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28 October 2006

My other favorite team

Someone else likes Rutgers!
I wouldn't say that they're on the national radar just yet, but there are some indications the team has started to attract boosters outside its own zip code. For instance, the last time they were ranked as high as 16th in the Associated Press poll, college football had only 13 teams. ESPN has snared broadcast rights to a bunch of Rutgers games away from camcorder-crazed players' fathers. Somebody from Sports Illustrated called the athletic director's office looking for directions, or it might just have been a pizza delivery guy who got lost.

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In 1895, the University of California track & field team was the dominant power on the West Coast and decided to challenge several of the top teams in the Midwest and East on an eight-meet tour that is now credited by many historians as putting Cal athletics onto the national scene. As a symbol of the University, Regent Arthur Rodgers, class of 1872, commissioned a blue silk banner emblazoned with a golden grizzly bear, the symbol of the state of California. The banner was carried by the team on its successful tour, which saw them win five of the eight competitions. Cal athletic fans were so ecstatic over the team's performance that Professor Charles Mills Gayley was inspired to write the song, "The Golden Bear."

Cal's athletic teams have been known as the Golden Bears ever since.

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