Ahmad Anderson (2022) - California Athletics Hall of Fame

Ahmad Anderson

Induction:
2022
Class:
1982

Anderson is the author of the "Bear Territory" chant frequently recited by Cal teams after victory to this day. A defensive back for the Cal football team, Anderson created the chant during the 1982 season. The four-year letterwinner received the Stub Allison Award as Cal's most inspirational football player his senior year and he served as defensive captain for the 1982 Big Game famous for The Play. Outside of football, Anderson was a student-athlete peer advisor and a member of the Californians and Oski Dolls Association. Since graduating, he maintained a long association with the campus, including as a student-athlete academic advisor for the College of Letters and Sciences for 12 years, and as a member of Chancellor Michael Heyman's Diversity Committee and the admissions committee.