The 1900 California Golden Bears football team was an

American football American football, referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron football, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular American football field, field with goalposts at e ...

team that represented the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

during the

1900 college football season The 1900 college football season ended with the ''Official NCAA Division I Football Records Book'' listing Yale as having been selected national champions. Conference and program changes * The Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representat ...

. The team competed as an independent under head coach

Addison Kelly Addison Wylie "King" Kelly (c. 1875 – March 23, 1942) was an American football and baseball player, coach of football, and stockbroker. He played college football and college baseball at Princeton University, from which he graduated in 1898. I ...

and compiled a record of 4–2–1. In the Big Game versus Stanford, a large crowd of people gathered upon the roof of a nearby glass blowing factory to watch for free. The roof collapsed, killing 23 and injuring over 100 more. The

Thanksgiving Day Disaster The Thanksgiving Day Disaster took place in San Francisco on November 29, 1900, at the annual college football game between the California Golden Bears and the Stanford Cardinal, also known as the Big Game. A large crowd of people who did not ...

remains the deadliest accident at a sporting event in U.S. history.

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California Golden Bears football seasons

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