When he was on the sideline, Brown told backup quarterback Brad Howe, "Stay by my side. Although, considering how desperately Brown wanted to make something of his final collegiate appearance, it's hard to imagine Brown giving up his opportunity.
The game's signature moment came midway through the fourth quarter. The Bears, leading , had a 2nd-and-7 at the Stanford The play call was for an option end-around, with Brown pitching the ball to Ford. Cal's Vince Delgado had scored a touchdown on the option end-around in Stanford's victory the previous year.
Brown said that when he got the call, "I was smiling to myself, because it probably won't work. But, if this does work, this game is so over. Ford took the pitch and angled deeper behind the line of scrimmage than he normally would.
A block by receiver James Devers sprung Ford down the Stanford sideline. King's block took care of Cook at the 40, fullback Todd Powers laid out defensive back Brad Humphreys just inside the 30 and Ford breezed into the end zone to put Cal in front King takes particular satisfaction from that play. Brown recalled Stanford linebacker Dave Wyman "kicking the pylon because he probably just couldn't believe this was happening two years in a row.
Paye, meanwhile, was putting together some solid numbers for for yards , but he amassed them in a particularly painful way: Cal sacked Paye seven times.
The Cal fans were probably in deafening mode with Stanford facing a 3rd-and at its 31 with less than six minutes remaining. Though clearly hurting, Paye managed to uncork a pass about 55 yards in the air.
Jeff James made the grab near the Cal sideline and raced to the end zone. Just like that, the Cardinal had life. On its final possession, Stanford got as far as the Bears' 37, but then consecutive sacks of Paye effectively ended the game. When the game officially ended, bedlam engulfed Strawberry Canyon. As hundreds of Cal fans made their way onto the field, Kapp got a ride on the shoulders of some of his players in his final game as his alma mater's head coach.
Home California Bears Football. It has not been an easy half-century for the Bears in the Big Game. Garbers and his teammates now own two of those victories.
Read More. By Jake Curtis. On the night prior to the Nov. Finally, in , Cal and Stanford played the first overtime game in the history of the series, with the Cardinal emerging winners. In last year's Big Game at Stanford Stadium, Stanford was a winner, increasing its winning streak in the series to four for the first time since enjoying a seven-game win streak from The Stanford Axe, the trophy awarded to the winner of the Big Game every year, actually made its debut on the eve of a baseball game between the rival universities on April 13, The next day, Stanford rooters taunted their Cal counterparts by cutting pieces of blue and gold ribbon with The Axe and by using it to chop at a designated piece of wood whenever the Indians made a good play.
Cal rallied for an upset over Stanford and the Golden Bear fans were so overcome with emotion that a group of Cal men wrestled The Axe away from the Stanford students and smuggled it across the bay via ferry. The Axe was placed in a safe at a Berkeley bank, to be removed once a year for the Axe Rally. By , both sides decided that The Axe would make an ideal Big Game trophy. Garbers delivered the biggest play with an yard TD pass to Trevon Young to open the scoring in the second quarter.
That broke the record for longest pass in the series, eclipsing the yarder Brian Johnson threw to Walter Batson for Stanford in Chase is playing his best ball since being here.
The Cardinal have dropped six straight games overall for their longest skid since losing their first nine games in under coach Walt Harris. Even the return of Tanner McKee made little difference for Stanford. He missed the past two games when the Cardinal were outscored by 66 points in losses to Utah and Oregon State and struggled to get much going on offense after failing on two early fourth downs near the goal line.
I put that on myself.
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