Old-time players get together, watch romp
By Dave Newhouse
BERKELEY — Once they wore the blue and gold, but now they're generational, old Cal footballers with arthritis, limps and new body parts. But the current state of Golden Bears football has acted as a salve for their long-ago physical sacrifices inside Memorial Stadium. "I think it's going fabulously," said Rick Bennett, a Cal fullback in the mid-1960s. "Coach (Jeff) Tedford and Sandy (Barbour, Cal athletic director) have taken Cal football back to where it was in the late 1950s." The late 1950s represents Cal's last Rose Bowl appearance. Bennett thinks of where Cal has been on the gridiron and where it's going, while leaning on a cane from a recent hip replacement. "What I admire most," he said of Tedford's Bears, "is how well-disciplined the players are — it's a year-round commitment. When I played, we had spring ball, but I ran track and Ed White and Jerry Woods put the shot." Some 100 football alums attended a pregame function Saturday morning on Maxwell Field before Cal's 49-21 victory over Arizona State.
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