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During the season his fans were just as loyal. When Sport Editor Bill Leiser of the San Francisco Chronicle dared suggest that Bob Celeri, the University of California's "mad engineer," was a better quarterback than Eddie, they marched down Mission Street and pulled up fighting mad in front of the Chronicle Building. From the safety of a third-floor window, Sport Editor Leiser apologized and dutifully sang LeBaron's praises. Four days later the Chronicle ran a Page One editorial calling for a game between mighty California and little Pacific. California, its sights set on the Rose...
...alert, 16s-lb. Quarterback LeBaron began whipping a squad of Pacific football seniors and alumni into shape. In the dead of winter, without the official blessing of either school, LeBaron was going to have his day in the Grape Bowl stadium in Lodi, Calif, against unpredictable, 175-lb. Engineer Celeri and a squad of California's Golden Bears. Three enterprising University of California students had promoted the game and in the first three days had sold 4,000 tickets at $2.50 apiece in the valley alone...
...uniforms borrowed from San FranCisco's pro football 4gers, Celeri & Co. posed for photographers at Berkeley's San Pablo Playground, and next day slipped quietly into Cal's huge Memorial Stadium for practice. California Coach Pappy Waldorf wasn't supposed to be helping, but he was-with calisthenics, signal drills and defensive patterns. Said Celeri, who, like LeBaron, was getting a $2,000 guarantee for his labors: "We want to win this one badly . . . Even if the game doesn't actually mean anything, we'll look awful foolish if we lose...
LeBaron, who had hurt his throwing arm in practice, threw only six passes. His famed double-spin as T-formation quarterback was rusty and his sleight-of-hand fakery ineffective as his line kept caving in. His net yardage from scrimmage was minus 43; Celeri's was almost as bad-minus 39. After the game, LeBaron made the day's most sensible observation: "There's no substitute for a coach." But the highly partisan crowd was happy; LeBaron...
...California, a team that was a sorry sight last year, scored a 14-7 upset over Navy, which is rated one of the powers in the East. California has a brand-new coach, Lynn ("Pappy") Waldorf, late of Northwestern, and two slippery sophomore backs-Jack Jensen and Bob Celeri...