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Joe Kapp was an American football quarterback. Kapp played College football for the Cal-Berkeley, where, in 1958, he led the team to a Pacific Coast Championship and its last appearance in the 1959 Rose Bowl. He was named an All American that year. He also played basketball for Cal and was on the 1956-1957 and 1957-1958 teams that won the Pacific Coast Championships and went to the NCAA tournament.

In 1967, after an 8 year career in the CFL where he won the 1964 Grey Cup with the B.C. Lions, Joe was purchased by the Minnesota Vikings of the NFL. In 1968, he led the Minnesota Vikings to their first ever playoff game as a team against the Baltimore Colts. On September 28, 1969 in a game against the Baltimore Colts he threw for 7 touchdown passes which still stands as the all-time record today with 3 other players. That same year he led the Vikings to a 12-2 record and a berth in Super Bowl IV after defeating the Cleveland Browns 27-7 in the last NFL Championship game ever played. That year Joe coined the phrase "40 for 60" meaning 40 players going all out for 60 minutes. However, he was unable to lead the team to vicotory in the Super Bowl, as the Vikings lost 23-7 to the Kansas City Chiefs. The following year the NFL and AFL merged and the NFL Championship game was no more after 50 years of NFL competition.

A contract dispute forced Kapp to be traded to the Boston Patriots in 1970 where he was the highest paid player in the league. Unfortunately, he played very poorly that season, leading the Patriots to the league's worst record, and one year later he retired from pro football.

On July 20, 1970, Sports Illustrated dubbed Joe Kapp "The Toughest Chicano" on the cover of its weekly magazine. In 1982 after a short acting career in such movies as the Longest Yard, Two Minute Warning and Semi Tough, Joe was hired as the head football coach at his alma mater, The University of California, Berkeley. In his first year as head coach, Joe was voted the Pac 10 Coach of the year.

Joe was the coach who called the Play, which is one of the most famous plays in the history of college football. Down by one point and about to receive a kickoff with four seconds remaining in the Big Game between Cal and its arch rival Stanford, Joe told his players to keep the ball in play by lateraling it Rugby-style while running towards the goalline. Cal made five laterals. In the meantime, Stanford players and the Stanford Band thinking that they had won the game ran on to the field in celebration. When Kevin Moen, the last Cal player to receive the ball evaded Stanford players and band members and made it into the endzone, he jumped up to celebrate and landed on a Stanford trombone player.

Today, Kapp lives in California and makes himself available as a guest speaker. He owns Kapp's Pizza Bar & Grill in Mountain View, CA.

Kapp is a member of the University of California Athletic Hall of Fame and the Canadian Football League Hall of Fame.

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Athletes - Joe Kapp

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