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There was no sanctioned men's volleyball team at Cal Poly when I arrived in 1965.
Fellow volleyball enthusiasts and I met through the intramural program and then tried to go through official channels to start a team.
It didn't happen, so we organized a "club" team that was able to compete against sanctioned teams in southern California including UCLA, USC, and UC Santa Barbara.
For a long time, we competed against these teams with only player-coaches of which I was one.
I wrote an article for the school paper, the Mustang, on the teams failure to get school sanctioning that was published in the school paper under one of the paper's editor's byline.
The result was that we did finally get a volunteer Cal Poly coach and some old used basketball sweats to use.
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TRAVEL: Often... my home for seven years while at Cal Poly University... Last visit, 2021
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My U. S. Volleyball Association membership card, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, California, USA, 1966.
Some of the original players on the Cal Poly Men's Volleyball Club Team with our volunteer coach (after the newspaper article), Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, California, USA.
On the right is the article I wrote, word for word, as it appeared in the 10 May 1967 Mustang, our college newspaper, under someone else's byline.
I had mixed emotions when it came out... I was a bit miffed that someone else had plagiarized it... then again, I thought it might have more of an effect coming from someone outside the team.
The old gym where I spent many hours playing volleyball, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, California, USA, 2005.
I took this photo in 2005 when I was visiting.
Trying on the hand-me-down warm-up suits given to us by Cal Poly.
They were ancient and seemed to be made out of itchy wool.
Serving, Cal Poly Club Team, California Men's Colony, San Louis Obispo, California, USA.
One of the only places we could scrimmage against another local team was at the local prison...
It was good to provide some entertainment for these minimum security inmates, but the quality of competition was mostly absent.
This photo is from the prison newspaper published by the inmates.
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