Sweet Start to Spring Practice
Fresh off a 2013 Rose Bowl victory, Stanford football is back in action, beginning the first of its two spring practice sessions. For head coach David Shaw, this day could not come soon enough.
Fresh off a 2013 Rose Bowl victory, Stanford football is back in action, beginning the first of its two spring practice sessions. For head coach David Shaw, this day could not come soon enough.
As college football braces itself for the colossal Pac-12 showdown between Stanford and USC tonight, the din of pre-game anticipation has grown to a deafening level. Amidst the noise is the sound of the menacing, steady footsteps of the Men of Troy, gearing for battle and marching their way north to invade the Farm. Make no mistake: The Trojans are coming in full force.
Everybody already knows that you can’t replace Andrew Luck. So how exactly will the 2012 Stanford football team make up for it? With a defense that returns seven starters and its best player.
The 2011 Stanford football season is unlikely to be forgotten by any Stanford fan for a long time, and now that the college football season is over, it’s time to take stock of what exactly fans will remember–and will want to forget–from this season.
Some scores will live forever in Stanford football history. 20-19 in 1982. 24-23 in 2007. But 56-48 in 2011 might outrank them all
In another dominant performance, the Stanford football team stayed undefeated on the season and extended the nation’s longest winning streak to 12 games–dating back to last season–by topping Pac-12 foe UCLA 45-19 on Saturday night.
After a bye week to rest up and prepare for the heart of the Pac-12 schedule, the Stanford football team is echoing the same mantras that has helped it to the longest winning streak in the country, even though the team is now missing one of its biggest stars.