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KENTFIELD, Calif. (AP) - Sam Chapman, the two-sport star who led the University of California to its last Rose Bowl victory in 1938 and went to play the outfield for the Philadelphia Athletics, has died. He was 90.
Chapman, who had Alzheimer's, died Dec. 22 at an assisted-living facility in Kentfield, granddaughter Anna Chapman said.
Born Samuel Blake Chapman, he earned the nickname "Tiburon Terror" playing high school football in Marin County. He worked as a welder on the nearly completed Golden Gate Bridge the summer before starting with the Bears his sophomore year.
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