College Career
Kapp played college football for the University of California, where he led the team to a Pacific Coast Championship in 1958 and the January 1, 1959 Rose Bowl, losing to Iowa. This was the University of California, Berkeley's most recent Rose Bowl appearance. Kapp was named an All-American in that same year. He was also awarded the 1958 W.J. Voit Memorial Trophy as the outstanding football player on the Pacific Coast. A two-sport athlete and fraternity member of Kappa Alpha Order in college, he also played varsity basketball for the Golden Bears, and was on the 1956-57 and 1957-58 teams that won the Pacific Coast Championship. He earned a bachelor's degree in physical education from California in 1959.
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