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

Item Overview

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

Collection

Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

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.

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Keywords

Genre

group portraits

African American football players
African American college athletes

Names

University of California, Berkeley
Gordon, Walter A. (Walter Arthur), 1894-1976

Subject Geographic

Berkeley (Calif.)

Resource type

still image