American football and basketball coach (1889–1968)
Clarence Merle "Nibs" Price (April 26, 1889 – January 13, 1968) was an American basketball and football coach. After coaching at San Diego High School , he served as the head football coach at the University of California, Berkeley from 1926 to 1930, compiling the a record of 27–17–3, and the head men's basketball coach at Berkeley from 1924 to 1954, tallying a mark of 453–294. He led the 1946 basketball team to the Final Four . Succeeding Andy Smith as Cal's football coach, Price guided the Golden Bears to the 1929 Rose Bowl , a game infamous for Roy Riegels 's wrong-way run. His 1926–27 basketball team finished the season with a 17–0 record[ 1] and was retroactively named the national champion by the Premo-Porretta Power Poll .[ 2] Price died on January 13, 1968, at the age of 77 in Oakland, California .[ 3]
Head coaching record
The 1929 California Golden Bears football team was invited to the White House during their October trip to play at Penn . Price and U.S. president Herbert Hoover are in the center looking on another.
College basketball
Statistics overview
Season
Team
Overall
Conference
Standing
Postseason
California Golden Bears (Pacific Coast Conference ) (1924–1954)
1924–25
California
11–4
3–1
1st
1925–26
California
14–0
5–0
1st
1926–27
California
17–0
5–0
1st
Premo-Porretta National Champions
1927–28
California
9–6
6–3
2nd
1928–29
California
17–3
9–0
1st
1929–30
California
9–8
6–3
2nd
1930–31
California
12–10
6–3
1st
1931–32
California
16–8
8–3
1st
1932–33
California
18–7
8–3
2nd
1933–34
California
19–7
8–4
2nd
1934–35
California
11–14
5–7
2nd
1935–36
California
13–16
6–6
3rd
1936–37
California
17–10
4–8
3rd
1937–38
California
18–11
8–4
2nd
1938–39
California
24–8
9–3
1st
1939–40
California
15–17
5–7
3rd
1940–41
California
15–12
6–6
T–2nd
1941–42
California
11–19
4–8
3rd
1942–43
California
9–15
1–7
4th
1943–44
California
7–3
4–0
1st
1944–45
California
7–8
1–3
3rd
1945–46
California
30–6
11–1
1st
NCAA Final Four
1946–47
California
20–11
8–4
2nd
1947–48
California
25–9
11–1
1st
1948–49
California
14–19
1–11
4th
1949–50
California
10–17
4–9
3rd
1950–51
California
16–16
3–9
4th
1951–52
California
17–13
6–6
T–2nd
1952–53
California
15–10
9–3
1st
1953–54
California
17–7
6–6
3rd
California:
453–294 (.606)
176–129 (.577)
Total:
453–294 (.606)
National champion
Postseason invitational champion
Conference regular season champion
Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
Division regular season champion
Division regular season and conference tournament champion
Conference tournament champion
See also
References
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