In 1894, Herbert Hoover was student manager of Stanford’s football team. The future U.S. president had the brilliant idea to play The Big Game, Cal vs Stanford at the Haight Street Grounds in San Francisco.
10,000 tickets were printed, but 20,000 people showed up. Hoover and Herbert Lang, the Cal manager, had to find pots, bowls and anything else to collect admissions.
They made so much money from ticket sales Hoover was forced to hire two wagons to cart bags full of silver dollars off the premises to safekeeping.
San Francisco in the 1890s was not exactly a crime-free community, so Hoover hired six security guards from the football squad.
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