A varsity letterman in football, rugby, and track & field at Cal from 1955-57, White also served as the Bears’ head football coach from 1972-77, compiling a 35-30-1 record and leading the team to a share of the 1975 Pac-8 title … as an undergraduate, White played wide receiver and was team captain as a senior in 1957 … on the track, he won the high hurdles and high jump competition in the 1957 Big Meet vs. Stanford … in addition to his three varsity sports, White also earned a pair of junior varsity letters for Pete Newell in basketball … he began his long coaching career as a Cal assistant from 1959-63 and returned to Berkeley as head coach in 1972 … had his best season in 1975, when the Bears finished 8-3 and were ranked 14th in the final Associated Press poll.
