Did you ever wonder how the Axe became so important in the Cal-Stanford rivalry? You have to go back to the 19th century.
Late in the afternoon of Saturday, April 15, 1899, following a Cal-Stanford baseball game in San Francisco, several Cal students wrestled away an axe belonging to a group of vocal Stanford students, establishing the axe as the symbol of superiority in the Cal-Stanford rivalry.In 1896, Stanford created the Axe Yell, the one that starts, “Give ‘em, the Axe, the Axe, the Axe.
Cal rallied in the ninth inning to beat the favored Stanford team 9-7, and as the noisy group of Stanford yell leaders headed for the exit wielding the axe, they were met by a group of Cal students who had laid in wait at the exit. They pounced on the Stanford group, a melee ensued and police were brought to the scene.
It also led to a wild chase throughout the city as the axe was exchanged through various hands and means of transportation, traveling as far north as Fillmore Street before heading back toward Powell Street and the Ferry Building. Along the way, the axe was re-taken by a Stanford student, but quickly re-re-taken by a Cal student with police in hot pursuit all along the way.
The are two versions of how this was achieved. One version suggests Miller spotted a former girlfriend and convinced her to put the axe under her dress and board the ferry with him. The other version says Miller slipped into a boutique at the Ferry Building, bought a dress, put it on and placed the axe under the dress as he boarded.
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