Word: team
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Associate Dean Robert B. Watson '37, Bruce Harriman '50, president of the Key, and Howard E. Houston '50, captain of the varsity football team, are the keynote speakers on the agenda...
...long waits marred College registration yesterday, but members of the football team fared even better than the average upperclassman. The entire team registered during the mid-day break, thus making all players free for the afternoon practice...
...Valpey put red jersies back on his team yesterday and began preparations for Columbia. It was as simple as that--except for the fact that four key men were on the sidelines, Stanford might have been merely a name...
Once the game begins, the noise really starts. The head cheer leader has a P.A. system to give instructions to the rooters. Every time the team comes out of the huddle, the rooting section omits a mighty rear. On a close play, everyone stamps his feet, creating thunder before the rear. Cheers are frequent, and one tradition soaked cheer, the venerable "Axe Yell," is reserved all year long for a crucial point in the Big Game. When it finally comes, the whole stands fall into a hush as 7000 rooters boom out the tones of this famous chant. The inspired...
...game, its symbol, the axe, is presented to the winning team by the Governor of California. Forged in 1899 in the shape of a medieval battle axe, this weapon has had a stormy career. One month after its unveiling on the Stanford campus it was captured by California and carried off to Berkeley. Many years later, when it was beng removed from the vault of an Oakland bank, it was seized by a group known as the immortal six and brought back to the Farm. Another theft returned it to Berkeley until 1930, when 21 stalwarts from Stanford stormed...