[Bonus] The Tale of the Stanford Football Game Disaster of 1900
The Killafornia Dreaming Podcast
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4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2017
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
The Stanford Thanksgiving Day Warehouse Roof Collapse From Where Spectators Were Watching The Football Game
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This is a Thanksgiving Day Bonus episode of Killafornia Dreaming…hear the details of an obscure, little known tragedy that took place in Stanford on Thanksgiving Day in 1900 during the big rivalry football game between Stanford and Cal.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you so much for joining me for this bonus mini Thanksgiving Day episode of |
| 0:05.8 | California Dreaming. I hope to have it up and ready for the holiday. I'm kind of |
| 0:11.1 | lagging a little bit getting it put together and I hope all of you are having a fantastic |
| 0:16.4 | Thanksgiving with your families and if you're outside the United States I hope you're |
| 0:21.3 | having a fantastic Thursday. |
| 0:24.0 | And it is my pleasure to bring you this special Thanksgiving edition of California Dreaming, |
| 0:29.0 | The Tale of the Thanksgiving Day, Stanford Disaster of 1900. |
| 0:34.1 | You all know by now that before I get to the heart of each episode, |
| 0:38.8 | I kind of like giving you some sort of personal anecdote or related story before leading into the main part of it all. |
| 0:47.2 | I think someone commented or left a review that said that I kind of meander into the story. That's a pretty good |
| 0:56.4 | description of what I do. So for this one I started googling sports disasters and man what is the deal with soccer in foreign |
| 1:08.6 | countries you try googling it you'd be hard-pressed to find very many sports disasters that don't involve soccer |
| 1:16.7 | and either a stadium collapse or a plane crash. And that's not even including all of the |
| 1:22.4 | riots, |
| 1:23.2 | stampedes, trampling, and overall fanatical bedlam and mayhem at soccer venues. |
| 1:29.2 | The lists are endless. |
| 1:32.2 | May 1964 in Peru, riots after Argentina beats Peru, |
| 1:37.8 | 318 people killed. |
| 1:40.0 | January, 1971 in Scotland, stairway barriers collapse causing a massive pile-up of fans, |
| 1:46.7 | 66 people killed. |
| 1:48.8 | October, 1982 in Russia, fans crushed to death as they leave a game in Moscow. |
| 1:54.0 | However, the tragedy wasn't disclosed by the former Soviet Union for years, |
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