Pappy, The Gentle Bear is the story of a coach who won championships at Kansas State, Northwestern and Cal, then moved on to the San Francisco 49ers as personnel guru and became the father of ongoing cooperation between university communities and the exploding NFL. And now, exactly a half-century after two of his own teams, Northwestern and Cal, played in one of the greatest Rose Bowls ever contested, the story of Pappy and his boys is finally told.