The Play
The amazing ending of the 1982 UC Berkeley vs. Stanford Big Game has come to
be known as 'The Play'. Cal was down by a point, with time expired
in the 4th quarter but the play already in progress. It appeared that
the ball carrier was down, and the game over, so the Stanford band began to
move onto the field in celebration of victory. However, a lateral or
two later, the Cal runner who ended up with the ball made his way through the
crowd of Stanford band members and wound his way into the endzone!
Now you can hear an audio recording of the final few minutes of that game. Joe
Starky, broadcaster for San Francisco radio station KGO, nearly went crazy
calling the play. Also, you may retrieve a sound movie of most of that
last game minute.
Audio (.mp3) 1.9MB
Video (.mp4) 20MB
Last updated by Mike Friedman,
Tue Jun 23 17:03:20 PDT 2020