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Oct 27, 2023 · The observant Cal football fan may have noticed that Saturday’s home game against USC does not come with the traditional designation. There will be no Joe Roth Memorial Game this...
Oct 25, 2023 · Cal Football will not have a Joe Roth Memorial Game this year, the athletic department confirmed. The tradition of honoring the former Cal quarterback, who died of skin cancer at the age of 21, will be put aside as the Cal football team prepares to transition to the ACC.
Oct 26, 2015 · But what only Coach White and Joe Roth’s closest friends knew was that he was hiding a terrible secret: He was dying from melanoma, an especially vicious cancer of the skin. And the memory of his stoicism and courage in fighting that lonely battle still moves them to tears, 40 years later.
Cal football designates each year's home game against either USC or UCLA as the Joe Roth Memorial Game. Cal wore throwback uniforms similar to those the Bears wore during Roth's career for the 2007 Roth Memorial Game and will continue to do so, starting in 2017. The Bears also occasionally wear Roth-era road throwbacks when playing at USC and UCLA.
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Oct 17, 2014 · Recruited nationally, Roth chose Cal but did not earn the starting job for the Bears until the fourth game of the 1975 season. One month later, the Bears crushed the defending national champions, USC, on national television.
Sep 22, 2017 · Roth was selected for the East-West Shrine Game at Stanford Stadium, but did not play. As the pair began to train for the games in December, Williams was told of the true nature of...
Oct 27, 2015 · It was Feb. 19, 1977, and he was 21. Since that day, Bay Area sports fans have been waiting for a Hollywood feature or documentary film about Roth’s humble heroics. But it never got made until...
