Beat Cal! Stanford banner hung from Arc de Triomphe in Paris
Posted on 04. Dec, 2006 by kchristieh in international, my life, sports
OK, so Stanford didn’t beat Cal this year. But it wasn’t as bad as many of us thought it would be!
I took an old photo out of a frame last night and discovered a very timely old picture underneath: the “Beat Cal” banner hanging from the Arc de Triomphe. I studied in Tours, France in the Fall of 1983, and some of my fellow students used their bedsheets to make a banner. It actually hung from the Arc de Triomphe for several minutes, giving me enough time to take this picture. I caught a cab to the airport, where I went through Security (!!!) and onto a plane (!!!!!!) where I handed my roll of undeveloped film to a student who was returning home for the game. I believe the picture ran in The Stanford Daily the following week and in the yearbook that year.
Here it is, for all posterity:
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