By Leslie M. Mitchell ’81 In 1920, the inexperienced United States Olympic rugby team pulled off a stunning upset over France in the Antwerp games to win the championship, and the six players on that team from the University of California brought Olympic Gold home to Berkeley for the first time. But the triumph ofContinue reading “1924 Rugby: A Wild Olympic Rematch”
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The Murder of Mrs. Stanford
By Leslie M. Mitchell, ’81 Did the first president of Leland Stanford Junior University murder the school’s co-founder, Jane Stanford? Probably not. But a couple of books written by Stanford professors and published by Stanford University Press pretty conclusively establish both that Mrs. Stanford was murdered and that Stanford President David Starr Jordan engaged inContinue reading “The Murder of Mrs. Stanford”
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