This YouTube video posted today details how Harold Lloyd used all 3 stadiums to film his classic film The Freshman, which is turning 100 this year.

Thanks! Note that the football is still a rugby ball and had not yet evolved into today's smaller ball.

Chabbear said:

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Thanks! Note that the football is still a rugby ball and had not yet evolved into today's smaller ball.

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The rounder ball makes it difficult to throw forward passes.

It looks like there are a number of buildings above the stadium where Witter Rugby field is today Anyone know what they were?

Thanks for sharing. Having grown up in LA and attending CAL, this was very cool.

okaydo said:

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This YouTube video posted today details how Harold Lloyd used all 3 stadiums to film his classic film The Freshman, which is turning 100 this year.

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Our football dominance was formidable at the time!

It is cool to see what Tightwad Hill looked like then before all the trees. Do we know that area became _a LOT_ more forested? Did the fire of 1923 burn that far south?

Great flick, like most of Lloyd's films.

Harold Lloyd > Buster Keaton > Charlie Chaplin

Cal88 said:

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Great flick, like most of Lloyd's films.

Harold Lloyd > Buster Keaton > Charlie Chaplin

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I am not qualified to give an opinion, but I find Buster most fascinating.


Ladt year, I audiobook'd these 2 books (released about the same time in early 2022), and both are pretty awesome.

One is straightforward cradle-to-grave biography. The other is more of an analysis on Buster and the world he came up in and how he was a TV pioneer of sorts. (for instance, he trained Lucille Ball before she embarked on I Love Lucy).

What a fun clip and another great find from okaydo, the finder of all sorts of things. That was a stadium-building frenzy in the state of California in the early 1920s! What a bonanza!

For all the generosity that John Arrillaga showed to his Alma Mater, Stanford, I think the planners made a big mistake when they replaced old Stanford Stadium with soul-less sterile Circus Minimus. They should have replaced the old structure with a smaller, trackless version, but built the new digs with some semblance of collegiate character and charm.

For all the inconveniences of California Memorial Stadium -- including the Bataan Death March required to get up there on home game Saturdays every Fall -- I love the fact that for over 100 years, students at the University of California have watched our beloved Golden Bears taking on all-comers in our picturesque old bowl tucked into the canyon.