<p>Fun facts</p>
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<li><p>The Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band is still banned from Disneyland from antics from the 1971 and 1972 Rose Bowl trips.</p></li>
<li><p>If Stanford were a country, it would have the third most Olympic medals</p></li>
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<p>Still have to win the Pac12 championship game. With this year’s squad, that’s not a given…</p>
<p>Where did you get fact 2? Great Britain has the 3rd most medals of any country with 802 all time ([All-time</a> Olympic Games medal table - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-time_Olympic_Games_medal_table]All-time”>All-time Olympic Games medal table - Wikipedia)).
I can’t find a figure for total medals but from the athletics site, Stanford has earned 143 medals since 1976 ([Cardinal</a> Athletics: Stanford University Facts](<a href=“http://facts.stanford.edu/campuslife/athletics]Cardinal”>Cardinal Athletics - Facts)). To have more medals than Great Britain that means the Cardinal would have to have earned 661 medals in the previous ~80 years…</p>
<p>Sorry Typo 11th overall, I believe they dropped this last Olympics </p>
<p>Stanford athletes have won medals in every Olympic Games since 1912, winning 244 Olympic medals total, 129 of them gold. In the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Stanford won more Olympic medals than any other university in the United States and, in terms of total medals won, would have tied with Japan for 11th place.</p>
<p>FYI - USC was top doggie when it came to medals won by a US university in the 2012 London Games.</p>
<p>2) It’s pretty interesting!</p>
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Every games or every summer games? 244 medals puts Stanford in 23rd place for nations - which is definitely amazing, but still not 3rd or 11th</p>
<p>Note that 11th as a country quote was based on the medal count for the 2008 Olympics, not the total over all years. That is a frequent quote that appears on both the Stanford website and Wikipedia, but it is not accurate due to the way team sports are counted. </p>
<p>The count includes medals in team sports and relays where most of the team members did not attend Stanford. And when a team has two members from Stanford, it was counted as 2 separate medals for Stanford, but not for other countries. If you exclude team sports and relays where most did not attend Stanford and do not double count teams with multiple Stanford members, then the medal count for 2008 drops to 1 – the Byron twins bronze in doubles tennis. The other medals that would not count if Stanford were an independent country are below:</p>
<p>4 on men’s water polo team
3 on women’s water polo team
2 on men’s volleyball team
2 on women’s volleyball team
2 on women’s soccer team
2 on softball team
2 in 4x100 freestyle relay
1 in 4x100 medley relay
1 in 4x200 relay
1 in men’s 8 rowing
1 in women’s 8 rowing
1 on baseball team
1 on women’s beach volleyball team </p>
<p>That said, it was still quite an impressive achievement with a greater participation by Stanford affiliated students+alumni than at any other college in the US.</p>
<p>Stanford athletes have won medals in every Olympic Games since 1912, winning 244 Olympic medals total, 129 of them gold. In the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Stanford won more Olympic medals than any other university in the United States and, in terms of total medals won, would have tied with Japan for 11th place.[22][23][24]
[Stanford</a> University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University]Stanford”>Stanford University - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>If you click on the first non-broken reference to matching Japan in medal count on your link, it states:</p>
<p>***"One reason that this is not such an easy question is that the answer isnt even really true…</p>
<p>Stanford counts multiple medals for the same event (e.g. both members of the womens gold-medal beach-volleyball duo are from Stanford), but the official country medal counts dont."***</p>
<p>If you count each member of the team from Japan as a separate medal, then Japan would have won 15 medals for their softball team, 6 medals for gymnastics all around, 8 medals for their 2 medley swimming, etc. Their medal count would have more than doubled. Most of the higher medal count countries would have had even larger increases. Stanford would not have tied Japan, nor would it have been in 11th place.</p>