Once upon a time there was more than just the marching band at halftime. The student section also did card tricks. Often they were coordinated with what the band was doing. Every student in the main student section had a pack of about 2 foot square colored cards and a stunt sheet for the seat they had.
The one stunt I remember most clearly is UCLA being spelled out in script as if an invisible pen was writing it followed by tracing the border of the section. I'm pretty sure that the next was reversing it, so that Gold on Blue became Blue on Gold.
I started thinking about this because one of the more famous pranks pulled by Cal Tech was somehow switching the instruction sheets at one Rose Bowl game so everything came up "Cal Tech".
I'm wondering if in a few years (or perhaps already) anyone talking about that great prank will have to explain what card stunts were.
The one stunt I remember most clearly is UCLA being spelled out in script as if an invisible pen was writing it followed by tracing the border of the section. I'm pretty sure that the next was reversing it, so that Gold on Blue became Blue on Gold.
I started thinking about this because one of the more famous pranks pulled by Cal Tech was somehow switching the instruction sheets at one Rose Bowl game so everything came up "Cal Tech".
I'm wondering if in a few years (or perhaps already) anyone talking about that great prank will have to explain what card stunts were.
