Cal football quietly celebrated its 100th anniversary of its football team being in a major sports conference. In 1916 Cal joined the PCC and the rest was history. Sports-Reference has information on Cal from 1916. The same year the Great War was ravaging Europe and there were only 4 teams in the PCC, and 81 college head football coaches. Remember Andy Smith? He was tapped as Cal’s HC in 1916 and served in that role until 1925.
Since then, Cal has had 20 head coaches, each with varying levels of success at Cal and length of tenure (from Jeff Tedford’s 11 years to Buck Shaw/Frank Wickhorst/Steve Mariucci 1 year tenures).