Golden Bears football team of U. C. Berkeley, 1925

Title: Golden Bears football team of U. C. Berkeley, 1925
Alternative title: Walter Gordon, assistant coach of football team for University of California, Berkeley
Date Created: 1925
Date: 1925
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description: Walter A, Gordon was the first African American to receive a doctorate of law from UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall law school. He had an extremely long and varied career where he served as a police officer, lawyer, assistant football coach, member of the California Adult Authority, Governor of the United States Virgin Islands, and a Federal District Judge. [Wikipedia]
Group portrait of the Golden Bears football team of University of California at Berkeley with coach Walter A. Gordon (back row, right). The portrait is probably from the 1925 yearbook.
Caption: Caption: Top Row: Muller, Saunby, Perry, Dunn, Hufford, Beam, Witter, Blewett, Horrell, Schaffnit, Dixon, Ball, Rosenthal, Gordon. Middle Row: Smith, Nichelman, Bunger, Thatcher, Dodson, Carey, Newmeyer, Young, Griffith, Brown, Best, Mell, Lewis, Berlin, Price. Bottom Row: Volz, Spaulding, Francis, Gooch, King, Tait, Imlay, Nichols, Newman, Powers, Angier, White, Porter. Members on squad but pictures to not appear: Naylor, Evans, Rau, Carlson, Topham, Morris.

Genre: group portraits
Names: University of California, Berkeley
Gordon, Walter A. (Walter Arthur), 1894-1976
Subject Geographic: Berkeley (Calif.)
Resource type: still image
Subjects: African American football players
African American college athletes