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Football: Your homework
By Jonathan Okanes
Monday, June 14th, 2010 at 9:44 am in Football, off-season stuff.
For its special college football preview section, The Champaign News-Gazette has asked me for Cal’s all-time greatest player, coach and season. That gave me an idea. What do all of you think? Give me your pick for Cal’s all-time best player, coach and season and I’ll tally them up to name winners. I’ll take answers until Friday.
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June 14th, 2010 at 9:49 am
Andy Smith 1921 Deltha O’neal.
June 14th, 2010 at 9:53 am
1922 Pappy Waldorf Joe Kapp
June 14th, 2010 at 11:55 am
nate longshore, 1937, pappy waldorf
June 14th, 2010 at 12:26 pm
1937, no question. Undefeated, defeated Alabama 14-0 in the Rose Bowl, national champions. 10 of eleven starters made All-American teams.
Andy Smith is the best coach.
Best player was Les Richter. All-American and NFL All-Pro.
June 14th, 2010 at 1:38 pm
Coach–Andy Smith
Team: 1937
Player: Tony G
June 14th, 2010 at 4:02 pm
Coach: Andy Smith
Team: 1920. Undefeated and untied, the team finished 9-0. It scored 510 points and only allowed 14!!! Shut out Ohio State 28-0 in the Rose Bowl. Finished the season Number 1 ranked (obviously)! In Nick Peters’ great book about Cal football, “100 Years of Blue & Gold” (1982), Peters’ says that the 1920 team was the greatest Golden Bear team of all time.
Player: I’ll go football-baseball great Jackie Jensen. Peters’ calls him Cal’s “finest all-around athlete ever.”
June 14th, 2010 at 5:03 pm
Coach: Jeff Tedford
Player: Desean Jackson (the year he set the kick / punt returns TD record)
Season: not sure.
June 14th, 2010 at 5:59 pm
Coach: Andy Smith
Team: 1920
Player: Chuck Muncie (over 3000 yds. rushing, over 1000 yds. receiving)
June 14th, 2010 at 6:06 pm
Player: Vincent Strang
Coach: Marv Levy
Year: 1898
June 15th, 2010 at 9:36 am
Player: Vinny “The little lightning bolt” Strang
Coach: Marv “What’dya mean its not Big Game Week” Levy
Year: 1898 could never be topped again
June 15th, 2010 at 4:38 pm
I feel like there are more votes out there than those listed here… JO… are you hiding something?
June 15th, 2010 at 4:43 pm
Player: Vinny Strang
Coach: Marv Levy
Season: 1898
June 15th, 2010 at 9:10 pm
Player: DeSean Jackson 2006
Team 1975 (Roth, Muncie, Walker, Rivera)
Coach: Jeff Tedford (2004)