be best described as a combination of swimming, football (soccer), basketball, ice hockey, rugby and wrestling. ... Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ...

Big Game has produced several cliffhangers, where the outcome of the game was decided on the final play. In 1972, a Vince Ferragamo touchdown pass to Steve Sweeney resulted in a last second Cal victory, while Mike Langford nailed a 50 yard field goal on the final play for a 22-20 Stanford triumph in 1974. Stanford's Tuan Van Le blocked a 21 yard Cal field goal attempt to preserve a 19-19 tie in 1988, and Stanford scored a touchdown and field goal in the final 16 seconds to snatch victory in 1990. In 2000 Stanford's Casey Moore caught the winning touchdown on the final play of the first-ever Big Game to go into overtime. A cliffhanger or cliffhanger ending is a plot device in which a movie, novel, or other work of fiction contains an abrupt ending, often leaving the main characters in a precarious or difficult situation. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Vince Ferragamo (born April 24, 1954 in Torrance, California) was an American football quarterback from the late 1970s through the mid-1980s. ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... A field goal (formerly goal from the field) is a general term used in some sports wherein a goal may be scored either during general play (from the field) or via some sort of free shot. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Overtime is the amount of time someone works beyond normal working hours; these may be determined in several ways, by custom (what is considered healthy or reasonable by society), by practices of a given trade or profession, by legislation, or by agreement between employers and workers or their representatives. ...

However, the conclusion of the 85th Big Game on November 20, 1982 would go down as perhaps the greatest play in college football history. In what is now known simply as The Play, four Cal players lateraled the ball five times on a kickoff return with four seconds left on the clock. The final ballcarrier ran for a touchdown through the Stanford Band, which had run onto the field to celebrate prematurely (although the game clock had run out of time, the game could not end until the ball was dead). The Play is often recounted with KGO radio announcer Joe Starkey's emotional call of The Play, which he hailed as "the most amazing, sensational, dramatic, heartrending, exciting, thrilling finish in the history of college football!" The legitimacy of The Play has remained controversial among some Stanford fans. To this day, the final score in the official record shows Cal winning by a score of 25-20, whereas in many Stanford publications it is recorded as Stanford 20, Cal 19. November 20 is the 324th day of the year (325th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The last lateral of The Play; Stanford Band seen at right. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... KGO-AM is an ABC/Disney owned radio station operating out of San Francisco, CA. It operates on 810 khz with 50,000 watts of power, permitting it to be heard throughout the western United States and beyond. ... Joe Starkey. ...

Big Game Results

Rally Committee running Cal flags across the field at Memorial Stadium during the 2002 Big Game. (Note the Stanford visitors section on the left and the Cal alumni section on the right.)

Big Game 2004

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• 2006
• 2005 California 27, Stanford 3
• 2004 Stanford 6, California 41
• 2003 California 28, Stanford 16
• 2002 Stanford 7, California 30
• 2001 California 28, Stanford 35
• 2000 Stanford 36, California 30 (first overtime game in series)
• 1999 California 13, Stanford 31
• 1998 Stanford 10, California 3
• 1997 California 20, Stanford 21
• 1996 Stanford 42, California 21
• 1995 California 24, Stanford 29
• 1994 Stanford 23, California 24
• 1993 California 46, Stanford 17
• 1992 Stanford 41, California 21
• 1991 California 21, Stanford 38
• 1990 Stanford 27, California 25 (fourth cliffhanger)
• 1989 California 14, Stanford 24
• 1988 Stanford 19, California 19 (tie)
• 1987 California 7, Stanford 31
• 1986 Stanford 11, California 17
• 1985 California 22, Stanford 24
• 1984 Stanford 27, California 10
• 1983 California 27, Stanford 18
• 1982 Stanford 20, California 25 (see above regarding "The Play"; third cliffhanger)
• 1981 California 21, Stanford 42
• 1980 Stanford 23, California 28
• 1979 California 21, Stanford 14
• 1978 Stanford 30, California 10
• 1977 California 3, Stanford 21
• 1976 Stanford 27, California 24
• 1975 California 48, Stanford 15
• 1974 Stanford 22, California 20 (second cliffhanger)
• 1973 California 17, Stanford 26
• 1972 Stanford 21, California 24 (first cliffhanger)
• 1971 California 0, Stanford 14
• 1970 Stanford 14, California 22
• 1969 California 28, Stanford 29
• 1968 Stanford 20, California 0
• 1967 California 26, Stanford 3
• 1966 Stanford 13, California 7
• 1965 California 7, Stanford 9
• 1964 Stanford 21, California 3
• 1963 California 17, Stanford 28
• 1962 Stanford 30, California 13
• 1961 California 7, Stanford 20
• 1960 Stanford 10, California 21
• 1959 California 20, Stanford 17
• 1958 Stanford 15, California 16
• 1957 California 12, Stanford 14
• 1956 Stanford 18, California 20
• 1955 California 0, Stanford 19
• 1954 Stanford 20, California 28
• 1953 California 21, Stanford 21 (tie)
• 1952 Stanford 0, California 26
• 1951 California 20, Stanford 7
• 1950 Stanford 7, California 7 (tie)
• 1949 California 33, Stanford 14
• 1948 Stanford 6, California 7
• 1947 California 21, Stanford 18
• 1946 Stanford 25, California 6
• 1945 No Game -- World War II
• 1944 No Game -- World War II
• 1943 No Game -- World War II
• 1942 Stanford 26, California 7
• 1941 California 16, Stanford 0
• 1940 Stanford 13, California 7
• 1939 California 32, Stanford 14
• 1938 Stanford 0, California 6
• 1937 California 13, Stanford 0
• 1936 Stanford 0, California 20
• 1935 California 0, Stanford 13
• 1934 Stanford 9, California 7
• 1933 California 3, Stanford 7
• 1932 Stanford 0, California 0 (tie)
• 1931 California 6, Stanford 0
• 1930 Stanford 41, California 0
• 1929 California 6, Stanford 21
• 1928 Stanford 13, California 13 (tie)
• 1927 California 6, Stanford 13
• 1926 Stanford 41, California 6
• 1925 California 14, Stanford 27
• 1924 Stanford 20, California 20 (tie)
• 1923 Stanford 0, California 9
• 1922 California 28, Stanford 0
• 1921 California 42, Stanford 7
• 1920 Stanford 7, California 38
• 1919 California 14, Stanford 10
• 1918 (unofficial) Stanford 0, California 67 - Student Army Training Corps (SATC) teams
• 1917 No Game
• 1916 No Game
• 1915 No Game
• 1914 (Rugby) Stanford 36, California 8
• 1913 (Rugby) California 8, Stanford 13
• 1912 (Rugby) Stanford 3, California 3 (tie)
• 1911 (Rugby) California 21, Stanford 3
• 1910 (Rugby) Stanford 6, California 25
• 1909 (Rugby) California 19, Stanford 13
• 1908 (Rugby) Stanford 12, California 3
• 1907 (Rugby) California 11, Stanford 21
• 1906 (Rugby) Stanford 6, California 3
• 1905 California 5, Stanford 12
• 1904 Stanford 18, California 0
• 1903 (at San Francisco) California 6, Stanford 6 (tie)
• 1902 (at San Francisco) Stanford 0, California 16
• 1901 (at San Francisco) California 2, Stanford 0
• 1900 (at San Francisco) Stanford 5, California 0
• 1899 (at San Francisco) California 30, Stanford 0
• 1898 (at San Francisco) Stanford 0, California 22
• 1897 (at San Francisco) California 0, Stanford 28
• 1896 (at San Francisco) Stanford 20, California 0
• 1895 (at San Francisco) California 6, Stanford 6 (tie)
• 1894 (at San Francisco) Stanford 6, California 0
• 1893 (at San Francisco) California 6, Stanford 6 (tie)
• 1892 (at San Francisco) Stanford 10, California 10 (tie)
• 1892-Spring (at San Francisco) California 10, Stanford 14

Cal Bonfire Rally

The Cal 'Bonfire Rally is a pep and bonfire rally that takes place at University of California in Hearst Greek Theatre on the eve of the Big Game. Many students gather to hear the history about the The Stanford Axe and the Big Game. Several alumni show up to perform traditional rituals. One of those rituals is unique to any college in the US. A Cal alum comes onto the stage and does a Maori "Haka" or a war dance/chant that was originally used by the Maori warriors against their foes. The Haka performed is the Haka made famous by the New Zealand Rugby Team the "All Blacks" called Kamate. Throughout, a big bonfire lights up the theatre setting temperatures sky high. ^{[citation needed]} The William Randolph Hearst Greek Theatre, known locally as simply the Greek Theatre, is an 8,500-seat amphitheater owned and operated by the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California, USA. The Greek Theatre hosts pop, rock, and world music concerts, UC Berkeley graduation ceremonies, occasional addresses by noted... The Stanford Axe is a trophy awarded to the winner of the annual Big Game between the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University. ...

Trivia

Scenes for the Harold Lloyd silent classic The Freshman were filmed at California Memorial Stadium during halftime of the 1924 Big Game. Harold Clayton Lloyd (April 20, 1893–March 8, 1971) was an American actor and film maker, most famous for his hugely successful and influential silent film comedies. ... The Freshman is a 1925 comedy film that tells the story of a nerdy college freshman trying to become popular by joining the school football team. ... Officially named California Memorial Stadium, Memorial Stadium is the current home for Cal football. ...

See also

• The Play

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External links

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Big Game

• Big Game scores
• Stanford Magazine feature on Big Game
• The Play
• Transcript of Joe Starkey's call of the Play
• Discussion about the filming of 1925 film, The Freshman at the Big Game

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