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Nibs Price

Nibs Price
Sport(s) Football, basketball
Biographical details
Born (1889-04-26)April 26, 1889
Minnesota
Died January 13, 1968(1968-01-13) (aged 78)
Oakland, California
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Football
1920–1925 California (assistant)
1926–1930 California
Basketball
1924–1954 California
Head coaching record
Overall 27–17–3 (football)
453–294 (basketball)
Bowls 0–1

Clarence Merle "Nibs" Price (April 26, 1889 – January 13, 1968) was an American football and basketball 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. 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.

      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


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