[Maple Leaf]

Sporting Green front page article on Stanford and Shaw. Shaw’s non responsive response to reporters, recruiting disadvantages, underperforming recruits, etc. Shaw probably reading it with his little shit eating grin on.

Curious about the Chron's the use of green paper for Sports section of the newspaper.  Anybody knows the history behind this?

The green paper started in the early 1900’s as a tool in the circulation wars of those days.  They stopped using actual green paper about 50 years ago, because of costs and the new use of color pictures.  For years, they just put a splash on green of the first sports page.  About 20 years ago, with modern color printing technology, they used green ink to return the first sports page to green.

(In the old days, the pink section of the Chronicle was printed on pink paper.

I still have one of the old Saturday's Chron on Big Game Day. All green and featured Bill Leiser's BG chronology. He leaned a bit toward Stanford amid a staff who bled Blue. Probably eight pages of BG facts and features. It was the sports event of the year in the Bay Area. Now hardly anybody cares.

....who does not seem to care very well includes the administration at both schools, not only about the Big Game but about anything other than research grants, awards, publications and getting hook, line and sinker into the big donor pool.  The article in the Chron mentions Don Cook a former QB who played under Ralston, and who was not attending games at the present time for the obvious reasons.  I have gotten to know two former Cal back up qb's one was in school the same time as Cook, the other about 8 years later, both do not go to Cal games at the current time for the same reasons.

[Maple Leaf]

Sporting Green front page article on Stanford and Shaw. Shaw’s non responsive response to reporters, recruiting disadvantages, underperforming recruits, etc. Shaw probably reading it with his little shit eating grin on.

Curious about the Chron's the use of green paper for Sports section of the newspaper.  Anybody knows the history behind this?

The green paper started in the early 1900’s as a tool in the circulation wars of those days.  They stopped using actual green paper about 50 years ago, because of costs and the new use of color pictures.  For years, they just put a splash on green of the first sports page.  About 20 years ago, with modern color printing technology, they used green ink to return the first sports page to green.

(In the old days, the pink section of the Chronicle was printed on pink paper.

I still have one of the old Saturday's Chron on Big Game Day. All green and featured Bill Leiser's BG chronology. He leaned a bit toward Stanford amid a staff who bled Blue. Probably eight pages of BG facts and features. It was the sports event of the year in the Bay Area. Now hardly anybody cares.

....who does not seem to care very well includes the administration at both schools, not only about the Big Game but about anything other than research grants, awards, publications and getting hook, line and sinker into the big donor pool.  The article in the Chron mentions Don Cook a former QB who played under Ralston, and who was not attending games at the present time for the obvious reasons.  I have gotten to know two former Cal back up qb's one was in school the same time as Cook, the other about 8 years later, both do not go to Cal games at the current time for the same reasons.