California Athletics Hall of Fame
Bob Albo earned three letters in both basketball and baseball from 1952-54. He averaged 12.0 points per game and 9.2 rebounds per game on the court as a senior. He served as team captain and earned second-team All-Southern Division honors. Albo was also Cal’s starting catcher and team captain in baseball. He received Cal’s Jake Gimbel Award for having the best combination of athletics and academics among graduating seniors. He had a professional baseball offer from the New York Giants before deciding to pursue a career in medicine and coach the Cal freshmen basketball and baseball teams under head coaches Pete Newell and George Wolfman, respectively. Albo also worked as a clinical professor of surgery at UC San Francisco and chief of the surgical service for student health at UC Berkeley after his coaching career.
