Ex-QB Kapp Injured in Brush With Taxi

Joe Kapp, a Super Bowl quarterback and former University of California, Berkeley football coach, was recuperating in a hospital today with a broken collarbone after being struck by a taxi while jogging with his dog.

Kapp, 50, was crossing a street in nearby Los Gatos on Thursday when a station wagon driven by Festus Banjo, 46, turned a corner and hit Kapp with its right front bumper, police said. The dog was unhurt.

Kapp was knocked unconscious and was rushed to Valley Medical Center in San Jose.

“We’re fine,” Kapp said from his hospital bed Thursday night. “It was a rainy morning; I didn’t see the car at all. I was lucky. It could have been worse.”

Los Gatos police said Banjo would be cited for violating a pedestrian’s right-of-way.

Kapp led the Minnesota Vikings to the Super Bowl in 1970, where they lost to the Kansas City Chiefs.

He compiled a 20-34-1 record in coaching the Golden Bears from 1981 to 1985 and was fired at the end of the 1985 season. As a player, quarterback Kapp led California to its last Rose Bowl appearance at the end of the 1958 season. He played for eight years in the Canadian Football League before joining the NFL in 1967.