These Bay Area college hoopers made the leap to gridiron football

How many college basketball players can say they made it to a Super Bowl?

The late Joe Kapp could make that claim. He played two sports at Cal, best known for leading the Bears to their most recent Rose Bowl following the 1958 season.

But the man who later quarterbacked the BC Lions to a Canadian Grey Cup championship and the Minnesota Vikings into Super Bowl IV also played hoops for the Bears.

He was an All-American in football, a backup guard on the basketball team. Kapp played the 1956-57 and ’57-58 seasons...