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I broke some long runs on us and hopefully if Prince pulls it down and runs it, we can track him down for some minimal gains and not let huge plays happen on us.� Prince, who’s averaging just 71.2 yards passing per game in spite of high-scoring wins over Houston and then-No. 7 Texas, probably shouldn’t be Cal’s primary concern. After an offensively anemic performance against then-No. 14 Arizona two weeks ago, it’s the Bruin defense that should be lighting up its monitors. In linebacker Akeem Ayers and safety Rahim Moore, the Bears face two of the best athletes on defense they’ll see all season, adding an extra challenge to what is already a pressure-filled contest. Cal has a lot to prove on offense this weekend. After breezing through its first two opponents, the Bears hit a major stumbling block in the Wolf Pack and then the Wildcats, resulting in their reputation taking something of a hit as well. In order to gain back some respect, the Bears — who averaged four yards per carry and per pass in Arizona — will need to strike fast
t’s been getting real tense here at UC Berkeley. Not the protests, walk-outs or pulled fire alarms. No, I'm talking about midterm tension — the full libraries, the endless caffeine consumption, the nocturnal existence, the ever-drooping eye bags. You know, that magical couple of weeks where students try to display what they have learned over the past month and a half (or what they frantically memorized in the past hour and a half.) The Cal football team’s situation is no different. In fact, Saturday’s contest against UCLA is more like a retake midterm of sorts. When the Bears’ defenders first took on a pistol attack against Nevada last month, the performance closely mimicked the results of an unproductive procrastination session. In other words, lots and lots of guessing. Cal did an adequate job of holding down running back Vai Taua for most of the night. The only problem was, he was all too often a decoy for the Wolf Pack’s Colin Kaepernick, who could run a bit, as well — 148 yards and three touchdowns worth of running. Woof. Kaepernick darted left when the Bears guessed right, and bolted to the right when they bit left. On his one-yard touchdown run, defenders simply froze and couldn’t even
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Freshman wide receiver Keenan Allen is expected to be at full strength for Cal’s tilt against the Bruins. Allen is averaging 10 yards per rush and 17.6 yards per catch. by Katie Dowd Daily Cal Staff Writer
Tailback Shane Vereen was asked on Tuesday how the Cal football team was getting ready for its tilt against UCLA in light of the Bruins’ remarkably inconsistent season thus far. “(They’re) a little Jekyll and Hyde,� Vereen said. “Prepare for their best.� And hope for their worst. The game acts as the second act of Cal’s play against the pistol offense, and the Bears (2-2, 0-1 in the Pac-10) are certainly hoping for a better ending than the first. In their ugliest effort of the season, Cal was trashed by Nevada quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who ran, skipped and sometimes threw his way to 329 yards of offense against the hapless Bear defense. This Saturday at 12:30 p.m., UCLA (3-2, 2-1) brings its own variation of the pistol — which has been running on all cylinders of late — to Memorial Stadium. “The only thing I think is different is (Bruin quarterback Kevin Prince) can still make some yards with his legs, (but) it’s not Kaepernick,� Cal head coach Jeff Tedford said. “Kaepernick
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Yevelev from Page 2 commit to one action — not unlike a flummoxed student, staring at his bluebook on exam day. This weekend’s Homecoming game offers the team another shot, to see how much the Bears — with a full week off and a healthy Mike Mohamed — have reviewed their notes on the pistol. Just one year removed from having the nation’s most anemic ground attack, the Bruins are firing off some absurd rushing numbers. In five games this fall, Rick Neuheisel’s club is just 100 rushing yards away from equalling its 2009 total of 1,490. Last season, eight different backs outran the UCLA team. During Tuesday’s press conference, made no secret about what is behind the sudden success down south. “I think it’s a product of the pistol, actually; I really do,” coach Jeff Tedford said. “Because I think they’ve always had good running backs and it seems like they’re really gaining momentum with it.” If this were an identification question, it’d be spot-on. UCLA spent much of 2009 alternating between Derrick Coleman and Johnathan Franklin as a primary runner with little success, all the while trying to fruitlessly develop Kevin Prince into a pure pocket passer. And while the team’s ghastly passing numbers may still give Neuheisel — a former Bruin signal-caller — nightmares, he now has a trio of potent rushing threats to work with. Over-pursue either of the tailbacks, and Prince, now healthy, has the ability to take off running — just like he did for a 38-yard touchdown on the road against Texas. “It looks like they're getting much more comfortable with what's going on,” Tedford says. The Bruins and their offense? Certainly. Cal being able to defend it? We’ll find that out on Saturday. Take a deep breath, and relax. Your exam begins now. Test your knowledge of the Pistol at sports@dailycal.org.
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breaking, soul-crushing losses that only strengthen our resolve. UCLA fans focus their energy on whatever team is winning. They can’t relate to our struggle. Yes, there are those that have achieved; most notably rugby, men’s water polo and women’s swimming, but sometimes the most memorable are those that weren’t meant to be. At Cal, we have the unattainable Rose Bowl. Yeah, UCLA played in the 1999 Rose Bowl, but what happened? Its defense was mowed down by the impossible-to-tackle Ron Dayne and the Bruins were swiftly beat by Wisconsin. Way to represent your home turf, Bruins. None of us know what Cal in the real Rose Bowl looks like, and the dream of the blue and gold sprinting out of the tunnel on New Year’s Day is spine-chilling. It’ll happen someday. Oh yes, it will happen someday. You learn more as a fan when you lose, and how those losses sweeten the victories. You learn to be a realist, you learn patience, and you learn what it is like to be temporarily emotionally crushed. At UCLA, either you win or your team is branded underachieving. There is no passion, no vigor and no true semblance of life as a fan. —Gabriel Baumgaertner Daily Californian Sports Editor
Let me start by saying that it’s an honor to appear in The Daily Californian. The UCLA-Cal rivalry is one of my favorites and always makes for an exciting game. I have a lot of respect for UC Berkeley and Berkeley has quickly become one of my favorite places to visit. Alright, now that that’s out of the way, what was it that I was supposed to argue? That’s right, why UCLA has a better athletics program. Are you serious? This really shouldn’t even be a question. I’ll start with some sobering statistics. Cal has 79 team national championships, UCLA has 106. The all-time football record between UCLA and Cal stands at 49-30-1 in favor of the Bruins. Cal has had 27 consensus All-Americans in football, UCLA has had 39. One more important stat. I’d be remiss to not mention UCLA’s dominance in the mascot category. Joe Bruin isn’t the most iconic of mascots but he beats the cardigan sweater off of a senior-citizen Oski. When I look at Oski, I’m afraid he’s going to sit me down and lecture me about the value of a dollar. And don’t even get me started on Basketball. 11 national titles, 18 final fours and three straight final fours from 2006-2008, and a ridiculous number of NBA standouts. Last I checked, Cal has
one national basketball title and it was won before my parents were born. Sure, Mike Montgomery has done a nice job of reviving Cal’s program. But Ben Howland’s Bruins are in a whole different league. With last season being an anomaly for the Bruins, the recruits continue to roll in and Howland’s Bruins will continue to dominate. But let’s get back to football because that’s what’s on the docket this weekend. The two teams share similar records, but the Bruins have something that the Bears don’t: a win over a quality opponent on the road. Coach Rick Neuheisel’s Bruins have shown the ability to go into a hostile environment and take the crowd out of the game. The Bruins’ win over the Texas Longhorns on Sept. 25 was a program changer and gave this team a passion-bucket full of confidence after a disastrous start to the year. UCLA’s should control the ground game after rolling up 437 yards on the ground last week. Did I forget to mention the most important aspect of this game? The Bruins’ “thunder and lightning” duo of Derrick Coleman and Johnathan Franklin will be the difference in Saturday’s game. —Sam Strong Daily Bruin Sports Editor
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“Watching some of the games on Saturday, you could see that every game is going to be a fight, just like our game with Arizona,” Riley said. “Are you going to make enough plays throughout the game at the end of the game to win those games? “Just like those games are all close games, hard fought, and that’s what the Pac-10 is going to be like this year, every single game.” But there’s more than redemption for the last two weeks on the line. Should Cal drop this game, it will go
0-2 to begin Pac-10 play, virtually ruling out any hopes of winning a conference championship. “I don’t know if it’s just urgency for the Pac-10, I think it’s urgency just for our entire season, because we’ve lost the last two,” Vereen said. “We don’t want to feel rushed, we don’t want to feel pressure, but I think we all understand that we need to get a win this Saturday.”
Let me guess, the guy next to me is talking about UCLA’s 106 national championships. “We have 106 national championships, thus we are the best program in the nation.” That statement is about as old and tired as “50 Cent got shot nine times!” or “We landed on the moon!” In other words: BORING. You want me to defend why our program is better? Then let’s dig deep, I’m talkin’ real deep, into the differences between UCLA and Cal. Let’s talk about what it means to be a fan. See, you guys at UCLA are all about winning, first place and preeminence. Cal is first place in what matters (public school rankings), and they provide some thrilling moments for its fans. Plus, Joe Bruin has several different mascot heads and a wannabe uniform. I sense insecurity. Our one Oski stands strong, with only two cardigans to choose from while chugging beer out of his eye. Cal has one of the finest athletic departments in the country. This is a department that routinely churns out world-class athletes, maintains a strong graduation rate and enjoys success in most of its sports. But those Bears just have a way about them. Cal fans endure gut-wrenching, heart-
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and often against the Bruins. “They’re a great run-stopping team because they play fast, they play hard, they play physical,” Vereen said. “They have a great front seven, and because they play their safeties low, their safeties support the run very well. With their combination of the defenses they run, the blitzes, it makes it very difficult for runners to get started against them.
“Taking that into consideration, it’s going to be a tough, grinder game for us.” Cal’s put particular emphasis on red zone efficiency this week in practice, and for good reason. Against Arizona, the Bears ventured into the red zone three times; not once did they score a touchdown. They also learned first hand the sting of not capitalizing on those opportunities.
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ne sprained big toe. It kept senior linebacker Mike Mohamed sidelined in the Cal football team’s first loss of the season, helpless during his team’s 52-31 evisceration in Reno, Nev., three weeks ago. It opened the door for D.J. Holt. With the Bears missing their defensive star, the junior split time between both inside linebacker spots. The unit’s usual captain was stuck in sweats, so the team looked elsewhere for guidance. “Whenever we lose a man, somebody has to step up and he understands that,” linebackers coach Kenwick Thompson says. “We feel like that’s just part of the position.” The defense couldn’t contain dualthreat quarterback Colin Kaepernick from any position as the freakish, 6-foot-6 specimen made Cal his own personal punching bag. 330 total yards. Five touchdowns. The stat line read like it was from a video game.
But the Bears needed a silver lining, and Holt was finely polished sterling. His 16 tackles was Cal’s highest mark since 2007, matching safety Thomas DeCoud. Mohamed is one of the team’s best players, a likely NFL Draft pick who led the conference in the category last season with 112. Even missing the entire Nevada game and most of the next in Arizona, his 23 tackles through three games is good enough for the team’s secondhighest total. Holt now leads with 34. ore often than not, players require time to grow into the linebacker position. Patience and anticipation comes with more and more reps. Formations become easier to recognize, slowly etching themselves into memory. “Towards the end of (last) season I started to watch more film and it started to click for me,” Holt says. “I started to understand the game better. When springtime came, everything just started to fall into place. Fall camp, everything started to happen slower.
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Everything was just perfect timing.” He admits that he used to settle. (“I did fine. I did OK. I’ll be all right for next week.”) Like many young players, Holt spent his first two years were spent trying to figure out his role — something he’s far more comfortable with now. The former high-school standout flips through his responsibilities like a Rolodex. Get better every week. Be prepared to play any position. Lead by example. Holt pauses mid-sentence. “I want guys to count on me,” he adds. art of his story starts at Crespi Carmelite High, a 540-student, all-boys prep school in Encino, Calif. Tucked into the heart of the San Fernando Valley, its football team is coming off two straight seasons without a postseason berth — a drought that led to the forced resignation of head coach Jeremiah Ross. These things are cyclical, though, and the Celts just happen to be in the
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he slamming gates, the hassles with entrance security — they still strike a chord with Derrick Hill. Cal’s senior defensive tackle can vividly remember walking through the prison halls. San Quentin. Pelican Bay. Folsom. He’s seen them all because his father, Derrick, Sr. — who has been incarcerated since Derrick, Jr., was 2 — has sat in them all. As a toddler and elementary schooler, he visited his father on a weekly basis. As Hill got older, the trips were less frequent, supplemented with letters and phone calls. Yet, as he rests in the Memorial Stadium stands, Hill continues to grapple with the unsettling experience. “I hate going through it. I respect what people do as far as guards, but I hate them,” Hill says. “When you really hear those bars click, and you hear them slam, it really lets you know that this is not a game. And when walking down there, you’re walking down the same route those prisoners are walking down. The only difference is once they allow you to leave, you can leave and those prisoners can’t.” And growing up in West Oakland, it could have been all to easy for Hill to stray down the wrong path. Fights and gunplay were rampant. Hill’s own classmates were killed. He was faced with the pressure to sell drugs. “We were in the heart of the inner-city ghetto,” Hill says. “I’ve seen it all. It brings you back down. It humbles you. You have to remember that any time, any day, your life can be taken, or you can (make) that one mistake.” Hill had to grow up and mature rapidly in order to avoid the circumstances that befell his father and many of his friends. At age six, Hill would spend early weekend mornings helping out at his grandfather’s hauling business. He sought any kind of outlet that would steer him out of trouble and keep him from being a burden on his mother, Tamara, who was taking care of him and his sister.
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Hill found that outlet in sports. ormer McClymonds football coach Alonzo Carter remembers his first interactions with Hill, who was an avid baseball and basketball player as a kid. “I told him there ain’t too many 6-foot-2 power forwards unless you’re Charles Barkley,” Carter quips. Hill was walking home after one of his first days of high school when he spotted the football team practicing. His Oakland Raiders T-shirt soon draped over football pads. Just one year later, Hill was a varsity starter on both sides of the line for the Warriors, garnering All-League honors. He recorded 15.5 sacks his senior year, becoming the first and only player out of Oakland ever to earn an invitation to the U.S. Army High School All-American Bowl. “He just had motor about him,” says Carter, who now coaches at Contra Costa College. “You don’t coach that. You win games up front ... (and) Derrick was the catalyst of that. The sky was the limit for him.” Throughout his career, Hill would cultivate a leadership and strength of character that matched his on-field achievements. His coach recalls Hill’s junior year at McClymonds, when the Warriors lost in the Oakland Section Championship. Carter had given the team a week off to rest, but entered the weight room the following Monday only to see Hill working out. “He said, ‘I dont need no week off, I’m ready right now,’” Carter says. During Hill’s senior year, McClymonds finished 11-1, ranked No. 2 behind only De La Salle. Their lone loss came against Dorsey High School, a Los Angeles powerhouse that featured Hill’s future collegiate teammates, Robert Mullins and Keith Browner. Carter’s star defensive lineman was the first to accept responsibility after his team’s defeat. “After we lost to Dorsey, he said, ‘That’s on me, I got you next week,’” Carter says. “Derrick made a vow that he would play better. He vowed to me that he would get it done.” Hill remained true to his word.
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The very next week, McClymonds went up against Crenshaw High School, another Southern California juggernaut. Featuring Darian Hagan and current Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive tackle Brian Price, the Cougars had already defeated Dorsey twice in the fall of 2005. The Warriors prevailed, 14-8. n athlete’s performance on the field does not always match the conduct off of it. Yet, Hill’s refusal to shirk responsibility as a football player has carried over into his daily life. In choosing between USC, Arizona and Cal, Hill had an opportunity to escape the difficulties of West Oakland. Rather than flee, however, he chose to stay and raise his community up. “When I was coming up, it was always, ‘You can’t stay because your community and your environment is going to follow you.’ I wanted to change that and prove people wrong,” Hill says. “Coming (from) 10 minutes, away, I knew I had to branch out, help out with the inner city kids. They don’t have a lot of positives in their community.” In that respect, Hill was fortunate. His grandfather and grandmother — a woman who could “life refridgerators”, Hill jokes — helped to cultivate family values and a strong work ethic early in life. Hill’s mother was a strong disciplinarian who made sure he stayed focused on academics throughout school (“She ain’t no joke,” Carter recalls.) And in Derrick Sr.’s absence, Carter stepped in as another father figure, with Hill’s family embracing the coach as another relative. Hill hopes to provide similar guidance for less fortunate youth. One of his personal goals is to coach high school football, the same activity that helped to mold him. “Sports can help you grow up and become a man,” Hill says. “You deal with that adversity, you deal with those problems, you deal with not always being the best and not having everything. You have to learn how to fight through times that feel like they won’t end.”
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itchell Schwartz loves baseball. He grew up watching it with his dad and older brother Geoff. He grew up playing it, pitching and sometimes manning first. It was his first, his only, sports love. When Mitchell entered the ninth grade, he was 6-foot-5, 240 pounds and still growing. Geoff, a junior, was a 6-foot-6 monster at offensive tackle who was being courted by Division I football programs. The JV football coaches at Palisade Charter High saw Mitchell at orientation and salivated. “They said, ‘You’re going to be better than your brother,’” Schwartz says. But Schwartz hadn’t played a snap of competitive football in his life — and he didn’t want to. That, as it turns out, wasn’t the opinion that mattered the most in the Schwartz family. Geoff, who saw more in his brother than a second-rate prep pitcher, had the final say. “My brother forced me into it,” Mitchell says. Schwartz begrudgingly joined the team on the condition that he would have the opportunity to try out at quarterback. That didn’t last long. “I could throw the ball, but that got shot down very quickly,” he says. “Within a week, they were like, ‘You know, we need a little bit more of a mobile guy for this offense. We’re going to have to move you to offensive line.’” It was a clever move, roping him into the team with the bait of quarterback and then switching him to his true position after he’d made the commitment. Some people would have quit over it. Schwartz probably appreciated the trick. al’s junior left tackle is a very quiet man. He isn’t the type of quiet that suggests vacuity, though. His intelligence is evident quickly, even when he’s silent. Because while you’re busy talking, he’s trying to read you. “I’ve always been interested in mind games,” Schwartz says. “Being able — not to read people’s minds — but understand why they do things.” Academic intelligence and athletics are often thought of as mutually exclusive. For Schwartz, it was the intellectual challenge that strengthened his initially tenuous link to football. “It helped me on the field — being a little more analytical about stuff. Reading defenses, and knowing what’s coming,” he says. “There’s always indicators if you just calm down and pick up on it and not get too wrapped up in the moment.” Picking up on those subtle indicators has become a scholarly endeavor for Schwartz. He graduated high school with a 4.3 GPA, and came to Cal intending to study psychology. He
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derrick hill: Hill Speaks With Inner City Youth from page 7
For teenagers who have already made wrong choices, Hill wants to help them rebuild their lives. Hill was recently back in the dreaded prison environment, speaking to a group of 30 young convicts at Oakland’s Alameda Country Juvenile Hall. In a two-hour session, Hill emphasized the value of education and positive leadership in breaking the vicious cycle of crime in underprivileged communities. “Here were guys in there that were smaller than my 12-year-old cousins,” Hill says. “And these were kids that were ... going to all those big-name penitentiaries. These were kids that had committed serious crimes. A lot of times those kids were in those situations not because they put themselves in there but because they were following the wrong people. “I told them it’s okay to be a follower, but as long as you follow a good leader. When you follow negativity, those leaders only make you do things that they don’t want to put
their hands on. When I left there, they had something in their minds like, ‘Maybe I can do something with this time.’” Hill may indeed become a force of change among the inner city youth. For now, he focuses on guiding one person in particular: his two year-old son, Derrick III. “I named him after me and my father because I felt like it would be a continuation of the foundation that my dad and I started,” Hill says. “My father raised me to be a better man that he was, and I want to raise my son to be a better man that I have been.” alking on the phone, coach Carter recounts another memorable anecdote involving his former star pupil. “(Derrick) was All-East-Bay First Team at guard, and whatever play he would call, he would switch sides just to be the lead blocker,” Carter says. Much like in football, people will benefit by following Hill’s lead.
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took the classes, read the books, but walked away dissatisfied. “All the classes here don’t really do much for you in terms of actual application,” he says. “It’s just reading from a book. You definitely learn a lot more if you’re conscious of it just through your own personal experiences and interactions with people.” On the field, he found those experiences. While other players were still slogging through the conceptual maze of the playbook, (“The playbook has always come easy for me. I feel like the playbook is pretty simple.”), Schwartz skipped straight to the application. He could trust in himself to execute the play, so he turned his focus to the man across from him. Like Simon Baker’s character on ‘The Mentalist,’ one of Schwartz’s favorite TV shows, Schwartz looked for the tiniest of cues from the defense to anticipate their next move. His cerebral approach caught the attention of both his teammates and coaches. After redshirting his freshman year, Schwartz was immediately named a starter. “Since he understands the game and has had so many starts, he can calm himself there,” tight end Spencer Ladner says. “A lot of people have nerves. He’s very calm and confident out there in what he’s supposed to do. What he can do.” If you look back at Schwartz’s high school profile on Scout.com, you’ll see it lists two areas for improvement. The first is technique. The second is a nasty streak.
Four years later, Schwartz still hasn’t developed that. Four years later, he’s started every game of his collegiate career and is considered one of the best offensive lineman in the conference. The scouts were wrong about that nasty streak. He’s smart enough to not need it. ver the summer, Schwartz played a lot of “Call of Duty”. “I got to the point where I was too competitive with myself,” he says. “I had done pretty well for a while, and it just got to the point where if I wasn’t doing it at that level, it was frustrating, and if I was, I expected it. It was a lose-lose.” So Schwartz sold the game back and pocketed the $22 of store credit. It’s no loss. There will be another game for Schwartz. Something new that captures his interest and holds it — at least for a little while. Football’s the same way. Right now, it’s fresh and interesting. This is, after all, just his seventh year playing competitive football. There are new challenges that await him because this game, as he well knows, is still a mystery. “Sometimes you can just look at a guy and, for whatever reason, you just know,” he says. “A couple times, it’s been weird. I’ll make eye contact with someone on defense and know they’re coming.” Most of the time, when Schwartz looks at the man across from him, he doesn’t know. That this might be the one game he can’t outsmart.
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valley portion of their journey. Crespi is still one of the Southland’s traditional football powers. Holt, for example, had a storybook ending to his high school career, leading his team to two straight CIF Division X titles. Two years into his time there, he almost left. Holt had originally heard about Crespi through a friend. Upon visiting the campus, he was immediately impressed, particularly with Troy Thomas. The defensive-minded coach preached aggression on the defense, a philosophy that stuck with Holt. (“I like being physical and just dominating another player, another team. You see it in their eyes.”) Thomas became a father figure for him. Then, after Holt’s sophomore year, Thomas decided to leave for Anaheim’s Servite High. “It was one day, during lifting class,” he remembers. “He was like, ‘We need to have a meeting.’ And then, next thing you know, he said, ‘I’m not gonna be the coach next year.’ Man, that day was really shocking. I couldn’t believe it. I was like, ‘What am I gonna do now? The head coach is leaving.’ “I didn’t know exactly what to think or what to feel. A week later I was still shocked.” Holt stayed, despite thoughts about transferring to Canyon High, which some of his middle-school classmates played for. That school was a mere five minutes away from his house — and eventually won two Division I championships — but he had to set an example.
“A lot of those guys were a year younger than me, two years younger than me, three years younger than me,” Holt says. en Crespi alumni are now his conference rivals. He’ll see one this Saturday: UCLA quarterback Kevin Prince. When Prince started his first year of varsity ball as a junior, Holt was already set for his fourth. He had been an anchor for the team all over the field and, as the No. 1 receiver, became a sort of safety valve for the newcomer. “Every now and then, he would get rattled in high school,” Holt says. “I would come and calm him down, just calm down, relax. He would throw me the ball. I’d tell him throw me the ball. ‘I’ll get you out of situations, just throw me the ball. We need you.’ Just keep reminding him, try to keep up his confidence.” Prince threw for 1,422 yards and 12 touchdowns that season. Holt caught nine of them. He’ll try to catch another one of Prince’s throws in Cal’s Homecoming game. The former teammates might hook up for another touchdown; this time, it’ll only count as six points for one of them. “Last year, I hit him and knocked him down to the ground,” he says. “I didn’t help him up because he’s an opponent ... We still have that friendship, but I’m a Bear, he’s a Bruin. On the field, it’s all war.” Mohamed will be back, but Holt’s still ready to command.
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s with no other sport, football represented my student life. I started my fall semester with all sorts of optimism towards success in my classes, just like I approach each football season with undeserved optimism. Around Homecoming time, realism would raise its ugly head as my first midterms revealed I was less than average — just like Cal’s 2010 football team. One similarity between 1952-55 and 2010 relates to Coach Tedford. I came to Cal when Coach Pappy Waldorf ’s career started going downhill — from nine wins in 1952 to three wins in 1955. Until 1955, Coach Pappy never had a losing season, nor lost a Big Game — but that year, we threw oranges at Governor Knight as he accepted the Axe for Stanford. The biggest change in Homecoming is that during 1952-55, our Homecoming game was the Big Game (both when it was a home game and when it was an away game). Even when we played at Stanford, there was a Big Game/Homecoming parade down Shattuck Avenue on Thursday evening and a rally bonfire at the Greek Theatre. When we played UCLA, there was an All-University Week celebration with programs involving the four campuses. The program ended for all students with a football game between Santa Barbara and Davis, followed by the Cal vs. UCLA game. The university president changed sides at the half, marched to the center of the field by UCLA officials and escorted to our side by Cal’s officials. Another change occurred within the football program. While I was there, there was a freshman and JV team. Thus, football die-hards had at least two games on Saturday and there was no competition from professional football. Five football traditions from my stu-
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Memorial Stadium: Our House by Connor Byrne Contributing Writer
With the Cal football team set to host their 2011 home games at San Francisco’s AT&T Park, 2010 marks the last time the Bears will play in the original Memorial Stadium. Man`y characteristics of Memorial make it unique, whether it be Tightwad Hill, the Victory Cannon, card stunts or the Cal Band, most notably directed by Bob Briggs from 1973 to 1995. However, what really makes Memorial Stadium extraordinary are the awe-inspiring and monumental games that have taken place here. One game that is permanently etched in the fabled lore of Memorial Stadium is 2003’s victory over eventual conational champion USC. Entering the game, the No. 3-ranked Trojans, a team consisting of 51 future NFL players and two future Heisman Trophy winners, looked poised to demolish the unranked no-name Cal football team. However, the Bears had other plans. Four quarters and three overtimes later, Tyler
Fredrickson’s game-winning field goal sailed through the uprights of the south end zone, giving the Bears a 34-31 victory. This would be the only blemish on USC’s season and would deny them the chance to compete for the outright national championship. Needless to say, whenever you take anything away from USC, it’s worth remembering. For that one game in 2003, Cal gave an inspiring effort and shattered everyone’s expectations. If there is one consistent theme with Cal football and Memorial Stadium, it’s that Cal doesn’t play the way you predict they will, for better or for worse. When the Bears play at Memorial they often exceed expectations, like in 1956 when they beat a heavily favored Stanford team, 20-19, in what would be the final game of Pappy Waldorf ’s career (which included taking the Bears to three Rose Bowls). You could also turn to 1958’s demolishing of Utah at Memorial, a game in which Cal put up over 600 yards of total offense, then an NCAA record. It’s safe to say that most people didn’t expect
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crazy as their SEC counterparts. Finally, the most surprising, exciting and famous game in Memorial Stadium’s history has to be the Big Game of 1982, personified by announcer Joe Starkey desperately searching for superlatives to describe the sheer spectacle of what he had just witnessed. You could not script a better game. Cal used the same blitz scheme that the Baltimore Colts had used against head coach Joe Kapp when he played for the Minnesota Vikings (which he had thrown for an NFL record seven touchdowns against, go figure) to shut down the high-powered Cardinal offense, directed by head coach Paul Wiggin, all game long. However, it appeared to be a storybook ending for Stanford, as Hall of Fame quarterback John Elway orchestrated another of his patented late game drives, which included converting a fourth-and-17 from his own 13-yard line, to put the Cardinal up 20-19 with only 4 seconds remaining, seemingly securing the victory and a berth into the Peach Bowl. One squib kick, five laterals and a touchdown later, the Bears shocked the world, and came away with the victory. Oh, and Kevin Moen spiking the ball on the head of trombonist Gary Tyrell of the Stanford “band” — I guess that was pretty memorable too. I still get chills when I watch the Play. It was so inconceivable, so unexpected. That’s what makes Cal football and Memorial Stadium so unique. Let’s hope that the new stadium will foster the same commitment to excellence and to the unexpected that the Bears and the original Memorial Stadium have always lived up to.
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Alumnus from Page 10 dent days have disappeared into Cal’s seasons of apathy. First, the men’s rooting section, filling the stadium between both 40-yard lines, was a special experience, as you can imagine, with over 5,000 testosterone-charged men cheering for Cal. Women sat to the men’s left between the 40- and 30-yard lines and couples to the men’s right. White shirts, laundered only after a Cal win, and rooter’s hats (baseball-type blue and gold hats for everyone except freshmen, who wore beanies) were required. Red shirts and red sweaters trying to walk in front of the men brought out the men’s worst. Oranges, sometimes injected with vodka, were common artillery fodder to throw at the opposition. Also, there were no pom-pom girls, just male cheerleaders, as part of the spectacle — I presume it was too dangerous for pretty girls to be in front of hormonal super-charged men. Third quarter was a time to sing the Cal Drinking Song, which later was stolen and used as the basis for both the Ohio State and UCSB Drinking Song. Fourth quarter, winning or losing, was a time to give Coach Pappy a standing cheer of six rahs. This tradition was eliminated and forgotten when his successors did so poorly. Finally, the band closed the game by playing our alma mater before the student body, not the alumni. One misses the special experience of watching the band exit the north tunnel playing “One More River,” with the tubas leaving last. As I pondered and tried to remember events of over 50 years ago, I was reminded that football is the only sport that reunites a student body with its alumni. When one is in the workplace, few anxiously await Newsweek’s rating of their respective schools’ programs as they anticipate their football team’s weekly ranking instead. Come to Homecoming and the UCLA game. Enjoy the game, and remember these special moments when you and your fellow students coalesce into one great group of men and women rooting for your team. You and your associates will take many things away from Cal — particularly the episodes of your slightly odd friends and energetic associates. But you will probably most fondly remember those when you and your friends came together for Cal events.
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• Kevin Prince returns to the starting lineup this week after missing last week’s victory over Washington State with a knee injury.
• Shane Vereen loves playing UCLA. A native of Valencia, Calif., Vereen had a 56-yard touchdown scamper in Cal’s 41-20 victory over the Bruins in 2008 and rushed for 154 yards in last season’s 45-26 victory at the Rose Bowl. • The Bears return for their first home game since they defeated Colorado on Sept., 11. Cal has outscored its opponents 104-10 in two home games this year, but has lost both contests on the road. • Cal has not lost at home against UCLA since 1998. That same Bruins team was the last one to earn a Rose Bowl berth. UCLA lost the 1999 Rose Bowl to Wisconsin, 38-31.
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• Cal’s 10-9 loss against Arizona was the first time that the Bears did not score a touchdown since Oct 3, 2009, when the Bears lost 30-3 against USC.
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UCLA has had its fair share of defensive stars take the field over the years. Carnell Lake, Ricky Manning Jr., Brian Price and Reggie Carter are just a few defensive studs to pass through Westwood over the years. But despite a rich defensive tradition, linebacker Akeem Ayers could be the best defender to ever don the baby blue by the time he is finished. Considered one of the top players in the Pac-10, Ayers is a brute force at linebacker. The Los Angeles native is projected as a first-round selection whenever he decides to leave school. Simply put, there are few, if any deficiencies in Ayers’ game. He can stuff the run, harass the quarterback, intercept passes and punish receivers over the middle. Ayers has scored three defensive touchdowns during his time at UCLA; many probably remember his leaping interception in the opposing end zone against Oregon last season, which would be the Bruins’ only touchdown of the game. After a remarkable performance against Texas two weeks ago, Ayers looks primed to increase his stock even further. If Cal hopes to establish any offensive rhtyhm this afternoon, they will need to contain Ayers in the middle and safety Raheem Moore in the secondary.
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• Kicker Kai Forbath is regarded as the best college kicker in the nation. A consensus All-American and Lou Groza award winner in 2009, Forbath has established himself as one of the best collegiate kickers in recent memory.
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The Cal football team must be happy that Mike Mohamed is returning to the starting lineup. The senior linebacker, who missed the loss at Nevada and played sparingly against Arizona, is supposed to be 100-percent for Saturday’s homecoming tilt against the Bruins. Mohamed was absent for the Bears’ first bout with the pistol offense, and after surrendering 52 points to the Wolf Pack, the Cal defense needs him to control the middle. The Brawley, Calif., native impressed in his last fullly healthy game, racking up 14 tackles and intercepting a pass for a touchdown. Mohamed’s biggest challenge this coming Saturday, however, will be UCLA’s potent ground game. Nicknamed “thunder and lightning” by several pundits, Johnathan Franklin and Derrick Coleman are likely to frustrate the Cal defense. Mohamed’s experience and discipline should give the Bears a stronger approach than they put forth in Reno three weeks ago. If Mohamed shows that he is healthy, the Bears can silence the pistol. If not, the D will be shot down.
• The Bruins posted perhaps the biggest upset of the young college football season when they walked into Austin, Tex., and defeated then-No. 7 Texas, 34-12. The Bruins racked up a remarkable 264 yards on the ground and forced five Longhorn turnovers.
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• After losing its first two games, UCLA has hit a hot streak, winning its last three contests and showcasing its dynamic pistol offense. After being shut out at home by Stanford on September 11, UCLA has scored at least 31 points in its last three games.
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