Bo McNally News

Even without winning either a Rose Bowl berth or the Big Game, Stanford had an excellent regular season.

Rushing standard: The Cardinal broke the school's season record for rushing with 2,692 yards.

The Stanford Cardinal waited more than three quarters to find its Toby Gerhart-led power game Saturday night against Notre Dame.

With 23 for the season and 39 for his career, he surpassed Vardell's standards of 20 and 37.

His teammates did their best to console him on the sidelines, but the redshirt freshman quarterback assumed a lot of the blame for the Big Game loss afterward when he met with reporters.

Stanford football fans, you have a mission. Bring the noise! That was a request from Stanford head coach Jim Harbaugh as he addressed the "Council of Chiefs" today in the annual Big Game luncheon that was held at the Arrillaga Family Sports Center.

The faces told the story. These young men who fought to the last play trudged slowly off the field, through the tunnel and into the Stanford football locker room.

USC quarterback Matt Barkley is sacked by Stanford's Drew Terrell and Bo McNally in the first half during their Pac 10 Conference game at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on Saturday, Nov.

Cal and Stanford will play the 112th edition of the Big Game this Saturday in Palo Alto.

Bo McNally and Syd'Quan Thompson, the active career interception leaders at Stanford and Cal respectively, each added to his total recently.

At just over halfway through the NFL season, I no longer feel bad already thinking ahead to next year.

One was containing the running game. USC rushed for 138 yards, but most of that came on an early 51-yard run by Joe McKnight and his 28-yard touchdown run in the third quarter.

Helen Ost lives in North Portland. A letter to the editor that ran on Oct. 30 gave incorrect information.

This time nobody is saying that a Stanford victory at USC is impossible. Coach Jim Harbaugh hasn't remarked that some people think his team could lose 1,000 to zero.

A top-25 battle in the Pac-10 takes place this weekend in the Coliseum, as 25th-ranked Stanford invades Los Angeles to take a crack at the 11th-ranked USC Trojans.

While most of you were out Trick-or-Treating last Saturday one man was hard at work preparing for next Saturday.

Now Stanford's schedule gets really tough: home with Oregon, at Southern California, home against archrival California and home versus Notre Dame.

Delano Howell made quite a name for himself as a running back at Hart High School.

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The Rose Bowl always seemed to be on a shelf too high to reach. Now the quest, given the Cardinal's rugged November schedule, is to get to a bowl game.