02-03-2017, 10:27 AM
I think I've mentioned this before, but when I arrived at Stanford as a freshman in the fall of 1980, we were the Cardinals. I think we had been the Cardinals for a few years, and I don't think it changed to Cardinal until my sophomore or junior year.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)