OCTOBER 3,1987

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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

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Taking College Football Overseas
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at Slippery Rock
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WEST CHESTER
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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

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EDINBORO UNIVERSITY

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.”

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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

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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.
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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
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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

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ATHLETIC STAFF

ASSISTANT TO THE
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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.

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TODD V. JAY

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Todd Jay begins his third year of publicizing Edinboro Univer­
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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.

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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

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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
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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.
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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. So
momentum doesn’t only carry over from
one play to the next, or from week to week,
but sometimes even from year to year.”
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Grambling State U.
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Jackson State U.

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University of Missouri
Morehouse College
Occidental College
Olivet Nazarene College
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University of the Pacific
Princeton
Salem College
Savannah State College
University of the South
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Texas Southern U.
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Trinity U.
Tuskegee Institute (Golden)
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Cal-Berkeley (Golden)
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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)
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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

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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

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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.)

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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

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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
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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

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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
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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

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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
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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
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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,
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medalist.
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. distinction as an All-America halfback on
the Thunder Team and later became a solid,
if not SpeQtacular, major-league outfielder.
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quarterbacks Craig Morton and Steve
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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.
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Playing for the Boston Red Sox, Jensen was the
American League MVP in 1958.

Today,, former teammates remember The
Golden Boy with god-like reverence. It’s as
if he competed on a different plateau. Per­
haps he did.
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

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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
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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
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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,
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Fine that’s a start. Now you’ve got
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f/22) that will give you great depth of
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Even owners of autoexposure or
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about the proper lens settings. If
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proper shutter speed, you may find
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action with your setting, but focus
could become a problem because of
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pate: take a reading and either select
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A Tble of Husbands,
Wives and Rivals

With the Arizona State-Arizona rivalry decided,

hen 1 was a young man,
Tom and Ann Van Slyck can kiss and make up—
until this year’s big game.
1 was often warned
about the dangers of
mixed marriages. “Take
my word for it. Son,”
zona State University and my wife
graduated
from the University of Arizona.
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-

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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 the Devils trounced Michigan—Ann has se­
cret plans for further retribution.
“Let me just say that 1 don’t consider the
last five years as losses, but rather as a
buildup to the real showdown which will
happen this November. When the Sun Dev­
ils whip the Mildcats, we’ll have our re­
venge,” she predicted.
Like ourselves, the Van Slycks are living
proof that mixed marriages can work, even
between such archenemies as Wildcats and
Sun Devils. In fact, they recently celebrated
their 10th wedding anniversary.
Romances between people from enemy
camps date back to Romeo and Juliet.
Through literature and legend we have
come to expect these romances to be starcrossed and tragic, but in real life they are
not unlike normal marriages—some good,
some not so good.
Take Brad and Barbara Bradford. Brad
was a high school football coach in Ala­
bama when he met Barbara, the school’s
cheerleading coordinator. They met,
courted and became engaged during the
football season and were married a short
time later.
Brad, a graduate of Alabama, did not
know that Barbara was an Auburn Univer­
sity alumna until just before their
engagement.
“We teased each other a little during the
Auburn-Alabama games, but we were
really more involved with our high school
athletes, so the rivalry wasn’t a big deal with
us,” said Brad.
A good thing, too. Because when Ray
Perkins was named to replace Bear Bryant,
he asked Brad to join his staff as recruiting
coordinator. Among his duties. Brad said,
was to supervise the athletic dorm at the
university—Bryant Hall.
“As dorm parents, we moved into an
apartment within the dorm, and Barbara
became the first, and only. Auburn gradu­
ate to live in Bryant Hall,” he said.
The Bradfords have two sons, and there
is little doubt where they will go to college
when the time comes, asserts Bradford.
“Their blood runs Crimson. It should, as
they grew up in Bryant Hall with guys like
Mike Shula and Cornelius Bennett as their
‘big brothers.’ We have a picture of the kids,
all in crimson and white, with ’Bama all
over them. Almost the first words they
learned were ‘roll. Tide, roll!”’
While Barbara has come to know and
love the Alabama football team, a part of
her, deep inside, still stirs when she hears the
Auburn fight song, and she secretly believes
that her sons may just have “a little Tiger
blood flowing in their veins.”
With all the traditional rivalries between
schools in the same state or neighboring
states, such as Oklahoma-Nebraska or
TOUCHDOWN

Joe Claude and Jake Bradford are the offspring
of an Auburn-Alabama marriage,but Dad's ties
to Tuscaloosa appear stronger.

Penn State-Pitt, mixed marriages are
bound to happen.
Perhaps none of the traditional football
rivalries is more intense than the cross-town
rivalry between UCLA and the University
of Southern California. (With the possible
exception of Army-Navy, but until a few
more years of female cadets and midship­
men transpire, there aren’t likely to be many
mixed military marriages.) But even in the
fierce Bruin-Trojan rivalry, mixed mar­
riages occur—more frequently than you’d
expect.
Pat and Don Caneer are one example.
Don is a hard-core Bruin and Pat is a die­
hard Trojan. She drives a car with personal­
ized license plates which read “LOVE
use.” His car bears plates which proclaim
“LUV UCLA.”
“1 didn’t know he was a Bruin until our
third date,” said Pat, who admits to being
the more rabid fan, “and by then it was too
late.”
The Caneers, like many other such cou­
ples, wager on the USC-UCLA games.
“Never any money, though,” said Pat. “Just
things like my washing the car against his
doing dishes for a week, or me not being
able to use my charge cards for a month,
things like that.”
Though the Caneers are separated, they
maintain that the rivalry has nothing to do
with their separation. “Oh, heck no. In fact,
the rivalry has kept us close despite the sep­
aration. We are still very good friends and
enjoy calling each other to rub it in when
one school beats the other,” said Pat.

Pat admits to gloating when the Trojans
beat the Bruins, “but not until we were
safely home. When UCLA lost, Don would
drive like a -maniac getting out of the park­
ing lot—with me and the kids not saying
one word.”
The kids, two daughters, stayed loyal to
use. Lisa is a graduate of Troy and Robyn
is a senior.
But sometimes the children of a mixed
marriage insist on traveling their own
roads, away from the alma maters of both
parents.
Trojan Lucille Stromme named her first­
born son Troy, after convincing her Bruin
husband, Deloy, that she was naming the
kid after Troy Donahue (a teeriage heartthrob of the late ’50s and early ’60s—no re­
lation to UCLA coach Terry) and because
Troy rhymes with Deloy. '
“1 always thought of him as my Trojan
warrior,” she lamented. “But when he went
to college, he balked at going to an ‘inner
city’ school like USC and went instead to La
Verne.”
Then there’s Lucille’s co-worker Jean
Meyer. Jean, a graduate of the University of
Michigan, moved to California 10 years
ago. Her husband, Albert, wanted the kids
to go to his alma mater, Michigan State.
Jean argued for Michigan.
“But all our kids are confirmed Califor­
nians. One went to Irvine, another to Cal
State Long Beach and the third to Cal State
Fullerton,” she said. “I guess they just
couldn’t fathom life without a beach.”
While Lucille and Jean have suffered the
disappointment of their offspring attending
other schools, and Barbara Bradford faces
a day in the future when her sons will go to
Alabama,^fheir heartaches are minor com­
pared to Virgie Gonzalez.
Virgie, another Arizona State grad mar­
ried to a Wildcat, admits that dashing UA
football hero Wil Gonzalez swept her off
her feet 29 years ago. Wil and Virgie have
been arguing for years as to which univer­
sity their son would attend.
“For a while, I thought ASU would win
out,” said Virgie, “but now it seems Wil Jr.
has decided on the U of A. His father, of
course, is busting his buttons, but it just
breaks my heart.”
Wil Jr. is a fine athlete in his own right,
and it is conceivable that he could be play­
ing against Arizona State in a year or two.
What will Virgie do then?
“I guess I’ll have to cheer for my son’s
team while he’s there, but I’m not getting rid
of my maroon and gold,” she sighed. “I’ve
put up with one Wildcat for so long, 1 guess
1 can handle another.”
Hang in there, Virgie. Maybe he’ll meet a
nice Sun Devil cheerleader and continue the
tradition. □

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Anderson, Scott.............. WR, 5-10,172, So.
Orchard Park, NY/Orchard Park
Breedlove, Donald............. DL, 6-5, 220, So.
N. Kingsville, OH/Edgewood
Brooks, Joseph.................. OC, 6-1, 235, So.
Youngstown, OH/Austintown Fitch
Brown, Scott....................... LB, 6-1, 200, Jr.
Greensburg, PA/Greensburg-Salem
Brownrigg, Rob .................. OT, 6-3, 233, Sr.
Crystal Beach, ONT/Fort Erie
Cameron, Daryl...............WR, 5-10,164, Sr.
Aliquippa, PA/Aliquippa
Carpenter, Steve.................. LB, 6-1,190, Jr.
Smethport, PA/Smethport
Clark, Bill ........................... DL, 6-0, 230, Jr.
Cleveland, OH/South
Cline, Andy......................... OL, 6-4, 236, Sr.
Pittsburgh, PA/Mt. Lebanon
Cole, Elbert....................... RB, 5-9,175, So.
Rochester, NY/ Charlotte
Conrad, Chip .................... DL, 6-3, 240, So.
Altoona, PA/Bishop Guilfoyle
Conway, Chris .................. RB, 5-9,180, So.
Franklin, PA/Oil City
Courtney, Mark.................. OT, 6-3, 230, Jr.
Salem, OH/United Local
Faulkner, Floyd.................. RB, 5-9,180, Sr.
Coraopolis, PA/Cornell
Ferguson, Brian .................. TE, 6-4, 210, Jr.
Bethel Park, PA/Bethel Park
Franklin, Steve....................SS, 6-1,180, Fr.
Bridgeville, OH/Chartiers Valley
Gallagher, Dean................ OL, 6-3, 230, So.
Kenmore, NY/Kenmore West
Georgiana, John................ FB, 5-10,195, Sr.
Altoona, PA/Bishop Guilfoyle
Glunt, Gary......................... LB, 6-0, 208, Jr.
Irwin, PA/Penn-Trafford
Green, Mikel....................... DB, 5-8,175, Jr.
Citra, FL/North Marion
Gross, Glenn....................... OL, 6-3, 200, Jr.
Somerset, PA/Berlin Brothers Val
Hainsey, Ron ......................OL, 6-4, 260, Jr.
Pittsburgh, PA/Swissvale
Izydorczak, Tom .............. OL, 6-4, 240, So.
Blasdell, NY/Frontier
Johnson, Lavelle .............. OL, 6-1, 240, So.
Cleveland, OH/John Adams
Jones, Dale......................... LB, 6-0, 210, Jr.
Pittsburgh, PA/Lawrenceville
Josefov, Mark .................. DL, 6-1, 235, Fr.
Lakewood, OH/Lakewood
Lewis, Rob ....................... DL, 6-2, 250, Sr.
Rochester, NY/Ben Franklin
Meholick, Dave ................ LB, 6-2, 200, So.
Sykesville, PA/DuBois
Miller, Matt ...................... DL, 6-0, 235, So.
Oil City, PA/Oil City
Mcllwain, Randy.............. TE, 6-2, 215, So.
Canton, OH/Canton Timken
NcNally, Bill.................... DB, 5-10,190, So.
Pittsburgh, PA/Springdale
Pinkerton, Dave................ DL, 6-2, 220, So.
Massillon, OH/Perry

Pratt, Cleveland................ WR, 5-7,160, Jr.
Miami, FL/North Miami Beach

Priester, Ernest.................. WR, 5-9,175, So.
Cleveland, OH/John Hay

Raynard, Mike......................P, 6-2, 200, So.
Avon, NY/Avon Central

Regus, Jose...................... LB, 5-11, 200, So.
Pittsburgh, PA/Taylor Allderdice

Rose, Nick ....................... DL, 6-1, 240, So.
Coraopolis, PA/Cornell

Ross, Jim ......................... QB, 6-1,180, So.
Euclid, OH/Lake Catholic

Tintsman, John .................. TE, 6-4, 220, Jr.
Dunkirk, NY/Fredonia

Toomer, John.................... WR, 5-9,150, Jr.
Youngstown, OH/East

Webb, Claude....................DB, 5-10,160, Jr.
Bedford Hts., OH/Bedford

Wetherholt, Mike................ SS, 6-0,170, Sr.
Ashtabula, OH/Ashtabula Heights

Williams, John.................. LB, 6-0,195, So.
Cleveland, OH/Shaw

Willis, Michael....................FS, 6-0, 170, So.
Maitland, FL/Orlando Edgewater

Yondo, Mike ......................DL, 5-8, 240, Jr.
North Olmsted, OH/St. Edwards

FRESHMEN

Allgood, Darrell....................... DB, 6-1,190
Ashtabula, OH/Ashtabula

Alt, Matt.................................. OL, 6-2, 255
Alverton, PA/Southmoreland

Barber, Cornellis .................... DB, 5-11,180
Buffalo, NY/Burgard Vocational

Battles, James..................... DB, 5-7,169
Coraopolis, PA/Cornell

Benham, Jason....................... QB/, 6-0,180
Rochester, NY/Greece Olympia

Bosack, John ........................... TE, 6-4, 200
Pittsburgh, PA/Churchill

Braxton, Cary............................ LB, 6-0, 225
Connellsville, PA/Connellsville

Bremer, Imari......................... WR, 5-10,165
Cleveland Hts., OH/Cleveland Hts.

Buckley, Terry ...............................K, 6-1,190
Lisbon, OH/David Anderson

Caldwell, A1 ............................. DL, 6-2, 230
Saxonburg, PA/Knoch

Corbett, Bill ............................. LB, 6-0, 200
Waynesburg, PA/Waynesburg Central

Crawford, Ron.................... LB, 6-0,180
Warren, OH/John F. Kennedy

Davis, Merrell ........................... WR, 5-9,165
Euclid, OH/Euclid

Donahue, AI....................... LB, 6-1,190
Bellaire, OH/St. John Central Catholic

Fiore, Matt ............................... OL, 6-4, 255
Pittsburgh, PA/Mt. Lebanon

Fulton, Andy ........................... DL, 6-2, 215
Erie, PA/Cathedral Prep

Gabele, John........................... WR, 5-11, 180

Galupi, Hal............................... QB, 6-1, 185
Ambridge, PA/Ambridge
Gibson, Mike ........................... DB, 6-1, 185
Conneautville, PA/Conneaut Valley
Gillespie, Eric ........................... OL, 6-1, 230
Jefferson, OH/Jefferson
Gordon, Derrick ....................... WR, 5-9, 160
East Cleveland, OH/East Shaw
Griffin, Joe ............................... TE, 6-2,195
Massillon, OH/Perry
Hamden, Doug ....................... DB, 6-1,175
Somerset, PA/Somerset
Holmes, John ........................... LB, 6-2, 210
Cambridge Spgs., PA/Cambridge Spgs.
Horvath, Tim ........................... OL, 6-3, 230
Perry, OH/ Perry
Jackson, Quentin...................... LB, 6-0, 205
Canton, OH/McKinley
Jacobs, Jeff ............................... OL, 6-4, 240
Connellsville, PA/Connellsville
Jones, Nate .............................,'lFB, 5-10,190
Youngstown, OH/Ursuline
Kaczmarek, Chris ................ ; FB, 5-10,182
Spotswood, NJ/Mbnroe Township
Keaton, Brian.................... !... LB, 6-3,185
Akron, OH/Firestone
Lanza, Mike ............................. FB, 5-9, 185
Pittsburgh, PA/Steel Valley
Lee, Gerald ............................... DB, 5-9,165
Monroeville, PA/Gateway
Lewis, Chris ............................. DL, 6-3, 240
Erie, PA/Iroquois
Maker, Jim ............................... QB, 6-0, 185
Slippery Rock, PA/Slippery Rock
Middlebrook, Rob.................... OL, 6-3, 250
Clifton Springs, NY/Midlakes
Nash, Rodney........................... DB, 5-9, 178
Canton, OH/Canton Timken
Pope, Chris............................... DL, 6-0, 225
Morgantown, WV/Morgantown
Rhea, Tony............................. HB, 5-10,180
Chagrin Falls, OH/Kenston
Rose, Damon ........................... HB, 5-8,175
^ ■ McKees Rocks, PA/Montour
Saunders, I^rin....................... DB, 5-6, 155
Shaker Hts., OH/Shaker Hts.
Schmidhamer, Kurt.................. DL, 6-3, 220
Altoona, PA/Bishop Guilfoyle
Simpson, Ed ........................... HB, 5-11, 165
Akron, OH/Firestone
Spisak, Wally ........................... OL, 6-2, 250
Wickliffe, OH/Wickliffe
Thomas, Joe ............................. DB, 6-0, 175
Pittsburgh, PA/Brashear
Thompson, Rod......................... DB,6-0,170
Coraopolis, PA/Cornell
Travis, Lance ............................ DB,5-9, 165
Russek, PA/Eisenhower
Voigt, Erik ................................ OL,6-1, 230
Mentor, OH/Mentor
Wanat, Lawrence....................... DB,6-0, 185
Lancaster, NY/Lancaster
Weber, Darren .............................K, 5-10,170
Erie, PA/McDowell

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JOHN TOOMER................. ....
MARK COURTNEY .... ..........
ANDY CLINE ...................... ..........
JOE BROOKS ...................... ..........
DEAN GALLAGHER ... ..........
RONHAINSEY ................. ..........
BRIAN FERGUSON ____ ..........
JIM ROSS .............................
JOHN GEORGIANA......... .........
FLOYD FAULKNER......... .........

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MARKJOZEFOV .............. ____ DT
CHIP CONRAD ................... ____ DT
BILL CLARK ........................
JOHN WILLIAMS .............. .... LB
SCOTT BROWN................... .. MLB
AL DONAHUE ...................... .... LB
SCOTT ANDERSON.......... .... CB
MIKE WILLIS........................ .... FS
MIKE WETHERHOLT ... ..........SS
MIKEL GREEN ................... .... CB

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JIM UNCAPHER ...................
JOHN ROBINSON.................
SHAWN KUNES ...................
SCOTT PARKER ...................
MIKE MUSCELLA ...............
TOM GIBBONS ......................
JIM PEHANICK......................
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DAVE JULIAN ........................
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KEVIN McMULLAN............
BRYONWHIPKEY ..............
TROY JACKSON ...................
DARREN COTTRILL..........
JIM HOSTLER........................
FRANK CIGNETTI ...............
TOM FEDKOE ........................

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1 J. Toomer ........... .... WR
2 C. Pratt ................ .... WR
3 E. Priester........... .... WR
4 G. Lee .................. ......... DB
5 C. Barber ............. ......... DB
6 M. Green............. ......... DB
7 D. Cameron ___ .... WR
8 D. Weber.............. ......... PK
9 S. Franklin ......... ......... DB
10 J. Ross.................. ......... QB
11 J. Maker .............. ......... QB
12 H. Galupi ........... ......... QB
13 J. Benhan ...........
14 R. Nash ................ ......... DB
15 D. Hamden......... ......... DB
16 D. Allgood ......... ......... DB
17 T. Buckley........... ........... K
18 M. Raynard .... ............. P
19 C. Webb ............... ......... DB
20 M. Willis ...............
21 J. Thomas ............. ......... DB
22 D. Saunders ......... ......... DB
23 C. Conway ........... ........ RB
24 T. Rhea ..................
25 R. Thompson ___ .... DB
26 C. Braxton ........... .... LB
27 L. Travis ................ .... DB
28 J. Holmes .............. .... LB
29 S. Brown ................
30 E. Cole....................
31 J. Georgiana......... .... FB
32 C. Kaczmarek___ .... RB
33 M. Gibson............. .... DB
34 N. Jones ................ .... FB
35 B. McNally ........... .... DB
36 M. Lanza................ .... FB
37 J. Regus.................. .... LB
38 J. Battles ................ .... DB
39 Q.Jackson ........... .... LB
40 E. Simpson ........... .... RB
41 M. Wetherholt ___ .........SS
42 C. Conrad .............
43 R. Crawford ............... FB
44 F. Faulkner.............
45 B. Keaton ...............
46 B. Corbet..................
47 D. Rose .................... ... HB

48 S. Anderson ................
49 S. Carpenter ................
50 N. Rose ..........................
52 L. Johnson ...................
53 J. Brooks........................
54 D. Meholick ..................
55 B. Clark..........................
56 D. Gallagher..................
57 J. Williams ....................
58 K. Schmidhamer .........
59 E. Gillespie ....................
60 T. Horvath ....................
61 J. Jacobs ........................
63 W. Spisak ......................
64 E. Voigt.......................... OL
65 M. Alt .............................
66 M. Jozefov ....................
67 D. Breedlove..................
68 G. Gross ........................
69 D. Pinkerton..................
70 M. Courtney..................
71 M. Yondo ......................
72 M. Milter........................
73 R. Brownrigg ................
74 A. Fulton ......................
75 M. Fiore ........................
76 R. Middlebrook ...........
77 R. Hainsey ....................
78 A. Cline...........................
79 T. Izydorczak ................
80 J. Bosack........................
81 B. Ferguson ..................
82 J. Tintsman....................
83 J. Griffin ........................
84 D. Gordon ..................
85 J. Gabele ...................... '
86 I. Bremer...................... '
87 M. Davis ...................... '
88 R. Mcllwain ..................
90 D. Jones ........................
92 A. Caldwell....................
93 G. Glunt ........................
94 A. Donahue ..................
95 C. Lewis ........................
97 C. Pope ..........................
98 L. Wanat ........................
99 R. Lewis ........................

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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

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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
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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.
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Ezunagu, Ike........................ K, 5-11,175, Sr.
Nnobi, Nigeria/Nnewi Iknongwu Memorial
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Ferguson, Elise.................... CB, 6-0^ 186, Jr.
Easley, SC
Fetchkan, John ................ FS, 5-11,180, Fr.
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Erie/Cathedral Prep
Fulton, Bob ......................... P, 6-1, 200, Jr.
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Gibbons, Tom .................... TE, 6-1, 210, Jr.
Lebanon, NY/Dunkirk
Girting, Steve ...................... FB, 6-2, 225, Jr.
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Goudy, Chuck ................ OLB, 6-1,174, Fr.
Washington/Trinity
Hand, Dan ......................... LB, 6-0,192, Fr.
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Heyser, Bill....................... WR, 6-2, 298, So.
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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.
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Plum
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Kunes, Shawn.................... OT, 6-1, 251, Fr.
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Langton, Jerry ....................TE, 6-3, 221, Fr.
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Lilly, Rob ........................... TE, 6-2, 200, Fr.
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Lombardo, Nick.................. OT, 6-2, 283, Jr.
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Micaletti, Paul ..................WR, 5-9,160, Fr.
New Castle
Miller, Jim ....................... DT, 6-2, 216, So.
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Mologne, Anthony ......... OG, 5-11, 232, Fr.
Swissvale
Moore, John.................... MG, 5-11, 210, Sr.
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Mrvos, Marc...................... DB, 5-9,170, Fr.
McKeesport
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Monessen/ Monessen
Urbaniak, Frank ........... OLB, 5-11,188, Fr.
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Uncapher, Jim .................. OT, 6-2, 261, So.
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Washabaugh, Bill............. DB, 5-10,170, Fr.
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Wertz, Tom....................... WR, 6-0,188, Fr.
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Whipkey, Bryon................ LB, 6-0,189, So.
Ligonier/Ligonier Valley
Wick, Jason ........................ SS, 6-0,186, Jr.
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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:
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ground when he first had possession of the
ball.
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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
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touchdown. Ruling: The opponents have a
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P“"^ formation.
When the ball is snapped back, the punter
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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.
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starts m motion backward, and then just
before the snap, the quarterback steps backward with one foot. Ruling: This is an ille­
gal shift.
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a time may confer with the coaching staff at
the team area.

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his hand on the ground. He regains his bal­

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blocked by a defensive player and bounds
laterally, where the kicker picks up the ball
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to sweep wide, but is hit and fumbles. A de­
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of play pn' the three-yard line, but he has
hounds when he recovers
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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
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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
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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
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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
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world. He logged 29,638 miles in those two
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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

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and Washington State are scheduled to
touchdown

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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
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Conference game 7,500 miles from Texas
the Dallas school prepared players and fans
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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,
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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
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“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."
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SPECTACULAR!
College football can be spectacular

when spectacular people make things
happen.
As Dan Mcllhany did for Texas A&M
^S^^inst Texas Tech in 1962 when he ran
back a kickoff for the winning touchdown with 19 sec­
onds on the clock. 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
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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
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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.

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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
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their teams played in Dallas.
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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
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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
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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.

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land’s passes, and Pietrosante, playing
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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.
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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.
Virginia Tech
Boston College
Tulsa
Florida St
Temple
SW Louisiana
So. Mississippi
Army
Pittsburgh
Rutgers
Notre Dame
Cincinnati
Syracuse
Tulane
W. Virginia
Navy
Wichita St
Louisvtile
East Carolina
Northern Illinois
Mempnis St

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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

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12
11
8
9
7
7
6
6
6
6
5
5
5
5
5
4
4
3
3
3
2
2
1

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0
1
2
3
4
4
5
5
5
5
5
5
6
6
6
7
7
8
8
8
9
9
10

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1
0
0
1
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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
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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

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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

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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

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seat cushions, pompons, pennants and but­
tons—but they never really have a handle
on the saleability of novelty items.
There are times when they can’t stock
enough boxer shorts, cardboard eyeglasses
pinatas, foam-rubber No. 1 fingers, facial
stickers and hand puppets.
And there are times when they stock wav
too many.
“Something that was good today may not
be so good tomorrow,” said Leroy Bush
president of Collegiate Concessions in
Birmingham, Ala. “People may want an
Item for an entire year. Then, they grow
tired of It and want something else.”
Concessionaires don’t spend a lot of time
TOUCHDOWN

pondering the reasons a particular souvenir
becomes red-hot or suddenly turns stonecold. For instance. Bush had modest expec­
tations when his inventory for a game at the
University of Wisconsin last season in­
cluded boxer shorts with “Eat ’Em Up
Badgers” printed on the seat. It was snow­
ing and,he thought, if any underwear was
going to sell that day, it would be of the ther­
mal variety.
Much to his amazement, however,
undreds of fans began buying the shorts’
Not only that, but few of the buyers could
wait to get home to check the fit. Most
simply wore them over their long pants or
m many cases, instead of their long pants’
Numerous members of Wisconsin’s march­
ing band provided free advertising by don­
ning them during the band’s traditional
hour-long performance after the game
“We must have sold 50 dozen that dav ”
Bush recalled.

There was another time at Wisconsin
when he felt skeptical about the success of
one of the simplest items he had ever seen—
cardboard eyeglasses like those used for
viewing 3-D movies minus the lenses. They
ooked more like Lone Ranger-type masks
than glasses, but that didn’t stop him from
selling 3,000 at a dollar each.
For a Sun Bowl appearance by the Uni­
versity of Georgia, Bush sold one of the

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more off-beat souvenirs of his career a
Georgia bulldog pifiata. He is quick to ad­
mit the $15 he charged was about $12 above
the normal price of pinatas found in stores
m El Paso, Texas. But that didn’t prevent
1,500 from being sold.
Talk about fickle fans, three years ago
concessionaires could barely keep pace with
the demand for foam-rubber No. 1 fingers
that fit over the hand. Now they don’t even
excite the fans of top-ranked teams—the
fans who could accurately declare them­
selves No. 1.
The biggest complaints about the fingers
were that they were cumbersome and
tended to obstruct the view of those sitting
behind them. Manufacturers thought they
could resolve the problem by reducing them
from 36 to 20 inches, but sales continued to i
plummet.
j

J
J

just died, said Bill Stillwell, president of
in Phenix
City,
Ala.Southern
“So, too,Concessions
did the 10-gallon
hats*
made of foam rubber.’’
m
Three years ago, almost everywhere you
looked in a stadium, you saw fans display­
ing school logos on their faces. At first they
had them painted on, but it wasn’t long be­
fore someone came up with facial stickers
made of vinyl. They sold well at first, then
As Bush is quick to point out, “Every­
the market evaporated.
body’s got something that no one can live
A similar short-lived fad was the “whornwithout.”
pit,” a football-player hand puppet with an
Not all manufacturers can simply slap a
arm that popped out to wave the pennant of
school’s name on a product and sell it as a
your favorite team.
souvenir. Many have to first check with Col­
Among the bigger flops in recent years is
legiate Concepts, an Atlanta-based firm
the “fan-clapper.” It had plastic blades and
that serves as the exclusive licensing agent
could simply be used as a hand-held fan.
for about 82 schools throughout the coun­
However, when you folded it, held the bot­
try and 10 postseason bowl games. If the
tom and shook it vigorously, the blades _ product is approved by Collegiate Con­
made a clapping sound as they hit each
cepts, the manufacturer then must pay for
other. The idea was to find out what kind of
the use of the name and/or logo of the re­
noise 10,000 or so would make, but sales
spective college or university.
never came remotely close to that.
One of the company’s founders is Bill
One concept that sounded great, but sold
Battle, former head coach at the University
terribly, was instant personalized buttons.
of Tennessee.
A man would take your picture and, 60 sec­
“We probably get more products through
onds later, have the print mounted on the
our office than anybody other than a de­
center of a button that bore the team logo of
partment store,” Battle said. “It’s like
your choice and the date and site of the
Christmas every day around our office. We
game.
wonder what the mailman will bring.”
Four years ago Stillwell bought 50,000
There are a number of souvenirs that
polo paddles, which have a rubber ball at­
challenge or exceed the boundaries of good
tached to a wooden paddle by a rubber
taste. T-shirts bearing swear words or
string and challenge the user to keep the ball
risque pictures are the most common. There
bouncing off the paddle. Today he still has
also are miniature toilet seats with mascots
about 49,000.
sitting on them.
He also purchased 1,000 silk corsages, as­
Though many novelties are manufac­
suming they would be very popular among
tured,
they always have and probably al­
female fans. Today, he still has about 800.
ways will take a back seat to the standard
But Stillwell hasn t given up. He believes
stuff. According to Bush, caps and T-shirts
one of the hottest-selling items in 1987 will
account for roughly 70 percent of his sales.
be rose-colored sunglasses with an “I
That s pretty much the case with every­
love...” slogan on the frame.” We had them
body in my line of work,” he said. “You
at the end of the ’86 season, and thev sold
could make money if caps and T-shirts were I
really good.”
the only things you sold.”
TOUCHDOWN

FOR COLLEGE
DY WORKDIG WEEKENDS ”
As soon as I finished Advanced
Training, the Guard gave me a cash
bonus of $2,000. Then, under the New
GI Bill, I’m getting another $5,000 for
tuition and books.
Not to mention my monthly Amy
Guard paychecks. They’ll add up to
more than $11,000 over the six years
I’m in the Guard.
And if I take out a college loan, the
Guard will help me pay it back-up to
$1,500 a year, plus interest.
It all adds up to $18,000—or more
—for college for just a little of my time.
And that’s a heck of a better deal than
any car wash will give you.

Wiscoftsin athletic di­
rector Elroy Hirsch
mak^ a pitch for Badger
meiftorabilia.

Consider Battle’s description of the ideal
weather conditions for a concessionaire:
It s sunny when the fans go into the sta­
dium, so they buy caps to keep the sun out
of their eyes. Then it rains, so they have to
buy jackets or umbrellas to keep dry. Then
it turns cold, so they have to buy sweatshirts
to keep warm. If it does all that in one day,
that guy has made a lot of money.”
What’s in it for the schools beyond licens­
ing fees?
“Exposure,” Battle said. “Five years ago,
if you wanted to buy university merchan­
dise, yo^H could only get it at the stadiums or
bookstores. I don’t think college athletics
are more popular today than they were five
years ago, but now, through the efforts of li­
censing, you can find the same merchandise
at retail stores everywhere. Go in any mall
in Atlanta, and you’ll find merchandise for
10 or 15 schools, and not just for the local
ones.
“When I was coaching at Tennessee, the
thing I wanted people to do was wear the
school colors. I wanted everybody in Knox­
ville to wear the school colors. And time af­
ter time, I d hear a recruit comment, ‘Man,
this is an orange city. Everybody here wears
orange.’
“It’s funny, what motivates kids. I used to
think the athletes I was recruiting would
make rational decisions. But sometimes,
their decisions were just plain goofy. We’ve
had players choose a particular place be­
cause they liked the coach’s car or his alliga­
tor shoes... or they just liked the school
colors. ”Q

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They ended up in car washes and
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weekend a month and two weeks a year.
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Over the years, football has become as much a
p^t of American movies as popcorn and has
tmth been a star and served in a supporting role
mmovieslike Vim Thorpe-All American” with
^rt Lancaster, “Horsefeathers” featuring the
Marx Brothers, and “Semi-Tough” with Burt
Reynolds and Kris Kristofferson.

Stewart. John Wayne and
Charlton Heston. Jack Lem­
mon and Walter Matthau.
Groucho Marx and Harold
Lloyd. Lucille Ball, Judy Garland and Deb­
bie Reynolds. Alan Alda and Robin Wil­
liams. Nick Nolte and Warren Beatty. Burt
Reynolds, Pat O’Brien and President
Reagan.
It could be the honor society of the
Academy of Motion Pictures, or winners of
an American Film Institute achievement
award. But what this select group repre­
sents is a partial list of the famous actors
and actresses who have worked in films rep­
resenting an important segment of Ameri­
can society.

Football. Obviously, a lot of great per­
formers would rather play than punt.
The football movie is as American as the
old Saturday morning double feature. And
being typically American, it has found itself
host to a variety of different talents and sub­
ject to numerous interpretations. The talent
roster includes the likes of:
Harold Lloyd: The famed comedian of
the ’20s was in the first football film ever
“The Freshman’’ in 1925. The film holds up
exceedingly well today because of its spirit.
Lloyd plays Speedy Lamb, an ambitious
young man who goes from waterboy
humility to football success as one only can
in movies.
Charlton Heston: The chiseled face of

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Ben Hur fit in well as an aging quarterback
ol the New Orleans Saints who decides his
life and happiness rely on staying “Number
One.”
John Wayne: The late, great actor was a
f^ootball player at USC by the name of Mar­
ion Morrison, and in 1953 played the role of
a coach who helped rebuild the pride and
play of an Ivy League school in Warner
Bros.’ “Trouble Along the Way.”
Alan Alda: Before he became the favorite
M*A*S*H heartthrob of sensitive televi­
sion viewers, he played the role of George
Plimpton in “Paper Lion,” adapted from
Plimpton’s biography of his brief fling with
football.
Pat O’Brien: The late star played the leg­
endary “Knute Rockne, All-American” in
one of his most memorable roles. The life of
the former Notre Dame coach was worth
the reverence and sense of history O’Brien
gave it, not to mention the chance to see our
future President play a dying athlete.
Robin Williams: The grand comedian
who does not fancy himself any kind of
sportsman used his clumsiness effectively in
the smile-making “The Best of Times” as a
cursed former high school star who wants a
second chance.
Burt Reynolds: The former Florida State
running back has been in two football

movies and used his abilities as an athlete
and comedian to score well critically and at
the box office. “Semi-Tough” spoke out on
lootball. “The Longest Yard” spoke out on
life and integrity. Both spoke to his talents.
****

“The Longest Yard,” one of Reynolds’
best films ever, was also the best football
film ever. It provided an abundance of so­
cial issues to consider, had a terrific cast and
featured the best football scenes ever. The
game played between the guards and cons
was real.
Reynolds played a former NFL star jailed
for betting, and gets a forced“opportunity”
to coach a team of convicts, offered by the
warden, Eddie Albert, to be used as fodder
for his title-winning team.
The film works on four levels. It presents
a moral dilemma for Reynolds, who must
create and lead a team of cons knowing he’s
expected to lose. He sold out once before;
will he do It again? It presents a classic
Good versus Evil confrontation but with all
the symbolism interchanged. The criminals
are the cons, but the guards have their own
sense of violence and inequality. The cons
wear black, but only after stealing the jer­
seys that were supposed to belong to the
guards.
It shows violence as a universal institu­

tion and not something limited to the men
behind bars. And it shows that rehabilita­
tion IS not something learned, but some­
thing felt, and that personal pride of
accomplishment in an “organized” setting
can be an asset.
“I was very proud of the film, extremely
proud, because of what it brought to the in­
dustry,” said Reynolds, who played 2'A
years at Florida State before an injury
ended his career. “It was also a real entree
for me and the rest of my career.
“We wanted it to be authentic and we
went to a lot of extremes. We practiced fora
while and the look was fine but it didn’t
sound like an NFL game. So we put micro­
phones into the equipment so we could get
the sound.
“We also filmed plays over and over
again. Sometimes the defense would know
where 1 was going. Sometimes they
wouldn’t. Sometimes we’d tell them I’d do
one thing and then I’d do another. We
wanted to get as much realism as possible
It really was a game. Guys really were
tackling and hitting, and there were a lot ol
injuries. We had a guy like Ray Nitschke
[the former Packer] playing a guard, and he
did a great job. The problem was, put a
helmet on him and he thinks it’s for real. I

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took some licks that were staggering.”
Reynolds held up well and earned the
respect of all of the pros and ex-pros who
played on the two teams. “I took a cheap
shot late in the filming one day. As 1 walked
back to the huddle, 1 saw Ray beating the
bleep out of the guy. It was his way of saying
I’d proved myself.
There was a sense of karma to the entire
picture. There was a key play during our
game when I threw a tackle-eligible pass to
Ernie Wheelwright. Ernie caught the pass
and made it to the one-yard line, which is
where we wanted to be for the game’s last
play.”
That last play saw Reynolds reverse field
twice on a sweep and dive into the end zone
for the winning score. “1 probably scored on
seven or eight takes,” he said, “and got clob­
bered on 50.”
Reynolds’ affinity for football has con­
tinued well beyond his college career. “As
the years go by, I get better and better. I was
a star in my own mind,” he said with a
laugh. He stays close to the Seminoles’pro­
gram and Coach Bobby Bowden, often go­
ing out of his way to talk to young prep stars
on the verge of college careers.
He did a second film in 1977, “SemiTough,” which gave him a slightly different
role and less football activity. The film
talked more than it played, but it still in­
cluded some live scenes with the Dallas
Cowboys.
“By then 1 was smarter about football
movies,” said Reynolds. “I played at Flor­
ida State but that’s a lot different than play­
ing pros. Kris [Kristofferson] and I were

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pansy.’ Kris says he played at Cal Poly. And
they both say ‘Cal Poly? We heard about
Cal Poly. They’re great.’
So on a play in our film, we’re running a
sweep and Kris is blocking down as a wide
receiver when the entire Dallas defense piles
on him screaming ‘Cal Poly, Cal Poly, Cal
Poly.’ Kris hurt his wrist and never played
another down in the film.”

Burt Reynolds, a former halfback at Florida
State, starred in a lot of movies, but was extremely proud of “The Longest Yard. ”

remarking one day that we were probably in
the best shape of any 40-year-olds. 1 told
Kris If they ask you if you’ve played before,
do yourself a favor and say no. Don’t let
your ego get in the way.’
“So Too Tall Jones and Hollywood Hen­
derson come out and say ‘Hey, I heard you
used to play?’ I said ‘Nah, I’m kind of a

to task-a good example was “North Dallas Forty” with Nick

There are numerous other greats who put
on shoulder pads and a pair of cleats, or
supported same in some fashion, in a foot­
ball movie. Fewer are the categories that
football films have attempted.
The Old College Try: Think movies of to­
day repeat themes often? Consider the fact
that the success of “The Freshman” starring
Harold Lloyd spawned a glut of movies that
spliced college life with football.
“The Freshman” was made in 1925. In
the next seven years, at least 25 more films
set in a college and with a strong football
flavor were released. The tWo were constant
companions and the format fit beautifully.
You needed a hero (or two) and a pretty girl.
Where better to find them than on a foot­
ball field.
In 1929 Warner Bros, made “Forward
Pass,” where Douglas Fairbanks Jr. played
the quarterback who threw passes at
Loretta Young. In 1930 Warner’s made
“College Lovers,” where Marion Nixon
played the flirt who attracts the two star
players of the team.
In the same year, “Maybe It’s Love” por­
trayed Joan Bennett as the daughter of the
Upton College president who is called on to
“recruit” the best players in the country. She
succeeds, naturally. In “College Humor,”
Bing Crosby plays the professor and Jack
Oakie the football player who has to be ini­
tiated into college society. “Pigskin Pa­
rade, a y)7>l 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.
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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
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College football has its Top 20, so here’s
a Top 10—and a Bottom Five—of
football films.

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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

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lacked.
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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
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deathbed wish,” recalled the President.
•‘And then he told the story at halftime to
a team that was losing, and one of the only
teams he had ever coached that was torn by
dissension and jealousy and factionalism.
The seniors on the team were about to close
out their careers without learning or experi­
encing any of the real values that a game has
to impart.
“None of them had known George Gipp.
They were children when he played for No­
tre Dame. It was to this team that Rockne
told the story and so inspired them that they
rose above their personal animosities. 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.
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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

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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
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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
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Season - 243, Scott Dodds, 1986; 216, Scott Dodds, 1985
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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;
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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
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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

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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

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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
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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
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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
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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
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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

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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

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FIELD GOALS

Pratt, Cleveland
Priester, Ernest
Faulkner, Floyd
Fulton, Andy
Ferguson, Brian
TOTALS

EUP
8
21
14
35
78

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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
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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

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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.

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