19 Facts About Cal Young

Cal Young was the first head football coach at the University of Oregon.

Cal Young was born in a log cabin on his father's donation land claim in 1871.

Cal Young attended Bishop Scott Academy in Portland, Oregon.

Cal Young was a student there from the age of 15 for five years, and was a teacher at the school for two years.

For six years, Cal Young owned a meat market in Eugene.

Cal Young worked in the Blue River mines for a year and a half, and as the manager of the Heilig Theatre in Portland from 1903 to 1905.

In 1893, Cal Young helped organize the first football team at the University of Oregon.

Cal Young had played football in Portland and was hired to coach the team.

Cal Young returned to his father's homestead in the early 1900s.

Cal Young operated a farm, which included a flock of sheep, on the property.

Cal Young was an avid collector of "pioneer relics" and one of the organizers and leaders of "The Oregon Trail Pageant," an annual pioneer pageant in Eugene that began in 1926.

Cal Young's 1840s "prairie schooner" was a fixture in the area's pioneer parades.

Cal Young served as the first caretaker and a board member of the Lane County Pioneer Museum.

Cal Young served as a county commissioner for eight years from 1932 to 1940.

Ford Cal Young went on to be a "pioneer" of sorts himself, ultimately settling and living with his wife, Carolyn Musch Cal Young, in British Honduras, which upon its independence became Belize, Central America.

Cal Young was buried in Gillespie Cemetery located near the family homestead.

In February 1958, a portrait of Cal Young dressed in "pioneer garb," carved out of madrona wood, was installed at the Lane County Pioneer Museum.

In 1976, Cal Young's homestead was designated as a historic district.

The property was eventually subdivided, and as of 1980, all that remained was Cal Young's farmhouse built in 1914 and a milkhouse built in 1874.