bearister said:
Jeff82 said:
My recollection is that one year he played in the Big Game at Furd in the afternoon, and in a basketball game that night at Haas, maybe against Missouri?
The only other Cal player I remember playing hoop and football is Wes Howell. He was pretty darn good at both. I met him in Hollywood in 1990 when I was picking up a new car from my brother in law's car dealership. Wes worked there at the time. He was/is an extremely nice person.
The fun thing about Howell, he came to Cal to play basketball, then came out for football after he used up his hoops eligibility... and, over the course of one season, probably became better on the gridiron than he had been on the hardwood! Certainly more storied, what with his TD catch in the '82 Big Game, but he was also drafted, IIRC, and even played a bit in the NFL (I wanna say with the NY Jets).
Of course, the great Joe Kapp played football and basketball for the Golden Bears, but way before the time of young guys such as bearister and me.
