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Stanford Cardinals football

Stanford Cardinal football
2017 Stanford Cardinal football team
Stanford Athletics logo.svg
First season 1891; 126 years ago (1891)
Athletic director Bernard Muir
Head coach David Shaw
6th year, 64–17 (.790)
Stadium Stanford Stadium
Field Foster Field
Year built 1921
Seating capacity 50,000
Field surface Grass
Location Stanford, California
NCAA division Division I FBS
Conference Pac-12 (1959–Present)
Division North (2011–Present)
Past conferences Independent (1891–1905)
PCC (1919–1942, 1946–1958)
All-time record 635–450–49 (.582)
Bowl record 14–13–1 (.518)
Claimed nat'l titles 2 (1926, 1940)
Conference titles 15
Division titles 3
Heisman winners 1
Consensus All-Americans 34
Current uniform
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Colors Cardinal and White
         
Fight song "Come Join The Band" (official)
"All Right Now" (de facto)
Mascot Stanford Tree (unofficial)
Marching band Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band
Rivals California Golden Bears (rivalry)
USC Trojans (rivalry)
Notre Dame Fighting Irish (rivalry)
Website GoStanford.com

The Stanford Cardinal football program represents Stanford University in college football at the NCAA Division I FBS level and is a member of the Pac-12 Conference's North Division. Stanford, the top-ranked academic institution with a FBS program, has a highly successful football tradition. The team is currently known as the Cardinal, adopted prior to the 1982 season. Stanford was known as the "Indians" from 1930 to January 1972, and the "Cardinals" from 1972 through 1981. A student vote in December 1975 to change the nickname to "Robber Barons" was not approved by administrators.

Stanford has fielded football teams every year since 1892 with a few exceptions. Like a number of other teams from the era concerned with violence in the sport, the school dropped football in favor of rugby from 1906 to 1917. The school also did not field a team in 1918 (due to World War I) or in 1943, 1944, and 1945 (due to World War II).

The school participated in the first-ever Rose Bowl against Michigan in 1902, in which they were routed 49-0. Its annual Big Game against California is the oldest and most storied rivalry in the Pac-12 and western United States. The Cardinal also compete for the Legends Trophy against independent rival Notre Dame.


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