page_title: Nibs Price
section_title: Football
hierarchical_section_title: Nibs Price / Head coaching record / Football
caption_attribution_description: English: University of California Golden Bears football team standing with President Herbert Hoover, outside of the White House. Coach Nibs Price and the president are in the center, with Price on the left and Hoover on the right.
context_page_description: Clarence Merle "Nibs" Price was a basketball and American 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 and was retroactively named the national champion by the Premo-Porretta Power Poll. Price died on January 13, 1968, at the age of 77 in Oakland, California.
caption: Cal 1929 football team invited to the White House, during their October trip to play at Penn. Coach Price and President Hoover are in the center looking at each.
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