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| first_meeting_date = ; | first_meeting_result = Stanford 14, California 10 | last_meeting_date = November 21, 2015 | last_meeting_result = Stanford 35, California 22 | next_meeting_date = | largest_win_margin = Stanford, 63–13 (2013) | longest_win_streak = | current_win_streak = | trophy = Stanford Axe | map_location = USA California Northern | map_label1 = Stanford University | map_label1_position = right | latd1 = 37.434444 | longd1 = -122.161111 | map_label2 = University of California, Berkeley | map_label2_position = left | latd2 = 37.871111 | longd2 = -122.250833 | map_caption = Location of Stanford University and UC Berkeley in Northern California }} The Big Game is an American college football rivalry game played by the California Golden Bears football team of the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford Cardinal football team of Stanford University. First played in 1892, it is the eighth most played college football rivalry game in the United States. Stanford leads the series record at 61–46–11 (wins–losses–ties). The game is typically played in late November or early December, and its location alternates between the two universities every year. In even-numbered years, the game is played at Berkeley, while in odd-numbered years it is played at Stanford. Stanford won the most recent Big Game at Stanford Stadium, 35–22. Stanford's 50-point margin of victory in 2013 was the largest for either side in the history of the series. ==Series history== The Big Game is the oldest college football rivalry in the West. In number of games, it is one behind the Civil War of Oregon vs. Oregon St. because the Oregon teams played through both World Wars I & II while the Big Game was suspended during both wars. The first game was played on San Francisco's Haight Street Grounds on March 19, 1892 with Stanford winning 14–10. Future U.S. President Herbert Hoover was the Stanford team manager for that game. The term "Big Game" was first used in 1900, when it was played on Thanksgiving Day in San Francisco. During that game, a large group of men and boys, who were observing from the roof of the nearby S.F. and Pacific Glass Works, fell into the fiery interior of the building when the roof collapsed, resulting in 13 dead and 78 injured.〔(A Ghastly Holocaust: Football Spectators Plunged into Molten Glass, ''The (Adelaide) Advertiser'', (Friday 11 January 1901), p.6. )〕〔Twenty Score Persons Make Awful Plunge: Seventeen People Meet Most Awful Death: Two San Jose Men Die Amid Sizzling Shrieking Human Mass in Collapsed Factory at Big Game, ''The (San Jose) Evening News'', (Friday 30 November 1900), (p.1 ), (p.5. )〕〔(Through a Roof to Death, ''The (Crawfordsville) Daily News-Review'', (Friday, 30 November 1900), p.2. )〕〔(Spectators Fell Into Molten Glass: Thirteen Dead, One Hundred Injured by Collapse of a Roof Overlooking the Stanford-Berkeley Game at San Francisco, ''The (Spokane) Spokesman-Review'', (Friday 30 November 1900), p.1. )〕〔(Death Reaps a Dread Harvest of Lives and Plunges City into Gloom, ''The San Francisco Call'', (Friday, 30 November 1900), p.2. )〕 On December 4, 1900, the last victim of the disaster (Fred Lilly) died, bringing the death toll to 22; and, to this day, the "Thanksgiving Day Disaster" remains the deadliest accident to kill spectators at a U.S. sporting event.〔(Eskanazi, J., "Sudden Death: Boys Fell to Their Doom in S.F.'s Forgotten Disaster", ''San Francisco Weekly News'', 15 August 2012. )〕 In 1906, citing concerns about the violence in football, both schools dropped football in favor of rugby, which was played for the Big Games of 1906–14. The first incidence of card stunts was performed by Cal fans at the halftime of the 1910 Big Game. California resumed playing football in 1915, but Stanford's rugby teams continued until 1917. From 1915–1917, California's "Big Game" was their game against Washington, while Stanford played Santa Clara as their rugby "Big Game". The 1918 game, in which Cal prevailed 67–0, is not considered an official game because Stanford's team was composed of volunteers from the Student Army Training Corps stationed at Stanford, some of whom were not Stanford students.〔 The game resumed as football in 1919, and has been played as such every year since, except from 1943 to 1945, when Stanford shut down its football program due to World War II. A handful of Stanford starters—including guards Jim Cox, Bill Hachten and Fred Boensch, running back George Quist and halfback Billy Agnew—shifted to Cal in order to continue playing. Quist returned to Stanford, playing against Cal in the 1946 Big Game. Scenes for the Harold Lloyd silent classic ''The Freshman'' were filmed at California Memorial Stadium during halftime of the 1924 Big Game. Since 1933, the victor of the game has been awarded possession of the Stanford Axe. If a game ended in a tie, the Axe stayed on the side that already possessed it; this rule became obsolete in 1996 when the NCAA instituted overtime. The Axe is a key part of the rivalry's history, having been stolen on several occasions by both sides, starting in 1899, when the Axe was introduced when Stanford yell leader Billy Erb used it at a baseball game between the two schools.〔http://www.stanford.edu/group/axecomm/axebook/origin2.html〕 In March 2007, the National Football League announced that it intended to trademark the phrase "The Big Game" in reference to the Super Bowl, but soon dropped the plan after being faced with opposition from Cal and Stanford. In 2013, the new Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara was proposed as the site of the 2014 Big Game, which according to the traditional rotation should be played at Cal's Memorial Stadium. The 2015 game would then be held in Berkeley, reversing the current rotation of odd-numbered years at Stanford and even-numbered years at Cal. But several days later Cal declined the offer. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Big Game (American football)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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