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The Leland Stanford Junior University, founded by Leland Stanford, and his wife, Jane Stanford, and named in honor of their deceased teenage son in 1891, is one of the United States' most prestigious universities, situated in Stanford, California (in Palo Alto) on the San Francisco Peninsula.

Stanford built its reputation as a pioneering Silicon Valley institution with strong engineering and science programs. It has since built a premier humanities program to rival any U.S. college. Its reputation among students is that of a relaxed, fun-loving, warm-weather alternative to the Ivy League schools.

The campus covers over 8,000 acres, making it one of the largest university campuses in the world. There are approximately 6,500 undergraduates at the university. The graduate schools include Stanford Law School, Medical School, Graduate School of Business, School of Earth Sciences and School of Education. The Schools of Humanities & Sciences and Engineering have both graduate and undergraduate programs.

Stanford also played an important role in the development of Silicon Valley, with alumni such as the founders of Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems and Yahoo. Indeed, Sun originally stood for Stanford University Network.

The official motto of Stanford University is "Die Luft der Freiheit weht" which, translated from the German, means "Let the winds of freedom blow."

The Stanford University Libraries (SUL) have a collection of more than 8 million volumes.

The primary campus newspaper is the Stanford Daily. The Stanford Report is the official publicity organ of the University.

Stanford Athletics

Stanford participates in the NCAA's Division I-A and is part of the Pac-10 athletic conference. Stanford's traditional sports rival is Cal. The winner of the annual football "Big Game" between Cal and Stanford gains custody of the Axe. Formerly the Stanford Indians, that mascot was determined to be politically incorrect in the late 1970s. The Stanford sports teams are now officially the Stanford Cardinal (the color, not the bird), but the unofficial school mascot is "The Tree." Part of Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band (LSJUMB), the tree symbol is taken from the El Palo Alto pine tree on the Stanford and City of Palo Alto seals.

Stanford Alumni Athletes

The number of sports stars who attended Stanford include:

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