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Forty years later, the Stanford band still can’t stop this touchdown

By Quin Hillyer
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Forty years later, the Stanford band still can’t stop this touchdown

The bandmates tried to take the field, but the players all refused to yield.

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.”

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