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1892 Cal football team Inaugural Stanford football team, 1892. The Big Game is the oldest college football rivalry in the West. While an undergraduate at Stanford, future U.S. President Herbert Hoover was the student manager of both the baseball and football teams.
Hoover ball is a medicine ball game invented by President Herbert Hoover's personal physician, Medal of Honor recipient Joel T. Boone, to help keep then-President Hoover fit. The Hoover Presidential Library Association and the city of West Branch , Iowa co-host a national championship each year.
Stanford's team manager was future U.S. President Herbert Hoover; Hoover had printed 10,000 tickets for the game, but soon an overflow crowd forced Hoover to collect cash payment for admission. [1] As the game was about to begin, both teams realized that no one had brought a ball.
It was one of the last of these rivalry games played at Lambeth Field, as Scott Stadium was constructed in 1931 to accommodate more spectators. [12] Coolidge had declined to run for a second term, and just sixteen days before the game Coolidge's Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover, had won the 1928 presidential election to replace him.
In the 1869 Princeton vs. Rutgers football game, one of the earliest American football games, an unnamed water boy was documented giving aid to a Rutgers player. [1] Several notable people served as water boys, among which being President Herbert Hoover, who was the Stanford Cardinal football's first water boy. [2]
Prior to that game they were invited to the White House by President Herbert Hoover, who as a Stanford student managed the 1894 team, and along with his Cal counterpart, organized the inaugural Big Game. [4] The fall of 1930 was Price's last season of coaching football. Cal was crushed by both USC and Stanford and could only win one conference ...
Despite playing just three weeks ago, the quarterback matchup could be quite different for the Federal League rivals in this Round 2 playoff game. Green and Hoover dealing with QB shuffle in OHSAA ...
On the day of the big football game, the school provides events such as "The Poster Drop", which is a competition for every grade (9-12) taking place on the Friday morning of the game, and spirit assemblies. The game usually takes place at Glendale High School because Hoover High School does not have a "proper" field.