Sitting with Cal fans, directly across from Caydance, visible with her binoculars, Jack and Yuri were eating hotdogs, talking to each other. Yuri was passing a hipflask to Jack, Several empty cans of Baltika Zhigulevskoye Extra Lager were under their seats, as if -- not Cal Fans; not Stanford fans -- in the midst of the college crowd they were isolated International spies-on-vacation. Caydance raised her tin cup in salute, but they did not notice. Meanwhile on the field, it was Paye incomplete to James; Cal's Majett Whiteside left the field when hit on the knee by Paye's helmet; Paye was sacked by Natu Tuatagloa. On 4th and 15, Stanford kicker Doug Robison punted the ball.

Coach Elway was roaming the sidelines like a wary animal protecting its young. The Stanford crowd was subdued. Caydance had started on the brie and pate sandwich (with which she had emerged from the Deli) when Stanford Defensive Back Brad Humphreys intercepted Kevin Brown's early-in-the-possession pass to Wendell Peoples. Suddenly in good field position, it was Stanford's quarterback John Paye to All American Brad Muster; Paye complete to Eric Snelson. A penalty for holding was called against the Cards. At the one-minute mark of the second quarter, a Stanford time-out was followed by an incomplete pass, stopped by Cal's Hardy Nickerson. Familiar with David Sweeney's 3 out of 13 field goal kicking record, the crowd around Caydance was quiet when Sweeney came on to kick a 48-yard field goal.

Surprisingly, despite a moment of trajectory concern, the ball sailed through the uprights. At the end of the first half, the score was Cal 10 Stanford 3