[JJJ]

Two stick out in my mind:

Big Game 1987 halftime show - "101 things you can do with a Cal Bandsman" (back when gender-specific terms were acceptable). I think my favorites were making one into a bollard and the other was launching the Weenie at the rotten fruit instead of the other way around

Big Game 1986 (?) halftime - Band drove an RC buggy through the Cal halftime show with red smoke bombs on it. Weenies got out of formation trying to knock it over and kept missing. One of them finally hit it and the Weenies cheered wildly. Then our driver hit the button for auto recovery and kept driving it through the band, and the Stanford fans cheered wildly.

It was before my time at Stanford, but (I've heard that) the 1975 LSJUMB Big Game show debuted the Tree mascot. Perhaps someone even older than I can fill in the details?

I trust you've seen this recent posting from Stanford Alumni on FB?

"The Stanford Tree, which made its debut in 1975 during the Big Game against the University of California, Berkeley, is the mascot of the Stanford Band – not of the university."

"The Band proposed a “tree theme” on a lark in 1975, four years after the Stanford “Indians” became the “Cardinal” – the color, not the bird – leaving the university without a mascot.
During the Big Game program that year, the Band adopted a tree theme for the halftime program. A “tree queen” was carried in on a wooden platform, surrounded by flower-tossing “wood nymphs” and accompanied by the first Tree, Christina “Chris” Hutson, an undergraduate biology major.
Hutson and a friend had stayed up all night creating the costume – using a bed sheet, a hula hoop, a large chunk of wood wedged into a scuba backpack and a 2-foot-tall Styrofoam cone. The first Tree was covered in construction paper leaves – red in deference to the towering redwood on the university seal.
“It was supposed to be a spoof on mascots, not the real thing,” two former Band members told Stanford magazine in the 2000 article, “Hey, At Least It’s Not a Chicken.”
But the Tree proved popular, and the mascot was born.
Hutson, who later spray-painted the costume green, continued performing as the Tree the following year while earning a master’s degree in biology. That was the year that “Oski,” the Cal Bears’ mascot, tackled her."



http://news.stanford.edu/2018/04/11/reti...n-library/

[JJJ]

Two stick out in my mind:

Big Game 1987 halftime show - "101 things you can do with a Cal Bandsman" (back when gender-specific terms were acceptable). I think my favorites were making one into a bollard and the other was launching the Weenie at the rotten fruit instead of the other way around

Big Game 1986 (?) halftime - Band drove an RC buggy through the Cal halftime show with red smoke bombs on it. Weenies got out of formation trying to knock it over and kept missing. One of them finally hit it and the Weenies cheered wildly. Then our driver hit the button for auto recovery and kept driving it through the band, and the Stanford fans cheered wildly.

It was before my time at Stanford, but (I've heard that) the 1975 LSJUMB Big Game show debuted the Tree mascot. Perhaps someone even older than I can fill in the details?

I trust you've seen this recent posting from Stanford Alumni on FB?

"The Stanford Tree, which made its debut in 1975 during the Big Game against the University of California, Berkeley, is the mascot of the Stanford Band – not of the university."

"The Band proposed a “tree theme” on a lark in 1975, four years after the Stanford “Indians” became the “Cardinal” – the color, not the bird – leaving the university without a mascot.
During the Big Game program that year, the Band adopted a tree theme for the halftime program. A “tree queen” was carried in on a wooden platform, surrounded by flower-tossing “wood nymphs” and accompanied by the first Tree, Christina “Chris” Hutson, an undergraduate biology major.
Hutson and a friend had stayed up all night creating the costume – using a bed sheet, a hula hoop, a large chunk of wood wedged into a scuba backpack and a 2-foot-tall Styrofoam cone. The first Tree was covered in construction paper leaves – red in deference to the towering redwood on the university seal.
“It was supposed to be a spoof on mascots, not the real thing,” two former Band members told Stanford magazine in the 2000 article, “Hey, At Least It’s Not a Chicken.”
But the Tree proved popular, and the mascot was born.
Hutson, who later spray-painted the costume green, continued performing as the Tree the following year while earning a master’s degree in biology. That was the year that “Oski,” the Cal Bears’ mascot, tackled her."



http://news.stanford.edu/2018/04/11/reti...n-library/