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my data is from 1979 to present, I do not recall there ever being alcoholic beverages being sold in the common areas of the football stadium.

My recollection of alcohol in the stadium

- initially you could bring in pretty much any alcohol you could carry.  As a student we'd sit in the student section and have a few playmate coolers full of bottles of beer (each held 12 bottle plus ice)

- the rule changed somewhere along the way to whatever you brought in had to fit under your seat (not that this was ever really enforced), again the 12 bottle playmate coolers worked great.

then there was the first night Big Game (1989?) where a lot of fights broke out (one in our section where a fellow dove over us to join a scrum a few rows below us).   That was the end of alcohol in the stadium.

Of course with in and out privileges many tailgate until kick-off and at halftime return to their tailgater for some more adult beverages then return for the second half.  If they would sell alcohol in the stadium I wonder if they would end in and out privileges.

You've got everything straight.  Here's my recollection, as the first ban happened when I was a student:

No, no alcohol was ever sold in Stanford Stadium 1.0.  But no one ever got stopped bringing in a beverage or two or three.
Then, something came out of the blue in the summer of 1978.  I knew this because I spent that summer on campus, working on a research project.  The Athletics Department announced it was banning alcohol starting Fall 1978.  Joe Ruetz was the then AD.  I have no idea what the motivation for the ban was.  But I did make note of the timing - summer, and there was no one around to protest.  So my senior year included tricks on getting booze into the stadium.  My old roommate would go the night before, stash a six pack in between the wooden walls along that inside walkway.  I'd take my camera with me and smuggle in a bottle placed in a telephoto lens case (nobody checked.)

That ban lasted just that 1978 season.  Ruetz retired and Andy Geiger stepped in at the end of the year.  (I remember this because I went to the rally at the Bluebonnet Bowl in Houston, and someone pointed out to me, "There's the new AD").  Geiger announced the recision of the ban sometime around the spring - I recall his statement of, "We're not here to legislate morality", and he was correct - there were never any problems with our fans.

You are correct about 1989.  It was the first night Big Game (and first with red pants with red jerseys), so it gave folks extra time to get lubed up.  I heard a story on the radio - apparently someone threw a partially filled beer can, causing a significant laceration, and that was it for alcohol.

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my data is from 1979 to present, I do not recall there ever being alcoholic beverages being sold in the common areas of the football stadium.

My recollection of alcohol in the stadium

- initially you could bring in pretty much any alcohol you could carry.  As a student we'd sit in the student section and have a few playmate coolers full of bottles of beer (each held 12 bottle plus ice)

- the rule changed somewhere along the way to whatever you brought in had to fit under your seat (not that this was ever really enforced), again the 12 bottle playmate coolers worked great.

then there was the first night Big Game (1989?) where a lot of fights broke out (one in our section where a fellow dove over us to join a scrum a few rows below us).   That was the end of alcohol in the stadium.

Of course with in and out privileges many tailgate until kick-off and at halftime return to their tailgater for some more adult beverages then return for the second half.  If they would sell alcohol in the stadium I wonder if they would end in and out privileges.

You've got everything straight.  Here's my recollection, as the first ban happened when I was a student:

No, no alcohol was ever sold in Stanford Stadium 1.0.  But no one ever got stopped bringing in a beverage or two or three.
Then, something came out of the blue in the summer of 1978.  I knew this because I spent that summer on campus, working on a research project.  The Athletics Department announced it was banning alcohol starting Fall 1978.  Joe Ruetz was the then AD.  I have no idea what the motivation for the ban was.  But I did make note of the timing - summer, and there was no one around to protest.  So my senior year included tricks on getting booze into the stadium.  My old roommate would go the night before, stash a six pack in between the wooden walls along that inside walkway.  I'd take my camera with me and smuggle in a bottle placed in a telephoto lens case (nobody checked.)

That ban lasted just that 1978 season.  Ruetz retired and Andy Geiger stepped in at the end of the year.  (I remember this because I went to the rally at the Bluebonnet Bowl in Houston, and someone pointed out to me, "There's the new AD").  Geiger announced the recision of the ban sometime around the spring - I recall his statement of, "We're not here to legislate morality", and he was correct - there were never any problems with our fans.

You are correct about 1989.  It was the first night Big Game (and first with red pants with red jerseys), so it gave folks extra time to get lubed up.  I heard a story on the radio - apparently someone threw a partially filled beer can, causing a significant laceration, and that was it for alcohol.