Cal Boyes

Calvin Richard Boyes

• School Washington State University, Whitman College
• High School Monroe High School

• Born May 6, 1929 in Shelby, MT USA
• Died November 13, 2018

Biographical Information

After one year at Washington State University, Cal Boyes transferred to Whitman College and played basketball and baseball for the Missionaries, but football was his best sport. He was an all-conference quarterback, served as a senior co-captain and won the Niles Trophy as Whitman's most outstanding and inspirational football player. Upon graduation, he turned down a tryout with football's Cleveland Browns, choosing to earn his post graduate degree instead.

After Whitman, Boyes married one of his college classmates, Eileen Golden '52, and worked for two years at Walla Walla High School as a teacher and coach. In 1956, after two years of active duty as a lieutenant in the Coast Guard (later achieving the rank of commander in the Coast Guard Reserves), he began a career at California State University, Sacramento that eventually spanned more than four decades. As head coach of the baseball team, he won two Pacific Coast regional championships and led the Hornets to a second-place finish in the NAIA National Championship Tournament in 1962. His teams won 11 Far Western Conference titles while compiling an overall conference record of 166 victories against just 71 losses.

Boyes also was an assistant football coach for 12 seasons, served as athletic director on three separate occasions, and was chair of the physical education department for seven years. He earned his doctoral degree in education at the University of the Pacific in 1965 and retired from CSUS in 1991, after having also served as Dean of the Division of Health and Physical Education, Vice President of Administration and Business Affairs, and Director of University Advancement. He is a member of the Hornet Athletics Hall of Fame.

Boyes' son Bob set a number of school passing records as quarterback at the University of Montana.

Further Reading

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