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Re: Game thread - CornFed - 09-19-2015

Just want to thank martyup for excellent visual accompaniment for this game thread.  Let's all give him a round of applause.  [golf clap].

Re: Game thread - martyup - 09-19-2015

(09-19-2015, 09:38 PM)CornFed link Wrote:Just want to thank martyup for excellent visual accompaniment for this game thread.  Let's all give him a round of applause.  [golf clap].

That was fun.  Pictures say 1000 words.  After this game, I've resurrected my avatar.  GO CARD!

Re: Game thread - Mick - 09-20-2015

(09-19-2015, 09:05 PM)Yvonne link Wrote:[quote author=socalstanfan1 link=topic=12838.msg129420#msg129420 date=1442720893]
Never have I been so happy to eat a ton of crow.  Two weeks ago I was among those calling for a change in the coaching staff to improve play calling.  (Note, I never called for Shaw to be removed, as I believe he has great strengths as a coach in recruiting, leadership role modeling, and staff management; I just questioned whether the play calling would best be handled by others).  But I honestly cannot criticize any of the play calling or execution today.  First day with a runner going over 100 yards in, well, forever.  Solid pass protection, efficient management and big plays in critical situations by Hogan.  Great performance, and suddenly that Northwestern game looks more like an aberration.  Here is hoping we don't have a of exceedingly large proportions let-down next week, and can build on this performance. 

More crow, please.



Good for you. I'm looking forward to — but not holding my breath for — words from a couple of others.
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I didn't realize it was mandatory... :D  I ate my crow in another thread.  Happily, I took Stanford in my weekly pool.

Re: Game thread - ChicagoCard - 09-20-2015

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Re: Game thread - BostonCard - 09-20-2015

(09-20-2015, 06:24 AM)ChicagoVisitor link Wrote:[tweet]645426565543669760[/tweet]

Pissing myself laughing, as my aussie friends would say.

BC

Re: Game thread - Stymie - 09-21-2015

Thank you all Cardboard members and friends.  I was in an internet free zone on Saturday and I waited until today to find broadband, and what a great wake up call for me!  I promise to never again follow the Trees on my laptop.  Great posts and a GREAT result!

Re: Game thread - teejers1 - 09-21-2015

Props to Martyup for the visuals, and I can only imagine him "working it" during the ebb and flow of the game.  I laughed out loud reading this entire thread.

Still haven't seen the SC game, but plan to watch replay tonight.  470+ yards is very, very good (and comes on heels of 490+ yard game against UCF).  Encouraging, no doubt.

But as BC said, SC is but one game.  Many more to go.

Must avoid or at least minimize (almost inevitable) let down against the Beavers on a short week.

Re: Game thread - JJJ - 09-21-2015

I don't know if you saw/heard this, but a friend of mine at the game posted this comment (and a short video which can't be shared due to privacy settings):

"I thought it very cool that the players decided to sing Hail Stanford Hail. They looked around a decided they would do it without the Band. They sang to the fans."

Re: Game thread - Bruce Wang - 09-21-2015

Just watched the replay.  At the end there were a couple nice moments I missed at a noisy and joyfully chaotic ame watch.  One was Hogan having an emotional moment by himself.  Second was I think Wright making the exact same exclamation I made.  Was that on national broadcast?!

Re: Game thread - dabigv13 - 09-21-2015

They showed the Hail, Stanford, Hail, and I was impressed....I never knew the words myself...

Re: Game thread - JJJ - 09-21-2015

(09-21-2015, 09:18 PM)dabigv link Wrote:They showed the Hail, Stanford, Hail, and I was impressed....I never knew the words myself...

Thanks. The one time I forget to set the DVR while attending a viewing party...

Apparently it made more than a couple of people misty-eyed. (And I always need to read the cheat sheet for the words too.)

Re: Game thread - dabigv13 - 09-21-2015

Well if it makes you feel better it was just maybe 10 seconds of panning. Still cool though.

Re: Game thread - winflop - 09-21-2015

(09-21-2015, 09:18 PM)dabigv link Wrote:They showed the Hail, Stanford, Hail, and I was impressed....I never knew the words myself...

http://www.fightmusic.com/lyrics/pac12_stanford.html

Usually only the first verse & refrain are sung.  TBH I didn't know there was more than that.

Re: Game thread - JJJ - 09-21-2015

I'm sure some of you guys have seen this version, courtesy of Brad Lawson, member of 2010 National Champion VB team:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hORla11KOqQ

Re: Game thread - FarmBoy - 09-22-2015

Quote:"I thought it very cool that the players decided to sing Hail Stanford Hail. They looked around a decided they would do it without the Band. They sang to the fans."

Very cool. The TV broadcast did show the players lined up, arm in arm, singing. I didn't even consider they were doing it without the band.

That's a tradition Harbaugh started, right? I don't remember the team and band doing that during my time on The Farm. The band would rock out for a while after the game and then play HSH, but I don't remember the team ever joining in. Does the tradition go further back than that or have earlier roots?

Re: Game thread - 81alum - 09-22-2015

I never heard HSH as a student from 1977-81.  Not once.  Then again, I missed convocation. 

I did hear Come Join the Band a couple of times, and even my UC Berk.eley Mom knew that song.  The Band played it (and still does) in obligatory fashion at half time.

Sometime during the many years I was away this 1893 hymn-like piece became popular again.  I suspect it was the Fleet Street Singers' version that brought back its popularity.  See this Daily article in 1989:

http://stanforddailyarchive.com/cgi-bin/stanford?a=d&d=stanford19890607-01.2.143

But the Mendicants were around for much longer.  I do not know if they beat Fleet Street to the punch.  I presume so, but don't know.

Fleet Street did not exist when I was a student--it was founded in my graduation year.  But A Cappella groups rose dramatically in popularity over the next generation, and by the early 2000s the a cappella groups were in demand at reunions and alumni events.  (See this to understand how competitive it has become to get into one of the many a cappella groups at Stanford now:  https://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=34932  The real breakthrough came with this advertisement in 2003-4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aH1aTS1P1sY&feature=player_embedded

This ad won awards and reintroduced the song to countless alums who had rarely heard it.  I wonder if it features Fleet Street or the Mendicants or someone else?  My guess is Fleet Street.

Harbaugh came in 2007 so by then the song had been re-popularized.  I do not know at what point the Band began playing it at football games.  Perhaps he had a role with that.



Re: Game thread - 81alum - 09-22-2015

(09-22-2015, 05:53 AM)garvin link Wrote:
Quote:I never heard HSH as a student from 1977-81.  Not once.

The LSJUMB always played it after football games when I was a student from 1971 to 1975. But the players never came out to sing along, and not many other people did, either. The only ones who sang were what I then considered "older" fans (probably 40 and up). None of us students knew the lyrics aside from the line, Hail, Stanford, hail.

Come Join The Band, on the other hand, was pretty popular. I don't remember anybody singing along, but everybody knew the melody and clapped in rhythm.
It is possible that they were playing it after games when I was there...but since I would not have recognized it or known what it was, it may not have registered.  It has certainly gained in importance to Stanford culture over the last few decades.

Re: Game thread - 2 for 2028 - 09-22-2015

During an orientation event at Frost in 1992 Fleet Street came on and song half of it in the original style and then switched to their modern take.  I do not recall ever hearing it again while I was a student.

Re: Game thread - Stymie - 09-22-2015

I was in the Glee Club 64-65, and when performing, we always ended with a medley consisting of "Sons of the Stanford Red--Come Join the Band--The Alma Mater."  Always brought tears to the alums.

Re: Game thread - yvonne - 09-22-2015

Wow! It's hard to imagine that there were alumni back then!

;)