Double your money the easy way, with this lock.

[The Seer]

Ucla is actually favored over Cal this Sat. This despite:

1. Lost 3rd starting D lineman last week for the season.
2. Can't stop the run, Cal has 2 good backs.
3. Bruins couldn't run against OU -or- (gasp) UW.
4. QB Drew Olson looking like old self---mediocre back-up qb.
5. Tedford can coach circles around Doe-rrell.

Put the house on Cal. No way Ucla wins this game.

[Laxplayer]

Well hopefully the gutty little bruins can pull one out and shut up Mtool for a while.

[M2]

Put the house on Cal. No way Ucla wins this game.

I see "The Seer" working...

OT:

Just In Case "The Seer" Has Forgotten...

I will never let this die!!!

"BIG C"

"Big C" is traditionally the first song of the pregame to which the Band marches its signature Flying Wedge formation, and it is unquestionably the most famous and controversial Cal Song. "Big C" was written in 1913 by Harold P. Williams, with words by Norman Loyall McLaren. It was written to commemorate the large cement C built "on our rugged Eastern foothills" in 1905, and also as a result of the Daily Californian's annual song competition. In the Fall of 1913, the competition was stiff; but the Rally Committee managed to narrow the field down to two songs, "Big C" and "Stanford Jonah." "Big C" took the prize and "Jonah" won the next year.

The controversy around the song has its roots in the "All University Weekend," an annual event which began around 1948 and lasted into the 1960s. This event was a double header football game that pitted Cal against UCLA and UC Davis against UC Santa Barbara. The games were played alternately in Berkeley one year and in Los Angeles the next year. Bands from all four of the schools would perform together in one giant, combined halftime show. In one of the last "All U Weekends," F. Kelley James, then Associate Director of the UCLA Band and alumnus of the Cal Band wrote an arrangement of "Big C" for the combined halftime show.

Afterwards, UCLA kept using his arrangement of "Big C," adding its own lyrics and renaming it "Sons of Westwood." The UCLA Band began playing it regularly as the new fight song. James Berdahl, then director of the Cal Band, was incensed over what he felt was a violation of the sanctity of Cal Songs. A bitter exchange ensued between Berdahl and James for the next several years concerning the legal and ethical grounds under which "Big C" was appropriated. The matter came to a head in February 18, 1969, when Irwin Coster, working on behalf of the UCLA cause, received official word from the Copyright Office of the Library of Congress that "Big C" had never been copyrighted, and thus it was in the Public Domain. Public Domain status meant that only adaptations and arrangements of the song could be copyrighted, so UCLA had every legal right to "steal" the song. Some regents and UCLA administrators thought it quite reasonable that this "little sister" of Cal maintain "Sons of Westwood" as an affirmation of the University of California's solidarity. However, ardent students and alumni at Cal were never happy with the situation, especially Berdahl, who continued to fight for the abolition of "Sons of Westwood" through the remainder of his tenure as director. Ironically, uninformed people recognize "Sons of Westwood" as UCLA's song due to their successful football program and exposure on televised games and wonder why Cal plays UCLA's fight song so much.

Hey fUcla - get our own DAMN mascot and your own DAMN song!!


m2

[Cross Traffic]

Bitter than the Bruins did a better job of arranging a public domain song? You do realize that UCLA was established as Cal Southern Campus so having a Bruin as their mascot was a logical choice.

[The Seer]

Well hopefully the gutty little bruins can pull one out and shut up Mtool for a while.

Obviously, that would be great, but after what I saw last weekend, fuggetabotit...

Bet the house.

[Danimal]

Hammer that shit before the line moves too much. A banged-up UCLA is no match for Cal.

[M2]

Well hopefully the gutty little bruins can pull one out and shut up Mtool for a while.

Obviously, that would be great, but after what I saw last weekend, fuggetabotit...

Bet the house.

Not so fast...

I had UCLA as one of CAL's 3 losses this year, and after the news that just broke(Andrew Cameron) Cal's All-American lineman is out for the season with a torn ACL. Cameron was one of CAL's two All-American offensive lineman. Extremely sad news, since he's a great kid and well liked by everyone that knows him.

In the past 5 games between ucla and CAL, the home team has won the contest. This upcoming game is in L.A.*hint*.

I feel last weeks game between ucla and Washington, was more about Washington getting better and ucla coming out flat. This game should be a great contest between two undefeated Pac 10 teams.


m2

[Laxplayer]

I had UCLA as one of CAL's 3 losses this year

didn't you also have Cal winning the national championship? With 3 losses?

[Jimmy Medalions]

^^