Background
Don was born in Holister, California.
Don was born in Holister, California.
University of California, Berkeley.
Don was the Most Valuable Manitoba as voted by his teammates on the University of California/United States of America crew. The University sent gold medal-winning crews in 1932 (Los Angeles) and 1948 (London) as well. Don Blessing was also one of the original eight owners of the Oakland Raiders Football Club (American Federation of Labor-Congress, now the NFL) and was a lifelong Californian, residing in Piedmont, California and Belvedere, California for most of his adult life. he also had two great grand children will fallat and julia fallat
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He also was a lifelong Bear Backer, a charter member of the San Francisco Grid Club and among the first group of inductees to the University California Hall of Fame.