[Canalejas]

For some reason the LSJUMB stories that stick in my mind, except for The Play of course, involve other opponents.  What was the best show in a Big Game, though?

[Canalejas]

For some reason the LSJUMB stories that stick in my mind, except for The Play of course, involve other opponents.  What was the best show in a Big Game, though?

[PalmTree]

For some reason the LSJUMB stories that stick in my mind, except for The Play of course, involve other opponents.  What was the best show in a Big Game, though?

I still fondly remember one of the LSJUMB BG formations back when Steve Bartkowski was the QB for kal.  He was in a hot and heavy relationship with a stewardess at the time, which even garnered a mention by Herb Caen in the Comical.  Her initials were KA and the only reason I remember that is because, toward the end of their show,  the Band helter-skeltered their way into a formation that read,

S BEAT CAL

Not sure what song they were playing but as they kept playing, they morphed the formation into <avert your eyes now if you're easily offended>,

SB EAT KA!

and I've referred to Da Bearz as kal ever since.  I'm pretty sure this was at a home game so it had to be either the 75 or 77 BG, and I'm also not sure if it was for the pregame or the half-time show.

[PalmTree]

For some reason the LSJUMB stories that stick in my mind, except for The Play of course, involve other opponents.  What was the best show in a Big Game, though?

I still fondly remember one of the LSJUMB BG formations back when Steve Bartkowski was the QB for kal.  He was in a hot and heavy relationship with a stewardess at the time, which even garnered a mention by Herb Caen in the Comical.  Her initials were KA and the only reason I remember that is because, toward the end of their show,  the Band helter-skeltered their way into a formation that read,

S BEAT CAL

Not sure what song they were playing but as they kept playing, they morphed the formation into <avert your eyes now if you're easily offended>,

SB EAT KA!

and I've referred to Da Bearz as kal ever since.  I'm pretty sure this was at a home game so it had to be either the 75 or 77 BG, and I'm also not sure if it was for the pregame or the half-time show.

[winflop]

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.

[winflop]

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.

[Papa John]

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?

[Papa John]

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?

[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/

[winflop]

What does a robber baron look like anyway???

[winflop]

What does a robber baron look like anyway???

[82lsju]

What does a robber baron look like anyway???

some would say



others

[82lsju]

What does a robber baron look like anyway???

some would say



others

[Leftcoast]

Was the GaryT redemption show at Big Game?  

This show was in 1983 and started out with Gary wearing a full body cast in a wheelchair with the band forming a big arrow pointed directly at him.  As the show continued the band blames him for all kinds of evil including the infamous play.   It ended with a reenactment where Gary gets out of the chair and performs a game saving tackle.  Redemption!

If it wasn't at Big Game it should have been!

[Leftcoast]

Was the GaryT redemption show at Big Game?  

This show was in 1983 and started out with Gary wearing a full body cast in a wheelchair with the band forming a big arrow pointed directly at him.  As the show continued the band blames him for all kinds of evil including the infamous play.   It ended with a reenactment where Gary gets out of the chair and performs a game saving tackle.  Redemption!

If it wasn't at Big Game it should have been!

[Mick]

S BEAT CAL

Not sure what song they were playing but as they kept playing, they morphed the formation into <avert your eyes now if you're easily offended>,

SB EAT KA!

I've often wondered...do the easily offended know that they're easily offended?  Or do they think the rest of society is hopeless?

[Mick]

S BEAT CAL

Not sure what song they were playing but as they kept playing, they morphed the formation into <avert your eyes now if you're easily offended>,

SB EAT KA!

I've often wondered...do the easily offended know that they're easily offended?  Or do they think the rest of society is hopeless?