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...Sproul had a painful time last season when Cal won only two football games, and lost seven. A good many of the alumni blamed the bad record not only on the coach (who was fired) but on Sproul, who insists that he wants "students playing at athletics, not atheletes playing at studies...
That night Robert Gordon Sproul (rhymes with jowl) put on a boiled shirt and shook hands with 3,000 of his new charges at a party in the women's gymnasium. Next day he and Mrs. Sproul boarded the streamlined Southern Pacific Lark for the second of his eight campuses, Cal's jealous younger sister, the University of California at Los Angeles, to go through the routine again. He still had a long way to go" to cover all his domain. Says Bob Sproul: "Sure it's tough, but I do it purposely. I do it with...
...Lonely. In the overflowing, far-flung University of California, just about the only thing its thousands of students have in common is Robert Gordon Sproul. The lonely bigness of Berkeley helps to explain why the Cal rooting section* at football games is not only the world's largest but at times its most raucous. Undergraduates sometimes blow off steam by deluging neighbors with pillow feathers and toilet paper, and loudly counting out the steps as the referee paces off a penalty against Cal, ending up with a thunderous "You Bastard!" When Stanford beat Cal in last year...
...loneliness disturbs a friendly fellow like Bob Sproul, who is Rotary's best foot forward.† He works hard trying to make everybody happy. At the freshman receptions, Sproul turns on what he calls his "astonishing memory," amazes and flatters a newcomer by pumping his hand and roaring: "Dan Baxter from San Juan Bautista? Why, you must be Arnold Baxter's boy. Class of 1917, wasn...
...help give Cal's commuters a campus spirit, Sproul sponsors monthly "University Meetings" in the gym or the Greek Theater. He invites V.I.P.s in education, sport, politics and military affairs to headline the bill (top drawing cards: Philosopher John Dewey, the late football coach Knute Rockne). Introducing a student leader who had just been disciplined for raiding the Stanford campus to steal the traditional "Axe" before the Big Game, Sproul remarked at one meeting: "You all know Don McNary, who has represented this university officially many times and unofficially at least once." That sort of indulgent presidential view...