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The Big Game [2] is the name given to the California–Stanford football rivalry. [3] [4] It is an American college football rivalry game played by the California Golden Bears football team of the University of California, Berkeley and the Stanford Cardinal football team of Stanford University.
The following is a list of Pac-12 Rivalry games. The first rivalry game played was the Big Game between Cal & Stanford on March 19, 1892, with Stanford winning 14−10. The winner of the Duel in the Desert receives the Territorial Cup which the NCAA has certified as the oldest rivalry trophy in college football.
The incumbent Stanford band manager now annually passes his or her position to the new manager with 4 seconds left in the Stanford–Cal game. [14] Whenever Stanford holds the Stanford Axe, the plaque is altered in protest so that the outcome reads as a 20–19 Stanford victory. When the Axe is returned to Cal's possession, the plaque is ...
Every year since 1892, the University of California, Berkeley and the Stanford University football teams have played an annual game towards the end of November or the beginning of December. [3] The event has become known as The Big Game. The early games in the series were played in San Francisco. Those games suffered at least two calamities.
The five Cal students were all members of the Mu chapter of Theta Chi fraternity, and drove to the campus of Stanford University as part of a brotherhood activity. Their initial intent was to steal signs from the campus, as was a common prank in the lead-up to the Big Game, the annual football game between Cal and Stanford.
The Stanford Axe is a trophy awarded to the winner of the annual Big Game, a college football match-up between the University of California, Berkeley Golden Bears and the Stanford Cardinal. The trophy consists of an axe-head mounted on a large wooden plaque, along with the scores of past Big Games.
At home for the Big Game, Cal upset #11 Stanford 22–14, [3] [4] the Pac-8 champion led by Heisman Trophy winner Jim Plunkett. On New Year's Day, Stanford upset undefeated Ohio State in the Rose Bowl and quarterback Plunkett was the first pick in the 1971 NFL draft.
In a 63–13 victory, #10 Stanford broke the record for most points scored in a Big Game and for the largest margin of victory. With the victory, Stanford clinched the Pac-12 North Division Championship while Cal ended their season at 1–11, the most losses in one season in Cal football history. [17]