The minutes of the founding meeting of the University of California Boat Club on October 15, 1875Ĭompetitive rowing against other institutions would have to wait, however. On October 15, 1875, students formally established the University of California Boat Club as an official University-sponsored club, with officers, dues, and a plan to build a boathouse on the Oakland estuary. The rowing club was founded 12 years before the advent of the sport of football at Berkeley, more than 20 years before women’s basketball began, and more than 30 years before men’s basketball. This was just two years after the founding of the University of California, when the campus was still in Oakland and building at the anticipated new campus in Berkeley had not even begun. In was in 1870 that a group of Cal students formed a rowing club - the University of California’s first sporting activity. Cars carrying members of the Cal Crew team back from their triumph at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics make their way up Telegraph Avenue to a tumultuous greeting from the student body What follows is just some of the extraordinary history of one of Cal’s greatest sports. If all that weren’t enough, since the 2019 Big Row, Cal Men’s Crew holds a 67-19 record all-time against arch-rival Stanford in dual meets, while Cal Women’s Crew has an all-time record of 27-13 against Stanford. And in 1928, 1932, and 1948, it was the Cal Bears as a team who won Olympic glory for the United States. It has earned 22 national championships (17 men’s, 5 women’s) and has sent 73 Cal students and alumni to the Olympics, where they have won a total of 42 Olympic Medals, 34 of them Gold. Rowing is certainly Cal’s oldest organized sport. But an equally good argument can be made for crew. Or swimming, which especially in recent years has brought Cal a multiple of medals and championships.
What is the University of California’s most spectacularly successful sport ever? A good argument can be made for rugby, with its 33 national championships.
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