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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.
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 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 ...
The University of California Rally Committee in possession of the axe during the 2010 Big Game. 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 ...
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.
After that game, Elway congratulated the Stanford Band trombone player that got run over in the end zone. Although Elway never led Stanford to a bowl game, he had an accomplished college career. In his four seasons (1979–1982), he completed 774 passes for 9,349 yards and 77 touchdowns. Stanford had a 20–23–1 (.466) record during his tenure.
Stanford Stadium was built in five months in 1921 and opened its gates on November 19, replacing Stanford Field. [12] The first game was against rival California, who defeated Stanford 42–7 in the Big Game. [13] Seating capacity was originally 60,000, with a 66-row, U-Shaped structure second only to the Yale Bowl in size at the time. [14]