In 1908, students at the Cal-Stanford college football game, performed what is considered the first card stunt. The practice still exists. According to Robert David, who helped coordinate stunts as a student at Illinois in the early 1980s and participated in card stunts for the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, more than 30 schools were using card stunts in the 1950s, a number that has dwindled to fewer than 10 now.