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Pilan and I on the field after the slaughter

Young child: "Dad? Did the other team score a point?"
Father: "No, no they didn't".

These words actually were spoken towards the end of an ever-satisfying drubbing of the Stanford. In the most lopsided victory ever recorded in the Big Scrum, Cal ran up the score 98-0. After taking two years off from this nearly hundred year old rivalry, Stanford reminded us why they were too afraid to come play us over that stretch. Coupled with the loss to British Colombia the weekend before, Cal had all the motivation it would need to put on a show.

This was my first experience going to a rugby game, and it turned out to be worth the time. The stands were packed, reminding me more of a high school football atmosphere. Students and other fans circled the field, leaving the Stanford endzone open.... yeah there wasn't a lot of action at that end of the field.... Pilan and I stood in the Cal endzone, as close to the field as anyone really would want to be.

We found it hard to get pumped up for this match (as we were heavily favored) so we turned to the history books to give us some inspiration.

1) This matchup featured TWO national champion squads: the Division I Cal Rugby team, which has only missed the national championship twice since I was born, and the Division II Stanford Rugby team, who won in the lower realms last year but made the transition back to play with the big boys.
2) The last time Cal lost to a team from the United States was 1996, against Stanford. That loss broke a 98 game winning streak against American schools.
3) Cal's current winning streak against American teams stood at 97 wins... an ominous sign.

Cal scores over Stanford yet again.

Never the less, when we got there in the second half, Cal was already up 62-0. After that it was just smooth sailing, with the exception of one brief moment when a Stanford player broke away off a fumble towards the Cal endzone. Just before he got in to score the try, he was tackled from behind, popping the ball loose back to Cal, who promptly returned the ball to the correct end of the field.