CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS FOOTBALL TABLE OF CONTENTS Media Info .................................................................1 2016 Year In Review ..............................................10 Records ..................................................................40 History .....................................................................67 This Is Cal .............................................................117 CALIFORNIA FOOTBALL NOTES ● First-year head coach Justin Wilcox was hired on January 14 on the watch list for the John Mackey Award honoring the nation's after having served the previous 11 seasons as an FBS defensive most outstanding tight end after playing in 34 games over the last coordinator. Over his 16 seasons in collegiate coaching, which three seasons at Cal as an inside receiver after being recruited began as a graduate assistant at Boise State in 2001, Wilcox has as a tight end. Other tight ends listed on the roster in addition to helped teams to 14 bowl games and compiled an all-time record Hudson are Jake Ashton, Matt Laris, Collin Moore, Ben Moos, Gavin of 150-58 as an assistant coach. Reinwald, Jacob Tonges and Kyle Wells. Malik McMorris and Justin Norbeck are listed as fullbacks but are also expected to have some ● Cal's offensive coordinator Beau Baldwin and defensive coordi- responsibilities associated with the position. nator Beau Baldwin both have head coaching experience. Baldwin spent the last 10 seasons as a head collegiate coach including the ● Matt Anderson is Cal's active career leader in scoring with 221 previous nine campaigns at Eastern Washington (2008-16) after points to rank 10th on the school's all-time list and within 67 points his first head coaching job at Central Washington in 2007. DeRuyter of all-time leader Doug Brien's 288 points. Anderson heads into the was the head coach at Fresno State for the last four-plus campaigns 2017 campaign have made 40-of-47 (85.1%) field goal attempts as where he won at least a share of a conference title in each of his well as 101-of-103 (98.1%) extra-point tries with the field goals 16 first three. Cal's defensive line Jerry Azzinaro also has one season shy of Brien's record 56, the extra points 57 shy of Tom Schneider's of head coaching experience at Western New England in 1986. 158 and the extra-point attempts 58 shy of Schneider's 161. Ander- son was a semifinalist in 2016 for the Lou Groza Collegiate Place- ● Several Cal players are on 2017 preseason watch lists for national kicker Award when he established Cal's modern-era single-season honors including Matt Anderson (Lou Groza Collegiate Place-kicker record for points with 117 to rank second all-time while equaling Award), Steven Coutts (Ray Guy Award), Raymond Davison (Allstate the school's all-time single-season mark for field goals made (22). AFCA Good Works Team®, Wuerffel Trophy), Ray Hudson (John Mackey Award), James Looney (Bronko Nagurski Trophy), Addison ● Cal registered its best-ever four-year Academic Progress Rate Ooms (Rimington Trophy), Demetris Robertson (Biletnikoff Award), (APR) score in the most recent release of the data in May of 2017, Tre Watson (Doak Walker Award, Paul Hornung Award). which accounted for football student-athletes on rosters between the 2012-13 and 2015-16 academic years. Cal's one-year APR ● Demetris Robertson was a Freshman All-American in 2016 when score of 991 for the most recent season measured for the 2015-16 he had 50 receptions for 767 yards receiving and seven touchdown academic year was the second-highest in the Pac-12. catches. Robertson broke Keenan Allen's school record for recep- tions and DeSean Jackson's for yards receiving while equaling ● Cal returns its starting placekicker in Matt Anderson, who took Jackson’s seven touchdown catches. over the job as a 2015 sophomore and responded by leading the team in scoring with 104 points to tie for the third-most in school ● Cal will have a new starter at quarterback in 2017. Chase Forrest history, making 18-of-21 field goal attempts to rank tied for third and Ross Bowers split the majority of first-team reps during spring in the Pac-12 and tied for 10th nationally in field goal percentage practices after being listed as co-backups on the 2016 depth chart. (85.7%) while adding 50-of-52 PAT tries. He finished the season Forrest, who also spent the 2015 season second on the quarterback on a tear by making each of his last 10 field goal attempts and 15 depth chart behind Jared Goff, completed 10-of-17 passes for 162 of his final 16. Anderson was also a first-team Pac-12 All-Academic yards and one touchdown while appearing in three games that year choice as a sophomore and has earned the Golden Bear Achieve- but did not play in 2016. Bowers was an early enrollee at Cal in ment Award from the Athletic Study Center at the Student-Athlete January of 2015 and redshirted that season as a true freshman. Academic Honors Luncheon for being the Cal football player with He made his Cal debut in the 2016 finale against UCLA but did not the highest cumulative GPA for each of his first three seasons at attempt a pass while rushing once for two yards. Cal from 2013-15. ● Cal returns seven of its top eight rushers from 2016 including Doak ● Cal has 12 players scheduled to return on defense in 2017 with Walker candidate Tre Watson, who is the team's leading returning starting experience that combined to make 94 starts in 2016, which rusher after compiling 709 yards and four scores on the ground on is up a combined 29 starts from the team's experience level at the 143 carries last season. Watson is also Cal's active career leader beginning of the 2015 campaign. The group includes five players in all-purpose yards (2316), rushing yards (1307), kick return yards that started all 12 contests in 2016 in Raymond Davison, Devante (657), total offense (1307) and total touchdowns (13). Downs, Marloshawn Franklin Jr., James Looney and Cameron Saffle. A total of 15 returning defensive players have combined for 150 ● Cal returns Cal the tight end position to the offense for the first career starts led by James Looney (23), Devante Downs (22) and ime since 2012 when it was last formally utilized as a position and Tony Mekari (21). listed on the official depth chart. Ray Hudson will start the season 2017 CALIFORNIA FOOTBALL RECORD BOOK 1 CALIFORNIA GOLDEN BEARS FOOTBALL QUICK FACTS UNIVERSITY INFORMATION Active Players/Career GP/Career Starts ......60/855/260 Sports Nutritionist ..............................Kirsten Graves Offense ...............................................25/335/61 Administration Operations Manager ..... Denis Hallin Location .................................... Berkeley, CA 94720 Defense ........................................... 33/470/150 Learning Specialist Coordinator ............Christine Ho Founded ............................................................. 1868 Specialists .............................................. 2/50/49 Assistant Athletic Trainer ...... Katie Hughes, MS ATC Enrollment ...................................................... 40,173 Newcomers .............................................................33 Head Team Physician ................Lindsay Huston, MD Chancellor ................................................ Carol Christ Offense ..............................................................18 Assistant Athletic Trainer ...............Kristy Illg, PT ATC Faculty Representative ....................... Bob Jacobsen Defense .............................................................11 Assistant Strength & Conditioning Coach ..Markus James Specialists ........................................................... 4 Team Chaplain ..........................................Kevin Knox ATHLETICS INFORMATION Players with 2016 Starting Exp. Lost ......................... Head Athletic Trainer .....................Brendan Lambert Director of Intercollegiate Athletics ....Michael Williams Players/Career GP/Career Starts .......15/167/127 Equipment Assistant ................................. Kirk Lewis Senior Associate AD, COO................... Chris Pezman Offense ...............................................10/105/77 Head Equipment Manager ..............Dan Matthiesen Colors ...................................................Blue and Gold Defense .................................................. 4/48/38 Graduate Assistant, Defense...........Matt McFadden Conference ......................................................Pac-12 Specialists .............................................. 1/12/12 Asst. AD, Dir. of Football Ops .......... Andrew McGraw Nickname..............................................Golden Bears Players/Letterwinners Lost .............................36/24 Football Operations Assistant ................Norman Mo Facebook .................................................CalAthletics Offense ....................................................... 22/12 Asst. Director of Football Technology ....Mike Montgomery Instagram.................................................CalAthletics Defense .......................................................11/10 Assistant Athletic Trainer ...................John Mucovich Snapchat .................................................CalAthletics Specialists .......................................................3/2 Director of Player Personnel ......................Cory Nicol Twitter.......................................................CalAthletics Director of Player Development ........... Kevin Parker Website