Forty years later, the Stanford band still can’t stop this touchdown, writes QuinHillyer.
When the football teams of Stanford and the University of California-Berkeley play tomorrow in the 125th edition of the Big Game, it will be one day short of the 40th anniversary of what live announcer Joe Starkey called “the most amazing, sensational, dramatic, heartrending, exciting, thrilling finish in the history of college football.”
Five Laterals and a Trombone is by Tyler Bridges, a near-legendary political reporter based in Louisiana. It doesn’t just recount “The Play” in 1982 in which Stanford’s band rushed the field too soon, only to have the Cal Bears use the five pitches to return a kickoff for a winning touchdown, scored by dodging and eventually running over Stanford musicians.
In the years before the 1982 Stanford band rushed the field only to be bowled over by Cal player Kevin Moen, its band den on campus was festooned with a sign reading “Moaning Cavern Park,” and the group called its performance-planning sessions the Stanford Marching Unit Thinkers meetings — or “SMUT meetings” for short.
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