I'll never forget it. I was in the Army, stationed in Germany, so didn't get to see it live. But I heard about it soon enough, a hoax of genius created by some students at Cal Tech, which I had briefly attended prior to the Army. This happened at the Rose Bowl Game.
The students got into the University of Washington cheering section and altered the flip cards for the halftime stunts. With the marching band on the field, the Washington students raised their cards, thinking they were producing the University of Washington spell out ... and the cards read, you guessed it, Caltech. Brilliant! And on national television to boot.
Techies were famous for their pranks. When I was there, the best two were: taking apart a student's sports car and reassembling it in his 2nd floor dorm room; and wiring a classroom so that when the lights were turned on for an 8 a.m. final, Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries blared all across campus from speakers hidden in trees.
Cal Tech was a spectacular experience.
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