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.
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17 Facts About Stanford football
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Pop Warner's era predated the AP poll, but Stanford has finished at least one season in the Top 10 in six different decades under seven different coaches: Claude E Thornhill in 1934, Clark Shaughnessy in 1940, Chuck Taylor in 1951, John Ralston in 1970 and 1971, Bill Walsh in 1992, Jim Harbaugh in 2010, and David Shaw in 2011,2012, and 2015.
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Stanford football players have finished second in Heisman voting six times: quarterback John Elway was second to Herschel Walker in 1982; running back Toby Gerhart was second to Mark Ingram II in 2009; quarterback Andrew Luck finished second to Cam Newton in 2010 and to Robert Griffin III in 2011; running back Christian McCaffrey finished second to Derrick Henry in 2015; and running back Bryce Love finished second to Baker Mayfield in 2017.
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Weather conditions at Pittsburgh during the Stanford football season are rather disagreeable, and much of the late season work had to be done upon a field which was ankle deep in mud.
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When he began coaching, Stanford football was one of nine teams in the Pacific Coast Conference.
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Game was California's second tie, Stanford football was chosen to play in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day against the University of Notre Dame's Fighting Irish coached by Knute Rockne.
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Stanford football lost its third game to non-conference St Mary's College.
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Stanford football put the game on ice in the fourth period when Pop introduced the bootlegger play, which was to be widely copied and still is in use.
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Ralston left Stanford football following the 1971 season to take his talents to the NFL, accepting the position of head coach for the Denver Broncos.
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Stanford football was criticized for starting Mike Cordova rather than Guy Benjamin at quarterback during the 1975 season and for switching between quarterbacks during the 1976 season.
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One day prior to the final game of the 1976 season, Stanford football announced that it was terminating Christiansen as its head coach.
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Under Christianson, Stanford football never had a losing season, though Christiansen's tenure was largely marked by mediocrity.
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In 1989, former Northwestern head coach Dennis Green left the 49ers, where he was serving as wide receivers coach, and took the head coaching position at Stanford football, inheriting a team that had graduated 17 of its 21 starters from 1988.
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In 1990, his Stanford football team defeated the top-ranked Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana.
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Willingham left Stanford football following the 2001 season to accept the head coaching position at Notre Dame.
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Stanford football was fired on December 4,2006, two days after Stanford's regular season ended.
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Stanford football has won two national championships from NCAA-designated major selectors.
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