OCTOBER 3,1987 THE SCOT SCOREBOARD EDINBORO UNIVERSITY’S OFFICIAL FOOTBALL PROGRAM Our Bright Ideas just keep The Fighting Scot football program is the official maga­ zine for all Edinboro University home football games. The Scot Scoreboard is published by the Sports Information Office and printed by the Albion News in Albion, Pa. National advertising in the publication is represented by Spencer Marketing Services of New York, New York and Touchdown Publica­ tions of San Francisco, California. Local advertising in The Scot Scoreboard is solicited by the Sports Information Office and supports football at Edinboro University. Please give our advertisers your patronage whenever possible. Questions? Contact Todd V. Jay, Sports Information Director, McComb Fieldhouse, Room 118, Edinbo.ro University, Edinboro, PA 16444 or call 814-732-2811. OFFICIALS FOR TODAY’S GAME REFEREE ......................................................CHUCK HUNNEL LINE JUDGE ............................................ MIKEGAYDOSH UMPIRE ................................................... HARRY MUCKLE FIELD JUDGE................................................ TOM STABILE LINESMAN..................................................... JIM TROVATO BACK JUDGE ................................................. PAT RATESIC CLOCK OPERATOR ......................... FRANK PACKARD PROGRAM FEATURES EUP Hosts Defending Champs................................................. 3 Edinboro University ..................................................................... 5 President Foster F. Diebold........................................................ 7 All-American Candidate Floyd Faulkner............................... 8 Athletic Director Jim McDonald ............................................. 9 Scots Grid Outlook........................................................ 11, 13, 14 Head Coach Steve Szabo .......................................................... 19 Athletic Staff ................................................................................ 20 Edinboro Alphabetical Roster................................................. 22 Edinboro Lineup and Numerical.................................... Center lUP Lineup and Numerical .......................................... Center lUP Alphabetical Roster .......................................................... 23 EUP Checking the Records ............................................... 25-26 Meet the Scots ................................................................ 27, 29, 31 1986 Records and Honors ........................................................ 33 Officials’ Signals ......................................................................... 35 Assistant Coaches ....................................................................... 36 Captains John Georgiana and Mike Wetherholt................ 37 EUP Depth Charts .......................................... 40 1987 Four-Game Stats .............................................................. 42 Pennsylvania Conference .......................................................... 43 In 1986: Indians Down Scots 28-10........................................ 44 Touchdown Insert Momentum College Mascots NCAA I-A Records Campus Landmarks Scramblin’ Man College Football Legends Til Kickoff Do Us Part Taking College Football Overseas Looking Back Get Your Souvenirs Football Goes Hollywood 1987 EUP FOOTBALL RESULTS (2-2) Marine Bank’s Sparky Gorton, Tom Lloyd, and Debbie DeCourse^ wish continued success to Steve and his Fighting Scots. 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Kodak film Wishing the Fighting Scots All the Best in ‘87. _____ Corner 6-N & Ontario St.__________________________ 6 a.m. - 1 a.m. 7 days a week. Tliafe Counfay Fair Convenience! likely join forces with Wetherholt in the secondary. Nickel back Steve Franklin (15 stops and 2 interceptions) will see plenty of action as well. Franklin is coming off a great effort against SR, where he registered five tackles and picked off two passes including an 84 yard return and touchdown. Linebackers John Williams (24 tackles and 3 passes broken up) and A1 Donahue (30 stops and 2 INT), along with linemen Chip Conrad (23 tackles including 3 for loss), Mark Josefov (23), Rob Lewis (19) and Bill Clark (14) round out the Scots hit parade. One of the Scots best defensive members this season has been punter Mike Raynard. He enters today’s encounter with a booming 43.1 yard average on 22 punts, including a 77 yard boot against the Rock. The Scots biggest test this weekend will be handling a rugged lUP defense. Spearheaded by Associated Press Honorable Mention AllAmerican Troy Jackson at linebacker, the Indian defense has obviously rebounded from their setback to West Chester. They have given up just 17 points in their last two outings. Also returning for the Braves on defense in ‘87 are all conference performers Dean Cotrill (linebacker) and Paul Thompson (noseguard) as well as secondary mates Frank Cignetti and safety Tom Fedkoe. Rounding out a very talented defensive squad will be outside linebacker Kevin McMullan, who registered 120 tackles (71 solo) a year ago for the Indians. McMullan leads the Indians defense in ‘87 with 45 tackles including 21 solo stops. Darren Cotrill, cornerback, is next for lUP with 33 stops. Cotrill was named ECAC “Defensive Player of the Week’’ for his efforts in the opener to West Chester. Jackson (17 tackles and team high 2 sacks) and linebacker Dean Cotrill (26 stops) have been solid as expected. Cignetti, Fedkoe and Jim Hostler (team high 3 INT) round out a very good defensive secondary. Although the Brave secondary has been solid against the run, they have been a bit vulnerable to the pass in their three games this season. In all, the lUP defense has surrendered 221.3 yards per game through the air as compared to just 82 ypg on the ground. Offensively, the Indians are steady with plenty of skill people. Wide receiver Tony Trave, a second team all PSAC pick a year ago, leads the Indians with nine catches for 176 yards and three touch­ downs in ‘87, while 5-5 runningback “Pudgy’’ Abercrombie seems to be coming into his own. Abercrombie rushed for 112 yards on 21 carries last week against AIC. For the year, he has gained 194 yards on 52 totes for a 3.9 ypc average. Joining Abercrombie in the lUP backfield will likely be fullbacks Steve Girting (16 carries for 71 yards) and Paul Palamara (21 for 43 and 1 TD). Palamara was the difference in the 28-10 lUP win over the Boro last season, as he rushed for all four scores. Quarterback Jim Pehanick will call the shots for head coach Frank Cignetti. In three games, Pehanick has completed 28 of 54 passes for 449 yards and four touchdowns. He has thrown three interceptions. In all, the lUP offense is averaging 105.7 ypg on the ground, while tallying an average of 156.7 ypg in the air. “It should prove to be a very interesting football game,” Szabo stated. “We are expecting a strong, physical football team in lUP. We are going to have to be ready. We are a young team, but we are going to get better each week. From here on out, the schedule demands that we be ready to play,” Szabo concluded. Coming off their heartbreaking loss to Slippery Rock last weekend, the Fighting Scots are preparing for the invasion of the defending Pennsylvania Conference champion lUP Indians this weekend in an early must win situation for the Plaid. Kick-off is set for 1:30, as Edinboro (2-2, 0-1 PSAC West) hosts the Indians from lUP (2-1,0-0) in the key conference matchup at Sox Harrison Stadium. Edinboro opened the 1987 season with a setback against Liberty (VA) (8-13), then rebounded to down Mansfield (21-10) and Central Connecticut (14-7) before bowing last week to the Rock (35-36). Today is the conference opener for the Indians as they opened their season on a down note 7-31 to West Chester, but have rebounded to defeat I-AA opponent Towsen State (MD) (10-7) and American International (33-10). With today’s encounter being only the Scots’ second conference game of the 1987 season, it may be unfair to call it a must win for the Plaid. But head coach Steve Szabo knows that his squad can ill afford another western division toss at this stage of the year. “It is always tough to prepare yourself and your team after a tough loss,’’ Szabo said. “But this will be a true test of our character as a ball club. We cannot catch ourselves thinking too much about the loss last weekend, we have to prepare for the defending champions this week. We are well aware that lUP is the division favorite, so what better way to get back on the winning track than to defeat the front runner,’’ he added. Leading the offensive parade for the Scots again this weekend will be sophomore quarterback Jim Ross. For a player who has started just five games in his college career, Ross is quickly developing into one of the top passers in the PSAC. In ‘87, Ross has completed 63 of 104 (61 %) passes for 725 yards and four touchdowns. He is coming off his top effort as an Edinboro quarterback, as Ross connected on 17 of 29 for 225 yards and a touchdown against the Rock. The sophomore signal-caller has led the Boro offense to an average of 353.3 yards per game, 172 on the ground and 181.3 through the air. Looking to get back on track this weekend will be senior runningback Floyd Faulkner. The 5-9 scatback from Coraopolis, PA, opened the season with 150 and 113 yards respectively, but has been slowed the last two weeks^ against Central and Slippery Rock. Running mate Elbert Cole took up the slack last weekend, tallying 90 yards and two touchdowns and has grounded out 263 on the season for second highest on the club. A healthy John Georgiana will likely see action at fullback, while halfbacks Chris Conway and Ed Simpson are expected to see playing time. Hoping to clear the way for the Scots up front this weekend will be Joe Brooks at center. Dean Gallagher and Andy Cline at guard, Mark Courtney and Ron Hainsey at tackle and Brian Ferguson at tight end. The Scot receiving corp should be healthy against lUP, led by Cleveland Pratt (11 catches for 96 yards), Daryl Cameron (9 for 201 and 1 TD), JohnToomer(5for86and2TD), Faulkner (team high 13 catches for 101) and Cole (9 for 101). Place kicker Darren Webber, from nearby McDowell High School in Erie, rounds out the Plaid’s offense for this weekend. Webber is 10 for 10 in conversions this season and has been successful on two of six field goal tries. Defensively, the Scots must rebound from their showing against the Rock. Having surrendered just 30 points in their first three games of ‘87, the defense could not stop the Rock’s running game last weekend and it seemed to be the difference. Leading the charge for the Scots today will be middle Jinebacker Scott Brown (team high 46 tackles) and strong safety Mike Wetherholt (36 stops, including 18 against SR). Free safety Mike Willis (41) and cornerbacks Mikel Green (19 stops) and Scott Anderson (19) will 3 EDINBORO UNIVERSITY Family Ties Cheers WEEKNIGHTS 7:00 After 125 years of service to the tri-state area, Edinboro experienced its most significant change in history on July 1, 1983, when the College became Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Founded as a private academy in 1857, Edinboro University has continued its surge to the forefront as one of the leading educational institutions in western Pennsylvania. Situated on a sprawling 585-acre campus in the scenic resort community of Edinboro, the University is within 100 miles of the educational and cultural centers of Buffalo, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh. It is just 15 miles south of Erie, the third largest city in Pennsylvania, and easily accessible from all directions by interstates 79, 80 and 90. Edinboro has the distinction of being the second normal school established in Pennsylvania and the 12th in the United States. It has grown to more than forty buildings including the 400,000-volume Baron-Forness Library, a modern seven-story structure which serves as a focal point for the spacious campus. Nearly 6,100 students repre­ senting almost every county in the Commonwealth, as well as numerous states and foreign countries attend Edinboro. Its tradition of educational service and research is matched by a distinguished faculty, more than two-thirds of whom have earned doctoral degrees. The University now offers more than 100 undergraduate, graduate, and associate degree programs, a diversity unmatched by any other college or university in northwestern Pennsylvania. While seeking to meet the educational needs of its region from both a professional and cultural standpoint, Edinboro now makes contri­ butions in the fields of education, government, environmental improvement, urban and rural problems, crime prevention, and service to business and industry. Recent program developments include those in the high-demand areas of allied health, business administration, communication, computer technology, nursing, and various pre-professional offerings such as law, dentistry, medicine, pharmacy and veterinary science. Numerous student internships provide additional examples of the University’s efforts to create a close working relationship with the people it serves while, at the same time, offering students intellectual and career opportunities. Edinboro has initiated the University Honors Program to provide challenging and enriched learning experiences for academ­ ically gifted students. Undergraduate students are encouraged to strive for academic excellence both in their major fields and in other disciplines. Honors students pursue studies that are greater in depth and scope than those required of other undergraduates. Although the costs for attending Edinboro rank among the lowest in the Commonwealth, over $10,000,000 in financial aid is available annually to eligible students. Students are admitted to the University in September or January and are considered for admission on the basis of their general scholarship, nature of secondary program, and SAT or ACT scores. Welcome to Edixboro TJ^niversixy PRESIDENT — FOSTER F. DIEBOLD FROM THE EmiVBORO UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 1987 THEME EDINBORO ALUMNI Provide — scholarships for Support Edinboro’s Assist 25 students annually. athletics and Hall of Fame. in the purchase of modern library equip­ ment. Obtain — discount travel and insurance programs. Sponsor the New Student Record and Publish the 1986 Alumni Directory. — Hold annual reunions all over the United States. ~ Play a major role in Homecoming (annual party at THE Holiday Inn, Edinboro, Homecoming Eve). For more information, call the Alumni Office at 814-732-2715. President Foster F. Diebold is a recognized leader in higher education. Prior to assuming the presidency at Edin­ boro University in 1979, he was president of the University of Alaska Statewide System. These leadership positions involved successfully overcoming a variety of serious problems which faced both the University of Alaska Statewide System and Edinboro University. President Diebold played an active role in the develop­ ment of the State System of Higher Education in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by supporting the legislation which created it and serving on the transition team. In addition, he served on search committees for the Chancellor’s senior staff. President Diebold also chaired the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference from 1983 to 1985. He now serves on the Capital Facilities and Appropriations Sub-Committee of the Chancellor’s Executive Council and on the Commission of the Universities Ad Hoc Committee on Public Higher Education in Pennsylvania. President Diebold also serves on the Com­ mittee on Governance of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU). At Edinboro University, the president has undertaken new initiatives to promote excellence in education. During his presidency, the Honors Program has expanded both in course offerings and in scholarships made available to high achieving students. In 1985, Edinboro University received a grant from the Exxon Education Foundation to sponsor a special Summer Honors Program for students and faculty drawn from the fourteen universities of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. President Diebold has initiated and encouraged the expansion of the program which serves disabled students, and, under his leadership, the University is now 99% wheelchair accessible. The President’s commitment to disabled students led the University to host the 29th Annual National Wheelchair Games in the summer of 1985. Also, he initiated an athletic study table designed to help improve the academic progress of student athletes. President Diebold is committed to strengthening current academic programs at Edinboro, and to developing new academic programs which respond to student needs. As a charter member of the World Future Society, he believes that the study of the future should be an important element in the undergraduate curriculum. In various ways. President Diebold has encouraged open dialogue and collegiality within the University community through various groups, such as the University Senate, the Faculty Advisory Group, and the Department Chairpersons Group. President Diebold supports and encourages international education programming. Greater diversity in the representa­ tion of students from other nations has been achieved, and, currently, there are nearly 100 international students repre­ senting over 25 countries. Also included in the University community are visiting scholars from abroad. President Diebold resides in Edinboro with his wife, Patricia, daughters, Jessica and Stacey, and son, Wesley. 6 7 COMPETITION TOUGH FOR CROSS COUNTRY TEAM Doug Watts, coach of last season’s NCAA Division II national champion cross country team, approaches the 1987 season with a great deal of appreciation and apprehension for his Edinboro runners. “We ran just great last November, a performance I have ranked as the best ever by an Edinboro team,” said the veteran mentor. “This year everyone will expect us to perform as good or better...and that expectation produces pressure that can be insidious to season long development.” Certainly there is reason to suspect that Edinboro could repeat, however. The Boro returns a solid nucleus from last year’s success story, and possesses capable replacements for the graduated harriers. Except for Luke Graham, that is. Graham was a six-time AllAmerican and the mainstay of the cross country program for the past three years. “Luke Graham is simply irreplaceable,” said Watts. “No runner I’ve ever coached has performed as consistently on the upper level of competition as Graham.” Still, Edinboro has a trio of runners who could finish as high or higher than Graham has ever done at nationals. Emerging star Mike Platt (Holley, NY) is expected to hold the number 1 spot for Edinboro. Platt was the third fastest American at nationals last fall in his first cross country season for the Scots. Continual improvement saw him smash former Edinboro national champ Greg Beardsley’s school record in the 5,000 (13:56). Platt also had the fastest 10,000 time in Division II until a freak pulled calf sidelined him. A 3.8 business/economics major, Platt is a diligent trainer who runs well when it counts and has the ability to provide the leadership necessary to mold a championship squad. Another runner who needs to assume leadership qualities is Gennaro “Jim” Manocchio (Parma, OH). A two-time cross country All-American, Manocchio was 13th in the country in 1985. The senior was in the top 10 last year when a side stitch dropped him way back into the pack. He regrouped and worked his way up into AllAmerican status by the end of the race, however. “Certainly Jim is one of the real keys to another title,’’says Watts. “When he runs well, he can compete equally with any American in Division 11.” Another study in championship meet performance is senior Tim Dunthorne (Sudbury, Ontario). Rarely does Dunthorne impress anyone with his regular season performances. But in the big races the tall Canadian certainly has proven his real ability. Tenth in last year’s cross country championships, Dunthorne also has a pair of national runner-up finishes in the steeplechase to his credit in track. The other returning veteran, Mike Tonkin (Brookville, PA), will be expected to find a degree of consistency. As a freshman. Tonkin showed flashes of brilliance in a few races bu( was not in contention at the nationals. “Mike ran very well for a freshman, especially at states and regionals,” said Watts. “I’m pretty sure he will be in it for an AllAmerican award this year.” Scott Burns, Edinboro’s other 1986 All-American, has graduated but Watts thinks he has the personnel to replace him even up. Freshman redshirt Chris Rauber (Pittsburgh Central Catholic) is tabbed a future running star for Edinboro. Watts believes Rauber would have earned one of the starting spots on last year’s team had he not been sidelined with an injury. “After seeing him run so well in spring track, Chris might be Edinboro’s first freshman cross country All-American this season,” said Watts. ATHLETIC DIRECTOR — JIM McDONALD Watts adds another name from his squad who he feels could the coveted honor of All-American, sophomore Mike Renninger (Oil City, PA). Renninger qualified for the track nationals in the 10,000 last spring, and is labeled by his coach as one of the toughest, guttiest competitors he has ever coached. The probable seventh man this year is yet another national qualifier, sophomore John Kralisz (East Aurora, NY). A 3:50 1500 meter man, Kralisz possesses the leg speed necessary for continual improvement as his confidence and endurance develop. “I said last year that it would take five All-Americans to win the championship and I was correct (both Edinboro and runner-up South Dakota State had five All-Americans). It should be no different in 1987,” predicts Watts, the recipient of the 1986 national Coach of the Year Award. The All-American performances will have to come from Watts’ top seven harriers. Freshman George Lukert (Edinboro), Eric Walsh (Sparta, OH), and upperclassmen Bill Brown (Titusville, PA) and Walt McLaughlin (East Aurora, NY) could step in if anyone falters. As usual, the Running Scots will embark on a tough schedule highlighted by early season Division I tests at Kentucky and Notre Dame. which also was the sight once again of pre-season drills for the Pitt Panthers football team. Sox Harrison Stadium is the site of the Cleveland Browns vs. the Buffalo Bills annual rookie scrimmage, which has been a yearly mid-summer highlight. The personable athletic director also introduced Edin­ boro’s Hall of Fame program which has evolved into an annual year-ending event to honor present and past athletes. McDonald has been at Edinboro since 1962 and for 12 years served as the Fighting Scot basketball coach (1962-1975) and never experienced a losing season while his teams compiled an impressive 181 wins against only 89 losses. During that span, his cagers won four Western Division Pennsylvania Con­ ference crowns, the PC state championship and two District 18 titles that netted trips to the NAIA National Tournament. His teams set 27 University records and made 19 post-season appearances while four of his players were named AllAmericans. Prior to accepting his position at Edinboro, McDonald served as assistant basketball coach in Erie, Pa. He is a 1956 graduate of Bridgeport High School in his home town of Bridgeport, West Virginia. In 1960 he received a degree in chemistry and physical education from West Virginia Wesleyan College and he also holds a master’s degree in health from the University of Buffalo. As an undergraduate, he set nine school records at Wesleyan and was twice voted both AP and UPI basketball All-American. In 1960, he was the second leading scorer in the United States, averaging slightly over 33 points a game, and led his team to the national basketball tournament in Kansas City, Missouri. He was named to the NAIA’s All-Tournament Team in 1959 and 1960. Athletic Director - Jim McDonald Edinboro University’s athletic program was placed under the talented and aggressive leadership of Jim McDonald in July of 1981. Increased emphasis on fund raising to provide a sound scholarship foundation has become his top priority while numerous changes and innovations have also keyed the Scots’ athletic program under his direction. Through his efforts more than 2.1 million dollars has been raised during the past five years. The funds generated by the energetic athletic director’s efforts will be used to assist Edinboro’s men and women athletes who compete in the Scots sixteen intercollegiate sports. In 1966, McDonald was selected Area Eight Coach of the Year by the eastern seaboard coaches and that same year was honored as one of the top ten finalists in the Coach of the Year national poll. McDonald’s honors also include selection to the West Virginia All-Time College Basketball Team and member­ ship in the West Virginia Sports Hall of Fame. He served four years on the NAIA’s All-American selection committee and was chosen by the NAIA to coach an All-American team of NBA-bound cagers who won the Gold Medal in Israel’s Hapoel Games. In addition to his classroom and basketball coaching duties, McDonald was Edinboro’s golf coach for 17 years during which his teams won over 40 tournaments and finished as high as 3rd place at the NCAA Division II National Tournament. As a resident of Edinboro, McDonald has a record of extensive community involvement. He was Little League Baseball Director for four years and also held a four-year post as a member of the General McLane School Board. He and his wife, Mary Lou, have three sons - Mark, Mike, and Matthew. “EUP has outstanding coaches and facilities. With these ingredients, there is no reason we could not be competitive in the PSAC and Division II.” Tim Dunthorne In addition to maintaining Edinboro’s respected winning tradition in intercollegiate athletics, the former health and physical education professor has vastly expanded the Univer­ sity’s summer activities. Forty-four camps were sponsored by the Fighting Scots Booster Club this past summer on the University’s campus 9 SCOTS SET SIGHTS ON PA. CONFERENCE TITLE when you’re hungry for a good meal at a good price, iMik Rgrkim'' Family Restaurant For breakfast, lunch, and dinner, count on Perkins to fill your plate without emptying your wallet 290 Plum Street Edinboro, PA 734-4600 HOURS Sun. - Thurs. 6:00 a.m. - Midnight Fri. and Sat. Open 24 Hours The Edinboro University football team will carry a fivegame win streak into the 1987 season with sights geared to a western division title. The Fighting Scots are well aware that the task at hand is dethroning lUP in order to travel to the state championship game this November. “In order to accomplish our long range goals, we have to start right here in the western division,” third-year head coach Steve Szabo stated. “Indiana will once again be the team to beat on our side of the state. It is nice to know that our two toughest opponents (lUP and West Chester) will be played in Sox Harrison Stadium,” he added. Since Szabo started in 1985, the Fighting Scot mentor has made a conscious effort to improve the Edinboro schedule and in ‘87 he has done just that. “The first thing is that we are playing an eleven game schedule this year. We dropped Wayne State and Fairmont and picked up a rugged Division I-AA opponent in Liberty University. We also play Central Con­ necticut, which hired a new coach that took Salisbury State (MD) to the Division III national finals a year ago; and Shepherd College (WV) which finished in the NAIA top ten last season,” Szabo commented. Coming into the ‘87 campaign Szabo calls it “guarded optimism” as he approaches the Scots’ initial test on the road September 5. “Taking into consideration the ability and physical size of our athletes this could be the best football team Edinboro has had since I came here three years ago. But I am a bit cautious due to the fact that we are so young,” Szabo added. “We have only seven seniors on the entire squad so once again we are going to be relying on young talent in the big games.” Szabo feels that the center of any good football team must start with the quarterback. “It is a very sensitive position. In order to be successful a team must have a solid foundation at quarterback,” he added. It is obvious that the Scot mentor is concerned. The Plaid is likely to start sophomore signal caller Jim Ross, a Euclid, Ohio, product with only one collegiate start under his young belt. “Physically there is no question that he has the ability to lead this team,”the head coach said. “But like I said, there is far more to it than just the raw ability to throw the ball. Once Ross learns the system and becomes more comfortable with it I feel he can develop into as good a quarterback that Edinboro has ever had.” © 1986 Perkins Restaurants, Inc. 11 POWELL AUTO SUPPLY INC. DISCOUNT PRICES ONE STOP AUTOMOTIVE HEADQUARTERS DuPONT AUTO REFINISHING PRODUCTS WELDING SUPPLIES HIGH PERFORMANCE PARTS WE TURN DRUMS AND ROTORS MACHINE SHOP SERVICE AVAILABLE TWO LOCATIONS EDINBORO McKEAN 734-15111 1476-1018 RT. 6n E 8947 N. MAIN Great Lakes Rehabilitation Hospital C.A.R.F. ACCREDITED J.C.A.H. ACCREDITED COMPREHENSIVE INPATIENT AND OUTPATIENT PHYSICAL REHABILITATION PROGRAMS • • • • • • • • • • Amputation Arthritis Cardio-Pulmonary Neurological Disease Orthopedic Pain Management Spinal Cord Injuries Stroke Traumatic Injury Industrial Rehahilitation 814-870-7070 143 East Second Street Erie, Pennsylvania 16507 12 Indeed, Ross is a bit green but he has shown the leadership qualities and ability to lead the Fighting Scot squad. In his lone start last season, Ross completed 8 of 16 passes for 118 yards and 2 touchdowns in leading the Plaid to a 24-14 win over Slippery Rock. The remainder of the season Ross threw just 4 more passes but gained valuable game experience in 4 other contests and feels he got his feet wet. “I was pleased with my performance against the Rock,” Ross said. “But I was not happy with my overall performance for the year. The experience helped. I just hope I can carry over the knowledge I gained last year and help us win some football games this fall,” he added. If any one position can take the heat off of Ross in ‘87 it will be the wealth of talent the Scots possess at halfback. Returning for his senior season will be scat-back Floyd Faulkner. Coming off an all-conference season Faulkner will be relied on to carry the bulk of the offensive load for the Scots this year. He rushed for a team-high 824 yards on just 127 carries and 11 touchdowns last season and ended the year with 84 points scored. Out of the backfield Faulkner grabbed 17 passes for 142 yards and a pair of scores while he also returned 22 punts for 302 yards for a 13.7 yards per return mark. One of his runbacks covered 80 yards and a touchdown against California on the road. Joining Faulkner in the backfield will likely be Elbert Cole and fullback John Georgiana. Cole, just a sophomore, gained 290 yards on 52 attempts last season for a 5.6 YPC mark and a pair of touchdowns. He also caught 11 passes for 170 yards and 3 scores out of the backfield. One of his grabs was a game winner with two seconds left against Wayne State. “We have three people at the halfback spot that can break a game open,” commented Szabo. “Floyd, Elbert and Chris Conway give us a solid foundation in the backfield.” Anchoring the fullback spot will be co-captain John Georgiana. “Georgy” carried the pigskin 40 times for 125 yards in ‘86 while helping clear the way for Scot backs to run for over 200 yards per game. “We are a bit slim at fullback as far as depth is concerned, but with someone as solid as Georgiana back there we should be all right,” Szabo said. One concern of the Scots is that Georgiana is coming off knee surgery in the off season and whether he will be able to go at full strength for an entire season. No matter how good the skill people are in the backfield, a solid offensive line is a must for a successful offense. In ’87, Szabo feels the squad could be as good as ever. “Physically we will be a much bigger line than in years past,” said the head mentor. “We should average around 240 pounds up front with players who have game experience.” In the middle of the line will likely be sophomore center Joe Brooks (6-1, 235) and guards Andy Cline (6-4, 240) and Dean Gallagher (6-3, 225). Sophomore Brad Powell (6-2, 260) and freshman Jeff Jacobs (6-4,240) will give the Scots depth at guard. Looking to start at tackle will be a pair of returnees in Ron Hainsey (6-4, 260) and Mark Courtney (6-3, 225) who were not in the starting lineup on opening day last season. “Both Courtney and Hainsey developed into solid offensive tackles last season,” Szabo commented. “They worked hard to earn their spots and performed-well to keep them. I hope there will be more pleasant surprises like those two this season.” Anchoring the interior this season will be a trio of tight ends which Szabo feels can all help the squad. Brian Ferguson, Randy Mcllwain, and John Tintsman all bring game experi­ ence into Jhe ‘87 season with equal talents. Ferguson caught 4 passes for 37 yards and a score last season, while Tintsman’s lone reception went for 10 yards and a score. Mcllwain was used strictly on special teams a year ago but had an outstanding spring and is expected to battle for the spot. At wideout the Scots are very solid. Ernest Priester (36 catches, 507 yards), Cleveland Pratt (18, 225, 3TD), John Toomer (11, 103) and Daryl Cameron (8, 91, ITD) return for the Plaid and all offer deep threats when called upon. Priester, in just his freshman year last season, was the squad’s top possession receiver and will likely play the same role in ‘87. Pratt and Toomer both have sprinter speed, while Cameron will be used in the shorter passing game. If the Fighting Scots are going to contend with the western division heavies this fall, the defense is going to have to make great strides from last season. Coach Szabo feels that coming off a successful spring, the defensive side of the ball has come a long way. “Coach Greg Quick (defensive coordinator) has his feet on the ground and has done a great job of pulling the defense together,” Szabo stated. “With the influx of new personnel and the development of our veterans the defense should be a much better squad this season. We must minimize the mistakes and play as a unit. The personnel will not be my concern, it will be the ability to make the proper adjustments.” The secondary should be the Scots’ stronghold in ‘87, led by all-conference performer Michael Willis and co-captain Mike Wetherholt. Willis returns with 77 tackles to his credit last season including 2 fumble recoveries, 1 fumble caused, 3 passes broken up and 1 interception. Wetherholt led the squad with 8 deflections in ‘86 and was the fourth leading tackier with 56 stops. Rounding out the secondary will likely be returnee Mikel Green (35 tackles, 1 INT) and Michael Churn (47 stops and 2 INT). Also expected to see time in the defensive backfield will be vet Claude Webb (21 stops and team-high 3 INT) and first-year players James Anderson, Mark Ferguson, Joe Thomas, Rod Thompson, Cornellis Barber and Bill McNally. Linebacking seems to be the biggest question mark for coach Quick’s defense in ‘87, but with the addition of middle linebacker Scott Brown who moved from offense, and the experienced pass rush of John Williams the Plaid should have the talent to compete. The problem is the depth. Williams returns from a freshman season where he recorded 51 tackles and 2 quarterback sacks. He also was credited with 3 stops behind the line of scrimmage, while Brown is adjusting to the inside spot. “Brown wrs the pleasant surprise of the spring session,” Szabo stated. “He has the ability to play the position as well as anyone has since I have been here. He is a former tight end with a good nose for the football.” At the other outside spot is likely to be a pair of sophomores battling in Jose Regus and Tony Simpson. A variety of freshmen are going to have to produce for the Plaid in ‘87 led by newcomers Brian Keaton, A1 Donahue, Cary Braxton, John Constantino, Mike Cunningham and John Holmes. Returnee Dave Meholick, the squad’s most valuable special teams player in ‘86, gives the squad the proven depth but he’s likely to play the middle behind Brown. Up front the squad has some proven players but depth 13 SCOUTING THE 1987 SCOTS NAME: Edinboro University of Pa. (1857) PRESS BOX PHONE: 814-732-2749 LOCATION: Edinboro, Pa. 16444 KIPPER' S TEAM TRAINER: George Roberts PRESIDENT: Foster F. Diebold (Aug., 1979) 1986 RECORD: 7-3, Conference: 5-1 (2nd place) ENROLLMENT: 6,100 COLORS: Red and White ASSISTANT COACHES: Rick Browning, Scott Browning, Paul Dunn, Dan Gierlak, Mark Merritt, Greg Quick The Dining Room is Open!! 1987 TEAM CAPTAINS: Mike Wetherholt, John Georgiana Our dining room is open to serve all your food needs. We serve lunch daily from 11:00-2:00 and dinner from 5:00-10:00. The kitchen is open all day — a sandwich can always be served in the bar, 11:00 a.m.-l :00 a.m. CONFERENCE: Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference AFFILIATIONS: NCAA Division II LETTERMEN RETURNING, LOST: 36, 13 STADIUM: Sox Harrison (4,500) ATHLETIC DIRECTOR: Janies K. McDonald STARTERS RETURNING: 16 ATHLETIC DEPT. PHONE: 814-732-2776/2778 TEAM STRENGTHS: Running Backs, Wide Receiver SPORTS INFO. DIRECTOR: Todd V. Jay SPORTS INFORMATION PHONE: 814-732-2811 TEAM QUESTION MARKS: Quarterback, Linebackers, Defensive Line -' HEAD COACH: Steve Szabo (U.S. Naval Academy 1965) BASIC OFFENSE: Pro-Set SEASONS, OVERALL RECORD: Third, 12-7-1 BASIC DEFENSE: 4-3 / ' 100 Meadvi!le St. Edinboro, Pa. 16412 734-5103 could be the problem here again. Coaches Rick Browning and Quick have made some adjustments and feel that the defensive interior is ready to go. Starting at defensive end will likely be veterans Bill Clark (14 stops, 2 sacks) and Rob Lewis (24 tackles, 2 sacks), while the tackle spots are anchored by Chip Conrad and Mark Jozefov. Returnee Scott Pierce (28 stops and 2 sacks) gives the Plaid depth at end but that is the extent of the proven players. Freshmen Kurt Schmidhamer, Andy Fulton, A1 Caldwell, Ray Haley, and John LaRocca are going to be looked at for help. The kicking game also has its share of question marks, having to replace the school’s all-time leading scorer Jim Trueman. A realm of freshmen will battle for the placekicking spot as Jason Benham and Terry Buckley seem to have the inside track. The punting chores will be solid with the return of second team all-conference player sophomore Mike Raynard. He finished his freshman campaign with 38 kicks covering 1,456 yards for a solid 38.3 mark, best in the western division of the Pennsylvania Conference. edinboro C L E N E R Man S Edinboro Cleaners. Inc. 1121 Meadville St. I Edinboro. PA 16412 / t 654 Millcreek Mall • Erie, Pennsylvania 16565 • Phone (814) 868-0(XX)/868-9(XX) M, T, W, TH 7:00 a.in.-6:00 p.m. FRI 7:00 a.in.-8:00 p.m. SAT 7:00 a.m.-l:00 p.m. Colt 45 is Master Distributed in Erie by EAST SIDE BEER 814-734-1214 FRANK TUCCI & EDINBORO GRAVEL CO. Owners: Ed & Celeste Marceca R.D. 2, Cambridge Springs, Pa. 16403 Phone: 398-6111 or 734-3305 905 East 10th Street Gravel Plant: 734-3171 455-9083 14 15 GOOD LUCK SCOTS See us for all your automotive needs! New Buicks New Chevys New Chevy Trucks Used Cars Leasing Rentals Service Parts BUICK CHEVY + Full Body Shop ve A Little' x^Dealer MAKE YOUR BEST DEAL On any new or used car by November 30,1987 then present this coupon for an additional $100.00 — Only One Coupon Accepted Per Car — Present This Coupon By November 30,1987 Receive $5.00 Off PA. STATE INSPECTION — Other Parts and Labor Extra — One Coupon Per Car ____________ Coupon----------------Coupon --------------------------------------- 16 Present This Coupon By November 30,1987 10% OFF ANY PARTS OR SERVICE — One Coupon Per Customer — Body Work Excluded — Not Useable With Any Other Special _____________ Coupon ____________ Sitting on the sidelines? You’re not alone. Injuries sideline athletes each season. If not treated properly, these injuries can take months to heal or, worse yet, may never heal correctly. The Sports Medicine Center at Hamot can help you get back in the game. As the pioneers in Sports Medicine in Northwest­ ern PA, we’re the experienced specialists in orthopedics, rehabilitative surgery, cardiology, neurology, physical therapy and prevention through athletic training. We offer seminars, sports trainers, and other assistance to athletic programs. Don’t take chances with your sports injuries; call the Hamot Sports Medicine Specialists at 870-6195. We know how to get you off the sidelines. Hamot Hamot Medical Center 201 State Street Erie, PA 16550 STEVE SZABO — DIRECTION FOR THE FUTURE University, and the three previous seasons he coached the offensive line, defensive line and linebackers respectively at the University of Iowa. He was also an assistant at the University of Toledo and John Hopkins University. Before joining the Edinboro staff, Szabo was offensive coordinator and quarter­ back/wide receiver coach at Western Michigan University. As a player Szabo was an offensive and defensive halfback at the Naval Academy. He also earned All-America honors in lacrosse and was named to the All-Time Middie team. Following graduation from the Academy, Szabo served a 13month tour of duty in Vietnam and was named to the AllService football team with the Quantico Marines. Northwestern Rural Electric Cooperative Association Inc. Szabo, who describes himself as a “very goal-oriented person,” has set some goals for the future of Edinboro football. First, he said he wants to produce a winning team starting with the PSAC title, with long range hopes of a national champion­ ship at the Division II level. Second, Szabo hopes to establish a program which is meaningful to his players, and ensure that above all they get an education. Third, Szabo hopes to create a positive football atmosphere at Edinboro which will involve the faculty, student body and the community. Finally, Szabo said he would like to instill an attitude of pride and togetherness within the team unit stressing, “a team program will transcend any individual greatness.” Owned by those it serves" The Scot coach has two children, Christine and Michael. Szabo resides in Edinboro with his wife, Patti. Head Coach Steve Szabo Jay’s Auto Wrecking 17 Acres of Late Model Used Auto Parts RON BIDWELL - PROPRIETOR 111 MEADVILLE ST. EDINBORO, PA 16412 734-7243 MON.-FRI. 10-6 SATURDAY 10-5 Used Engines & Transmissiohs our Specialty Alternators * Starters * Glass Rear Ends • Radiators • Penders & Body Panels • 734-4022 11610 Hamilton Road, Edinboro 1 mile off Rt. 99 “Go Boro” In 1985, Steve Szabo became the tenth head football coach in Edinboro University’s 55-year gridiron history, and has led the Fighting Scots to a 12-7-1 mark his first two years. Last season, Szabo was tabbed small college “Coach of the Year” by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for leading the Scots to a 7-3 mark and a second place finish in the Pennsylvania Conference. A native of Chicago, Illinois, Szabo graduated with honors from the United States Naval Academy in 1965 with a B.S. degree in physics and a minor in mathematics and electrical engineering. In addition, Szabo completed graduate work in aerospace engineering and pursued doctoral work on a fellowship at John Hopkins University. From 1979 to 1981, the Fighting Scot head coach served as a defensive line coach at Ohio State under Earl Bruce, during which time the Buckeyes ranked in the top 20 and played in bowl games all three years. In 1979, he directed a standout defensive unit that ranked third in the nation in total defense. “Steve is very disciplined, hard working and responsible,” offered Buckeye coach Earl Bruce. “I wouldn’t hesitate to rehire him on my staff,” added the Ohio State mentor. In addition to his three years at Ohio State, Szabo spent 1977 and 1978 as a defensive line coach at Iowa State. From 1974 through 1976 he was a defensive line coach at Syracuse 19 ATHLETIC STAFF ASSISTANT TO THE ATHLETIC DIRECTOR HAROLD “HAL” UMBARGER ASSOCIATE ATHLETIC DIRECTOR DR. KATHLEEN LIPKOVICH Dr. Kathleen Lipkovich was named Edinboro’s first associate athletic director at the outset of the 1981 school year to help administer both the men’s and women’s athletic program. Originally from Youngstown, Ohio, Dr. Lipkovich has had teaching and coaching experience at West Virginia University, Central Connecticut State College, and Trinity College. The Ohio native, who graduated from Chaney High School, began her teaching and coaching career in 1972 with the Howland Local School District in Howland, Ohio, and then held a similar position from 1972 through 1975 at McDonald High School in McDonald, Ohio. The 1972 Youngstown State graduate received her M.S. degree in 1975 from West Virginia University and was awarded a doctorate from that same institution in 1977 after majoring in educational administration and physical education. She completed a post­ doctoral fellowship at Harvard in educational administration prior to her arrival at Edinboro. Harold “Hal” Umbarger joined Edinboro University’s athletic staff four years ago as assistant to the athletic director. He brings a wealth of talent and experience to the administrative level of the athletic program and plays a vital role in overseeing the academic progress of student athletes as well as coordinating the on-going functions of the athletic director’s office and the summer programs which involve the department. The West Newton, Pa., native is a 1954 Slippery Rock University graduate and also owns his masters degree from Penn State. After a three-year stint with the U.S. Army Security Agency in Europe, he coached basketball and baseball at Moshannon Valley (Pa.) High School before accepting a guidance position in the West York Area School District in 1961. He became a member of Edinboro’s admissions office a year later and in 1967 was named director of admissions. During his tenure more than 40,000 students were admitted to Edinboro University. SPORTS INFORMATION AND PROMOTIONS DIRECTOR TODD V. JAY TEAM TRAINER - GEORGE ROBERTS Todd Jay begins his third year of publicizing Edinboro Univer­ sity’s athletic program and assisting in sports promotion for the Fighting Scots. A graduate of Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Todd received a bachelor of science in education in 1982 and a master of science in communications in May of 1985. The New Castle native served as assistant to the sports information, director at Clarion. During the past two years. Jay has written releases for 15 inter­ collegiate sports, edited and produced athletic programs and brochures, and compiled statistics at all events. In addition, Todd hosted a weekly television show on local cable, featuring Fighting Scot football and basketball. He also did the promotion for numerous EUP all americans and received an award from the Amateur Wrestling News for his publication on the USA-Cuban meet held last March. A three-year letterwinner in baseball at Clarion, Jay served as news-sports correspondent for the New Castle News, while also serving as assistant basketball coach for Neshannock High School during his teaching stay in New Castle. On radio. Jay has hosted weekly shows in Clarion and Edinboro featuring intercollegiate athletics and assisting in overall sports promotion. The voice of the Fighting Scots for home football games, Todd is single and resides in Edinboro. 20 Ron V esely George M. Roberts of Titusville, Pa., is beginning his third year as athletic trainer at Edinboro University. A 1972 graduate of Titusville#^igh School, Roberts received a bachelor of science from Edinboro in 1976. He completed the NATA (National Athletic Trainers Association) curriculum at West Chester University and earned a master of education degree from Slippery Rock University. In his most recent position, the newest addition to the Fighting Scot athletic staff was employed as athletic trainer at Hamot Medical Center in Erie, Pa. He served as student trainer during his college career and from 1976 to 1984, Roberts was a teacher, tra'ner, and assistant football coach at Titusville High School. Since 1980, Roberts has spent much of his time as a trainer for the National Sports Festivals (HI, IV, and V), for the World University Games in Edmonton, Alberta, and for the United States Olympic Team during the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Roberts is a member of the National Athletic Trainers Associa­ tion, the Eastern Athletic Trainers Association, the Pennsylvania Athletic Trainers Society, the National Education Association, and the Pennsylvania State Education Association. George and his wife. Penny, have a five-year-old daughter. Kristin. How a team reacts to changes in momentum can directly affect the outcome of a game. ebster’s New World Dictionary defines mo­ mentum as the impetus of a moving object, or a force that keeps W growing. The laws of physics say momentum is the product of mass times velocity. But football people find momentum as hard to define as it is easy to recognize, and consider it not so much a constant, but a fateful force consistent only in changing sides, sometimes with 180-degree finality. Coaches, players and fans are all familiar with momentum—that impelling power go­ ing for a team that is on the move and going against a team that is struggling to hold on. Momentum is an almost mystic result of someone’s good fortune or crushing disas­ ter, a mood swing that upsets the tone and often the very outcome of a contest. Mo­ mentum is a succession of plays that affect competitive balance, and ultimately, the outcome. “Momentum is very important,” said Lou Holtz of Notre Dame. “It’s strictly a state of mind. It tells you how to proceed. The one thing about it, it’s going to swing back and forth. You can’t get caught up in it or it can be disastrous. “Momentum happens because somebody is lucky,” he added. “Something they hadn’t counted on goes their way, or goes against them. It could be anything—an official’s call, a great play or a bad play. Something unexpected and out of the ordinary. Maybe dictated by the shape of the ball.” “What’s important is the ability of your team to have momentum and maintain it,” said Stanford coach Jack Elway. “It’s an in­ tangible thing that is a unique characteristic continued TOUCHDOWN MOMENTUM ronanue. Momentum is an almost mystic result of someone’s good fortune or crushing disaster, a mood swing that upsets the tone and often the very outcome of a contest. of a team sport. Success depends on how long you can maintain momentum and how you can take it away from your opponent. “It’s a cumulative effect of executing within your position, making the big play at the right time, second effort,” said Elway. “A lot of positive things happening for you—luck, fumbles, officials’ calls—those things create momentum.” Holtz also pointed out that assessing mo­ mentum is none too easy. “Say the score is 7-7, and we score to go up 14-7,” Holtz said. “I’ll ask our players, ‘Where’s the momentum?’ and they’ll say, ‘It’s with us.’ Then they score, and they’ll say, ‘It’s with them.’ But the situations are almost identical—the only difference is that in one we kick off, the other we receive. So momentum is state of mind.” Even so, momentum is often linked with time, making its dramatic impact at predict­ able junctures of the game. “It’s an interesting part of the game,” said Bruce Arians, head coach at Temple. “There are critical [time] areas to have momentum. We always tell our team we want to start fast and finish strong, and we want to finish the half with a big play. The most important time of any game is the first five minutes of the third quarter and the last five minutes of the fourth, whether we’re ahead by 20 or trailing by 20. With the first situation, you’ve got to set the momentum, the tempo, for the second half. With the second, you may set it up to win the game.” For those who believe momentum is a re­ sult rather than an effect, it may be surpris­ ing to know that some coaches drill their players in the proper psychological re­ sponse to momentum changes, including the bad turn of fate. “Momentum is something every coach believes in,” said Jerry Berndt of Rice, “but I’m not sure most coaches pracfice how to deal with it. Somewhere along the line, you have to create that scenario, because the worst feeling in the world as a coach is to have something happen in d game you did not prepare your squad for. So we put our kids in those [momentum-changing] situa­ tions. Like, ‘They’re moving the ball on our defense, how do we react?’ Or, ‘We just scored and they just fumbled, let’s take ad­ vantage and try to create momentum.’” “We try each week to set an attitude of facing up to adversity,” said Don James of Washington. “We tell our players that, ‘In every game you’ll fall behind or turn the ball over,’ so you set the players up before­ hand to expect some change.” It is James’ contention that coping with a capricious change of momentum is tougher for a defensive squad than it is for an offense. “Say the defense goes out after having a good series,” he explained. “They go to the bench expe^tihg rest and good things to happen—^dr the offense to get them better field position. So when the offense turns the ball over and the defense has to go right back in, that’s the time they’ve got to be alert. The opponent’s offense will try to cap­ italize on that, with a reverse, or maybe a flea-flicker. So we try to break down the sudden-change tendencies of our oppo­ nents and tell them [our players] to be alert.” To minimize the momentum of your op­ ponent, Arians suggests a quick departure from the conservative tactics coaches have been accused of from Boston to Berkeley. “You can take risks,” Arians said. “De­ fensively, on a team that has been moving the ball on you, you might try to blitz. You try to wreck their momentum, cause a bad play. Offensively, against a team that has been stopping you, you might try a trick play, a reverse, or some misdirection that continued TOUCHDOWN Most bouibon is 4 years old. ^^fe^e 8. Are they too impatioitoraie we too careful? WIU) TURKEY 8 years old, 101 proof, pure Kentucky TO SEND A an- OF WILD TURKEY*/101 PROOF ANYWHERE* CALL 1-800 CHEER UP ‘EXCEPT WHERE PROHIBITED KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY AUSTIN NICHaS DISTILLING CQ, LAWRENCEBURG, KENTUCKY © 1986. MCMENTUM continued Sim on G riffiths will make them overpursue. That can result in a big play to swing it back in the other direction.” “You’ve got to minimize it,” said Holtz. “When momentum happens people say, ‘Here it comes, something bad’s gonna happen now.’ But 1 can say just the oppo­ site. You’ve got to. You can’t Just sit there and say, ‘Well, let’s see what’s going to happen.’ That’s why we talk to our players about the mental aspect.” “You minimize momentum by continu­ ing to execute what you’re supposed to do,” said Elway. “Having poise. That’s where ex­ perience comes in. You keep playing hard to take momentum away.” Examples of favorable momentum changes make up the happiest moments in coaching memory and a sizable part of the game’s history. Of such moments legends are made, and retold, season after season. “When it [a favorable momentum change] happens, everybody on your team has a good feeling,” said Holtz, recalling a Fighting Irish comeback against Southern California last season. “We were behind, 37-20, and they had a fourth-and-one on our five,” said Holtz, “and they didn’t make it. So we take it and drive down and score, and wound up win­ ning, 39-37. There was a single play that turned it around. When that happens it makes you say, ‘Hey! We got life! We’ve got a chance!”’ “The first time we beat Pitt,three years ago,” said Arians, “we had gone back and forth, back and forth, and they had domi­ nated us defensively the entire fourth quar­ ter. They had us in third-and-20 and we threw a bomb in double coverage. Willie Marshall caught the pass. We kicked a field goal two minutes later to win, 13-12—the first time we beat Pitt in 45 years. That one play in the last five minutes of the game switched the whole game around. When things like that happen, your team gets the feeling, ‘We can beat anybody.’” Berndt, who coached Pennsylvania be­ fore moving on to Rice last season, recalled an example from his Ivy League experience that is heavy with psychological impact. “In our last year against Princeton,” said Berndt, “we were losing, 20-0. But near the end of the first half, just before intermis­ sion, we intercepted a pass and scored. You could feel at that moment, that it all had changed and we were going to win.” Indeed, the Quakers did just that. James said,“l think probably the game 1 remember most was Stanford in 1977. We’d gone up, 17-0, but [Cardinal QB] Guy Ben­ jamin threw two touchdown passes to James Lofton in the third quarter, “Then as the fourth quarter began, we said, ‘Are we going to let them take the mo­ mentum in this game or are we going to get it back?’ And we scored five touchdowns in the fourth quarter. I’d never seen anything like it. We had guys taking punts back, everyone trying to do whatever he could to turn it around.” And for those who believe momentum is a force contained in a single contest, Berndt begs to differ. “We won our last two games last season,” said Berndt. “That was the first time in 17 years that Rice had closed out a season with back-to-back victories. The kids felt so good about it, the momentum carried over into our spring practice this year. Everyone was working so hard. It was a totally differ­ ent attitude than that of the year before. 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Doane College East Central U. Fort Hays State U. (Kan.) Georgetown College Grambling State U. Hampden-Sydney College Iowa Wesleyan College Jackson State U. Livingston U. Louisiana State U. Memphis State U. University of Missouri Morehouse College Occidental College Olivet Nazarene College Ouachita Baptist U. University of the Pacific Princeton Salem College Savannah State College University of the South Tennessee State U. Texas Southern U. Towson State U. Trinity U. Tuskegee Institute (Golden) Wittenberg U. Even a perfectionist needs a little variety nowand then. BEARS Baylor Bethany Bible College (Bruins) Bowdoin College (Polar) Bridgewater State College Brown U. (Bruins) Cal-Berkeley (Golden) UCLA (Bruins) University of Central Arkansas Kutztown U. (Golden) Lenoir-Rhyne College Livingstone College (Fighting) University of Maine (Black) Miles College (Golden) University of Montana (Grizzlies) Morgan State U. (Golden) University of Northern Colorado Ohio Northern U. (Polar) Rocky Mountain College Southwest Missouri State U. Ursinus College Washington U. West Virginia Inst, of Tech. (Golden) Western New England College (Golden) Tanqueray Gin. A singular experience. lAGGGl E/' / ■ it/i" 11 N I N'.; : ,>t ■ ,iG . 'iTCEI'Grtt AM I E Irt ' I'/E' M ,I i .'E/I i r, M ipa i .EH ,1 I 'W 'i/ NCAA DIVBION I-A RECORDS Career—6,082, Tony Dorsett (Pitt), 197376. Division I-A TOTAL OFFENSE Most Plays Most Touchdowns Scored Rushing Game—7, Arnold “Showboat” Boykin (Mississippi) vs. Mississippi State, 1951. Season—29, Mike Rozier (Nebraska), 1983. Career—56, Steve Owens (Oklahoma), 1967 -69. Game—79, Donny Harrison (Ohio) vs. Bowling Green, 1983. Season—594, Matt Kofler (San Diego State), 1981. Career—1,700, Kevin Sweeney (Fresno State), 1982-86. Most Yards Gained PASSING Most Passes Attempted Game—599, Virgil Carter (Brigham Young) vs. Texas-El Paso, 1966. Season—4,627, Jim McMahon (Brigham Young), 1980. Career—11,317, Doug Flutie (Boston College), 1981-84. Game—71, Sandy Schwab (Northwestern) vs. Michigan, 1982. Season—511, Robbie Bosco (Brigham Young), 1985Career—1,427, Brian McClure (Bowling Green), 1982-85. RUSHING Most Passes Completed Most Rushes T Game—45, Sandy Schwab (Northwestern) vs. Michigan, 1982. Season—338, Robbie Boico (Brigham Young), 1985. Career—900, Brian McClure (Bowling Green), 1982-85. Game—57, Kent Kitzmann (Minnesota) vs. Illinois, 1977. Season—403, Marcus Allen (Southern California), 1981. Career—1,215, Steve Bartalo (Colorado State), 1983-86. Most Passes Had Intercepted Most Yards Gained Game—357, Rueben Mayes (Washington State) vs. Oregon, 1984. Season—2,342, Marcus Allen (Southern California), 1981. Kevin Sweeney Fresno State Game—9, John Reaves (Florida) vs. Auburn, 1969. Season—34, John Eckman (Wichita State), 1966. Career—73, Mark Herrmann (Purdue), 1977-80. Most Yards Gained Game—621, Dave Wilson (Illinois) vs. Ohio State, 1980. Season—4,571, Jim McMahon (Brigham Young), 1980. Career—10,623, Kevin Sweeney (Fresno State), 1982-86. Career—3,598, Ron Sellers j(Florida State), 1966-68. Most Touchdown Passes Caught Game—6, Tim Delaney (San Diego State) vs. New Mexico State, 1969. Season—18, Tom Reynolds (San Diego State), 1969. Career—34, Elmo Wright (Houston), 1968-70. Most Touchdown Passes Game—9, Dennis Shaw (San Diego State) vs. New Mexico State, 1969. Season—47, Jim McMahon (Brigham Young), 1980. Career—84, Jim McMahon (Brigham Young), 1977-78,’80-81. RECEIVING Most Passes Caught Game—22, Jay Miller (Brigham Young) vs. New Mexico, 1973. Season—134, Howard Twilley (Tulsa), 1965. Career—262, Mark Templeton (Long Beach State), 1983-86. Most Yards Gained Game—349, Chuck Hughes (Texas-El Paso) vs. North Texas State, 1965. Season—1,779, Howard Twilley (Tulsa), 1965. SCORING Most Points Scored Game—43, Jim Brown (Syracuse) vs. Colgate, 1956. Season—174, Lydell Mitchell (Penn State), 1971 and Mike Rozier (Nebraska), 1983. Career—368, Luis Zendejas (Arizona State), 1981-84. Most Touchdowns Scored Game—7, Arnold “Showboat” Boykin (Mississippi) vs. Mississippi State, 1951. .Season—29, Lydell Mitchell (Penn State), 1971 and Mike Rozier (Nebraska), 1983. Career—59, Tony Dorsett (Pitt), 1973-76 and Glenn Davis (Army), 1943-46. Most Extra Points Scored Kicking Game—13, Terry Leiweke (Houston) vs. Tulsa, 1968. Season—64, Kurt Gunther (Brigham Young), 1980. Career—171, Vlade Janakievski (Ohio State), 1977-80. Most Field Goals Made Game—7, Dale Klein (Nebraska) vs. Missouri, 1985; Mike Prindle (Western Michigan) vs. Marshall, 1984. Season—29, John Lee (UCLA), 1984. Career—80, Jeff Jaeger (Washington),, 1983-86. ALL-PURPOSE RUNNING | Yardage From Rushing, Receiving and All Runbacks Game—417, Paul Palmer (Temple) vs. East Carolina, 1986; Greg Allen (Florida State) vs. Western Carolina, 1981. Season—2,633 Paul Palmer (Temple), 1986. Career—7,172, Napoleon McCallum (Navy), 1981-85. (Records taken from “1987 NCAA Football,” copyright 1987 by the NCAA; used with permission. Copies of this publication rnay be purchased from the NCAA Publishing Service, P.O. Box 1906, Mission. Kansas 66201.) There’s only one other way to enjoy so many thrills for so little money. IStfSteil Fast rides. Lots of excitement: A day at the amusement park is a great way to get your adrenalin going. For the money, there’s nothing quite like it. Unless, of course, you’re clever ____ enough to buy Jensen® Classic car speakers or a JS car receiver. Classic speakers give you bii{ sound fora little price. A roving linebacker who can line up in any position and play the ball rather than operating with a fixed area or assignment is called a offensive lineman uses the block to trip up a de­ fender by throwing himself at the tackler’s ankles or knees. 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LIMIT ONE COUPON PER PURCHASE. 2282 o you have any Famous Grouse?” asked one good friend of another. ”No,Idorft,”helied. “A runner must understand that there’s one bad thing about carrying a foot­ ball—it attracts a crowd.”—John McKay, USC The Old Well, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Legend has it that scores of love affairs and flirtations have been traced directly to a beginning here at the Old Well on the University of North Caroling at Chapel Hill campus. The Old Well, patterned after the Temple of Love in the Garden of Versailles, has been a Carolina landmark since it was built in 1896 “to add a little beauty” to the campus of the nation’s first state university. J J J J Old Main, University of Arkansas The towers of “Old Main” at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, are almost as recognizable across the state as the Razorback hog mascot of the school’s sports teams. The building was erected in the early 1870s, and genera­ tions of UA students have believed that the north tower was intentionally built higher than its southern mate by pro- The Volvo 740 is built and engineered to with­ stand the kind of scrutiny one would expect from a person who has learned a thing or two about value. In fact, no car is built to be looked at more carefully. Which explains why so many people who look at other European imports end up with a Volvo in front of their house. VOLVO A car you can believe in. ; 1987 Volvo Nonh America Corporation J J Union workmen who wanted to rub in the North’s then-recent victory over the South. Studies of the building’s plans have discounted that myth, but can’t explain another mystery. Old Main was built from the same plans as those of a building that used to stand on the Urbana campus of the University of Illinois. But the plans were reversed, so that Old Main is a mirror image of the original building. Nobody knows why. The Bell Tower, Temple University Doubling as a meeting place and timepiece for the students of Temple University, the Elell Tower stands 100 feet high and is visible from most points on campus. The five bells, crafted in Heiligerlee, Holland, weigh almost 4,000 pounds and ring out the Westminster Chimes. The bells are 80 percent copper and 20 percent tin. (The tin prevents cracking, and Philadelphians are very familiar with cracked bells.) Built in 1965, the Bell Tower was bom out of the Samuel Paley Memorial Library Foundation, which stands along­ side the Tower. Aside from its aesthetic beauty and timekeeping skills, the Bell Tower is also the site of University concerts, lectures, pep rallies and TOUCHDOWN THE SECOND LARGEST PURCHASE OF YOUR LIFE SHOULD BE AS CAREFULLY CHOSEN AS YOUR FIRST. By ffendleton The QB Who Hums For our complimentary shirt booklet, write Pendleton, Box 1691, Portland, OR 97207, David H utson /t'lv 0K ■ * by Rick Smith, Middlesex (Mass.) News rf itions. PURE WOOL The sewn-,n Woolmark label is you, assurance ot quality-tested fabrics made ol the world's best ollege football fans love 1984 Heisman Trophy. He goes on to explain how Flutie was a scramblers. Unless of course scrambler when he first came to BC, but left they happen to be wearing a full-fledged escape artist. “When Flutie the opponent’s colors. In first came here, he would scramble out of that case, the fans tense when the pocket when things started to break the quarterback goes back to pass, his down but as he became more sophisticated, protection breaks down and he scrambles he would run around and buy more time. to turn near disaster into success. Or worse. He was an escape artist.” Into six points. Call them scramblers or escape artists, Boston College coach Jack Bicknell, who but the college game has had any number of had a pretty good example of what we’re gifted quarterbacks who used their nimble talking about in Doug Flutie, doesn’t like feet to make their arms all the more deadly. the scrambler label. “I prefer to call them Fran Tarkenton of Georgia. Joe Montana escape artists,” said the man who watched of Notre Dame. Steve Young of Brigham Flutie scramble—or escape—his way to the C Young. John Elway of Stanford. Those are just a few of the college quarterbacks who became dangerous animals when cornered. The typical scrambler goes into action when the offensive play doesn’t develop as diagrammed. Someone misses a block. Someone fails to pick up a blitzing line­ backer. Or all the receivers are covered. With the defenders closing in, a quarter­ back who lacks mobility is a sitting duck. Nothing worse than a quarterback sack to thwart offensive momentum. But with a scrambling quarterback, the tables can quickly turn. What looked like a continued Pure Wool TOUCHDOWN SCRAMBLIN’MAN continued who might pull up and throw the ball if the defense commits to the run. Lou Holtz of Notre Dame feels that the importance of a scrambling quarterback can’t be overemphasized. “If you have a quarterback who can turn a five-or sevenyard loss into a gain, who can maneuver instead of taking a sack, its importance at any level can’t be minimized.” Holtz throws some caution into the equation before coaches everywhere start transplanting halfbacks behind center. “The good scrambler has to be able to throw,” Holtz said. “If he isn’t a good thrower, we’ll play run against him.” Brigham Young’s LaVeil Edwards points out that the life of a scrambler isn’t all glory, cheers and end zones. “A scrambler pays a bit of a price when he’s tackled,” said Edwards. “He isn’t used to the pounding.” Is it difficult on the offensive linemen to have a quarterback who is fading back to pass one second and sprinting downfield the next? Bicknell doesn’t think so. “It happens so fast that an offensive lineman is just trying to get his hat on someone,” said Bicknell. “Most of the time, the lineman has no idea of what’s going on behind him. He Stanford’s John Elway combined a rifle arm and running skill to shred opposing defertses. I sack only moments before can have the defense backpedaling and breaking out in a sweat. “Scramblers can create a lot of prob­ lems, said Jerry Sandusky, defensive coordinator for Penn State. “It’s not bad enough that your people have to cover their pass zones or cover the receivers man-toman, but then a quarterback breaks containment and you’ve got more troubles.” “From an offensive standpoint, a scrambler will buy your offense time when all else fails,” said Washington’s Don James. “The combination of a hard, accu­ rate thrower and someone who can run puts so much pressure on a defense.” Obviously, defensive people would prefer things cut and dried. Passes are hard enough to defend against when you know they’re coming. The same goes for runs. So you can imagine what it’s like to be a defender who has a guy running around who might tuck the ball away and run or TOUCHDOWN knows it’s a big play when he hears the crowd roaring.” I m sure it s difficult for an offensive lineman to change directions and go from one mental mode [pass blocking] to another [run blocking], but I think a scrambling quarterback presents more problems for a defense than it does an offense,” said Boston College offensive line coach Mike Maser. Later when the team is watching the films, the lineman who missed his block knows what happened. Or rather didn’t happen. “The quarterback has taken the pressure off that lineman,” said Bicknell. Instead of a sack and all the coaches looking at the film and knowing which guy missed his block, you might be looking at a 25-yard gain. The quarterback has taken the heat off that guy, bailed him out.” Obviously, having the added dimension of a scrambler gives a defense something extra to think about. “When we play someone with a scrambler,” said James, “we work on it all week long. We run what we call a rabbit drill. We take the littlest, quickest guy we have and tell him to run continued around at quarterback. We tell our defen­ sive linemen to stay in his face. We tell them that they might not get a lot of sacks in the game, but if they stay in his face they’re going to cut down on his completions.” “We tell our players to be patient,” pointed out Edwards. “We tell them to stay m the quarterback’s face. We keep telling them that he isn’t going to be able to make a living out of scrambling.” Nebraska coach Tom Osborne makes sure his players remember an important fundamental of a good pass rush: stay in the proper rushing lane. “There isn’t a whole lot you can do to prepare for a scrambler other than to tell your players to concentrate extra hard on containment on the rush. Tell them to funnel things to the middle.” Bicknell feels that a scrambler or escape artist can cause a defense to play more conservatively than it might normally. “Some teams will go strictly with a fourman rush. I honestly think that a steady diet of blitz against a scrambler is going to get you burned more than you’re going to guess right,” said Bicknell. Holtz thinks the key to stopping a scrambling quarterback is to admit that you’re not going to stop him completely and go from there. “We try to keep him contained, said Holtz. “It’s like we have a fence around him. We try to keep it so he No/re Dame’s Joe Montana could turn near disaster mto success. TOUCHDOWN has as little of the field as possible. We’d rather he has 17 yards of the field to work with and not something like 53.” P^tigue is one of the problems a defensive lineman faces when playing against a scrambler. “Playing a scrambling quar­ terback does change your substituting pat­ terns,” pointed out Penn State’s Sandusky. You have to have fresh people rushing the passer and rushing is one of the most exhausting things you ask your defensive linemen to do.” Edwards agrees. “Playing against someone like that tires out your defensive linemen, said Edwards. “You’ve got to keep talking to them, keep reminding them of that discipline they need to keep going.” Receivers don’t have it all that easy with a scrambler running around. They have to run their routes, but they have to also know when to break off and become a blocker as the scrambler heads downfield. Or when to start running an improvised route to get in the open while the scrambler is buying time. There is also a psychological side to these pesky, waterbug-type quarterbacks. Imag­ ine being a big, beefy defensive lineman who finally breaks free from his man. He has the quarterback in his sights and can almost hear the slap of plastic as he sends the signal-caller flying. In a flash, the quarterback sidesteps the rush. As the big lineman is picking a clump of turf out of his facemask, the crowd—the part of it that likes the other guys—is cheering madly. From elation to frustration in seconds. The scrambler is usually beating rushers one at a time, said Holtz. “Sometimes that can make your pass rushers a little hesitant in their rushing.” Nimble feet aren’t the only thing that a scrambling quarterback needs. A quick thinker with the ability to run or pass usu­ ally tips things in favor of the offense. That obviously makes things even more difficult for the defense, which has to think just a little bit quicker or pay the price. The price can often be six points at its very worst or a loss quickly turned into a gain at the verv least. Coaches aren’t immune to the effects of a scrambling quarterback when he doesn’t happen to be on your side. “It isn’t just a matter of keeping the players up when things go bad,” said Sandusky. “The coaches have to be careful about not letting It get them down. It’s demoralizing as a defensive coach when you’ve called the right defense, guessed right. You’re in the right coverage for the play they run and then one of those scrambling quarterbacks causes everything to break down. As a coach, you go from the right defense to no defense at all. It’s very demoralizing for everyone concerned. Players and coaches Success takes more than just using your head, whether you play ‘lIlK just make some of the smartest office equipment in the world, we BVU scrambler Steve Young could wear down a defense. alike.” Obviously, college coaches everywher would like to have a Flutie running arouni back there. Or a Tarkenton. Or a Montana A Young. An Elway. But the point is tha that combination of throwing ability running ability and the gift of being able t( make quick decisions when people hav( malice in their hearts and you in their sights is rare. More often than not, throwers can’t run and runners can’t throw. Those are the football facts of life. So these scrambling quarterbacks are like works of art. Part of their value is in their rarity. Which is a good thing if you make your living trying to plot how to stop them. Those beleaguered defensive coaches know they only have to put up with this nightmare every once in a while. Q That’s how we help you stay on top of things. XEROX® is a trademark ol'XEROX CORPORATION. Jensen, California's "Golden Boy,” was considered one of the most gifted athletes of his time. he University of California is best known for its academic excellence, priding itself more on its Nobel Prize winners than on its All-Americas. Yet the Golden Bears also have a rich ath­ letic tradition, one which includes an inordi­ nate number of two-sport superstars who commanded much more attention for their brawn than for their brains. The legendary Brick Muller, for instance, was the West Coast’s initial All-America as a Wonder Team end nearly 70 years ago, and doubled as an Olympic high jump medalist. In the late ’30s, Sam Chapman gained . distinction as an All-America halfback on the Thunder Team and later became a solid, if not SpeQtacular, major-league outfielder. Of more recent vintage, All-America quarterbacks Craig Morton and Steve Bartkowski rejected opportunities to play professional baseball and later starred in the NFL. T TOUCHDOWN But the greatest athlete in Cal history un­ questionably is Jack Eugene Jensen, alias The Golden Boy, a 5-11, 190-pound blond, blue-eyed Adonis who was the Frank Merriwell of his day. Only he was for real. At Cal,Jensen was selected to play in the East-West Shrine game as a freshman. The following spring he pitched the Bear base­ ball squad to the championship of the first College World Series. He received AllAmerica honors as a senior, leading the Bears to the Rose Bowl. As a major-league baseball player, Jensen appeared in the 1950 World Series with the New York Yankees and was named the American League MVP playing for the Boston Red Sox in 1958. Following his remarkable career as a football and baseball star, Jensen received attention for his failures in marriage, busi­ ness and coaching, yet those lapses don’t diminish the fact he was among the most gifted athletes in American sport. Jensen was a coed’s dream in his under­ graduate days, a campus hero in every sense of the word during that period of innocence immediately following World War II. He broke hearts when he married Olympic diver Zoe Ann Olsen in a celebrity-style wedding in 1949. But Jensen was as tormented off the field as he was gifted on it. He was obsessed by a fear of flying, an apparent outgrowth of his anguish over being separated from his family. He also had difficulty adjusting to real life following a storybook athletic career, failing to understand why the adulation and the cheering stopped. His marriage crumbled, investments turned sour and he was reminded of his mortality with a heart attack in 1969. Not until he met and married Katharine Cortesi in 1968 did Jensen start placing his life in order. They were together almost 15 years, a tranquil and rewarding relationship that ended abruptly when he died of a sec­ ond heart attack, July 14, 1982, at 55. continued PURE5HAPE. PUREPOWER. 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Dr. John Najarian, a renowned brain sur­ geon and head of the University of Minne­ sota Medical School, met Jensen during their schoolboy days in Oakland. “I knew him since we were 12,” Dr. Najar­ ian said. “We played on the same high school championship team at Oakland High. He was the whole team. The rest of us were just along for the ride. “In those days, he would pitch a shutout and hit three homers. I was throwing the shot put one day, and he came over and asked me how to throw. His third throw ex­ ceeded my best. He could have been a su­ perb decathlon athlete. Nobody came close to his proficiency. “Jackie was a natural,” Dr. Najarian added. “I can’t give him a peer as an athlete. The two closest in our day were Herman Wedemeyer and Bob Mathias, but I would put my money on Jensen. There was noth­ ing he tried that he couldn’t do well.” Jensen was a legendary prep performer. He was all-city in baseball and football twice, earning honorable mention in basket­ ball though he only played half a season. He also was student body president, a role model for Oakland boys and a heartthrob for girls. Following 15 months in the Navy, he en­ rolled at Cal, 20 pounds heavier than his high school weight and ready to make an impact on the college gridiron. Najarian, a tackle, steered him to Berkeley. There were no recruiters beating down the door. “I enrolled at Cal one year earlier, and I talked Jack into coming, too,” Dr. Najarian recalled. “Those weren’t the days of pres­ sure recruiting. Today, he’d be a bluechipper with every college in the country after him.” It didn’t take long for Jensen to show the fans and his teammates that he was some­ thing special. In 1946 the postwar rush filled classrooms and football rosters, yet Cal coach Frank Wickhorst didn’t take long to realize Jensen was no ordinary freshman. The first time he touched the ball in the season opener against Wisconsin, Jensen re­ turned a punt 56 yards for Cal’s only touch­ down in a 28-7 defeat. Since 230 players turned out for football that fall, many of his teammates didn’t know Jackie. In fact, most of his blockers were startled by that dramatic debut. They’d never blocked for him. “Jackie was all over the field, dodging and leaping over guys,” recalled quarter­ back Boots Erb, a friend of Jensen since grammar school and later his partner in an I Oakland waterfront restaurant. The rest of us just stood on the sidelines with our mouths open. Somebody asked, ‘Who in the hell is that guy? It didn’t take long for the guys to find out. Jack was one of the greatest athletes I’ve come across. He could master any sport.” The Bears were 2-7 in 1946, costing Wick­ horst his job, but Jensen was a beacon in a fog of despair. He fired a 47-yard touch­ down pass in a 14-13 loss to Oregon. He caught a 29-yard TD pass in the 13-6 set­ back against UCLA. Jensen caught a 58-yard TD in a 20-6 loss to Washington and scored on a 56-yard run to help down Washington State. Those daz­ zling runs were only a glimpse of what was to come, triggering a big-play career and football success enhanced by, the arrival of Coach Pappy Waldorf fronj Northwestern in 1947. But first there was baseball, where his maiden college season was even more im­ pressive than his gridiron debut. Jensen posted a 0.95 earned run average in confer­ ence play and he was at his best under pres­ sure as Coach Clint Evans’ Bears won the first NCAA title in the sport. There was the championship game of the Pacific Coast Conference, where Jensen de­ feated future pro Wally Hood and USC, 53. In the Western Regional, Cal confronted Texas Bobby Layne and his 24-game win­ ning streak. Jensen outpitched the budding quarterback and the Bears earned a trip to the College World Series at Kalamazoo, Mich. With professional scouts drooling, Jensen hurled in both games as Cal swept Yale, 17-4, 8-7 for the title. The Bulldogs’ first basen)^n was George Bush, now vice president.* That fall, Waldorf’s emergence created new enthusiasm for Cal football and Jensen was the sophomore sensation of a 9-1 team which lost only to USC. After turning down offers to turn pro in baseball. The Golden Boy showed why. A record 83,000 spectators showed up for the second game of the 1947 season at Cal’s Memorial Stadium. Jensen rushed for 113 yards in only 13 carries, zipped for a 64-yard TD and intercepted a pass in a 14-7 victory over Navy. Wisconsin was clobbered, 48-7, while he contributed a 23-yard TD pass and a 22-yard scoring sprint. In the season-ending Big Game with Stanford, Cal was a 10-to-l favorite, but the game didn’t match the odds. In fact, the winless Indians delighted a home crowd of 88,000 by holding an 18-14 lead in the wan­ ing moments of play with the Bears on their own 20. 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I .. _ I P INTRDDUaNG THE FO-200 FAX. continued FROM SHARP MINOS COME SHARP PRODUCTS' TOUCHDOWN FO-200 (Case optional) FO-620 FO-3200 JACKIE JENSEN connnued On the sideline, injured halfback Paul Keckley was begging to return to the lineup. Waldorf agreed, and the rest is history. Jensen took a lateral from quarterback Dick Erickson and started to run. Suddenly, he spotted Keckley 15 yards downfield and heaved a wobbly pass. Keck­ ley caught it and eluded virtually the entire Stanford defense, completing an 80-yard scoring play with seconds remaining for a 21-18 victory. “Jackie unquestionably was one of if not the greatest athlete Cal has ever had,” Erick­ son said. “He could have been a pro in any­ thing. He fooled around with tennis, and within a week was beating everyone on the court.” Jensen concluded his sophomore season with 434 yards rushing and a 5.1 average. He passed for 271 yards and two touchdowns. His forte that season, however, was defense. As a back with great instincts, he intercepted seven passes, a school single-season record which still stands. But there was trouble ahead. Classroom problems ruled him ineligible for baseball in the spring and it was feared he might miss football as well. “1 had one helluva defense planned,” mused a rival coach. “It was based on Jensen flunking out of school.” That never happened, to the joy of Cal fans who were about to witness the greatest single-season performance by an individual in the school’s history. It began in the season-opening 41-19 romp over Santa Clara. Jensen that day scored on runs of 61 and 62 yards, accumulating an amazing (for that era) 192 yards in only 12 carries. He added 112 yards the next week against Navy and the Bears were well on their way to a 10-0 regular season in 1948. “If Jensen learns to run well up the mid­ dle, he’ll be one of the best backs 1 eve’r coached,” Waldorf declared, apparently to prod his all-purpose fullback. In a crucial 13-7 victory over dreaded USC, Jackie scored both touchdowns and rushed for 132 yards in 27 carries, a workhorse indeed. In what was to be his final Big Game, Jensen bowed out of Memorial Stadium with yet another heroic performance, one which included a record 67-yard punt. Late in the game, with Cal clinging to a 7-6 lead, Jensen was back to punt in a seemingly hopeless fourth-and-31 situation. Stanford, closing in for the kill, applied a heavy rush and seemed certain to block the kick. Jensen, using his cat-like instincts, averted disaster and eluded several Indians on a 32-yard run that earned a first down. “Jackie had the greatest athletic ability of TOUCHDOWN In this 1948 game against USC, Jensen scored both of Cal’s touchdowns and rushedfor 132 yards in a 13-7 victory. anyone I’ve ever been associated with,” said teammate Frank Brunk, who also was Jensen’s fraternity brother and roomie. “He had pure coordination. His dexterity was unbelievable. He was an amazing athlete. “His football talent was incredible. No­ body could run the ends like he could. He’d make all the right cuts. He was the perfect tailback, and it was Pappy’s system to let the fullback do it. Jackie put everybody to shame.” Northwestern felt his sting in the Rose Bowl. With 93,000 looking on in Pasadena, Jensen broke through the line and scored on a 67-yard run that created a 7-7 tie with the help of Jim Cullom’s conversion kick. “Jackie was a truly phenomenal athlete,” Cullom recalled. “He embodied everything in an athlete, but was a gentleman who never lost his perspective. He was in a differ­ ent category than the rest of them.” Jensen suffered a cramp on his first carry of the third quarter and had to leave the game. Brunk replaced him and scored the tying touchdown, but the Bears were beaten, 20-14, on a controversial call. The Golden Boy finished the season— and his college football career—with 1,080 yards rushing, shattering the previous Cal single-season mark of 622 yards by Vic Bottari in 1938. That record stood for 27 years, until Chuck Muncie surpassed it in 1975. Jensen also held the career rushing mark of 1,703 yards, averaging 6.0 yards per carry. “Jackie was as good a back as I’ve ever coached,” Waldorf concluded. Following a two-year absence from base­ ball, Jensen/played for the Bears and im­ pressed ths^scouts more with his power than his pitching. Jackie smacked eight home runs for a new school single-season mark that lasted until Bartkowski bettered it in 1974. That raw power also produced a tapemeasure, 535-foot homer on the Bears’ dia­ mond, the drive soaring some 470 feet before landing. Skipping his senior year, Jensen signed with the Oakland Oaks of the Pacific Coast League, launching a success­ ful career as a homer-hitting, base-stealing outfielder. Baseball’s gain definitely was football’s loss. The likes of Jensen have never been seen on the California gridiron again, simply because nobody ever did it better as a multifaceted back with unlimited potential. Jensen returned to his alma mater as baseball coach in the mid ’70s. Dissension among his players led to his dismissal. The Golden Boy was gone from Cal for good, but the image of his prowess as an athlete never will be tarnished. □ Show Your True Colors. Get in the spirit. Support your home team. Pick up corduroy college team cap embroidered with your local (|j|||^H team name when you buy WIX® Filters at participating auto parts stores. A retail value of up to $10.00, it’s yours at a very special low price. But supplies are limited. So get yours now. And let your team spirit go to your head. TW\ invites busmess travelers to spend less time witbus, TWVs Airport Express. Advance Boarding Passes Speed You to the Gate. With TWA, you can arrange to have your roundtrip boarding passes even before you get to the airport, so those of you without luggage to check can go directly to the gate. This special Airport Express service will save you much time. Express Check-In for First Class and Business Class Passengers. TWA realizes the business world moves fast, so we've made sure business travelers can too. Those First Class and Business Class passengers traveling on widebody flights will benefit from our special express check-in. This is a counter reserved specifically for these passengers to quickly assist them with baggage, reservations, or whatever other services they might need. TWA's Personal Service Conunitment. TWA is determined to bring you the best personal service in the airline industry. So we've assigned an In-Flight Service Manager to every flight to make sure your trip is as hassle-free and comfortable as possible. In addition, our Chairman of the Board has put together a Quality Control Team. A group of 30 very picky people who fly TWA, assessing the service they receive, on a checklist of over 100 service items. They report directly back to him with their comments, good and bad. And if any­ thing needs improvement,;t=gets improved. Fast. Because at TWA, greapservice is a top priority. Notre Dame “Golden Boy,” winner of the 1956 Heisman Trophy use’s 1965 Heisman Trophy winner Quarterback who led the nation in passing in 1980 and 1981 Center on the Michigan national cham­ pionship teams of 1932 and 1933 All-America linebacker at Illinois in 1963 and 1964 All-America end at Alabama in 1966 TODAY'S TWA. FIND OUT HOW GOOD WE REALLY ARE. paoj PIBJ30 O si»nng j|3!a O sujJijad -(bm <> uoi|b^3|v *“!f O O 3unujoH |nBj :)j9| do| luojj as{M]|3op TOUCHDOWN Come to Waikiki. MIN □A Shooting I the Action I Action is what sport is all about. Our memories of the great moments in sports are freeze-frames of action: a tight end leaping for a pass that just touches his fingertips, a quarterback being sacked, a punt being blocked. As photographers, we want to make those memories permanent by cap­ turing the event on film. It’s not always easy, but there are some tips that will help you make memorable action photographs. The first rule of sports photography, of course, is to know the sport... really know it. Before you pick up your camera, you should know what’s hap­ pen in g-and what’s going to hap­ pen—out there on the field. You can’t photograph action unless you can anticipate it. As one expert pointed out, if you see it in your viewfinder, it’s too late.. .you’ve lost the shot. But you could teach Tom Landry a thing or two about football, you say. Fine that’s a start. Now you’ve got to think about the game in photo­ graphic terms. Where is the action most likely to take place? Where should you position yourself to have the perfect shot when things start happening? Where is the sun going to be when you start shooting? What’s going to be in the background? Once you’ve resolved these ques­ tions you’re almost ready to start shooting. First, though, you need to control all the variables you can before the action starts. It may be too late to focus when the touchdown pass is in the air, so think about how you want to handle the situation be­ fore it happens. If it’s bright and you’re using a fast film, you can choose a small aperture (like f/16 or TOUCHDOWN Life's Greatest Beaoh at Your Doorstep. f/22) that will give you great depth of field while still having enough shutter speed to freeze action. Focus in the middle of the area where you think things are going to happen, and then check the depth of field by pressing the preview button. Now you’ll be ready when the ball’s in the air! (Of course, if you’ve got an autofocus camera, this kind of anticipation isn’t necessary.) Even owners of autoexposure or program cameras need to think ahead about the proper lens settings. If you’ve got an aperture-preferred automatic system, in which you select the aperture and the camera picks the proper shutter speed, you may find that the camera’s picks are too slow to freeze action. Take a reading on the area before you start shooting, and base your aperture selection on the shutter speed the camera selects. If you’ve got a shutter-preferred system, chances are you’ll freeze the action with your setting, but focus could become a problem because of shallow depth of field. Again, antici­ pate: take a reading and either select a speed that will give enough depth of field, or b^ prepared to do some lastsecond^ focusing. If you’re using a nonaultomatic camera, set both shut­ ter speed and aperture early so you won’t have to worry about them in the heat of the action. Play the angles if you want to freeze action. If your subject is coming right at you, speeds as low as 1/125 can stop the movement, but if your sub­ ject is at a 45-degree angle, you may need to go to 1/500. And if the subject is at right angles to you, 1/1000 will probably be necessary. There are some tricks you can use if light and film speed don’t cooperate. Pan­ ning-moving the camera to track a moving subject—lets you get away with a lower shutter speed: 1/60 is about right. If you’re planning to pan, a tripod or a single-legged unipod is almost a-necessity. And remember that a panned shot will give you a clear subject but a blurred back­ ground. .. not a bad idea, since it just about shouts “speed”! Warm sunny days. Balmy tropical nights. The excitement strangely relaxing. The mood uniquely Hawaii. And right on the beach, the Sheraton Waikiki. With a choice of inviting accommodations, intriguing restaurants, romantic lounges, thrilling entertainment and delightful shops. 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Dad used to say, “mixed marriages don't And that simple fact has created more fric­ work.” tion in our marriage than anything else, Dad was wrong, of course. The best mar­ riages are between men and women—and if save my infatuation with Bo Derek. Every year, on the eve of the “Big Game,” that isn't mixed, what is? Joy and I get our annual divorce. When we But Dad was talking about marriages that crossed racial, cultural, ethnic or reli­ go to the games, we often go with another couple. I sit with his wife; he sits with mine. gious lines, and he was pretty hardheaded After the game, we swap back and go home about it. with our own mates. As it turned out, I, being hardheaded my­ Ann Van Slyck is also a graduate of ASU self, ignored Dad's advice and wound up and a rabid Sun Devil football fan. Her hus­ marrying a lovely woman of a different eth­ band, Tom, is also a devoted fan, but his loy­ nic and religious background. And that has alties lie with his alma mater, Arizona. never caused a single problem in our 18 Despite his affliction, we are close friends. years of wedded bliss. Well, maybe one, but (Though he has tried our friendship on oc­ that was resolved when Joy learned to cook casion by forcing me to ride in his truck, Mexican food. which bears an “Anywhere but ASU!” Our marriage was mixed in yet another bumper sticker.) sense: I am a Sun Devil married to a Wild­ Last season, after the Sun Devils had cat. That's right, 1 am an alumnus of Ari- W TOUCHDOWN John r. Aiba clinched a b^rth in the Rose Bowl but be­ fore the bi^ game with the Wildcats, Ann ordered single roses for her husband, his parents and his sister, all of whom are Wildcat fans, and had them delivered on the eve of the game. “A gentle reminder of which Arizona team was going to the Rose Bowl,” explained Ann, grinning. But the grin faded quickly as she re­ counted what newscaster Paul Harvey would call “the rest of the story.” After the Wildcats beat the Sun Devils, for a mind-blowing fifth year in a row, Ann received roses from Tom. Dead. Dried up. Spray-painted black. “Just a gentle reminder of which team was the best in Arizona,” said Tom, innocently. Ann took the gibe in good humor, but her eyes had a determined “1'11-get-even” look. Even though she exacted a small measure of revenge in January when she used all her fe­ male wiles to persuade Tom to take her to the Rose Bowl—and watched him suffer as continued HUSBANDS, WIVES AND RIVALS con, nue ■A !/ 't“. / j l/'A y S. Biss .................... .... TE B. Washabaugh .. .... FS T. Fedkoe .............. .... FS I. Ezunagu............. ......... K J. Hostler ............. .... CB C. Filipkowski ... .... QB P. Kinney .............. .... QB J. Wick .................. ......... SS E. Ferguson ......... .... CB F. Cignetti............. ......... SS J. Fetchkan........... .... FS M. Johnston......... .... CB T. Trave.................. ... WR A. Aliucci ............. .... QB J. Pehanick ........... .... QB T. Taylor................ .... FB T. Wertz ................ ... WR S. McCaskill......... .... CB B. Suman ............. .... QB C. Revis.................. .... TB J. Hockenberry ... .... TB K. Bache ................ ... WR D. Adamrovich .. .... FB R. Baker ................ .... TB R. Abercrombie .. .... TB S. Bomar................ .... TB R. Pynos ................ ... WR J. Sandstrom ___ ......... K M. Mrvos ............. ......... SS R. Brown................ .... TB B. Heyser................ ... WR D. Culbertson___ .... LB R. Long.................. .... TB P. Samuels ........... .... TB B. Fulton................ ........... P Dean Cottrill ____ ... OLB C. Goudy................. .... LB S. Girting ................... FB P. Palamara ......... ..... FB F. Urbaniak ......... .... OLB K. McMullan ............. LB Darren Cottrill ___ .... CB J. Donati ..................... MG S. Trier ....................... WR K. Pettigrew ............... LB N. Pascarella........... .... LB 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 60 61 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 87 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 S. Kunes .............. ..............C J. Reckard........... ......... OG S. Parker .............. ......... OG R. Zook................ ..............C P. DeHaven ___ ..............C T.Jackson ........... .... OLB J. Vitalie .............. ..............C T. Keller .............. .... OLB B. Whipkey......... ......... LB D. Fishel .............. .... MG T. Howell ........... ......... OG J. Uncapher ____ ......... OT J. Johnson........... ......... DE J. Richardson ___ ......... OG A. Mologne......... ......... OG M. Egan ............... ......... OT M. Brown ........... .......... OG S. Poleski ........... .......... OG W. Henderson ............ OT P. Hartmann.................. OT L. Saffioti ............. ......... OT J. Preston ............. ......... OT N. Lombardo ............. OT J. Moore ............... ... MG J. Miller........................... DT J. Robinson .................. OG M. Muscella .........____ OT R. Kiser..................____ OT T. Gibbons ........... ____ TE R. Lilly ..................____ TE R. Dotson ............. ... WR P. Thompson ___ .... DT J. Langton.............. .... TE P. Kovell ................ .... TE P. Micaletti........... ... WR R. Tyree ................ ... WR D. Julian ................ .... DE S. Celich ................ ... OLB S. Detwiler ........... .... LB E. Noviski ............. .... DT T. Ramsburg......... ... OLB A. Bozzo ................ ... MG R. Coleman........... ... MG S. Price .................. .... DE M. Ciarocca ......... .... TE D. Hand ................ .... LB ■' ■ -i' M987 The Coca-Cola Company. “Coca-Cola" is a trademark of The Coca-Cola Company, \\ % Wi .. MG ... DT ... DE .. OLB ... LB ... LB .. OLB ... CB ... CB .... SS ... FS A lUP 1987 FOOTBALL ROSTER WEMAKE TOUCHDOEm AUOVEKfHE WOtUD. In fact, Pan Am makes touchdowns in Europe, India, the Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America And we fly from over 30 cities throughout the US. What’s more, we have^one of the best on-time^erformance records in the industry Pan Am. The winning team, worldwide. Abercrombie, Rapheal ---- TB, 5-5,195, So. Aliquippa Bache, Kevin...................... WR, 6-0, 178, Jr. Monroeville/Gateway Baker, Richard.................. TB, 5-10,180, Fr. Pittsburgh/Steel Valley Biss, Scott........................... TE, 6-3,192, Fr. Vandergrift/Kiski Area Brown, Ray............... TB/WR, 5-11,187, Fr. Mount Lebanon Celich, Stan .................... OLB, 6-1, 218, So. McKees Rocks/Montour Ciarrocca, Matthew.............LB, 6-2, 212, Fr. Huntingdon Cignetti, Frank.................... SS, 6-0,187, Jr. Indiana Coleman, Ron ................ MG, 5-11, 220, Fr. North Washington/Kiski Area Cottrill, Darren .................. CB, 6-0,182, Jr. Upper Saint Clair Cottrill, Dean.................. OLB, 6-1,192, Jr. Upper Saint Clair Culbertson, Dennis .............LB, 6-0, 210, Sr. Butler Detwiler, Sean .................. LB, 5-11, 235, Fr. Library/South Park Donati, Joe........................MG, 6-2, 225, Fr. New Castle/Valley Forge Military Academy Egan, Mike........................ OG, 6-3, 235, Fr. Penn Hills Ezunagu, Ike........................ K, 5-11,175, Sr. Nnobi, Nigeria/Nnewi Iknongwu Memorial Fedkoe, Tom .................... FS, 5-11,178, Jr. Bethel Park Ferguson, Elise.................... CB, 6-0^ 186, Jr. Easley, SC Fetchkan, John ................ FS, 5-11,180, Fr. Finleyville/ Ringgold Filipkowski, Chris ............. QB, 6-2, 218, So. Erie/Cathedral Prep Fulton, Bob ......................... P, 6-1, 200, Jr. Clarksburg/ Saltsburg Gibbons, Tom .................... TE, 6-1, 210, Jr. Lebanon, NY/Dunkirk Girting, Steve ...................... FB, 6-2, 225, Jr. Midland/Western Beaver Goudy, Chuck ................ OLB, 6-1,174, Fr. Washington/Trinity Hand, Dan ......................... LB, 6-0,192, Fr. East Aurora, NY/Iroquois Henderson, Wilfred........... OT, 6-2, 280, Fr. ^ Aliquippa Heyser, Bill....................... WR, 6-2, 298, So. Gettysburg Hostler, Jim ...................... CB, 5-9,168, So. Bethel Park Howell, Terry.................. OG, 5-11, 225, Fr. Niles, OH/McKinley Jackson, Troy.................. OLB, 6-1, 220, Sr. Pittsburgh/Taylor Allerdice Johnston, Mark .................. FS, 6-2,178, Fr. Export/Greensburg-Salem Julian, Dave...................... DE, 6-2, 231, So. McKees Rocks/Sto-Rox Keller, Tom...................... OLB, 6-4,195, Fr. Monroeville/Gateway Kinney, Phil ...................... QB, 6-1,170, Fr. Plum Kovell, Paul ....................... TE, 6-3, 210, Fr. Uniontown/Laurel Highlands Kunes, Shawn.................... OT, 6-1, 251, Fr. Blanchard/Lock Haven Langton, Jerry ....................TE, 6-3, 221, Fr. Philadelphia/Father Judge Lilly, Rob ........................... TE, 6-2, 200, Fr. Beaver Lombardo, Nick.................. OT, 6-2, 283, Jr. New Kensington/Valley McMullan, Kevin................ LB, 6-1, 218, Jr. Dumont, NJ Micaletti, Paul ..................WR, 5-9,160, Fr. New Castle Miller, Jim ....................... DT, 6-2, 216, So. Lower Burrell/Burrell Mologne, Anthony ......... OG, 5-11, 232, Fr. Swissvale Moore, John.................... MG, 5-11, 210, Sr. Pittsburgh / Canevin Mrvos, Marc...................... DB, 5-9,170, Fr. McKeesport Muscella, Mike.................. OT, 6-2, 233, So. Havertown/ Haverford Palamara, Paul.................. FB, 6-0, 210, So. Plum Parker, Scott ........................ C, 6-3, 238, Jr. Ridgway Pehanick, Jim......................QB, 6-1, 206, Jr. Moscow/North Pocono Price, Sam......................... DT, 6-2, 251, Fr. Ingomar/North Allegheny 23 Pynos, Rex ........................WR, 6-1,193, So. Blairsville Reckard, Jay...................... OG, 6-1, 229, Fr. Fairchance/ Fairchance-Georges Revis, Clifford .................. TB, 5-8,194, So. Aliquippa Robinson, John .............. OG, 5-11, 226, Sr. Mineola, NY/Carle Place Sandstrom, John .................. K, 6-1,177, Jr. Eightyfour/ Canon-McMillan Taylor, Tim....................... FB, 5-10,186, Jr. Aliquippa Thompson, Paul................ DT, 6-2, 240, Sr. Steelton/ Steelton-Highspire Trave, Tony ...................... WR, 6-3, 202, Sr. N orristown / Plymouth-Whitemarsh Tyree, Russell.................. WR, 5-11,163, Fr. Monessen/ Monessen Urbaniak, Frank ........... OLB, 5-11,188, Fr. Everson/ Southmoreland Uncapher, Jim .................. OT, 6-2, 261, So. Grapevine/ Hemphill Vitalie, John...................... OG, 6-0, 225, So. Indiana Washabaugh, Bill............. DB, 5-10,170, Fr. Chambersburg Wertz, Tom....................... WR, 6-0,188, Fr. Enola/East Pennsboro Whipkey, Bryon................ LB, 6-0,189, So. Ligonier/Ligonier Valley Wick, Jason ........................ SS, 6-0,186, Jr. Bradenville/Derry Area Zook, Rob ....................... MG, 6-0, 212, Fr. West Mifflin Campus Bookstore Featuring: Books Clothes Food and a complete line Tapes Jewelry Novelties of ART supplies University Center Basement 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. ERIE BOmiNO CORPORATION El] How the Great Brands get in Erie hands. One candle. That’s all the light you need with the new Panasonic OmniMovie camcorder. Schweppes ^^ahlert MOTT'l Welch^ LEMONADE I The light of one candle isn’t enough light for some camcorders. The new Panasonic OmniMovie VHS camcorder PV-320 can capture the joy and radi­ ance of your kid’s smile. And do it by the light of just one birthday candle. Because special moments happen without a moment's notice, this OmniMovie camcorder focuses and sets exposure automatically. 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Rul­ ing: The ball is dead where the runner’s hand touched the ground. 7. On an extra-point attempt, the quarter­ back who intends to hold the ball for the kicker has one knee on the ground, and he tumbles the snap from center. He rises up retrieves the ball and runs it into the end Mne for a two-point conversion. Ruling: The ball is dead when the quarterback fumbled the ball since he had a knee on the ground when he first had possession of the ball. / 8.On a kickoff starting the game, the kicker kicks the ball before the referee has blown his whistle and has declared the ball ready for play. The opponents return the ball fora touchdown. Ruling: The opponents have a choice of refusing the penalty for putting the ball in play before it is ready or taking the touchdown. ® TRUE OR FALSE QUESTIONS “P P“"^ formation. When the ball is snapped back, the punter muifs the snap and then picks the ball up and runs with it. After he has carried the ball 10 yards past the line of scrimmage, he IS hemmed in by defensive players, so he stops and successfully punts the ball. Rul­ ing: This is a legal kick. 2. An injured player, for whom a timeout has been called, must leave the game for one p ay or else his team is charged with a timeout. 3. In an offensive formation, a tailback starts m motion backward, and then just before the snap, the quarterback steps backward with one foot. Ruling: This is an ille­ gal shift. 4. During a free timeout, only one player at a time may confer with the coaching staff at the team area. 5. All replaced players must leave the play­ ing field only at the sideline of their team fou? line is a 6. On a scrimmage play the runner is hit, he stumbles, and to regain his balance he puts his hand on the ground. He regains his bal­ 9. On an extra-point attempt the ball is blocked by a defensive player and bounds laterally, where the kicker picks up the ball and runs it into the end zone. 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Clothes that keep you warm and comfortable without a lot of bulk and weight. Clothes like classic Woolrich outerwear teamed with Thinsulate“ thermal insulation. Jackets and coats that look great, and make you feel great, wherever you are — at the game or on campus. And what could be more comfortable than that? So if you want outerwear that’s lightweight and trim, yet warm and comfortable, look for the Woolrich label and the Thinsulate' thermal insulation hangtag. No other combination makes you feel more comfortable. Not so many years ago the ultimate road attraction in college football was a matchup with the Univer­ sity of Hawaii in the land of palm trees and soft breezes. Today, Hono­ lulu International Airport serves as a refuel­ ing stop for players winging their way all over the world in the name of football. Not since basketball engulfed the world and became an Olympic institution in 1936 has a “Made in the USA” sport crossed so many continental boundaries. In the past three years, American collegians have donned the pads in Australia, Japan, Fin­ land, West Germany, France, Sweden, Hol­ land and Switzerland. On the drawing boards are trips to Great Britain, Scotland, Ireland, Italy and New Zealand. While the formats in this international competition are as diversified as the destina­ tions, they appear to achieve the same pur­ pose. The travel affords American footballers a chance to see the world and other countries in turn learn how football is played in America. Sam Ketchman, 73-year-old former coach and athletic director at Ferris State in Michigan, opened the doors to Europe in 1984, and arranges for small U.S. colleges to meet foreign club teams head on. Ameri­ cans are asked to pay their own airfare and host countries pick up the remainder of the tab. In many cases, U.S. footballers and coaches eat and sleep in their foreign hosts’ homes, helping to ease the financial crunch of such an undertaking. For those who ex­ perience that relationship, it is a priceless bonus. Take the case of the Arctic Bowl in June 1985. When Alma College, a Division III NCAA team from Michigan, traveled to Oulu, Finland, players moved in with Fin­ nish families. While it provided a unique insight to that country’s customs and mores, the experience was equally reward­ ing for the hosts. Lars Nylund, a banker, and his wife, Eija, a teacher, live in Oulu, just 150 miles south of the Arctic Circle. “We especially wanted to have some Americans in our home be­ cause of our two boys, Wille, 12, and Johan, 7,” they related. “Our sons went on a soccer tour to the south of France last year and lodged in homes. We wanted to reciprocate in this manner. It was a wonderful time our boys will never forget.” Ketchman’s company, Athletic Enter­ prises, asked Alma players to raise $1,300 each for the Arctic Bowl experience. A “lifta-thon fund-raiser provided a big chunk of the money. Sponsors pledged funds for each pound a player lifted. With support from friends and family, the players came up with airfare well in advance of the sum- Jh[nsulate Registered trademark of 3M. continued The experience shows. TOUCHDOWN 4 i. OVERSEJ^ coniintieci about the mer trip. n*" to find nonscholarship Division 111 colleges to play Eu­ ropean club teams, they still manage to I Please send me a free, I full-color Mazda RX-7 catalog. AUTHOR: Ray Franks has traveled the world extensively, covering athletic events for his publication, the “Na.onal Directory of College Athletics.” In J^5 he had the distinction of attending both the Arctic and Australia bowls, the northernmost and southernmost American-style football games ever played in the world. He logged 29,638 miles in those two assignments. Dynamic'n'acking Suspension ^stem. No one has a more advanced suspension system. Under cornering loads of 04g or above, the rear wheels actuallynelp steer you through turns. 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They are Team U.SA at that TTrowd"’’ «'■ While fund raising plays an important ole m football excursions to Europe, a adopted for competition in the Far East For the past 11 seasons, two U..S. Division I CO leges have been invited to play a regularly scheduled game in Tokyo’s Olympic Stadium. Flat guarantees are paid much as hey are m the states. Thesame formula was followed for the first Australia Bowl in Melbourne m 1985. Japanese promoter Atsushi Fujita who Fujita, who specializes in sports promoions both in the U.S. and Japan, Loked Ind California and Washington State are scheduled to touchdown ^ash m the stadium built for the 1964 Olympics. “We are working to fill a plane with alurns for the trip,” said Rick Greenspan California s director of sports marketing. ayers and fans will spend about a week in Japan and it shapes up to be a great pro­ motion for the school.” Southern Methodist engaged Houston in a.Southwest Conference game 7,500 miles from Texas the Dallas school prepared players and fans for the trip to the Land of the RisingSun A short course was offered on Japan, giving student-players a taste of the language and customs. diiu if some American footballers aren’t Bowl" ^ Coca-Cola Bowl, they get another shot at playing in Ja­ pan each January. For several years now alfomTr together two all-star teams from the states, reminiscent of the long-standing East-West Shrine and Blue-Gray games. 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It was first underwritten by the Mitsubishi Com­ pany of Japan but was renamed the CocaCola Bowl last year because of a shift in sponsorship. In ’86, Stanford and Arizona APT NO 5960 -7 since ince 1979. You know what happens when we^attempt to match up wi^h^he: m owns a company called Tele Planning difo^M^^ was ladled ADDRESS Mazda RX Catalog Offer, Box ,TD, Orange, CA sociat.on representative, 72-0, and it could ave been worse. “The experience factor is R ^ ^il® ‘^^^erved Alma coach Phil Brooks. Football has been played in the nited States for 118 years while European ud PHONE NO Return this coupon to: overpower their opponents. Alma pulver­ ized Oulu’s Finnish American Footbal aT j^riia"’’'*” NAME OVERSEAS continued Bowl might be the niost bizarre of all staged on foreign soil. Following the lead of the Mirage Bowl, Australia’s Frontline Com­ munications pitted two Division I teams— Texas-El Paso and ’Wyoming—in a regular Western Athletic Conference game in De­ cember 1985. The Cowboys won the wildly exciting battle, 23-21, before 25,000 fans in Melbourne, but what transpired before and after the event overshadowed the antics at VFL Park. Spurred on by interest created in satellite showings of NFL football “down under” and a chance to bring two major American college teams to the continent, Aussie promoters got caught up in grandiose plans that quickly expended the original budget. Elegant game programs were printed. Southern Cal’s Trojan marching band was contracted to perforin and elaborate enter­ tainment arrangements were scheduled. However, 72 hours before kickoff, a Wyoming and UTEP contingent of 250 players landed at Melbourne and were greeted with the news: “The game’s in trouble ... it may not be played.” They learned the promoting company had en­ countered serious financial problems and the president had just collapsed under stress and was hospitalized. The declining state of the use of protective equipment, unheard of the Australian dollar and disappointing m Aussie Rules Football. “I can’t under­ then several club teams were plav pregame ticket sales were blamed. The spec­ stand why you fellows wear all that padding Amencan-style football in Tokyo ' tacle was $500,000 over budget and the ax and gear. And those helmets! My goodness, Osaka, receiving technical help from Air started falling in all directions. The Trojan take it all off and I think these players leans stationed in the Orient. That game band was told to stay home, and canceled would be 3-foot-6 and four stone [56 tractmg 30,000 fans to Tokyo’s Olyni were the welcoming banquet, a barbecue at pounds].” Stadium, was won easily by Utah Sta the zoo and sightseeing tours. UTEP An artistic success, financial problems which outweighed its opponents by players took a bus to Sydney instead of lingered after the smoke had cleared. There pounds penman. flying. was no sequel in ’86, but hurdles had been Around-the-clock meetings were called, ♦k American coaches f cleared for a 1987 extravaganza. Last spring the gaifie is incidental to the total ext Australian corporate sponsors were sum­ Brigham Young and Colorado State agreed rience. “The spirit of international compe moned and even American boosters accom­ to a Dec. 5 date in Melbourne. New leader­ tion was more important than anythii panying the teams came up with $1,000 by ship IS on the scene and even a different else, surmised Alma coach Phil Brook passing the hat. With fingers crossed and of­ name—the Melbourne Bowl—has been Many of our players had never flown in ficials perspiring, the game unfolded as adopted to help create a new image. plane much less gone overseas. The cultur scheduled. The fans (and a national televi­ “I think reasonable effort should be education and relationships experience sion audience) were ecstatic with what they made to push ahead for future bowls in rom visiting a foreign country will alwai viewed and thousands surged onto the field Australia,” reflected Ted Livingston, assist­ be remembered.” after the game, seeking autographs. ant athletic director at Hawaii who, on his More accustomed to Australian Rules , of college football ovei vacation time, served as game manager at seas. Unlimited,” believes Ketchman “Of Football, fans had mixed emotions about the first one. “I feel the plus factors far out­ the terrorist scare in ’86 caused a couple c the style of play. weighed the minuses, and I think it’s a great games to be canceled but that’s behind us. “It was terribly confusing to start with, catalyst for strengthening U.S.-Australian get calls every week from American college but quitfe easy to pick up once 1 understood athletic relations in general.” it,” said a Melbourne businessman. “1 espe­ While college football overseas has ex- i wanting to book an overseas game.” There s no doubt American football ii cially enjoyed the long-distance throws.” ploded in the last three years, few people re­ elping make the world smaller each day “I enjoyed it but I would have liked more member that Utah State pioneered he time may soon come when Notre Damt cheer squads,” offered u housewife. “I globetrotting in 1971. While conducting will have an afternoon audience with the thought it was great value for the money, football clinics for U.S. military personnel Pope and take on the Rome Gladiators that and I d love to go again." stationed in Japan the previous summer, !hS is* Colosseum. The original one. A Melbourne sports reporter ridiculed Coach Chuck Mills arranged the Silk Bowl TOUCHDOWN How to avoid tostiy Buy the XL 2000 with Spell-Right™ dictionary, it features ahigh-priced correction system without the high price. How do you put a price on perfection when your name is even type in the new word while it erases the old. on the work? Easy, just pick up the new XL 2000. It's loaded with There's also Auto Center, Auto Return, Auto Half-Space, advanced features and a correction system that makes perfect Changeable Print Wheel, plus Sub Script and Super Script to make pages a given. footnotes a snap. And this heavyweight weighs in at just 11 lbs. 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Or when Monty Stickles kicked the winning points for Notre Dame over Arrpy in 1957_on the first field goal attempt of his college career Or when two old friends faced each other for the only time in their college careers, as Doak Walker and Bobby Layne did when SMU played Texas in 1947 Or when Charles Pinky” Rohn ran back five kicks for LSU touchdowns in 1937. Five, count ’em, five. Spectacular! I^nkyi Great Returns The true daredevils of footare the kickoff and punt returners. In one play they can go from goal line to goal line by running in a straight line; or they can make the trip through a minefield of flying bodies, where success and failure can be measured by the flick of an ankle or the width of a grasping fingertip. Few college kick returners ever enjoyed the single-season success of Charles “Pinky” Rohn of Louisiana State, back in 1937. Rohn, a senior that season, returned three punts and two kickoffs for touch­ downs, five scores on what most agree is the most exciting play in football. He was no single-play specialist either— in those days there were no specialists. It was not unusual for the same 11 guys who played offense to run down under punts and kickoffs (and, of course, play defense). Rohn was such a player. When he passed away a couple of years ago he still held the school record of 539 punt-return yards fora single season, coming on 35 returns. In 1935 and 1936 he played wingback on Coach Bernie Moore’s team, when Gaynell continued TOUCHDOWN \ —^ }l<’e time:. oil. It's cool under n ABOUT THE AUTHOR; Jack Clary is continued Tmsley was a two-time All-America run­ ning back. After Tinsley graduated Rohn moved into his tailback role and finished hat season as the team’s most valuable player. The Bengals finished with a 9-2 bv^'th'^ champions by the Williamson poll. (LSU also went to the Sugar Bowl after that season, losing, 60, to Santa Clara.) In to get started. the second game of the season he took a Texas punt by Charlie Haas at his own 41yard line and sidestepped every Texas player, sloshing through a muddy field for e game s only touchdown in a 9-0 victory over the Longhorns. ^ Pinky was as good a runner as Tinsley ” one of his teammates said recently. “But no one really recognized it because Gaynell was such an outstanding player that it was difficult, I guess, to think that we could B^Rnh so good, so quickly. two ‘lone everything the previous two years as a wingback, and that included a bit of punting. “When he moved into the No. 1 tailback spot we used the quick kick as one of our weapons because Pinky was so good. In those days teams thought nothing of punt­ ing on first down to try to get a break deep in another team’s territory, or hope for a poor return kick that would give it good field position. ° Then Rohn added a 58-yard punt-return TD against Mississippi State, and then one ino^T QT "St Louisiana Normal, help­ ing LSU win both games easily. His two kickoff returns for touchdowns written 22 books, most of them about footMil. He lives m Stow, Mass. came when he hauled one kick 95 yards against Loyola of New Orleans, the other 93 yards against Louisiana Normal. He didn’t have many kickoff return opportunities hat season because LSU gave up only five touchdowns so his production level was about as high as it could get Interestingly, while Rohn was performing his unique magic that season, perhaps the most explosive play occurred when end Ken Kavanaugh grabbed a fumble at his own goal line and raced 100 yards for a touchdown in LSU’s 13-0 victory over Rice But in the half century since Rohn scored his fi^touchdowns only one player-Robert Woods of Grambling—has ever m^ched the feat... with som"e pretty neL SOME SEE A WINDSURFER. WITHMAXXUM YOUlL SEE A COWBOY RIDING THE TAIL END OFA RAINBOW. YOU AND THE MIND OF MINOLTA YOU'LL NEVER SEE LIFE THE SAME WAY AGAIN. Your imagination. Free to soar with Minolta Maxxum,"’the first SLR with built-in autofocusing. Its automatic modes make it easy to react spontaneously. While Maxxum on manual gives you total creative control. There’s a Maxxum for every photographer. From the world’s best-selling SLR, the Advanced Maxxum 7000, to the more eco­ nomical Standard Maxxum 5000, up to the Professional Maxxum 9000. And with 26 autofocus lenses, 3 flash units and a multi­ tude of other accessories, Maxxum is the most complete autofocus system. So, while others watch a wind­ surfer, you can catch a breath­ taking ride with Maxxum. Beceilain that the valuable Minolta USA ? year camera/6 year lens limited warranty cardsare packaged with your products For more information, see y ur Minolta dealer or write: Minolta Corporation. Dept- MX-7.101 Williams Drive. Ramsey. NJ 07446, In Canada: Minolta Canada. Inc.. Ontario. Doak Walker and Bobby ggggg;: Layne will always be considw.-.v.v;.:.;, ered as a single entry in Texas football history—the state of Texas that IS. For years it seemed that wherever Layne was Walker was, too, beginning at ighland Park High School in Dallas where they were close friends and team­ mates then on to the football fields of the Southwest Conference, where Layne played for the Texas Longhorns and Walker became the most renowned player in SMU history. ti, ? Players captivated hat football-crazy state the way they did Layne was a year older than Walker and ^d already played a season at Texas when World War II came, and both of them en­ listed m the merchant marine. In 1947 Walker was a sophomore and Layne had elected to play his final season of football (he had gone to Texas on a baseball scholar­ WaOier and Layne— The Tkxas Tivosome MINOLTA s^hip) The two of them met on the football leld for the final time as college rivals when their teams played in Dallas. D Ip Mustangs still ran Matty Bell s Single Wing offense and they weren’t given much of a chance to succeed in the Southwest Conference against Rice or the Longhorns. But they won their first five games, which included a win over Rice and suddenly all of Dallas, to say nothing of the ^ Texas vs. SMU Layne and Walker had never faced each other as rivals and, in a sense, their teammates became only a backdrop ual bmtle'^^" ^''Pected to be a great individ- MAXXUM' AUTOFOCUS SYSTEM ONLY FROM THE MIND • "ght from the open­ ing kickoff,” Walker said. Layne, who Bobby Layne. OF MINOLTA continued TOUCHDOWN © 1987 Minolta Corporation. continued passed away last year, always thought of the confrontation as a special moment in his college career, as well. That opening kickoff was an electric mo­ ment. Frank Payne of SMU got the ball near his goal line and ran to the 10-yard line, where he lateraled to Paul Page. This play was a favorite with Matty Bell. Texas was caught flat-footed and tried to scramble af­ ter Page, who made it 81 yards to the Longhorn 18-yard line. “Texas might have been stunned at the kickoff but they got together right away and we got only two yards in three tries,” Walker recalled. “On fourth down Coach Bell sent in a play-action pass, knowing that Texas would be looking for me to run.” Walker, operating as a quarterback as well as the tailback in the Single and Dou­ ble Wing multiple offense, faked the run and passed to Dick McKissick on the fouryard line. He had Texas off balance at that point and on the next play quickly handed the ball to wmgback McKissick, who ran lor the touchdown on just the fourth play of the game. Walker kicked the extra point and SMU led, 7-0, an edge that Texas later would match, but never surpass. The I onghorns came back and tied the score 7-7, m the second quarter as fullback lorn 1 andry (yes, that Tom Landry, who still coaches the Dallas Cowboys) scored on a two-yard run, and Frank Guess kicked the tie-making extra point. Later in that same period Bell had an­ other surprise for Texas. This time he sent Gil Johnson, the team’s best long passer into the game, and Johnson immediately hooked up with Walker for a 64-yard pass ^ carri^to the Longhorn one-yard Iv touchdown am kicked his second extra point for ; 14-7 lead. Again Layne gathered his troops, and ii passed 15 yards tc Byron Gillory for a touchdown. But Gues< missed the extra point-apd that erroi haunted the Longhorns for the rest of the season. Not only did SMU win, 14-13 anding Texas its only loss, which probably cost the Longhorns a third-place national ranlang behind Notre D4me and Michigan but Texas wound up ranked fifth. SMU fm!fhed third, playing only a 19-19 tie against lexas Christian in their annual Thanks­ giving Day game. Although Walker and Layne did not roll up huge statistics in their personal confront^ation, they gave the audience what they had come to see. Monty Stickles was born and raised in Poughkeepsie, up Xv.Xw:’:’:’: the Hudson River from West Point, N.Y., and like most young football players back in the early ’50s he longed for the day when he’d be able to play for Earl Blaik at Army. Earl Blaik knew about Stickles, too, and was anticipating the day when he could come to West Point, because the 6-4, 230pound tight end was bigger than any player on Army’s team and was a very adept pass catcher, kicker and defensive player. But dreams sometimes come apart. In this case Stickles found that because he was nearsighted he didn’t meet West Point’s standards. Scratch one boyhood dream, one hot football prospect. But out in South Bend, Ind., one man’s misfortune was another man’s good news. Terry Brennan, coach at Notre Dame, suddenly found a very good tight end from Poughkeepsie on his list of incoming freshmen in 1956. Alas, poor Army and Red Blaik would ultimately regret finding Stickles’ disability, which, to their sorrow, did not include an impaired right foot. On Oct. 12, 1957, a bright, warm Saturday in Philadelphia, some 100,000 Stickles* Haunting ofArmy persons Jammed Municipal Stadium to see Army and Notre Dame play football for the first time in the 10 years since that historic series was terminated by mutual consent, following the 1947 game. As it turned out this game matched any of the other classics. That day no one had any right to believe that Stickles, a third-string tight end, would become the ultimate factor in the game’s outcome. Army controlled the game for most of three quarters, holding a 21-7 lead with a minute to play in the third quarter. But in that final minute Nick Pietrosante, another Irish soph, broke through the right side of Army’s defense and ran 65 yards to narrow the gap to 21-13. (Blaik had inserted his No. 2 defensive unit to give his varsity a breather before the start of the fourth quarter on that hot afternoon.) Then the Irish came back and scored again, as Dick Lynch ended a 56-yard march with a oneyard plunge. Army then led by just one point. Midway through the fourth quarter, Frank Geremia tipped one of Frank Bour- Poor eyesight kept Monty Stickles out of West Point, but his foot beat Army in 1957. continued DISCOVER MOTORHOME RENTALS U-HAUL* Imagine partying before and after the big football game in your own luxury-equipped motorcoach. Now it is possible with a motorhome rental from U-Haul. Make the ordinary game day extraordinary. 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Ask about our motorhome sales. at your LJHHAUII Center continued land’s passes, and Pietrosante, playing foo?ba^^" ‘h one-platoof Arm^^ ^ interception at Army s 26-yard line. Three plays gained y four yards, so Brennan was then sTeuation '‘■'king Don White usually handled the field goal kicking but not with the consistency that Brennan liked so on a hunch he turned to Stickles who had never even tried a field goal at Notre Dame. fh ** '^hen he called me to he sidelines and told me he wanted me to ** ^ n^uggy, wet October night in Lubbock, Texas, and Texas Tech and Texas A&M have battled one another for 59 minutes and 41 seconds before H.L. Daniels of the Red Raiders kicks a 23-yard field goal for a 3-0 Tech lead. Nice try. Aggies. Too bad. Get ’em next time, right? That s what most of the crowd of 20 000 were figuring as they began gathering their Wongmgs and heading for the exitsslowly, because they were curious to see rust what would happen on the final kickoff and maybe one last play. Well the spark that can ignite a college tootball game is sometimes kindled by just such curiosity. On the sidelines by the k/m? ^ sophomore named Dan Mcllhany fought back the depression that was burying his A&M team and heard Foldberg call, “Return left.’’ Mcllhany was the deep receiver on the fteams, so he knew that if he caught the ball, he would have to run 20 yards straight up the field, veer sharply to the left hoping to suck in thecov- kick the ball,’’ Stickles, now a sportscaster m San Francisco, recalled. “I had done ^me kicking m high school, but Notre me with that in mind Tng abd^y"° kick“But that day I really wanted to beat Army because 1 felt they let me down by not allowing me to come to West Point I was so disappointed at the time, and I just felt something could have been done. That was a bitter youth talking, but still 1 wanted my revenge.” To Brennan, tabbing Stickles to kick a winning field goal was more of a hunch than game. Its offense and greater bulk had begun to wear down the Cadets. would be no second chances needed. Stickles, who had kicked the extra point after the third touchdown, stood at the left hashmark and snapped the ball off the kicking tee (he had a straight-on style, as did most kickers in those days) and boLed a 32-yard field goal for a 23-21 Notre Dame victory. And he saw the ball all the way. McIOtanyi Miracle Tumbles Tkch erage, then slip past its pursuit and get to the outside for a big gain. With 19 seconds to play, a big gam would almost have to be a touchdown, or certainly something close to yards to allow the Aggies one desperate chance to score. Daniels kicked the ball to me, but 1 had med up in the end zone because he boomed mem, and we needed a runback,” Mcll­ hany now a veterinarian in San Antonio recalled. I caught the ball about three yards deep and headed right to the 20-yard line, but I almost went too far because the coverage had begun to surround me.” At that point, he slipped a tackle as he made a sharp cut and suddenly was outside of Texas Tech s pursuit lanes and began to head toward the sideline. At the 36-yard line he had only Daniels to beat, and the Texas Tech kicker gave it a good shot. He got one hand on me, but Jerry Hop­ kins and Ron Carpenter took care of him and I was m the clear,” Mcllhany recalled. continued TOUCHDOWN an educated judgment. Even if Monty missed the kick, there were still six minutes ^ play, so Notre Dame had at least one, in Texas TTrknow what s important to you. And we can help you protect it. With high-quahty insurance for your home, car, boat and business. « c AcconFor details, talk to your independent SAFECO Insurance Agent. Auto • Home • Lite • Business SAFECO Insurance Companies, Home Office — Seattle, WA 98185 A 110 011191*1 dlOlC0e continued I had stumbled in the near collision with Daniels, but I got going at full steam and all I saw was open field to the end zone.” The trip took 17 seconds, a crawl for someone timed at 10.2 seconds in the 100yard dash (but without a bunch of hungry tacklers posing as roadblocks), and when it ended Mcllhany had only one thought ‘“Are there any flags?’ was the first thing to go through my mind,” he remembered, but before I could look around to really check, Jerry Pizzatoli, one of my blockers came running up and yelling, ‘No flags, no flags and with that he jumped on me and so did everyone else. Once, when Rick Eber played for Tulsa back in 1967 he gained more yardage and caught more passes in a game than most college receivers accumulate during an entire season. His teammate Harry Wood had a miraculous game that season, too. In fact, it was the same game. Eber, a 6-0, 167-pound wide receiver, caught 20 passes for 322 yards; and Wood’ the team’s other wide receiver, got 13 for 318 yards. Sadly, their opponents at Idaho State had prepared to face Tulsa’s running game. Instead, they were inundated by a passing attack that was awesome in its execution. Tulsa won, 58-0. Eber and Wood each caught three touch­ down passes in that game; their combined 640 yards is unsurpassed in college football history, but did not account for all the yard­ age gained—698 overall. Ironically, no Tulsa quarterback rolled up big figures in that game because three of them shared the job, said Eber, now in the human resources department of McDonnell-Douglas Corp. in Southern California. We spread it around pretty well,” he said. “Greg Barton started the game, then Gary Collett came on, and finally Glenn In fact it seems the whole corps of Ag­ gies came out of the stands and the officials penalized us twice for delaying the game, so that our kicker, Mike Clark, had to kick an 18-yard point.” Clark did it and the Aggies won, 7-3. For a week Mcllhany was declared the biggest football hero the school had ever had—and this was just five years after John David Crow had won the Heisman Trophy while playing for Bear Bryant. “It was great, but I did just what I told myself I had to do,” Mcllhany said. “When you’re 19 years old you don’t think in terms of moments of glory, but looking back at it Wien TUlsa Passes Filled the Sky Dobbs, whose dad was our coach. We played in the Dobbs tradition because both Glenn and his brother Bobby before him loved pass offense. Howard Twilley had pre­ ceded me by a couple of years as a wide re­ ceiver, and he still holds many national records. Throwing the ball was what we did best, and what we did most often.” Tulsa had opened the season the week be­ fore against Arkansas and had had a pretty good running game to go with the pass oftense. “Coach Dobbs wanted to be a little conservative against a team like Arkansas, tigurmg, I guess, that we could control the pace a little better with our running game. And if that didn’t work, we could go to our pass offense. Well, our running game worked real well and we upset Arkansas, 14-12. I’m sure now, I guess that’s what it was.” And those Aggie fans never have for­ gotten, which makes Mcllhany a legend of sorts. I still get post cards and letters from all over the world recalling that night,”he said. Every time the Aggies play Tech the moment is relived in the newspapers. My kids look at me and I know they find it hard sometimes to realize that their father graying and fortyish, did all those things. ’ But I also know it is special to them too. ’ Moments like that are special to all of college football. 1930 Idaho State looked at our films and saw our conservative approach, built around a very strong defense [Tulsa had three shutouts in Its first six games that season], and the run, and figured we would come out the same way. / Instead, he continued, “we came off the bus throwing the football, and we didn’t stop all night. Their defenses were set up with a lot of man-for-man coverage but they weren’t good enough to sustain it. They had no deep zone coverage either, so it was a total overmatch, something like a Sin­ gle Wing team trying to keep up with Dan Fonts and the San Diego Chargers.” Eber s 20 catches were the most ever in one game at that time, but he wasn’t aware of the feat when it was happening. “We got into the huddle, and Dobbs had been told coming off the bench that I was close when I caught my 18th pass. “He called a pass route in the huddle that really wasn’t mine, but he winked at me and said as we broke for the line of scrimmage. I’ll force it if I have to.’ He did and I caught the pass, my 19th in that game. When we got into the huddle, he did the same thing and then said, ‘Get ready.’I still didn’t know what he was talking about, but he threw me 1935 1946 1966 After 75 years, we’ve loosened our eollar. That’s why this fall you’ll be able to wear our colorful new rugbys. sport shirts and sweaters And since you’ve always expected quality from an Arrow dress shirt, that's what you'll rind in Arrow sportswear We may have loosened our collar, but we’ll never relax our standards continued TOUCHDOWN Arrow continued a perfect pass and I dropped it. “When we went back to the bench I dis­ covered how close I was, so then it was a matter of hoping the defense could get the ball back to us for one last shot, because it was late in the game. They did, and 1 got the 20th catch in the next series.” As it happens, the significance of some records can become lost in the hurly-burly of a season, and that’s what happened to Maybe it was the water. Maybe it was the scent of sagebrush in the air ... or the smell of oil and cattle. Or maybe it was the absence of a shoe on the right foot. Whatever it was, it certainly affected the kickers in the Southwest Conference throughout the 70s. Footballs kept being rocketed farther and farther than anyone ever expected possible. In 1977 the kicking ace was Russell Erxleben of the University of Texas. He was treading in the footsteps of Tony Franklin of Texas A&M and Ove Johannsson of Abi­ lene Christian, who had kicked record­ making shots the previous season. There were six field goals of more than 60 yards kicked in 1977—Erxleben accounted for half of them, including the NCAA’s longest to that time, a kick of 67 yards against Rice. But the mysterious “it” was to remain in the Southwest at least two weeks longer. On that day Texas played Arkansas, and Erx­ leben watched Steve Little of the Razorbacks equal his 67-yarder. Erxleben’s own successful kicks of 58 yards and 52 yards, which helped Texas gain a 13-9 victory on that day, were labeled by one spoiled SWC observer as “ordinary field goals.” Today those 67-yard field goals rank as tops in the NCAA record books, equalled only by Joe Williams’ 67-yard effort, knocked home for Wichita State the follow­ ing year. No one has bested that mark dur­ ing the ’80s, when only six field goals of 60 yards or more have been kicked. Whatever else motivated Erxleben’s ex­ cellent performance, the score of the game was not -the primary factor. “I never kicked any differently if we were ahead or behind,” Erxleben said. “You can’t afford to change your rhythm because kicking is like a golf swing. The only thing you think about is hitting the ball properly. TOUCHDOWN Eber. He admits to being an overachiever in football, always reaching beyond himself to get more. “1 never took time to just appreciate the fact for its own sake,” he said. “I couldn’t be satisfied with my achievements at that stage of my life because I was so caught up in my team and college athletics. No single feat seemed good enough. Later, though, I thought back to all I did and I began to look The Year ofBigfoot Russell Erxleben’s three field goals over 60 yards boomed loudly in a noisy season. but all of that is done in a swinging motion that must be the same all the time. When kickers start thinking too much, or trying to change something, they get messed up.” Erxleben was also a punter for the Longhorns. He still ranks first in the Texas record book with his 72 punts in the 1978 season and with the highest average for one season, 46.6 yards in 1976. His 44.2-yard ca- at that record with the fondest of memories. It was a wonderful day in my life, and 1 am very proud of all that I accomplished. “Actually, it means more to me as each year passes, because I can put everything I did in college football into the right perspec­ tive. Twenty years later, 1 enjoy the expe­ rience for what it really was, and I gladly share its memories with anyone who still remembers.” reer punting average is also a Longhorn best—as are his 78 field goal attempts, his 49 successful field goals and that 67-yarder against Rice. Actually, the record book is still full of Erxleben’s achievements: most 60-plus yard field goals in one season, three in 1977 (in four attempts); longest average distance, 50.2 yards in 26 attempts; and longest aver­ age made, 48.3 yards for 14 kicks —the the latter two records set in 1977. “How did 1 do it?” he repeated the ques­ tion put to him. “I don’t know, except that 1 just did it,” he said. “No kicker can tell you why he makes field goals but we all can tell what happens when we miss. Most of it, if all the physical skills are in order, is a matter of confidence. When you boom in a big one of 60 yards once, you believe you can do it all the time. So you go onto the field feeling you’ll succeed and the pressure is lifted somewhat. It’s all mental, just what every­ one says about kickers.” Of course, Erxleben did nearly all of his kicking, home and away, on artificial sur­ faces so there was never any problem of rutted turf or the kicking tee not being prop­ erly set on the ground. If you think that doesn’t make a difference, talk to the kick­ ers who ply their trade in the Northeast dur­ ing late November after a freeze or a rain, or who are kicking on a grass field that has been used five or six times recently. Whatever the reason, Erxleben left be­ hind a legacy for every college kicker to try to emulate. But that will be hard—unless, of course, the player is kicking in the South­ west Conference during another decade when Saturday after Saturday the water tastes a bit funny, if there is water at all... or the smell of sagebrush is hanging in the air ... or whiffs of oil and cattle are wafting past the kicker. Q continued a perfect pass and I dropped it. “When we went back to the bench I dis­ covered how close I was, so then it was a matter of hoping the defense could get the ball back to us for one last shot, because it was late in the game. They did, and 1 got the 20th catch in the next series.” As it happens, the significance of some records can become lost in the hurly-burly of a season, and that’s what happened to Maybe it was the water. Maybe it was the scent of sagebrush in the air ... or the smell of oil and cattle. Or maybe it was the absence of a shoe on the right foot. Whatever it was, it certainly affected the kickers in the Southwest Conference throughout the 70s. Footballs kept being rocketed farther and farther than anyone ever expected possible. In 1977 the kicking ace was Russell Erxleben of the University of Texas. He was treading in the footsteps of Tony Franklin of Texas A&M and Ove Johannsson of Abi­ lene Christian, who had kicked record­ making shots the previous season. There were six field goals of more than 60 yards kicked in 1977—Erxleben accounted for half of them, including the NCAA’s longest to that time, a kick of 67 yards against Rice. But the mysterious “it” was to remain in the Southwest at least two weeks longer. On that day Texas played Arkansas, and Erx­ leben watched Steve Little of the Razorbacks equal his 67-yarder. Erxleben’s own successful kicks of 58 yards and 52 yards, which helped Texas gain a 13-9 victory on that day, were labeled by one spoiled SWC observer as “ordinary field goals.” Today those 67-yard field goals rank as tops in the NCAA record books, equalled only by Joe Williams’ 67-yard effort, knocked home for Wichita State the follow­ ing year. No one has bested that mark dur­ ing the ’80s, when only six field goals of 60 yards or more have been kicked. Whatever else motivated Erxleben’s ex­ cellent performance, the score of the game was not -the primary factor. “I never kicked any differently if we were ahead or behind,” Erxleben said. “You can’t afford to change your rhythm because kicking is like a golf swing. The only thing you think about is hitting the ball properly. TOUCHDOWN Eber. He admits to being an overachiever in football, always reaching beyond himself to get more. “1 never took time to just appreciate the fact for its own sake,” he said. “I couldn’t be satisfied with my achievements at that stage of my life because I was so caught up in my team and college athletics. No single feat seemed good enough. Later, though, I thought back to all I did and I began to look Russell Erxleben’s three field goals over 60 yards boomed loudly in a noisy season. but all of that is done in a swinging motion that must be the same all the time. When kickers start thinking too much, or trying to change something, they get messed up.” Erxleben was also a punter for the Longhorns. He still ranks first in the Texas record book with his 72 punts in the 1978 season and with the highest average for one season, 46.6 yards in 1976. His 44.2-yard ca- at that record with the fondest of memories. It was a wonderful day in my life, and I am very proud of all that I accomplished. “Actually, it means more to me as each year passes, because I can put everything I did in college football into the right perspec­ tive. Twenty years later, 1 enjoy the expe­ rience for what it really was, and I gladly share its memories with anyone who still remembers.” reer punting average is also a Longhorn best—as are his 78 field goal attempts, his 49 successful field goals and that 67-yarder against Rice. Actually, the record book is still full of Erxleben’s achievements: most 60-plus yard field goals in one season, three in 1977 (in four attempts); longest average distance, 50.2 yards in 26 attempts; and longest aver­ age made, 48.3 yards for 14 kicks —the the latter two records set in 1977. “How did 1 do it?” he repeated the ques­ tion put to him. “I don’t know, except that I just did it,” he said. “No kicker can tell you why he makes field goals but we all can tell what happens when we miss. Most of it, if all the physical skills are in order, is a matter of confidence. When you boom in a big one of 60 yards once, you believe you can do it all the time. So you go onto the field feeling you’ll succeed and the pressure is lifted somewhat. It’s all mental, just what every­ one says about kickers.” Of course, Erxleben did nearly all of his kicking, home and away, on artificial sur­ faces so there was never any problem of rutted turf or the kicking tee not being prop­ erly set on the ground. If you think that doesn’t make a difference, talk to the kick­ ers who ply their trade in the Northeast dur­ ing late November after a freeze or a rain, or who are kicking on a grass field that has been used five or six times recently. Whatever the reason, Erxleben left be­ hind a legacy for every college kicker to try to emulate. But that will be hard—unless, of course, the player is kicking in the South­ west Conference during another decade when Saturday after Saturday the water tastes a bit funny, if there is water at all... or the smell of sagebrush is hanging in the air ... or whiffs of oil and cattle are wafting past the kicker. Q Programing aVCR shouldn’t Bring you to your knees. M£t UfS stats, 1986-87 Final Standings OP 90 80 81 103 168 185 243 258 Michigan Ohio St. Minnesota Iowa Michigan St. Indiana Illinois Northwestern Wisconsin Purdue W 7 7 5 5 4 3 3 2 2 2 Conference L T Pts OP 1 0 262 118 1 0 225 95 3 0 196 201 3 0 186 159 4 0 203 152 5 0 146 147 5 0 136 209 6 0 149 216 6 0 130 188 6 0 105 253 W 11 6 10 5 6 3 2 3 W 11 10 6 9 6 6 4 4 3 3 Ivy League Conference Conference All Games W L T Pts OP W L T Pts OP ^ 0 0 192 61 10 0 0 274 108 6 1 0 143 55 8 2 0 202 103 4 21 151 125 5 4 1 188 181 3 31 169 113 3 6 1 188 272 3 4 0 132 108 3 7 0 139 190 2 5 0 104 132 3 7 0 168 217 2 5 0 81 145 2 8 0 123 262 0 7 0 28 257 0 10 0 91 379 Penn Cornell Brown Dartmouth Harvard Yale Princeton Columbia All Games L T Pts OP 1 0 508 81 D 0 242 193 2 0 446 165 5 0 171 185 5 0 257 244 7 0 190 304 9 0 127 343 8 0 112 320 All Games L T Pts OP 2 0 379 203 3 0 347 179 b 0 261 316 3 0 399 234 5 0 285 197 6 0 278 227 7 0 189 299 7 0 217 251 9 0 201 266 8 0 160 338 Arizona St. UCLA Washington Arizona Stanford use Oregon Washington St California Oregon St. San Jose St. Fresno St. Long Beach St Nev-Las Vegas Utah St Fullerton St Pacific New Mexico St Penn St Miami, Fla. 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Pac-10 Conference Conference W L T Pts OP 5 1 1 203 122 5 2 1 265 137 5 2 1 232 141 5 3 0 224 149 5 3 0 182 124 5 3 0 172 155 3 5 0 168 246 2 6 1 174 278 2 7 0 116 269 6 0 87 202 1 PCAA ConfererKe Conference W L T Pts OP 7 00 281 149 6 10 173 114 4 3 0 154 145 3 4 0 177 160 3 40 101 124 2 50 180 210 2 50 155 174 1 60 117 262 w 12 11 8 9 7 7 6 6 6 6 5 5 5 5 5 4 4 3 3 3 2 2 1 L 0 1 2 3 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 7 7 8 8 8 9 9 10 T 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 All Games L T Pts OP 1 1 379 167 1 365 1 378 197 0 352 204 0 279 191 0 264 239 0 235 338 312 0 145 325 8 0 143 270 222 1 221 All Games W L T Pts OP 10 2 0 397 232 9 2 0 302 150 6 5 0 250 260 6 5 0 286 241 3 8 0 134 243 3 9 0 260 355 4 7 0 271 269 1 10 0 189 416 Pts 340 443 OP 133 184 398 293 393 308 245 198 276 253 221 299 270 241 265 210 238 209 179 187 144 104 233 186 218 271 204 252 292 ?OQ 1^ 21Q 345 266 334 286 306 324 .303 367 308 292 LSU Alabama Auburn Georgia Mississippi Tennessee Kentucky Florida Mississippi St. Vanderbilt Texas A&M Baylor Arkansas Texas Tech SMU Texas Rice Texas Christian Houston San Diego St. Brigham Young Air Force Hawaii Colorado St. Wyoming New Mexico Texas-EI Paso Utah Southeastern Conference Conference All Games W L T Pts OP W L TPts OP 5 1 0 156 78 9 0 306 177 4 2 0 184 83 0 351 163 4 2 0 154 78 0 395 125 4 2 0 136 105 0 309 233 4 2 0 126 83 1 240 167 3 3 0 144 156 7 0 293 249 2 4 0 91 142 5 1 228 207 2 4 0 86 111 0 223 173 2 4 0 55 177 0 195 275 0 6 0 89 208 10 0 193 347 10 10 8 8 6 6 1 Southwest Conference Conference L T Pts OP 1 0 279 117 ' 2 0 221 146 2 0 206 114/' 3 0 188 17? 3 0 185 162 4 0 170 142 6 0 130 268 7 0 156 299 8 0 80 194 W 7 6 6 5 5 4 2 1 0 All Games W L T Pts OP 9 3 0 372 215 9 3 0 325 207 9 3 0311 184 7 5 0271 268 6 5 0245 282 5 6 0229 245 4 7 0185 330 3 8 0259 376 1 10 0 125 267 Western Athletic Conference Conference W L T Pts OP W 7 1 0 203 154 8 6 2 0 193 126 8 5 2 0 158 136 6 4 4 0 158 163 7 4 4 0 187 179 6 4 4 0 217 188 6 2 5 0 197 228 4 2 6 0 175 234 4 1 7 0 238 318 2 All Games L T Pts OP 0 292 279 0 310 236 0 229 215 0 228 208 0 266 237 0 299 272 8 0 317 338 8 0 309 391 9 0 278 444 PEANUTS Characters: © 1958,1965 United Feature Syndicate, Inc. Atlantic Coast Conference Conference W L T Pts OP 5 1 1 179 97 2 0 206 196 2 0 198 185 3 0 165 113 3 1 153 133 5 0 203 220 5 0 136 216 5 0 111 192 ©OOP ENOUGH ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH. Not at Met Life anyway. We set our sights not only to meet our customers’ expectations, but to exceed them. Sure we’re tough on ourselves, but a quality company doesn’t settle for just being good. We go for excellence. GET/WET. ITPAV5. Tar © 1987 Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, NY, NY Metropolitan Life and AFFILIATED COMPANIES AWARD WINNERS Walter Camp was a prom­ inent figure in the form­ ative years of American football, giving the game direction and character. For nearly half a century, from 1876 until his death in 1925, Camp promoted standards of fair play and sports- manship. He served as a leader in rule devel­ opment and game innovations which helped to increase football’s popularity. It was Camp who started the tradition of se­ lecting an annual college All-America team to honor the nation’s outstanding players. Today the traditions and ideals estab­ lished by Walter Camp are carried on by the Walter Camp Football Foundation. The Foundation sponsors the annual selection of the Walter Camp All-America team, and since 1967 they have presented a Walter Camp Player of the Year Award and a Wal­ ter Camp Coach of the Year Award. Last February Foundation members and guests gathered at Yale University Commons for the 1986 awards dinner. Members of the 1986 Walter Camp AllAmerica team were honored. Miami’s sen­ sational quarterback, Vinny Testaverde, was presented the Walter Camp Player of the Year Award. Jimmy Johnson of Miami received the Coach of the Year Award. Jimmy Johnson Beyond the established football tradi­ tions of Walter Camp, the Foundation has become involved in a relatively new tradi­ tion—the support of charitable and other worthwhile organizations. The annual dinner generates funds that are distributed to charitable organizations and youthrelated groups. Vinny Testaverde 1986 Walter Camp All-Amenca Football Team Walter Camp Football Foundation Coach of the Year Awards: Walter Camp Football Foundation Player of the Year Awards: Offense WR Cris Carter, Ohio State TE Keith Jackson, Oklahoma T John Clay, Missouri T Randy Dixon, Pittsburgh G Jeff Zimmerman, Florida G Jeff Bregel, USC C Ben Tamburello, Auburn QB Vinny Testaverde, Miami RB Brent Fullwood, Auburn RB D.J. Dozier, Penn State RB Paul Palmer, Temple PK Jeff Jaeger, Washington 1986—Jimmy Johnson, Miami 1985—Fisher DeBerry, Air Force 1984—Joe Morrison, South Carolina 1983 -Mike White, Illinois 1982—Jerry Stovall, Louisiana State 1981—Jackie Sherrill, Pittsburgh 1980—Vincent J. Dooley, Georgia 1979—John Mackovic, Wake Forest 1978—Warren Powers, Missouri 1977—Lou Holtz, Arkansas 1976—Frank R. Burns, Rutgers 1975—Frank Kush, Arizona State 1974—Barry Switzer, Oklahoma 1973—Johnny Majors, Pittsburgh 1972—Joe Paterno, Penn State 1971—Robert S. Devaney, Nebraska 1970—Robert L. Blackman, Dartmouth 1969—Bo Schembechler, Michigan 1968—Woody Hayes, Ohio State 1967—John Pont, Indiana 1986—Vinny Testaverde, Miami 1985—Bo Jackson, Auburn 1984 D(^g Flutie, Boston College 1983—Mike Rozier, Nebraska 1982—Herschel Walker, Georgia 1981—Marcus Allen, USC 1980—Hugh Green, Pittsburgh 1979—Charles White, USC ^ 1978—Billy Sims, Oklahoma 1977—Ken MacAfee, Notre Dame 1976 -Tony Dorsett, Pittsburgh 1975—Archie Griffin, Ohio State 1974—Archie Griffin, Ohio State 1973—John Cappelletti, Penn State 1972 -Johnny Rodgers, Nebraska 1971—Pat:Sullivan, Auburn 1970—Jim Plunkett, Stanford 1969—Stev e Owens, Oklahoma 1968—O.J. Simpson, USC 1967—O.J. Simpson, USC Defense DL Tim Johnson, Penn State DL Jerome Brown, Miami DL Danny Noonan, Nebraska DL Reggie Rogers, Washington LB Cornelius Bennett, Alabama LB Shane Conlan, Penn State LB Brian Bosworth, Oklahoma DB Thomas Everett, Baylor DB Tim McDonald, USC DB Garland Rivers, Michigan DB John Little, Georgia P Bill Smith, Mississippi TOUCHDOWN IJ IVsa Vendor^s Guessing Game (XTVOUR SOUVENmi by Vic Carucci, Buffalo News When it comes to souvenir buying, there are few creatures more fickle than the college foot­ ball fan. Concessionaires throughout the country stay awake nights trying to anticipate how tans tastes will run. They know there’s al­ ways going to be a strong market for the standard stuff—caps, T-shirts, sweatshirts % : Mike Moore M'J' David Hutson We/iir vendors may stock a wide variety of prol film by 20th Century-Fox, followed the same format, with a lot of sing­ ing and dancing by Judy Garland. In each of these films, football ideology was submerged on behalf of a simple plot line. Football was the stage on which the performers were asked to operate. It could have been any sport, or non-sport, and the film still would have succeeded on its own level. Pure Football: The flip side of “college” movies that featured football, love, song and dance were “football” movies that em­ phasized a gridiron great. The last two film biographies of football personalities were I984’s “The Bear,” starring Gary Busey in a look at the life of the late, great Alabama coach, Paul Bryant, and I971’s “Brian’s Song,” featuring James Caan as Brian Pic­ colo, the former Wake Forest and Chicago Bears back who died of leukemia. continued TOUCHDOWN Photo taken in “Trap Focus” mode by noted Naturalist/Photographer fohn Hendrickson, fune ’87. By trapping all the best features in the YASHICA 230AF, we've set photographers free. 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YASHICA, INC.» Division of Kyocera International, Inc. 100 Randolph Road/Somerset, NJ 08873/1-201-560-0060 \ASHICA 330"/lr RSCBe © 1987 YASHICA, INC., Division of Kyocera International, Inc. All rights reserved. WE PUT A NEW FOCUS ON PHOTOGRAPHY. . ' . .S... ■'I.- FOOTBALL GOES HOLLYWOOD . ....... '-V Those have been the only ones since 1954, when Republic Pictures made “Crazylegs,” a look at the lile of former Wisconsin and Los Angeles Rams great Elroy Hirsch. There were a dozen more before that, in­ cluding “(Tom) Harmon of Michigan” and “The Spirit of West Point,” which focused on Glenn Davis and Doc Blanchard. The most famous film bios focused on Knute Rockne and Jim Thorpe. “Jim Thorpe—All-American” serves football much better than it did the real issues of Thorpe’s life (an Indian struggling in Amer­ ican society). Burt Lancaster, in the title role, gets ample opportunity to play foot­ ball both as a student at Carlisle Indian School and in the pros. The Rockne story remains one of the best football films ever because it oper­ ates on so many different levels. It included good film footage of Notre Dame as well as practice scenes featuring the real actors and extras. It has a football historical sense, since it shows the growth of Rockne the coach and how he changed the game with new formations. It was a vehicle for O’Brien, who could be crusty and warm at the same time, and a chance for a 29-year-old actor named Ronald Reagan to play a classic role of a dy­ ing athlete, George Gipp. “I’ve always suspected that there might have been many actors in Hollywood who could have played the part better,” Presi­ dent Reagan has said. “But no one could have wanted to play it more than I did And 1 was given the part largely because Pat O’Brien kindly and generously held out a helping hand to a beginning young actor. “I’d been trying to write a story about Knute Rockne. 1 confess I had someone in mind to play the Gipper. 1 didn’t have many words on paper when I learned the studio that employed me [Warners] was already preparing a story treatment for the film.” Gipp was a talented running back for No­ tre Dame who had a love-hate relationship with Rockne. He died tragically while still in college at the age of 23. On his deathbed he revealed to Rockne a desire that some­ day the Irish remember his toughnes.s. “Sometimes, Rock, when the team’s up against it, when things are wrong and the breaks are beating the boys, tell them to go in there with all they’ve got and winjust one for the Gipper.” fhe film altered time for the purpose of dramatic punch. Gipp’s teammates rallying to honor his deathbed wish. In reality Rockne waited to invoke Gipp’s remembrance at an appropriate time. “Rockne could have used Gipp’s dy­ ing words to win a game any time. But eight years went by following Gipp’s death before Rock revealed those dying words, his contintird TOUCHDOWN The Tiq) 10 and the Bottom Five . .. ' 7n /'. fm College football has its Top 20, so here’s a Top 10—and a Bottom Five—of football films. • TOP 10 I. The Longest Yard (Paramount, 1974)—The film starring Burt Reynolds made enough social comments to fill a soci­ ology book, but also provided the best foot­ ball action and sense of tension. Reynolds’ co-stars included Eddie Albert as the evil warden, Ed Lauter as one ofthe guards, and a host of ex-football players in various roles—among them Joe Kapp, Sonny Sixkiller, Mike Henry, Ray Nitschke and Ernie Wheelwright. 2. The Best of Times (Universal, 1986)— The football action was not expansive, but what little existed was classic. More impor­ tantly, it showed the relationship of football to small towns. Robin Williams dropped the ball against the city rival 20 years ago and hasn’t lived it down since, so he gets the game replayed. The script keeps viewers from automatically assuming that Williams will be vindicated. Kurt Russell, Jack Bal­ ance and Kate Olsen give great support. 3. Knute Rockne, All-American (War­ ners, 1940) —The classic film gives Pat O’Brien a chance to shine, Ronald Reagan a sweet role, and fans a sentimental but stir­ ring view of a great American’s life. The football scenes were excellent. 4. All the Right Moves (Universal, 1985) -Tom Cruise played a high school football star who deals with a despotic coach and the pressure his small town feels regarding football and a closed steel mill. The football scenes were excellent. 5. Paper Lion (United Artists, 1968) Author George Plimpton experimented with a variety of sports and wrote about his experiences. Here, he auditions for the De­ troit Lions as a quarterback, with Alan Alda playing Plimpton. The book was spirited and offered good insight into football, and the film followed the same formula. 6. North Dallas Forty (Paramount, 1979) A bit preachy at times and flat when the action moved off the field, but the basic moral was excellent and neatly handled by the underrated Nick Nolte. 7. Semi-Tough (United Artists, 1977)— Disappointing in its football scenes, it did offer a look at its off-the-field world neatly. The comedy of Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, Jill Clayburghand Robert Preston was >. f ■/ . . • •• * » ■ '’<1 Everybody wanted to get into the act, in­ cluding Gus, a mule who kicked 100yard field goals. enjoyable and made up fof whatever it lacked. ;• 8. Trouble Along the ,Way (Warners, 1953) -John Wayne plays a football coach given the task of whipping a bunch of Cath­ olic small-college rejects into a team that can earn enough to save the parish. A bit sentimental and perverse in the way bigger players are recruited, it has a good script and good football scenes. 9. The Freshman (Associated Exhibitors, 1925)—Harold Lloyd’s film holds up well because of his genial spirit and the spirit of the college campus. 10. College Coach (Paramount, 1933)— A good football film featuring O’Brien as a coach (prepping for the Rock) with a cold exterior but good ability, who alienates his players. BOTTOM FIVE 1. Number One (United Artists, 1969)— Whatever moral point was offered by the Charlton Heston vehicle was lost in flat chat and a lack/of football interaction. Heston was a hor/ible choice as an athlete, the cam­ era work on filmed sequences was horrible, and most of the clips were NFL archive stuff. 2. Fighting Youth (Ul, 1935) A spy thinks breaking up college football would destroy the American Constitution. Enough said. 3. Easy Living (RKO, 1949)—The script was convoluted, dealing with a player, Vic­ tor Mature, with a selfish wife, Lucille Ball as a “friend,” and a heart condition. He learns a lesson and viewers learn Mature plays football like a statue. 4. Saturday’s Heroes (RKO, 1937)—This was a messy film dealing with college play­ ers being paid, the star player of Calton, Van Heflin, quitting and then coaching the rival team to victory. 5. Gus (Buena Vista, 1976)—A mule kicks field goals. Q Social security It’s confidence that comes from knowing you may never see flakes again. 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For someone they had never known, they joined together in a common cause and attained the unattainable.” Sideline Sidelights: The college movies used football as a vehicle at times and so did a lot of later comedies. One of the most not­ able was one of the Marx Brothers’ searchand-destroy films, “Horsefeathers.” Harpo, Chico and Groucho lampooned every as­ pect of society they could find, from war (“Duck Soup”) to opera (“A Night at the Opera ). Football and college life got the treatment in “Horsefeathers.” Groucho played the dean of Huxley Col­ lege who went shopping for players to try and beat rival Darwin. Failing that, the Marx Brothers took the field and broke every rule imaginable to win. Two comedians who often paired up were Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon. Their performance as “The Odd Couple” is their best known work but they combined for “The Fortune Cookie” before that. Lem­ mon plays a photographer KO’d on the sidelines by the star running back, Matthau his shyster brother-in-law who talks him into a lawsuit. There is little football action, but the Rohm Williams played a cursed former high school star who wanted a second chance for slorv in “The Best of Times. ” TOUCHDOWN setting is important to the plot. And the pressure of keeping an NFL job is an un­ dercurrent as played by the football player Ron Rich. M*A*S*H, the film, was a satire on war and the image of America’s fighting men. The traveling surgical team, the 4077th, was comprised of peculiar military types who had no more business being in­ volved in war than the Marxes had in play­ ing football. The short football scene in “M*A*S*H” was an allegory for the relationship between these non-combat officers and the all-too-typical military leader. The M*A*S*H ’ team got mashed by a supe­ rior unit led by a martinet, but there were moments of revenge. Two other films used football as a stage for the terror that exists in society. Univer­ sal made “Two Minute Warning” in 1976, that used the Super Bowl as a setting for a terrorists assassination attempt on the President. ‘Black Sunday” (Paramount, 1977) starred Bruce Dern as a crazed terror­ ist who plans to annihilate the Super Bowl crowd with a low-yield nuclear blast from the Goodyear blimp hovering over the stadium. The Super Bowl also played a role in Heaven Can Wait,” Warren Beatty’s popu­ lar remake of “Here Comes Mr. Jordan.” Beatty played a football star taken from the earth prematurely by a busybody angel and robbed of his chance for football glory. There s more talk than football action, but the scenes of Beatty getting crunched by former Ram Deacon Jones were worthy of the genre. Social Commentary: Most of the issueoriented football films were made in the 70s and 80s, but not all. “College Coach,” a Warners release in 1933, dealt with a coach (Pat O’Brien) who was not liked by his play­ ers (including Dick Powell) but got results nonetheless. It had its share of singing and dancing like other “college” movies, but it made a point about discipline and team­ work that was missing in other movies of the era. The two films best remembered for what they had to say about football were “SemiTough” and “North Dallas Forty’,’ a Para­ mount 1979 film. Both of the books on which they were based were written by men close to the game and aware of its moral side. “Semi-Tough,” probably the best football fiction ever, was written by Dan Jenkins, the former Sports Illustrated writer. Jen­ kins created a farcical Texas pro team that was rich in characters and subtle in its treat­ ment of football. Reynolds crisply played the title role of Billy Clyde Puckett, a brashoutside/soft-inside star who was question­ ing the meaning of football as he prepared Officially licensed by the College Football Association “Knute Rockne, All-American” is a classic footballfilm with a sentimental role for a young Ronald Reagan as the inspirational George Gipp. m to write a book on the game. The overindulgence of sports heroes and fans, the insanity of the people who run the game, and the demands and expectations on the players were displayed neatly despite a lack of pure football expertise by director Michael Ritchie. The football scenes were lacking, but the work of Reynolds, Kristofferson and Jill Clay burgh won out. North Dallas Forty” was written by Peter Gent, the former Dallas Cowboys re­ ceiver. Nick Nolte and Mac Davis were the principal performers here, with Nolte fac­ ing most of^tHe questions. Is he addicted to the game as much as he is the pills he takes to relieve his pain? Can he find happiness off the field? Can he play an active role in his own destiny, and that of his teammates, or are the game and its stars controlled by the owners? This film took football to task on the ba­ sis of business. It’s big business to keep play­ ers on the field, and personal business to keep a job. When the two conflict, personal considerations are put aside, as “North Dal­ las Forty” vividly shows. Two other films made different points. Wildcats (Warners, 1986) was essentially a comic vehicle for Goldie Hawn, but one with a message about opportunity and the ability of women. “The Best of Times”(Universal, 1986) was a deft stroke of filmmak­ ing about lost-and-found dreams starring Robin Williams and Kurt Russell. The best of the football movies sought a common goal, to exhibit the game as an im­ portant piece of America’s fabric. The fans know this, but the confirmation offered by Hollywood gives it even more credence. 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Video Cassette Games, Inc. 3658 Buena Vista Road Columbus, Georgia 31906 CHECKING THE RECORDS INDIVIDUAL Career - 49, Blair Hrovat, 1981-82-83-84 31, Scott Dodds, 1984-85-86 21, Jude Basile, 1973-74-75 MOST ATTEMPTS Game - 42, Tom Mackey vs. Clarion, 1968 ' , Season - 243, Scott Dodds, 1986; 216, Scott Dodds, 1985 " 199, Blair Hrovat, 1984 Career - 618, Blair Hrovat, 1981-82-83-84 PASS RECEIVING MOST YARDS GAINED Game - 248, Tim Beacham vs. Univ. of Buffalo, 1980 (10 rec.) Season - 972, Howard Hackley, 1976 Career - 2467, Howard Hackley, 1973-74-75-76 1712, Tim Beacham, 1977-78-79-80 MOST RECEPTIONS Game - 10, Bob Jahn vs. California, 1978 10, Tim Beacham vs. Fairmont, 1979 10, Tim Beacham vs. Univ. of Buffalo, 1980 Season - 47, Howard Hackley, 1976 Career - 135, Howard Hackley, 1973-74-75-76 MOST TOUCHDOWN RECEPTIONS Game - 3, Bob Suren vs. Lock Haven, 1986 3, Eric Bosley vs. Buffalo State, 1983 3, Mike Romeo vs. Eureka, 1971 3, Tim Beacham vs. Univ. of Buffalo, 1980 Season - 9, Howard Hackley, 1976 Career - 18, Howard Hackley, 1973-74-75-76 14, Tim Beacham, 1977-78-79-80 10, Jim Romaniszyn, 1970-71-72 TOTAL OFFENSE MOST YARDS GAINED Game - 358, Scott Dodds vs. Fairmont State, 1986 340, Blair Hrovat vs. Lock Haven, 1982 318, A1 Raines vs. Lock Haven, 1969 Season - 1938, Blair Hrovat, 1983; 1931, Blair Hrovat, 1982 1863, Scott Dodds, 1986; 1826, Blair Hrovat, 1984 1647, Scott Dodds, 1985; 1485, A1 Raines, 1971 1459, Jude Basile, 1975 Career - 6070, Blair Hrovat, 1981-82-83-84 MOST PLAYS Game - 48, Tom Mackey vs. Clarion, 1968 Season - 342, Blair Hrovat, 1983 Career-995, Blair Hrovat, 1981-82-83-84 PUNTING HIGHEST AVERAGE Game - 46.4, Frank Berzansky vs. Clarion, 1971 (5 punts) Season - 40.5, Kevin Conlan, 1984 (42 punts) 39.4, Dan Fiegl, 1976 (57 punts) Career - 38.5, Dan Fiegl, 1975-76-77 Longest - 82, Kevin Conlan vs. Clarion, 1983 PUNT RETURNS MOST YARDS RETURNED Season - 540, Birt Duncan, 1961 (15 ret.) Career - 540, Birt Duncan, 1961 KICKOFF RETURNS MOST YARDS RETURNED Season - 757, Eric Bosley, 1984 (27.0) Career - 1247, Eric Bosley, 1984 (24.0) SCORING MOST POINTS Game - 30, Jim Romaniszyn vs. Lock Haven, 1972 Season - 98, A1 Raines, 1971 Career - 236, A1 Raines, 1969-70-71 LONGEST SCORING PLAYS RUN FROM SCRIMMAGE 91, Joe Sanford vs. Waynesburg, 1971 91, A1 Raines vs. Waynesburg, 1971 PASS 92, Tim Beacham from Stewart Ayers vs. Shippensburg, 1980. 83, Eric Bosley from Blair Hrovat vs. Lock Haven, 1982 87, Jim Romaniszyn from Scot McKissock vs. West Chester, 1971 82, Bill Kruse from Rick Shover vs. Westminster, 1979 FIELD GOAL 49, Rich Ruszkiewicz vs. Clarion, 1982 47, Rich Ruszkiewicz vs. Bloomsburg, 1981 47, Rich Ruszkiewicz vs. California, 1979 PUNT RETURN 85, Jack McCurry vs. Shippensburg, 1971 82, Tim Beacham vs. Clarion, 1980 80, Floyd Faulkner vs. California, 1986 KICKOFF RETURN 100, Eric Bosley vs. West Liberty, 1984 98, Tim Beacham vs. Millersville, 1977 97, Gary Gilbert vs. California, 1961 95, Tim Beacham vs. Shippensburg, 1980 INTERCEPTION RETURN 102, Jack Case vs. Brockport, 1962 FUMBLE RETURN 80, Bob Cicerchi vs. Millersville, 1980 RUSHING MOST YARDS GAINED Game - 295, A1 Raines vs. Lock Haven, 1969 Vi Game - 218, A1 Raines vs. Lock Haven, 1969 Season - 1358, A1 Raines, 1971; 1239, Dave Green, 1975 Career - 3399, A1 Raines, 1969-70-71 LEADING RUSHING AVERAGES Season - 138.8, A1 Raines, 1970 (6 games) 135.8, A1 Raines, 1971 (10 games) Per Carry - 8.7, A1 Raines, 1971; 7.2, Bob Klenk, 1983; 6.5, Floyd Faulkner, 1986; 6.3, Damon Chambers, 1983 Career - 6.7, A1 Raines, 1969-70-71 MOST CARRIES Game - 36, Jim Romaniszyn vs. West Chester, 1970 Season - 217, Dave Green, 1975 Career - 506, A1 Raines, 1969-70-71 361, Dave Green, 1975-76 PASSING MOST YARDS GAINED Game - 376, Scott Dodds vs. Fairmont State, 1986 300, Blair Hrovat vs. California, 1982 275, Mike Hill vs. California, 1976 271, Scott Dodds vs. Lock Haven, 1986 Season - 1752, Scott Dodds, 1986; 1702, Blair Hrovat, 1982; 1595, Blair Hrovat, 1983; 1517, Blair Hrovat, 1984 Career - 5103, Blair Hrovat, 1981-82-83-84 MOST COMPLETIONS Game - 25, Scott Dodds vs. Lock Haven, 1986 23, Scott Dodds vs. Fairmont State, 1986 21, Scott Dodds vs. West Chester, 1986 20, Scott Dodds vs. Mansfield, 1986 Season - 153, Scott Dodds, 1986; 111, Scott Dodds, 1985; 99, Blair Hrovat, 1983; 92, Blair Hrovat, 1982 Career - 309, Blair Hrovat, 1981-82-83-84 276, Scott Dodds, 1983-84-85-86 MOST TOUCHDOWN PASSES Game - 5, Scott Dodds vs. Fairmont State, 1986; 4, Blair Hrovat vs. Buffalo St. and Mercyhurst, 1983; vs. California, 1982 Season - 19, Blair Hrovat, 1983; 17, Scott Dodds, 1986; 25 CHECKING THE RECORDS Z^MEET EET THE PLAYERS MOST CARRIES Game - 71 vs. California, 1979; 67 vs. Slippery Rock, 1970 Season - 571 by 1970 team PASSING MOST YARDS GAINED Game - 376 vs. Lock Haven, 1986; 300 vs. California, 1982 283 vs. Clarion, 1971 Season - 1870 by 1986 team; 1793 by 1982 team; 1667 by 1984 team 1663 by 1983 team; 1653 by 1976 team MOST COMPLETIONS Game - 25 vs. Lock Haven, 1986 MOST ATTEMPTS Game - 44 vs. Clarion, 1968 Season - 315 by 1968 team MOST TOUCHDOWN PASSES Game - 5 vs. Fairmont State, 1986 Season - 19 by 1983 team; 19 by 1986 team TOTAL OFFENSE MOST YARDS GAINED Game - 606 vs. Shippensburg, 1986; 605 vs. Lock Haven, 1983 605 vs. Waynesburg, 1971 Season - 4611 by 1983 team; 4244 by 1971 team v PASS INTERCEPTIONS MOST INTERCEPTED / Game - 6 vs. Shippensburg, 1983 Season - 26 by 1971 team DEFENSE FEWEST POINTS YIELDED Season - 40 by 1928 team FEWEST RUSHING YARDS YIELDED Game - Minus 67. vs. Curry, 1965 Season - 645 by 1970 team FEWEST PASS COMPLETIONS Game - 0 (numerous times) Season - 37 by 1965 team FEWEST PASSING YARDS YIELDED Game - 0 (numerous times) Season - 441 by 1973 team CONSECUTIVITY MOST CONSECUTIVE WINS - 18. 1970-71-72 (regular season) MOSTCONSECUTIVEGAMESWITHOUTAI OSS-21. 196970-71-72 (regular season) MOST CONSECUTIVE CONFERENCE GAMES WITHOUT A LOSS - 13, 1969-70-71-72 / MOST CONSECUTIVE RO^iD VICTORIES - 15. 1981-84 ALL-TIME BESTS MOST WINS IN A SEASON - 9 by 1982 and 1970 teams BEST OFFENSIVE AVERAGE - 461.1 by 1983 team BEST DEFENSIVE RUSHING AVERAGE Game - 56.0 by 1957 team Rush - 1.7 by 1970 team BEST TOTAL DEFENSIVE AVERAGE Game - 199.3 by 1970 team BEST DEFENSIVE SCORING AVERAGE -4.3 by 1928 team (7 games) NUMBER OF WINNING SEASONS - 16 50th WIN - Ashland College (45-6), 1957 100th WIN - California (47-7), 1971 150th WIN - California (58-20), 1982 INDIVIDUAL MOST TOUCHDOWNS Game - 5, Jim Romaniszyn vs. Lock Haven, 1972 4, A1 Raines vs. Lock Haven, 1970 4, Bob Mengerink vs. Slippery Rock, 1971 Season - 16, A1 Raines, 1971 Career - 39, A1 Raines, 1969-70-71 MOST FIELD GOALS Game - 4, Jim Trueman vs. Central Connecticut, 1985 3, Jim Trueman vs. Shippensburg, 1984 3, Rich Ruszkiewicz vs. New Haven, 1982 3, Tom Rockwell vs. Lock Haven, 1969 3, Frank Berzansky vs. Waynesburg, 1972 3, Rich Ruszkiewicz vs. Shippensburg and Caliornia, 1980; New Haven, 1981 Season - 15, Rich Ruszkiewicz, 1982; 12, Rich Ruszkiewicz, 1981 11, Rich Ruszkiewicz, 1980; 11, Jim Trueman, 1984 Career-43, Rich Ruszkiewicz, 1979-80-81-82 36, Jim Trueman, 1983-84-85-86 MOST EXTRA POINTS KICKED Game - 9, Jim Trueman, Shippensburg, 1986 8, Jim Trueman vs. District of Columbia, 1984 7, Jim Trueman vs. Fairmont State, 1986 7, Jim Trueman vs. Mercyhurst, 1983 7, Frank Berzansky vs. Slippery Rock, 1971 Season - 42, Jim Trueman, 1984 Career - 138, Jim Trueman, 1983-84-85-86 Most Consecutive - 41, Jim Trueman, 1984 29, Larry Littler, 1974-75 DEFENSE MOST PASSES INTERCEPTED Game - 4, Dan DiTullio vs. Shippensburg, 1968 Season - 8, Dave Parker, 1982; 8, Jack McCurry, 1971 Career - 13, Ken Petardi, 1976-77-78-79 12, John Walker, 1971, 72, 73 12, Ron Miller, 1977-78-79-80 12, Dave Parker, 1980-81-82-83 MOST TACKLES Game - 30, Rick lorfido vs. Indiana, 1972 Season - 200, Jim Krentz, 1978; 182, Greg Sullivan, 1977 171, Rick lorfido, 1972; 169, Bob Cicerchi, 1981 Career - 572, Jim Krentz, 1975, 76, 77, 78 429, Greg Sullivan, 1974-75-76-77 428, Ron Gooden, 1974-75-76-77 MOST SACKS Game - 7, Ron Link vs California, 1981 Season - 15, Ron Link, 1981 Career - 27, Ron Link, 1977-78-80-81 TEAM SCORING MOST POINTS SCORED Game - 83 vs. Alliance, 1928; 74 vs. Mercyhurst, 1983; 68 vs. Clarion, 1930; 66 vs. Shippensburg, 1986 '/2 Game - 43 vs. Mercyhurst, 1983; 42 vs. Shippensburg, 1971 Season - 412 by 1983 team Best Scoring Average - 41.2 by 1983 team RUSHING MOST YARDS GAINED Game - 549 vs. Waynesburg, 1971 Season - 3078 by 1971 team BEST GAME AVERAGE 307.8 by 1971 team BEST AVERAGE PER RUSH 6.2 by 1971 team 26 Scott Brown Andy Cline Chip Conrad Chris Conway Floyd Faulkner Brian Ferguson Mark Courtney Steve Franklin 27 Rob Brownrigg Elbert Cole MEET THE PLAYERS GIANT / VCR & Video Rentals TAPES $1.49 +tX PER DAY FREE MEMBERSHIP Glenn Gross John Georgiana absolute MINIMUM PRICING / FULL SERVICE SUPERMARKET Hal Galupi Groceries Ron Hainsey Jeff Jacobs Ernest Priester Mike Raynard Rob Lewis • EDINBORO 606 ERIE STREET LOCALLY OWNED « OPERATED BY ART 81^Z OPEN DAILY -»M0N. thru SAT. 8 A.M. to JL P.M. 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Eastway Plaza 833-8000 2823 W. 26th St. Ferrier Plaza Our drivers carry less than $20.00 Limited 32 area -StSSe Domino's Pizza. Inc OST-SEASON HONORS FOR 1986 FIGHTING SCOTS ROSS RANKIN - 5-11, 185, running back Second team Pennsylvania Conference Western Division Spiking time with Faulkner, Rankin was very quietly one of the top running backs in the western division. Rushed for 430 yards on just 79 carries for a fine 5.4 YPC average. Scored 3 touchdowns on the ground and 1 on a 94 yard kickoff return to open the game against Clarion. Caught 16 passes for 145 yards and returned 14 kicks for 363 more for a 25.9 yard per return mark. STEVE SZABO - head coach In just his second season as head coach of the Fighting Scots, Coach Szabo was named small college “Coach of the Year” by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette sports writers. Szabo led the Plaid to their 7-3 mark and a second-place showing in the Pennsylvania Conference Western Division. His 12-7-1 record is the best ever by an Edinboro football coach in his first two years. SCOTT DODDS - 6-1, 190, quarterback Pittsburgh Post-Gazette small college “Player of the Year” First team All-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette i Pennsylvania Conference Western Division “Player of the I Year” I First team Pennsylvania Conference I Second team All-Pittsburgh Press Associated Press Honorable Mention All-American For a quarterback who started Just 18 games in his Edinboro career, Dodds finished with 7 school records to his credit. Last year, Dodds completed a school record 153 of 243 passes for 1,752 yards and 17 touchdowns. He threw only 5 interceptions. Outstanding perfor­ mances include a 5 touchdown passing game at Fairmont State and 25 of 31 completions on the road in Lock Haven. ERNEST PRIESTER - 5-9, 174, wide receiver Second team Pennsylvania Conference Western Division Just a freshman in ‘86, Priester led the Fighting Scots in receptions with 36. The Plaid’s #1 possession receiver, Priester covered a teamhigh 507 yards without a touchdown. Knee injury late in the season but is at full strength for ‘87. Has the ability to run the deep route and has great hands. DAVE NYE - 5-11, 205, offensive line Second team Pennsylvania Conference Western Division An undersized offensive guard, Nye utilized his strength and quickness to stand out for the Plaid last year. Started all 10 games for the Fighting Scots at guard and helped lead the way for EUP running backs to run for over 213 yards per game. Edinboro scored 20 touchdowns on the ground a year ago largely due to Nye’s solid contributions. BOB SUREN - 6-5, 215, tight end First team All-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette First team Pennsylvania Conference Western Division Second team All-Pittsburgh Press Arguably one of the best tight ends in the country last year, Suren was not nationally recognized due to his limited number of receptions. Suren grabbed just 27 passes in ‘86, but 8 of them went for touchdowns. His receptions last season covered 355 yards and he tied a school record for 3 touchdown catches in 1 game. MIKE RAYNARD - 6-2, 200, punter Second team Pennsylvania Conference Western Division Just a freshman last season, Raynard led the western division of the PC with a 38.3 yard per punt average. Total for the year, 38 punts for 1,456 yards and a long kick of 65 yards. JIM TRUEMAN - 5-7, 180, placekicker Second team Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Finished his Edinboro career with five school records. A two-time All-American, Trueman tallied 53 points in his senior year on 5 of 10 field goals and 38 of 39 points after touchdown. A very solid performer during his 4-year stay, Trueman will be t Dugh to replace in ‘87. FLOYD FAULKNER - 5-9, 180, running back First team Pittsburgh Post-Gazette First team Pennsylvania Conference Western Division Second team Pittsburgh Press A slashing-type runner, Faulkner led the Fighting Scots with 824 yards rushing on just 127 carries for a 6.5 yard per carry average. His YPC mark ranks as the third best in Edinboro history. Named All-PC, Faulkner led the conference in touchdowns with 14, picking up 11 on the ground, 2 through the air and returned a punt 80 yards for a score at California. Faulkner also caught 17 passes out of the backfield for 142 yards and a pair of scores. A real game breaker, Faulkner will be a major key for the Plaid this fall. 1986 Season in Review, Continued EDINBORO 57 — FAIRMONT 33 FAIRMONT, WV - Trailing 33-21, the high-powered Edinboro offense exploded for 36 points in the fourth quarter to finish the season with a 7-3 record and 5 straight victories. The Scots racked up 577 yards in total offense, including school records of 376 yards passing and 5 touchdowns by Scott Dodds. Dodds completed 23 of 38 passes to cap his outstanding collegiate career. Floyd Faulkner turned in another spectacular game by scoring 4 touchdowns. He rushed for 97 yards on 19 carries and caught 5 passes for 99 yards. Bob Suren caught 6 passes for 78 yards and 2 scores. Elbert Cole rushed for 50 yards and caught 3 passes for 94 yards, including a 53-yard touchdown reception. Defensively, Claude Webb intercepted 2 passes, including a 20yard return for a touchdown, and John Cardone and Tom Calton both registered 12 tackles. MICHAEL WILLIS - 6-0, 170, free safety First team Pennsylvania Conference Western Division Second team Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A red-shirt freshman starter in ‘86, Willis turned in an outstanding first season with the Plaid. Willis completed his initial year with a total of 77 tackles to rank second on the squad. He collected 38 solo stops and 39 assisted tackles. Also added to his total last year were: 1 tackle for loss, a fumble caused, a fumble recovery, 3 passes broken up and 1 interception. Willis will lead the EUP secondary in 1987. JOHN CARDONE - 5-11, 200, linebacker First team Pennsylvania Conference Western Division Adjusting to the outside linebacking position last season, Cardone Was the team’s most valuable defensive player a year ago. The rugged senior led the Plaid with 78 tackles, including 46 solo stops. Credited With 2 quarterback sacks and 4 tackles behind the line of scrimmage, Cardone also collected two fumble recoveries, 1 fumble caused and 1 pass broken up. 33 Official Football Signals SwM"°LOCK‘'HAlTr'MAMSnEfD^^MILLER™ SHfpSSRg°?uPP°ERY RgcT°WEST CHEsZ STATE SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA Time-out Discretionary or injury time­ out (follow by tapping hands on chest) James H. McCormick Touchdown Field goal Point(s) after touchdown TV/Radio time-out Safety Chancellor 1 ft Greetings! THP ™u Office of the CHANCELLbR for THE State System of Higher Educatiw, it is my pleasure to welcome you'to THIS FINE ATHLETIC EVENT. Incomplete forward pass Penalty declined No play, no score Toss option delayed Ball dead Touchback (move side to side) 1 !■ If Legal touching of forward pass or scrimmage kick (Face Press Box) I HOPE THAT YOU WILL FIND IT AN ENJOYABLE CONTEST, At the lA System universities, athletic programs play an important role IN REINFORCING THE SKILLS AND VALUES NEEDED TO ATTAIN ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE. First touching Illegal touching (NCAA) MMITMENT, PATIENCE, AND PERSEVERANCE ARE REQUIREMENTS FOR SUCCESS IN THE CLASSROOM, AS WELL AS IN THE ATHLETIC ARENA. We are especially proud of the young men and women who HAVE CHOSEN TO REPRESENT THEIR UNIVERSITIES IN COMPETITION. THESE STUDENT AMBASSADORS HAVE Unsportsmanlike conduct Noncontact foul ^CRIFICED FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF PARTICIPATING IN INTERCOLLEGIATE SPORTS, Their efforts are applauded, 34 t / Recognition also should be given to the excellent coaling staffs. It IS THEIR DETERMINATION, KNCW-HOW, AND LEADERSHIP WHICH MAKE THIS ENDEAVOR Sideline interference (NCAA) POSSIBLE. Roughing kicker or holder Illegal batting Illegal kicking (Followed by pointing toward toe for kicking) Invalid fair catch signal (High School) Illegal fair catch signal Kick catching interference Roughing passer 35 40 The Board of Governors, the University Presidents, and I hope that you 41 WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT OUR SYSTEM ATHLETIC PROGRAMS. WE APPRECIATE YOUR ATTENDANCE. Illegal pass Illegal forward handing Sincerely, 4wes H. McCormick 34 P.O. 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GO BORO GO 210 Waterford Street Edinboro, Pennsylvania Phone 734-1159 ‘STOP IN’ HENDRICKS HALL, ROOM G-29 PHONE 814-732-2562 40 Hours Daily: 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Fri.-Sat.: 11 a.m.-2 a.m. Delivery Available Noontime: 11:30-1:30 Evenings: 5-Close THE PENNSYLVANIA CONFERENCE 1987 INDIVIDUAL AND TEAM STATISTICS HISTORY OF PSAC FOOTBALL FOUR GAME TOTALS (2-2) (0-1 PC West) 1987 TEAM STATS RUSHING Faulkner, Floyd Cole, Elbert Conway, Chris Wetherholt, M. Georgiana, John Pratt, Cleveland Ross, Jim TOTALS ATT. 88 54 9 1 11 3 14 188 G 4 4 3 4 4 4 4 4 YG 411 270 36 24 19 16 28 811 YL 13 7 3 — 7 73 123 NET 398 263 33 24 19 9 (-45) 688 Y/C 4.5 4.9 3.7 24.0 1.7 3.0 — 3.6 INT 4 1 5 YDS 725 0 725 TD 4 0 4 PASSING Ross, Jim Cole, Elbert TOTALS ATT. COMP 104 63 1 0 105 63 G 4 4 4 RECEIVING Faulkner, Floyd Cole, Elbert Pratt, Cleveland Cameron, Daryl Toomer, John Ferguson, Brian Priester, Ernest Mcllwain, R. Georgiana, John Conway, Chris Tintsman, John TOTALS C/G 3.3 2.3 2.8 2.3 1.3 1.3 0.8 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.5 11.5 TD 0 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 YDS 949 949 AVG 43.1 43.1 LP 77 77 YDS 139 17 156 AVG 9.3 17.0 9.8 LR 22 17 22 YDS REC 101 13 9 101 96 11 201 9 86 5 61 5 13 3 24 2 15 2 12 2 15 2 725 63 G 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 4 4 Raynard, Mike TOTALS NO 22 22 A A H A G 4 4 4 NO 15 1 16 YDS 163 46 14 12 10 255 AVG 20.4 23.0 14.0 12.0 10.0 19.6 FIRST TEAM - OFFENSE Position (1) Tight End [Tackles (2) iGuards (2) [Center (1) OPP 13 10 7 36 66 ATT. 5,500 2,000 3,000 9,500 20,000 i Wide Receivers (2) Quarterback Running Backs (1) (3) Place Kicker (1) Player ♦BOB SUREN Terry O’Shea (tie) John Eisenhooth Tim Grove Mike Reinhart John Seaman Jerry Fedell A1 Arrisher (tie) Russ Ford John Klacik Darel Patrick (tie) ♦SCOTT DODDS Greg Paterra Steve Girting Frank VanBuren ♦FLOYD FAULKNER John Desmond University EDINBORO California Lock Haven Slippery Rock California Clarion Clarion Indiana Clarion Lock Haven Indiana EDINBORO Slippery Rock Indiana Shippensburg EDINBORO Clarion Ht. 6-4 6-5 6-2 6-2 6-1 6-1 6-2 6-3 5-10 6-2 5-7 6-0 6-1 6-2 5-11 5-9 5-11 LR 32 31 14 12 10 32 42 Wt. 215 220 270 280 230 235 268 230 183 185 155 190 205 216 185 180 175 Cl. Sr. So. Sr. Jr. Sr. Jr. Jr. Sr. Sr. Jr. Jr. Sr. So. So. Jr. Jr. So. 220 230 245 235 243 225 245 195 195 195 195 170 185 180 190 206 Jr. Jr. Sr. Jr. Jr. Sr. Sr. Sr. Jr. Sr. So. Fr. So. Sr. Jr. So. Hometown Parma, OH Pittsburgh, PA Howard, PA Wheeling, WV Pittsburgh, PA Sharon, PA Pittsburgh, PA Wexford, PA Mars, PA Youngstown, OH Aliquippa, PA Beaver, PA McKeesport, PA Midland, PA Silver Springs, MD Coraopolis, PA Dublin, Ireland i 6-1 Indiana ♦Troy Jackson 6-2 Clarion Lou Weiers 6-3 California Paul Leonard 6-1 Lock Haven Steve Suriano 6-2 Indiana Paul Thompson (tie) 6-1 Lock Haven Stan Allen (4) Linebackers 6-3 Slippery Rock Dave Linton 5-11 EDINBORO ♦JOHN CARDONE 5-11 Clarion Ken Raabe 6-2 California Ken Huether (tie) 6-1 Indiana Dean Cottrill (tie) 6-0 EDINBORO ♦MICHAEL WILLIS (4) Secondary 5-8 Shippensburg Kevin Mylett 6-1 California Bob McDonough 6-0 Clarion John Besic 6-2 Shippensburg Steve Gironda (1) Punter PSAC West “Player of the Year” — *SCOTT DODDS, EDINBORO PSAC West “Rookie of the Year” — (co-players) Paul Palamara, Indiana; Greg Paterra, Slippery Rock PSAC West “Coach of the Year” — *Frank Cignetti, Indiana ♦Denotes unanimous choice by voting of PSAC coaches. KICKOFF RETURNS NO 8 2 1 1 1 13 1986 ALL-CONFERENCE TEAM FIRST TEAM DEFENSE (4) Down Linemen Weber, Darren iM, 25, 26, 47, 41, 25 G 4 4 4 4 4 4 Liberty (VA) Mansfield Central Connecticut Slippery Rock / FIELD GOALS Pratt, Cleveland Priester, Ernest Faulkner, Floyd Fulton, Andy Ferguson, Brian TOTALS EUP 8 21 14 35 78 $ PUNT RETURNS Faulkner, Floyd Priester, Ernest TOTALS OPP 64 33 27 4 153 731 69 662 112 49 6 544 265 1206 41.1 11 5 32 312 4.6 218 14.5 1060 37.9 109 13.6 1987 RESULTS (2-2) PUNTS G 4 4 EUP 77 36 33 8 188 811 123 688 105 63 4 725 294 1413 60.0 11 / 5 . ■ 28 ' 207 4.8 255 19.6 949 43.1 156 9.8 TOTAL FIRST DOWNS First Downs Rushing First Downs Passing First Downs Penalty Rushing Attempts Yards Gained Rushing Yards Lost Rushing NET YARDS RUSHING Passes Attempted Passes Completed Passes Had Intercepted YARDS PASSING Total Plays TOTAL OFFENSE Completion Percentage Fumbles Fumbles Lost Penalties Penalty Yards Average Per Play Kickoff Returns (Yards) Kickoff Returns Average Punts (Yards) Punt Average Punt Return (Yards) Punt Return Average The Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference is one of the few leagues in the nation to sponsor a championship game in football. The East vs. West conference championship game, known as the “State Game,” has been in existence since 1960. Mythical champions were picked by sportswriters from 1934 until 1950 with the champion determined by the Saylor system from 1951 until 1959. All members of the conference (with individual sports exceptions) compete at the NCAA Division II level and have since 1980. Athletes and teams have won numerous honors in national competitions over the years and have helped the PSAC become one of the most respected “small college” conferences in the nation. 1986 - Indiana 20, West Chester 6 1985 - Bloomsburg 31, Indiana 9 1984 - California 21, Bloomsburg 14 1983 - Clarion 27, East Stroudsburg 14 1982 - East Stroudsburg 24, Edinboro 22 1981 - Shippensburg 34, Millersville 17 1980 - Clarion 15, Kutztown 14 1979 - Lock Haven 48, Cheyney 14 1978 - East Stroudsburg 49, Clarion 4 1977 - Clarion 25, Millersville 24 1976 - East Stroudsburg 14, Shippensburg 14* 1975 - East Stroudsburg 24, Edinboro 20 1974 - Slippery Rock 20, West Chester 7 1973 - Slippery Rock 28, West Chester 14 1972 - Slippery Rock 29, West Chester 27 1971 - West Chester 35, Edinboro 14 ♦title game ended in a tie Pittsburgh. PA Latrobe, PA Pittsburgh, PA Medford Lakes, NJ Steelton, PA Virginia Beach, VA Catasauqua, PA Allison Park, PA Butler, PA Penn, PA Upper St. Clair. PA Maitland, FL Jamison, PA Pittsburgh. PA Steelton. PA Ebensburg. PA In 1986: BORO FALLS TO lUP lUP had a golden opportunity on the very next play as Edinboro’s Cleveland Pratt fumbled an Ike Ezunago kickoff and lUP’s Darren Cottrill recovered on Edinboro’s 24-yard line. Kiel made one of his only mistakes of the day on his next pass when it was intercepted by the Fighting Scot’s Michael Willis on the Boro oneyard line. Again the Boro offense couldn’t get on track and was forced to punt. lUP took over inside Edinboro territory and quickly took advantage of the good field position by driving 46 yards in two minutes. Palamara again punched it in from the one for the final score of the half. Edinboro came out fired up in the second half. The defense stiffened and forced lUP to punt on their opening drive. Boro running back Floyd Faulkner promptly took over and powered the Scots into field goal position. Jim Trueman then split the uprights with a 32-yard field goal. With newly found confidence, the Edinboro defense again shut down Kiel and company to force a punt. The Scots took over on their own 31 and required only three plays to put the ball in the end zone. On the first play of the drive, running back Ross Rankin took a pitch and jaunted 26 yards to move the Scots into Indiana-territory. After a short run, quarterback Scott Dodds found Pratt over the middle for a 47-yard touchdown. With four minutes left in the third quarter, lUP was up, 21-10, and the Scots were back in the ball game. The comeback was not meant to be, however, as both defenses dominated for the rest of the game. The only other score came when Palamara again went over the top for a one-yard touchdown with three minutes left in the game. That final run iced the game and made the final score lUP 28 - Edinboro 10. By Ron Powell, Sports Information Assistant The Fighting Scots suffered their only conference loss of the season at the hands of the Big Indians by a score of 28-10. An Indiana homecoming crowd of 7,000 braved the rain and cold to watch Indian quarterback. Bob Kiel, set a new team record for completion percentage as he connected on 19 of 24 passes for 74.2 percent and 242 yards. Stellar performances were also logged by lUP’s Paul Palamara and Doug Niesen. Palamara, only a freshman, ran for all four of lUP’s touchdowns including a 32-yard jaunt that got the Big Indians on the board in the second quarter. Niesen hauled in six Kiel passes for 84 yards on the day. The teams entered the contest with identical 2-1 records. Edinboro had opened up conference play the week before with a 24-14 win at Slippery Rock while lUP just squeaked by Kutztown 21-20. Defense was the name of the game in the first quarter as neither team could put any points on the board. lUP had the only scoring chance in the first stanza but place kicker John Sandstrom missed wide right on a 42-yard field goal attempt. Unfortunately for Edinboro the Big Indians’ offense came to life in the second quarter scoring every time they touched the ball for 21 unanswered points. Quarterback Kiel completed three passes for 43 yards to lead the Indians on their first drive. Paul Palamara capped off the drive with a 32-yard jaunt for Indiana’s first score. The Boro’s next drive stalled and Indiana took over on the Boro 24 after a Mike Raynard 37-yard punt. Kiel wasted no time getting the offense started again as he immediately completed back-to-back passes to Craig Scheffler for gains of 17 and 14 yards. A combination of Edinboro penalties and Paul Palamara running led to lUP’s next touchdown as Palamara went over the top from the one yard line to put lUP up 14-0. GOOD LUCK FIGHTING SCOTS ABWK WITH A PROMISE Penn^nk EDINBORO UNIVERSITY’S 1987 FOOTBALL CHEERLEADERS: (L-R), Laura Slagle, Julie Zoppetti, Stephanie Emmert, Jennifer Jones, Jill Heiberger, Michelle Wallach, Bonnie Godish, Sandy Schau, Krissie Fisher, and Amy Rubinsak. 44