A Look Back: Big Game horror in 1900 was quickly forgotten

The "Big Game" was already a major rivalry by that year, when Stanford and Cal battled for bragging rights on a sports field in San Francisco's Mission District (neither campus yet had a stadium big enough to accommodate the large crowds for the game). You can read [Sam Scott]'s...

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Published inOakland tribune (Oakland, Calif. 1991)
Main Author Steve Finacom Berkeley Historical Society
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oakland, Calif Bay Area News Group 18.11.2015
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Scott, Sam
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Summary:The "Big Game" was already a major rivalry by that year, when Stanford and Cal battled for bragging rights on a sports field in San Francisco's Mission District (neither campus yet had a stadium big enough to accommodate the large crowds for the game). You can read [Sam Scott]'s story, "The Big Game Disaster 1900" on the Stanford Magazine page at alumni.stanford.edu. Cal alumnus and former Daily Cal journalist Joe Eskenazi also described the disaster in detail in the Aug. 15, 2012, issue of the San Francisco Weekly. That article is also available online. In Big Game news from 75 years ago, the Berkeley Daily Gazette reported on Nov. 20, 1940, that Stanford students rejected a proposal from Cal to have student body presidents from each campus use the same torch to light the Big Game bonfire at the rival school. Stanford's student executive committee said "it would be like having California's football captain score our first touchdown. Let's have none of this exchange business."
ISSN:1068-5936