Started at Cal in august of 1959 Was there about 2 weeks before school started 2 participate With cal band Training

In 1959 Cal went to the rose bowl and won the NCAA basketball Championship

Foolish me I thought this was to be my future With sports at Cal

Many years later The future looks pretty much like the past looked Very little chance of Cal rising to prominence in either football or basketball even for 1 year

Oh well As my hero Kurt Vonnegut Might say "So it goes "

Oski, the patron saint of lost causes

Oakbear said:

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Started at Cal in august of 1959 Was there about 2 weeks before school started 2 participate With cal band Training

In 1959 Cal went to the rose bowl and won the NCAA basketball Championship

Foolish me I thought this was to be my future With sports at Cal

Many years later The future looks pretty much like the past looked Very little chance of Cal rising to prominence in either football or basketball even for 1 year

Oh well As my hero Kurt Vonnegut Might say "So it goes "

Oski, the patron saint of lost causes

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Congrats to you. My older brother was in your class and started in the Cal Band when you did. At first he was in an apartment at La Loma and Ridge Road and later moved into the Cal Band house, Telefson(?) Hall South of the Stadium. He traveled with the Cal Band to Europe (Belgium?) in 1960 (?). He was also in the Straw Hat Band. Later he was in the Alumni Band.

I was a High School kid but attended the Cal football games to watch him perform with the Cal Band.
I saw the Cal win over Stanford in 1959 on what I considered was a cliffhanger 20-17 (Cal stopped Stanford near the goal line at the end of the half and again at the end of the game). I followed the Cal Band off the field

I was hooked on Cal Football at that game. I followed my brother to Cal in 1963.

My brother also shared your hopes and dreams for Cal Football (and all the frustrations connected to being a Cal football fan). But as I tell my three kids (also Cal grads and Cal football fans) "Being a Cal fan toughens you up for real life. There are some really great moments and many awful moments. Enjoy the good moments to the full and forget the bad. (I think Charles Dickens said something like that in Nicholas Nickleby).
Go Bears.

Oakbear said:

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Started at Cal in august of 1959 Was there about 2 weeks before school started 2 participate With cal band Training

In 1959 Cal went to the rose bowl and won the NCAA basketball Championship

Foolish me I thought this was to be my future With sports at Cal

Many years later The future looks pretty much like the past looked Very little chance of Cal rising to prominence in either football or basketball even for 1 year

Oh well As my hero Kurt Vonnegut Might say "So it goes "

Oski, the patron saint of lost causes

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My first game was the triple ot win vs SC. And I thought I was set up with unrealistic expectations...

Oakbear said:

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Started at Cal in august of 1959 Was there about 2 weeks before school started 2 participate With cal band Training

In 1959 Cal went to the rose bowl and won the NCAA basketball Championship

Foolish me I thought this was to be my future With sports at Cal

Many years later The future looks pretty much like the past looked Very little chance of Cal rising to prominence in either football or basketball even for 1 year

Oh well As my hero Kurt Vonnegut Might say "So it goes "

Oski, the patron saint of lost causes

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Your Lucky. I came to Cal 2 years later. Fall 1960.d I sometimes thought if i was 2 years older i would have seen cal in a Rose bowl, and 2 final fours.
Actually in 1960, their was some optimism that Cal would return to the final 4. The daily Cal even predicted that Cal would win the national Championship. The Daily's reasoning, the past 2 years Cal had only 2 returning starters and still made the final 4, this year (1960) we had 3, McClintock, Earl Schultz, and Bob Wendell.

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Oakbear said:

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Started at Cal in august of 1959 Was there about 2 weeks before school started 2 participate With cal band Training

In 1959 Cal went to the rose bowl and won the NCAA basketball Championship

Foolish me I thought this was to be my future With sports at Cal

Many years later The future looks pretty much like the past looked Very little chance of Cal rising to prominence in either football or basketball even for 1 year

Oh well As my hero Kurt Vonnegut Might say "So it goes "

Oski, the patron saint of lost causes

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Entered same fall, same year and have suffered similar frustrations, but it's all great training to never give up, and enjoy the role as the underdog. Greatest University on earth, and an unbelievable experience.