Mary's, Santa Clara, and USC (in 1911) In 1915, Cal switched back to American football. During that time the times played under Union rules of rugby per an agreement between Stanford and Cal coaches along with other West coast teams, including Nevada, St. In 1906, citing concerns about the violence in football, both schools dropped football in favor of Rugby, which was played for the Big Games of 1906–14. To this day, the Thanksgiving Day Disaster remains the deadliest accident to kill spectators at a U.S.

In total 22 men, mostly boys, where killed with more than 100 severely injured. With somewhere between 600 to 1000 spectators a top it, the rooftop collapsed resulting in well over 100 men falling on to the factory's floor with more than 60 directly on to the massive, blazing furnace. File:Big game 1905.jpgĭuring the 1900 Big Game, played at the Recreation Park stadium on Thanksgiving Day in San Francisco, a large group of fans, were observing from the roof of the nearby S.F. Berkeley responded by shutting Stanford out in 18, and the sculpture was installed on the Berkeley campus atop a stone pedestal engraved with the names of the players and the donor during a dedication ceremony held May 12, 1900. Phelan purchased a casting of Douglas Tilden's The Football Players bronze sculpture and offered it as a prize to the school that could win the football game two years in a row. īy 1900 the match was already referred to as the 'Big Game.' In 1898, Berkeley alumnus and San Francisco Mayor James D. Hoover and Lang scrambled to find pots, bowls and any other available receptacles to collect the admission fees. Only 10,000 tickets were printed for the game but 20,000 people showed up. He helped organize the inaugural Big Game, along with his friend Cal manager Herbert Lang.

President Herbert Hoover was the student manager of both the baseball and football teams. While an undergraduate at Stanford, future U.S. Cal and Stanford teams that played the first Big Game in 1892īig Game is the oldest college football rivalry in the West.

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