The first game played at California Memorial Stadium, the 1923 Big Game.

Marguerite Higgins, Cal🌟 Class of 1941, was born Sept. 3, 1920. A pioneer woman journalist, she covered WW II, Korea & Vietnam, and was Moscow Bureau Chief for the NY Herald Tribune in the 1950s. Higgins was the first woman to receive a Pulitzer Prize for Foreign Correspondence.

In 1950, the US military ordered Higgins to leave Korea on the ground that women war correspondents were "too much trouble." Higgins convinced General Douglas MacArthur to lift the ban, which is considered a landmark for women journalists.

Cal🌟 Marguerite Higgins wrote and was an editor for The Daily Californian. After graduation, she headed to New York with one suitcase and $7, giving herself a year to get started in a journalism career or she would return to California and become a French teacher.

Kevin Starr, Cal🌟 M.S. 1974, was born Sept. 3, 1940. He grew up in an orphanage and in public housing in San Francisco, then earned a PhD at Harvard and studied Library Science at Cal. He was California State Librarian 1994-2004 & wrote a renowned 9 volume history of California.

Cal Bears History Cal🌟 Berkeley School of Information UC Berkeley Library Kevin Starr was a kind, wonderful man; he & Dad were "shirt tail cousins". He wrote a recommendation when I applied for Grad school in History, & a generous congratulatory letter on our publication of "A History of San Francisco's Cable Cars". Never too busy to help someone.

The first laboratory on the Cal🌟 campus in 1874, the year after the University moved to Berkeley. Located in South Hall, the lab was shared by the departments of Chemistry and Agriculture. In the photo is Willard Rising, the University of California's first Chemistry professor.

And this year we broke ground on a new building that will contain (among other things) four stories of modern lab space - Heathcock Hall 🙌

On September 5, 1920, the USA Rugby team defeated France 8-0 to win Gold in Antwerp. Charles Tilden, Babe Slater, George Fish, Matthew Hazeltine, Charles Meehan & James Winston became Cal🌟's first Olympic Champions. Cal Varsity Rugby The amazing story: calbearshistory.com/2020/09/05/192…

Thank you🫶

.Alex Morgan has announced her decision to retire from professional soccer and will close her remarkable career this Sunday, September 8, at Snapdragon Stadium with San Diego Wave FC. Morgan also announced that she is pregnant with her second child with husband Servando

This is a crazy stat, via U.S. Women's National Soccer Team: "In the 86 matches in which Morgan scored the USWNT never lost, going 76W-0L-10D."

OH ITS IN ALEX MORGAN HAS DONE IT

One of the BEST to EVER do it! Thank you, Alex Morgan! #GoBears 🐻