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The Stanford Tree is the unofficial mascot of Stanford University. Stanford's team name is "Stanford Cardinal," referring to the vivid cardinal (color) color (not the Northern Cardinal as at several other schools), and the University has never been able to come up with an official mascot which adequately conveys the fierceness and sporting prowess it had hoped to symbolize with that particular Sanguine (heraldry). This fact creates a void not typically found at schools with less-abstract symbols for their sports teams, and into this unfulfilled void the Stanford Band has insistently thrust what is one of the United States' most bizarre college mascots.{{cite web|title=How the Card got its color|url=http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2005/9/26/howTheCardGotItsColor|accessdate=2007-04-14-->

The Tale of the Tree The Tree is a member of the Stanford Band and appears at football games, basketball games, and other events where the Band performs.{{cite web], the tree that appears on both the official seal of the University and the municipal seal of Palo Alto, Stanford's host city.

From 1930 until 1972, Stanford's sports teams had been known as "the Indians," and, during the period from 1951 to 1972, Prince Lightfoot (portrayed by Timm Williams, a member of the Yurok tribe tribe) was the official mascot. But in 1972, Native Americans in the United States students and staff members successfully lobbied University President Richard Lyman to abolish the "Native American name controversy" name along with what they had come to perceive as an offensive and demeaning mascot. Stanford's teams reverted unofficially to the name "Cardinal," the color that had represented the school before 1930.{{cite web|title=Native American History at Stanford|url=http://www.stanford.edu/dept/nacc/timeline.html|accessdate=2007-04-14-->

Over the next nine years, Stanford's students and administrators debated what mascot and team name should replace the Indian. A student poll taken during this period ranked possible mascot names in the following order: 1. The Robber baron (industrialist) (in a nod to Leland Stanford, the University's founder); 2. The Jersey Giant; 3. The Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu; 4. The Hunnic Empire; and, far behind, 5. The Griffin. Finally, in 1981, University President Donald Kennedy declared (unsurprisingly, given the other options available amongst the top-polling names) that the team name would officially remain "The Cardinal."

However, in 1975, the Band had performed a series of halftime shows that facetiously suggested several other new mascot candidates it considered particularly appropriate for Stanford, including the Steaming Manhole, the French fried potatoes, and the Sequoia. The Tree ended up receiving so much positive attention that the Band decided to make it a permanent fixture, and thus began the process through which the Tree has gradually colonized the collective unconscious of Stanford's student body.

During the first decade of its existence, the role of the Tree was generally performed by the Band managers' girlfriends. In the mid-1980's, however, the Band adopted a more formal selection process for its Trees. Today's Tree candidate must go through "grueling and humiliating physical and mental challenges" to show that he or she has sufficient chutzpah to be the Tree. During "Tree Week," candidates have been known to perform outrageous, unwise, and often dangerous stunts in order to impress the Tree selection committee; so much so that the University has felt the need to prohibit certain types of audition activities over the years,{{cite web].

The Tree's costume, which is created anew each year by the incumbent Tree, is a prominent target for pranksters from rival schools, in particular from Stanford's San Francisco Bay Area arch-rival, the University of California, Berkeley (California Golden Bears). This tendency for the Tree to come to harm at the hands of Cal fans was showcased in the run-up to the 1998 Big Game (football). An anonymous coterie of Fraternities and sororities brothers from Cal known as the "Phoenix Five" stole the costume and held it "hostage" for two weeks until it was turned in to the UC Berkeley chancellor's office and returned to Stanford by the University of California Police Department.{{cite web|title=Tree relinquished by Cal captors; revered mascot safely back on campus|url=http://daily.stanford.edu/article/1998/11/2/treeRelinquishedByCalCaptorsReveredMascotSafelyBackOnCampus|accessdate=2007-04-14--> In 1996 2 Cal students emerged shirtless from the stands at Memorial Stadium at the Big Game during half time and tackled the tree breaking branches and eliciting cheers from the Cal Alumni prior to being handcuffed and led away.

Violence and absurd levels of prankery have been a two-way street between Cal and Stanford, though. A few years earlier, during an ESPN-televised timeout during a February 1995 basketball game at Maples Pavilion, the Stanford Tree and Cal's mascot Oski got into a fistfight in front of the Stanford student section. The Oski costume's headpiece was forcefully removed by the Tree during the scuffle, which nearly ended Cal's 60+ year tradition of keeping the identity of its mascot-costume wearer secret.{{cite web] was found to be 0.157 (almost twice the legal driving limit in California) during a men's basketball game between Stanford and Cal. UC Berkeley police observed her drinking from a flask during the game and cited her for public drunkenness after she failed a breathalyzer test.{{cite web] tournament game against Florida State University for "dancing in an undesignated area," following an earlier scuffle with tournament security, from whom he had attempted to escape by hurling himself across the basketball court on a rolling chair. The Stanford Athletic Department then banned him from performing for the rest of the NCAA tournament. In protest, members of the Stanford Band wore foliage pinned to their hats and uniforms when they later played at the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship and Elite Eight.

Individuals who served as the Tree 1980s

1990s

2000s Note: This is not a comprehensive list. It does not include the Trees before 1986.

References

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The Stanford Tree is the unofficial mascot of Stanford University. Stanford's team name is "Stanford Cardinal," referring to the vivid cardinal (color) color (not the Northern Cardinal as at several other schools), and the University has never been able to come up with an official mascot which adequately conveys the fierceness and sporting prowess it had hoped to symbolize with that particular Sanguine (heraldry). This fact creates a void not typically found at schools with less-abstract symbols for their sports teams, and into this unfulfilled void the Stanford Band has insistently thrust what is one of the United States' most bizarre college mascots.{{cite web|title=How the Card got its color|url=http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2005/9/26/howTheCardGotItsColor|accessdate=2007-04-14-->

The Tale of the Tree The Tree is a member of the Stanford Band and appears at football games, basketball games, and other events where the Band performs.{{cite web], the tree that appears on both the official seal of the University and the municipal seal of Palo Alto, Stanford's host city.

From 1930 until 1972, Stanford's sports teams had been known as "the Indians," and, during the period from 1951 to 1972, Prince Lightfoot (portrayed by Timm Williams, a member of the Yurok tribe tribe) was the official mascot. But in 1972, Native Americans in the United States students and staff members successfully lobbied University President Richard Lyman to abolish the "Native American name controversy" name along with what they had come to perceive as an offensive and demeaning mascot. Stanford's teams reverted unofficially to the name "Cardinal," the color that had represented the school before 1930.{{cite web|title=Native American History at Stanford|url=http://www.stanford.edu/dept/nacc/timeline.html|accessdate=2007-04-14-->

Over the next nine years, Stanford's students and administrators debated what mascot and team name should replace the Indian. A student poll taken during this period ranked possible mascot names in the following order: 1. The Robber baron (industrialist) (in a nod to Leland Stanford, the University's founder); 2. The Jersey Giant; 3. The Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu; 4. The Hunnic Empire; and, far behind, 5. The Griffin. Finally, in 1981, University President Donald Kennedy declared (unsurprisingly, given the other options available amongst the top-polling names) that the team name would officially remain "The Cardinal."

However, in 1975, the Band had performed a series of halftime shows that facetiously suggested several other new mascot candidates it considered particularly appropriate for Stanford, including the Steaming Manhole, the French fried potatoes, and the Sequoia. The Tree ended up receiving so much positive attention that the Band decided to make it a permanent fixture, and thus began the process through which the Tree has gradually colonized the collective unconscious of Stanford's student body.

During the first decade of its existence, the role of the Tree was generally performed by the Band managers' girlfriends. In the mid-1980's, however, the Band adopted a more formal selection process for its Trees. Today's Tree candidate must go through "grueling and humiliating physical and mental challenges" to show that he or she has sufficient chutzpah to be the Tree. During "Tree Week," candidates have been known to perform outrageous, unwise, and often dangerous stunts in order to impress the Tree selection committee; so much so that the University has felt the need to prohibit certain types of audition activities over the years,{{cite web].

The Tree's costume, which is created anew each year by the incumbent Tree, is a prominent target for pranksters from rival schools, in particular from Stanford's San Francisco Bay Area arch-rival, the University of California, Berkeley (California Golden Bears). This tendency for the Tree to come to harm at the hands of Cal fans was showcased in the run-up to the 1998 Big Game (football). An anonymous coterie of Fraternities and sororities brothers from Cal known as the "Phoenix Five" stole the costume and held it "hostage" for two weeks until it was turned in to the UC Berkeley chancellor's office and returned to Stanford by the University of California Police Department.{{cite web|title=Tree relinquished by Cal captors; revered mascot safely back on campus|url=http://daily.stanford.edu/article/1998/11/2/treeRelinquishedByCalCaptorsReveredMascotSafelyBackOnCampus|accessdate=2007-04-14--> In 1996 2 Cal students emerged shirtless from the stands at Memorial Stadium at the Big Game during half time and tackled the tree breaking branches and eliciting cheers from the Cal Alumni prior to being handcuffed and led away.

Violence and absurd levels of prankery have been a two-way street between Cal and Stanford, though. A few years earlier, during an ESPN-televised timeout during a February 1995 basketball game at Maples Pavilion, the Stanford Tree and Cal's mascot Oski got into a fistfight in front of the Stanford student section. The Oski costume's headpiece was forcefully removed by the Tree during the scuffle, which nearly ended Cal's 60+ year tradition of keeping the identity of its mascot-costume wearer secret.{{cite web] was found to be 0.157 (almost twice the legal driving limit in California) during a men's basketball game between Stanford and Cal. UC Berkeley police observed her drinking from a flask during the game and cited her for public drunkenness after she failed a breathalyzer test.{{cite web] tournament game against Florida State University for "dancing in an undesignated area," following an earlier scuffle with tournament security, from whom he had attempted to escape by hurling himself across the basketball court on a rolling chair. The Stanford Athletic Department then banned him from performing for the rest of the NCAA tournament. In protest, members of the Stanford Band wore foliage pinned to their hats and uniforms when they later played at the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship and Elite Eight.

Individuals who served as the Tree 1980s

1990s

2000s Note: This is not a comprehensive list. It does not include the Trees before 1986.

References

External links



 

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