The NFL played on but the 1963 Big Game at Stanford was postponed after John F. Kennedy was killed the day before
As the Pac-12 Conference era comes to a close after more than a century, we count down the Top 50 moments involving Cal athletics.On Friday evening, Nov. 22, 1963, as Cal’s players settled into their team hotel at Palo Alto the night before the Big Game, word came that the showdown at Stanford would be postponed following the assassination earlier in the day of President John F. Kennedy at Dallas.Craig Morton was Cal’s star junior quarterback in the fall of 1963. But on Nov.
“Nobody really knew which direction to go. We didn’t know whether to go north, south, east, west or just hunker where we were.” Oklahoma and Nebraska squared off in their rivalry game as scheduled, and several other college games also were played. Most were postponed.
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