[81alum]

Let's be clear about this.  The regular season is a mediocre 5-5 season, with another game to be played at UCLA.

The Big Game season has just started.  I hope to be undefeated in Big Game season.  Winning Big Game season will not greatly improve the regular season, but it is a worthy goal, worthy of a hundred years of tradition, the excitement of all those frosh who are even now learning about the excitement of Big Game week, the excitement of fifth year seniors who can graduate without ever giving up the Axe.

Wake up!  These are things worth celebrating and worth fighting for!  We love Stanford football because Stanford football is unique and is NOT like the football factories who take winning (and cheating) for granted.  Part of what makes us unique are these idiosyncratic traditions--it is NOT all about the record and the bowl, as much as those things are desirable and wonderful when they work out well.  It is ALSO about being the nation's top private university fielding a team of students to play against the nation's top public university after a week of zany hundred year old traditions.

Go Stanford!  Beat C.al!   

[81alum]

Let's be clear about this.  The regular season is a mediocre 5-5 season, with another game to be played at UCLA.

The Big Game season has just started.  I hope to be undefeated in Big Game season.  Winning Big Game season will not greatly improve the regular season, but it is a worthy goal, worthy of a hundred years of tradition, the excitement of all those frosh who are even now learning about the excitement of Big Game week, the excitement of fifth year seniors who can graduate without ever giving up the Axe.

Wake up!  These are things worth celebrating and worth fighting for!  We love Stanford football because Stanford football is unique and is NOT like the football factories who take winning (and cheating) for granted.  Part of what makes us unique are these idiosyncratic traditions--it is NOT all about the record and the bowl, as much as those things are desirable and wonderful when they work out well.  It is ALSO about being the nation's top private university fielding a team of students to play against the nation's top public university after a week of zany hundred year old traditions.

Go Stanford!  Beat C.al!