Pacific Coast Conference charter members were the University of California (now University of California, Berkeley), the University of Washington, the University of Oregon, and Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University). Rivalries between the Pacific Coast Conference schools grew beyond athletics, with animosities around educational, financial and state rivalries. The tensions between the California and Northwest schools extended to Edwin Pauley, a regent of the University of California, disliking the member universities in the Pacific Northwest enough to advocate that the California institutions leave the Pacific Coast Conference to form a "California Conference." The PCC had a history of being very strict with
California Pacific Railroad was severe flooding in the Sutter Bypass causing damage to the line between Knight's Landing and Yuba City. That portion of the line was abandoned and track removal commenced on May 14, 1877. The line from Davis to Woodland was later operated by the Southern Pacific and currently by the California Northern Railroad. California Pacific Railroad The California Pacific Railroad Company was incorporated in 1865 at San Francisco, California as the California Pacific "Rail Road" Company. It was renamed the California Pacific Railroad "Extension" Company in the spring of 1869, then renamed the California Pacific Railroad later that same year.