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The 1975 vote included new suggestions, many alluding to the industry of the school's founder, railroad tycoon Leland Stanford: the Robber Barons, the Sequoias, the Trees, the Cardinals, the Railroaders, the Spikes, and the Huns. The Robber Barons won, but the university's administration refused to implement the vote.
Stanford Stadium is an outdoor college football stadium on the west coast of the United States, located on the campus of Stanford University in Stanford, California.It is the home of the Stanford Cardinal and hosts the university's commencement exercises.
A student vote in December 1975 to change the nickname to "Robber Barons" was not approved by administrators. [5] [6] Stanford has fielded football teams every year since 1892 with a few exceptions. Like a number of other teams from the era concerned with violence in the sport, the school dropped football in favor of rugby from 1906 to 1917.
The Stanford Cardinal are the athletic teams that represent Stanford University.Stanford's program has won 136 NCAA team championships, the most of any university. Stanford has won at least one NCAA team championship each academic year for 48 consecutive years, starting in 1976–77 and continuing through 2023–24.
"The Big Four" was the name popularly given to the famous and influential businessmen, and railroad tycoons — also called robber barons — who funded the Central Pacific Railroad (C.P.R.R.), which formed the western portion through the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States, built ...
Johnson said he remains committed to keeping the National Football League club in the city. “The $600 million debt that’s owed on the old stadium is a depreciating asset,” the mayor said.
The 1978 Stanford Cardinals football team represented Stanford University in the Pacific-10 Conference during the 1978 NCAA Division I-A football season.Led by second-year head coach Bill Walsh, the Cardinals were 7–4 in the regular season (4–3 in Pac-10, tied for fourth) and played their home games on campus at Stanford Stadium in Stanford, California.
Every year since 1892, the University of California, Berkeley and the Stanford University football teams have played an annual game towards the end of November or the beginning of December. [3] The event has become known as The Big Game. The early games in the series were played in San Francisco. Those games suffered at least two calamities.