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Saturday, October 18,1986
Official Program $1.00
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2:00 p.m.
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Sox Harrison Stadium
DINBORO UNIVERSITY vs
CLARION UNIVERSITY
OCTOBER 18,1986
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THE SCOT SCOREBOARD
EDINBORO UNIVERSITY’S OFFICIAL FOOTBALL PROGRAM
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PROGRAM FEATURES
Scots Host Golden Eagles ....................................................... 3
Edinboro University .................................................................. 5
President Foster F. Diebold..................................................... 7
Feature: Bruce Baumgartner ................................................... 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
Clarion Lineup and Numerical .................................... Center
Clarion Alphabetical Roster ................................................. 23
EUP Checking the Records ............................................. 25-26
Meet the Scots .............................................................. 27,29,31
1985 Records and Honors ..................................................... 33
Officials’ Signals ...................................................................... 35
Assistant Coaches .................................................................... 36
Boro Legend: Bill Engh ......................................................... 37
EUP Depth Charts .................................................................. 40
1986 Football Stats .................................................................. 42
Pennsylvania Conference ....................................................... 43
Boro Cross Country ................................................................ 44
OFFICIALS FOR TODAY’S GAME
REFEREE ................................................... RICH BONADIO
LINE JUDGE ............................................. DAVE LONDON
UMPIRE ................................................... JIM BUCHOFSKY
FIELD JUDGE................................................. TOM ROCCO
LINESMAN............................................... RAY SCHAMING
BACK JUDGE .................................. RAY HARRINGTON
CLOCK OPERATOR ......................JOHN MILANOVICH
Touchdown Insert
The Revival of the Wishbone
Visit to the College Football Hall of Fame
A Lesson in Defense
Weather or Not, the Game Must Go On
Times Have Changed, but the Spirit’s the Same
Multiple Sport Athletics
Looking Back
TV Production of College Football Game
The Offensive Line
Great Moments in College Football
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1986 EUP FOOTBALL RESULTS (2-3)
Sept. 6 WON 27
WAYNE STATE
24
Sept. 13 LOST 21
MANSFIELD
28
Sept. 27 WON 24 ♦SLIPPERY ROCK
14
Oct.
4 LOST 28 *at Indiana (PA)
10
Oct. 11 LOST 37
at West Chester
9
Oct. 18 SAT
♦CLARION (Homecoming)
Oct. 25 SAT
at Lock Haven
Nov.
1 SAT
♦SHIPPENSBURG
Nov.
8 SAT
♦at California
at Fairmont State (WV)
Nov. 15 SAT
Nov. 22 SAT
PSAC Championship Game
*PC Western Division Games
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1986 CAPTAINS: (L-R) Scott Dodds, Abdul Hakim, Dave Higham
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The Edinboro University football team will try to end Clarion’s
streak of 22 consecutive winning seasons today, as the Fighting Scots
play host to the Golden Eagles at Sox Harrison Stadium. The
homecoming tilt is slated for a 2:00 p.m. kick-off.
Clarion, 1-4, with five games remaining, must down the Boro to
have a chance at keeping their mark in tact. Their consecutive string of
22, is the longest in Division II football. The Golden Eagles began
1986 with a win over Fairmont State 14-0, but have uncharac
teristically dropped four straight games to Ferris State (38-28),
California (28-27), Slippery Rock (13-7) and lUP (38-10).
Meanwhile, the Fighting Scots enter today’s encounter with a 2-3
overall mark and a 1-1 slate in the Western Division of the
Pennsylvania Conference. Edinboro opened the season downing
Wayne State (27-24), then lost to Mansfield (21-28). The Scots
rebounded for a 24-14 win over Slippery Rock, but have dropped their
last two ball games, 28-10 to lUP and 37-9 to West Chester. If
Edinboro is going to stay in contention for the PC title, they must
down the Golden Eagles.
Edinboro, marred lately by mistakes and penalties, must take
better care of the football than they did against West Chester last
weekend. “When you turn the ball over six times (five fumbles and an
interception) against a club like West Chester, the result is inevitable,”
Steve Szabo said. “No matter how Clarion is playing to date, we
expect a very tough football game.
Leading the Scot offense once again will be veteran quarterback
Scott Dodds. Coming off a record setting performance against West
Chester (21 completions), Dodds looks to have overcome his shoulder
ailments going into the Clarion encounter. “With Dodds the situation
is still day to day,” Szabo stated. “Despite the pain, he performed very
well against West Chester last week.” Dodds, with a quarterback
rating of 113.7, has only thrown one interception in 109 attempts thus
far in 1986. He has completed 61 for 617 yards and four touchdowns.
Dodds is coming off a fine effort against the Golden Rams, where he
connected on 21 of 32 passes for 212 yards and one score.
Joining Dodds in the Boro backfield today will be Floyd
Faulkner (67 carries for 274 yards and 4 touchdowns) and fullback
Jim Pisano (40-184). Also looking to see action against Clarion will be
Ross Rankin (27-138) and freshman Elbert Cole (28-163).
Edinboro receivers lining up will likely be Ernest Priester (18
catches for 239 yards) and Cleveland Pratt (7-134, 1 TD). Priester
caught six passes for 62 yards, while Pratt grabbed four Dodds passes
for 57 yards against West Chester. Tight end Bob Suren (9-122, 1 TD)
rounds out the Plaid’s receiving corps. The Fighting Scots are
averaging 147.0 yards per game in the air in ‘86, while churning out
163.2 ypg on the ground. The Clarion defense is giving up only 96.0
ypg on the ground through five games, but have surrendered 207 ypg
in the airways. “I know what the numbers are again this weekend, but
to be an effective club offensively we must be able to run the football,”
Szabo stated.
Spearheading the Clarion defense will be a pair of linemen in
tackle Lou Weiers (46 tackles and 3 sacks) and noseguard Mike Pope
(48 stops and 3 sacks). Ken Raabe (51 and a team high 4 sacks)
solidifies the linebacking chores, while strong safety John Besic (50
tackles and one interception) and Bob Kelly anchor the secondary.
The Golden Eagles are fighting the injury bug on defense as they are
likely to be without the services of All-American candidate defensive
tackle Ken Edwards (knee) and safety Bruce Curry (torn calf muscle).
The Clarion offense is led by quarterback Doug Emminger, who
has hit on 65 of 128 passes in ‘86 for 804 yards and three touchdowns.
He has thrown nine interceptions, a figure very inviting to the Scot
much improved secondary. Leading the ground attack for the Golden
Eagles is tailback Rod Joseph (73-356 and 4 TD’s) and fullback Dan
Taylor (26-83, 2 TD’s). CUP’s top receivers include split end Russ
Ford (21 catches for 366 yards and 2 TD’s) and tight end Jim Hahn
(17-176).
After surrendering just 68 yards in the air to the conference’s top
quarterback last weekend, the Boro defense is hopefully rounding into
form. Heading the list of performers is free safety Mike Willis (team
high 44 tackles, 1 INT) and freshman linebackers, Tom Calton (34
tackles) and John Williams (24). Looking to improve against the run
will be the Boro’s young defensive front of Scott Pierce (11), Craig
Cross (16), Tom Terhart (3 stops, 1 sack) and tri-captain Abdul
Hakim (27).
A pair of players which cannot be overlooked today are the
placekickers for each squad. The Plaid’s Jim Trueman and Clarion’s
John Desmond are two of the best in the conference. Both are all star
performers in the past and could be major factors in the outcome.
Trueman has connected on 3 of 5 field goal tries (32,32,29) and 10-10
extra points in ‘86, while Desmond has similar numbers with 3-5 FG’s
and 9-10 PAT’s.
The Fighting Scots and Golden Eagles have traditionally played
great football games and today should be no different. A quick
rundown of recent years tells the story. The Scots are 4-6 over the last
ten years against Clarion with a scoring rundown as follows: 1985
(26-7 CUP), 1984 (35-24 CUP), 1983 (28-8 EUP), 1982 (22-20 CUP),
1981 (27-17 EUP), 1980 (13-10 EUP), 1979 (13-0 CUP), 1978 (42-7
CUP), 1977 (10-6 CUP), 1976 (25-20 EUP).
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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 distinctionx)f 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 representing 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 contributions 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 Progcam to
provide challenging and enriched learning experiences for academically 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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EDINBORO UNIVERSITY
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
PRESIDENT — FOSTER F. DIEBOLD
Wishes
Good Luck
to the *86 Fighting Scots
'‘The Alumni Association honors all Edinboro’s accomplished graduates'
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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 Foster F. Diebold is a recognized leader in
higher education. Prior to assuming the presidency at Edinboro 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
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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ATHLETIC DIRECTOR — JIM McDONALD
BAUMGARTNER HUNGRY FOR TITLE
which al^o 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 theNAIA’s All-Tournament Team
in 1959 and 1960.
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.
“There are four things which a wrestler must concentrate on,” he
explained. Strength, conditioning, technique and tactics, but not
necessarily in that order. Technique and tactics go hand in hand and
are probably at the top of the priority list.
Condition wise, I’m in as good as shape as I’ve been in since the
World Championships a year ago. I’m looking forward to two weeks
of hard training in Bloomington, Ind., to concentrate on technique.
Recently Jeff Blatnick, Olympic gold medalist in Greco-Roman
wrestling, was in Edinboro to help Baumgartner in his preparation for
the heavyweight division.
“It is very tough to find people to train against,” Baumgartner
stated. “It was real nice of Jeff to come to EdinborO and help me out. I
have some very tough competition in the World Championships and I
have to get ready.”
The entries for the Worlds make an impressive list. Poland will
enter a 7-2, 300-pounder who Baumgartner has beaten 1,1-2 in the ‘85
World Championships, but also has lost to 5-4 in the ‘83 champion
ships.
East Germany enters the ‘86 European champion and Hungary
the runner-up in the ‘85 Worlds.
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But without a doubt Gobedzhishvili looms as Baumgartner’s
biggest obstacle. Holding a 4-2 edge over the Russian, the Edinboro
coach owns consecutive wins over him, including a pin at the World
Cup and a 4-4 criteria decision at the Goodwill Games.
Baumgartner hasn’t ruled out a trip to the 1988 Olympic Games
in South Korea. “If all goes as planned, I want to compete in ‘88,” he
commented. “But to be honest with you, the terrorist issue really does
concern me. It’s still pretty far off. We’ll take everything one step at a
time and see where it all goes.
“If my knees hold out. I’ll probably compete. But there are
many more important factors to consider, like the well-being of myself
and my wife.”
But first Baumgartner is concerning himself with the World
Championships in Budapest and the one crown that has eluded him in
his illustrious career.
It is the one that has eluded him.
Forget the Olympics, the World Cup and the Goodwill Games.
Bruce Baumgartner’s “Super Bowl” will take place Oct. 19-22
when he battles for the World Championship in Budapest, Hungary.
After placing third in 1983 and ‘85, the Edinboro University
assistant wrestling coach seems to have everything in proper
perspective.
“The magnitude of the World Championships is truly that, a
world title,” he said. “It means so much to capture this one, because
every country in the world has the opportunity to compete. It is every
bit as important to me as the Olympics.
“It is the only championship which I have yet to capture.
Hopefully, this will be the icing on the cake.”
When asked if he considers himself the best heavyweight in the
world, the soft-spoken giant is anything but boastful. “Right now, I
consider it a two-man race for the label. David Gobedzhishvili from
the USSR is my toughest competitor.
“It is a difficult question to answer. On any given day, we can beat
one another. I can win and three weeks later get knocked off, you
never know.
“In a World Series, it is a best-of-seven, but when it comes to
wrestling it is six minutes of do or die. That is what makes wrestling
such a great sport.”
At 6-2,265 pounds, the burly Baumgartner has been in extensive
training for the event.
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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.
“EUP has outstanding coaches
and facilities. With these ingredients,
there is no reason we could not be
competitive in the PSAC and Division
________________________________________ _____
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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Second-year head coach Steve Szabo and his Fighting
Scot football squad are looking to improve on their third place
finish in the rugged Pennsylvania Conference Western Divi
sion a year ago, as the Plaid prepare for another hard-nosed
season among the PC heavyweights. In 1986, the Scots return a
host of talent which should put them in the heat of the battle
come title time.
“We feel that we have the talent in the skilled positions to
make the big plays this year, which should allow us to open up
our offense a little more,” Szabo said. Traditionally a Wing-T
squad on offense, the Scots are likely to use a more pro oriented
approach to their ‘86 offensive plan. “With the year of growth
and maturity for quarterback Scott Dodds, we will be using the
two wide receiver set more often this season. Scotty proved he
could throw the ball a year ago, and I have confidence his
numbers will be even better in 1986,” Szabo continued.
Most definitely, if the Plaid is going to contend for the
division crown, the weight of the EUP offense falls on the
shoulders of tri-captain Dodds. The 6'3" signal caller from
Beaver, PA, should establish himself as one of the top
quarterbacks in the conference this year, coming off a brilliant
junior season, posting numbers good enough to rank third in
the entire conference in total offense. Completing a school
record 111 passes on 216 attempts, Dodds totaled 1,380 yards
through the air for 7 touchdowns, while also churning out 267
hard-earned yards on the ground for his third place showing in
the PC. Dodds averaged 164.7 yards per game for the “o,”
placing him behind only Rich Ingold of lUP and Brendon
Folmar of California. “Scott showed me a lot of poise a year
ago, and we’ll call on him to lead the offense all season. If we
can get the protection for him to open up his game, no telling
what kind of numbers he will put up,” Szabo stated. “You also
can’t overlook his ability to run the football. He has deceptive
speed, with a knack for finding the opening on the corner.”
Indeed, the offensive front will be the key to the Plaid’s
success this season, as the Scots look to replace four quality
veterans lost through graduation. Leading the list of returnees
up front will be tri-captain Dave Higham. The 6'2", 240-pound
center will anchor the Scot interior, a place “Higs” has romped
successfully over the last three seasons. “Higham is one of the
most dedicated athletes I have ever coached,” stated Szabo.
“He comes to play every down and give his 100%. There were
games last year, where he should have never played but
somehow managed to get himself ready for action every
Saturday.’’The fifth-year senior from Hubbard, OH, will have
to pull a somewhat green offensive front together if the Scot
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running attack is going to live up to past standards. Also
looking to crack the starting offensive line will be guards Larry
Rosenthal (Manassas, VA) and Dave Nye (Windsor, OH).
Both return with game experience from a year ago, and will be
relied on to help carry the load up front. At tackle, the Scots are
looking at converted defensive player Rob Brownrigg and
sophomore Mark Courtney (Salem, OH). Also looking to aid
the Plaid up front will be a host of talented freshmen, led by
6'1", 235-pound tackle Joseph Brooks. A product of Austintown Fitch High School in Youngstown, OH, Brooks could
help the squad right away. “We feel that we have a quality
individual in Brooks,” Szabo said. “He is a fine looking athlete
with great agility. He also is a very versatile lineman, so he can
help us anywhere across the front. In addition to Brooks,
Szabo’s list of impressive freshmen include Brad Powell (6'2",
240, West Middlesex, PA), Dan Shaffer (6'3", 255, Youngs
town, OH), Tom Terhart (6'2", 215, Lackawanna, NY) and
Rich Urko (6'2", 250, Monongahela, PA) to help the Scots in
the trenches.
Traditionally the strength of the Scot offense, the running
game should be as strong as ever with the return of Floyd
Faulkner, Jim Pisano, Ross Rankin and John Georgiana.
Faulkner (Coraopolis, PA) should be the Scots’ starting
halfback on opening day this season, a role he has looked
forward to for two years. The squad’s second leading ball
carrier last season, Faulkner netted 429 yards on just 89 totes
for a solid 4.8 yards per carry average and three touchdowns.
Also a threat out of the backfield, Faulkner caught 14 passes
for 122 and 1 TD in 1985. “Floyd should really come into his
own this season,” Szabo said. “He has great balance and is a
true break-away threat every time he touches the football.”
Pisano (Lower Burrell, PA) is likely to be the Scots’#! fullback
due to his unselfish nature and nose for the goal line. Leading
the squad a year ago in rushing touchdowns with 5, Pisano
carried the skin 66 times for 263 tough yards for a 4.0 average.
Meanwhile, Rankin (Canton, OH) and Georgiana (Altoona,
PA) posted 251 and 72 yards respectively a year ago to give the
team a strong returning corp to the EUP backfield. Rankin also
latched onto 10 passes for 142 yards last season, while
Georgiana touched pay dirt every 8 times he touched the
football from his fullback spot. Although the squad is solid in
the backfield, coach Szabo has brought in some quality
freshman that could make an immediate impact on the squad.
Heading the list of newcomers are Oil City High School
sprinter Chris Conway and Erie native Mike Miczo. Conway, a
4.3 in the 40-yard dash, brings added speed to the EUP backs,
while Miczo (Northwestern High School) is likely to help the
Plaid in a number of places on the offense. “Conway gives us
another breakaway threat, while Miczo does so many things
well, all around, that they both could see plenty of action
throughout the year,” Szabo added.
Another strength to the Edinboro offense this season will
come from the right foot of All-American placekicker Jim
Trueman. An Associated Press All-American the past two
seasons, Trueman will cap off a brilliant EUP career this fall, as
he embarks on the Pennsylvania Conference record books.
Needing a fine 71 point output this season, Trueman would
capture the all-time scoring mark in the PC for career points
held by Millersville University runningback Ricky Stonewall.
The 71 tallies may seem out of sight, but not for Trueman. The
5'8", 180 pound, Bellevue, PA, product has totaled 69, 75, and
49 points for his total of 193 in his first 3 years, and is looking
forward to a crack at the record. “For Trueman to get the mark,
we have to have a great year offensively, and get better field
position for the three points,” Szabo said. When it comes to
accuracy, Trueman’s numbers can be matched with anyone’s
across the country. His freshman campaign, “True” connected
on 39-of-43 extra points and lO-of-15 field goals, followed by
42-for-43 and an ll-for-16 showing his sophomore season.
With the EUP offense sputtering at times a year ago, Trueman
posted lower numbers but his range was still there; connecting
on 19-of-23 pat’s and 10-15 field goal attempts. A very
consistent offensive weapon throughout his EUP career,
Trueman will be relied on heavily to help carry the scoring load
for the Plaid once again this fall.
On the offensive receiving end, the Scots will enter the
1986 campaign with the same corp of players they had a year
ago. Leading the squad with 22 receptions last season was Dave
Gierlak (Buffalo, NY). The Scots’ prime possession receiver,
Gierlak totaled 300 yards through the air and 1 score, while
rushing for 53 yards on just 2 carries including a 19 yard scoring
jaunt. Also looking for playing time this fall will be Cleveland
Pratt (10 catches, 114 yards), Daryl Cameron (6 for 73) and
John Toomer (5 for 42). One strength the Scots are assured of
this fall, will be at the tight end position. Returning to anchor
the offensive front will be veterans Bob Suren (Parma, OH),
Scott Brown (Greensburg, PA) and Brian Ferguson (Bethel
Park, PA). Suren, in just 8 games, grabbed 12 passes for 152
yards and 3 scores, while Brown latched on to 5 passes for 81
and a score.
Defensively the Scots will make the transition from their
traditional 3-4 defense, back to the old school 4-3 set. Up front,
the Plaid will return a pair of all-conference performers in
Chuck Murray (Tyrone, PA) and Rob Lewis (Rochester, NY).
Murray, at 6'4", 255, caused many problems for opposing
offenses in 1985, registering 59 tackles, including 5 behind the
line of scrimmage. A first team All-Conference choice, Murray
will have to be in top form to solidify the Boro defense. Lewis,
also an imposing figure at 6'3", 250, should really come into his
own in ‘86, coming off a 38 tackle performance last season. A
second-team choice in ‘85, Lewis also tallied 5 stops for loss,
while collecting 1 QB sack. “Murray and Lewis will be the key
to our defensive performance this season,” Szabo added. “With
the year of experience they got last season, both will be a force
to contend with in the middle. With our inexperience at
linebacker, we will be looking for those two to make plenty of
stops.” Joining Murray and Lewis across the front will be
tri-captain Abdul Hakim and Harlen Ware. Hakim, a
converted linebacker to defensive tackle, was in on 40 stops a
year ago including a pair for losses. Ware, the squad’s
outstanding defensive player in the annual red-white scrim
mage in the spring, was 14th on the team in tackles a year ago in
reserve role, registering 34 stops and causing a pair of fumbles.
The linebacking crew for 1986 will consist of a mix of
veterans and second year players, with a pair of positions not
yet filled. Allen Ellis (Albion, NY) the squad’s fourth leading
tackier with 68 stops, and John Cardone (Pittsburgh, PA) third
on the team with 71 tackles will anchor the middle line of
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year ago, while Lux was limited to kickoff coverage duty, but
played excellent ball in the spring. In looking at the linebacking
situation for the ‘86 squad, Szabo will be relying on freshmen to
come in and play for depth at the position. The Scots’ top
recruit at linebacker this year will be Paul Sibila out of
Massillon, OH. The 6'3", 207-pound product has caught the
eye of the EUP coaching staff, turning in a 4.8 time in the 40, to
go along with an outstanding 51.5 clocking in the 440. “He has
a lot of pure athletic ability and this is what you’re looking for
in any recruit. I believe he will be able to help us right away,”
Szabo stated.
The Scot secondary could be the strength of this year’s
defense, led by veteran Martelle Betters, Claude Webb,
Michael Churn and red-shirt freshman Mike Willis. Betters, an
all-conference selection as a sophomore, returns for his senior
campaign to anchor the Scot secondary. Betters was the
squad’s ninth leading tackier last season, collecting 47 stops
and 1 QB sack. The 6'0", 180-pound product out of Connellsville, PA, also broke up 4 passes and blocked 1 punt in 1985. A
trio of talented youngsters are likely to make up the remainder
of the Plaid secondary in Webb, Churn and Willis. Webb
registered 17 stops a year ago, while picking off 1 pass in limited
action, while Churn and Willis are trying to shake off injuries
from a year ago to land in the starting secondary. “We have a
group of very talented players in our defensive backfield with
great speed and range. We should be stronger back there this
season,” Szabo pointed out. “This is a throwing conference and
you must stop the pass if you’re going to win.”
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Edinboro will tune up for conference action this season
opening at home against Wayne State (Sept. 6) and Mansfield
(Sept. 13) before hosting Slippery Rock on September 27 on
“Parents Day.” The remainder of the Scots’ schedule is as
follows; October 4 at lUP, October 11 at West Chester, home
vs. Clarion October 18 for homecoming, October 25 at Lock
Haven, home November 1 vs. Shippensburg, followed by two
road games at California November 8 and at Fairmont State
(WV) November 15.
“I’m really looking forwar^ to the start of the season,”
Szabo said. “Last season was
adjustment for all of us, but I
hope the transition is over. The conference is as tough as I
thought, and we are going to have to play all-around better
football, both offensively and defensively, if we are going to
have a shot at the conference crown. There are plenty of good
teams in this division and we are going to have to be ready every
week,” Szabo concluded.
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Following graduation from the Academy, Szabo served a 13month tour of duty in Vietnam and was named to the AllService football team with the Quantico Marines.
Szabo, who describes himself as a “very goal-oriented
person,” has set some goals for the future of Edinboro football.
First, he said he wants to produce a winning team starting with
the PSAC title, with long range hopes of a national champion
ship at the Division II level. Second, Szabo hopes to establish a
program which is meaningful to his players, and ensure that
above all they get an education. Third, Szabo hopes to create a
positive football atmosphere at Edinboro which will involve
the faculty, student body and the community. Finally, Szabo
said he would like to instill an attitude of pride and
togetherness within the team unit stressing, “a team program
will transcend any individual greatness.”
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Last spring, Steve Szabo became the tenth head football
coach in Edinboro University’s 55-year gridiron history.
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
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
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ATHLETIC STAFF
ASSOCIATE ATHLETIC DIRECTOR
DR. KATHLEEN LIPKOVICH
ASSISTANT TO THE
ATHLETIC DIRECTOR
HAROLD “HAL” UMBARGER
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 three years ago as assistant to the athletic director. He brings a
wealth of talent and experience to the administrative level of the
athletic program and plays a vital role in overseeing the academic
progress of student athletes as well as coordinating the on-going
functions of the athletic director’s office and the summer programs
which involve the department. The West Newton, Pa., native is a 1954
Slippery Rock University graduate and also owns his masters degree
from Penn State. After a three-year stint with the U.S. Army Security
Agency in Europe, he coached basketball and baseball at Moshannon
Valley (Pa.) High School before accepting a guidance position in the
West York Area School District in 1961. He became a member of
Edinboro’s admissions office a year later and in 1967 was named
director of admissions. During his tenure more than 40,000 students
were admitted to Edinboro University.
SPORTS INFORMATION AND
PROMOTIONS DIRECTOR
TODD V. JAY
TEAM TRAINER - GEORGE ROBERTS
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George M. Roberts of Titusville, Pa., is beginning his second year
as athletic trainer at Edinboro University.
A 1972 graduate of Titusville High 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, trainer, 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 four-year-old daughter,
Kristin.
Todd Jay begins his second year of publicizing Edinboro Univer
sity’s athletic program and assisting in sports promotion for the
Fighting Scots. A graduate of Clarion University of Pennsylvania,
Todd received a bachelor of science in education in 1982 and a master
of science in communications in May of 1985. The New Castle native
served as assistant to the sports information director at Clarion.
During the past year. Jay has written releases for 16 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.
"In pro football, you know the teams
and players so well that it’s much
easier to predict what’s going to
happen,’’ says Bob Goodrich, ABC’s
college football producer. 'College
football is faster. There’s more to keep
track of and less predictability. It’s
harder to get a handle on so many
teams and players. It makes it harder to
produce. ”
^ ■ So does a prolonged absence. Good
rich has spent the last six years proji;ducing America’s prime-time sports
I institution, otherwise known as "Mon[ „ day Night Football.” As part of the welllocumented Capital Cities shake-up at
Idle different challenge^
he ad®H^®rhe toughest adjustment i{
going to be working twice as hard t(
know the players and teams. You Cc
do a much better job producing agi
when you know the teams. A
times your success on isolated pla)
comes from luck. But you can increl
your odds considerably by knowing tl
teams and players."
Goodrich’s rival, Ric LaCivita, won’t
have to do as much homework for the
1986 season. LaCivita has spent Satur
day afternoons in the CBS truck since
P. -
Decisions on
vision screen u
continued
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TOUCHDOWN
TV PRODUCTION
the network started vying for college
football rating points in 1982. Before
that, ABC had the field to itself
During his tenure at ABC, LaCivita
worked for Chuck Howard, who pro
duced college football telecasts for
what seemed forever until Goodrich re
placed him. So LaCivita knows a thing
or two about what makes college foot
ball an entity unto itself
“The major difference between col
lege and pro football is emotion,”
LaCivita says. “Pro football is a job.
Sure, there’s some emotion in the
stands and on the field. But it’s nothing
like you see on Saturday afternoon.
College football is an emotional game.
That’s very apparent on the players’
faces. You can sense it all aroundyou—
the fans, the coaches, the cheerleaders.
It’s everywhere.”
So that’s how LaCivita, his director,
Joe Asceti, and the rest of the CBS crew
try to convey it. When LaCivita arrived
at CBS, the tendency was to shoot the
game as if it were the same as a pro
game. The premium was on high shots
from any of the three cameras in the
stadium—one on each 25-yard line and
one at midfield. In theory, that gave
viewers a better overall view of what
was happening.
In reality, LaCivita couldn’t stand it.
“In high shots you see only grass, ”
LaCivita contends. ‘That may be great
for the pros. But in college football you
want to see the colors and the back
ground and the stands. You want to see
the whole scene. You want to feel the
emotion. If you’re shooting down on
the field, there’s absolutely no
emotional impact.”
So LaCivita went down where the
action is. He went with wide shots to
show the whole arena. He went in as
tight as possible to let viewers know
that these players are actually human
beings, not machines. They really have
eyes and noses and mouths.
He also changed the composition of
CBS’ shots. In the pros, offense is where
it’s at. When it’s time for the actual play,
viewers see the quarterback, the
tailback and maybe three linemen. The
linebackers aren’t in the picture.
LaCivita didn’t like that view.
"In college football, I want to see the
defensive formation, ” LaCivita says.
"Once the play begins, I want to see
what the quarterback sees and has to
adjust to.”
Speaking of adjusting, these trips
were no stroll in the park. Trained on
NFL games, LaCivita’s crew had to be
weaned from believing that the high
shot was where it’s at. He also had to
overcome different personnel every
week. It took three years before he had
steady camera and technical crews
with him every week.
So what’s the big deal? A cameraperson is a cameraperson, right? Wrong. It
works the same way in the truck as on
the playing field. If Wayne Gretzky or
Larry Bird were getting new teammates
every week, how much of a chance
would they have of knowing what the
newcomers will do in a tough situation
in their first game? None. Is a senior
quarterback going to know how a fresh
man receiver will react to an audible?
He’ll have a much better idea in
November than in August.
And so it goes in the truck. The better
the crew knows each other and the
longer they’ve been together, the better
their chemistry. Knowing what the
director or production assistant or
technical engineer is going to do in a
particular situation without having to
think about it reduces significantly the
margin of error. The better the telecast
feels in the truck, the better it looks on
the screen. Let us not forget that while
technology may be wonderful, it still
takes humans to run it.
"The only reason I was able to switch
from high to low is because I trusted
the people I worked with and they
trusted me, ” LaCivita says. “ Now we’re
off the field about 45 to 50 percent ofthe
game. That may be a little less during an
important national game, like Michigan
playing Ohio State for the Big Ten
championship. But we rarely go off the
field less than 35 percent of the time.
"And when we say off the field, we
mean it. We want cheerleaders, crowds,
kids on the sideline, the band and any
thing else that helps convey the atmos
phere at the game. We want to make it
feel like college football.”
So does Goodrich, although at press
time he was unsure exactly what that
meant. ABC hasn’t exactly been unfeel
ing all these years, although it had
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TOUCHDOWN
pj'grown fat, sassy and happy when it had
I a monopoly. Since CBS came on the
ij^scene, ABC has gotten leaner and
' meaner. Goodrich plans to continue
' that trend.
I don’t know if that means adding
something new or not,” he says. ' VV'e
will have a different look. That may
mean a new camera or another piece of
new equipment. We re going to look at
evetydhing ABC owns and take apart
the operation from top to bottom.
"A good portion of what we’re going
to do has already been done because
we ll find that’s the best way to do it.
But if people say that’s how we’ve done
it in the past, I don’t want to hear it. If ■
we do something the same way, it'i
because we decided to do it that wi
We’re not locked into anything.”
Except possibly the weekly produ
tion schedule. With a few exceptions
ABC tries not to pick its Saturday gai
until the preceding Monday. P’or t!
games already announced, Goodrii
will telephone the home team’s sportj
information director (SID) totalkaboi
camera positions. He’ll use a stadiu
diagram to determine the exact loca-’
tions. If there’s a serious problem, he’ll
make a special trip to fix it. If he’s
merely not too thrilled with a location, ,
he’ll try to make a trade when he arrives,
at the game site.
The numbers and locations of the '
cameras vary with the stadium con
figuration. Some stadiums are too
narrow for a sideline cart camera, so
Goodrich will substitute two stationary
ones near the field. If there’s a lot of
passing expected, he’ll dump one hand
held camera and use a low fixed camera
behind the end zone and a minicamera
on the goal post.
If the game isn’t announced until
Monday, Goodrich calls the SID imme
diately afterwards. ’Hie^' have a long
talk about players, so that when Good
rich gets the rosters and works up the
three-deep position diagram he takes
into the truck, he can start thinking of
stories. He shares that information
with play-by-play man Keith Jackson
,and his partner, Tim Brant. And if
■’Goodrich has any specific requests,
.like having the Notre Dame band play
sthe fight song just as ABC comes on the
^air, he asks the SID about it on Monday.
If the band sa3's no, he goes to plan B.
“We disrupt things enough as is, with
changing dates and starting times, ” he
admits. ”We try to make it as easy as
possible. Besides, if I asked on Thufi
day. I’d never have a chance.”
After immersing himself in rosti
and three-deeps on Tlresday and Wei
TOUCHDOWN
a-'
nesday, Goodrich, director Larry
Kamm and their 35-person crew (40 by
the time they hire about half-a-dozen
locals to be runners, statisticians and
fulfill other assorted functions) arrive
Thursday at the gaine site. They visit
T
....... for each
. team.
the SIDs and the coaches
Friday morning they’re at the movies.
That afternoon they dp interviews and
go to practices (including the band’s).
Hey, you never know when the band’s
Play it again/Fony!
he play was hardly a big deal. It
i was just a rollout for a touchI down by Army quarterback
Rollie Stichweh in the 1963 Navy game.
They don’t come more bread-andbutter than that.
But this one happened twice. Not on
the field in Philadelphia, but on tele
vision sets across the country. When
CBS’ Tony Verna showed the play again,
who knew he’d started a way of life?
‘We re like Pavlov's dogs now, ” says
Bob Goodrich, ABC’s college football
producer. The man knows a thing or
two about replays, having overseen
their use in 'Monday Night Football”
before switching this year to the college
variety.
’’Actually, ‘repla^'’ is the wrong
name, ” contends CBS college football
producer Ric LaCivita. ‘We re really
talking about the ability' to tape. You’re
video taping the output of a camera
that has an angle you haven’t seen. If
you didn’t see the play the first time,
how can it be a replay?”
Well, whatever one wants to call it,
it’s so ingrained in fans that when they
come to the stadium, they’re looking
for it even when they know it’s not
there.
“We re conditioned to them,” Good
rich admits. “Eveiyone, including the
audience and the television crew, feels
cheated if there isn’t a replay. ”
And therein lies the danger. Replays
are so easy to do that the impulse is to
do them all the time. A three-yards-anda-cloud-of-dust run that doesn’t make
any difference in the game? Hey, great.
Let's see that one again. Maybe we can
get a slightly better angle on the tackle.
Even three different angles aren’t a
problem. There’s no technological
miracle here. An average replay begins
with Goodrich on the headset with the
tape operator of one of ABC’s four tape
machines. Goodrich tells his director,
Lany Kamm, to isolate camera one on
red jersey 63. Kamm relays that infor
mation to the camera operator. He then
stays with red 63 until the play is over.
Kamm then tells the technical director
to feed camera one to whichever tape
machine is being used for that particu
lar play. The technical director then
punches up the tape machine and it
appears on the screen. Goodrich con
trols the speed via an Interruptible
Feedback (IFB). He can stop it, reverse
it, or fast forward it.
LaCivita likens the process to using a
recorder at home.*.The sound is
recorded on the ed^e of the half-inch
magnesium oxide tape and the video is
recorded on the rest.
”I can’t imagine doiq^ a game with
out them, ” LaCivita . says. ’’But the
replay better be worth it. It better really
be able to clarify something.
“The ability to tape can do three
things: It can amplify or clarify; it can
document something on the field that
wasn’t seen because it was away from
the play; or it can create emotion
because it captures a reaction. If it
doesn’t do one of those things. I’m not
interested in putting it on the screen. ”
There is always the question ofwhen
to use a replay. Where the heart says go
one way, the head says go the other. On
a good day, the head rules.
"You’ve got to fight the tendency to
overuse it,” Goodrich fays. "The tech
nology is there and it’s so easy that the
tendency is to constantly replay. Too
many replays upsets the tempo, the
pace and^he announcers.”
And^rtie audience. Yes, replays are
wondArfiil. Yes, they show viewers
angles they wouldn’t otherwise see.
But they are playing a football game out
there, aren’t they?
"Joe (Asceti, ^he director) has no
problem restraining us on replays,”
LaCivita says. "We don’t even see the
technology. And I don’t subscribe to
the current theoiy that in big games
3'ou have to have more equipment. I’ve
come to realize that more is not neces
sarily better. And that certainly applies
to replays.”
“If you overuse it, it loses its mean
ing,” Goodrich agrees. "You definitely
tiy to hold the number down. I still
think an instant replay should be some
thing special. ”
It was the first time. Only Goodrich j
and LaCivita can decide whether it will
be this season.
—by WUUe Sehata
going to be in a play. Remember the
1982 Stanford-Cal game?
Goodrich and the crew get right
down to the real nitty-gritty on Friday
afternoon. They spend three hours
going over alt the technical aspects of
the production. They go through the
opening, the promos, the halftime and
postgame formats. Rosters are dis
cussed at length, with emphasis on
special teams and backups who might
make interesting isolation shots. The
reward for all this toil and trouble is a
reception that night.
Then it’s game day. Everyone’s in
their place three hours before kickoff
for a rough rehearsal, with the
emphasis on technical problems or
very complex segments that need a
great deal of input.
The game faces go on a half hour
before kickoff, when rehearsal ends.
That’s 20 minutes before LaCivita
and Asceti hit the truck. They spend
game week much the same way, al
though after four years in the business,
LaCivita doesn’t waste energy worrying
about camera positions.
"I don’t think there’s a stadium in the
country where I don’t know the camera
positions,” he says. Or a team for which
he doesn’t know the idiosyncracies of
the coach. If this is Michigan-Ohio State
week, then it means Bo Schembechler
doesn’t allow interviews after Tuesday.
So LaCivita arrives Sunday instead of
Thursday. It’s a hassle with a game that
Saturday before, but he does it to
maintain the relationship.
If it’s any other week, the crew arrives
Thursday and checks out the trucks,
the equipment and the home team.
Friday is the visiting team’s day. When
they ’re not interviewing, they’re watch
ing films.
After a production meeting Friday
afternoon, LaCivita and Asceti go to
dinner with play-by-play man Brent
Musburger and analyst Ara Parseghian.
They discuss each team’s strategy,
what story lines to follow and on which
players to isolate.
"I don’t want Brent to just call playby-play and I don’t want Ara to just
analyze,” LaCivita says. "I want them to
communicate with each other and
converse back and forth about the
environment they’re in.
"Ara’s made our whole coverage
better. He has this amazing ability to
know what to look for and know where
to be on a particular play. That makes
our isolations and replays a lot easier.”
On Saturday morning there’s a twohour technical check. The crew sets up
and shows Musburger and Parseghian
all the material so there are no
surprises when they get in the truck.
LaCivita talks to the coaches one last
time, getting last-minute information
on starters, wind direction and any
thing else he thinks will help the
telecast.
"This is where my relationship with
these guys is so important,” he
says. "They’ll discuss last minute
things with me that I’d never get other
wise. And I’d never be allowed into the
locker rooms if I hadn’t maintained the
relationship.”
Thirty minutes before kickoff,
LaCivita and Asceti walk the field and
soak up the atmosphere one last time.
Ten minutes before the game, the
crew’s in their places. Then the fun
starts.
“We take a lot of chances, ” LaCivita
cheerfully concedes. No lie. If you think
the guy plays it straight, remember the
Cotton Bowl. LaCivita certainly does.
While he had the cameras focused on
Texas A&M coach Jackie Sherrill, the
Aggies scored on the last play. Viewers
never saw it, either live or on tape.
"It was my fault and no one else’s, ”
LaCivita admits. "I was concentrating
on Sherrill because here was a highpriced guy who’d undergone a lot since
he came to A&.M and now he had come
all the way back. It wasn’t a game
winning touchdown. If it had been, we
never would have been in the Sherrill
mode. When I missed it, and we didn’t
have it on tape, I said I’m dead. I’m
burned.’
"It’s the most embarrassing thing I’ve
ever done, even if it was a meaningless
score. I feel for the people around me
and the Cotton Bowl. And I feel abso
lutely horrible because it was an
amateur mistake, and we don’t make
those. But it’s not going to change
the way I cover things. And I can’t wait
to get back to the Cotton Bowl because
I’m really going to give those people a
show.”
So is the almost-new kid in the truck.
”It’s going to be different, but I’m not
worried about anything,” Goodrich
says. "It’s going to be a lot of fun. Is our
new look going to work? I don’t know.
Ask me halfway through.”
Not to worry. Viewers will give him
the answer.
TOUCHDOWN
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MOSES, UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME
An 18-foot-high bronze statue of Moses dominates the west lawn of the University
of Notre Dame s 14-story Memorial Library. Some students, in periods ofirreverence,
have called it the “We re Number One” statue because of the single finger pointing
skyward.
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The statue was a dream of famed Creation artist Ivan Mestrovic,who completed
early drawings before his death at Notre Dame in 1962. It was completed by Joseph
Turkalj, a student of Mestrovic and a fellow refugee from war-torn Yugoslavia. In an
erroneous translation of Scripture in early days, scholars had Moses coming off the
mountain with horns rather than a ring of fire around his head. Turkalj followed the
old artistic tradition.
CAPSTONE, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
Capstone House, an 18-stoiy high-rise, is a well-known landmark in Columbia.
Since 1968 ft Capstone has provided a variety of services to the University and the
city as a dormitory, dining hall and conference center. Capstone’s
revolving restaurant. Top of Carolina, is the only known campus
installation of its kind in the world and offers a spectacular view
of historic Columbia and the University campus.
Capstone houses over 500 women residents during the aca
demic year and operates as a conference housing facility during
summer months, offering accommodations for cheerleading
camps, professional associations, sport groups
and educational affiliates.
LEADER OF THE PACK, TEXAS A&I UNIVERSITY
Leader of the Pack,” a bronze statue, was
dedicated on the Texas A&I University cam
pus last spring and pays tribute to the
school’s mascot, the javelina. Texas
A&I is the only college in the nation
with the javelina as a mascot.
The sculpture was created by Armando
Hinojosa of Laredo, Texas, a Texas
A&I graduate and one of the South
west’s most noted artists. The work de
picts two javelinas in a natural
South Texas setting and it symboli
cally represents the leadership
qualities of the Texas A&I grad
uates and university community
since the founding of the school
in 1925.
In the background is the Texas
A&I administration building,
which like all of the structures on
campus is Spanish in style with
buff brick and a red tile roof
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m t the time; Bariy Sviitzer thought he was doing
/^the right thing. But that didn’t make it any
easier. \o matter how much it gnawed at his
gutS; Switzer was determined this particular
decision would be made with his head rather than
his heart.
The Oklahoma Sooner football coach was going
to bid farewell to an old and trusted friend. It was a
practical matter; he insisted. Emotions couldn’t
enter into it;
So; out on the Norman plains; it was goodbye
Wishbone; hello I-formation.
Ulth the benefit of 20/20 hindsight; Barry Switzer
says now: ”It was probably a mistake.”
Well; eveiyone’s entitled to them; even; occasion
ally; football coaches. It didn’t take Switzer long to
see the error of his ways.
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TOUCHDOWN
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continued
Switzer scrapped his beloved Wish
bone and went to the "I” in 1982 for sev
eral reasons, two in particular. His
quarterback, Kelly Phelps, wasn’t a
triple-option whiz like previous Sooner
quarterbacks, such as J.C. Watts and
Thomas Lott. And OU wasn't blessed
with an overabundance of the quick
silver, waterbug running backs who
knew when to zig when a defender
zagged.
The Sooners’ budding star that
3'ear was a freshman named Marcus
Dupree, who was big, fast and born to
be an I-formation deep back.
But Dupree, for a number of rea
sons, never panned out for the Soon
ers. And in 1984 Switzer, in effect, said
the heck with the I-formation. He was
gonna go back and dance with the one
that brung him.
"The Wishbone controls the ball
because of the great rushing game, ” he
said. "It’s the greatest rushing game
ever designed.”
With the benefit of hindsight again,
that was the best thing Switzer could
have done. Last 3^ear his Sooners, with
the aid of a freshman magician of a
quarterback named Jamelle Holieway
(and a devastating defense), won them
selves a national championship.
The Wishbone wasn "t the only reason
Oklahoma finished as No. 1. But it was a
big one.
It s a great offense,” Switzer said.
"It’s basic, it’s sound and it works. ”
In its heyday, the late 1960s and early
1970s, the Wishbone could be found on
college campuses big and small across
the country. A survey conducted by the
NCAA in 1974 indicated 15 major col
leges planned to use the Bone that sea
son, while another 39 teams employed
some type of triple-option attack.
The numbers aren’t nearly as high
anymore. No exact figures are available,
but you probably can count on both
hands the number of teams that will be
Wishboning it this fall. But an extraor
dinarily high percentage of teams that
used it last season experienced great
success, five of them going to bowl
games and four of them winning.
• Oklahoma clinched the national
title by defeating Penn State in the
Orange Bowl, 25-10.
• Arkansas defeated Arizona State in
the Holiday Bowl, 18-17.
TOUCHDOWN
Air Force used their version ot the Wishbone—the Flexbone—to compile a 12-1 mark In 1985
• Colorado lost to Washington in the
Freedom Bowl, 20-17.
• Army defeated Illinois in the Peach
Bowl, 31-29.
• Air Force defeated Texas in the
Bluebonnet Bowl, 24-16.
The Falcons’ victoiy over the Long
horns was ironic, because the Wish
bone was born in Austin in 1968.
Although variations of it had come
and gone over the previous couple of
decades, the Wishbone was the brain
child of Emor>' Bellard, Texas coach
Darrell Royal’s offensive coordinator.
Let history show the fabled forma
tion made its debut against the Hous
ton Cougars on the night of Sept. 21,
1968, at Memorial Stadium in Austin.
Along with its basic I-formation attack,
the Longhorns mixed in a weird
looking three-back alignment. The full
back was a couple of steps behind the
quarterback, and was flanked by two
halfbacks a step behind him.
The result was a 20-20 tie. The next
week, in Lubbock, a monumentally un
impressed Texas Tech team spanked
Texas, 31-22, and the Wishbone’s career
record was 0-1-1.
In the second half against Tech,
Royal inserted a cocky, relatively un
known fellow named James Street at
quarterback. Street couldn’t bring the
Horns back in that one, but he would
never lose another college game. Texas
Wishboned its way to 20 straight victo
ries under Street, including a national
championship in 1969 with a 21-17 Cot
ton Bowl victory over Notre Dame.
In the Cotton Bowl the year before,
the Wishbone became nationally prom
inent. Rallying from that 0-1-1 start to
win its remaining games, Texas de
stroyed Te?nnessee, 36-13, in the New
Year’s Day bowl in Dallas.
Folks in the coaching fraternity were
impressed, so much so that they made
what amounted to a pilgrimage to
Austin the next spring to sit at the feet
of the masters. Royal and Bellard, to
learn the X’s and O’s.
”It fouled up spring practice, ” Royal
would recall years later. "There were
so many coaches visiting that you
couldn’t move around. People were
phoning all the time. ”
One of them. Royal said, was Duffy
Daugherty at Michigan State, who tin
kered with the Wishbone for a few
weeks in 1969.
“He kept calling and asking things
about it and telling me things he was
doing with it,” Royal said in a 1974
article in Te^as Football magazine. "Fi
nally, I told him, Duffy, yqu don’t want
my formation, you want my fullback.
And you can’t have him__ ”
continued
THE WINNER’S CIRCLE.
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To save time, Royal and Bellard even
tually put together an instructional
film, which Royal narrated. "We had to
do it," Royal said. "We were just so over
whelmed with questions. You’d get a
letter with a two-line question, and
you’d have to write a book to answer it.”
Another historical footnote: The
Wishbone got its name the night
of Oct. 19, 1968, in the legendary
Room 2001 of the Villa Capri Motor
Hotel in Austin, where Royal and
sportswriters often gathered after
Texas games for fun and fellowship.
Following the Longhorns’ 39-29 vic
tory over Arkansas, Mickey Herskowitz
of the Houston Post chided Royal for
not coming up with a catchy name for
the offense, which UT coaches were
content to call the Y-formation.
"I remember he said, ‘Gee, Coach,
that isn’t a veiy original name,’ ”
Royal said in 1974. "‘How about the
Wishbone T?’’’
Herskowitz later confirmed that was
just about the way it happened. ‘That
sounds right, ” he would say. "I’m quite
capable of saying something like. Gee,
Coach.’’’
Its name established, the Wishbone
took the country by storm. Among
those interested in it was ayoung offen
sive coordinator at Oklahoma named
Switzer. His boss, head coach Chuck
Fairbanks, ordered him to install it for
the 1970 season.
The previous two years, while their
archrivals from Austin were racing to
9-1-1 and 11-0 records, the Sooners
were struggling to so-so records—for
them—of 7-4 and 6-4.
Fairbanks decided it was time
for the Wishbone to make its way
to Norman. Switzer visited several
schools using it, studied films of
Oklahoma’s previous two games with
Texas and, finally, went straight to the
source, calling up Bellard.
Bellard, who would later take the
Wishbone with him as head coach at
Mississippi State, figured it would be
wise to get permission from Royal to
talk with Switzer, since Texas and Okla
homa had never been, and probably
never will be, bosom buddies.
Royal gave the O.K. 'I have to admit
I thought at the time it was a pretty
strange thing to do,” Bellard would
say later.
Oklahoma City sportswriter Al
Carter, now with the Houston Chron
icle, once described Royal’s decision
as, "... like telling the Germans what
day and what beach. ”
The Sooners said thanks and never
looked back. In 1971 quarterback Jack
Mildren and halfback Greg Pruitt led an
assault that accounted for 472.4 rush
ing yards per game, 44.5 points a game
and 56 rushing touchdowns.
The options of the Wishbone: the quarterback can handoffto the fullback, keep the ball and run off
orp/fc/i the ball to the trailing halfback. Sprlnt-out passes can also be thrown from
the Wishbone, using the options as play action to freeze the defenders.
• • • PITCHOUT
TOUCHDOWN
FAKEOR HANDOFF
ALTERNATE ROUTE
Eventually, however, the Wishbone
became something of a dinosaur. Its
passing capabilities were limited,
coaches decided. It was not a good
come-ffom-behind offense.
Also, its best strength was its biggest
weakness. Each option available to the
quarterback was just another chance to
leave the ball on the ground.
Teams began going to the “I,” or if
they had a strong-armed quarterback, a
pro-style passing attack. Most option
teams stuck with the Veer, which was
invented by another Texan, Houston’s
Bill Yeoman.
But some coaches decided there
were things you could do from the
Wishbone you couldn’t, do from the
other alignments. Its l^ck of an aerial
threat, for example, could be alleviated
by substituting a flanker or split end for
the tight end.
It also was looked upon as a finesse
offense that relied more on brains than
brawn. And that appealed to Ken Hat
field, the head coach at the Air Force
Academy, where the Falcons seldom
matched up physically with their larger
opponents. Hatfield brought in Fisher
DeBerry to install the Bone.
"People thought I was crazy,” Hat
field recalled. "Three different times,
my athletic director [John Clune] stuck
his head in my office and asked. Are
you really sure you want to do this?”
Hatfield was so sure he took the of
fense—he calls it the Flexbone—^with
him when he returned to his alma
mater, Arkansas, as head coach. And
DeBerry,^ elevated to the head spot at
Air Foihe, used it to guide the Falcons
to a 12-1 season in 1985 and won na
tional Coach-of-the-Year honors.
"It’s an offense ideally suited for us
because once you understand it, you
don’t have to change it much,” DeBerry
said. "And you don’t have to have real
big, physical people to make it work. ”
It’s also more flexible than it origi
nally was, DeBerry added. “There are
variations off of it. There are a lot of dif
ferent ways you can skin a cat with it. ”
DeBerry has a theory why more
teams aren’t using the Wishbone.
“It takes time and patience to install
it and understand it, ” he said. "That’s
why a lot of people don’t want to mess
with it.”
But many of those who do have been
richly rewarded. For confirmation,
check with one B. Switzer in Norman,
Okla. He’ll be glad to offer a testimonial
straight from the heart.
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erhaps legendaiy Michigan State
coach Duffy Daugherfy ex
plained the plight of college
football defenses as well as anyone.
"The ideal defense is a unit of 12
men,” the Hall of Fame leader and
humorist told a group of fellow coaches.
"With an extra man, you can be sure of
covering all the running lanes and all
the passing zones.
"However, until the rules committee
legalizes the extra man, you’ll have to
continue formulating defenses that
match strength for strength and adjust
for weakness.”
That’s the challenge defenses have
faced ever since football began, and
despite greater sophistication and
bigger, faster players, it’s still the case.
Modern football is actually played on
two levels. Fans see and hear the physi
cal side, half ballet and half brute force.
But few notice the 22-man chess match,
with moves being called from the side
lines and the press box.
This is where 270-pound pawns
capture runaway knights and check
pass-happy kings. All the while,
coaches are thinking several moves
ahead, seeking every advantage there is
on the board.
Inherently, every defense is faced
with two major disadvantages. It
doesn’t know when the ball will be
snapped, and it doesn’t know the point
of attack.
continued
TOUCHDOWN
A LESSON IN DEFENSE
The 4-3 defense features four defensive linemen (two ends and two
tackles) and three linebackers.
Yet, football history shows that
defenses have found the proper X for
every offensive O. Sometimes, the
crucial adjustment has taken some
time to uncover, but each offensive for
mation has eventually met its strategic
match.
“We can stop any play if we practice
against it enough,” said Michigan
coach Bo Schembechler. "There is no
football play that cannot be stopped. I
respect an opponent that has a super
play that has been successful for them.
We want a stunt to stick a knife into that
pi^y”
Indeed, teams win more often when
they align 11 defenders to take away
what the opposition does best. Few
schools ever run and pass with equal
ease and efficiency. Great defenses
know that and try to disrupt an attack’s
preferred pattern.
Over the years, two distinctly differ
ent defenses have evolved to do just
that—the 3-4 set (often called the ‘52 ”)
and the 4-3, with an extra down
lineman and only one inside linebacker.
Both have been refined to battle the
same offensive problems. In fact,
according to ex-Oklahoma coach Bud
Wilkinson, another Hall of Famer, all
defensive thinking has developed as a
counter to the 11 formations that have
shaped modern offense.
They are: 1) the Single-Wing, 2) the
Notre Dame Box, 3) the Double-Wing, 4)
the Short Punt, 5) the T, 6) the Split-T, 7)
the Veer, 8) the Wishbone, 9) the I, 10)
the Pro-Set and 11) the Multiple WideReceiver Set.
Option-type running games and
read-oriented passing attacks are now
in vogue as the dominant offensive
styles. Both frustrate defenses through
the same principle—by quickly chang
ing the point of attack after the ball is
snapped.
But aggressive, attacking defenses
can just as quickly change an entire
offensive game plan. By shifting, stunt
TOUCHDOWN
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Inc. All rights reserved.
The 3-4 defense fea tures three defensive linemen (a noseguard In the
middle, flanked by two tackles) and four linebackers.
ing and blitzing, swarming tacklers tiy
to force an attack toward its weak
ness—and every offense has one.
Much of that thinking is sheer com
mon-sense survival instinct. If a team is
playing Brigham Young or San Diego
State, it had better develop pass cover
age skills. And if its schedule includes
Oklahoma and Nebraska, its run sup
port should double-check all chinstraps.
The problem there is primarily one of
execution. A team can’t possibly hope
to customize its entire defense each
week. The answer is a flexible, adapt
able system that requires only minor
adjustments—a system that considers
defensive limitations as well as offen
sive desires.
"Everyone says your defense has to
be sound and simple,’’ Iowa coach
Hayden Fry said. “Who makes the defi
nition ofwhat sound and simple is? You
have to do what it takes to win with
what you have to do it with. Ifyou don’t,
you aren’t going to be coaching very
long. ”
Unemployment is never the object,
so ground-bound teams will usually
find eight or nine tacklers bunched
near the line of scrimmage, and passing
schools will see five or six defensive
backs in more than just long-yardage
situations.
Liberalized blocking rules and im
proved passing have all but eliminated
traditional defenses like the split-6 and
4-4, with their three-man secondaries.
If a team can’t protect against the pass
in the 1980s, it usually means too much
action for its extra-point defense.
Perhaps that’s why the 3-4 and 4-3
both employ a four-man secondary.
When a lineman misses a tackle, it’s
frequently a few extra yards. But when
someone gets free in the secondary, it
can lead to six points.
That awareness is seen in the four
major goals of most defenses: prevent
ing the long run or pass, getting down
right stingy close to the goal line, help
ing the offense start with ,^ood field
position, and making big plays and
forcing turnovers.
Again, there’s a difference in theory
between those who favor the reading,
reacting defense and those who like an
aggressive approach that’s committed
to making things happen.
“I don’t want the kamikaze pilot who
flew 54 different missions,’’ new Notre
Dame coach Lou Holtz said. “There is a
difference between being involved and
being committed. You’ve heard about
the chicken and the pig. When it comes
to bacon and eggs, one is involved and
one is committed. ”
Most teams are committed to one
alignment and recruit to its distinct
position requirements. But few
prospects have, every desired quality,
and most teams have to prioritize
size, speed, toughness, quickness and
intelligence.
In the 3-4, the tendency is toward
lighter, cjpfcker players who can slant,
stunt and pursue to the ball. With a
noseguard over the center and two
tackles over the offensive tackles, the
standard “odd” defense leaves both
guards uncovered.
That gives two inside linebackers a
chance to react before the guards can
reach them. But it also creates what
coaches call “bubbles,” soft spots
where power plays have a built-in
advantage.
The 3-4 offers excellent pass cover
age, with four linebackers dropping
into zones or helping to double-cover
receivers. The big problem comes in
rushing the passer, unless blitzing
gambles pay off.
“In theory, it’s OK against the run,”
Washington coach Don James said.
“But when we play an opponent that
throws the ball real well, we just can’t
get through to the quarterback with
three men.
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“There’s only one bubble with the
4-3, and we can cover for that with
stunts, ” said Michigan State’s George
Perles, designer of the great Steeler
defenses. “We want to cover every gap,
and by angling a tackle and stacking the
middle linebacker, he should be free to
move to the ball. ”
The 4-3 often offers a better pass rush
but only allows seven men to drop off
for coverage, leaving more seams in
zones and a bit less double-coverage
opportunity.
Both defenses use two outside line
backers, a “Sam ” or strongside backer
over the tight end and a “Will ” or weakside backer to the split-end side of the
formation.
“It seems like everyone in college
football today wants to play linebacker,’’
Wisconsin coach Jim Hilles said. “They
want to major in business and play
linebacker. We used to call our outside
linebackers ends, but now they are
linebackers.”
The last line of defense in both
systems is a pair of cornerbacks, a
Um
‘‘We’ve gone to schemes that get us
into an even’ defense [with an extra
lineman and the center uncovered].
But I think the odd’ scheme, the old
‘50’ or ‘Oklahoma’ or whatever you
want to call it, is still a very sound
defense to play against the run. ”
Some insist the 4-3 or “even align
ment ” is sounder. It’s often called the
“pro” defense, though many teams
have switched to the 3-4. And there’s no
comparison between the Stunt 4-3 ”
used in four Pittsburgh Super Bowl
victories and the “46“ defense Chicago
used to smash opponents last fall.
But the standard 4-3 has two tackles
opposite the offensive guards and a
pair of ends aligned to their outside.
The middle linebacker is responsible
for making a large share of the tackles,
and great care is taken to assure that
he’s unblocked.
Cornerbacks must have the courage to take on offensive linemen and the speed to cover
receivers one-on-one.
TOUCHDOWN
strong safety and a free safety. We re
talking about players with the courage
to take on a pulling guard and break up
the blocking, then fly 50 yards with a 9.4
sprinter the following down.
The cornerbacks, usually two of the
team’s best athletes, are responsible for
wide receivers in man coverage and
sideline areas or deep-thirds of the
field in zone work.
The strong safety—also known as a
rover, monster, wolf, chief, hammer or
hero at some schools—takes the tight
end in most man coverages and a deep
third in “rotate” coverage or a short
sideline in standard “ invert ” work.
The free safety usually lines up far
thest from the line of scripimage and
plan's a deep center field on zones. On
man coverage, he’ll often,be involved in
double-coverage.
For most teams, coverage options
change considerably fn special situa
tions. No defense in the country stays
with its basic look on third-and-28 at
midfield with a minute to go or with
fourth-and-goal at the one-yard line.
Teams frequently use “ nickel ” for
mations, with five defensive backs, or
“ dime” looks, with six DBs, in prevent
situations. Michigan has had great suc
cess with six-man secondaries and
fewer linebackers for entire games
against passing teams like Purdue.
Near the goal line, most teams substi
tute bigger people and play six-, sevenor even eight-man lines. Pass coverage
is almost always man-to-man, with
offenses often “ picking ” defenders—an
illegal move, if spotted by the officials —
with crossing patterns and moving
screens. ^ '
Despjite all the scheming, the out
come is seldom settled on a chalkboard.
The winner is determined on a 360-by160-foot playing field, with constantly
varying conditions. And it’s decided by
human beings, finely tuned athletes
with physical and psychological highs
and lows.
As former Ohio State coaching great
Woody Hayes insisted, “You win with
people.” Perhaps that’s shown by the
ebb and flow of offensive and defensive
superiority and by the determination of
defensive players through the decades.
"Before the season, our Sam line
backer was asked what he thought
about being called “Junkyard Dogs,”’
Georgia coach Vince Dooley said of the
team’s defensive nickname. “He
answered, “It’s a lot better than some of
the things they called us last year.’ ”
When all 11 defenders do their job
just the way it has been designed,
sometimes they’re called something
else—champions.
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CAREER STATISTICAL LEADERS
Total Offense Career Yards
Player, Team
Years
Doug Flutie, Boston College . . .............. 1981-84
Brian McClure, Bowling Green .............. 1982-85
Jim McMahon, Brigham Young.. .. 1977-78. '80-81
John Elway, Stanford..............
Ben Bennett. Duke
Chuck Long, Iowa .. ,
Steve Young, Brigham Young
.............. 1981-83
Mark Herrmann. Purdue
.............. 1977-80
Robbie Bosco, Brigham Young .. .............. 1983-85
Randall Cunninaham. UNI V
.............. 1982-84
Career Receptions
Plays
1558
1630
1325
1505
1582
1411
1177
1354
1158
1330
Yards
11.317
9774
9723
9070
9061
9034
8817
8444
8299
8224
Years
Plays
Yards
1973-76
1976-79
1074
1023
994
845
902
668
918
893
860
847
6082
5598
5259
5177
4958
4780
4715
4682
4602
4582
Avg.
7 26
6.00
7 34
6 03
5.73
6.40
7 49
6 24
7 17
6.18
Player, Team
Years
Howard Twilley, Tulsa
........ 1963-65
David Williams, Illinois........
Darrin Nelson. Stanford ..
1977-78. '80-81
Ron Sellers. Florida St..
........ 1966-68
Keith Edwards,Vanderbilt ...
... 1980, '82-84
Gerald Harp, Western Carolina ........ 1977-80
Jeff Champine. Colorado St . ........ 1980-83
Phil Odie, Brigham Young ..
........ 1965-67
Tim Delaney, San Diego St. .
........ 1968-70
Walter Murray. Hawaii..
........ 1982-85
Rick Beasley. Appalachian St. . . ........ 1978-80
Gordon Hudson, Brigham Young
1980-83
Rushing Career Yards
Player, Team
Tony Dorsett, Pittsburgh .. .
.....................
Charles White, Southern Cal ... ....................
Herschel Walker, Georgia ...
Archie Griffin, Ohio St ..
George Rogers, So. Carolina... .....................
Mike Rozier. Nebraska . .
Ed Marinaro. Cornell ..
Marcus Allen, Southern Cal. ..
Ted Brown, No, Carolina St. .. ....................
Terry Miller. Oklahoma St.........
1977-80
1975-78
Catches Yards
261
3343
245 3195
214 2368
212 3598
1757
200
197 3305
184 2811
183 '2548
180 ■ 2535
178 ' 2865
178 3124
178 2484
Avg.
12.8
13.0
11.1
17.0
8.8
16.8
15.3
13.9
14.1
16.1
17.6
14.0
TD
32
22
16
23
3
26
21
25
22
20
23
22
Career Field Goals
5 66
5 47
5 29
6 13
5 50
7 16
5.14
5 24
5 35
5.41
Player, Team
John Lee. UCLA ....
Luis Zendejas. Arizona St ..
Kevin Butler, Georgia ...
Max Zendejas, Arizona ... .
Fuad Reveiz, Tennessee..........
Larry Roach, Oklahoma St___
Paul Woodside, West Virginia
Jeff Jaeger, Washington............
Jess Atkinson, Maryland . .
Obed Ariri, Clemson ........
...
1981-84
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1982-85
1981-84
1981-84
1981-84
1983-85
1981-84
1977-80
Total
79-92
78-105
77-98
77-104
71-95
68-101
65-81
63-78
60-82
60-92
Pet.
.859
.743
.786
.740
.747
.673
.802
.808
.732
.652
Long
52
55
60
57
60
56
55
52
50
57
Career Scoring
Passing Career Yards
Player, Team
Years
Att. Cmp. Pet. Yards TD
Doug Flutie. Boston College .................. 1981-84 1270
677 .533 10.579 67
Brian McClure, Bowling Green.......... 1982-85 1427
900 . 631 10.280 63
Ben Bennett. Duke..................................... 1980-83 1375
820 .596 9614 53
Jim McMahon, BrigharTi Young 1977-78, '80-81 1060
653 .616 9536 84
John Elway, Stanford............................... 1979-82 1246
774 .621
9349 77
Chuck Long, Iowa..................................... 1981-85 1072
692 . 646 9210 64
Mark Herrmann, Purdue............................ 1977-80 1218
717 .589 9188 62
Joe Adams, Tennessee St......................... 1977-80 1100
604 . 54 9 8649 81
Robbie Bosco, Brigham Young............ 1983-85 997
638 . 64 0 8400 66
Kevin Sweeney, Fresno St........................ 1982-85 1052
571 .54 3 8260 51
Years
Player, Team
Luis Zendejas, Arizona St.
Tony Dorsett, Pittsburgh .
Glenn Davis. Army ......
John Lee, UCLA................
Max Zendejas, Arizona...
Kevin Butler, Georgia....
Art Luppino, Arizona ....
Steve Owens, Oklahoma .
Wilford White, Arizona St.
Allen Pinkett, Notre Dame
Years
1981-84
1973-76
194:^-46
iaS2-85
1982-85
1981-84
1953-56
1967-69
1947-50
1982-85
TD
0
59
59
0
0
0
48
56
48
53
XPT
134
2
0
116
122
122
49
0
27
2
FG
78
0
0
79
77
77
0
0
4
0
Pts.
368
356
354
353
353
353
337
336
327
320
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THE GAME MUST GO ON
byAl Browning, The Knoxville News~Sentinel
eople like to talk about weather.
No doubt, that is the most fre
quent topic of conversation for
strangers attempting to break the ice
after an introduction. So, it is not shock
ing that numerous people have stories
about college football games played
under far from ideal conditions.
From rain to snow and ice.
From hot to cold.
From wind to fog.
And so on—weather or not, the
game goes on.
It is true. Not even inclement weather
can keep the young men of fall folly
from making their appointed rounds.
"I read the other day where the
Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies
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had a baseball game postponed be
cause of cold weather,” said former
Notre Dame center Dave Huffman. “I
was amused by that.”
Huffman had reason to be.
In 1979 Notre Dame and Houston
played in a Cotton Bowl game that was
dubbed "The Ice Bowl” by people brave
enough to watch it in person. That the
Fighting Irish won, 35-34, when Dallas
native Joe Unis kicked an extra point
after time had expired, is not as im
portant as players surviving the
formidable chill.
“I knew it was bad when I looked up
in the stands and could pick out my
family,” Huffman said about the 20degree weather made much worse by
patches of ice on the playing field and a
17-mph wind. 'T even saw my father
wave goodbye to me as he left the
stadium. It had to be bad for him to
walk away from a game.
“Before the game, they used heli
copters and an ice-smoothing machine
on the field. I walked out there and
said, ‘Hey, what is this, ice hockey?This
is the wrong sport. ’ I was kind of hoping
they would tell us to come back the
next day and get into it then.
"But the football players sort of enjoy
the macho image.”
Notre Dame did come back that day,
in another way—on the scoreboard.
Houston led, 34-12, before the Fighting
continued
TOUCHDOWN
WEATHER OR NOT
continued
Irish quarterback Joe Montana shook
off the effects of the chill to lead the
rally. After sipping soup during the
third quarter to get his body back into
working order, he passed to flanker
Chris Haines for a game-tying touch
down as time expired.
“Then,” said Huffman, “my brother,
Tim, who played guard, jumped before
the snap on the extra-point kick [by
Unis]. I remember a look of terror on
Unis’ face when we huddled before a
second decisive kick after the offsides
penalty. He said, 'I might not be able to
get the football up there again. I hurt
my foot on the first one. It must be
frozen or something.’ ’’
To say Unis iced a dramatic victory is
an understatement.
Fog?
Yes, the home of the Louisiana State
Bengal Tigers can become strange in
the fog.
Florida State coach Bobby Bowden
discovered that about Tiger Stadium in
1982. His Seminoles lost, 55-21, in one of
the weirder games in history.
Early in the fourth quarter, a heavy
fog appeared in the stadium. Fans
could barely see the players on the
field.
"I remember standing there in amaze
ment, ” Bowden said. "I turned to an
assistant coach and said. Look at it.
Can you believe it?’ It was the first time
I’d seen fog like that at eye level.
'But, being honest, I don’t think the
fog affected the game that night. I was
sort of glad to see it, since we were
beaten so badly. I didn’t want fans to
see what was going on. ”
He almost got his wish, according to
Jimmy Hyams, who at that time was a
sportswriter for The Baton Rouge
Morning Advocate.
“It was eerie,’’ Hyams said. “The fog
rolled in over the south end zone. It
reminded me of the movie The Ten
Commandments.’ A smoke-like screen
hovered over the stadium, then came
down onto the field.
"You could barely see the players.
You lost sight of the ball on passes. You
wondered how the receivers could
possibly see it.
“A berth in the Orange Bowl was at
stake. Fans started throwing oranges
late in the game, hitting players, which
prompted John Adams of our staff to
write. You couldn’t see the fog for the
oranges.’ There were thousands of
oranges on the field at the end of the
game.
"But, because the fog was so bad, all
you could see from the press box was
the top of the goal posts.”
There are times when inclement
weather can lead to grand perfor
mances. It was the case in 1932, when
TOUCHDOWN
Alabama and Tennessee played in
Birmingham.
It rained so hard, with agustingwind
adding misery on an unseasonably
cold day, that both teams frequently
punted on first and second downs.
Enter Beattie Feathers of Tennessee
and John Cain of Alabama. The former
punted 21 times for a 48-yard average,
with one kick traveling a meager 18
yards. The latter punted 19 times for a
43-yard average.
An 11-yard punt by Cain set up the
only touchdown.
Fans like the late William deShazo
marveled: "Those boys kicked the ball
like demons. It was the only game I
could remember attending when my
shoes were filled with water. Mud was
ankle deep on the playing field.”
Said the late Tennessee coach, Gen.
Bob Neyland, whose team claimed a
dramatic 7-3 victory: "Never will I
witness another magnificent kicking
performance like that. ”
The equipment used that afternoon
adds to the greatness of what Feathers
and Cain did. In that era of college
football, inclement weather gear, such
as raincoats and extra uniforms, was
not available.
The high-top shoes and thick cotton
pants the punters wore became soggy
and heavy. The officials did not change
footballs, leaving Feathers and Cain
a water-logged, mud-coated toy to play
with.
Vendors sold makeshift raincoats,
cape-like and made of oil paper. They
sold out, at 50 cents each, in 10
minutes. Some of the 20,000 fans cut
holes in coats, put them over their
heads and peered through them. That
night, the laundry clerk at the Thomas
Jefferson Hotel refused to take suits
because he had more than 300 waiting
to be cleaned.
Many Tennessee fans did not mind.
They were dropping feathers from their
pillows from hotel windows to cele
brate their victory.
What did it prove? That neither hell
nor high water can keep Tennessee and
Alabama from putting on a show on the
third Saturday in October.
Thoughts of Alabama bring to mind
remembrances of the late Paul " Bear "
Bryant. A self-pronounced plowhand
from Arkansas, he worked in sweltering
heat, but also toiled in ice and snow.
In 1950 and 1952, when Bryant
coached at Kentucky, he took cham
pionship-caliber teams to Knoxville to
play Tennessee and left dismayed.
After a 7-0 loss in 1950, when thegame
was played after an unseasonable ice
storm in eight-degree temperatures, he
and the Kentucky players could not
leave town. The train they used was
frozen to the track.
In 1952, after 18.4 inches of snow fell
in Knoxville two days before the game,
Bryant had to deal with more misery
than that created by a 14-14 tie
on the field.
""We got back to Lexington that
night,” Bryant said, "but my car was
covered with snow and the roads were
iced over. I had to walk home, taking a
shortcut through heavy woods. It was a
long walk, to say the least.”
Snow got the best of Bryant in 1959,
too, when he took Alabama to Phila
delphia to play Penn State in the first
Liberty Bowl. It was at halftime during
that Nittany Lions’ victory that the
coach developed a story that he used
many times.
"My players were country boys from
Dixie who had never seen snow,”
Bryant said. ""The field was covered that
afternoon, the wind was blowing at
about 40 mph and everybody from
Alabama was miserable.
""At halftime, my players huddled
around a potbellied stove like puppies
around their mom. They were shiver
ing. I was at a loss for words. Finally,
I asked for volunteers to play the
second half.
""Not a^player raised his hand. It was
an ugly sight. But who could blame
them? Their coach was freezing with
them. ”
Snowy days in Philadelphia are not
unusual. Nor are they a surprise in
Wyoming, where the football-playing
Cowboys have learned strange weather
works both ways.
In 1982 a snowstorm in Laramie held
up the kickoff 90 minutes for a game
between homestanding Wyoming and
San Diego State. The visitors stayed the
night before in Cheyenne, 50 miles
away, and their bus could not get to the
stadium through Summit Pass, the
normal route into Laramie.
San Diego State rode into town ""the
back way,” through Fort Collins, Colo.,
then won, 24-21.
Wyoming is used to bitter cold or
pleasingly cool weather working to its
advantage. In 1981, after trailing, 14-0,
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weather the rest of the way; has suf
fered in heat while traveling. That is
another weather woe often associated
with intersectional scheduling.
In 1973 the Cowboys went to Arizona
State and lost, 47-0, in 97-degree heat.
In 1981, after leading at Oklahoma in
the fourth quarter, the Cowboys lost,
37-20, in 94-degree temperatures.
No wonder Southern Cal transported
air conditioners across the nation a few
years ago when playing at hot and
humid Florida.
No wonder Pittsburgh was pleased to
see a cooling rainstorm in 1982 after
suffering for a half in the heat against
Florida State. The Seminoles had a sur
prise planned that backfired. They put
in an option-oriented offense for the
game, only to find the playing field too
wet to use it in the second half.
"We had Dan Marino and his pads in a
perfect trap,” said Bowden, "the boys
trom up north in the sweltering heat.
Then the rain came and the temper
ature dropped 15 degrees. We had to
idle down the offense, too, which
definitely worked to their advantage.”
Wyoming discovered in 1983 that
storms of another kind can be hard to
deal with. When it rains in Southern
California, which is rarely, it pours. The
Cowboys defeated San Diego, 33-21, in
1983, after the playing field at Jack
Murphy Stadium in San Diego became
a mudhole.
Mississippi State placekicker Artie
Cosby had the winds of fate touch him
in a 1983 game against Ole Miss. He
lined up to make a chip shot field-goal
attempt that would have won the game
in the final few seconds.
Cosby kicked with enough force and
accuracy, prompting Mississippi State
fans in the end zone to leap with joy as
the football got to the crossbar. But a
freakish gust of wind stopped the foot
ball and blew it backward. The football
hit the ground a yard in front of the dis
mayed placekicker.
Ole Miss won. Cosby received a letter
from a fan who read about the peculiar
field-goal attempt.
"The guy told me he studied weather
a lot, but he’d never seen or heard
about anything that strange,” Cosby
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said. "In fact, he said it was a one-in-amillion chance that something like that
would happen at that precise spot at
that precise time.”
Being prepared for inclement weath
er is the key, as Bowden discovered in
1976, his first season at Florida State,
when the Seminoles played North
Texas State in the Lone Star State.
“At halftime, my players
huddled around a pot
bellied stove like
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Hear his stoiy:
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"It was 80 degrees all week in Talla
hassee as we practiced for the game.
Then, it was like that for our workout
in Denton.
"But the night before the game a freak
snowstorm hit town. A cold wind blew
into town from the plains of Oklahoma.
We had five inches of snow on the
ground Saturday morning, with more
coming down.
"I sent a manager to a local hardware
store to buy every pair of gloves and
every stocking cap they had in stock.
Eighty percent of our players are from
Florida. Most of them had never seen
snow. They saw a lot that day.
"It was homecoming at North Texas
State, with only 1,000 people there, with
my wife walching the game from a bus
parked ^ next to the stadium. You
couldn I see anything except two goal
posts. They had to use highway
markers on the sidelines so we’d know
where the yard lines were.
"North Texas State led us, 21-14, with
two minutes to play. We drove for a
touchdown and went for two. Our full
back dived into the line on the extra
point attempt. The referee literally
scraped snow to find the goal line
before he could rule that we had taken
the lead.
"When it comes to weather, that’s
how it is in this business. You never can
tell. For instance, it was so bad that day
that I just told our players to go out
there and have a good time, knowing all
along they couldn’t possibly enjoy
something like that. There didn’t seem
to be any way we could play that game.
But we did.”
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by Blackie Sherrod, Dallas Morning Neivs
a task which may be loosely compared
ollege football coaches, as we
with squeezing toothpaste back in the
have all been taught, are blessed
with the wisdom of Solomon,
tube.
Howard Cosell and goodness knowsA couple of years ago. The Sporting
News formed an exalted panel of 20
who all. Especially the revered old
astute professors and asked their judg
names who are no longer molding char
ment on such a team. These were no
acter and dodging irate alumni. The
lightweight philosophers, mind you.
depth of their knowledge and creativity
There were elder statesmen like Earl
swells with each passing season, as
Blaik and Duffy Daugherty and Ben
legends are recounted around camp
Schwartzwalder and Bobby Dodd,
fires and in the backrooms.
gentlemen who had spent a half-cen
It was actually Mr. Knute Rockne,
tury teaching young Americans how to
hallowed be his name, who wrote most
conjugate a Latin verb and double-team
of Shakespeare's dramas, and Amos
the tackle. Darrell Royal, Frank Broyles,
Alonzo Stagg who invented the cotton
Ara Parseghian and Bo Schembechler
gin and Glenn Warner who discovered
were on the panel.
that a Double Wing is not necessarily
They were asked to elect offensive
twice as strong as a Single Wing. (The
and defensive platoons and when the
latter became known as the theory of
votes were counted. The Sporting News
relativity and won the Nobel Peace
kindly made the news public for us un
Prize for Gen. Robert Neyland.) Woodsophisticates to marvel at.
row Hayes dug the Panama Canal with
However, as some of us unsophisti
a sharp stick and Bear Bryant was the
cates are wont to do, there was con
first man to walk the Atlantic.
siderable sniping at the selections. For
Of course, college coaches with any
example, some of us nitpickers noted
longevity are known for their hindsight.
that Sam Huff was included on the
They are forever dropping such sage
honor roll of college linebackers. Now
comments as "Like I was saying back in
Huff was an illustrious professional
August__ ” or "As I have said all
linebacker for the New York Giants and
along—”
Washington Redskins. But he was a
Therefore, when a gaggle of these
tackle at West Virginia. In fact, Sam
learned gentlemen are called upon to
gained no All-America recognition in
settle a momentous issue, well, cer
college; instead, his teammate, tackle
tainly no one can be expected to deal
Bruce Bosley, was the honored one.
with the matter in a wiser fashion. And
Anyway, if such esteemed judges are
so it should be in the matter of
guilty of bungling, what chance does a
choosing an All-Time All-America team,
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mere pressboxer have of escaping with
out a pie in the kisser? Answer: none.
However, nothing chanced, nothing
argued, and what better debate for cozy
evenings on the hearth, with a cold
mug and a hot bird? Or is it the other
way around?
Anyone foolhardy enough to attempt
a project of this scope must first estab
lish a set of rules and then, for his own
safety, follow the guidelines religiously
as a mountainclimber. First, there is the
strong temptation (which was apparent
in the coaching panel voting) of also
considering the player’s professional
career. This is a no-no. Remember, col
lege play only. Then, it should be
accepted that today’s college players
are bigger, faster, stronger, more gifted
physically than those of yesteryear.
Sam Baugh, the leathery old TCU eagle,
had some thoughts on this a dozen
years ago.
"Heck, any of these teams today
could beat the teams of our day,’’ Sam
said with finality.' ’ Biggest change is the
two platoon. You didn’t see all this
pursuit they have today, not back when
we played both offense and defense.
We might loaf a little and catch our
breath.
"Folks say football hasn’t changed,”
Baugh continued. "Well, I say iffootball
hasn’t changed in fifty years, there’s
something dang sure wrong with it. You
learn all the time. It’s a better game now
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Nebraska
1970-72
Minnesota
1927-29
Washington & Jefferson 1917-19
Ohio State
1954-56
Texas
1963-65
Pennsylvania
1945-48
TCU
1934-36
Illinois
1923-25
SMU
1946-49
Stanford
1923-25
Don Hutson
Johnny Rodgers
Bronko Nagurski
Wilbur Henry
Jim Parker
Tommy Nobis
Chuck Bednarik
Sam Baugh
Harold Grange
Doak Walker
Ernie Nevers
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than when I played, and it’ll be even
better 10 years from now.”
So—accepting that premise as fact,
that players and teams are better than
ever—an All-Time selection would
seem a simple assignment. Just name
the guys on last year’s All-America roll
and forget it. But, according to our pre
ordained rules, that would not be fair. It
would be more honorable to compare
the players against the competition of
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their day. Therefore, you do not weigh
Red Grange against O.J. Simpson. You
rate Grange against Harry Wilson and
Ken Strong and Elmer Layden and Red
Cagle and others of the Roaring Twen
ties. And then you compare Simpson
with his peers, chaps like LeRoy Keyes
and Steve Owens and Mel Farr and
Clint Jones and that generation.
Also, for the rather lazy reason of
simplicity, this All-Time selection
includes only 11 players. No offensive
and defensive platoons. A good player,
a really outstanding player, an AllTimer as it were, shouldhe able to play
both ways. The way the game was
meant to be played by its originators.
He may not have seen double duty, be
cause of rules of his era, but he could
have pulled it off.
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examples of this stand out. Tommy
Nobis, the burr-top, freckled Texas bat
tleship, is a choice at guard. He was
widely honored at his acknowledged
college position—linebacker. But he
natural athlete who was at his delight
ful best under pressure. He was a Ijrokenfield runner who traveled with almost
mischievous ease, almost tantalizing in
his moves and changes in speed and
occasion; Darrell Royal often subbed
Wl^bis at guard when the Longhorns
®were on a crucial drive.
Johnny Rodgers is an All-Time choice
at end, although he worked also at
wingback and halfback for the 1970-71
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outfits in college history. In his day,
Rodgers was arguably the best athlete
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again, like most of the old hands, he
was a superior all-around performer.
He was one of the great punters in col- j
legiate annals and an outstanding
safety on defense.
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All-Time choices for end. Hutson, like *
He played all positions in the old
Baugh, established a pattern for re
Y-formation. He called plays. He impro
ceivers in the mid-1930s. He was a fleet,
vised in the huddle and, like Grange, he
fluid athlete, a magical faker, and he
was a splendid secondaryman. In fact,
built receiving marks that still, surpris
when Walker retired from the Detroit
ingly enough, compare with the spe
Lions after six big seasons. Lions’ brass
cialists of today.
begged him to play another half-dozen
. Bronko Nagurski would make the
years as a defensive back.
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He probably gained most attention as a
available to the; All-Time voter.yDoc
Mite style of his time. .
Minnesota and Chicago Bear fullback,
p" If you will allow another criticism of
Blanchard of the wartime Army teams;
but he was an absolute terror as a f
that aforementioned coaches’ All-Time
Kimbrough; Edward Coy, the legendary
Yale hero; Jim Thorpe, for goodness
Gopher tackle. In some Minnesota
team, consider that the two running
games, he played both tackle and full- ^
backs were Simpson and Earl Campbell.
sakes; Earl Campbell; Lariy Csonka; any
number of stout-legged lads.
back and, on occasion, was positioned
Red Grange, the Illinois wonder, was
it end. The men who played against
There is a temptation to squeeze in
relegated to "honorable mention.”
ibis 230-pounder (a monster in those
the great Chicago workhorse. Jay BerHorrors. To offer an All-Time team with
days) merely rolled their eyes and
wanger,
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first
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shook their heads when Nagurski was
winner. Gad, how this man worked for
the Declaration of Independence with
an inferior Chicago team of the mid-’30s.
discussed. Pudge Heffelfinger, a line
out John Hancock! Grange stood out
ke did most ot me running ail ot tne
among his ieiiows, perhaps as no other
legend at Yale in an earlier era, said,
VThere probably never has been a
passing, punting, extra points, field
collegian ever has.
goals, kickoffs. He backed the line for
player any stronger than Nagurski, nor
After the halfback’s sensational soph
Any who could develop as much horse
three downs and, on fourth, dropped
omore season (he rushed 202 yards in
back to play safety. This man rushed for
power from a standing start.”
slightly more than a halftime in the first
varsity game he ever played), all de
a stunning 4,108 yards in three varsity
; The other tackle position goes to
seasons, and in those days, Chicago
even more of an old-timer. Wilbur |
fenses were geared to stop Grange. Yet
"Fats ” Heniy of Washington and Jefferplayed only eight games per autumn.
he kept gaining the yards and scoring
Said Clark Shaughnessy: "I have never
Son apparently was a true superstar.
the points, game after game. And the
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Jack Dempsey, Babe Ruth, Bill Tilden
and Man O’ War. In 21 Illinois games, he
averaged 173 yards rushing and those
were the days of stiff, heavy canvas
pants and clumsy high-top shoes with
thick blunt cleats. It says here, in words
of some heat, you pick an All-Time
team, you start with Red Grange.
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Ernie Nevers, the one-man gang at
Stanford in the mid-1920s. Pop Warner,
who coached them both, picked Nevers
over Jim Thorpe as the "greatest player
of all time. ” At the risk of repetition, he
did it all and he gloried in pressure
situations.
Quarterbacks? Well, that coaches’
oanel nicked Roeer5tauha£±L.aiidJier^
tainly Capt. America was an exceptional collegd performer even though
he will be remembered mostly for his
professional exploits at Dallas. But the
All-Time choice here is Sammy Baugh,
the first of the glamour passers who
gave push to the modern offense.
Mel Hein was around football for a
zillion years or so, as a great center at
Washington State and the New York
* Giants, and as an official. He once said,
jective. Doak Walker was,1c}uite simply,
the best college player these eyes ever
covered, and they have peered
myopically at dem near every head
liner from John Kimbrough and Charlie
TVippi to Gayle Sayers and Billy Sims.
Walker was a three-time All-Arherica
at Southern Methodist and a graceful.
I’ve coached many of these younger
players, and I must say this, of all the
players who ever played this game, the
first man I’d pick would be Sam Baugh.
If I were starting to build a team and
had my choice of anybody of any day,
Baugh would be my number one.”
Baugh was known for his pinpoint
yards in a 12-10 losing cause to a good
Iowa team.
And, of course. Grange threw and
caught passes, returned kicks and was
an excellent defensive back. Grange
was, and is, the most modest of men,
but one senses that he had a tinge of
secret pride in his defensive ability.
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of his day. Henry was also a 230pounder, stacked on a squatty 5-10
frame, and despite that hulk, he was a
four-sport man. Historians note that he
was unbelievably quick, was unsur
passed as a kick blocker and also as a
punter. Such respected authorities as
Rockne, Jock Sutherland, John Heis
man. Greasv Neale and Poii.Warner.,....
labeled Henry as the greatest tackle the
Jim Parker, the Ohio State giant,
teams with Nobis as the All-Time
guards. At 250 pounds, Parker was a
superior blocker, both in the line and
pulling or trapping. On defense, he
played both in the line and at linebacker.
Chuck Bednarik is mostly remem
bered for his heroic two-way perform- ^
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Bednarik was a great center and linebacker at Penn for four varsity seasons,
twice gaining All-America plaques.
, So there’s your 11 All-Timers, at least
from one timid viewpoint. Let the argu
ments begin.
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College football
Quiz.
ach year the Maxwell Football
Club of Philadelphia presents
the Maxwell Award to the nation’s
outstanding college player. Past
winners include Army ’s Doc Blanchard
(’45), Ohio State’s Hopalong Cassady
(’55), Navy’s Roger Staubach (’63)
and Cornell’s Ed Marinaro (’71), to
name a few.
Founded in 1937, the Maxwell Club
promotes football in the name ofRobert
Tiny Maxwell, a man whose many
qualities as an All-America football
player, a respected football official and
a noted sports editor and humorist
endeared him to football fans across
Chuck Long became Iowa’s first Maxwell
Award winner In 46 years.
the country.
Perhaps the Maxwell Club’s most
important function is the financing,
season statistics and accomplishments,
through membership fees and dona
the committee narrows the field to
tions, of an awards program which is
three, four or five names. The club’s
conducted during football season.
board of governors makes the final
Weekly luncheons honor outstanding
decision.
high school and college athletes and
1985 winner Chuck Long of Iowa was
provide a public forum for local fans
the second Hawkeye to win the
and speakers of national note.
Maxwell; Nile Kinnick was awarded the
The Maxwell Club organizes numer
third Maxwell in 1939.
ous activities annually to enhance the
Penn State and Notre Dame each
sport of football. These include spon
have five past Maxwell winners, while
sorship of an athletic injury clinic for
Ohio State and Navy have four. Navy’s
Philadelphia-area coaches and trainers
winners came within a 10-year span,
as well as medicine clinics at the
from 1954-63.
University of Pennsylvania and Temple
University.
MAXWELL AWARD RECIPIENTS
The selection of Maxwell Award
winners begins with a nominating
1937—Clinton Frank........................Yale
ballot being sent to club members,
1938 David O’Brien .........
TCU
media representatives and former
1939—Nile Kinnick............................lowa
Maxwell winners. Each person nomi
1940 Tom Harmon.............Michigan
nates three players and the ballots are
1941 William Dudley.............. Virginia
forwarded to the Maxwell Club execu
1942—Paul Governali.......... Columbia
tive committee. Using the players’
Odell .......... Pennsylvania
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1944—Glenn Davis....................... Army
1945—Doc Blanchard ...................Army
1946—Charlie Trippi................Georgia
1947—Doak Walker......................... SMU
1948 Chuck Bednarik . Penntylvania
1949 Leon Hart ............. Notre Dame
1950 James Bagnell . . Pennsylvania
1951—Dick Kazmaier.......... Princeton
1952—John Lattner .... Notre Dame
1953—John Lattner .... Notre Dame
1954 Ron Beagle ............................Navy
1955—Hopalong Cassady . Ohio State
1956—Tommy McDonald . . Oklahoma
1957—Bob Reifsnyder.................... Navy
1958—^Pete Uawkins........................Army
1959—Richie Lucas.... Penn
State
1960—Jcte Bellino.......................... . Navy
1961—Bob Ferguson .... Ohio State
1962—Teriy Baker.....Oregon
State
1963—Roger Staubach....................Navy
1964—Glenn Ressler .... Penn State
1965—Tommy Nobis....................... Texas
1966—James Lynch .... Notre Dame
1967—Gary Behan .......................... UCLA
1968—O.J. Simpson.......................... USC
1969—Mike Reid ................Penn State
1970—Jim Plunkett ..................Stanford
1971—Ed Marinaro ....................Cornell
1972 Brad Van Pelt. . Michigan State
1973—John Cappelletti . . Penn State
1974—Archie Griffin...........Ohio State
1975—Archie Griffin...........Ohio State
1976—Tony Dorsett.............Pittsburgh
1977—Ross Browner . . . Notre Dame
1978—Chuck Fusina .... Penn State
1979—Charles White........................uSC
1980 Hugh Green.................Pittsburgh
1981—Marcus Allen ........................USC
1982—Herschel Walker...........Georgia
1983—Mike Rozier ........ .Nebraska
1984—Doug Flutie . . . Boston College
1985 Chuck Long............................Iowa
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EDINBORO UNIVERSITY 1986 FOOTBALL ROSTER
Anderson, Janies ........... WR, 5-10,172, Fr.
♦Gierlak, David ................. WR, 5-9,156, Sr.
Orchard Park, NY/Orchard Park
Buffalo, NY/St. Joseph’s
Anderton Steve ............... QB, 6-0,162, So.
♦Green, Mikel..................... CB, 5-8,174, So.
Oil City, PA/Oil City
Citra, FL/North Marion
Baker, Paul................... OSLB, 6-1, 205, Jr.
Grimaldi, Dave................. OG, 6-3,197, So.
Massillon, OH/Jackson
Johnstown, PA/Johnstown Vo-Tech
♦Betters, Martelle...... CB, 6-0,173, Sr.
Gross, Glenn..................... OC, 6-3, 200, So.
Connellsville, PA/Connellsville
Somerset, PA/Berlin Brothersval
Bradley, Eric....................... WR, 6-1,185, Fr.
Hainsey, Ron ................... OT, 6-4, 260, So.
Pittsburgh, PA/Mt. Lebanon
Pittsburgh, PA/Swissvale
Bragg, Stephen.......... K, 5-9,135, Fr.
♦Hakim, Abdul ............... DT, 5-10, 206, Sr.
Albion, NY/Albion
Erie, PA/Academy
Breedlove, Donald ................... DL, 6-5, 215
Harder, Mark................... DL, 6-5, 204, Fr,
N. Kingsville, OH/Edgewood
Massillon, OH/Massillon Washington
Brooks, Joseph................. OL, 6-1, 235, Fr.
♦Higham, David................. OC, 6-2, 235, Sr.
Youngstown, OH/Austintown Fitch
Hubbard, OH/Hubbard
•Brown, Scott....................... TE, 6-1, 200, Jr.
Hill, Kevin ....................... QB, 6-3,186, Fr.
Greensburg, PA/Greensburg-Salem
Albion, NY/Albion
Brownrigg, Rob ................. OT, 6-3, 223, Jr.
Ivey, Matt.......................... LB, 6-3,195, Fr.
Crystal Beach, Ontario/Fort Erie
Sharon, PA/Sharon
Calton, Thomas................. LB, 6-1, 210, Fr.
Izydorczak, Tom ............. OL, 6-0, 240, Fr.
Cleveland, OH/Central Catholic
Blasdell, NY/Frontier
♦Cameron, Daryl............... SE, 5-10,164, Sr.
Keith, Stephen ...................DB, 6-0,185, Jr.
Aliquippa, PA/Aliquippa
Johnstown, PA/Ferndale Area
♦Cardone, John ............. OSLB, 6-0,195, Sr.
Kirkland, Sean................. QB, 6-2,174, Fr.
Allison Park, PA/North Catholic
Salem, OH/Salem
Churn, Mike............... .
CB, 5-8,154, So.
Kujawinski, Jeff............... OL, 6-1, 250, Fr,
Cleveland, OH/Central Catholic
Erie, PA/Erie Tech
♦Clark, Bill ........................ DT, 6-0, 225, So.
♦Lewis, Robert.....................DE, 6-1, 238, Jr.
Cleveland, OH/South
Rochester, NY/Ben Franklin
Clay, Robert.......................LB, 6-0, 212, Fr.
Lowman, James............... DL, 6-3, 205, Fr.
Coraopolis, PA/Moon Area
Pittsburgh, PA/Penn Hills
♦Clifford, Terrell ................. CB, 5-7,170, Sr.
♦Lux, Rege ....................... LB, 5-11, 195, So.
Canton, OH/McKinley
Pittsburgh, PA/North Hills
♦Cline, Andrew ...................OT, 6-4, 236, Sr.
McCullough, Gary........... OL, 6-2, 240, Fr.
Pittsburgh, PA/Mt. Lebanon
Massillon, OH/Perry
Cole, Elbert....................... RB, 5-9,175, Fr.
Mcllwain, Randy............... TE, 6-2, 210, Fr.
Rochester, NY/Charlotte
Canton, OH/Canton Timken
Conrad, Chip .....................LB, 6-3, 205, Fr.
Meholick, David ............... LB, 6-2,190, Fr.
Altoona, PA/Bishop Guilfoyle
Sykesville, PA/DuBois
Conway, Christopher ---- RB, 5-9,180, Fr.
Mitchell, Jim ................... DE, 6-1, 210, So.
Franklin, PA/Oil City
Erie, PA/Erie East
Courtney, Mark............... OT, 6-3, 221, So.
Nichols, Michael ............. QB, 6-0, 168, So.
Salem, OH/United Local
Cassadaga, NY/Cassadaga Valley
Cross, Craig ................... DL, 5-10, 215, Fr.
♦Nye, Dave....................... OG, 5-11, 205, Sr.
Louisville, OH/Louisville
Windsor, OH/Grand Valley
Davenport, Laniel ........... DB, 6-1,186, Fr.
Paris, Anthony...................FB, 6-2,190, Fr.
Clairton, PA/Clairton
Canton, OH/Canton Timken
Depretta, Larry ................. DT, 6-1, 235, Jr.
Pierce, Michael................. DL, 6-3, 235, Fr.
Sharpsville, PA/Sharpsville
Glen Campbell, PA/Punxsutawney
Dicristofaro, Tony............. LB, 6-0, 225, Fr.
Pinkerton, David............. DL, 6-2, 220, Fr.
Lackawanna, NY/Frontier
Massillon, OH/Perry
♦Dodds, Scott, .....................QB, 6-1,188, Sr.
♦Pisano, Jim........................ FB, 6-0, 206, Sr.
Beaver, PA/Beaver Area
Lower Burrell, PA/Burrell
♦Ellis, Allen ..................... DE, 5-11, 215, Sr.
Popa, James.....................FB, 5-11, 210, Fr.
Albion, NY/Albion
Mogadore, OH/ Mogadore
♦Faulkner, Floyd................. HB, 5-9,180, Jr.
Powell, Brad..................... OL, 6-2, 260, Fr.
Coraopolis, PA/Cornell
West Middlesex, PA/West Middlesex
♦Ferguson, Brian ............... TE, 6-4, 211, So.
♦Pratt, Cleveland............... WR, 5-7,160, So.
Bethal Park, PA/Bethal Park
Miami, FL/North Miami Beach
Franklin, Steve................. WR, 6-1,180, Fr.
Priester, Ernest.................WR, 5-9,174, Fr.
Bridgeville, OH/Chartiers Valley
Cleveland, OH/John Hay
Gallagher, Dean ................ OL, 6-3, 225, Fr.
Proviano, Michael............. SS, 5-8, 155, So.
Kenmore, NY/Kenmore West
Finleyville, PA/Ringgold
♦Georgiana, John............... FB, 5-10,195, Sr.
Quinn, Walter................... OL, 6-3, 260, Fr.
Altoona, PA/Bishop Guilfoyle
Aliquippa, PA/Center
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♦Rankin, Ross ................. HB, 5-11,185, Sr.
Canton, OH/McKinley
Raynard, Michael ............... K, 6-2, 200, Fr.
Avon, NY/Avon Central
Rose, Nicholas ................. DL, 6-1, 239, Fr.
Coraopolis, PA/Cornell
Ross, James ..................... QB, 6-1, 180, Fr.
Euclid, OH/Lake Catholic
Sally, Pat.......................... OG, 6-1, 250, Fr.
Johnstown, PA/Richland
Sibila, Paul ...................... ; LB, 6-3, 207, Fr.
Massillon, OH/Massillon Washington
Simpson, Anthony............. LB, 6-2, 196, Fr,
Fairlawn, OH/Copley
Slater, Scott ..................... OL, 6-3, 230, Fr.
Akron, OH/Central Hower
♦Suren, Bob ........................ TE, 6-5, 213, Sr.
Parma, OH/Normandy
Taylor, Mark .................WR, 5-10, 170, Fr.
Albion, NY/Albion
Terhart, Tom
......... DL, 6-2, 212, Fr.
Lackawanna, NY/Lackawanna
Tinstman, John .........
TE, 6-4, 221, So.
Dunkirk, NY/Fredonia
♦Toomer, John...................WR, 5-9, 145, So.
Youngstown, OH/East
♦Trueman, Jim....................... K, 5-7, 180, Sr.
Pittsburgh, PA/Northgate
Uhlir, Raymond............... DT, 5-7, 195, Fr.
Euclid, OH/ Euclid
Urko, Richard ................. OL, 6-3, 250, Fr,
Monongahela, PA/Ringgold
Wade, Allan ..................... DB, 6-0, 170, Fr.
Warren, OH/Warren Western Reserve
Wade, Galen..................... RB, 6-1, 185, Fr.
Rochester, NY/Brockport
♦Ware, Harlan ................. DT, 5-11, 198, Sr.
Pittsburgh, PA/Alderdice
♦Webb, Claude................. CB, 5-10,158, So.
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Bedford Heights, OH/Bedford
♦WetherWolt, Mike............... CB, 6-0, 171, Sr.
Ashtabula, OH/Ashtabula
Williams, John ...................LB^ 6-0, 195, Fr.
Cleveland, OH/Shaw
Williamson, Leonard......... LB, 6-4, 195, Fr.
Monongahela, PA/Mon Valley Catholic
Willis, Michael...................FS, 6-0,168, So.
Maitland, FL/Orlando Edgewater
Zee , Larry ........................ LB, 6-2, 220, Fr.
Sharon, PA/Sharon
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ERNEST PRIESTER ................
CLEVELAND PRATT.............
ROBBROWNRIGG..................
JOE BROOKS .............................
DAVEHIGHAM ......................
DAVENYE .................................
MARK COURTNEY ................
BOB SUREN ...............................
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CLARION DEFENSE
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MIKE POPE ............................. ........... .. NG
TIM SHOOK .............................
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JOHN PETERMAN................ ................ CB
BRUCE CURRY................
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M. Betters......... .... LB
S. Bragg.............. ..... K
M. Green ______
D. Cameron ... .... SE
T. Simpson ___ .... LB
D. Gierlak......... ... WR
J. Ross................ .... QB
C. Conway ___ .... RB
R. Rankin......... .... HB
M. Nichols ___ .... QB
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M. Raynard ... ......... K
C. Webb ........... .... CB
M. Willis........... .... FS
T. Clifford......... .... CB
J. Popa .............. .... FB
M. Jones ........... ... WR
G. Wade ........... .... RB
S. Kirkland .... .... QB
E. Cole................ .... RB
J. Georgiana ___ .... RB
J. Pisano ........... .... RB
EDINBORO DEFENSE
SCOTT PIERCE ....................................... DE
CRAIG CROSS........................................ DT
ABDUL HAKIM....................................... DT
TOMTERHART ........................
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JOHNCARDONE .................................. LB
TOMCALTON .................................... MLB
ALLEN ELLIS........................................... LB
MICHAEL CHURN................................ CB
MIKE WETHERHOLT..............................SS
MIKE WILLIS............................................. FS
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RUSS FORD ................
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JOHN SEAMAN...............................
JERRY FEDELL ........................
TIM LINDENBAUM ..........................
PAUL KOTEK...........................................
JIM H ahn .............................
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M. Wetherholt .. ...
C. Conrad ........... ...
A. Wade .............. ...
F. Faulkner......... ...
L. Zee .................. ...
H. Ware................ ...
J. Anderson ___ ..
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D. Gallagher___ ...
J. Williams ......... ...
A. Ellis.................. ...
W. Quinn ........... ...
J. Kujawinski ... ...
D. Higham ......... ...
D. Nye.................. ...
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E. Bradley......... ...
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J. Lowman ___ ....
M. Harder......... ....
J. Cardone ___ ....
R. Lux................ ....
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H. Kennedy......... ... DB
K. Smakula......... ... DB
B. Nair.................. ... SE
M. Papik.............. ... SE
G. Cardamone .. ... DB
J. Besic ................ .... SS
M. Morrison___ ... QB
D. Dawson ......... ... QB
E. Clark................ .. FLK
D. Emminger ... ... QB
D. Womer........... ... QB
D. Counts ........... ... DB
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M. Praytor ___ ......... TB
V. Bellante ... ......... DB
M. Kehoe ____ ......... TB
J. Peterman___ ......... DB
C. Kunselman . ......... DB
D. Kutch......... ......... SE
D. Meszaros .. ......... DE
E. Hamm......... ......... TB
C. Dworek ___ ..SE/PK
J. Disque.................... DB
S. Burks ............. ......... FB
R. Harden.................. TB
G. Deemer____ ......... FB
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K. Raabe........... .... LB
S. McElhaney .. .... TE
G. Anderson ... .... FB
R. Urbansky__ .... SE
P. Smrek ........... .... SE
B. Kelly ............. .... FS
R. Parkes ......... .... DB
R.Joseph ......... .... TB
K. Seely.............. .... SE
E. Lee ................ .... LB
D. Shupe........... .... SE
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L. Robb................ ...LB
M. Hytla .............. ... LB
K. Edwards......... ... DT
T. Siedhof........... ... OL
K. Hart ................ ... OT
M. Vanyo ........... ... LB
J. Seaman ........... ... OG
L. Wiesenbach .. ... OG
S. Kehoe ______ ... DE
P. Hytla................ ... DT
J. Moorhead___ ... OG
K. Scott................ ... OG
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G. Anderson .........
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P. Jansen................
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J. Bower ................
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B. Quinn ..............
M. Kelly ..............
J. Rozanc ...........
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CLARION UNIVERSITY 1986 FOOTBALL ROSTER
The fact that both of these
Corvettes are on Goodyear Eagle Sheet
rodiak is no coincidence.
The 1986 Corvette Convertible.
Factory specified tires: Goodyear Eagle VR “Gatorback” street radials.
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Every Corvette made since
1984 comes with just one make
of tire; the Goodyear Eagle VR
“Gatorback" street radial.
Which is no coincidence.
Because the Eagle VR
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“Gatorback” was developed
specifically for the Corvette’s
tremendous cornering, handling
and speed capabilities.
Considering the performance
of the Eagle VR “Gatorback,” it’s
not surprising that successful
SCCA Showroom Stock Endurance
racing teams like Rippie/Anderson
also choose an Eagle street radial;*
The Eagle VR S “Gatorback,”
a version of the Eagle VR
“Gatorback” made for ultimate
grip rather than ultimate treadlife.
The success of both the Eagle
VR and VR S “Gatorbacks” has a
common source:
Goodyear’s ability to engineer
better high-performance radials.
For virtually every performance car.
O Its
• « really
* no coincidence
So
that the Eagle VR is to be found
on every Corvette made.
Or that the Eagle VRSis the
favorite tire of people who race
Corvettes in the SCCA Showroom
Stock Endurance Series.
In fact, when you think of how
the Eagles perform, it’s no coinci
dence at all.
^res shaved to racing depth. Before you race on
boodyear street radials, write the Goodyear Tire &
Company, PQ Box 9125, Akron, Ohio
44305 for preparation recommendations and
procedures.
YOU EITHER HAVE GOODYEAR EAGLES. OR YOU NEED THEM.
MODfVEAtt
Ammerlaan, John ........... DT, 6-3, 208, Fr.
Berkeley Hts., NJ/Gov. Livingston
Amorino, Louis ............. OC, 5-11, 224, Fr.
Apollo, PA/Apollo Ridge
Anderson, Greg L............ RB, 5-10,175, Fr.
New Bethlehem, PA/Redbank Valley
Anderson, Greg S.............. DL, 6-0, 209, Fr.
Harrisville, PA/ Moniteau
*Anderson, Tom ................. DE, 6-1,190, Jr.
New Bethlehem, PA/Redbank Valley
Bellante, Vince ................. DB, 5-9,170, Fr.
Pittsburgh, PA/ Central Catholic
*Besic, John ................. CB/SS, 6-0,190, Jr.
Steelton, PA/Steelton Highspire
Bishop, Gary................... DB, 5-11,194, Fr.
Pittsburgh, PA/Shaler
Bower, John ..................... OT, 6-1, 227, Fr.
Kittanning, PA/Kittanning
*Brestensky, Mike............... SE, 5-9,162, So.
Freeport, PA/Freeport
*Burks, Scott ..................... FB, 5-10, 205, Jr.
Monroeville, PA/Gateway
Cardamone, Gary ............. DB, 5-8,160, Jr.
Bethel Park, PA/Bethel Park
Clark, Ed......................... FLK, 6-1,196, Sr.
Indiana, PA/Indiana
Clutter, Jeff..................... DL, 5-11, 210, Fr.
Pittsburgh, PA/Shaler
Counts, Dan..................... DB, 6-2,185, So.
Coudersport, PA/Coudersport
Curry, Bruce................... DB, 5-11,180, So.
McKeesport, PA/McKeesport
Dawson, Doug............... QB, 5-11,167, Fr.
East Liverpool, OH/Beaver Local
Deemer, Greg................... FB, 6-0,195, So.
Erie, PA/Ft. LeBoeuf
*Desmond, John ........•... PK, 5-11,175, So.
Dublin, Ireland/Belcamp Dublin
Disque, James ................. DB, 5-7,164, Fr.
Ridgway, PA/ Ridgway
Dudding, Mark ............. DE, 5-11, 210, Fr.
Freeport, PA/Freeport
Dukovich, Mark ............... SE, 6-3,160, Fr.
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Pittsburgh, PA/ Canevin
Dworek, Chris ........... SE/PK, 6-0,172, Fr.
Scottdale, PA/Southmoreland
*Edwards, Ken................... DT, 6-2, 265, Sr.
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Freeport, PA/Freeport
t*Emminger, Doug .................... QB, 5-11,175, Jr.
Kittanning, PA/Kittanning
Evosirch, Tom ................. QB, 6-3,175, Fr.
Clarksville, PA/Jefferson Morgan
•Fedell, Jerry .......................OC, 6-2, 268, Jr.
Pittsburgh, PA/North Hills
•Ford, Russ ................... FLK, 5-10,183, Sr.
Mars, PA/Mars
•Frank, Steve..................... DB, 5-9,174, Sr.
Beaver Falls, PA/Blackhawk
•Giavedoni, Tony ........... FLK, 5-7,150, Jr.
Punxsutawney, PA/Punxsutawney
•Hahn, Jim.......................... TE, 6-0, 217, Sr.
Conneaut, OH/Conneaut
Hamm, Eric .......................TB, 5-10,176, Fr.
Furnace, PA/Laurel Highlands
Harden, Ron.......................TB, 5-6,152, Fr.
Sharon, PA/Sharon
•Hart, Ken .......................... OG, 6-3, 250, Jr.
State College, PA/Kiski Prep
Hastings, Dan................... TE, 6-2, 208, So.
Canton, OH/Canton South
Higgins, Scott................... DE, 6-0,188, So.
Pittsburgh, PA/Chartiers Valley
Hogan, Brian ................... NG, 6-1, 228, So.
Pittsburgh, PA/Penn Hills
Hornidge, Jim ...................FB, 5-8,185, Fr.
Paramus, NJ/Paramus
Hytia, Mike ...........
LB, 5-10,190, So.
Pittsburgh, PA/Langley
Hytia, Paul ....................... DT, 6-0, 220, So.
Pittsburgh, PA/ Langley
Jansen, Pete ..................... OC, 6-1, 210, Fr.
Freeport, PA/Freeport
Joseph, Rod ................... TB, 5-10,180, So.
Derry, PA/Derry
Kast,BiII.......................... OL, 6-2, 210, Fr.
Louisville, OH/St. Thomas Aquinas
•Kehoe, Mick....................... TB, 5-8,175, Jr.
Conneaut, OH/Conneaut
Kehoe, Steve..................... DE, 6-2, 226, So.
Conneaut, OH/Conneaut
Keller, Jim ....................... NG, 5-8, 228, Fr.
Beaver Falls, PA/ Blackhawk
Kelly, Mark .......................OL, 6-2, 234, Jr.
Barnesboro, PA/Northern Cambria
•Kelly, Bob.......................... FS, 6-1, 200, Jr.
Barnesboro, PA/Northern Cambria
Kennedy, Hartley............. DB, 6-0,180, So.
Indianola, PA/Fox Chapel
Kotek, Paul....................... OT, 6-1, 256, So.
Pittsburgh, PA/Central Catholic
Kunselman, Clay ............. SS, 5-11,180, Fr.
Vandergrift, PA/Kiski Area
Kutch, Dave .......................SE, 6-0,175, Fr.
Kittanning, PA/Kittanning
Lee, Eric ......................... LB, 5-10,190, So.
Wilkes-Barre, PA/Hanover
•Lindenbaum, Tim ............. OG, 6-1, 240, Jr.
East Canton, OH/Canton South
•Marshall, John...................LB, 6-0, 206, Sr.
Clarion, PA/Clarion
McElhaney, Sean............... TE, 6-2,199, Fr.
Butler, PA/Butler
McLaughlin, Dave........... OC, 6-4, 247, So.
Conneaut, OH/Conneaut
Meszaros, Dave ............... DE, 6-0,190, Fr.
Sharon, PA/Sharon
Miller, Matt ..................... OL, 6-1, 234, Fr.
Oil City, PA/Oil City
Moorhead, Joe................. OG, 6-0, 232, So.
Pittsburgh, PA/Central Catholic
Morrison, Matt ............... QB, 6-1,185, Fr.
Jeannette, PA/Jeannette
Motion, Tony................... LB, 5-9, 202, So.
Farrell, PA/Farrell
Nair, Brendan...................SE, 5-10,140, Fr.
New Bethlehem, PA/Redbank Valley
Papik, Mike .....................SE, 5-10,166, Fr.
Valencia, PA/Mars
Parkes, Randy ................. DB, 5-9,170, Fr.
Whiting, NJ/Manchester Twp.
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Pittsburgh, PA/Penn Hills
•Pope, Mike............. .
NG, 6-0,212, Sr.
Pittsburgh, PA/Carrick
Praytor, Mike..................... TB, 6-0,185, Jr.
Pittsburgh, PA/ Langley
•Prenatt, Pat .......................OT, 6-4, 250, Jr.
Meadville, PA/Meadville
Quinn, Bob..................... FLK, 6-2, 207, Jr.
Coraopolis, PA/Moon
•Raabe, Ken....................... LB, 5-11,195, Jr.
Butler, PA/Butler
Ramsey, Clint..................... TB, 5-9,
So.
Monroeville, PA/Central Catholic
Robb, Larry ...................... LB, ^0,198, So.
Kittannirig, PA/Kittanning
Roberts, Todd ................. DT, 6-3, 222, So.
Johnstown, PA/Conemaugh Valley
Root, John ....................... OL, 6-2, 222, So.
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Houston, PA/Chartiers Houston
Sea griff, Dave.....................LB, 6-0, 202, Fr.
Freeport, PA/Freeport
•Seaman, John..................... OG, 6-1, 235, Sr.
Sharon, PA/Sharon
Scott, Kevin ................... OL, 5-11, 235, Fr.
Williamsport, PA/Loyalsock Twp.
Shook, Tim....................... NG, 6-0, 220, So.
Parker, PA/A.C. Valley
Shupe, Doug.........................SE, 6-0,172, Fr.
McIntyre, PA/Apollo Ridge
Siedhof, Todd................... OL, 6-0, 210, Fr.
Roaring Spring, PA/Canton
Smakula, Ken................. DB, 5-10,183, So.
Holsopple, PA/Conemaugh Twp.
Smrek, Pat .......................SE, 5-11,187, Fr.
Canfield, OH/Austintown Fitch
Starr, Jerry....................... TE, 6-1, 201, So.
Pittsburgh, PA/ Central Catholic
Taylor, Dan ..................... FB, 6-0,198, So.
Beaver Falls, PA/Blackhawk
Thompson, Chris................SE, 5-10,174, Fr.
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Timbers, Bill..................... DL, 6-1,254, Fr.
Pittsburgh, PA/Swissvale
Tylka, Len........................ DE, 6-2, 205, So.
Acme, PA/Mt. Pleasant
Urbansky, Ron.....................SE, 6-2,185, So.
Dravosburg, PA/McKeesport
Vanyo, Mike................... LB, 5-10, 201, So.
Sewickley, PA/Ambridge
Vernick, Bob.......................DE, 5-11,177, Jr.
Butler, PA/Butler
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Latrobe, PA/Derry
Wiesenbach, Larry........... OG, 6-0, 220, Fr.
Pittsburgh, PA/Plum
Womer, Doug................... QB, 6-1,195, Fr.
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College football teams are turning to a variety of experts to help
them prepare their athletes for the big game. Dietitians and dance
instructors arejoining in the ejfort. Even more traditional members
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Training table lineups are changing,
too. While a coach once ordered piles of
steaks and sour cream-laden baked
potatoes for his players, sports nutri
tionists now are pushing for more
carbohydrates in the diet to provide
energy for strenuous daily workouts.
Players also are being advised to eat
foods high in thiamine to avoid fatigue
and to drink plenty of cold water
during hot-weather practices to ward
ofif dehydration.
Textbooks which once said that an
athlete needed 4,000 to 5,000 calories a
day are being revised upward by at least
1.000 calories. One study found college
linemen averaging 10,000 calories a
and some taking in as many as
14.000 to 16,000 calories. The recom
mended total for a college-age non-athletic man is 2,700 calories.
You have to talk about players by
position,” said Sarah H. Short, profes
sor of nutrition at Syracuse University.
She has kept diet analysis records on
Syracuse athletes in 18 men’s and
women’s sports—including intercolle
giate football—since 1978. “Their needs
and body types are totally different de
pending on the position, so you have to
have totally different counseling.
Players are always talking about muscle
and asking what they can eat to put on
muscle, which is ridiculous. The
coaches send individual players to me
if they want them to lose weight or gain
weight. It’s very difficult if they want to
put weight on them. They’re so active
that they re using up those calories.”
Short said that once a player reaches
the minimum level of vitamins and
nutrients through the foods he eats, he
can get the additional calories through
virtually any food. "There’s no such
thing as an empty calorie for a football
player. What they need are the calories
because they are using up all of them, ”
she said. "They’re used to being big
eaters. Often they’ll have another foil
dinner after the training table, then
have snacks all evening.”
However, Short warned that college
football players need to watch their
diets once they are no longer involved
in such strenuous exercise. "They have
to cut back on the cholesterol and fat.
This is difficult because it’s what fills
them up,” she said.
Football players burn calories in a
variety of ways. Some individuals enroll
in tae kwon do or freestyle wrestling
classes to improve flexibility and to
develop quicker reactions. And some
schools are setting up programs for
their entire teams to break the monot
ony of the running-weightlifting offsea
son workouts. If the Chicago Bears can
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Aerobics can Improve flexibility, help prevent Injury and put
some spring Into spring practice.
“It’s amazing what will
happen if you put a
pretty girl In front of a
bunch of big burly guys
and play music they
like.”
strut to the Super Bowl Shuffle, why not
make aerobic dance part of the training
regimen?
Tennessee has had an aerobic dance
program for its football players for the
past two years, and won the 1985
Southeastern Conference title. The
program runs eight weeks, starting in
January and continuing until the start
of spring football practice. Besides
aerobic dance twice a week, the train
ing routine includes sprint-running
drills designed by a track coach (twice a
week! and weightlifting (three times a
week). Tim Kerin, the Volunteers’ head
athletic trainer, said the aerobic dance
class improved the players’ overall flex
ibility (and hip flexibility in particular),
increased the players’ abdominal
strength, provided a good cardiovascu
lar woricout and reduced injuries, espe
cially in spring practice.
“Major-college football is a 12months-a-year project,” said Kerin.
“ Anytime you can lighten it up, you’ll
have a better attitude among the
athletes. We didn’t let up in the
intensity of our workouts, we just
changed the approach. It’s amazing
what will happen ifyou put a pretty girl
in front of a bunch of big burly guys and
play music they like.”
Auburn’s 1983 team, which many
believed should have been named
national champion, had used an
aerobic dance program the previous
offseason. One of the players took the
concept even further. David King, who
was a rookie defensive back in 1985
v^th the NFL’s San Diego Chargers, has
been involved in serious dance classes
since he was 17. He has studied ballet,
jazz and,mbdern dance, and hopes to
perfornj^ in videos or with a company
someday.
“I have become more flexible, and
I’ve had only one serious injury since
I’ve been dancing,” King said. “ I’ve
never had a pulled muscle, and I have
better balance. They should employ it
in all sports. It helps. ”
King, who is 5-9 and weighs 178
pounds, was twice an All-SEC choice
and led Auburn in interceptions as a
freshman and sophomore. That might
have been enough to silence some
critics, but King said he still felt he had
to prove he could be both an athlete
and an artist.
The dance develops muscles that
you wouldn t think you’d use in jump
ing and running, when you’re blocking
someone, chasing someone or tackling,”
png said. “And people will look at you
in a different way instead of stereo
typing you as a dumb jock.”
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The Associated Press
he Texas-Arkansas shootout of
1969 saw President Richard Nixon
anoint the winner (Texas,
15-14) as national champion.
The Miami-Nebraska Orange Bowl of
Jan. 2, 1984, was as exciting a game as
you could ask for (Miami won the na
tional championship, 31-30), and Doug
Flutie’s last-gasp 48-yard “Hail Maiy"
touchdown pass that gave Boston Col
lege a 47-45 triumph over Miami the
following November capped one of
college football’s most exciting contests.
But the greatest game of all?
Seven of the 17 confrontations be
tween No. 1 and No. 2 since The Asso
ciated Press began its poll in 1936 have
been one-sided affairs, and the TexasAricansas shootout was fought with
popguns compared to the Thanks
giving feast accorded football fans on
Nov. 25, 1971, in Norman, Okla.
The "Big Red" Cornhuskers of Ne
braska, 10-0, were ranked No. 1—and
would finish there for their second con
secutive national championship. The
"Big Red" Sooners of Oklahoma, 9-0,
were ranked No. 2—and would finish
there.
Nebraska led, 7-0 (a 72-yard punt re-
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Oklahoma forged ahead, 17-14, when
Jack Mildren threw a 24-yard touch
down pass to Jon Harrison five seconds
before halftime. It was the first time all
season Nebraska trailed, but the slim
lead was small comfort to an Oklahoma
team that led after two periods in
first downs, 14-5, and in total
yardage, 311-91.
In the third quarter, it was Nebraska
on top, 21-17, and then, 28-17, on two
short runs by Jeff Kinney, but Okla
homa pulled within 28-24 on Mildren’s
three-yard run, his second touchdown
of the game.
In the final period, Mildren again
teamed up with Harrison, this time on a
^7-yard pass—Mildren’s six comple
tions were good for a whopping 188
yards—that gave the Sooners a 31-28
lead with 7:10 remaining. But Kinney’s
fourth touchdown, a three-yard run
with 1:38 left to play, capped a 74-yard
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We knew we could score,” said
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blazing speed or waterbug moves but
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and sophomores out there who knew
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body’s life. ”
Quarterback Jerry Tagge piloted
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and 74 yards. Meanwhile, Mildren took
Oklahoma on touchdown strikes cover
ing 80, 78, 73 and 69 yards against a
rugged Nebraska "Blackshirt’’ defense
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Rich Glover, Willjo Harper and Larry
Jacobson and had allowed opponents
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times in 10 games.
Oklahoma wasn’t without some big
names of its own. All-America Tom
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and Joe Wylie were among the running
backs, and the defensive line included
Lucious Selmon, Raymond "Sugar
Bear” Hamilton and Derland Moore.
Trailing, 31-28, Nebraska started from
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Kinney’s 17-yard run around left end
behind fullback Maury Damkroger’s
block, an 11-yard pass from Tagge to
Rodgers and Kinney’s left-end sweep
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"They have a hell of a team, ” said a
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cause it is there.
That was the case with Pete Woods, a
substitute quarterback for the Univer
sity of Missouri in 1976, who walked
into the den that is Ohio Stadium in
Columbus, and bearded the lion that is
Ohio State while more than 82,000 per
sons watched in stunned silence.
It was that way with Walter Slater,
who had been a star halfback with
ennessee’s teams in the early ’40s, but
found his football uniform replaced by
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one of khaki for the next couple of
seasons. At age 27, when college foota 1 pliers begin to exaggerate a bit
about their exploits at the first class re
union he was back in Knoxville as cap
tain of his team, helping to win eight of
nine games and gain a berth in the
Orange Bowl.
Washington & Lee knew the glories
o fame as a football power in the
South during the late ’40s and early
50s until some selfish athletes spoiled
eveiything by tiying to cheat their way
nrough an examination period The
school decided that lessened emphasis
on football was the answer, but Coach
Lee McLaughlin decided not to lessen
the emphasis on excellence, so he
guided the 1961 team to a perfect
season.
When modern engineering methods
made indoor arenas suitable for foot
ball, no one foresaw the radical
changes that would be necessaiy to
adapt the game to a special new playing
surface, which was originally intended
to last without benefit.bf sun or water.
In Houston, the Cougars of Coach Bill
Yeoman had to learn to play the game
differently, a lot differently from what
anyone had ever imagined.
It wasn’t played much differently
when Nebraska turned loose its great
mllback, Sam Francis, in 1936 He
had the power to roar through the.
middle of a defense, and the speed
and agility to make tacklers miss, or
harder than he
had hit them. He also had the ability to
bounce his 200 pounds outside and run
over smaller defensive players. He was
one of that special breed of player that
makes the game so interesting and so
much fun to watch.
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Kelley in the voting for the Heisman
rophy, but he finished first in the NFL
1 'luring the 1936 season, there was
i-rno better college football player
m America than Nebraska fullback Sam
Francis ... one of the nation’s best allaround athletes, as well. That summer
he competed in the 1936 Olympic
Games as a shot-putter for theU.S. team,
having held the national championship
for two years.
Francis finished fourth in the Berlin
Olympics, and second to Yale’s Lany
season, going to the
Philadelphia Eagles.
The Cornhuskers of 1936 were
coached by Dana X. Bible. They were a
povverful football team that was ranked
m the Top 10 eveiy weekofthe season,
eventually finishing ninth in the first
Associated Press poll. Francis was their
key player, abetted by a talented
halfback named Lloyd Cardwell and a
strong, mobile team that won seven of
nine games.
But it was Francis who made the
Cornhuskers go. He ran and passed
the ball; played linebacker on defense;
did the punting and placekicking;
an at the end of the season, he was
a unanimous selection on every AllAmerica team.
"I guess you would call it a pretty
good year,” he said from his home in
#
Sprii^field, Mo. Tt certainly was a busy
one because I also was the top votegetter for the College All-Star game.
Fans voted for the team in those days
just as they did for the All-Star baseball
game, and our team was the first to beat
the NFL champions.”
Francis, who spent 28 years as a ca
reer Army officer, following service durmgWorld Warn and a year coaching at
Kansas State, still reveres Coach Bible.
He was like a father to me,” Francis
said. He was a high-class man, who
ranks with George Halas and Jock
Sutherland - the three best coaches I
ever played for. D.X. was a scholar, a
man of letters who also knew a lot
about football and how to get the most
Irom his players.
VVe were not a wide-open team like
his later squads at the University of
Texas, and it ’s a shame because we had
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some great players. We threw the ball
eight or nine times a game, but we
could have done anything we wished
with our talent.”
Nebraska didn’t do too badlyin those
days... and Francis couldn’t have
done much better. In the first game of
the season, he ran 97yards for a touch
down against Iowa State, and Cardwell
got three more scores.
Lloyd was as good a running back
as ever played the game,” Francis
said. He was 6-3 and ran the lOO
yards in 9.7 seconds. With all of that
speed, he also was a great open field
mnner who could cut back, accelerate,
dodge tacklers and simply run away
fi’om people.”
Francis, said Cardwell, who lives in
Omaha, was no slouch either. “He was a
big, powerful inside runner who just
exploded through a hole, and if he got
into the clear, he ran away fi’om people.
If he didn’t get into the clear, he’d run
over tacklers. Sam was a do-it-all plaver
for us.”
toiy. The week before, he had
forced to leave a big game against Min
nesota because of a concussion and the
Huskers lost, 7-0.
“I always believed we could have
won that game, and maybe the national
championship, if Sam hadn’t been in
jured,” Cardwell said.
Francis was a one-man gang when
Nebraska played Pitt, but it wasn’t quite
enough and the Com huskers lost their
only other game that season, though he
had a 21-yard TD pass to Cardwell.
In his final game, against Oregon
State, Francis finished with a flourish,
scoring a touchdown,6n the seventh
play of the game; and before the first
quarter had ended, h^ also threw a pair
of touchdown passes. Nebraska had
only seven first dgiwns that day, but
won the game, 32-14.
Great players have a way of getting
the most from the least, and few have
ever gotten more for their team than
Sam Francis did for Nebraska—and
himself—in 1936.
Against Indiana, he shook off a lame
ankle and set up the winning touch
down with a 22-yard run that gave
Nebraska a come-fi'om-behind, 13-9 vie- I
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n the first full year following the end
of World War II, college gridirons
were flooded with players who had
dreamed of returning to the game.
Many have said that getting back to the
game was one of the major incentives
for survival in foxholes, cockpits and
gun turrets.
Age was no factor here. Consider that
when the University of Pennsylvania
opened its 1946 season against La
fayette, its captain for that game was
Eddie Allen, who had spent nearly six
years as a member of the Armed Forces.
If that prolonged tour of duty had taken
a serious toll, it was not apparent, be
cause he set a school record with five
touchdowns, three in the first half His
other two came within 61 seconds of
each other in the third quarter, when
he scored on a five-yard run, and then
kicked off, recovered a fumbled
Lafayette lateral on the return and
punched in his final TD a couple of
plays later.
Down in Tennessee, Walter Slater
from Providence, R.I., had been a mem
ber of Coach John W. Barnhill’s 1941
and 1942 teams, the latter winning the
I
Sugar Bowl; he returned for the 1946
season and was elected team captain.
Gen. Robert R. Neyland Jr. had returned
as head coach after five years of active
duty, and welcomed to the football
field an array of 17-year-olds and
service veterans.
“We had enough good players for two
foil teams and that’s what Gen. Neyland
used, ” Slater said fi’om his home in St.
Augustine, Fla., where he spent most of
his life, first as a high school coach,
then as business manager for the
Florida School for the Deaf and Blind.
“The nominal first team played the first
and third quarters. The second team
had the second and fourth quarters,
without any deviation.
We had the ball at Alabama’s oneyard line at the end of the first quarter.
and he took out the entire team and put
in the other team, and it scored. ”
r Neyland, a graduate of West Point,
vvas one of college football’s coaching
giants, with 173 victories in 21 years.
Slater said he was “a bulldog, very au
thoritarian, much like Jock Sutherland
[whom Slater played for in the NFL at
Pittsburgh], a man who was very aloof,
hard-driving and almost mistake-free. ”
Neyjarid’s teams were always strong
defefisively, very conservative on of
fense, he stressed kicking and using
field position as a prime tool. Slaterwas
his chief punt returner, and his biggest
play in that department was a 57-yard
return for a touchdown in a 7-0 victory
over Kentucl^.
"Several years ago, one of my former
players, who is a high school coach, at
tended a clinic at which George Blanda
lectured on the art of punting, ” Slater
recalled. “George was a fine college
punter and in the course of his talk, he
warned his listeners about getting the
proper height and distance.
I got burned once in a game against
Tennessee when a man named Walt
Slater returned one of my kicks for the
game’s only score,’ Blanda told his au
dience. Well, my former player couldn’t
wait to get home to tell me, but that’s
what happened.”
He also had a 78-yard return against
the University of North Carolina in
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Wyoming's Lean,
mean Rushing Machine
1946 that got a 20-14 victory and still
is in the record book as the Vols’ longest
punt return. Earlier, in the 1941 season,
when he was just a sophomore, he
had a 73-yarder against the University
of Da34on.
Slater’s team lost only to Wake Forest
in 1946, but he faced such great stars as
Harry Gilmer at Alabama, Charley
“Choo-Choo” Justice at North Carolina
and Charley Conerly at the University
of Mississippi. In his first game that sea
son, Tennessee beat Georgia Tech, 13-9,
in what Slater thought was the toughest
game of the year.
Bobby Dodd had Frank Broyles at
quarterback, ” said Slater, "and he gave
us fits. Dodd and I became great friends
when I got into coaching and we always
spent time together every year.
North Carolina had us beaten until
I got that punt return for a TD but,
ironically, the only time I ever saw
After serving In WW II, Walter Slater re
turned to Tennessee to captain the Vols’
football team.
Justice was in that game. I never had
an opportunity to meet him and it
wasn t until many, many years later
that I met Gilmer.”
What effect did the war have on his
playing?
It took a lot out of everyone,”
Slater said. " But all of us had just
one dream when we were away—to
get back and play at least one more
season. I was 27 years old in my final
season at Tennessee bu4 we were just
so happy to get back to the game, age
never was a factor. ”
And it didn’t seem to matter to
anyone on that Tennessee team, which
played in the Orange Bowl, losing to
Rice, 8-0.
"Two bowl games four years apart
was something, ” he said. "But being
able to come home and play again
meant everything. ”
im Crawford was exactly what
you’d expect of a man who had
spent most of his life in Graybull, Wyo.
He was whipsaw lean, and conducted
himself with the quiet certainty that
Hollywood used to reserve for the town
marshall who kept law and order,
seemingly without raising his voice.
Back in 1956, many in college foot
ball’s establishment weren’t prepared
to see a good player come out of the
Rocky Mountains and dominate one of
its most prestigious statistics, but in his
own quiet, steady way, Crawford led all
of the nation’s rushers, with 1,104 yards
on 200 carries, and landed on the AllAmerica teams picked by Look
magazine and the College Football
Writers Association.
The Rocky Mountains are considered
a neutral zone by those who believe the
game can only be played along either
coast, or on the flatlands of the South,
J
Southwest and Midwest. That form of
prejudice was certainly in evidence a
couple of years ago when Brigham
Young University won the national
championship, amidst a chorus of
grumbling by some who questioned the
strength of BYU’s opposition in the
Western Athletic Conference.
It was no different in 1956. Wyoming
had a perfect (10-0) season, but didn’t
even make the nation’s Top-10 rank
ings. They were invited to return for a
second straight Sun Bowl appearance,
having won the year before, but
Crawford said his teammates felt it
really wasn’t worth it.
“We’d go down there, they’dgive us a
Mickey Mouse watch and allow us to
watch a bullfight, and then we’d have to
work our butts off” he recalled.“A lot of
the guys, myself included, had invita
tions from some of the All-Star bowl
games and we preferred to play in
them.”
Crawford played in the East-West
game. A week before reporting, he in
jured his leg in a skiing accident and
found he could run at about 75 percent
of his usual speed, “and that wasn’t
much at 100 percent. Still, I got a kickoff
back 90 yards that set up our only
touchdown and we won, 7-6.”
His fondest memories during the sea
son were of playing with his younger
brother, Jeriy, a sophomore at Wyom
ing at the time.
“We played together all our lives, and
he was the only player on the team who
could tackle me during our scrim-
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mages/’ Crawford said. “He was a great
player. The first time he carried the
ball, he ran 86 yards for a touchdown. ”
When Wyoming opened with a 40-13
victory over Western State, the two of
them combined for 177 yards. Through
out the season, Jim Crawford dueled
Billy Ray Barnes of Wake Forest for the
NCAA rushing lead, but it might not
have been so close had Coach Phil Nu
gent used Crawford on offense as much
as he did on defense.
"We’d get a good lead, and he would
keep the older players for defensive
situations and allow the younger
guys to get offensive experience,’’
Crawford said.
Wyoming had two scores to settle
in 1956. They had lost to Denver, 6-3,
in a controversial game the previous
season. In 1956 the Cowboys won,
27-0, and Crawford had a big day.
When they beat Utah, 30-20, Crawford
was the main offensive weapon as both
passer and runner, as Nugent’s offense
shifted back and forth from the T to
Wingback formations.
In a 27-15 win over Kansas State, he
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9-0 season.
What made this feat so remarkable
was that in 1954 the school had deemphasized a very successful football
program, one that had brought the 1951
team to the Gator Bowl and had put
Washington & Lee on a par with all the
major teams in the South. After the de
emphasis, caused in part by a cheating
scandal among members of the football
team during exams—a violent offense
at a school that took great pride in its
honor system—Washington & Lee won
he rumbling sounds of old cannon
just one of 23 games in three seasons.
and the frantic cries of cavalrymen
In 1957 new coach Lee McLaughlin
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where so much of the Civil War was
young men to the school—players who
fought almost a century before.
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which do not receive the vast publicity
accorded to others in the more
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and cheered the small-town boy from
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with a 17-yard run and also kicked
a couple of extra points. Wyoming was
9-0 when it played Brigham Young
in its final game. Crawford got the
only score when he ran 55 yards with
a first-quarter interception, as Wyom
ing won, 7-6, to cap the perfect season.
Perhaps the biggest thrill of all
came a couple of weeks later in New
York City, at the Look All-America
Awards dinner. The magazine’s sports
editor, Tim Cohane, presented cer
tificates to every member of the team
except Crawford.
"He surprised everyone, me most of
all, when he called up heavyweight
champion Rocky Marciano to make my
presentation,’’ Crawford said. "He
pointed out how Rocky had come over
such a tough road to be champion, and
how he had come up the hard way.’’
What Cohane said was this:
“We want you to make the AllAmerica presentation to another great
champion, who came up to this title—
the title of All-America—over a difficult
road, too.
““We want you to make the award to
Wyoming’s Jim Crawford, the small-
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The hospitality people of Jfyifyi
were perfect. The group included Terry
Fobs, a 5-7, 152-pound linebacker who
coined the defense’s motto, "I’ll meet
you at the bottom of the pile,’’ guard
Dick Barton, who grew fi’om 145
pounds to 175 pounds during his col
lege days, and tackle Bill Wheeler,
whom McLaughlin once goodnaturedly described to his mother as
"weak but slow.’’
Jerry Hyatt was the team’s biggest
player, a 205-pounder who played
center. He never played football until
he went to W&L, and it pleased his
coach to tell him, "You don’t have any
bad habits for me to break.”
Steve Suttle, the quarterback, is now
a lawyer in his native Texas.
"I never planned to play college
football,” he said. "I was looking for
a good, small liberal arts college but
I got caught up in what was happening
there and I couldn’t resist the call,
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lin invited me out to watch practice.
I was so impressed by them as people, I
asked to join."
McLaughlin sought players fix)m East
ern prep schools, particularly the heavily
populated area of Connecticut, where
there seems to be a boys’ prep school in
every other town. All have good high
school football programs.
McLaughlin got the most from his
players, but in a way that mixed humor,
understanding and hard work. Tragi
cally, he was killed in the late ’60s, but
his former players have established an
endowed scholarship at the school in
his memory.
As in any perfect season,there were a
couple of scary points along the way.
W«&,L barely won its first game, 7-6, over
Harnpden-Sydney, though the defense
held the losers to a minus 10 yards and
didn’t permit them to throw one pass.
In the final game of the season, at
Washington University in St. Louis on
Thanksgiving Day, the team had only
four hours of sleep. Its plane was forced
down in Evansville, Ind., and the
players bussed the remaining distance
to St. Louis, arriving at three in the
morning for a 10 a.m. game. They arose
at seven, and three hours later were in
the game.
W&L fell behind, 14-0, and after Jim
Hickey’s 80-yard touchdown pass from
Chuck Lane, later a publicity director
for the Green Bay Packers, Washington
scored again for a 20-6 lead.
But halfback Charles Gummey, with a
140-yard day, led a running attack that
rolled up 372 yards, never once being
thrown for a loss, and the Generals
came back in the second half to win,
33-20. Gummey scored twice and the
passing game, modest in its efforts, still
got 158 yards from just five
completions.
One of the most whimsical things
that most of those players remember
was their adoption of a popular song of
the day, “Running Bear. ” They sang it
constantly, even before a game. The day
McLaughlin came into the locker room
and saw his team tense with woriy
about protecting its perfect record, he
told Hyatt, "Sing 'Running Bear.’’’
He did, in his own style, and soon the
entire locker room was breaking up; the
tension had eased.
That wasn’t the only effect. The visiting team s locker room was next door,
and the cinder block wall separating
the two rooms did not reach the ceiling.
Those guys in the other dressing
room must have thought they were
about to play a bunch of loonies,” said
Bob Payne, a tackle on the team. "After
hearing us sing, they were nice to us
and let us win.”
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Artificial Tutf
Makes Its Debut
hen the University of Houston
and Washington State played
each other on September 23, 1966, the
game of football changed forever. Artifi
cial turf and football became partners.
On that date, college football was
played for the first time on a surface
other than Mother Earth ... something
called Astroturf, named because it had
Survived it has, though artificial
been specially developed for use in
playing surfaces still seem a bit antisep
Houston’s Astrodome, where it would
tic. Players who were weaned on grass
need no sunlight, water or feed; where
fields in Pop Warner competition and
it could not get wet, muddy or rutted;
high school still complain that they
and where players could not get mud
miss the particular smell of grass and
and grass stains on themselves and
earth that gets into the system and
their uniforms, the badge of courage for
Stays forever. Others miss the feel of the
a long afternoon’s scrimmage since the
dirt and grass on their skin and uni
day the game began.
forms. “Not much to wash off but sweat
It is claimed that the ghosts of
and a bit of blood after a game, ” said
Pudge Heffelfinger, Walter Camp,
one. You know you worked out there,
Fielding Yost and the other pioneers
but there s no dirty water to prove it. ”
of the game held a protest rally in
Worst of all, said many, was the feel
football’s Great Valhalla, then settled
ing that there was no place to spit. It
back and granted that, yes, the game
was like doing it in your living room,
would survive.
one coach complained.
W
Artificial surfaces in sports raised a
lot ofhackleswhen Judge Roy Hofheinz
had a chemical company develop a
special playing surface for his Astro
dome. When it was first opened in 1965,
for baseball, only the infield had an arti
ficial area/ the rest ofthe field was natuand dirt, with refracted
sunlight coming through panels in the
roof to help it grow and stay fresh. But
major league players found that the
glare from the sunlight made it almost
impossible to track fly balls and popups, so the rafters were covered. With
the coverings went the real grass.
In 1966, the problem was solved and
a new word was coined: Astroturf The
en tire playing surface was covered with
this synthetic carpet, and now, a major
college stadium without one of several
types of this artificial surface is a rarity.
But back in 1966, it was a brand
new world of questions, for which
Houston coach Bill Yeoman had to
find solutions.
"We got a head start because Judge
Hofheinz had strips of the stufl laid out
and he asked our players to do their
cuts and breaks and some running, to
get an idea of how a football player
would react, ” Yeoman recalled. "Our
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kids tried it out and they all came back
saying how great it was. I think the
judge was trying to get psychological
acceptance more than anything, to get
the kids believing there was no differ
ence and cut down on any complaints.
"So we went out and did a lot of
drills—one-on-ones, pass routes, back
pedals—everything we did on natural
grass, and ther^ didn’t seem to be
much difference. If anything, I could
see it would help our team because we
had a group of quick kids and that kind
of surface simply accentuates any
quickness. It helped their traction get
ting into and out of cuts, even after they
wet down the field to keep skin abra
sions to a minimum. There was no dif
ference indoors on dry or wet surfaces.
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"It became clear to me almost imme
diately,” Yeoman continued, “that I
was seeing a revolution in how the
game would be played. Players were
quicker, they could run faster and you
never had to worry about being slowed
down in muddy conditions. ”
The biggest immediate problem 20
years ago was footwear. Among the
kinds available. Yeoman looked at four
or five different soccer shoes with
small-nubbed soles and heels, unlike
the longer, rubber cleats of the conven
tional football shoes worn on grass.
“Our kids worked in real good with
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those shoes, so we established a shoe
bank for visiting teams,” Yeoman said.
“ We provided their footwear for a long
time until those surfaces became com
monplace, and teams had to stock
shoes for them. We also had to stock
shoes when we went out and played on
real grass.”
The start of that revolution certainly
did not slow down Houston. The Cou
gars defeated Washington State, 21-7, as
Warren McVea caught a record-tying
99-yard touchdown pass from Bo Bur
ris, who also threw another pair to half
back Dickie Post.
Somehow, though, even 20 years
later, the smell of dirt apd grass mixed
together on a crisp fafi afternoon can
not be matched... or, manufactured.
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Missouri’s Man of the Hour
n the Wednesday night in Sep
by 14 points if Pisarkiewicz started, but
tember 1976, before Missouri was
would romp by 35 points if Woods were
to play Ohio State in Columbus, Pete the starter.
Woods had a dream. Luckily, most of it
“ I had already been a starting pitcher
didn’t come true.
for two seasons on the baseball team,
Woods dreamed that Ohio State led,
and though I hadn’t started at quar
21-20, and Missouri lined up for the
terback, I had played enough not to be
extra point to tie the game. But he was a
awestruck by the assignment, ” said
blocking back, not a holder for kicker
Woods from his office in St. Louis,
Tim Gibbons—a job he performed the
where he is an attorney and repre
previous season when the team made
sentative for professional athletes. “ I
every extra-point kick. Gibbons missed
had butterflies, as is normal before the
the extra point and Woods himself
game, but I didn’t feel any overriding
missed a key block during the play.
pressure, probably because so much
In real life, three days later, Ohio
had been made of Ohio State and so
State did lead, 21-20, but Woods lined
little of our chance to win.”
up as the quarterback and he ran
That was never the case. In the final
for the winning two-point conversion
minute of play, with Ohio State leading,
with 12 seconds to play, while Gibbons,
21-14, Curtis Brown romped 31yards to
who earlier had kicked two extra points
the Buckeyes’ nine-yard line. Woods
with Woods as his holder, watched
got six more on a quarterback keeper;
from the sideline.
Brown added another; and on thirdIn the end, those two points gave
and-two. Woods threw a touchdown
Missouri a stunning 22-21 victory over
pass to Leo Lewis in the left corner of
the second-ranked Buckeyes, in 90the end zone. As soon as Lewis caught
degree heat. The dream, it seemed, was
the ball, it was slapped from his hands,
just one of a series of events that
but the officials ruled that he had had
formed a perfect backdrop to this
possession long enough for the score.
incredible game.
On the two-point conversion tiy, a
Woods wasn’t even supposed to play
Missouri player missed a block and
during the 1976 season, having been
Woods was hurried into over-throwing
redshirted so he could get two addi
Brown in the end zone. But receiver Joe
tional seasons after quarterback Steve
Stewart was held in the end zone, the
Pisarkiewicz graduated. But Pisarkieofficials ruled, and Woods got a second
wicz had injured his shoulder and
tiy.
could not play, so Woods not only was
“That was another strange twist,”
put on varsity status, but was to start
Woods said. ““Two veiy close, contro
the first game of his college career.
versial calls went against Ohio State in
When Coach Al Onofrio’s Missouri
the final seconds, in their own stadium,
team arrived in Columbus on Friday, all
with Woody Hayes on the sideline and
it heard was that Ohio State would win
82,000 people looking on. Those kinds
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of things weren’t supposed to happen
in Columbus.”
On his second tiy. Woods used a
quarterback option play the Buckeyes
hadn’t'seen that day. He sprinted out to
the 1^, was hit low, but fell over offen
sive tackle James Taylor and into the
end zone for the winning two points.
The strangest thing of all happened
when the game ended, ” Woods re
called. “ There was just this stunned si
lence, no booing or catcalls. Nothing.
All of the Missouri rooters who were
there went crazy. Ten years later, if
eveiyone from Missouri who claims to
have been there actually had showed
up, there wouldn’t have been any room
for the Ohio State fans. ”
There was never a moment during
his career to equal that one. Woods
said, and that includes throwing a 98yard TD pass later that season to beat
Nebraska at Lincoln. "All the events
conspired to make it special—my first
college start, us being a 35-point under
dog and beating the No. 2 team in the
country, and then getting two TD
passes and the winning points.
“There are no encore perform
ances after that. ”
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Coors is the one.
The Football Hall of Fame honors the success of over 500 of college football’s greatest players and coaches.
n a mock locker room off to the
side, a lifelike Knute Rockne gives
his famous halftime "win one for
the Gipper” speech.
"Gipp never made it through his last
year at Notre Dame,” Rockne says.
“When I went to see him in the hospital,
his condition was grave. Somebody
said, "It’s tough to go, Gipp,’ and Gipp
opened his eyes and smiled and said,
'What’s tough about it? I’ve got no
complaints.’ To me he said. It’s all
right. Rock, I’m not afraid. But some
day, when the team is up against it,
when things are going bad and the
breaks are beating the boys, tell them to
go in there with all they’ve got and win
just one for the Gipper. I don’t know
where I’ll be then. Rock, but I’ll know
about it, and I’ll be happy.’ ”
The locker room, Rockne, and in the
hallway real Notre Dame lockers and
benches are all part of the National
Football Foundation’s College Football
Hall of Fame at the Kings Island Amuse
ment Park, on Interstate 71 between
Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio.
For anyone interested in college foot
ball, and there isn’t a Saturday
afternoon game going on, this is the
place to be.
The building looks as though it were
transplanted from a college campus,
with ivy already starting to climb the
brick walls. Just inside the foyer on the
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right is a replica Heisman Trophy. On
the left is the imposing block of granite
on top of the Lombardi Award for the
nation’s outstanding lineman.
The building was erected and
opened in 1978, and the Hall of Fame is
continually looking for more memora
bilia and better ways to display it. But
there is quite enough already to leave
even the casual fan bug-eyed over a
sport that traces its origin to the Nov. 6,
1869 afternoon when Princeton and
Rutgers kicked off for the first time.
The game has undergone numerous
changes since then. In one trophy case,
a display of old rubber and leather nose
guards reminds new fans what old
players once wore. There are footballs
that look more like basketballs and uni
forms that once draped the splendid
forms of such stars as Joe Bellino of
Navy, Glenn Davis of Army, Archie
Griffin of Ohio State and Biggie Munn of
Minnesota.
A relatively new display features
one of the original officials’ flags,
first used at Youngstown during the
Youngstown State-Oklahoma City game
on Oct. 16, 1941.
Youngstown State coach "’Dike”
Beede thought the game would be
better served with flags to call infrac
tions instead of horns and whistles,
which had been used at that time.
Jack McPhee, an official who worked
that game, liked the idea, and saved his
flag, which is half red and half white.
He later used it in other games, includ
ing a Rose Bowl, and the idea caught
on.
Today the penalty flags are yellow,
and whistles are used only to stop play,
but you can see the original penalty flag
in the Hall of Fame.
You can see Bob Gain’s kicking shoe,
too. He won the Outland Trophy in
1950 at Kentucky.
You can see one of the balls used in
Coach Paul "Bear” Bryant’s 315th
coaching victory that broke Amos
Alonzo Staggs record 314. Bryant’s
Alabama Crimson Tide beat Auburn,
28-17, on Nov. 28, 1981.
In a special room is the MacArthur
Bowl, a silver punch bowl-sized replica
stadium awarded since 1959 to college
football’s best team. "There is no
substitute for victory, ” is inscribed on
the side, and looming above the trophy
is MacArthur’s likeness with two foot
ball players—one from Princeton and
one from Rutgers—the two schools
that participated in the first official
game.
The inscription on the trophy reads:
"Upon the fields of friendly strife are
sown the seeds that, upon other fields,
on other days, will bear the fruits of
victory.”
continued
COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME
Now rr CNIY TAKES
ONE TO TANGO
continued
annuaWy by the National Football
Foundation to the outstanding college football team of the season.
Pop Warner, who won 313 games as a
coach, is memorialized with pictures
and his death mask. There are two
tickets to the 1942 Rose Bowl game, the
only one not played in Pasadena. This
one was held in Duke Stadium because
of the war, and the cost was $4.40 a seat.
Times have changed.
On the ground floor, visitors walk on
artificial turf while they scan murals
and pictures of games past. There is the
Time Tunnel which traces the begin
nings of the game—a student named
William Webb Ellis stunned his friends
at the Rugby School in England in 1823
when he picked up the ball and ran it in
for a score and a banner which reads
“For God, for Country and for Yale.”
Upstairs, which is the entrance level,
are computers that allow visitors to
match strategy with actual coaching
decisions, games to test football knowl
edge and a 250-word essay on every
member in the Hall.
The Hall itselfisaregalroomwithenshrinees faces etched on strips of
Plexiglas. There is a section for players
and one for coaches, nearly 500
honorees in all.
Just outside the Hall are other pic
tures and memorabilia hanging from
the ceiling. A press box pass from the
1959 Army-Navy game reads “Ladies not
admitted except teletypists.”
No chauvinism there. Nearby is the
typewriter of famed sportswriter Grantland Rice, and in the back, pictures
from the first Army-Navy game, played
on the Army parade field at West Point,
Sept. 29, 1890. Navy, having already
played six preliminaiy games to none
for Army, won, and the rivalry was on.
There are three movie rooms in addi
tion to the one that holds Rockne,
including the big James Stewart
Theater, the Coaches’ Theater and the
Fred Flintstone Theater. The first two
show continuous films on college foot
ball; the latter explains football rules to
youngsters.
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There is a 1930s-style soda shop and
a gift shop and, ofeourse, Rockne. Com
missioned by Chevrolet, the Rockne
locker room is darkened and a film pre
sented that discusses some of the
game’s coaching legends.
Then the screen goes up, the cur
tain opens and the Rockne mannequin
comes to life. The filmed face of Jack
Henri looks around at all those in the
room, and when Henri is done, he
punctuates the “... win just one for the
Gipper... ” speech with "This is the
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Foundation also bestows the Distin
guished American Award and the Gold
Medal Award, both displayed at the
Hall.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, a former foot
ball player, was the first to receive the
Gold Medal Award "in recognition of a
lifetime of devotion to American Inter
collegiate Football. ”
The Foundation also offers annual
Graduate Scholarship awards to distin
guished scholar-athletes among the
nation s college football seniors.
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exhibit in the building.
The National Football Foundation, a
longtime promotional organization, is
headquartered in New York City with a
small professional staff. A large volun
teer staff works nationwide, and new
members are solicited yearly. The
Foundation holds an awards dinner
every year, and an Honors Court nomi
nates, elects and inducts members into
the Hall. For those who have served
their country and community in other
ways in addition to football, the
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Walk back through time to the beginnings of
college football.
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TOTAL OFFENSE
Most Plays
Game—89, Rhett Bonner (Bethel) vs. Gust.
Adolphus, 1985.
Season 537, Steve Hendiy (WisconsinSuperior), 1982.
Career—1,695, Dave Geissler (Wisconsin-Stevens Point), 1982-85.
Most Yards Gained
Game—527, Rob Shippy (Concordia, 111.)
vs. Concordia (Wis.), 1985.
Season 3,193, Keith Bishop (Wheaton),
1983.
Career 9,052, Keith Bishop (Illinois
Wesleyan), 1981; (Wheaton) 1983-85.
RUSHING
Most Rushes
Game—58, Bill Kaiser (Wabash) vs.
DePauw, 1985.
Season—335, Bill Kaiser (Wabash), 1985.
Career—1,024, Peter Gomiewicz (Colby),
1971-74.
Most Yards Gained
Game—382, Pete Baranek (Carthage) vs.
North Central, 1985.
Season—1,615, Joe Dudek (Plymouth
State), 1985.
Career—5,570, Joe Dudek (Plymouth
State), 1982-85.
Most Touchdowns Scored Rushing
;
Game—5, By many players. )VIost
recent: Joe Dudek (Plymouth State) vs.
Bridgewater (Mass.), 1985.
Season—24, Joe Dudek (Plymouth
State), 1985.
Career—76, Joe Dudek(PlymouthState),
1982-85.
^ Most Yards Gained
[ Game—513, Craig Solomon (Rhodes) vs.
Rose-Hulman, 1978.
; Season—3,274, Keith Bishop (Wheaton),
; 1983.
i Career—9,579, Keith Bishop (Illinois
Wesleyan), 1981; (Wheaton) 1983-85.
PASSING
Most Passes Attempted
Most Touchdown Passes
Game—7, Mark Peterson (Nebraska
Wesleyan) vs. Midland, 1983; Bob Lock
hart (Trenton State) vs. Ramapo, 1980.
Season—32, Flip Faherty (Trenton State),
1983.
Career—71, Keith Bishop (Illinois
Wesleyan), 1981; (Wheaton) 1983-85;
Craig Solomon (Rhodes), 1975-78.
Game—79, Mike Wallace (Ohio Wesleyan)
vs. Denison, 1981.
Season 480, Steve Hendry (WisconsinSuperior), 1982.
Career—1,346, Dave Geissler (Wisconsin-Stevens Point), 1982-85.
Most Passes Completed
Game—47, Mike Wallace (Ohio Wes
leyan) vs. Denison, 1981.
Season 262, Keith Bishop (Wheaton),
1985.
Career 789, Dave Geissler (WisconsinStevens Point), 1982-85.
RECEIVING
Most Passes Caught
Game—20, Pete Thompson (Carroll) vs.
Augustana, 1978.
Season—87, Jim Jordan (Wheaton),
1985.
Career—258, Bill Stromberg (Johns
Hopkins), 1978-81.
Most Passes Had Intercepted
Game—8, Kevin Karwath (Canisius) vs.
Liberty Baptist, 1979.
Season 43, Steve Hendry (Wisconsin-
Superior), 1982.
Career—117, Steve Hendry (WisconsinSuperior), 1980-83.
Keith Bishop
Most Yards Gained
Game—303, Chuck Braun (Wisconsin-
Stevens Point) vs. Wisconsin-Superior,
1981.
Season—1,483, Jim Myers (Kenyon), 1974.
Career—3,776, Bill Stromberg (Johns
Hopkins), 1978-81.
Most Touchdown Passes Cau^t
Game—5, Ron Caples (Iona) vs. Pace,
1984; John Aromando (Trenton State)
vs. Upsala, 1983; Greg Holmes (Carroll)
vs. North Central, 1981.
Season—20, John Aromando (Trenton
State), 1983.
Career—39, John Aromando (Trenton
State), 1981-84; Bill Stromberg (Johns
Hopkins), 1978-81.
Most Extra Points Scored Kicking
Game—13, Kurt Christenson (ConcordiaMoorhead) vs. Macalester, 1977.
Season—49, Doug Rothrock (UC San
Diego), 1973.
Career—155, Marco Vittozzi (Plymouth
State), 1981-84.
Most Field Goals Made
Game—6, Jim Hever (Rhodes) vs.
Millsaps, 1984.
Season—18, Scott Ryerson (Central
Florida), 1981.
Career—43, Ted Swan (Colorado
College), 1973-76.
ALL-PURPOSE RUNNING
Yardage From Rushing, Receiving
and All Runbacks
SCORING
Most Points Scored
Season—150, Joe Dudek (Plymouth
State), 1985; Bruce Naszimento (Jersey
City State), 1973.
Career—474, Joe Dudek (Plymouth State),
1982-85.
Season—1,979, Joe Dudek (Plymouth
State), 1985.
Career—6,509, Joe Dudek (Plymouth
State), 1982-85.
Most Touchdowns Scored
Season—25, Joe Dudek (Plymouth
State), 1985; Bruce Naszimento (Jersey
City State), 1973.
Career—79, Joe Dudek (Plymouth State),
1982-85.
(Records taken from "1986 NCAA Fooftoa//," copy
right 1986 by the NCAA; used with permission.
Copies of this publication may be purchased from
the NCAA Publishing Service, P.O. Box 1906,
Mission, Kansas 66201.)
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TODAY’S TWA. FIND OUT HOW GOOD WE REALIY ARE.
icture this:
A big, strapping youth, about 21 or 22, saunters into
the local college hangout to spend some time with
his pals. He's wearing a white letterman’s sweater that’s
covered with symbols of his athletic diversity. There’s the
letter he won in football. The patch he got for making the all
conference basketball team. The medal he won at the
conference track meet. The letter he was awarded for his
participation in baseball—
Clip out that picture and save it.
Put it next to the one of the brontosaurus and the dodo
bird. File it under “extinct. ”
Playing more than one sport at the college level used to be
fairly common. Until 20 or 25 years £igo, it was not unusual to
find a college football player who also carried his talents onto
the running track, the baseball diamond, the wrestling mat,
the basketball court, or even the lacrosse field.
Today those athletes are rare, perhaps not so much
because there aren’t as many good athletes but because
expanded schedules have made it virtually impossible to
compete in sports in consecutive seasons. Football schedules
now run into December and January, when basketball and
wrestling are already in fiall swing. Basketball and wrestling
run into baseball and track. Baseball and track conflict with
spring football workouts.
Of course, that hasn’t stopped some guys from trying.
Take, for example, Andre Bison, a thoroughbred who
played every sport there was at Northwestern High School in
Flint, Mich., and seemed determined to do the same as a
freshman at Michigan State.
Last fall Bison was a starting flanker for the Spartans’
football team. After playing in the All-American Bowl in
December, he joined Coach Jud Heathcote’s basketball team
and took part in 10 games. He then joined the track team and,
with only two weeks of practice, set a school record and
finished second in the long jump in the Big Ten indoor meet.
continued
From college football to professional baseball to Olympic
gold, Jim Thorpe was an athlete of many talents.
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It was all kind of fun, Rison will tell
you, but he won’t try it again. This year
he 11 skip basketball.
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I didn’t like being [two months] be
hind everybody, ” said Rison. ‘Tm too
much of a competitor to sit on the
bench. I’d rather spend my time run
ning indoor track, where I can be in
creasing my speed and endurance. ”
Rison now hopes to eventually deaSi'""*? ^^o^ld-class long jumper in
addition to being a football star.
The prevailing feeling among many
modern athletes is that even competing
m two sports is too much. Concentrate
your efforts on one sport, they say, and
excel at it. But guys like Rison grimace
at such a thought.
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"It doesn’t make any difference, ” he
said T think I’d become restless if I
could only play one sport.”
The late Jim Thorpe undoubtedly
would have agreed. It seems like any
discussion of multi-sport athletes
bejns uath Thorpe, a Sac-and-Fox
Indian who, perhaps more than any
other athlete, exhibited the versatility
necessaiy to excel in a variety of
endeavors.
Thorpe was, of course, a gold medal
vwnner m the decathlon in the 1912
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ceptional skills as a swimmer, golfer,
bowler, boxer and wrestler. There prob
ably was never an athlete who could do
so many things so well.
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winner Johnny Lujack
also found time to star In basketball
baseball and track at Notre Dame.
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Despite his Olympic achievements,
Thorpe is probably almost as well re
membered as a football hero. Discovered by the legendaiy coach Glenn
op Warner while taking part in a
pickup game between classes, Thorpe
became an immediate star.
Legend has it that Warner tested the
youngster in his first practice by having
him tiy to run through the entire
arlisle team. Thorpe easily covered
the distance from one goal line to the
other without being knocked off his
fret. Amazed and flustered, Warner had
Thorpe tiy it a second time. Again, he
made it through the entire team with
out being tackled.
Thorpe, and the legend, were off
and running.
In his first season, 1907, Thorpe led
Carlisle to a 10-2-1 record. He starred for
th^B school in 1908, 1911 and 1912, too.
There seemingly were no limits to what
he coul^ do on the field.
As a runner, Thorpe had blinding
speed, an astonishing change of pace, a
stiff-arm that shattered defenders and a
snaky twist of the hips that shed tackI lers, Arthur Daley of The New York
Tunes once wrote. "He could sweep the
ends, slash off tackle or splinter the
center of the line. He passed well in an
era when there was little passing. He
was a phenomenon as a kicker—punts
placements or drop kicks. He blocked
beautifully. His one flaw as a football
player was that he’d occasionally not
put out to his fullest ability.”
Others through the years have tried
to live up to Thorpe’s standards.
In the 1920s, Ernie Nevers was doing
Tho^e-like things under the tutelage
of the same man who had earlier
coached Thorpe—Pop Warner. Nevers
was an All-America fullback under
Warner at Stanford in 1923-25 and was,
Warner often claimed, a better football
player than Thorpe. In three years of
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varsity competition Nevers never lost a
yard from scrimmage.
Nevers also found time to participate
in basketball, baseball and track. Like
Thorpe and many other athletes of
their era, Nevers often combined two
sports in one day, throwing the discus
in a track meet and then hustling over
to the baseball field for a game. There
were some who claimed Nevers’ skills
on the baseball diamond—as a hardthrowing pitcher and slugger of tapemeasure home runs—were equal to his
talents on the football field.
“He was the greatest football player
who ever lived, ” wrote Don Liebendorfer in his history of Stanford ath
letics. Liebendorfer pointed out that
Nevers was a big, friendly sort of guy.
“But put Nevers in one of the many ath
letic uniforms he wore and he was a
driving, relentless, ferocious compe
titor, who swept aside all who stood in
his way.”
The same could be said of another
West Coast prodigy about 15years later.
Jackie Robinson showed his versatility
by starring for UCLA in the same four
sports—football, baseball, basketball
and track. In fact, Robinson, who later
became the first black man to play pro
fessional baseball, sometimes con
tended that baseball wasn’t even his
best sport.
A few years later, Johnny Lujack of
Notre Dame showed his skills by play-
TOUCHDOWN
Fleet-footed Willie Gault excelled In football and track at
ing the same four sports as a sopho
more in college. Lujack became the
only Notre Dame athlete since 1915 to
letter in four sports during his firstyear
of eligibility.
Besides being a top-notch football
player—he won the Heisman Trophy in
1947—Lujack also was the starting
point guard on the basketball team,
split his time between second base and
right field on the baseball team, and
was a high jumper and undefeated
javelin thrower on the track team.
Several other college football players
through the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s showed
similar versatility. Jim Brown, an AllAmerica fullback at Syracuse, also was
an All-America lacrosse player. Angelo
Bertelli who, like Lujack, won the
Heisman as a Notre Dame quarterback,
also played some hockey in the ’40s for
the South Bend school.
By the mid-1960s the days of the
three- or four-sport athlete were vir
tually gone, although there have been
several two-sport standouts. The most
common combination of sports seems
to be football and track, since their
seasons don’t conflict and the skills
necessary to excel at them, like foot
speed and upper body strength, are
similar.
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Among the most notable have been
Tennessee’s Willie Gault and Southern
Methodist’s Michael Carter. Gault was
an All-America wide receiver and an
NCAA champion in the high hurdles
and 60-yard dash. Carter was a stand
out defensive tackle and shot-putter.
He won a silver medal in the 1984
Olympics. ,
Current/Purdue star Ron Woodson,
in addition to being an All-Big Ten
defensive back, is also a three-time Big
Ten hurdles champion.
Others have combined football and
wrestling or football and baseball.
Several modern-day major league base
ball players found time to play football
during their college days, including
Steve Garvey (Michigan State), Keith
Moreland (Texas), Reggie Jackson
(Arizona State), and John Stearns (Colo
rado). Another major leaguer, Dave
Winfield, was a basketball standout at
Minnesota.
More recently. Bo Jackson ofAuburn,
the 1985 Heisman Trophy winner, also
received national recognition for his
baseball exploits and vvas faced with
the tough choice between pro football
and pro baseball. A few years earlier,
Stanford’s All-America quarterback
John Elway had a similar decision to
make.
But the three-sport men, the Andre
Risons, are rare today.
Rare? They’re just about extinct.
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CHECKING THE RECORDS
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INDIVIDUAL
MOST ATTEMPTS
Game - 42, Tom Mackey vs. Clarion, 1968
Season - 216, Scott Dodds, 1985; 199, Blair Hrovat, 1984
Career - 618, Blair Hrovat, 1981-82-83-84
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
SKICKOFF 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
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, 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
riNTERCEPTION RETURN
102, Jack Case vs. Brockport, 1962
FUMBLE RETURN
80, Bob Cicerchi vs. Millersville, 1980
TOTAL OFFENSE
MOST YARDS GAINED
Game - 340, Blair Hrovat vs. Lock Haven, 1982
318, A1 Raines vs. Lock Haven, 1969
Season - 1938, Blair Hrovat, 1983; 1931, Blair Hrovat, 1982
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
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;
6.3 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
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
PASSING
MOST YARDS GAINED
Game - 300, Blair Hrovat vs. California, 1982
275, Mike Hill vs. California, 1976
250, Jude Basile vs. Indiana, 1974
250, Blair Hrovat vs. Lock Haven, 1984
Season - 1702, Blair Hrovat, 1982; 1595, Blair Hrovat, 1983;
1517, Blair Hrovat, 1984
Career - 5103, Blair Hrovat, 1981-82-83-84
MOST COMPLETIONS
Game - 19, Scott Dodds vs. Slippery Rock, 1985
18, Blair Hrovat vs. West Liberty, 1983
17, Blair Hrovat, 1982; Rick Shover, 1979;
Tom Mackey, 1968
Season - 111, Scott Dodds, 1985; 99, Blair Hrovat, 1983;
92, Blair Hrovat, 1982; 87, Jude Basile, 1975
Career-309, Blair Hrovat, 1981-82-83-84
MOST TOUCHDOWN PASSES
Game -4, Blair Hrovat vs. Buffalo St. and Mercyhurst - 1983- vs.
California, 1982
Season - 19, Blair Hrovat, 1983; 14, Blair Hrovat 1982
9, Mike Hill, 1976
Career - 49, Blair Hrovat, 1981-82-83-84 (PC Record)
21, Jude Basile, 1973-74-75
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
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
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INDIVIDUAL
3, Rich Ruszkiewicz vs. Shippensburgand 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
31, Jim Trueman, 1983-84-85
MOST EXTRA POINTS KICKED
Game - 8, Jim Trueman vs. District of Columbia, 1984
7, Jim Trueman vs. Mercyhurst, 1983
7, Frank Berzansky vs. Slippery Rock, 1971
Season - 42, Jim Trueman, 1984
Career - 100, Jim Trueman, 1984
Most Consecutive - 41, Jim Trueman, 1984
29, Larry Littler, 1974-75
DEFENSE
MOST PASSES INTERCEPTED
Game - 4, Dan DiTullio vs. Shippensburg, 1968
Season - 8, Dave Parker, 1982; 8, Jack McCurry, 1971
Career - 13, Ken Petardi, 1976-77-78-79
12, John Walker, 1971, 72, 73
12, Ron Miller, 1977-78-79-80
12, Dave Parker, 1980-81-82-83
MOST TACKLES
Game - 30, Rick lorfido vs. Indiana, 1972
Season - 200, Jim Krentz, 1978; 182, Greg Sullivan, 1977
171, Rick lorfido, 1972; 169, Bob Cicerchi, 1981
Career - 572, Jim Krentz, 1975, 76, 77, 78
429, Greg Sullivan, 1974-75-76-77
428, Ron Gooden, 1974-75-76-77
MOST SACKS
Game - 7, Ron Link vs California, 1981
Season - 15, Ron Link, 1981
Career - 27, Ron Link, 1977-78-80-81
TEAM
SCORING
MOST POINTS SCORED
Game - 83 vs. Alliance, 1928; 74 vs. Mercyhurst, 1983;
68 vs. Clarion, 1930
'/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
MOST CARRIES
Game - 71 vs. California, 1979; 67 vs. Slippery Rock, 1970
Season - 571 by 1970 team
PASSING
MOST YARDS GAINED
Game - 300 vs. California, 1982; 283 vs. Clarion, 1971
Season - 1793 by 1982 team; 1667 by 1984 team
1663 by 1983 team; 1653 by 1976 team
MOST COMPLETIONS
Game - 19 vs. Slippery Rock, 1985; 18 vs. West Liberty, 1983
MOST ATTEMPTS
Game - 44 vs. Clarion, 1968
Season - 315 by 1968 team
MOST TOUCHDOWN PASSES
Game - 4 vs. Buffalo State, 1983; 4 vs. California, 1982
Season - 19 by 1983 team; 15 by 1976 team
TOTAL OFFENSE
MOST YARDS GAINED
Game - 605 vs. Lock Haven, 1983; 605 vs. Waynesburg, 1971
Season - 4611 by 1983 team; 4244 by 1971 team
PASS INTERCEPTIONS
MOST INTERCEPTED
Game - 6 vs. Shippensburg, 1983
Season - 26 by 1971 team
DEFENSE
FEWEST POINTS YIELDED
Season - 40 by 1928 team
FEWEST RUSHING YARDS YIELDED
Game - Minus 67, vs. Curry, 1965
Season - 645 by 1970 team
FEWEST PASS COMPLETIONS
Game - 0 (numerous times)
Season - 37 by 1965 team
FEWEST PASSING YARDS YIELDED
Game - 0 (numerous times)
Season - 441 by 1973 team
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CONSECUTIVITY
MOST CONSECUTIVE WINS - 18, 1970-71-^2 (regular season)
MOST CONSECUTIVE GAMES WITHOUT A LOSS-21, 196970-71-72 (regular season)
MOST CONSECUTIVE CONFERENCE GAMES WITHOUT A
LOSS - 13, 1969-70-71-72
MOST CONSECUTIVE ROAD 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 - 15
50th WIN - Ashland College (45-6), 1957
100th WIN - California (47-7), 1971
150th WIN - California (58-20), 19^2
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Second Team All-Pittsburgh Post-Gazette All-Star
First Team All-Pennsylvania Conference Western Division
First Team All-Pittsburgh Press All-Star
Dodds finished the ‘85 season, ranked 3rd in the Pennsylvania
Conference overall in total offense with 164 yards per game. Starting
for the 1st time in his college career, Dodds rose up as the Fighting
Scots leader with his outstanding performances. Named Pennsylvania
Conference player of the week once this season for his performance
against Lock Haven, Dodds’ stats for the year include: lll-of-216
passes for 1,380 yards and 7 touchdowns. Scott also ran for 267 total
yards and a pair of scores.
Mark made the smooth transition from wide receiver to defensive
back in his senior year. In 10 games, Perkins finished the year leading
the Scots in tackles with 38 solo stops and 50 assisted tackles for a total
of 88 stops. Mark also recorded 1 quarterback sack and 3 tackles
behind the line of scrimmage. Also included in Perkins’ totals are a
team high 5 interceptions (which ranks high in the conference), and 3
passes broken up.
ROB LEWIS - 6-3, 245-defensive tackle
DAVE SPAN - 5-10, 180-running back
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season include: 16 solo stops, 22 assists for a total of 38 tackles. Lewis
total also includes 2 QB sacks and 5 stops behind the line of
A powerful runningback. Span led the Fighting Scots in rushing from
the start of the season. His stats for the ‘85 season include a 199-yard
rushing performance against Central Connecticut on the road. Span’s
10 game totals include: 119 carries for 685 yards and 3 touchdowns.
Dave also latched on to 19 passes for a team high 275 yards. Dave also
returned 7 kickoffs for 125 yards, including a 41-yard return vs
Clarion.
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MARK MERRITT - 5-11, 250-offensive center
Second Team All-Pennsylvania Conference Western Division
Began the ‘85 season switching off with Dave Higham at center, but
secured the position when Higham moved to tackle, to replace an
injured player. A steady, gutsy performer, Mark played the entire
season with a broken bone in his hand. Helped open holes for
runningbacks to gain nearly 210 yards per game this past season. Will
be a tough man to replace up front for the Scots.
JIM BRITT - 6-4, 260-offensive tackle
First Team All-Pennsylvania Conference Western Division
First Team All-Pittsburgh Press All-Star
A veteran member of the Fighting Scots offensive line, Britt opened
holes for Boro runningbacks over the last three seasons. Britt had a lot
to do with the following stats as an “O” lineman: 1983-EUP running
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yards per game and this past season, 1985-Scot backs churned out
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Second Team All-Pittsburgh Post Gazette All-Star
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can play center, guard and tackle for the Scots. Started the last 2
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JIM TRUEMAN - 5-8, 180-placekicker
Associated Press Honorable Mention All-American - 1984 & 85
First Team All-Pennsylvania Conference Western Division
First Team All-Pittsburgh Press All-Star
Second Team All-Pittsburgh Post Gazette All-Star
yards per game.
EDINBORO RECORDS:
Most Extra Points (Season) - 42
Most Consecutive Extra Points - 41
Most Extra Points (Career) - 81
Most Extra Points (Game) - 7 vs. Mercyhurst (Tied)
Most Field Goals (Game) - 3 vs. Shippensburg (Tied)
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In pursuit of the All-Time Pennsylvania Conference scoring mark,
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with 49 points on 10-15 field goal attempts and 19-23 extra point tries.
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The Scots most consistent performer throughout the season on the
defensive line, Murray emerged as an outstanding player by the end of
the ‘85 season. Murray’s stats for the year include: 19 solo tackles, 40
assists for 6th on the squad with 59 stops. Chuck was credited with 1
QB sack and 5 stops behind the line of scrimmage, while also
recovering a fumble.
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Ball dead
Touchback (move
side to side)
Incomplete forward pass
Penalty declined
No play
No score
Toss option delayed
First down
Inadvertent whistle
(Face Press Box)
pass or scrimmage kick
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Illegal procedure
False start
Illegal position
Offside
Illegal motion
Illegal shift
Delay of game
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Ball illegally kicked,
batted or touched
Invalid fair catch signal
Illegal fair catch signal
Forward pass interference
Kick catching interference
Roughing passer
handing
Intentional grounding
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They’re carrying on a 33-year-old tradition.
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Holding or obstructing
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year. Last year, over 300 Academic AllAmericans, representing 15 different sports,
were honored.
With great pride in the achievements of
these scholar-athletes, GTE is now the
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ILL ENGH: EDINBORO’S SUPER BOOSTER
By Mickey Curtis, Sports Information Assistant
Mark Merritt, Scott Broking, D.*„‘ cS'to MMc1tso"M?ch
<*-“>= •""> ®ritt. Rick Browning
You ve heard of the subway alumni; the term used to describe
those college sports fanatics around the country who have close ties
with schools they didn’t graduate from. Well, Edinboro University has
a subway alumnus right in its own backyard who can rival any of these
■ major-school sports supporters.
Edinboro’s Super Booster is Bill Engh, who for the past 40 years
has been a faithful follower of the local university’s and high school’s
sports programs. Engh takes an interest in all sports, but his favorite is
football, especially Fighting Scot style.
Engh loves watching the Scots play so much that he has missed
just two of their games
home and away — since he moved to
Edinboro in 1947. That’s only two misses in approximately 400 games,
a remarkable achievement in any league.
“I love the game and I love Edinboro,” says the 75-year-old Engh
from his home on Maple Drive. “Edinboro is our home and even
though we weren t alumni we adopted Edinboro as our team. I just
took Edinboro under my wing as an alma mater, that’s all. I just
enjoyed watching them play, win or lose.
“I’d rather watch Edinboro play than pay $15 to see the
(Cleveland) Browns even though I am a Browns fan,” he continued.
Engh attends the games with his wife Gretchen, who is
Edinboro’s second biggest booster. She has missed only three of the
games during the past 40 years. You could say it’s a marriage made for
the gridiron.
“We’re very compatible and anything I want to do, we’ll do
together,” said Bill. “She didn’t know anything about football before
she met me but now she knows as much as I do. She enjoys the games,
especially the halftime performances.”
One reason the Enghs follow the Scots wherever they play is
because they enjoy traveling. The Enghs, for instance, left on
Thursday for last week’s game at West Chester and returned on
I Monday.
During the offseason they travel throughout the world by
freighter. And it was because of a freighter excursion that the Enghs
missed one of their games, the home opener in 1980. (Bill Engh missed
his first game sometime during the 1950’s when he was bedridden in
the hospital.) The freighter trip six years ago extended into the second
week of the football season, but the Enghs still managed to make it for
the opening kickoff of a game played at Millersville.
“We arrived in New York City at six in the morning on the day of
the game and right away I rented a car to Millersville,” Engh related.
Engh also enjoys the trips because it gives him an opportunity to
know the players and the coaches and their wives. He was good friends
with Art McComb and Sox Harrison, two of the more popular
coaches in the history of Edinboro sports. “Art was probably one of
the best offensive coaches I knew but he just didn’t have the talent,”
Engh says. And Engh still considers former head coach Bill
McDonald one of his closest friends.
The players are also special people to Engh. He visits with them
during practice and in the locker room, and by the time they are
upperclassmen he knows most of them on a first-name basis.
“We’ve more or less adopted the Gierlak boys (Tom, Dan and
Dave) that played here,” he says with a smile. Engh is also one of the
top financial supporters of the EUP athletic scholarship fund. And
before he retired as manager of the Culbertson Hills golf course in
1976 he made a special effort to obtain summer jobs at the club for the
University’s male and female athletes.
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Engh has many fond memories of the athletes on and off the field.
He said the most unusual thing he has witnessed was during the
Waynesburg game in 1971 when quarterback Joe Sanford and
halfback A1 Raines both ran the same distance — 91 yards — from
scrimmage for touchdowns in the same quarter.
Engh says the best two teams were the 1970-71 Edinboro clubs.
He said one of the most satisfying wins was when Edinboro knocked
off highly-regarded West Chester for its first and only Pennsylvania
Conference championship in 1970. But one of the most disappointing
losses occurred a week later when Westminster defeated Edinboro on
a muddy field in New Castle to advance to the NAIA national finals.
“That was probably the biggest disappointment because we had a
chance to go to California,” he said. “Jack Bestwick (the Westminster
quarterback who is now Fairview High School’s coach) had a hot day
for them. The game was supposed to be played at Three Rivers
Stadium but Westminster’s coach, who was a member of the NAIA
committee, helped to get it changed because he knew his team couldn’t
stay with us on a dry field.”
The years preceding 1970 were lean ones for the Edinboro
football program, but Engh refused to budge his seat in the stands.
Win or lose, he’s always been a booster.
“Today, we have much more talent than we did back then,” he
said. “When I first started watching Edinboro, 500 people at the games
was a big crowd, and teams such as Clarion, Indiana and Slippery
Rock saw Edinboro as a warmup for the next opponent.
“Everyone likes to win, and at times it was discouraging, but I
always said there was another Saturday. And a win over Clarion,
Indiana or Slippery Rock then made it all worthwhile.”
Engh doesn’t consider himself a real expert of the game, leaving
the coaching to the coaches. But he’s been around long enough to
know what it takes to win.
“Basically, football is played no different today than it was when I
played,” he says. “It’s still a fundamental game, and if you don’t have
the blocking, the runner can’t go anywhere.”
The big difference, he says, is that football players are much
larger today. “One hundred-ninty pounds was big in my days,” says
Engh, who was a wingback for four years in high school but was too
small to play in college. His high school hero while growing up in
Illinois was the legendary Red Grange, and Engh says he was in the
stands for the memorable game in the late 1920’s when Grange
galloped for four quick touchdowns in the mini’s big win over
Michigan.
“Grange was a lot like Herschel Walker,” Engh recalls. “He was
big, fast and shifty and ran like a deer.”
Engh still roots for the Fighting Illini, but as long as he lives in
Edinboro they’ll be his second favorite team. Engh, who was inducted
into Edinboro University’s Athletic Hall of Fame two years ago, plans
to follow the Fighting Scots forever.
“As long as the Lord will let me keep walking on my feet I’ll be
there,” he says.
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1986 PRE-SEASON DEPTH CHARTS
NYSP Leaves a Laslii^ Inq)resskMi
OFFENSE
TIGHT END
Bob Suren
6-4, 213, Sr.
Scott Brown
6-1, 200, Jr.
Brian Ferguson
6-4, 211, So.
John Tintsman
6-4, 221, So.
LEFT TACKLE
Rob Brownrigg
6-3, 223, Jr.
Andrew Cline
6-4, 236, Sr.
Rich Urko
6-3, 250, Fr.
LEFT GUARD
Larry Rosenthal
6-1, 223, Sr.
Dave Grimaldi
6-3, 197, So.
Joseph Brooks
6-1, 235, Fr.
WIDE RECEIVER
Cleveland Pratt
5-7, 160, So.
Ernest Priester
5-9, 174, Fr.
Steve Franklin
6-1, 180, Fr.
CENTER
Dave Higham
6-2, 235, Sr.
Glenn Gross
6-3, 200, So.
Scott Johnson
6-3, 220, Fr.
QUARTERBACK
Scott Dodds
6-1, 188, Sr.
Steve Anderton
6-0, 165, So.
Michael Nichols
6-0, 170, So.
HALF BACK
Floyd Faulkner
5-9, 180, Jr.
Ross Rankin
5-11, 185, Sr.
Chris Conway
5-9, 180, Fr.
Mike Miczo
5-11, 185, Fr.
RIGHT GUARD
Dave Nye
5-11, 205, Sr.
Tony Nichols
6-3, 242, Jr.
Jeff Kujawinski
6-1, 250, Fr.
RIGHT TACKLE
Mark Courtney
6-3, 221, So.
Ron Hainsey
6-4, 260, So.
Brad Powell
6-2, 260, Fr.
WIDE RECEIVER
Dave Gierlak
5-9, 156, Sr.
Daryl Cameron
5-10, 164, Sr.
John Toomer
5-9, 145, So.
FULLBACK
Jim Pisano
6-0, 206, Sr.
John Georgiana
5-10, 195, Sr.
.y
/
PUNTER
Doug Eberle
6-4, 185, Jr.
Michael Raynard
6-2, 200, Fr.
KICKER
Jim Trueman
5-7, 180, Sr.
Stephen Bragg
5-9, 135, Fr.
DEFENSE
LEFT END
Robert Lewis
6-1, 238, Jr.
Jim Mitchell
6-1, 210, So.
LEFT TACKLE
Harlan Ware
5-11, 198, Sr.
Larry Depretta
6-1, 235, Jr.
LEFT LINEBACKER
Paul Baker
6-1, 205, Jr.
John Cardone
6-0, 195, Sr.
LEFT CORNERBACK
Claude Webb
5-10, 158, So.
Mike Green
5-8, 174, So.
Lamont Fields
5-7, 160, Fr.
RIGHT TACKLE
Abdul Hakim
5-10, 206, Sr.
Bill Clark
6-0, 225, So.
MIDDLE LINEBACKER
Regis Lux
5-11, 195, So.
Thomas Carlton
6-1, 210, Fr.
Ted Johnson
6-1, 210, Fr.
STRONG SAFETY
Martelle Betters
6-0, 173, Sr.
Carlos Wimberly
5-7, 170, So.
Michael Proviano
5-8, 155, So.
RIGHT END
Chuck Murray
6-4, 230, Sr.
Michael Pierce
6-3, 235, Fr.
RIGHT LINEBACKER
Allen Ellir^
5-11, 215, Sr.
Leonard Williamson
6-4, 195, Fr.
For the past 16 years, the
National Youth Sports Pro
gram (NYSP) has provided
the opportunity for youth from
disadvantaged backgrounds to
receive benefits from a stuctured
sports and enrichment program held
at a local college or university facility.
These activities are provided at no cost to
the participants.
Approximately 55,000 youngsters nationwide par
ticipated in 1986. Each project is organized into
two areas: an activity program that includes instruc
tion and competition in a variety of sports, and an
enrichment program that includes instruction in
substance abuse, nutrition, personal health, and
career and educational opportunities.
Economically disadvantaged young people are
introduced to a collegiate environment and receive
instruction from highly trained staff members to
enhance sports skills and self concept. Boys and
girls, ages 10 through 16 years old, are eligible to
participate in the program which took place at 140
colleges and universities in 42 states in 1986. The
NYSP program is effective June 1 through August 31
on five-week, five-days-per-week or six-week, fourdays-per-week schedules.
Each participant receives a free medical ex
amination. Any previously undetected physical
problems that are identified receive ade
quate follow-up treatment; one full USDAapproved meal and snack also are provided on
a daily basis.
The NYSP motto is "walk tall, talk tall and stand tall." The objective
is that each person involved with the summer program exemplify
this by the end of the project.
For more information, contact the NCAA at (913) 384-3220.
FREE SAFETY
Michael Willis
6-0, 168, So.
Mike Wetherholt
6-0, 171, Sr.
Allan Wade
6-0, 170, Fr.
RIGHT CORNERBACK
Terrell Clifford
5-7, 170, Sr.
Mike Churn
5-8, 154, So.
Kevin Thomas
5-11, 185, Fr.
NATIONAL YOUTH
SPORTS PROGRAM
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1986 individual AND TEAM STATISTICS
THE PENNSYLVANIA CONFERENCE
five game totals
(2-3) (1-1 PC WEST)
rushing
Faulkner, Floyd
Pisano, Jim
Cole, Elbert
Rankin, Ross
Dodds, Scott
Georgiana, John
Priester, Ernest
Betters, Martelle
Wetherholt, M.
Ross, Jim
Pratt, Cleveland
TEAM
totals
G
5
5
4
4
4
5
4
4
5
2
5
5
ATT.
67
40
28
27
31
KICKOFF RETURNS
YG
284
190
180
147
89
26
11
11
3
24
I
12
1
1
1
8
2
220
YL
10
6
17
9
42
0
0
0
0
26
5
966
NET
274
184
163
138
47
26
11
11
3
-2
-4
(-33)
816
150
Y/C
4.1
4.6
5.8
5.1
1.5
2.2
ATT. COMP
109
61
19
8
1
INT
1
1
0
0
2
1
0
____ 1^
130
70
YDS
617
118
0
0
First Downs Rushing
First Downs Passing
First Downs Penalty
Rushing Attempts
Yards Gained Rushing
Yards Lost Rushing
3.7
Priester, Ernest
Suren, Bob
Pratt, Cleveland
Gierlak, Dave
Cole, Elbert
Faulkner, Floyd
Cameron, Daryl
Toomer, John
Pisano, Jim
Georgiana, John
Ferguson, Brian
Rankin, Ross
Tintsman, John
Dodds, Scott
totals
REC
18
9
7
7
6
5
5
3
2
2
2
2
YDS
239
122
134
69
62
-8
44
27
9
2
9
17
1
1
10
0
70
735
net yards rushing
TD
4
2
0
0
Passes Attempted
Passes Completed
Passes Had Intercepted
YARDS PASSING
Total Plays
735
C/G
3.6
1.8
1.4
3.5
1.5
1.0
1.3
1.0
0.4
0.4
0.5
0.5
0.5
total offense
TD
0
1
1
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
1
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
0.2
14.0
LR
88
23
22
15
p
88
OPF
0
EUP
OPP
4
TOT
14
222
916
153
763
107
64
6
756
329
1519
59.8
8
4
26
233
4.6
430
21.5
853
40.6
99
6.6
game
10
14
19
48
91
18.2
34
56
7
34
131
26.2
Raynard, Mike
totals
YDS
888
888
AVG
37.0
37.0
LP
57
57
PUNT RETURNS
Faulkner, Floyd
TOTALS
Trueman, Jim
54,
G
_5
5
NO
12
12
YDS
83
83
AVG
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6.9
LR
16
16
FIELD GOALS
57, 32, 29
H
H
H
A
A
EUP
27
21
24
10
9
Wayne State
Mansfield
Slippery Rock
lUP
West Chester
FIRST TEAM - OFFENSE
Position
(1)
Tight End
(2)
Tackles
Guards
(2)
Center
(1)
Wide Receivers
(2)
Quarterback
Running Backs
(1)
(3)
Place Kicker
(1)
FIRST TEAM - DEFENSE
(2)
Ends
1986 RESULTS (2-3)
OPP
24
28
14
28
37
ATT.
5,500
5.500
6.500
7,000
2,264
Down Linemen
Linebackers
Secondary
(3)
(4)
(4)
(1)
Punter
♦Received first team honors
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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
1985 ALL-CONFERENCE TEAM
AVG
JNTS
NO .
24
24
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.
90
40
36
SCORING
1
1
0
6
AVG
23.8
20.0
17.7
15.0
2.0
20.8
EUP
90
47
34
9
220
966
,'150
' 816
/ 130
70
2
735
350
1551
53.8
17
9
51
423
4.4
478
20.8
888
37.0
83
6.9
total first downs
RECEIVING
G
5
5
5
2
4
5
4
3
5
5
4
4
2
5
YDS
333
60
53
30
2
478
1986 TEAM STATS
TOTALS
11.0
11.0
3.0
PASSING
G
Dodds, Scott
4
Ross, Jim
2
Cameron, Daryl
4
Raynard, Mike ___5
totals
5
NO
14
3
3
2
__ [
23
Pratt, Cleveland
Faulkner, Floyd
Webb, Claude
Georgiana, John
Clifford, Terrell
HISTORY OF PSAC FOOTBALL
Player
Gary Bero
Tim Grove
JIM BRITT
♦Chuck Duffy
Bob Holtz
Jerry Dickson
Mark Plevelich (tie)
Terry McFetridge
Wade Acker
♦Rich Ingold
♦Frank Van Buren
DAVE SPAN
Dave Seidel
Chuck Sanders (tie)
John Desmond
JIM TRUEMAN (tie)
Dave Hurdle
John Reese
John Hughes
CHUCK MURRAY
Ed Robinson
Ken Edwards (tie)
Rick Ley
Bill Peterson
Terry Wallace
Pat Fahie
Jerry Haslett
MARK PERKINS
Lorenzo Burrus
Ed Nork
♦Jeff Williams
by unanimous choice.
University
California
Slippery Rock
EDINBORO
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California
Clarion
Indiana
Clarion
Slippery Rock
Indiana
Shippensburg
EDINBORO
Indiana
Slippery Rock
Clarion
EDINBORO
Shippensburg
Shippensburg
Clarion
EDINBORO
Slippery Rock
Clarion
California
Lock Haven
Slippery Rock
Shippensburg
Clarion
EDINBORO
Clarion
Shippensburg
Slippery Rock
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5-8
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215
280
260
255
235
235
255
180
185
185
180
180
208
230
164
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Sr.
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Sr.
Sr.
Sr.
Sr.
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5-11
220
6-2
6-1
225
205
255
245
250
225
225
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6-2
6-4
6-1
6-3
6-1
6-1
6-0
6-2
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5-8
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198
210
180
177
205
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of 2 hours, 19 minutes early in September, and his legs areTurnow
recovering. All-American Mike Piatt, like Graham, hfs just resumed
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OCTOBER 18,1986
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PROGRAM FEATURES
Scots Host Golden Eagles ....................................................... 3
Edinboro University .................................................................. 5
President Foster F. Diebold..................................................... 7
Feature: Bruce Baumgartner ................................................... 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
Clarion Lineup and Numerical .................................... Center
Clarion Alphabetical Roster ................................................. 23
EUP Checking the Records ............................................. 25-26
Meet the Scots .............................................................. 27,29,31
1985 Records and Honors ..................................................... 33
Officials’ Signals ...................................................................... 35
Assistant Coaches .................................................................... 36
Boro Legend: Bill Engh ......................................................... 37
EUP Depth Charts .................................................................. 40
1986 Football Stats .................................................................. 42
Pennsylvania Conference ....................................................... 43
Boro Cross Country ................................................................ 44
OFFICIALS FOR TODAY’S GAME
REFEREE ................................................... RICH BONADIO
LINE JUDGE ............................................. DAVE LONDON
UMPIRE ................................................... JIM BUCHOFSKY
FIELD JUDGE................................................. TOM ROCCO
LINESMAN............................................... RAY SCHAMING
BACK JUDGE .................................. RAY HARRINGTON
CLOCK OPERATOR ......................JOHN MILANOVICH
Touchdown Insert
The Revival of the Wishbone
Visit to the College Football Hall of Fame
A Lesson in Defense
Weather or Not, the Game Must Go On
Times Have Changed, but the Spirit’s the Same
Multiple Sport Athletics
Looking Back
TV Production of College Football Game
The Offensive Line
Great Moments in College Football
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1986 EUP FOOTBALL RESULTS (2-3)
Sept. 6 WON 27
WAYNE STATE
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Sept. 13 LOST 21
MANSFIELD
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Oct. 11 LOST 37
at West Chester
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The Edinboro University football team will try to end Clarion’s
streak of 22 consecutive winning seasons today, as the Fighting Scots
play host to the Golden Eagles at Sox Harrison Stadium. The
homecoming tilt is slated for a 2:00 p.m. kick-off.
Clarion, 1-4, with five games remaining, must down the Boro to
have a chance at keeping their mark in tact. Their consecutive string of
22, is the longest in Division II football. The Golden Eagles began
1986 with a win over Fairmont State 14-0, but have uncharac
teristically dropped four straight games to Ferris State (38-28),
California (28-27), Slippery Rock (13-7) and lUP (38-10).
Meanwhile, the Fighting Scots enter today’s encounter with a 2-3
overall mark and a 1-1 slate in the Western Division of the
Pennsylvania Conference. Edinboro opened the season downing
Wayne State (27-24), then lost to Mansfield (21-28). The Scots
rebounded for a 24-14 win over Slippery Rock, but have dropped their
last two ball games, 28-10 to lUP and 37-9 to West Chester. If
Edinboro is going to stay in contention for the PC title, they must
down the Golden Eagles.
Edinboro, marred lately by mistakes and penalties, must take
better care of the football than they did against West Chester last
weekend. “When you turn the ball over six times (five fumbles and an
interception) against a club like West Chester, the result is inevitable,”
Steve Szabo said. “No matter how Clarion is playing to date, we
expect a very tough football game.
Leading the Scot offense once again will be veteran quarterback
Scott Dodds. Coming off a record setting performance against West
Chester (21 completions), Dodds looks to have overcome his shoulder
ailments going into the Clarion encounter. “With Dodds the situation
is still day to day,” Szabo stated. “Despite the pain, he performed very
well against West Chester last week.” Dodds, with a quarterback
rating of 113.7, has only thrown one interception in 109 attempts thus
far in 1986. He has completed 61 for 617 yards and four touchdowns.
Dodds is coming off a fine effort against the Golden Rams, where he
connected on 21 of 32 passes for 212 yards and one score.
Joining Dodds in the Boro backfield today will be Floyd
Faulkner (67 carries for 274 yards and 4 touchdowns) and fullback
Jim Pisano (40-184). Also looking to see action against Clarion will be
Ross Rankin (27-138) and freshman Elbert Cole (28-163).
Edinboro receivers lining up will likely be Ernest Priester (18
catches for 239 yards) and Cleveland Pratt (7-134, 1 TD). Priester
caught six passes for 62 yards, while Pratt grabbed four Dodds passes
for 57 yards against West Chester. Tight end Bob Suren (9-122, 1 TD)
rounds out the Plaid’s receiving corps. The Fighting Scots are
averaging 147.0 yards per game in the air in ‘86, while churning out
163.2 ypg on the ground. The Clarion defense is giving up only 96.0
ypg on the ground through five games, but have surrendered 207 ypg
in the airways. “I know what the numbers are again this weekend, but
to be an effective club offensively we must be able to run the football,”
Szabo stated.
Spearheading the Clarion defense will be a pair of linemen in
tackle Lou Weiers (46 tackles and 3 sacks) and noseguard Mike Pope
(48 stops and 3 sacks). Ken Raabe (51 and a team high 4 sacks)
solidifies the linebacking chores, while strong safety John Besic (50
tackles and one interception) and Bob Kelly anchor the secondary.
The Golden Eagles are fighting the injury bug on defense as they are
likely to be without the services of All-American candidate defensive
tackle Ken Edwards (knee) and safety Bruce Curry (torn calf muscle).
The Clarion offense is led by quarterback Doug Emminger, who
has hit on 65 of 128 passes in ‘86 for 804 yards and three touchdowns.
He has thrown nine interceptions, a figure very inviting to the Scot
much improved secondary. Leading the ground attack for the Golden
Eagles is tailback Rod Joseph (73-356 and 4 TD’s) and fullback Dan
Taylor (26-83, 2 TD’s). CUP’s top receivers include split end Russ
Ford (21 catches for 366 yards and 2 TD’s) and tight end Jim Hahn
(17-176).
After surrendering just 68 yards in the air to the conference’s top
quarterback last weekend, the Boro defense is hopefully rounding into
form. Heading the list of performers is free safety Mike Willis (team
high 44 tackles, 1 INT) and freshman linebackers, Tom Calton (34
tackles) and John Williams (24). Looking to improve against the run
will be the Boro’s young defensive front of Scott Pierce (11), Craig
Cross (16), Tom Terhart (3 stops, 1 sack) and tri-captain Abdul
Hakim (27).
A pair of players which cannot be overlooked today are the
placekickers for each squad. The Plaid’s Jim Trueman and Clarion’s
John Desmond are two of the best in the conference. Both are all star
performers in the past and could be major factors in the outcome.
Trueman has connected on 3 of 5 field goal tries (32,32,29) and 10-10
extra points in ‘86, while Desmond has similar numbers with 3-5 FG’s
and 9-10 PAT’s.
The Fighting Scots and Golden Eagles have traditionally played
great football games and today should be no different. A quick
rundown of recent years tells the story. The Scots are 4-6 over the last
ten years against Clarion with a scoring rundown as follows: 1985
(26-7 CUP), 1984 (35-24 CUP), 1983 (28-8 EUP), 1982 (22-20 CUP),
1981 (27-17 EUP), 1980 (13-10 EUP), 1979 (13-0 CUP), 1978 (42-7
CUP), 1977 (10-6 CUP), 1976 (25-20 EUP).
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Founded as a private academy in 1857, Edinboro University has
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institutions in western Pennsylvania. Situated on a sprawling 585-acre
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within 100 miles of the educational and cultural centers of Buffalo,
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The University now offers more than 100 undergraduate.
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any other college or university in northwestern Pennsylvania. While
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professional and cultural standpoint, Edinboro now makes contributions in the fields of education, government, environmental
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administration, communication, computer technology, nursing, and
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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 Foster F. Diebold is a recognized leader in
higher education. Prior to assuming the presidency at Edinboro 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
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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ATHLETIC DIRECTOR — JIM McDONALD
BAUMGARTNER HUNGRY FOR TITLE
which al^o 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 theNAIA’s All-Tournament Team
in 1959 and 1960.
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.
“There are four things which a wrestler must concentrate on,” he
explained. Strength, conditioning, technique and tactics, but not
necessarily in that order. Technique and tactics go hand in hand and
are probably at the top of the priority list.
Condition wise, I’m in as good as shape as I’ve been in since the
World Championships a year ago. I’m looking forward to two weeks
of hard training in Bloomington, Ind., to concentrate on technique.
Recently Jeff Blatnick, Olympic gold medalist in Greco-Roman
wrestling, was in Edinboro to help Baumgartner in his preparation for
the heavyweight division.
“It is very tough to find people to train against,” Baumgartner
stated. “It was real nice of Jeff to come to EdinborO and help me out. I
have some very tough competition in the World Championships and I
have to get ready.”
The entries for the Worlds make an impressive list. Poland will
enter a 7-2, 300-pounder who Baumgartner has beaten 1,1-2 in the ‘85
World Championships, but also has lost to 5-4 in the ‘83 champion
ships.
East Germany enters the ‘86 European champion and Hungary
the runner-up in the ‘85 Worlds.
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But without a doubt Gobedzhishvili looms as Baumgartner’s
biggest obstacle. Holding a 4-2 edge over the Russian, the Edinboro
coach owns consecutive wins over him, including a pin at the World
Cup and a 4-4 criteria decision at the Goodwill Games.
Baumgartner hasn’t ruled out a trip to the 1988 Olympic Games
in South Korea. “If all goes as planned, I want to compete in ‘88,” he
commented. “But to be honest with you, the terrorist issue really does
concern me. It’s still pretty far off. We’ll take everything one step at a
time and see where it all goes.
“If my knees hold out. I’ll probably compete. But there are
many more important factors to consider, like the well-being of myself
and my wife.”
But first Baumgartner is concerning himself with the World
Championships in Budapest and the one crown that has eluded him in
his illustrious career.
It is the one that has eluded him.
Forget the Olympics, the World Cup and the Goodwill Games.
Bruce Baumgartner’s “Super Bowl” will take place Oct. 19-22
when he battles for the World Championship in Budapest, Hungary.
After placing third in 1983 and ‘85, the Edinboro University
assistant wrestling coach seems to have everything in proper
perspective.
“The magnitude of the World Championships is truly that, a
world title,” he said. “It means so much to capture this one, because
every country in the world has the opportunity to compete. It is every
bit as important to me as the Olympics.
“It is the only championship which I have yet to capture.
Hopefully, this will be the icing on the cake.”
When asked if he considers himself the best heavyweight in the
world, the soft-spoken giant is anything but boastful. “Right now, I
consider it a two-man race for the label. David Gobedzhishvili from
the USSR is my toughest competitor.
“It is a difficult question to answer. On any given day, we can beat
one another. I can win and three weeks later get knocked off, you
never know.
“In a World Series, it is a best-of-seven, but when it comes to
wrestling it is six minutes of do or die. That is what makes wrestling
such a great sport.”
At 6-2,265 pounds, the burly Baumgartner has been in extensive
training for the event.
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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.
“EUP has outstanding coaches
and facilities. With these ingredients,
there is no reason we could not be
competitive in the PSAC and Division
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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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Second-year head coach Steve Szabo and his Fighting
Scot football squad are looking to improve on their third place
finish in the rugged Pennsylvania Conference Western Divi
sion a year ago, as the Plaid prepare for another hard-nosed
season among the PC heavyweights. In 1986, the Scots return a
host of talent which should put them in the heat of the battle
come title time.
“We feel that we have the talent in the skilled positions to
make the big plays this year, which should allow us to open up
our offense a little more,” Szabo said. Traditionally a Wing-T
squad on offense, the Scots are likely to use a more pro oriented
approach to their ‘86 offensive plan. “With the year of growth
and maturity for quarterback Scott Dodds, we will be using the
two wide receiver set more often this season. Scotty proved he
could throw the ball a year ago, and I have confidence his
numbers will be even better in 1986,” Szabo continued.
Most definitely, if the Plaid is going to contend for the
division crown, the weight of the EUP offense falls on the
shoulders of tri-captain Dodds. The 6'3" signal caller from
Beaver, PA, should establish himself as one of the top
quarterbacks in the conference this year, coming off a brilliant
junior season, posting numbers good enough to rank third in
the entire conference in total offense. Completing a school
record 111 passes on 216 attempts, Dodds totaled 1,380 yards
through the air for 7 touchdowns, while also churning out 267
hard-earned yards on the ground for his third place showing in
the PC. Dodds averaged 164.7 yards per game for the “o,”
placing him behind only Rich Ingold of lUP and Brendon
Folmar of California. “Scott showed me a lot of poise a year
ago, and we’ll call on him to lead the offense all season. If we
can get the protection for him to open up his game, no telling
what kind of numbers he will put up,” Szabo stated. “You also
can’t overlook his ability to run the football. He has deceptive
speed, with a knack for finding the opening on the corner.”
Indeed, the offensive front will be the key to the Plaid’s
success this season, as the Scots look to replace four quality
veterans lost through graduation. Leading the list of returnees
up front will be tri-captain Dave Higham. The 6'2", 240-pound
center will anchor the Scot interior, a place “Higs” has romped
successfully over the last three seasons. “Higham is one of the
most dedicated athletes I have ever coached,” stated Szabo.
“He comes to play every down and give his 100%. There were
games last year, where he should have never played but
somehow managed to get himself ready for action every
Saturday.’’The fifth-year senior from Hubbard, OH, will have
to pull a somewhat green offensive front together if the Scot
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looking to crack the starting offensive line will be guards Larry
Rosenthal (Manassas, VA) and Dave Nye (Windsor, OH).
Both return with game experience from a year ago, and will be
relied on to help carry the load up front. At tackle, the Scots are
looking at converted defensive player Rob Brownrigg and
sophomore Mark Courtney (Salem, OH). Also looking to aid
the Plaid up front will be a host of talented freshmen, led by
6'1", 235-pound tackle Joseph Brooks. A product of Austintown Fitch High School in Youngstown, OH, Brooks could
help the squad right away. “We feel that we have a quality
individual in Brooks,” Szabo said. “He is a fine looking athlete
with great agility. He also is a very versatile lineman, so he can
help us anywhere across the front. In addition to Brooks,
Szabo’s list of impressive freshmen include Brad Powell (6'2",
240, West Middlesex, PA), Dan Shaffer (6'3", 255, Youngs
town, OH), Tom Terhart (6'2", 215, Lackawanna, NY) and
Rich Urko (6'2", 250, Monongahela, PA) to help the Scots in
the trenches.
Traditionally the strength of the Scot offense, the running
game should be as strong as ever with the return of Floyd
Faulkner, Jim Pisano, Ross Rankin and John Georgiana.
Faulkner (Coraopolis, PA) should be the Scots’ starting
halfback on opening day this season, a role he has looked
forward to for two years. The squad’s second leading ball
carrier last season, Faulkner netted 429 yards on just 89 totes
for a solid 4.8 yards per carry average and three touchdowns.
Also a threat out of the backfield, Faulkner caught 14 passes
for 122 and 1 TD in 1985. “Floyd should really come into his
own this season,” Szabo said. “He has great balance and is a
true break-away threat every time he touches the football.”
Pisano (Lower Burrell, PA) is likely to be the Scots’#! fullback
due to his unselfish nature and nose for the goal line. Leading
the squad a year ago in rushing touchdowns with 5, Pisano
carried the skin 66 times for 263 tough yards for a 4.0 average.
Meanwhile, Rankin (Canton, OH) and Georgiana (Altoona,
PA) posted 251 and 72 yards respectively a year ago to give the
team a strong returning corp to the EUP backfield. Rankin also
latched onto 10 passes for 142 yards last season, while
Georgiana touched pay dirt every 8 times he touched the
football from his fullback spot. Although the squad is solid in
the backfield, coach Szabo has brought in some quality
freshman that could make an immediate impact on the squad.
Heading the list of newcomers are Oil City High School
sprinter Chris Conway and Erie native Mike Miczo. Conway, a
4.3 in the 40-yard dash, brings added speed to the EUP backs,
while Miczo (Northwestern High School) is likely to help the
Plaid in a number of places on the offense. “Conway gives us
another breakaway threat, while Miczo does so many things
well, all around, that they both could see plenty of action
throughout the year,” Szabo added.
Another strength to the Edinboro offense this season will
come from the right foot of All-American placekicker Jim
Trueman. An Associated Press All-American the past two
seasons, Trueman will cap off a brilliant EUP career this fall, as
he embarks on the Pennsylvania Conference record books.
Needing a fine 71 point output this season, Trueman would
capture the all-time scoring mark in the PC for career points
held by Millersville University runningback Ricky Stonewall.
The 71 tallies may seem out of sight, but not for Trueman. The
5'8", 180 pound, Bellevue, PA, product has totaled 69, 75, and
49 points for his total of 193 in his first 3 years, and is looking
forward to a crack at the record. “For Trueman to get the mark,
we have to have a great year offensively, and get better field
position for the three points,” Szabo said. When it comes to
accuracy, Trueman’s numbers can be matched with anyone’s
across the country. His freshman campaign, “True” connected
on 39-of-43 extra points and lO-of-15 field goals, followed by
42-for-43 and an ll-for-16 showing his sophomore season.
With the EUP offense sputtering at times a year ago, Trueman
posted lower numbers but his range was still there; connecting
on 19-of-23 pat’s and 10-15 field goal attempts. A very
consistent offensive weapon throughout his EUP career,
Trueman will be relied on heavily to help carry the scoring load
for the Plaid once again this fall.
On the offensive receiving end, the Scots will enter the
1986 campaign with the same corp of players they had a year
ago. Leading the squad with 22 receptions last season was Dave
Gierlak (Buffalo, NY). The Scots’ prime possession receiver,
Gierlak totaled 300 yards through the air and 1 score, while
rushing for 53 yards on just 2 carries including a 19 yard scoring
jaunt. Also looking for playing time this fall will be Cleveland
Pratt (10 catches, 114 yards), Daryl Cameron (6 for 73) and
John Toomer (5 for 42). One strength the Scots are assured of
this fall, will be at the tight end position. Returning to anchor
the offensive front will be veterans Bob Suren (Parma, OH),
Scott Brown (Greensburg, PA) and Brian Ferguson (Bethel
Park, PA). Suren, in just 8 games, grabbed 12 passes for 152
yards and 3 scores, while Brown latched on to 5 passes for 81
and a score.
Defensively the Scots will make the transition from their
traditional 3-4 defense, back to the old school 4-3 set. Up front,
the Plaid will return a pair of all-conference performers in
Chuck Murray (Tyrone, PA) and Rob Lewis (Rochester, NY).
Murray, at 6'4", 255, caused many problems for opposing
offenses in 1985, registering 59 tackles, including 5 behind the
line of scrimmage. A first team All-Conference choice, Murray
will have to be in top form to solidify the Boro defense. Lewis,
also an imposing figure at 6'3", 250, should really come into his
own in ‘86, coming off a 38 tackle performance last season. A
second-team choice in ‘85, Lewis also tallied 5 stops for loss,
while collecting 1 QB sack. “Murray and Lewis will be the key
to our defensive performance this season,” Szabo added. “With
the year of experience they got last season, both will be a force
to contend with in the middle. With our inexperience at
linebacker, we will be looking for those two to make plenty of
stops.” Joining Murray and Lewis across the front will be
tri-captain Abdul Hakim and Harlen Ware. Hakim, a
converted linebacker to defensive tackle, was in on 40 stops a
year ago including a pair for losses. Ware, the squad’s
outstanding defensive player in the annual red-white scrim
mage in the spring, was 14th on the team in tackles a year ago in
reserve role, registering 34 stops and causing a pair of fumbles.
The linebacking crew for 1986 will consist of a mix of
veterans and second year players, with a pair of positions not
yet filled. Allen Ellis (Albion, NY) the squad’s fourth leading
tackier with 68 stops, and John Cardone (Pittsburgh, PA) third
on the team with 71 tackles will anchor the middle line of
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year ago, while Lux was limited to kickoff coverage duty, but
played excellent ball in the spring. In looking at the linebacking
situation for the ‘86 squad, Szabo will be relying on freshmen to
come in and play for depth at the position. The Scots’ top
recruit at linebacker this year will be Paul Sibila out of
Massillon, OH. The 6'3", 207-pound product has caught the
eye of the EUP coaching staff, turning in a 4.8 time in the 40, to
go along with an outstanding 51.5 clocking in the 440. “He has
a lot of pure athletic ability and this is what you’re looking for
in any recruit. I believe he will be able to help us right away,”
Szabo stated.
The Scot secondary could be the strength of this year’s
defense, led by veteran Martelle Betters, Claude Webb,
Michael Churn and red-shirt freshman Mike Willis. Betters, an
all-conference selection as a sophomore, returns for his senior
campaign to anchor the Scot secondary. Betters was the
squad’s ninth leading tackier last season, collecting 47 stops
and 1 QB sack. The 6'0", 180-pound product out of Connellsville, PA, also broke up 4 passes and blocked 1 punt in 1985. A
trio of talented youngsters are likely to make up the remainder
of the Plaid secondary in Webb, Churn and Willis. Webb
registered 17 stops a year ago, while picking off 1 pass in limited
action, while Churn and Willis are trying to shake off injuries
from a year ago to land in the starting secondary. “We have a
group of very talented players in our defensive backfield with
great speed and range. We should be stronger back there this
season,” Szabo pointed out. “This is a throwing conference and
you must stop the pass if you’re going to win.”
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Edinboro will tune up for conference action this season
opening at home against Wayne State (Sept. 6) and Mansfield
(Sept. 13) before hosting Slippery Rock on September 27 on
“Parents Day.” The remainder of the Scots’ schedule is as
follows; October 4 at lUP, October 11 at West Chester, home
vs. Clarion October 18 for homecoming, October 25 at Lock
Haven, home November 1 vs. Shippensburg, followed by two
road games at California November 8 and at Fairmont State
(WV) November 15.
“I’m really looking forwar^ to the start of the season,”
Szabo said. “Last season was
adjustment for all of us, but I
hope the transition is over. The conference is as tough as I
thought, and we are going to have to play all-around better
football, both offensively and defensively, if we are going to
have a shot at the conference crown. There are plenty of good
teams in this division and we are going to have to be ready every
week,” Szabo concluded.
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Following graduation from the Academy, Szabo served a 13month tour of duty in Vietnam and was named to the AllService football team with the Quantico Marines.
Szabo, who describes himself as a “very goal-oriented
person,” has set some goals for the future of Edinboro football.
First, he said he wants to produce a winning team starting with
the PSAC title, with long range hopes of a national champion
ship at the Division II level. Second, Szabo hopes to establish a
program which is meaningful to his players, and ensure that
above all they get an education. Third, Szabo hopes to create a
positive football atmosphere at Edinboro which will involve
the faculty, student body and the community. Finally, Szabo
said he would like to instill an attitude of pride and
togetherness within the team unit stressing, “a team program
will transcend any individual greatness.”
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Last spring, Steve Szabo became the tenth head football
coach in Edinboro University’s 55-year gridiron history.
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
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
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ATHLETIC STAFF
ASSOCIATE ATHLETIC DIRECTOR
DR. KATHLEEN LIPKOVICH
ASSISTANT TO THE
ATHLETIC DIRECTOR
HAROLD “HAL” UMBARGER
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 three years ago as assistant to the athletic director. He brings a
wealth of talent and experience to the administrative level of the
athletic program and plays a vital role in overseeing the academic
progress of student athletes as well as coordinating the on-going
functions of the athletic director’s office and the summer programs
which involve the department. The West Newton, Pa., native is a 1954
Slippery Rock University graduate and also owns his masters degree
from Penn State. After a three-year stint with the U.S. Army Security
Agency in Europe, he coached basketball and baseball at Moshannon
Valley (Pa.) High School before accepting a guidance position in the
West York Area School District in 1961. He became a member of
Edinboro’s admissions office a year later and in 1967 was named
director of admissions. During his tenure more than 40,000 students
were admitted to Edinboro University.
SPORTS INFORMATION AND
PROMOTIONS DIRECTOR
TODD V. JAY
TEAM TRAINER - GEORGE ROBERTS
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George M. Roberts of Titusville, Pa., is beginning his second year
as athletic trainer at Edinboro University.
A 1972 graduate of Titusville High 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, trainer, 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 four-year-old daughter,
Kristin.
Todd Jay begins his second year of publicizing Edinboro Univer
sity’s athletic program and assisting in sports promotion for the
Fighting Scots. A graduate of Clarion University of Pennsylvania,
Todd received a bachelor of science in education in 1982 and a master
of science in communications in May of 1985. The New Castle native
served as assistant to the sports information director at Clarion.
During the past year. Jay has written releases for 16 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.
"In pro football, you know the teams
and players so well that it’s much
easier to predict what’s going to
happen,’’ says Bob Goodrich, ABC’s
college football producer. 'College
football is faster. There’s more to keep
track of and less predictability. It’s
harder to get a handle on so many
teams and players. It makes it harder to
produce. ”
^ ■ So does a prolonged absence. Good
rich has spent the last six years proji;ducing America’s prime-time sports
I institution, otherwise known as "Mon[ „ day Night Football.” As part of the welllocumented Capital Cities shake-up at
Idle different challenge^
he ad®H^®rhe toughest adjustment i{
going to be working twice as hard t(
know the players and teams. You Cc
do a much better job producing agi
when you know the teams. A
times your success on isolated pla)
comes from luck. But you can increl
your odds considerably by knowing tl
teams and players."
Goodrich’s rival, Ric LaCivita, won’t
have to do as much homework for the
1986 season. LaCivita has spent Satur
day afternoons in the CBS truck since
P. -
Decisions on
vision screen u
continued
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TOUCHDOWN
TV PRODUCTION
the network started vying for college
football rating points in 1982. Before
that, ABC had the field to itself
During his tenure at ABC, LaCivita
worked for Chuck Howard, who pro
duced college football telecasts for
what seemed forever until Goodrich re
placed him. So LaCivita knows a thing
or two about what makes college foot
ball an entity unto itself
“The major difference between col
lege and pro football is emotion,”
LaCivita says. “Pro football is a job.
Sure, there’s some emotion in the
stands and on the field. But it’s nothing
like you see on Saturday afternoon.
College football is an emotional game.
That’s very apparent on the players’
faces. You can sense it all aroundyou—
the fans, the coaches, the cheerleaders.
It’s everywhere.”
So that’s how LaCivita, his director,
Joe Asceti, and the rest of the CBS crew
try to convey it. When LaCivita arrived
at CBS, the tendency was to shoot the
game as if it were the same as a pro
game. The premium was on high shots
from any of the three cameras in the
stadium—one on each 25-yard line and
one at midfield. In theory, that gave
viewers a better overall view of what
was happening.
In reality, LaCivita couldn’t stand it.
“In high shots you see only grass, ”
LaCivita contends. ‘That may be great
for the pros. But in college football you
want to see the colors and the back
ground and the stands. You want to see
the whole scene. You want to feel the
emotion. If you’re shooting down on
the field, there’s absolutely no
emotional impact.”
So LaCivita went down where the
action is. He went with wide shots to
show the whole arena. He went in as
tight as possible to let viewers know
that these players are actually human
beings, not machines. They really have
eyes and noses and mouths.
He also changed the composition of
CBS’ shots. In the pros, offense is where
it’s at. When it’s time for the actual play,
viewers see the quarterback, the
tailback and maybe three linemen. The
linebackers aren’t in the picture.
LaCivita didn’t like that view.
"In college football, I want to see the
defensive formation, ” LaCivita says.
"Once the play begins, I want to see
what the quarterback sees and has to
adjust to.”
Speaking of adjusting, these trips
were no stroll in the park. Trained on
NFL games, LaCivita’s crew had to be
weaned from believing that the high
shot was where it’s at. He also had to
overcome different personnel every
week. It took three years before he had
steady camera and technical crews
with him every week.
So what’s the big deal? A cameraperson is a cameraperson, right? Wrong. It
works the same way in the truck as on
the playing field. If Wayne Gretzky or
Larry Bird were getting new teammates
every week, how much of a chance
would they have of knowing what the
newcomers will do in a tough situation
in their first game? None. Is a senior
quarterback going to know how a fresh
man receiver will react to an audible?
He’ll have a much better idea in
November than in August.
And so it goes in the truck. The better
the crew knows each other and the
longer they’ve been together, the better
their chemistry. Knowing what the
director or production assistant or
technical engineer is going to do in a
particular situation without having to
think about it reduces significantly the
margin of error. The better the telecast
feels in the truck, the better it looks on
the screen. Let us not forget that while
technology may be wonderful, it still
takes humans to run it.
"The only reason I was able to switch
from high to low is because I trusted
the people I worked with and they
trusted me, ” LaCivita says. “ Now we’re
off the field about 45 to 50 percent ofthe
game. That may be a little less during an
important national game, like Michigan
playing Ohio State for the Big Ten
championship. But we rarely go off the
field less than 35 percent of the time.
"And when we say off the field, we
mean it. We want cheerleaders, crowds,
kids on the sideline, the band and any
thing else that helps convey the atmos
phere at the game. We want to make it
feel like college football.”
So does Goodrich, although at press
time he was unsure exactly what that
meant. ABC hasn’t exactly been unfeel
ing all these years, although it had
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TOUCHDOWN
pj'grown fat, sassy and happy when it had
I a monopoly. Since CBS came on the
ij^scene, ABC has gotten leaner and
' meaner. Goodrich plans to continue
' that trend.
I don’t know if that means adding
something new or not,” he says. ' VV'e
will have a different look. That may
mean a new camera or another piece of
new equipment. We re going to look at
evetydhing ABC owns and take apart
the operation from top to bottom.
"A good portion of what we’re going
to do has already been done because
we ll find that’s the best way to do it.
But if people say that’s how we’ve done
it in the past, I don’t want to hear it. If ■
we do something the same way, it'i
because we decided to do it that wi
We’re not locked into anything.”
Except possibly the weekly produ
tion schedule. With a few exceptions
ABC tries not to pick its Saturday gai
until the preceding Monday. P’or t!
games already announced, Goodrii
will telephone the home team’s sportj
information director (SID) totalkaboi
camera positions. He’ll use a stadiu
diagram to determine the exact loca-’
tions. If there’s a serious problem, he’ll
make a special trip to fix it. If he’s
merely not too thrilled with a location, ,
he’ll try to make a trade when he arrives,
at the game site.
The numbers and locations of the '
cameras vary with the stadium con
figuration. Some stadiums are too
narrow for a sideline cart camera, so
Goodrich will substitute two stationary
ones near the field. If there’s a lot of
passing expected, he’ll dump one hand
held camera and use a low fixed camera
behind the end zone and a minicamera
on the goal post.
If the game isn’t announced until
Monday, Goodrich calls the SID imme
diately afterwards. ’Hie^' have a long
talk about players, so that when Good
rich gets the rosters and works up the
three-deep position diagram he takes
into the truck, he can start thinking of
stories. He shares that information
with play-by-play man Keith Jackson
,and his partner, Tim Brant. And if
■’Goodrich has any specific requests,
.like having the Notre Dame band play
sthe fight song just as ABC comes on the
^air, he asks the SID about it on Monday.
If the band sa3's no, he goes to plan B.
“We disrupt things enough as is, with
changing dates and starting times, ” he
admits. ”We try to make it as easy as
possible. Besides, if I asked on Thufi
day. I’d never have a chance.”
After immersing himself in rosti
and three-deeps on Tlresday and Wei
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nesday, Goodrich, director Larry
Kamm and their 35-person crew (40 by
the time they hire about half-a-dozen
locals to be runners, statisticians and
fulfill other assorted functions) arrive
Thursday at the gaine site. They visit
T
....... for each
. team.
the SIDs and the coaches
Friday morning they’re at the movies.
That afternoon they dp interviews and
go to practices (including the band’s).
Hey, you never know when the band’s
Play it again/Fony!
he play was hardly a big deal. It
i was just a rollout for a touchI down by Army quarterback
Rollie Stichweh in the 1963 Navy game.
They don’t come more bread-andbutter than that.
But this one happened twice. Not on
the field in Philadelphia, but on tele
vision sets across the country. When
CBS’ Tony Verna showed the play again,
who knew he’d started a way of life?
‘We re like Pavlov's dogs now, ” says
Bob Goodrich, ABC’s college football
producer. The man knows a thing or
two about replays, having overseen
their use in 'Monday Night Football”
before switching this year to the college
variety.
’’Actually, ‘repla^'’ is the wrong
name, ” contends CBS college football
producer Ric LaCivita. ‘We re really
talking about the ability' to tape. You’re
video taping the output of a camera
that has an angle you haven’t seen. If
you didn’t see the play the first time,
how can it be a replay?”
Well, whatever one wants to call it,
it’s so ingrained in fans that when they
come to the stadium, they’re looking
for it even when they know it’s not
there.
“We re conditioned to them,” Good
rich admits. “Eveiyone, including the
audience and the television crew, feels
cheated if there isn’t a replay. ”
And therein lies the danger. Replays
are so easy to do that the impulse is to
do them all the time. A three-yards-anda-cloud-of-dust run that doesn’t make
any difference in the game? Hey, great.
Let's see that one again. Maybe we can
get a slightly better angle on the tackle.
Even three different angles aren’t a
problem. There’s no technological
miracle here. An average replay begins
with Goodrich on the headset with the
tape operator of one of ABC’s four tape
machines. Goodrich tells his director,
Lany Kamm, to isolate camera one on
red jersey 63. Kamm relays that infor
mation to the camera operator. He then
stays with red 63 until the play is over.
Kamm then tells the technical director
to feed camera one to whichever tape
machine is being used for that particu
lar play. The technical director then
punches up the tape machine and it
appears on the screen. Goodrich con
trols the speed via an Interruptible
Feedback (IFB). He can stop it, reverse
it, or fast forward it.
LaCivita likens the process to using a
recorder at home.*.The sound is
recorded on the ed^e of the half-inch
magnesium oxide tape and the video is
recorded on the rest.
”I can’t imagine doiq^ a game with
out them, ” LaCivita . says. ’’But the
replay better be worth it. It better really
be able to clarify something.
“The ability to tape can do three
things: It can amplify or clarify; it can
document something on the field that
wasn’t seen because it was away from
the play; or it can create emotion
because it captures a reaction. If it
doesn’t do one of those things. I’m not
interested in putting it on the screen. ”
There is always the question ofwhen
to use a replay. Where the heart says go
one way, the head says go the other. On
a good day, the head rules.
"You’ve got to fight the tendency to
overuse it,” Goodrich fays. "The tech
nology is there and it’s so easy that the
tendency is to constantly replay. Too
many replays upsets the tempo, the
pace and^he announcers.”
And^rtie audience. Yes, replays are
wondArfiil. Yes, they show viewers
angles they wouldn’t otherwise see.
But they are playing a football game out
there, aren’t they?
"Joe (Asceti, ^he director) has no
problem restraining us on replays,”
LaCivita says. "We don’t even see the
technology. And I don’t subscribe to
the current theoiy that in big games
3'ou have to have more equipment. I’ve
come to realize that more is not neces
sarily better. And that certainly applies
to replays.”
“If you overuse it, it loses its mean
ing,” Goodrich agrees. "You definitely
tiy to hold the number down. I still
think an instant replay should be some
thing special. ”
It was the first time. Only Goodrich j
and LaCivita can decide whether it will
be this season.
—by WUUe Sehata
going to be in a play. Remember the
1982 Stanford-Cal game?
Goodrich and the crew get right
down to the real nitty-gritty on Friday
afternoon. They spend three hours
going over alt the technical aspects of
the production. They go through the
opening, the promos, the halftime and
postgame formats. Rosters are dis
cussed at length, with emphasis on
special teams and backups who might
make interesting isolation shots. The
reward for all this toil and trouble is a
reception that night.
Then it’s game day. Everyone’s in
their place three hours before kickoff
for a rough rehearsal, with the
emphasis on technical problems or
very complex segments that need a
great deal of input.
The game faces go on a half hour
before kickoff, when rehearsal ends.
That’s 20 minutes before LaCivita
and Asceti hit the truck. They spend
game week much the same way, al
though after four years in the business,
LaCivita doesn’t waste energy worrying
about camera positions.
"I don’t think there’s a stadium in the
country where I don’t know the camera
positions,” he says. Or a team for which
he doesn’t know the idiosyncracies of
the coach. If this is Michigan-Ohio State
week, then it means Bo Schembechler
doesn’t allow interviews after Tuesday.
So LaCivita arrives Sunday instead of
Thursday. It’s a hassle with a game that
Saturday before, but he does it to
maintain the relationship.
If it’s any other week, the crew arrives
Thursday and checks out the trucks,
the equipment and the home team.
Friday is the visiting team’s day. When
they ’re not interviewing, they’re watch
ing films.
After a production meeting Friday
afternoon, LaCivita and Asceti go to
dinner with play-by-play man Brent
Musburger and analyst Ara Parseghian.
They discuss each team’s strategy,
what story lines to follow and on which
players to isolate.
"I don’t want Brent to just call playby-play and I don’t want Ara to just
analyze,” LaCivita says. "I want them to
communicate with each other and
converse back and forth about the
environment they’re in.
"Ara’s made our whole coverage
better. He has this amazing ability to
know what to look for and know where
to be on a particular play. That makes
our isolations and replays a lot easier.”
On Saturday morning there’s a twohour technical check. The crew sets up
and shows Musburger and Parseghian
all the material so there are no
surprises when they get in the truck.
LaCivita talks to the coaches one last
time, getting last-minute information
on starters, wind direction and any
thing else he thinks will help the
telecast.
"This is where my relationship with
these guys is so important,” he
says. "They’ll discuss last minute
things with me that I’d never get other
wise. And I’d never be allowed into the
locker rooms if I hadn’t maintained the
relationship.”
Thirty minutes before kickoff,
LaCivita and Asceti walk the field and
soak up the atmosphere one last time.
Ten minutes before the game, the
crew’s in their places. Then the fun
starts.
“We take a lot of chances, ” LaCivita
cheerfully concedes. No lie. If you think
the guy plays it straight, remember the
Cotton Bowl. LaCivita certainly does.
While he had the cameras focused on
Texas A&M coach Jackie Sherrill, the
Aggies scored on the last play. Viewers
never saw it, either live or on tape.
"It was my fault and no one else’s, ”
LaCivita admits. "I was concentrating
on Sherrill because here was a highpriced guy who’d undergone a lot since
he came to A&.M and now he had come
all the way back. It wasn’t a game
winning touchdown. If it had been, we
never would have been in the Sherrill
mode. When I missed it, and we didn’t
have it on tape, I said I’m dead. I’m
burned.’
"It’s the most embarrassing thing I’ve
ever done, even if it was a meaningless
score. I feel for the people around me
and the Cotton Bowl. And I feel abso
lutely horrible because it was an
amateur mistake, and we don’t make
those. But it’s not going to change
the way I cover things. And I can’t wait
to get back to the Cotton Bowl because
I’m really going to give those people a
show.”
So is the almost-new kid in the truck.
”It’s going to be different, but I’m not
worried about anything,” Goodrich
says. "It’s going to be a lot of fun. Is our
new look going to work? I don’t know.
Ask me halfway through.”
Not to worry. Viewers will give him
the answer.
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MOSES, UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME
An 18-foot-high bronze statue of Moses dominates the west lawn of the University
of Notre Dame s 14-story Memorial Library. Some students, in periods ofirreverence,
have called it the “We re Number One” statue because of the single finger pointing
skyward.
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The statue was a dream of famed Creation artist Ivan Mestrovic,who completed
early drawings before his death at Notre Dame in 1962. It was completed by Joseph
Turkalj, a student of Mestrovic and a fellow refugee from war-torn Yugoslavia. In an
erroneous translation of Scripture in early days, scholars had Moses coming off the
mountain with horns rather than a ring of fire around his head. Turkalj followed the
old artistic tradition.
CAPSTONE, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
Capstone House, an 18-stoiy high-rise, is a well-known landmark in Columbia.
Since 1968 ft Capstone has provided a variety of services to the University and the
city as a dormitory, dining hall and conference center. Capstone’s
revolving restaurant. Top of Carolina, is the only known campus
installation of its kind in the world and offers a spectacular view
of historic Columbia and the University campus.
Capstone houses over 500 women residents during the aca
demic year and operates as a conference housing facility during
summer months, offering accommodations for cheerleading
camps, professional associations, sport groups
and educational affiliates.
LEADER OF THE PACK, TEXAS A&I UNIVERSITY
Leader of the Pack,” a bronze statue, was
dedicated on the Texas A&I University cam
pus last spring and pays tribute to the
school’s mascot, the javelina. Texas
A&I is the only college in the nation
with the javelina as a mascot.
The sculpture was created by Armando
Hinojosa of Laredo, Texas, a Texas
A&I graduate and one of the South
west’s most noted artists. The work de
picts two javelinas in a natural
South Texas setting and it symboli
cally represents the leadership
qualities of the Texas A&I grad
uates and university community
since the founding of the school
in 1925.
In the background is the Texas
A&I administration building,
which like all of the structures on
campus is Spanish in style with
buff brick and a red tile roof
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/^the right thing. But that didn’t make it any
easier. \o matter how much it gnawed at his
gutS; Switzer was determined this particular
decision would be made with his head rather than
his heart.
The Oklahoma Sooner football coach was going
to bid farewell to an old and trusted friend. It was a
practical matter; he insisted. Emotions couldn’t
enter into it;
So; out on the Norman plains; it was goodbye
Wishbone; hello I-formation.
Ulth the benefit of 20/20 hindsight; Barry Switzer
says now: ”It was probably a mistake.”
Well; eveiyone’s entitled to them; even; occasion
ally; football coaches. It didn’t take Switzer long to
see the error of his ways.
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Switzer scrapped his beloved Wish
bone and went to the "I” in 1982 for sev
eral reasons, two in particular. His
quarterback, Kelly Phelps, wasn’t a
triple-option whiz like previous Sooner
quarterbacks, such as J.C. Watts and
Thomas Lott. And OU wasn't blessed
with an overabundance of the quick
silver, waterbug running backs who
knew when to zig when a defender
zagged.
The Sooners’ budding star that
3'ear was a freshman named Marcus
Dupree, who was big, fast and born to
be an I-formation deep back.
But Dupree, for a number of rea
sons, never panned out for the Soon
ers. And in 1984 Switzer, in effect, said
the heck with the I-formation. He was
gonna go back and dance with the one
that brung him.
"The Wishbone controls the ball
because of the great rushing game, ” he
said. "It’s the greatest rushing game
ever designed.”
With the benefit of hindsight again,
that was the best thing Switzer could
have done. Last 3^ear his Sooners, with
the aid of a freshman magician of a
quarterback named Jamelle Holieway
(and a devastating defense), won them
selves a national championship.
The Wishbone wasn "t the only reason
Oklahoma finished as No. 1. But it was a
big one.
It s a great offense,” Switzer said.
"It’s basic, it’s sound and it works. ”
In its heyday, the late 1960s and early
1970s, the Wishbone could be found on
college campuses big and small across
the country. A survey conducted by the
NCAA in 1974 indicated 15 major col
leges planned to use the Bone that sea
son, while another 39 teams employed
some type of triple-option attack.
The numbers aren’t nearly as high
anymore. No exact figures are available,
but you probably can count on both
hands the number of teams that will be
Wishboning it this fall. But an extraor
dinarily high percentage of teams that
used it last season experienced great
success, five of them going to bowl
games and four of them winning.
• Oklahoma clinched the national
title by defeating Penn State in the
Orange Bowl, 25-10.
• Arkansas defeated Arizona State in
the Holiday Bowl, 18-17.
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Air Force used their version ot the Wishbone—the Flexbone—to compile a 12-1 mark In 1985
• Colorado lost to Washington in the
Freedom Bowl, 20-17.
• Army defeated Illinois in the Peach
Bowl, 31-29.
• Air Force defeated Texas in the
Bluebonnet Bowl, 24-16.
The Falcons’ victoiy over the Long
horns was ironic, because the Wish
bone was born in Austin in 1968.
Although variations of it had come
and gone over the previous couple of
decades, the Wishbone was the brain
child of Emor>' Bellard, Texas coach
Darrell Royal’s offensive coordinator.
Let history show the fabled forma
tion made its debut against the Hous
ton Cougars on the night of Sept. 21,
1968, at Memorial Stadium in Austin.
Along with its basic I-formation attack,
the Longhorns mixed in a weird
looking three-back alignment. The full
back was a couple of steps behind the
quarterback, and was flanked by two
halfbacks a step behind him.
The result was a 20-20 tie. The next
week, in Lubbock, a monumentally un
impressed Texas Tech team spanked
Texas, 31-22, and the Wishbone’s career
record was 0-1-1.
In the second half against Tech,
Royal inserted a cocky, relatively un
known fellow named James Street at
quarterback. Street couldn’t bring the
Horns back in that one, but he would
never lose another college game. Texas
Wishboned its way to 20 straight victo
ries under Street, including a national
championship in 1969 with a 21-17 Cot
ton Bowl victory over Notre Dame.
In the Cotton Bowl the year before,
the Wishbone became nationally prom
inent. Rallying from that 0-1-1 start to
win its remaining games, Texas de
stroyed Te?nnessee, 36-13, in the New
Year’s Day bowl in Dallas.
Folks in the coaching fraternity were
impressed, so much so that they made
what amounted to a pilgrimage to
Austin the next spring to sit at the feet
of the masters. Royal and Bellard, to
learn the X’s and O’s.
”It fouled up spring practice, ” Royal
would recall years later. "There were
so many coaches visiting that you
couldn’t move around. People were
phoning all the time. ”
One of them. Royal said, was Duffy
Daugherty at Michigan State, who tin
kered with the Wishbone for a few
weeks in 1969.
“He kept calling and asking things
about it and telling me things he was
doing with it,” Royal said in a 1974
article in Te^as Football magazine. "Fi
nally, I told him, Duffy, yqu don’t want
my formation, you want my fullback.
And you can’t have him__ ”
continued
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To save time, Royal and Bellard even
tually put together an instructional
film, which Royal narrated. "We had to
do it," Royal said. "We were just so over
whelmed with questions. You’d get a
letter with a two-line question, and
you’d have to write a book to answer it.”
Another historical footnote: The
Wishbone got its name the night
of Oct. 19, 1968, in the legendary
Room 2001 of the Villa Capri Motor
Hotel in Austin, where Royal and
sportswriters often gathered after
Texas games for fun and fellowship.
Following the Longhorns’ 39-29 vic
tory over Arkansas, Mickey Herskowitz
of the Houston Post chided Royal for
not coming up with a catchy name for
the offense, which UT coaches were
content to call the Y-formation.
"I remember he said, ‘Gee, Coach,
that isn’t a veiy original name,’ ”
Royal said in 1974. "‘How about the
Wishbone T?’’’
Herskowitz later confirmed that was
just about the way it happened. ‘That
sounds right, ” he would say. "I’m quite
capable of saying something like. Gee,
Coach.’’’
Its name established, the Wishbone
took the country by storm. Among
those interested in it was ayoung offen
sive coordinator at Oklahoma named
Switzer. His boss, head coach Chuck
Fairbanks, ordered him to install it for
the 1970 season.
The previous two years, while their
archrivals from Austin were racing to
9-1-1 and 11-0 records, the Sooners
were struggling to so-so records—for
them—of 7-4 and 6-4.
Fairbanks decided it was time
for the Wishbone to make its way
to Norman. Switzer visited several
schools using it, studied films of
Oklahoma’s previous two games with
Texas and, finally, went straight to the
source, calling up Bellard.
Bellard, who would later take the
Wishbone with him as head coach at
Mississippi State, figured it would be
wise to get permission from Royal to
talk with Switzer, since Texas and Okla
homa had never been, and probably
never will be, bosom buddies.
Royal gave the O.K. 'I have to admit
I thought at the time it was a pretty
strange thing to do,” Bellard would
say later.
Oklahoma City sportswriter Al
Carter, now with the Houston Chron
icle, once described Royal’s decision
as, "... like telling the Germans what
day and what beach. ”
The Sooners said thanks and never
looked back. In 1971 quarterback Jack
Mildren and halfback Greg Pruitt led an
assault that accounted for 472.4 rush
ing yards per game, 44.5 points a game
and 56 rushing touchdowns.
The options of the Wishbone: the quarterback can handoffto the fullback, keep the ball and run off
orp/fc/i the ball to the trailing halfback. Sprlnt-out passes can also be thrown from
the Wishbone, using the options as play action to freeze the defenders.
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FAKEOR HANDOFF
ALTERNATE ROUTE
Eventually, however, the Wishbone
became something of a dinosaur. Its
passing capabilities were limited,
coaches decided. It was not a good
come-ffom-behind offense.
Also, its best strength was its biggest
weakness. Each option available to the
quarterback was just another chance to
leave the ball on the ground.
Teams began going to the “I,” or if
they had a strong-armed quarterback, a
pro-style passing attack. Most option
teams stuck with the Veer, which was
invented by another Texan, Houston’s
Bill Yeoman.
But some coaches decided there
were things you could do from the
Wishbone you couldn’t, do from the
other alignments. Its l^ck of an aerial
threat, for example, could be alleviated
by substituting a flanker or split end for
the tight end.
It also was looked upon as a finesse
offense that relied more on brains than
brawn. And that appealed to Ken Hat
field, the head coach at the Air Force
Academy, where the Falcons seldom
matched up physically with their larger
opponents. Hatfield brought in Fisher
DeBerry to install the Bone.
"People thought I was crazy,” Hat
field recalled. "Three different times,
my athletic director [John Clune] stuck
his head in my office and asked. Are
you really sure you want to do this?”
Hatfield was so sure he took the of
fense—he calls it the Flexbone—^with
him when he returned to his alma
mater, Arkansas, as head coach. And
DeBerry,^ elevated to the head spot at
Air Foihe, used it to guide the Falcons
to a 12-1 season in 1985 and won na
tional Coach-of-the-Year honors.
"It’s an offense ideally suited for us
because once you understand it, you
don’t have to change it much,” DeBerry
said. "And you don’t have to have real
big, physical people to make it work. ”
It’s also more flexible than it origi
nally was, DeBerry added. “There are
variations off of it. There are a lot of dif
ferent ways you can skin a cat with it. ”
DeBerry has a theory why more
teams aren’t using the Wishbone.
“It takes time and patience to install
it and understand it, ” he said. "That’s
why a lot of people don’t want to mess
with it.”
But many of those who do have been
richly rewarded. For confirmation,
check with one B. Switzer in Norman,
Okla. He’ll be glad to offer a testimonial
straight from the heart.
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erhaps legendaiy Michigan State
coach Duffy Daugherfy ex
plained the plight of college
football defenses as well as anyone.
"The ideal defense is a unit of 12
men,” the Hall of Fame leader and
humorist told a group of fellow coaches.
"With an extra man, you can be sure of
covering all the running lanes and all
the passing zones.
"However, until the rules committee
legalizes the extra man, you’ll have to
continue formulating defenses that
match strength for strength and adjust
for weakness.”
That’s the challenge defenses have
faced ever since football began, and
despite greater sophistication and
bigger, faster players, it’s still the case.
Modern football is actually played on
two levels. Fans see and hear the physi
cal side, half ballet and half brute force.
But few notice the 22-man chess match,
with moves being called from the side
lines and the press box.
This is where 270-pound pawns
capture runaway knights and check
pass-happy kings. All the while,
coaches are thinking several moves
ahead, seeking every advantage there is
on the board.
Inherently, every defense is faced
with two major disadvantages. It
doesn’t know when the ball will be
snapped, and it doesn’t know the point
of attack.
continued
TOUCHDOWN
A LESSON IN DEFENSE
The 4-3 defense features four defensive linemen (two ends and two
tackles) and three linebackers.
Yet, football history shows that
defenses have found the proper X for
every offensive O. Sometimes, the
crucial adjustment has taken some
time to uncover, but each offensive for
mation has eventually met its strategic
match.
“We can stop any play if we practice
against it enough,” said Michigan
coach Bo Schembechler. "There is no
football play that cannot be stopped. I
respect an opponent that has a super
play that has been successful for them.
We want a stunt to stick a knife into that
pi^y”
Indeed, teams win more often when
they align 11 defenders to take away
what the opposition does best. Few
schools ever run and pass with equal
ease and efficiency. Great defenses
know that and try to disrupt an attack’s
preferred pattern.
Over the years, two distinctly differ
ent defenses have evolved to do just
that—the 3-4 set (often called the ‘52 ”)
and the 4-3, with an extra down
lineman and only one inside linebacker.
Both have been refined to battle the
same offensive problems. In fact,
according to ex-Oklahoma coach Bud
Wilkinson, another Hall of Famer, all
defensive thinking has developed as a
counter to the 11 formations that have
shaped modern offense.
They are: 1) the Single-Wing, 2) the
Notre Dame Box, 3) the Double-Wing, 4)
the Short Punt, 5) the T, 6) the Split-T, 7)
the Veer, 8) the Wishbone, 9) the I, 10)
the Pro-Set and 11) the Multiple WideReceiver Set.
Option-type running games and
read-oriented passing attacks are now
in vogue as the dominant offensive
styles. Both frustrate defenses through
the same principle—by quickly chang
ing the point of attack after the ball is
snapped.
But aggressive, attacking defenses
can just as quickly change an entire
offensive game plan. By shifting, stunt
TOUCHDOWN
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Illustrated NFL Playbook” © 1986 NFL Properties,
Inc. All rights reserved.
The 3-4 defense fea tures three defensive linemen (a noseguard In the
middle, flanked by two tackles) and four linebackers.
ing and blitzing, swarming tacklers tiy
to force an attack toward its weak
ness—and every offense has one.
Much of that thinking is sheer com
mon-sense survival instinct. If a team is
playing Brigham Young or San Diego
State, it had better develop pass cover
age skills. And if its schedule includes
Oklahoma and Nebraska, its run sup
port should double-check all chinstraps.
The problem there is primarily one of
execution. A team can’t possibly hope
to customize its entire defense each
week. The answer is a flexible, adapt
able system that requires only minor
adjustments—a system that considers
defensive limitations as well as offen
sive desires.
"Everyone says your defense has to
be sound and simple,’’ Iowa coach
Hayden Fry said. “Who makes the defi
nition ofwhat sound and simple is? You
have to do what it takes to win with
what you have to do it with. Ifyou don’t,
you aren’t going to be coaching very
long. ”
Unemployment is never the object,
so ground-bound teams will usually
find eight or nine tacklers bunched
near the line of scrimmage, and passing
schools will see five or six defensive
backs in more than just long-yardage
situations.
Liberalized blocking rules and im
proved passing have all but eliminated
traditional defenses like the split-6 and
4-4, with their three-man secondaries.
If a team can’t protect against the pass
in the 1980s, it usually means too much
action for its extra-point defense.
Perhaps that’s why the 3-4 and 4-3
both employ a four-man secondary.
When a lineman misses a tackle, it’s
frequently a few extra yards. But when
someone gets free in the secondary, it
can lead to six points.
That awareness is seen in the four
major goals of most defenses: prevent
ing the long run or pass, getting down
right stingy close to the goal line, help
ing the offense start with ,^ood field
position, and making big plays and
forcing turnovers.
Again, there’s a difference in theory
between those who favor the reading,
reacting defense and those who like an
aggressive approach that’s committed
to making things happen.
“I don’t want the kamikaze pilot who
flew 54 different missions,’’ new Notre
Dame coach Lou Holtz said. “There is a
difference between being involved and
being committed. You’ve heard about
the chicken and the pig. When it comes
to bacon and eggs, one is involved and
one is committed. ”
Most teams are committed to one
alignment and recruit to its distinct
position requirements. But few
prospects have, every desired quality,
and most teams have to prioritize
size, speed, toughness, quickness and
intelligence.
In the 3-4, the tendency is toward
lighter, cjpfcker players who can slant,
stunt and pursue to the ball. With a
noseguard over the center and two
tackles over the offensive tackles, the
standard “odd” defense leaves both
guards uncovered.
That gives two inside linebackers a
chance to react before the guards can
reach them. But it also creates what
coaches call “bubbles,” soft spots
where power plays have a built-in
advantage.
The 3-4 offers excellent pass cover
age, with four linebackers dropping
into zones or helping to double-cover
receivers. The big problem comes in
rushing the passer, unless blitzing
gambles pay off.
“In theory, it’s OK against the run,”
Washington coach Don James said.
“But when we play an opponent that
throws the ball real well, we just can’t
get through to the quarterback with
three men.
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A LESSON IN DEFENSE
continued
“There’s only one bubble with the
4-3, and we can cover for that with
stunts, ” said Michigan State’s George
Perles, designer of the great Steeler
defenses. “We want to cover every gap,
and by angling a tackle and stacking the
middle linebacker, he should be free to
move to the ball. ”
The 4-3 often offers a better pass rush
but only allows seven men to drop off
for coverage, leaving more seams in
zones and a bit less double-coverage
opportunity.
Both defenses use two outside line
backers, a “Sam ” or strongside backer
over the tight end and a “Will ” or weakside backer to the split-end side of the
formation.
“It seems like everyone in college
football today wants to play linebacker,’’
Wisconsin coach Jim Hilles said. “They
want to major in business and play
linebacker. We used to call our outside
linebackers ends, but now they are
linebackers.”
The last line of defense in both
systems is a pair of cornerbacks, a
Um
‘‘We’ve gone to schemes that get us
into an even’ defense [with an extra
lineman and the center uncovered].
But I think the odd’ scheme, the old
‘50’ or ‘Oklahoma’ or whatever you
want to call it, is still a very sound
defense to play against the run. ”
Some insist the 4-3 or “even align
ment ” is sounder. It’s often called the
“pro” defense, though many teams
have switched to the 3-4. And there’s no
comparison between the Stunt 4-3 ”
used in four Pittsburgh Super Bowl
victories and the “46“ defense Chicago
used to smash opponents last fall.
But the standard 4-3 has two tackles
opposite the offensive guards and a
pair of ends aligned to their outside.
The middle linebacker is responsible
for making a large share of the tackles,
and great care is taken to assure that
he’s unblocked.
Cornerbacks must have the courage to take on offensive linemen and the speed to cover
receivers one-on-one.
TOUCHDOWN
strong safety and a free safety. We re
talking about players with the courage
to take on a pulling guard and break up
the blocking, then fly 50 yards with a 9.4
sprinter the following down.
The cornerbacks, usually two of the
team’s best athletes, are responsible for
wide receivers in man coverage and
sideline areas or deep-thirds of the
field in zone work.
The strong safety—also known as a
rover, monster, wolf, chief, hammer or
hero at some schools—takes the tight
end in most man coverages and a deep
third in “rotate” coverage or a short
sideline in standard “ invert ” work.
The free safety usually lines up far
thest from the line of scripimage and
plan's a deep center field on zones. On
man coverage, he’ll often,be involved in
double-coverage.
For most teams, coverage options
change considerably fn special situa
tions. No defense in the country stays
with its basic look on third-and-28 at
midfield with a minute to go or with
fourth-and-goal at the one-yard line.
Teams frequently use “ nickel ” for
mations, with five defensive backs, or
“ dime” looks, with six DBs, in prevent
situations. Michigan has had great suc
cess with six-man secondaries and
fewer linebackers for entire games
against passing teams like Purdue.
Near the goal line, most teams substi
tute bigger people and play six-, sevenor even eight-man lines. Pass coverage
is almost always man-to-man, with
offenses often “ picking ” defenders—an
illegal move, if spotted by the officials —
with crossing patterns and moving
screens. ^ '
Despjite all the scheming, the out
come is seldom settled on a chalkboard.
The winner is determined on a 360-by160-foot playing field, with constantly
varying conditions. And it’s decided by
human beings, finely tuned athletes
with physical and psychological highs
and lows.
As former Ohio State coaching great
Woody Hayes insisted, “You win with
people.” Perhaps that’s shown by the
ebb and flow of offensive and defensive
superiority and by the determination of
defensive players through the decades.
"Before the season, our Sam line
backer was asked what he thought
about being called “Junkyard Dogs,”’
Georgia coach Vince Dooley said of the
team’s defensive nickname. “He
answered, “It’s a lot better than some of
the things they called us last year.’ ”
When all 11 defenders do their job
just the way it has been designed,
sometimes they’re called something
else—champions.
^
CAREER STATISTICAL LEADERS
Total Offense Career Yards
Player, Team
Years
Doug Flutie, Boston College . . .............. 1981-84
Brian McClure, Bowling Green .............. 1982-85
Jim McMahon, Brigham Young.. .. 1977-78. '80-81
John Elway, Stanford..............
Ben Bennett. Duke
Chuck Long, Iowa .. ,
Steve Young, Brigham Young
.............. 1981-83
Mark Herrmann. Purdue
.............. 1977-80
Robbie Bosco, Brigham Young .. .............. 1983-85
Randall Cunninaham. UNI V
.............. 1982-84
Career Receptions
Plays
1558
1630
1325
1505
1582
1411
1177
1354
1158
1330
Yards
11.317
9774
9723
9070
9061
9034
8817
8444
8299
8224
Years
Plays
Yards
1973-76
1976-79
1074
1023
994
845
902
668
918
893
860
847
6082
5598
5259
5177
4958
4780
4715
4682
4602
4582
Avg.
7 26
6.00
7 34
6 03
5.73
6.40
7 49
6 24
7 17
6.18
Player, Team
Years
Howard Twilley, Tulsa
........ 1963-65
David Williams, Illinois........
Darrin Nelson. Stanford ..
1977-78. '80-81
Ron Sellers. Florida St..
........ 1966-68
Keith Edwards,Vanderbilt ...
... 1980, '82-84
Gerald Harp, Western Carolina ........ 1977-80
Jeff Champine. Colorado St . ........ 1980-83
Phil Odie, Brigham Young ..
........ 1965-67
Tim Delaney, San Diego St. .
........ 1968-70
Walter Murray. Hawaii..
........ 1982-85
Rick Beasley. Appalachian St. . . ........ 1978-80
Gordon Hudson, Brigham Young
1980-83
Rushing Career Yards
Player, Team
Tony Dorsett, Pittsburgh .. .
.....................
Charles White, Southern Cal ... ....................
Herschel Walker, Georgia ...
Archie Griffin, Ohio St ..
George Rogers, So. Carolina... .....................
Mike Rozier. Nebraska . .
Ed Marinaro. Cornell ..
Marcus Allen, Southern Cal. ..
Ted Brown, No, Carolina St. .. ....................
Terry Miller. Oklahoma St.........
1977-80
1975-78
Catches Yards
261
3343
245 3195
214 2368
212 3598
1757
200
197 3305
184 2811
183 '2548
180 ■ 2535
178 ' 2865
178 3124
178 2484
Avg.
12.8
13.0
11.1
17.0
8.8
16.8
15.3
13.9
14.1
16.1
17.6
14.0
TD
32
22
16
23
3
26
21
25
22
20
23
22
Career Field Goals
5 66
5 47
5 29
6 13
5 50
7 16
5.14
5 24
5 35
5.41
Player, Team
John Lee. UCLA ....
Luis Zendejas. Arizona St ..
Kevin Butler, Georgia ...
Max Zendejas, Arizona ... .
Fuad Reveiz, Tennessee..........
Larry Roach, Oklahoma St___
Paul Woodside, West Virginia
Jeff Jaeger, Washington............
Jess Atkinson, Maryland . .
Obed Ariri, Clemson ........
...
1981-84
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
1982-85
1981-84
1981-84
1981-84
1983-85
1981-84
1977-80
Total
79-92
78-105
77-98
77-104
71-95
68-101
65-81
63-78
60-82
60-92
Pet.
.859
.743
.786
.740
.747
.673
.802
.808
.732
.652
Long
52
55
60
57
60
56
55
52
50
57
Career Scoring
Passing Career Yards
Player, Team
Years
Att. Cmp. Pet. Yards TD
Doug Flutie. Boston College .................. 1981-84 1270
677 .533 10.579 67
Brian McClure, Bowling Green.......... 1982-85 1427
900 . 631 10.280 63
Ben Bennett. Duke..................................... 1980-83 1375
820 .596 9614 53
Jim McMahon, BrigharTi Young 1977-78, '80-81 1060
653 .616 9536 84
John Elway, Stanford............................... 1979-82 1246
774 .621
9349 77
Chuck Long, Iowa..................................... 1981-85 1072
692 . 646 9210 64
Mark Herrmann, Purdue............................ 1977-80 1218
717 .589 9188 62
Joe Adams, Tennessee St......................... 1977-80 1100
604 . 54 9 8649 81
Robbie Bosco, Brigham Young............ 1983-85 997
638 . 64 0 8400 66
Kevin Sweeney, Fresno St........................ 1982-85 1052
571 .54 3 8260 51
Years
Player, Team
Luis Zendejas, Arizona St.
Tony Dorsett, Pittsburgh .
Glenn Davis. Army ......
John Lee, UCLA................
Max Zendejas, Arizona...
Kevin Butler, Georgia....
Art Luppino, Arizona ....
Steve Owens, Oklahoma .
Wilford White, Arizona St.
Allen Pinkett, Notre Dame
Years
1981-84
1973-76
194:^-46
iaS2-85
1982-85
1981-84
1953-56
1967-69
1947-50
1982-85
TD
0
59
59
0
0
0
48
56
48
53
XPT
134
2
0
116
122
122
49
0
27
2
FG
78
0
0
79
77
77
0
0
4
0
Pts.
368
356
354
353
353
353
337
336
327
320
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THE GAME MUST GO ON
byAl Browning, The Knoxville News~Sentinel
eople like to talk about weather.
No doubt, that is the most fre
quent topic of conversation for
strangers attempting to break the ice
after an introduction. So, it is not shock
ing that numerous people have stories
about college football games played
under far from ideal conditions.
From rain to snow and ice.
From hot to cold.
From wind to fog.
And so on—weather or not, the
game goes on.
It is true. Not even inclement weather
can keep the young men of fall folly
from making their appointed rounds.
"I read the other day where the
Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies
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had a baseball game postponed be
cause of cold weather,” said former
Notre Dame center Dave Huffman. “I
was amused by that.”
Huffman had reason to be.
In 1979 Notre Dame and Houston
played in a Cotton Bowl game that was
dubbed "The Ice Bowl” by people brave
enough to watch it in person. That the
Fighting Irish won, 35-34, when Dallas
native Joe Unis kicked an extra point
after time had expired, is not as im
portant as players surviving the
formidable chill.
“I knew it was bad when I looked up
in the stands and could pick out my
family,” Huffman said about the 20degree weather made much worse by
patches of ice on the playing field and a
17-mph wind. 'T even saw my father
wave goodbye to me as he left the
stadium. It had to be bad for him to
walk away from a game.
“Before the game, they used heli
copters and an ice-smoothing machine
on the field. I walked out there and
said, ‘Hey, what is this, ice hockey?This
is the wrong sport. ’ I was kind of hoping
they would tell us to come back the
next day and get into it then.
"But the football players sort of enjoy
the macho image.”
Notre Dame did come back that day,
in another way—on the scoreboard.
Houston led, 34-12, before the Fighting
continued
TOUCHDOWN
WEATHER OR NOT
continued
Irish quarterback Joe Montana shook
off the effects of the chill to lead the
rally. After sipping soup during the
third quarter to get his body back into
working order, he passed to flanker
Chris Haines for a game-tying touch
down as time expired.
“Then,” said Huffman, “my brother,
Tim, who played guard, jumped before
the snap on the extra-point kick [by
Unis]. I remember a look of terror on
Unis’ face when we huddled before a
second decisive kick after the offsides
penalty. He said, 'I might not be able to
get the football up there again. I hurt
my foot on the first one. It must be
frozen or something.’ ’’
To say Unis iced a dramatic victory is
an understatement.
Fog?
Yes, the home of the Louisiana State
Bengal Tigers can become strange in
the fog.
Florida State coach Bobby Bowden
discovered that about Tiger Stadium in
1982. His Seminoles lost, 55-21, in one of
the weirder games in history.
Early in the fourth quarter, a heavy
fog appeared in the stadium. Fans
could barely see the players on the
field.
"I remember standing there in amaze
ment, ” Bowden said. "I turned to an
assistant coach and said. Look at it.
Can you believe it?’ It was the first time
I’d seen fog like that at eye level.
'But, being honest, I don’t think the
fog affected the game that night. I was
sort of glad to see it, since we were
beaten so badly. I didn’t want fans to
see what was going on. ”
He almost got his wish, according to
Jimmy Hyams, who at that time was a
sportswriter for The Baton Rouge
Morning Advocate.
“It was eerie,’’ Hyams said. “The fog
rolled in over the south end zone. It
reminded me of the movie The Ten
Commandments.’ A smoke-like screen
hovered over the stadium, then came
down onto the field.
"You could barely see the players.
You lost sight of the ball on passes. You
wondered how the receivers could
possibly see it.
“A berth in the Orange Bowl was at
stake. Fans started throwing oranges
late in the game, hitting players, which
prompted John Adams of our staff to
write. You couldn’t see the fog for the
oranges.’ There were thousands of
oranges on the field at the end of the
game.
"But, because the fog was so bad, all
you could see from the press box was
the top of the goal posts.”
There are times when inclement
weather can lead to grand perfor
mances. It was the case in 1932, when
TOUCHDOWN
Alabama and Tennessee played in
Birmingham.
It rained so hard, with agustingwind
adding misery on an unseasonably
cold day, that both teams frequently
punted on first and second downs.
Enter Beattie Feathers of Tennessee
and John Cain of Alabama. The former
punted 21 times for a 48-yard average,
with one kick traveling a meager 18
yards. The latter punted 19 times for a
43-yard average.
An 11-yard punt by Cain set up the
only touchdown.
Fans like the late William deShazo
marveled: "Those boys kicked the ball
like demons. It was the only game I
could remember attending when my
shoes were filled with water. Mud was
ankle deep on the playing field.”
Said the late Tennessee coach, Gen.
Bob Neyland, whose team claimed a
dramatic 7-3 victory: "Never will I
witness another magnificent kicking
performance like that. ”
The equipment used that afternoon
adds to the greatness of what Feathers
and Cain did. In that era of college
football, inclement weather gear, such
as raincoats and extra uniforms, was
not available.
The high-top shoes and thick cotton
pants the punters wore became soggy
and heavy. The officials did not change
footballs, leaving Feathers and Cain
a water-logged, mud-coated toy to play
with.
Vendors sold makeshift raincoats,
cape-like and made of oil paper. They
sold out, at 50 cents each, in 10
minutes. Some of the 20,000 fans cut
holes in coats, put them over their
heads and peered through them. That
night, the laundry clerk at the Thomas
Jefferson Hotel refused to take suits
because he had more than 300 waiting
to be cleaned.
Many Tennessee fans did not mind.
They were dropping feathers from their
pillows from hotel windows to cele
brate their victory.
What did it prove? That neither hell
nor high water can keep Tennessee and
Alabama from putting on a show on the
third Saturday in October.
Thoughts of Alabama bring to mind
remembrances of the late Paul " Bear "
Bryant. A self-pronounced plowhand
from Arkansas, he worked in sweltering
heat, but also toiled in ice and snow.
In 1950 and 1952, when Bryant
coached at Kentucky, he took cham
pionship-caliber teams to Knoxville to
play Tennessee and left dismayed.
After a 7-0 loss in 1950, when thegame
was played after an unseasonable ice
storm in eight-degree temperatures, he
and the Kentucky players could not
leave town. The train they used was
frozen to the track.
In 1952, after 18.4 inches of snow fell
in Knoxville two days before the game,
Bryant had to deal with more misery
than that created by a 14-14 tie
on the field.
""We got back to Lexington that
night,” Bryant said, "but my car was
covered with snow and the roads were
iced over. I had to walk home, taking a
shortcut through heavy woods. It was a
long walk, to say the least.”
Snow got the best of Bryant in 1959,
too, when he took Alabama to Phila
delphia to play Penn State in the first
Liberty Bowl. It was at halftime during
that Nittany Lions’ victory that the
coach developed a story that he used
many times.
"My players were country boys from
Dixie who had never seen snow,”
Bryant said. ""The field was covered that
afternoon, the wind was blowing at
about 40 mph and everybody from
Alabama was miserable.
""At halftime, my players huddled
around a potbellied stove like puppies
around their mom. They were shiver
ing. I was at a loss for words. Finally,
I asked for volunteers to play the
second half.
""Not a^player raised his hand. It was
an ugly sight. But who could blame
them? Their coach was freezing with
them. ”
Snowy days in Philadelphia are not
unusual. Nor are they a surprise in
Wyoming, where the football-playing
Cowboys have learned strange weather
works both ways.
In 1982 a snowstorm in Laramie held
up the kickoff 90 minutes for a game
between homestanding Wyoming and
San Diego State. The visitors stayed the
night before in Cheyenne, 50 miles
away, and their bus could not get to the
stadium through Summit Pass, the
normal route into Laramie.
San Diego State rode into town ""the
back way,” through Fort Collins, Colo.,
then won, 24-21.
Wyoming is used to bitter cold or
pleasingly cool weather working to its
advantage. In 1981, after trailing, 14-0,
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WEATHER OR NOT continued
the Cowboys upset powerful Brigham
Young, 33-20, after a snowstorm devel
oped during the game.
But Wyoming, which normally has
70-degree temperatures for its initial
home game each season, then cooler
weather the rest of the way; has suf
fered in heat while traveling. That is
another weather woe often associated
with intersectional scheduling.
In 1973 the Cowboys went to Arizona
State and lost, 47-0, in 97-degree heat.
In 1981, after leading at Oklahoma in
the fourth quarter, the Cowboys lost,
37-20, in 94-degree temperatures.
No wonder Southern Cal transported
air conditioners across the nation a few
years ago when playing at hot and
humid Florida.
No wonder Pittsburgh was pleased to
see a cooling rainstorm in 1982 after
suffering for a half in the heat against
Florida State. The Seminoles had a sur
prise planned that backfired. They put
in an option-oriented offense for the
game, only to find the playing field too
wet to use it in the second half.
"We had Dan Marino and his pads in a
perfect trap,” said Bowden, "the boys
trom up north in the sweltering heat.
Then the rain came and the temper
ature dropped 15 degrees. We had to
idle down the offense, too, which
definitely worked to their advantage.”
Wyoming discovered in 1983 that
storms of another kind can be hard to
deal with. When it rains in Southern
California, which is rarely, it pours. The
Cowboys defeated San Diego, 33-21, in
1983, after the playing field at Jack
Murphy Stadium in San Diego became
a mudhole.
Mississippi State placekicker Artie
Cosby had the winds of fate touch him
in a 1983 game against Ole Miss. He
lined up to make a chip shot field-goal
attempt that would have won the game
in the final few seconds.
Cosby kicked with enough force and
accuracy, prompting Mississippi State
fans in the end zone to leap with joy as
the football got to the crossbar. But a
freakish gust of wind stopped the foot
ball and blew it backward. The football
hit the ground a yard in front of the dis
mayed placekicker.
Ole Miss won. Cosby received a letter
from a fan who read about the peculiar
field-goal attempt.
"The guy told me he studied weather
a lot, but he’d never seen or heard
about anything that strange,” Cosby
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said. "In fact, he said it was a one-in-amillion chance that something like that
would happen at that precise spot at
that precise time.”
Being prepared for inclement weath
er is the key, as Bowden discovered in
1976, his first season at Florida State,
when the Seminoles played North
Texas State in the Lone Star State.
“At halftime, my players
huddled around a pot
bellied stove like
puppies around their
mom.” ,
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Hear his stoiy:
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"It was 80 degrees all week in Talla
hassee as we practiced for the game.
Then, it was like that for our workout
in Denton.
"But the night before the game a freak
snowstorm hit town. A cold wind blew
into town from the plains of Oklahoma.
We had five inches of snow on the
ground Saturday morning, with more
coming down.
"I sent a manager to a local hardware
store to buy every pair of gloves and
every stocking cap they had in stock.
Eighty percent of our players are from
Florida. Most of them had never seen
snow. They saw a lot that day.
"It was homecoming at North Texas
State, with only 1,000 people there, with
my wife walching the game from a bus
parked ^ next to the stadium. You
couldn I see anything except two goal
posts. They had to use highway
markers on the sidelines so we’d know
where the yard lines were.
"North Texas State led us, 21-14, with
two minutes to play. We drove for a
touchdown and went for two. Our full
back dived into the line on the extra
point attempt. The referee literally
scraped snow to find the goal line
before he could rule that we had taken
the lead.
"When it comes to weather, that’s
how it is in this business. You never can
tell. For instance, it was so bad that day
that I just told our players to go out
there and have a good time, knowing all
along they couldn’t possibly enjoy
something like that. There didn’t seem
to be any way we could play that game.
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The Dream Team
by Blackie Sherrod, Dallas Morning Neivs
a task which may be loosely compared
ollege football coaches, as we
with squeezing toothpaste back in the
have all been taught, are blessed
with the wisdom of Solomon,
tube.
Howard Cosell and goodness knowsA couple of years ago. The Sporting
News formed an exalted panel of 20
who all. Especially the revered old
astute professors and asked their judg
names who are no longer molding char
ment on such a team. These were no
acter and dodging irate alumni. The
lightweight philosophers, mind you.
depth of their knowledge and creativity
There were elder statesmen like Earl
swells with each passing season, as
Blaik and Duffy Daugherty and Ben
legends are recounted around camp
Schwartzwalder and Bobby Dodd,
fires and in the backrooms.
gentlemen who had spent a half-cen
It was actually Mr. Knute Rockne,
tury teaching young Americans how to
hallowed be his name, who wrote most
conjugate a Latin verb and double-team
of Shakespeare's dramas, and Amos
the tackle. Darrell Royal, Frank Broyles,
Alonzo Stagg who invented the cotton
Ara Parseghian and Bo Schembechler
gin and Glenn Warner who discovered
were on the panel.
that a Double Wing is not necessarily
They were asked to elect offensive
twice as strong as a Single Wing. (The
and defensive platoons and when the
latter became known as the theory of
votes were counted. The Sporting News
relativity and won the Nobel Peace
kindly made the news public for us un
Prize for Gen. Robert Neyland.) Woodsophisticates to marvel at.
row Hayes dug the Panama Canal with
However, as some of us unsophisti
a sharp stick and Bear Bryant was the
cates are wont to do, there was con
first man to walk the Atlantic.
siderable sniping at the selections. For
Of course, college coaches with any
example, some of us nitpickers noted
longevity are known for their hindsight.
that Sam Huff was included on the
They are forever dropping such sage
honor roll of college linebackers. Now
comments as "Like I was saying back in
Huff was an illustrious professional
August__ ” or "As I have said all
linebacker for the New York Giants and
along—”
Washington Redskins. But he was a
Therefore, when a gaggle of these
tackle at West Virginia. In fact, Sam
learned gentlemen are called upon to
gained no All-America recognition in
settle a momentous issue, well, cer
college; instead, his teammate, tackle
tainly no one can be expected to deal
Bruce Bosley, was the honored one.
with the matter in a wiser fashion. And
Anyway, if such esteemed judges are
so it should be in the matter of
guilty of bungling, what chance does a
choosing an All-Time All-America team,
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mere pressboxer have of escaping with
out a pie in the kisser? Answer: none.
However, nothing chanced, nothing
argued, and what better debate for cozy
evenings on the hearth, with a cold
mug and a hot bird? Or is it the other
way around?
Anyone foolhardy enough to attempt
a project of this scope must first estab
lish a set of rules and then, for his own
safety, follow the guidelines religiously
as a mountainclimber. First, there is the
strong temptation (which was apparent
in the coaching panel voting) of also
considering the player’s professional
career. This is a no-no. Remember, col
lege play only. Then, it should be
accepted that today’s college players
are bigger, faster, stronger, more gifted
physically than those of yesteryear.
Sam Baugh, the leathery old TCU eagle,
had some thoughts on this a dozen
years ago.
"Heck, any of these teams today
could beat the teams of our day,’’ Sam
said with finality.' ’ Biggest change is the
two platoon. You didn’t see all this
pursuit they have today, not back when
we played both offense and defense.
We might loaf a little and catch our
breath.
"Folks say football hasn’t changed,”
Baugh continued. "Well, I say iffootball
hasn’t changed in fifty years, there’s
something dang sure wrong with it. You
learn all the time. It’s a better game now
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1932-34
Nebraska
1970-72
Minnesota
1927-29
Washington & Jefferson 1917-19
Ohio State
1954-56
Texas
1963-65
Pennsylvania
1945-48
TCU
1934-36
Illinois
1923-25
SMU
1946-49
Stanford
1923-25
Don Hutson
Johnny Rodgers
Bronko Nagurski
Wilbur Henry
Jim Parker
Tommy Nobis
Chuck Bednarik
Sam Baugh
Harold Grange
Doak Walker
Ernie Nevers
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than when I played, and it’ll be even
better 10 years from now.”
So—accepting that premise as fact,
that players and teams are better than
ever—an All-Time selection would
seem a simple assignment. Just name
the guys on last year’s All-America roll
and forget it. But, according to our pre
ordained rules, that would not be fair. It
would be more honorable to compare
the players against the competition of
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Years
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their day. Therefore, you do not weigh
Red Grange against O.J. Simpson. You
rate Grange against Harry Wilson and
Ken Strong and Elmer Layden and Red
Cagle and others of the Roaring Twen
ties. And then you compare Simpson
with his peers, chaps like LeRoy Keyes
and Steve Owens and Mel Farr and
Clint Jones and that generation.
Also, for the rather lazy reason of
simplicity, this All-Time selection
includes only 11 players. No offensive
and defensive platoons. A good player,
a really outstanding player, an AllTimer as it were, shouldhe able to play
both ways. The way the game was
meant to be played by its originators.
He may not have seen double duty, be
cause of rules of his era, but he could
have pulled it off.
On the accompanying team, two
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examples of this stand out. Tommy
Nobis, the burr-top, freckled Texas bat
tleship, is a choice at guard. He was
widely honored at his acknowledged
college position—linebacker. But he
natural athlete who was at his delight
ful best under pressure. He was a Ijrokenfield runner who traveled with almost
mischievous ease, almost tantalizing in
his moves and changes in speed and
occasion; Darrell Royal often subbed
Wl^bis at guard when the Longhorns
®were on a crucial drive.
Johnny Rodgers is an All-Time choice
at end, although he worked also at
wingback and halfback for the 1970-71
Nebraska Gornhuskers, one of the great
outfits in college history. In his day,
Rodgers was arguably the best athlete
in the country; he could have made an
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again, like most of the old hands, he
was a superior all-around performer.
He was one of the great punters in col- j
legiate annals and an outstanding
safety on defense.
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All-Time choices for end. Hutson, like *
He played all positions in the old
Baugh, established a pattern for re
Y-formation. He called plays. He impro
ceivers in the mid-1930s. He was a fleet,
vised in the huddle and, like Grange, he
fluid athlete, a magical faker, and he
was a splendid secondaryman. In fact,
built receiving marks that still, surpris
when Walker retired from the Detroit
ingly enough, compare with the spe
Lions after six big seasons. Lions’ brass
cialists of today.
begged him to play another half-dozen
. Bronko Nagurski would make the
years as a defensive back.
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He probably gained most attention as a
available to the; All-Time voter.yDoc
Mite style of his time. .
Minnesota and Chicago Bear fullback,
p" If you will allow another criticism of
Blanchard of the wartime Army teams;
but he was an absolute terror as a f
that aforementioned coaches’ All-Time
Kimbrough; Edward Coy, the legendary
Yale hero; Jim Thorpe, for goodness
Gopher tackle. In some Minnesota
team, consider that the two running
games, he played both tackle and full- ^
backs were Simpson and Earl Campbell.
sakes; Earl Campbell; Lariy Csonka; any
number of stout-legged lads.
back and, on occasion, was positioned
Red Grange, the Illinois wonder, was
it end. The men who played against
There is a temptation to squeeze in
relegated to "honorable mention.”
ibis 230-pounder (a monster in those
the great Chicago workhorse. Jay BerHorrors. To offer an All-Time team with
days) merely rolled their eyes and
wanger,
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shook their heads when Nagurski was
winner. Gad, how this man worked for
the Declaration of Independence with
an inferior Chicago team of the mid-’30s.
discussed. Pudge Heffelfinger, a line
out John Hancock! Grange stood out
ke did most ot me running ail ot tne
among his ieiiows, perhaps as no other
legend at Yale in an earlier era, said,
VThere probably never has been a
passing, punting, extra points, field
collegian ever has.
goals, kickoffs. He backed the line for
player any stronger than Nagurski, nor
After the halfback’s sensational soph
Any who could develop as much horse
three downs and, on fourth, dropped
omore season (he rushed 202 yards in
back to play safety. This man rushed for
power from a standing start.”
slightly more than a halftime in the first
varsity game he ever played), all de
a stunning 4,108 yards in three varsity
; The other tackle position goes to
seasons, and in those days, Chicago
even more of an old-timer. Wilbur |
fenses were geared to stop Grange. Yet
"Fats ” Heniy of Washington and Jefferplayed only eight games per autumn.
he kept gaining the yards and scoring
Said Clark Shaughnessy: "I have never
Son apparently was a true superstar.
the points, game after game. And the
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Jack Dempsey, Babe Ruth, Bill Tilden
and Man O’ War. In 21 Illinois games, he
averaged 173 yards rushing and those
were the days of stiff, heavy canvas
pants and clumsy high-top shoes with
thick blunt cleats. It says here, in words
of some heat, you pick an All-Time
team, you start with Red Grange.
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Ernie Nevers, the one-man gang at
Stanford in the mid-1920s. Pop Warner,
who coached them both, picked Nevers
over Jim Thorpe as the "greatest player
of all time. ” At the risk of repetition, he
did it all and he gloried in pressure
situations.
Quarterbacks? Well, that coaches’
oanel nicked Roeer5tauha£±L.aiidJier^
tainly Capt. America was an exceptional collegd performer even though
he will be remembered mostly for his
professional exploits at Dallas. But the
All-Time choice here is Sammy Baugh,
the first of the glamour passers who
gave push to the modern offense.
Mel Hein was around football for a
zillion years or so, as a great center at
Washington State and the New York
* Giants, and as an official. He once said,
jective. Doak Walker was,1c}uite simply,
the best college player these eyes ever
covered, and they have peered
myopically at dem near every head
liner from John Kimbrough and Charlie
TVippi to Gayle Sayers and Billy Sims.
Walker was a three-time All-Arherica
at Southern Methodist and a graceful.
I’ve coached many of these younger
players, and I must say this, of all the
players who ever played this game, the
first man I’d pick would be Sam Baugh.
If I were starting to build a team and
had my choice of anybody of any day,
Baugh would be my number one.”
Baugh was known for his pinpoint
yards in a 12-10 losing cause to a good
Iowa team.
And, of course. Grange threw and
caught passes, returned kicks and was
an excellent defensive back. Grange
was, and is, the most modest of men,
but one senses that he had a tinge of
secret pride in his defensive ability.
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of his day. Henry was also a 230pounder, stacked on a squatty 5-10
frame, and despite that hulk, he was a
four-sport man. Historians note that he
was unbelievably quick, was unsur
passed as a kick blocker and also as a
punter. Such respected authorities as
Rockne, Jock Sutherland, John Heis
man. Greasv Neale and Poii.Warner.,....
labeled Henry as the greatest tackle the
Jim Parker, the Ohio State giant,
teams with Nobis as the All-Time
guards. At 250 pounds, Parker was a
superior blocker, both in the line and
pulling or trapping. On defense, he
played both in the line and at linebacker.
Chuck Bednarik is mostly remem
bered for his heroic two-way perform- ^
^ ances for the Philadelphia Eagles. But ^
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Bednarik was a great center and linebacker at Penn for four varsity seasons,
twice gaining All-America plaques.
, So there’s your 11 All-Timers, at least
from one timid viewpoint. Let the argu
ments begin.
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The Maxwell Award
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College football
Quiz.
ach year the Maxwell Football
Club of Philadelphia presents
the Maxwell Award to the nation’s
outstanding college player. Past
winners include Army ’s Doc Blanchard
(’45), Ohio State’s Hopalong Cassady
(’55), Navy’s Roger Staubach (’63)
and Cornell’s Ed Marinaro (’71), to
name a few.
Founded in 1937, the Maxwell Club
promotes football in the name ofRobert
Tiny Maxwell, a man whose many
qualities as an All-America football
player, a respected football official and
a noted sports editor and humorist
endeared him to football fans across
Chuck Long became Iowa’s first Maxwell
Award winner In 46 years.
the country.
Perhaps the Maxwell Club’s most
important function is the financing,
season statistics and accomplishments,
through membership fees and dona
the committee narrows the field to
tions, of an awards program which is
three, four or five names. The club’s
conducted during football season.
board of governors makes the final
Weekly luncheons honor outstanding
decision.
high school and college athletes and
1985 winner Chuck Long of Iowa was
provide a public forum for local fans
the second Hawkeye to win the
and speakers of national note.
Maxwell; Nile Kinnick was awarded the
The Maxwell Club organizes numer
third Maxwell in 1939.
ous activities annually to enhance the
Penn State and Notre Dame each
sport of football. These include spon
have five past Maxwell winners, while
sorship of an athletic injury clinic for
Ohio State and Navy have four. Navy’s
Philadelphia-area coaches and trainers
winners came within a 10-year span,
as well as medicine clinics at the
from 1954-63.
University of Pennsylvania and Temple
University.
MAXWELL AWARD RECIPIENTS
The selection of Maxwell Award
winners begins with a nominating
1937—Clinton Frank........................Yale
ballot being sent to club members,
1938 David O’Brien .........
TCU
media representatives and former
1939—Nile Kinnick............................lowa
Maxwell winners. Each person nomi
1940 Tom Harmon.............Michigan
nates three players and the ballots are
1941 William Dudley.............. Virginia
forwarded to the Maxwell Club execu
1942—Paul Governali.......... Columbia
tive committee. Using the players’
Odell .......... Pennsylvania
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1944—Glenn Davis....................... Army
1945—Doc Blanchard ...................Army
1946—Charlie Trippi................Georgia
1947—Doak Walker......................... SMU
1948 Chuck Bednarik . Penntylvania
1949 Leon Hart ............. Notre Dame
1950 James Bagnell . . Pennsylvania
1951—Dick Kazmaier.......... Princeton
1952—John Lattner .... Notre Dame
1953—John Lattner .... Notre Dame
1954 Ron Beagle ............................Navy
1955—Hopalong Cassady . Ohio State
1956—Tommy McDonald . . Oklahoma
1957—Bob Reifsnyder.................... Navy
1958—^Pete Uawkins........................Army
1959—Richie Lucas.... Penn
State
1960—Jcte Bellino.......................... . Navy
1961—Bob Ferguson .... Ohio State
1962—Teriy Baker.....Oregon
State
1963—Roger Staubach....................Navy
1964—Glenn Ressler .... Penn State
1965—Tommy Nobis....................... Texas
1966—James Lynch .... Notre Dame
1967—Gary Behan .......................... UCLA
1968—O.J. Simpson.......................... USC
1969—Mike Reid ................Penn State
1970—Jim Plunkett ..................Stanford
1971—Ed Marinaro ....................Cornell
1972 Brad Van Pelt. . Michigan State
1973—John Cappelletti . . Penn State
1974—Archie Griffin...........Ohio State
1975—Archie Griffin...........Ohio State
1976—Tony Dorsett.............Pittsburgh
1977—Ross Browner . . . Notre Dame
1978—Chuck Fusina .... Penn State
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1984—Doug Flutie . . . Boston College
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Anderson, Janies ........... WR, 5-10,172, Fr.
♦Gierlak, David ................. WR, 5-9,156, Sr.
Orchard Park, NY/Orchard Park
Buffalo, NY/St. Joseph’s
Anderton Steve ............... QB, 6-0,162, So.
♦Green, Mikel..................... CB, 5-8,174, So.
Oil City, PA/Oil City
Citra, FL/North Marion
Baker, Paul................... OSLB, 6-1, 205, Jr.
Grimaldi, Dave................. OG, 6-3,197, So.
Massillon, OH/Jackson
Johnstown, PA/Johnstown Vo-Tech
♦Betters, Martelle...... CB, 6-0,173, Sr.
Gross, Glenn..................... OC, 6-3, 200, So.
Connellsville, PA/Connellsville
Somerset, PA/Berlin Brothersval
Bradley, Eric....................... WR, 6-1,185, Fr.
Hainsey, Ron ................... OT, 6-4, 260, So.
Pittsburgh, PA/Mt. Lebanon
Pittsburgh, PA/Swissvale
Bragg, Stephen.......... K, 5-9,135, Fr.
♦Hakim, Abdul ............... DT, 5-10, 206, Sr.
Albion, NY/Albion
Erie, PA/Academy
Breedlove, Donald ................... DL, 6-5, 215
Harder, Mark................... DL, 6-5, 204, Fr,
N. Kingsville, OH/Edgewood
Massillon, OH/Massillon Washington
Brooks, Joseph................. OL, 6-1, 235, Fr.
♦Higham, David................. OC, 6-2, 235, Sr.
Youngstown, OH/Austintown Fitch
Hubbard, OH/Hubbard
•Brown, Scott....................... TE, 6-1, 200, Jr.
Hill, Kevin ....................... QB, 6-3,186, Fr.
Greensburg, PA/Greensburg-Salem
Albion, NY/Albion
Brownrigg, Rob ................. OT, 6-3, 223, Jr.
Ivey, Matt.......................... LB, 6-3,195, Fr.
Crystal Beach, Ontario/Fort Erie
Sharon, PA/Sharon
Calton, Thomas................. LB, 6-1, 210, Fr.
Izydorczak, Tom ............. OL, 6-0, 240, Fr.
Cleveland, OH/Central Catholic
Blasdell, NY/Frontier
♦Cameron, Daryl............... SE, 5-10,164, Sr.
Keith, Stephen ...................DB, 6-0,185, Jr.
Aliquippa, PA/Aliquippa
Johnstown, PA/Ferndale Area
♦Cardone, John ............. OSLB, 6-0,195, Sr.
Kirkland, Sean................. QB, 6-2,174, Fr.
Allison Park, PA/North Catholic
Salem, OH/Salem
Churn, Mike............... .
CB, 5-8,154, So.
Kujawinski, Jeff............... OL, 6-1, 250, Fr,
Cleveland, OH/Central Catholic
Erie, PA/Erie Tech
♦Clark, Bill ........................ DT, 6-0, 225, So.
♦Lewis, Robert.....................DE, 6-1, 238, Jr.
Cleveland, OH/South
Rochester, NY/Ben Franklin
Clay, Robert.......................LB, 6-0, 212, Fr.
Lowman, James............... DL, 6-3, 205, Fr.
Coraopolis, PA/Moon Area
Pittsburgh, PA/Penn Hills
♦Clifford, Terrell ................. CB, 5-7,170, Sr.
♦Lux, Rege ....................... LB, 5-11, 195, So.
Canton, OH/McKinley
Pittsburgh, PA/North Hills
♦Cline, Andrew ...................OT, 6-4, 236, Sr.
McCullough, Gary........... OL, 6-2, 240, Fr.
Pittsburgh, PA/Mt. Lebanon
Massillon, OH/Perry
Cole, Elbert....................... RB, 5-9,175, Fr.
Mcllwain, Randy............... TE, 6-2, 210, Fr.
Rochester, NY/Charlotte
Canton, OH/Canton Timken
Conrad, Chip .....................LB, 6-3, 205, Fr.
Meholick, David ............... LB, 6-2,190, Fr.
Altoona, PA/Bishop Guilfoyle
Sykesville, PA/DuBois
Conway, Christopher ---- RB, 5-9,180, Fr.
Mitchell, Jim ................... DE, 6-1, 210, So.
Franklin, PA/Oil City
Erie, PA/Erie East
Courtney, Mark............... OT, 6-3, 221, So.
Nichols, Michael ............. QB, 6-0, 168, So.
Salem, OH/United Local
Cassadaga, NY/Cassadaga Valley
Cross, Craig ................... DL, 5-10, 215, Fr.
♦Nye, Dave....................... OG, 5-11, 205, Sr.
Louisville, OH/Louisville
Windsor, OH/Grand Valley
Davenport, Laniel ........... DB, 6-1,186, Fr.
Paris, Anthony...................FB, 6-2,190, Fr.
Clairton, PA/Clairton
Canton, OH/Canton Timken
Depretta, Larry ................. DT, 6-1, 235, Jr.
Pierce, Michael................. DL, 6-3, 235, Fr.
Sharpsville, PA/Sharpsville
Glen Campbell, PA/Punxsutawney
Dicristofaro, Tony............. LB, 6-0, 225, Fr.
Pinkerton, David............. DL, 6-2, 220, Fr.
Lackawanna, NY/Frontier
Massillon, OH/Perry
♦Dodds, Scott, .....................QB, 6-1,188, Sr.
♦Pisano, Jim........................ FB, 6-0, 206, Sr.
Beaver, PA/Beaver Area
Lower Burrell, PA/Burrell
♦Ellis, Allen ..................... DE, 5-11, 215, Sr.
Popa, James.....................FB, 5-11, 210, Fr.
Albion, NY/Albion
Mogadore, OH/ Mogadore
♦Faulkner, Floyd................. HB, 5-9,180, Jr.
Powell, Brad..................... OL, 6-2, 260, Fr.
Coraopolis, PA/Cornell
West Middlesex, PA/West Middlesex
♦Ferguson, Brian ............... TE, 6-4, 211, So.
♦Pratt, Cleveland............... WR, 5-7,160, So.
Bethal Park, PA/Bethal Park
Miami, FL/North Miami Beach
Franklin, Steve................. WR, 6-1,180, Fr.
Priester, Ernest.................WR, 5-9,174, Fr.
Bridgeville, OH/Chartiers Valley
Cleveland, OH/John Hay
Gallagher, Dean ................ OL, 6-3, 225, Fr.
Proviano, Michael............. SS, 5-8, 155, So.
Kenmore, NY/Kenmore West
Finleyville, PA/Ringgold
♦Georgiana, John............... FB, 5-10,195, Sr.
Quinn, Walter................... OL, 6-3, 260, Fr.
Altoona, PA/Bishop Guilfoyle
Aliquippa, PA/Center
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♦Rankin, Ross ................. HB, 5-11,185, Sr.
Canton, OH/McKinley
Raynard, Michael ............... K, 6-2, 200, Fr.
Avon, NY/Avon Central
Rose, Nicholas ................. DL, 6-1, 239, Fr.
Coraopolis, PA/Cornell
Ross, James ..................... QB, 6-1, 180, Fr.
Euclid, OH/Lake Catholic
Sally, Pat.......................... OG, 6-1, 250, Fr.
Johnstown, PA/Richland
Sibila, Paul ...................... ; LB, 6-3, 207, Fr.
Massillon, OH/Massillon Washington
Simpson, Anthony............. LB, 6-2, 196, Fr,
Fairlawn, OH/Copley
Slater, Scott ..................... OL, 6-3, 230, Fr.
Akron, OH/Central Hower
♦Suren, Bob ........................ TE, 6-5, 213, Sr.
Parma, OH/Normandy
Taylor, Mark .................WR, 5-10, 170, Fr.
Albion, NY/Albion
Terhart, Tom
......... DL, 6-2, 212, Fr.
Lackawanna, NY/Lackawanna
Tinstman, John .........
TE, 6-4, 221, So.
Dunkirk, NY/Fredonia
♦Toomer, John...................WR, 5-9, 145, So.
Youngstown, OH/East
♦Trueman, Jim....................... K, 5-7, 180, Sr.
Pittsburgh, PA/Northgate
Uhlir, Raymond............... DT, 5-7, 195, Fr.
Euclid, OH/ Euclid
Urko, Richard ................. OL, 6-3, 250, Fr,
Monongahela, PA/Ringgold
Wade, Allan ..................... DB, 6-0, 170, Fr.
Warren, OH/Warren Western Reserve
Wade, Galen..................... RB, 6-1, 185, Fr.
Rochester, NY/Brockport
♦Ware, Harlan ................. DT, 5-11, 198, Sr.
Pittsburgh, PA/Alderdice
♦Webb, Claude................. CB, 5-10,158, So.
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Bedford Heights, OH/Bedford
♦WetherWolt, Mike............... CB, 6-0, 171, Sr.
Ashtabula, OH/Ashtabula
Williams, John ...................LB^ 6-0, 195, Fr.
Cleveland, OH/Shaw
Williamson, Leonard......... LB, 6-4, 195, Fr.
Monongahela, PA/Mon Valley Catholic
Willis, Michael...................FS, 6-0,168, So.
Maitland, FL/Orlando Edgewater
Zee , Larry ........................ LB, 6-2, 220, Fr.
Sharon, PA/Sharon
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ERNEST PRIESTER ................
CLEVELAND PRATT.............
ROBBROWNRIGG..................
JOE BROOKS .............................
DAVEHIGHAM ......................
DAVENYE .................................
MARK COURTNEY ................
BOB SUREN ...............................
SCOTT DODDS .........................
FLOYD FAULKNER................
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CLARION DEFENSE
TOM ANDERSON.................. ................ LE
LOUWEIERS ........................... ........... ..
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MIKE POPE ............................. ........... .. NG
TIM SHOOK .............................
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BOBVERNICK......................... ................ RE
JOHN MARSHALL................
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KENRAABE............................. ......... ..
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JOHN BESIC............................. ................ CB
JOHN PETERMAN................ ................ CB
BRUCE CURRY................
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BOB KELLY ............................. ................ FS
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C. Pratt .............. ... WR
E. Priester......... ... WR
M. Betters......... .... LB
S. Bragg.............. ..... K
M. Green ______
D. Cameron ... .... SE
T. Simpson ___ .... LB
D. Gierlak......... ... WR
J. Ross................ .... QB
C. Conway ___ .... RB
R. Rankin......... .... HB
M. Nichols ___ .... QB
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K. Hill ................ .... QB
S. Anderton ... .... QB
M. Raynard ... ......... K
C. Webb ........... .... CB
M. Willis........... .... FS
T. Clifford......... .... CB
J. Popa .............. .... FB
M. Jones ........... ... WR
G. Wade ........... .... RB
S. Kirkland .... .... QB
E. Cole................ .... RB
J. Georgiana ___ .... RB
J. Pisano ........... .... RB
EDINBORO DEFENSE
SCOTT PIERCE ....................................... DE
CRAIG CROSS........................................ DT
ABDUL HAKIM....................................... DT
TOMTERHART ........................
DE
JOHNCARDONE .................................. LB
TOMCALTON .................................... MLB
ALLEN ELLIS........................................... LB
MICHAEL CHURN................................ CB
MIKE WETHERHOLT..............................SS
MIKE WILLIS............................................. FS
TERRELL CLIFFORD........................... CB
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MIKE BRESTENSKY ...........................
RUSS FORD ................
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JOHN SEAMAN...............................
JERRY FEDELL ........................
TIM LINDENBAUM ..........................
PAUL KOTEK...........................................
JIM H ahn .............................
DOUGEMMINGER ..............................
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A. Hakim ........... ...
M. Taylor ........... ..
A. Paris................ ...
L. Davenport ... ...
M. Wetherholt .. ...
C. Conrad ........... ...
A. Wade .............. ...
F. Faulkner......... ...
L. Zee .................. ...
H. Ware................ ...
J. Anderson ___ ..
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J. Brooks............. ....
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B. Clark............... ...
D. Gallagher___ ...
J. Williams ......... ...
A. Ellis.................. ...
W. Quinn ........... ...
J. Kujawinski ... ...
D. Higham ......... ...
D. Nye.................. ...
T. Terhart ........... ...
C. Cross................ ...
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G. Gross ................ ..
D. Pinkerton......... ..
M. Courtney......... ..
T. Izydorczak ___ ..
S. Slater .................. ..
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B. Ferguson ... ....
J. Tintsman___ ....
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E. Bradley......... ...
B. Suren ............ ....
R. Mcliwain ... ....
J. Lowman ___ ....
M. Harder......... ....
J. Cardone ___ ....
R. Lux................ ....
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J. Hornidge......... ... FB
H. Kennedy......... ... DB
K. Smakula......... ... DB
B. Nair.................. ... SE
M. Papik.............. ... SE
G. Cardamone .. ... DB
J. Besic ................ .... SS
M. Morrison___ ... QB
D. Dawson ......... ... QB
E. Clark................ .. FLK
D. Emminger ... ... QB
D. Womer........... ... QB
D. Counts ........... ... DB
J. Desmond......... ... PK
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C. Ramsey____ ......... TB
M. Praytor ___ ......... TB
V. Bellante ... ......... DB
M. Kehoe ____ ......... TB
J. Peterman___ ......... DB
C. Kunselman . ......... DB
D. Kutch......... ......... SE
D. Meszaros .. ......... DE
E. Hamm......... ......... TB
C. Dworek ___ ..SE/PK
J. Disque.................... DB
S. Burks ............. ......... FB
R. Harden.................. TB
G. Deemer____ ......... FB
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J. Marshall .... .. LB/P
C. Thompson .. .... SE
K. Raabe........... .... LB
S. McElhaney .. .... TE
G. Anderson ... .... FB
R. Urbansky__ .... SE
P. Smrek ........... .... SE
B. Kelly ............. .... FS
R. Parkes ......... .... DB
R.Joseph ......... .... TB
K. Seely.............. .... SE
E. Lee ................ .... LB
D. Shupe........... .... SE
T. Motton......... .... LB
T. Roberts......... .... DT
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T. Shook .............. ... NG
D. Seagriff ......... ... LB
L. Robb................ ...LB
M. Hytla .............. ... LB
K. Edwards......... ... DT
T. Siedhof........... ... OL
K. Hart ................ ... OT
M. Vanyo ........... ... LB
J. Seaman ........... ... OG
L. Wiesenbach .. ... OG
S. Kehoe ______ ... DE
P. Hytla................ ... DT
J. Moorhead___ ... OG
K. Scott................ ... OG
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T. Lindenbaum ...
L. Amorino...........
J. Keller..................
G. Anderson .........
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P. Jansen................
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J. Bower ................
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T. Anderson ___
B. Vernick...........
B. Quinn ..............
M. Kelly ..............
J. Rozanc ...........
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J. Clutter..............
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CLARION UNIVERSITY 1986 FOOTBALL ROSTER
The fact that both of these
Corvettes are on Goodyear Eagle Sheet
rodiak is no coincidence.
The 1986 Corvette Convertible.
Factory specified tires: Goodyear Eagle VR “Gatorback” street radials.
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Every Corvette made since
1984 comes with just one make
of tire; the Goodyear Eagle VR
“Gatorback" street radial.
Which is no coincidence.
Because the Eagle VR
'
“Gatorback” was developed
specifically for the Corvette’s
tremendous cornering, handling
and speed capabilities.
Considering the performance
of the Eagle VR “Gatorback,” it’s
not surprising that successful
SCCA Showroom Stock Endurance
racing teams like Rippie/Anderson
also choose an Eagle street radial;*
The Eagle VR S “Gatorback,”
a version of the Eagle VR
“Gatorback” made for ultimate
grip rather than ultimate treadlife.
The success of both the Eagle
VR and VR S “Gatorbacks” has a
common source:
Goodyear’s ability to engineer
better high-performance radials.
For virtually every performance car.
O Its
• « really
* no coincidence
So
that the Eagle VR is to be found
on every Corvette made.
Or that the Eagle VRSis the
favorite tire of people who race
Corvettes in the SCCA Showroom
Stock Endurance Series.
In fact, when you think of how
the Eagles perform, it’s no coinci
dence at all.
^res shaved to racing depth. Before you race on
boodyear street radials, write the Goodyear Tire &
Company, PQ Box 9125, Akron, Ohio
44305 for preparation recommendations and
procedures.
YOU EITHER HAVE GOODYEAR EAGLES. OR YOU NEED THEM.
MODfVEAtt
Ammerlaan, John ........... DT, 6-3, 208, Fr.
Berkeley Hts., NJ/Gov. Livingston
Amorino, Louis ............. OC, 5-11, 224, Fr.
Apollo, PA/Apollo Ridge
Anderson, Greg L............ RB, 5-10,175, Fr.
New Bethlehem, PA/Redbank Valley
Anderson, Greg S.............. DL, 6-0, 209, Fr.
Harrisville, PA/ Moniteau
*Anderson, Tom ................. DE, 6-1,190, Jr.
New Bethlehem, PA/Redbank Valley
Bellante, Vince ................. DB, 5-9,170, Fr.
Pittsburgh, PA/ Central Catholic
*Besic, John ................. CB/SS, 6-0,190, Jr.
Steelton, PA/Steelton Highspire
Bishop, Gary................... DB, 5-11,194, Fr.
Pittsburgh, PA/Shaler
Bower, John ..................... OT, 6-1, 227, Fr.
Kittanning, PA/Kittanning
*Brestensky, Mike............... SE, 5-9,162, So.
Freeport, PA/Freeport
*Burks, Scott ..................... FB, 5-10, 205, Jr.
Monroeville, PA/Gateway
Cardamone, Gary ............. DB, 5-8,160, Jr.
Bethel Park, PA/Bethel Park
Clark, Ed......................... FLK, 6-1,196, Sr.
Indiana, PA/Indiana
Clutter, Jeff..................... DL, 5-11, 210, Fr.
Pittsburgh, PA/Shaler
Counts, Dan..................... DB, 6-2,185, So.
Coudersport, PA/Coudersport
Curry, Bruce................... DB, 5-11,180, So.
McKeesport, PA/McKeesport
Dawson, Doug............... QB, 5-11,167, Fr.
East Liverpool, OH/Beaver Local
Deemer, Greg................... FB, 6-0,195, So.
Erie, PA/Ft. LeBoeuf
*Desmond, John ........•... PK, 5-11,175, So.
Dublin, Ireland/Belcamp Dublin
Disque, James ................. DB, 5-7,164, Fr.
Ridgway, PA/ Ridgway
Dudding, Mark ............. DE, 5-11, 210, Fr.
Freeport, PA/Freeport
Dukovich, Mark ............... SE, 6-3,160, Fr.
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Dworek, Chris ........... SE/PK, 6-0,172, Fr.
Scottdale, PA/Southmoreland
*Edwards, Ken................... DT, 6-2, 265, Sr.
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t*Emminger, Doug .................... QB, 5-11,175, Jr.
Kittanning, PA/Kittanning
Evosirch, Tom ................. QB, 6-3,175, Fr.
Clarksville, PA/Jefferson Morgan
•Fedell, Jerry .......................OC, 6-2, 268, Jr.
Pittsburgh, PA/North Hills
•Ford, Russ ................... FLK, 5-10,183, Sr.
Mars, PA/Mars
•Frank, Steve..................... DB, 5-9,174, Sr.
Beaver Falls, PA/Blackhawk
•Giavedoni, Tony ........... FLK, 5-7,150, Jr.
Punxsutawney, PA/Punxsutawney
•Hahn, Jim.......................... TE, 6-0, 217, Sr.
Conneaut, OH/Conneaut
Hamm, Eric .......................TB, 5-10,176, Fr.
Furnace, PA/Laurel Highlands
Harden, Ron.......................TB, 5-6,152, Fr.
Sharon, PA/Sharon
•Hart, Ken .......................... OG, 6-3, 250, Jr.
State College, PA/Kiski Prep
Hastings, Dan................... TE, 6-2, 208, So.
Canton, OH/Canton South
Higgins, Scott................... DE, 6-0,188, So.
Pittsburgh, PA/Chartiers Valley
Hogan, Brian ................... NG, 6-1, 228, So.
Pittsburgh, PA/Penn Hills
Hornidge, Jim ...................FB, 5-8,185, Fr.
Paramus, NJ/Paramus
Hytia, Mike ...........
LB, 5-10,190, So.
Pittsburgh, PA/Langley
Hytia, Paul ....................... DT, 6-0, 220, So.
Pittsburgh, PA/ Langley
Jansen, Pete ..................... OC, 6-1, 210, Fr.
Freeport, PA/Freeport
Joseph, Rod ................... TB, 5-10,180, So.
Derry, PA/Derry
Kast,BiII.......................... OL, 6-2, 210, Fr.
Louisville, OH/St. Thomas Aquinas
•Kehoe, Mick....................... TB, 5-8,175, Jr.
Conneaut, OH/Conneaut
Kehoe, Steve..................... DE, 6-2, 226, So.
Conneaut, OH/Conneaut
Keller, Jim ....................... NG, 5-8, 228, Fr.
Beaver Falls, PA/ Blackhawk
Kelly, Mark .......................OL, 6-2, 234, Jr.
Barnesboro, PA/Northern Cambria
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Barnesboro, PA/Northern Cambria
Kennedy, Hartley............. DB, 6-0,180, So.
Indianola, PA/Fox Chapel
Kotek, Paul....................... OT, 6-1, 256, So.
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Vandergrift, PA/Kiski Area
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Kittanning, PA/Kittanning
Lee, Eric ......................... LB, 5-10,190, So.
Wilkes-Barre, PA/Hanover
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McElhaney, Sean............... TE, 6-2,199, Fr.
Butler, PA/Butler
McLaughlin, Dave........... OC, 6-4, 247, So.
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Sharon, PA/Sharon
Miller, Matt ..................... OL, 6-1, 234, Fr.
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Valencia, PA/Mars
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Meadville, PA/Meadville
Quinn, Bob..................... FLK, 6-2, 207, Jr.
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Kittannirig, PA/Kittanning
Roberts, Todd ................. DT, 6-3, 222, So.
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Sharon, PA/Sharon
Scott, Kevin ................... OL, 5-11, 235, Fr.
Williamsport, PA/Loyalsock Twp.
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Parker, PA/A.C. Valley
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Smakula, Ken................. DB, 5-10,183, So.
Holsopple, PA/Conemaugh Twp.
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Taylor, Dan ..................... FB, 6-0,198, So.
Beaver Falls, PA/Blackhawk
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Acme, PA/Mt. Pleasant
Urbansky, Ron.....................SE, 6-2,185, So.
Dravosburg, PA/McKeesport
Vanyo, Mike................... LB, 5-10, 201, So.
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College football teams are turning to a variety of experts to help
them prepare their athletes for the big game. Dietitians and dance
instructors arejoining in the ejfort. Even more traditional members
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Training table lineups are changing,
too. While a coach once ordered piles of
steaks and sour cream-laden baked
potatoes for his players, sports nutri
tionists now are pushing for more
carbohydrates in the diet to provide
energy for strenuous daily workouts.
Players also are being advised to eat
foods high in thiamine to avoid fatigue
and to drink plenty of cold water
during hot-weather practices to ward
ofif dehydration.
Textbooks which once said that an
athlete needed 4,000 to 5,000 calories a
day are being revised upward by at least
1.000 calories. One study found college
linemen averaging 10,000 calories a
and some taking in as many as
14.000 to 16,000 calories. The recom
mended total for a college-age non-athletic man is 2,700 calories.
You have to talk about players by
position,” said Sarah H. Short, profes
sor of nutrition at Syracuse University.
She has kept diet analysis records on
Syracuse athletes in 18 men’s and
women’s sports—including intercolle
giate football—since 1978. “Their needs
and body types are totally different de
pending on the position, so you have to
have totally different counseling.
Players are always talking about muscle
and asking what they can eat to put on
muscle, which is ridiculous. The
coaches send individual players to me
if they want them to lose weight or gain
weight. It’s very difficult if they want to
put weight on them. They’re so active
that they re using up those calories.”
Short said that once a player reaches
the minimum level of vitamins and
nutrients through the foods he eats, he
can get the additional calories through
virtually any food. "There’s no such
thing as an empty calorie for a football
player. What they need are the calories
because they are using up all of them, ”
she said. "They’re used to being big
eaters. Often they’ll have another foil
dinner after the training table, then
have snacks all evening.”
However, Short warned that college
football players need to watch their
diets once they are no longer involved
in such strenuous exercise. "They have
to cut back on the cholesterol and fat.
This is difficult because it’s what fills
them up,” she said.
Football players burn calories in a
variety of ways. Some individuals enroll
in tae kwon do or freestyle wrestling
classes to improve flexibility and to
develop quicker reactions. And some
schools are setting up programs for
their entire teams to break the monot
ony of the running-weightlifting offsea
son workouts. If the Chicago Bears can
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Aerobics can Improve flexibility, help prevent Injury and put
some spring Into spring practice.
“It’s amazing what will
happen if you put a
pretty girl In front of a
bunch of big burly guys
and play music they
like.”
strut to the Super Bowl Shuffle, why not
make aerobic dance part of the training
regimen?
Tennessee has had an aerobic dance
program for its football players for the
past two years, and won the 1985
Southeastern Conference title. The
program runs eight weeks, starting in
January and continuing until the start
of spring football practice. Besides
aerobic dance twice a week, the train
ing routine includes sprint-running
drills designed by a track coach (twice a
week! and weightlifting (three times a
week). Tim Kerin, the Volunteers’ head
athletic trainer, said the aerobic dance
class improved the players’ overall flex
ibility (and hip flexibility in particular),
increased the players’ abdominal
strength, provided a good cardiovascu
lar woricout and reduced injuries, espe
cially in spring practice.
“Major-college football is a 12months-a-year project,” said Kerin.
“ Anytime you can lighten it up, you’ll
have a better attitude among the
athletes. We didn’t let up in the
intensity of our workouts, we just
changed the approach. It’s amazing
what will happen ifyou put a pretty girl
in front of a bunch of big burly guys and
play music they like.”
Auburn’s 1983 team, which many
believed should have been named
national champion, had used an
aerobic dance program the previous
offseason. One of the players took the
concept even further. David King, who
was a rookie defensive back in 1985
v^th the NFL’s San Diego Chargers, has
been involved in serious dance classes
since he was 17. He has studied ballet,
jazz and,mbdern dance, and hopes to
perfornj^ in videos or with a company
someday.
“I have become more flexible, and
I’ve had only one serious injury since
I’ve been dancing,” King said. “ I’ve
never had a pulled muscle, and I have
better balance. They should employ it
in all sports. It helps. ”
King, who is 5-9 and weighs 178
pounds, was twice an All-SEC choice
and led Auburn in interceptions as a
freshman and sophomore. That might
have been enough to silence some
critics, but King said he still felt he had
to prove he could be both an athlete
and an artist.
The dance develops muscles that
you wouldn t think you’d use in jump
ing and running, when you’re blocking
someone, chasing someone or tackling,”
png said. “And people will look at you
in a different way instead of stereo
typing you as a dumb jock.”
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The Associated Press
he Texas-Arkansas shootout of
1969 saw President Richard Nixon
anoint the winner (Texas,
15-14) as national champion.
The Miami-Nebraska Orange Bowl of
Jan. 2, 1984, was as exciting a game as
you could ask for (Miami won the na
tional championship, 31-30), and Doug
Flutie’s last-gasp 48-yard “Hail Maiy"
touchdown pass that gave Boston Col
lege a 47-45 triumph over Miami the
following November capped one of
college football’s most exciting contests.
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tween No. 1 and No. 2 since The Asso
ciated Press began its poll in 1936 have
been one-sided affairs, and the TexasAricansas shootout was fought with
popguns compared to the Thanks
giving feast accorded football fans on
Nov. 25, 1971, in Norman, Okla.
The "Big Red" Cornhuskers of Ne
braska, 10-0, were ranked No. 1—and
would finish there for their second con
secutive national championship. The
"Big Red" Sooners of Oklahoma, 9-0,
were ranked No. 2—and would finish
there.
Nebraska led, 7-0 (a 72-yard punt re-
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Oklahoma forged ahead, 17-14, when
Jack Mildren threw a 24-yard touch
down pass to Jon Harrison five seconds
before halftime. It was the first time all
season Nebraska trailed, but the slim
lead was small comfort to an Oklahoma
team that led after two periods in
first downs, 14-5, and in total
yardage, 311-91.
In the third quarter, it was Nebraska
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short runs by Jeff Kinney, but Okla
homa pulled within 28-24 on Mildren’s
three-yard run, his second touchdown
of the game.
In the final period, Mildren again
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^7-yard pass—Mildren’s six comple
tions were good for a whopping 188
yards—that gave the Sooners a 31-28
lead with 7:10 remaining. But Kinney’s
fourth touchdown, a three-yard run
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We knew we could score,” said
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blazing speed or waterbug moves but
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Quarterback Jerry Tagge piloted
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and 74 yards. Meanwhile, Mildren took
Oklahoma on touchdown strikes cover
ing 80, 78, 73 and 69 yards against a
rugged Nebraska "Blackshirt’’ defense
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backs, and the defensive line included
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you can be off as much as two f-stops
from the correct exposure and still get
a decent negative. Color films, both
negative and slide, unfortunately
have less latitude. If you’re off by
more than aboutone-half of an f-stop,
you’ll begin to see a color shift.
B&W has another advantage, too.
The film can be “forced,” or exposed
as if it had an ISO rating of two or
three times its actual number. Your
photo lab can compensate for the
forced underexposure by “push pro
cessing,” or extending the developing
time. (Among the colorfilms, Kodak’s
Ektachrome slide film can be forced
and push processed.) If the sun hides
behind the clouds and you decide to
force a film, remember to expose the
entire roll at the forced ISO number.
Since thecompensation is done in the
developing process, you can’t correct
partially forced rolls of film!
What do you do if you load a film
that’s too sensitive for the light
conditions? The best answer is to use
an inexpensive accessory called a
“neutral density” filter, which mounts
in front of your lens and reduces the
amount of light passing through to
the film. ND filters are available in
strengths that reduce exposure by
one to three f-stops.
While B&W film is versatile, most
photographers prefer to shoot color.
Color negative films, which produce
prints, are available in speeds up to
ISO 1000, and many have a latitude of
one f-stop with acceptable results.
Color positive film, used to make
slides, has less latitude, but there’s
one filmstock—Kodak’s P800/1600—
that’s designed to be forced and push
processed. You can actually shoot
this film at ISO 3200!
Sooner or later, though, you’re
going to be shooting indoors. If you
supplement inadequate indoor light
ing with electronic flash, make sure
that you choose a color film that’s
balanced for daylight. (If you use day
light film under tungsten lights in
doors, you’ll notice a decided shift
toward the red in all the colors.) Use a
tungsten-balanced film for correct
color values when shooting indoors.
Fluorescent lighting is something of a
problem, but using daylight film with
an FL-D filter provides a pretty good
answer.
^l:!^iary
ne of the marvelous elements
in college football is the people.
They come in all types and
sizes, withveiy different talents ... and
all of them are interesting in their own
nght.
They play the game regardless of aee
location or experience. They are not
atraid of innovation, challenge or
change. To them, the game is the thing
• • • the mountain to be climbed be
cause it is there.
That was the case with Pete Woods, a
substitute quarterback for the Univer
sity of Missouri in 1976, who walked
into the den that is Ohio Stadium in
Columbus, and bearded the lion that is
Ohio State while more than 82,000 per
sons watched in stunned silence.
It was that way with Walter Slater,
who had been a star halfback with
ennessee’s teams in the early ’40s, but
found his football uniform replaced by
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one of khaki for the next couple of
seasons. At age 27, when college foota 1 pliers begin to exaggerate a bit
about their exploits at the first class re
union he was back in Knoxville as cap
tain of his team, helping to win eight of
nine games and gain a berth in the
Orange Bowl.
Washington & Lee knew the glories
o fame as a football power in the
South during the late ’40s and early
50s until some selfish athletes spoiled
eveiything by tiying to cheat their way
nrough an examination period The
school decided that lessened emphasis
on football was the answer, but Coach
Lee McLaughlin decided not to lessen
the emphasis on excellence, so he
guided the 1961 team to a perfect
season.
When modern engineering methods
made indoor arenas suitable for foot
ball, no one foresaw the radical
changes that would be necessaiy to
adapt the game to a special new playing
surface, which was originally intended
to last without benefit.bf sun or water.
In Houston, the Cougars of Coach Bill
Yeoman had to learn to play the game
differently, a lot differently from what
anyone had ever imagined.
It wasn’t played much differently
when Nebraska turned loose its great
mllback, Sam Francis, in 1936 He
had the power to roar through the.
middle of a defense, and the speed
and agility to make tacklers miss, or
harder than he
had hit them. He also had the ability to
bounce his 200 pounds outside and run
over smaller defensive players. He was
one of that special breed of player that
makes the game so interesting and so
much fun to watch.
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Kelley in the voting for the Heisman
rophy, but he finished first in the NFL
1 'luring the 1936 season, there was
i-rno better college football player
m America than Nebraska fullback Sam
Francis ... one of the nation’s best allaround athletes, as well. That summer
he competed in the 1936 Olympic
Games as a shot-putter for theU.S. team,
having held the national championship
for two years.
Francis finished fourth in the Berlin
Olympics, and second to Yale’s Lany
season, going to the
Philadelphia Eagles.
The Cornhuskers of 1936 were
coached by Dana X. Bible. They were a
povverful football team that was ranked
m the Top 10 eveiy weekofthe season,
eventually finishing ninth in the first
Associated Press poll. Francis was their
key player, abetted by a talented
halfback named Lloyd Cardwell and a
strong, mobile team that won seven of
nine games.
But it was Francis who made the
Cornhuskers go. He ran and passed
the ball; played linebacker on defense;
did the punting and placekicking;
an at the end of the season, he was
a unanimous selection on every AllAmerica team.
"I guess you would call it a pretty
good year,” he said from his home in
#
Sprii^field, Mo. Tt certainly was a busy
one because I also was the top votegetter for the College All-Star game.
Fans voted for the team in those days
just as they did for the All-Star baseball
game, and our team was the first to beat
the NFL champions.”
Francis, who spent 28 years as a ca
reer Army officer, following service durmgWorld Warn and a year coaching at
Kansas State, still reveres Coach Bible.
He was like a father to me,” Francis
said. He was a high-class man, who
ranks with George Halas and Jock
Sutherland - the three best coaches I
ever played for. D.X. was a scholar, a
man of letters who also knew a lot
about football and how to get the most
Irom his players.
VVe were not a wide-open team like
his later squads at the University of
Texas, and it ’s a shame because we had
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some great players. We threw the ball
eight or nine times a game, but we
could have done anything we wished
with our talent.”
Nebraska didn’t do too badlyin those
days... and Francis couldn’t have
done much better. In the first game of
the season, he ran 97yards for a touch
down against Iowa State, and Cardwell
got three more scores.
Lloyd was as good a running back
as ever played the game,” Francis
said. He was 6-3 and ran the lOO
yards in 9.7 seconds. With all of that
speed, he also was a great open field
mnner who could cut back, accelerate,
dodge tacklers and simply run away
fi’om people.”
Francis, said Cardwell, who lives in
Omaha, was no slouch either. “He was a
big, powerful inside runner who just
exploded through a hole, and if he got
into the clear, he ran away fi’om people.
If he didn’t get into the clear, he’d run
over tacklers. Sam was a do-it-all plaver
for us.”
toiy. The week before, he had
forced to leave a big game against Min
nesota because of a concussion and the
Huskers lost, 7-0.
“I always believed we could have
won that game, and maybe the national
championship, if Sam hadn’t been in
jured,” Cardwell said.
Francis was a one-man gang when
Nebraska played Pitt, but it wasn’t quite
enough and the Com huskers lost their
only other game that season, though he
had a 21-yard TD pass to Cardwell.
In his final game, against Oregon
State, Francis finished with a flourish,
scoring a touchdown,6n the seventh
play of the game; and before the first
quarter had ended, h^ also threw a pair
of touchdown passes. Nebraska had
only seven first dgiwns that day, but
won the game, 32-14.
Great players have a way of getting
the most from the least, and few have
ever gotten more for their team than
Sam Francis did for Nebraska—and
himself—in 1936.
Against Indiana, he shook off a lame
ankle and set up the winning touch
down with a 22-yard run that gave
Nebraska a come-fi'om-behind, 13-9 vie- I
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n the first full year following the end
of World War II, college gridirons
were flooded with players who had
dreamed of returning to the game.
Many have said that getting back to the
game was one of the major incentives
for survival in foxholes, cockpits and
gun turrets.
Age was no factor here. Consider that
when the University of Pennsylvania
opened its 1946 season against La
fayette, its captain for that game was
Eddie Allen, who had spent nearly six
years as a member of the Armed Forces.
If that prolonged tour of duty had taken
a serious toll, it was not apparent, be
cause he set a school record with five
touchdowns, three in the first half His
other two came within 61 seconds of
each other in the third quarter, when
he scored on a five-yard run, and then
kicked off, recovered a fumbled
Lafayette lateral on the return and
punched in his final TD a couple of
plays later.
Down in Tennessee, Walter Slater
from Providence, R.I., had been a mem
ber of Coach John W. Barnhill’s 1941
and 1942 teams, the latter winning the
I
Sugar Bowl; he returned for the 1946
season and was elected team captain.
Gen. Robert R. Neyland Jr. had returned
as head coach after five years of active
duty, and welcomed to the football
field an array of 17-year-olds and
service veterans.
“We had enough good players for two
foil teams and that’s what Gen. Neyland
used, ” Slater said fi’om his home in St.
Augustine, Fla., where he spent most of
his life, first as a high school coach,
then as business manager for the
Florida School for the Deaf and Blind.
“The nominal first team played the first
and third quarters. The second team
had the second and fourth quarters,
without any deviation.
We had the ball at Alabama’s oneyard line at the end of the first quarter.
and he took out the entire team and put
in the other team, and it scored. ”
r Neyland, a graduate of West Point,
vvas one of college football’s coaching
giants, with 173 victories in 21 years.
Slater said he was “a bulldog, very au
thoritarian, much like Jock Sutherland
[whom Slater played for in the NFL at
Pittsburgh], a man who was very aloof,
hard-driving and almost mistake-free. ”
Neyjarid’s teams were always strong
defefisively, very conservative on of
fense, he stressed kicking and using
field position as a prime tool. Slaterwas
his chief punt returner, and his biggest
play in that department was a 57-yard
return for a touchdown in a 7-0 victory
over Kentucl^.
"Several years ago, one of my former
players, who is a high school coach, at
tended a clinic at which George Blanda
lectured on the art of punting, ” Slater
recalled. “George was a fine college
punter and in the course of his talk, he
warned his listeners about getting the
proper height and distance.
I got burned once in a game against
Tennessee when a man named Walt
Slater returned one of my kicks for the
game’s only score,’ Blanda told his au
dience. Well, my former player couldn’t
wait to get home to tell me, but that’s
what happened.”
He also had a 78-yard return against
the University of North Carolina in
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Wyoming's Lean,
mean Rushing Machine
1946 that got a 20-14 victory and still
is in the record book as the Vols’ longest
punt return. Earlier, in the 1941 season,
when he was just a sophomore, he
had a 73-yarder against the University
of Da34on.
Slater’s team lost only to Wake Forest
in 1946, but he faced such great stars as
Harry Gilmer at Alabama, Charley
“Choo-Choo” Justice at North Carolina
and Charley Conerly at the University
of Mississippi. In his first game that sea
son, Tennessee beat Georgia Tech, 13-9,
in what Slater thought was the toughest
game of the year.
Bobby Dodd had Frank Broyles at
quarterback, ” said Slater, "and he gave
us fits. Dodd and I became great friends
when I got into coaching and we always
spent time together every year.
North Carolina had us beaten until
I got that punt return for a TD but,
ironically, the only time I ever saw
After serving In WW II, Walter Slater re
turned to Tennessee to captain the Vols’
football team.
Justice was in that game. I never had
an opportunity to meet him and it
wasn t until many, many years later
that I met Gilmer.”
What effect did the war have on his
playing?
It took a lot out of everyone,”
Slater said. " But all of us had just
one dream when we were away—to
get back and play at least one more
season. I was 27 years old in my final
season at Tennessee bu4 we were just
so happy to get back to the game, age
never was a factor. ”
And it didn’t seem to matter to
anyone on that Tennessee team, which
played in the Orange Bowl, losing to
Rice, 8-0.
"Two bowl games four years apart
was something, ” he said. "But being
able to come home and play again
meant everything. ”
im Crawford was exactly what
you’d expect of a man who had
spent most of his life in Graybull, Wyo.
He was whipsaw lean, and conducted
himself with the quiet certainty that
Hollywood used to reserve for the town
marshall who kept law and order,
seemingly without raising his voice.
Back in 1956, many in college foot
ball’s establishment weren’t prepared
to see a good player come out of the
Rocky Mountains and dominate one of
its most prestigious statistics, but in his
own quiet, steady way, Crawford led all
of the nation’s rushers, with 1,104 yards
on 200 carries, and landed on the AllAmerica teams picked by Look
magazine and the College Football
Writers Association.
The Rocky Mountains are considered
a neutral zone by those who believe the
game can only be played along either
coast, or on the flatlands of the South,
J
Southwest and Midwest. That form of
prejudice was certainly in evidence a
couple of years ago when Brigham
Young University won the national
championship, amidst a chorus of
grumbling by some who questioned the
strength of BYU’s opposition in the
Western Athletic Conference.
It was no different in 1956. Wyoming
had a perfect (10-0) season, but didn’t
even make the nation’s Top-10 rank
ings. They were invited to return for a
second straight Sun Bowl appearance,
having won the year before, but
Crawford said his teammates felt it
really wasn’t worth it.
“We’d go down there, they’dgive us a
Mickey Mouse watch and allow us to
watch a bullfight, and then we’d have to
work our butts off” he recalled.“A lot of
the guys, myself included, had invita
tions from some of the All-Star bowl
games and we preferred to play in
them.”
Crawford played in the East-West
game. A week before reporting, he in
jured his leg in a skiing accident and
found he could run at about 75 percent
of his usual speed, “and that wasn’t
much at 100 percent. Still, I got a kickoff
back 90 yards that set up our only
touchdown and we won, 7-6.”
His fondest memories during the sea
son were of playing with his younger
brother, Jeriy, a sophomore at Wyom
ing at the time.
“We played together all our lives, and
he was the only player on the team who
could tackle me during our scrim-
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mages/’ Crawford said. “He was a great
player. The first time he carried the
ball, he ran 86 yards for a touchdown. ”
When Wyoming opened with a 40-13
victory over Western State, the two of
them combined for 177 yards. Through
out the season, Jim Crawford dueled
Billy Ray Barnes of Wake Forest for the
NCAA rushing lead, but it might not
have been so close had Coach Phil Nu
gent used Crawford on offense as much
as he did on defense.
"We’d get a good lead, and he would
keep the older players for defensive
situations and allow the younger
guys to get offensive experience,’’
Crawford said.
Wyoming had two scores to settle
in 1956. They had lost to Denver, 6-3,
in a controversial game the previous
season. In 1956 the Cowboys won,
27-0, and Crawford had a big day.
When they beat Utah, 30-20, Crawford
was the main offensive weapon as both
passer and runner, as Nugent’s offense
shifted back and forth from the T to
Wingback formations.
In a 27-15 win over Kansas State, he
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9-0 season.
What made this feat so remarkable
was that in 1954 the school had deemphasized a very successful football
program, one that had brought the 1951
team to the Gator Bowl and had put
Washington & Lee on a par with all the
major teams in the South. After the de
emphasis, caused in part by a cheating
scandal among members of the football
team during exams—a violent offense
at a school that took great pride in its
honor system—Washington & Lee won
he rumbling sounds of old cannon
just one of 23 games in three seasons.
and the frantic cries of cavalrymen
In 1957 new coach Lee McLaughlin
on horseback seemed to echo through used his particular brand of personal
the valleys near Lexington, Virginia,
magic to begin attracting some special
where so much of the Civil War was
young men to the school—players who
fought almost a century before.
were never great stars in high school,
But on Saturday afternoons during
but who responded to sound coaching,
the 1961 season, those were the un
enjoyed the feeling of accomplishment
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which do not receive the vast publicity
accorded to others in the more
populated areas. ”
As Marciano made the award to
Crawford, everyone in the room rose
and cheered the small-town boy from
that small conference in the moun
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with a 17-yard run and also kicked
a couple of extra points. Wyoming was
9-0 when it played Brigham Young
in its final game. Crawford got the
only score when he ran 55 yards with
a first-quarter interception, as Wyom
ing won, 7-6, to cap the perfect season.
Perhaps the biggest thrill of all
came a couple of weeks later in New
York City, at the Look All-America
Awards dinner. The magazine’s sports
editor, Tim Cohane, presented cer
tificates to every member of the team
except Crawford.
"He surprised everyone, me most of
all, when he called up heavyweight
champion Rocky Marciano to make my
presentation,’’ Crawford said. "He
pointed out how Rocky had come over
such a tough road to be champion, and
how he had come up the hard way.’’
What Cohane said was this:
“We want you to make the AllAmerica presentation to another great
champion, who came up to this title—
the title of All-America—over a difficult
road, too.
““We want you to make the award to
Wyoming’s Jim Crawford, the small-
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The hospitality people of Jfyifyi
were perfect. The group included Terry
Fobs, a 5-7, 152-pound linebacker who
coined the defense’s motto, "I’ll meet
you at the bottom of the pile,’’ guard
Dick Barton, who grew fi’om 145
pounds to 175 pounds during his col
lege days, and tackle Bill Wheeler,
whom McLaughlin once goodnaturedly described to his mother as
"weak but slow.’’
Jerry Hyatt was the team’s biggest
player, a 205-pounder who played
center. He never played football until
he went to W&L, and it pleased his
coach to tell him, "You don’t have any
bad habits for me to break.”
Steve Suttle, the quarterback, is now
a lawyer in his native Texas.
"I never planned to play college
football,” he said. "I was looking for
a good, small liberal arts college but
I got caught up in what was happening
there and I couldn’t resist the call,
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lin invited me out to watch practice.
I was so impressed by them as people, I
asked to join."
McLaughlin sought players fix)m East
ern prep schools, particularly the heavily
populated area of Connecticut, where
there seems to be a boys’ prep school in
every other town. All have good high
school football programs.
McLaughlin got the most from his
players, but in a way that mixed humor,
understanding and hard work. Tragi
cally, he was killed in the late ’60s, but
his former players have established an
endowed scholarship at the school in
his memory.
As in any perfect season,there were a
couple of scary points along the way.
W«&,L barely won its first game, 7-6, over
Harnpden-Sydney, though the defense
held the losers to a minus 10 yards and
didn’t permit them to throw one pass.
In the final game of the season, at
Washington University in St. Louis on
Thanksgiving Day, the team had only
four hours of sleep. Its plane was forced
down in Evansville, Ind., and the
players bussed the remaining distance
to St. Louis, arriving at three in the
morning for a 10 a.m. game. They arose
at seven, and three hours later were in
the game.
W&L fell behind, 14-0, and after Jim
Hickey’s 80-yard touchdown pass from
Chuck Lane, later a publicity director
for the Green Bay Packers, Washington
scored again for a 20-6 lead.
But halfback Charles Gummey, with a
140-yard day, led a running attack that
rolled up 372 yards, never once being
thrown for a loss, and the Generals
came back in the second half to win,
33-20. Gummey scored twice and the
passing game, modest in its efforts, still
got 158 yards from just five
completions.
One of the most whimsical things
that most of those players remember
was their adoption of a popular song of
the day, “Running Bear. ” They sang it
constantly, even before a game. The day
McLaughlin came into the locker room
and saw his team tense with woriy
about protecting its perfect record, he
told Hyatt, "Sing 'Running Bear.’’’
He did, in his own style, and soon the
entire locker room was breaking up; the
tension had eased.
That wasn’t the only effect. The visiting team s locker room was next door,
and the cinder block wall separating
the two rooms did not reach the ceiling.
Those guys in the other dressing
room must have thought they were
about to play a bunch of loonies,” said
Bob Payne, a tackle on the team. "After
hearing us sing, they were nice to us
and let us win.”
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Makes Its Debut
hen the University of Houston
and Washington State played
each other on September 23, 1966, the
game of football changed forever. Artifi
cial turf and football became partners.
On that date, college football was
played for the first time on a surface
other than Mother Earth ... something
called Astroturf, named because it had
Survived it has, though artificial
been specially developed for use in
playing surfaces still seem a bit antisep
Houston’s Astrodome, where it would
tic. Players who were weaned on grass
need no sunlight, water or feed; where
fields in Pop Warner competition and
it could not get wet, muddy or rutted;
high school still complain that they
and where players could not get mud
miss the particular smell of grass and
and grass stains on themselves and
earth that gets into the system and
their uniforms, the badge of courage for
Stays forever. Others miss the feel of the
a long afternoon’s scrimmage since the
dirt and grass on their skin and uni
day the game began.
forms. “Not much to wash off but sweat
It is claimed that the ghosts of
and a bit of blood after a game, ” said
Pudge Heffelfinger, Walter Camp,
one. You know you worked out there,
Fielding Yost and the other pioneers
but there s no dirty water to prove it. ”
of the game held a protest rally in
Worst of all, said many, was the feel
football’s Great Valhalla, then settled
ing that there was no place to spit. It
back and granted that, yes, the game
was like doing it in your living room,
would survive.
one coach complained.
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Artificial surfaces in sports raised a
lot ofhackleswhen Judge Roy Hofheinz
had a chemical company develop a
special playing surface for his Astro
dome. When it was first opened in 1965,
for baseball, only the infield had an arti
ficial area/ the rest ofthe field was natuand dirt, with refracted
sunlight coming through panels in the
roof to help it grow and stay fresh. But
major league players found that the
glare from the sunlight made it almost
impossible to track fly balls and popups, so the rafters were covered. With
the coverings went the real grass.
In 1966, the problem was solved and
a new word was coined: Astroturf The
en tire playing surface was covered with
this synthetic carpet, and now, a major
college stadium without one of several
types of this artificial surface is a rarity.
But back in 1966, it was a brand
new world of questions, for which
Houston coach Bill Yeoman had to
find solutions.
"We got a head start because Judge
Hofheinz had strips of the stufl laid out
and he asked our players to do their
cuts and breaks and some running, to
get an idea of how a football player
would react, ” Yeoman recalled. "Our
continued
kids tried it out and they all came back
saying how great it was. I think the
judge was trying to get psychological
acceptance more than anything, to get
the kids believing there was no differ
ence and cut down on any complaints.
"So we went out and did a lot of
drills—one-on-ones, pass routes, back
pedals—everything we did on natural
grass, and ther^ didn’t seem to be
much difference. If anything, I could
see it would help our team because we
had a group of quick kids and that kind
of surface simply accentuates any
quickness. It helped their traction get
ting into and out of cuts, even after they
wet down the field to keep skin abra
sions to a minimum. There was no dif
ference indoors on dry or wet surfaces.
continued
"It became clear to me almost imme
diately,” Yeoman continued, “that I
was seeing a revolution in how the
game would be played. Players were
quicker, they could run faster and you
never had to worry about being slowed
down in muddy conditions. ”
The biggest immediate problem 20
years ago was footwear. Among the
kinds available. Yeoman looked at four
or five different soccer shoes with
small-nubbed soles and heels, unlike
the longer, rubber cleats of the conven
tional football shoes worn on grass.
“Our kids worked in real good with
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those shoes, so we established a shoe
bank for visiting teams,” Yeoman said.
“ We provided their footwear for a long
time until those surfaces became com
monplace, and teams had to stock
shoes for them. We also had to stock
shoes when we went out and played on
real grass.”
The start of that revolution certainly
did not slow down Houston. The Cou
gars defeated Washington State, 21-7, as
Warren McVea caught a record-tying
99-yard touchdown pass from Bo Bur
ris, who also threw another pair to half
back Dickie Post.
Somehow, though, even 20 years
later, the smell of dirt apd grass mixed
together on a crisp fafi afternoon can
not be matched... or, manufactured.
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Missouri’s Man of the Hour
n the Wednesday night in Sep
by 14 points if Pisarkiewicz started, but
tember 1976, before Missouri was
would romp by 35 points if Woods were
to play Ohio State in Columbus, Pete the starter.
Woods had a dream. Luckily, most of it
“ I had already been a starting pitcher
didn’t come true.
for two seasons on the baseball team,
Woods dreamed that Ohio State led,
and though I hadn’t started at quar
21-20, and Missouri lined up for the
terback, I had played enough not to be
extra point to tie the game. But he was a
awestruck by the assignment, ” said
blocking back, not a holder for kicker
Woods from his office in St. Louis,
Tim Gibbons—a job he performed the
where he is an attorney and repre
previous season when the team made
sentative for professional athletes. “ I
every extra-point kick. Gibbons missed
had butterflies, as is normal before the
the extra point and Woods himself
game, but I didn’t feel any overriding
missed a key block during the play.
pressure, probably because so much
In real life, three days later, Ohio
had been made of Ohio State and so
State did lead, 21-20, but Woods lined
little of our chance to win.”
up as the quarterback and he ran
That was never the case. In the final
for the winning two-point conversion
minute of play, with Ohio State leading,
with 12 seconds to play, while Gibbons,
21-14, Curtis Brown romped 31yards to
who earlier had kicked two extra points
the Buckeyes’ nine-yard line. Woods
with Woods as his holder, watched
got six more on a quarterback keeper;
from the sideline.
Brown added another; and on thirdIn the end, those two points gave
and-two. Woods threw a touchdown
Missouri a stunning 22-21 victory over
pass to Leo Lewis in the left corner of
the second-ranked Buckeyes, in 90the end zone. As soon as Lewis caught
degree heat. The dream, it seemed, was
the ball, it was slapped from his hands,
just one of a series of events that
but the officials ruled that he had had
formed a perfect backdrop to this
possession long enough for the score.
incredible game.
On the two-point conversion tiy, a
Woods wasn’t even supposed to play
Missouri player missed a block and
during the 1976 season, having been
Woods was hurried into over-throwing
redshirted so he could get two addi
Brown in the end zone. But receiver Joe
tional seasons after quarterback Steve
Stewart was held in the end zone, the
Pisarkiewicz graduated. But Pisarkieofficials ruled, and Woods got a second
wicz had injured his shoulder and
tiy.
could not play, so Woods not only was
“That was another strange twist,”
put on varsity status, but was to start
Woods said. ““Two veiy close, contro
the first game of his college career.
versial calls went against Ohio State in
When Coach Al Onofrio’s Missouri
the final seconds, in their own stadium,
team arrived in Columbus on Friday, all
with Woody Hayes on the sideline and
it heard was that Ohio State would win
82,000 people looking on. Those kinds
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of things weren’t supposed to happen
in Columbus.”
On his second tiy. Woods used a
quarterback option play the Buckeyes
hadn’t'seen that day. He sprinted out to
the 1^, was hit low, but fell over offen
sive tackle James Taylor and into the
end zone for the winning two points.
The strangest thing of all happened
when the game ended, ” Woods re
called. “ There was just this stunned si
lence, no booing or catcalls. Nothing.
All of the Missouri rooters who were
there went crazy. Ten years later, if
eveiyone from Missouri who claims to
have been there actually had showed
up, there wouldn’t have been any room
for the Ohio State fans. ”
There was never a moment during
his career to equal that one. Woods
said, and that includes throwing a 98yard TD pass later that season to beat
Nebraska at Lincoln. "All the events
conspired to make it special—my first
college start, us being a 35-point under
dog and beating the No. 2 team in the
country, and then getting two TD
passes and the winning points.
“There are no encore perform
ances after that. ”
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Coors is the one.
The Football Hall of Fame honors the success of over 500 of college football’s greatest players and coaches.
n a mock locker room off to the
side, a lifelike Knute Rockne gives
his famous halftime "win one for
the Gipper” speech.
"Gipp never made it through his last
year at Notre Dame,” Rockne says.
“When I went to see him in the hospital,
his condition was grave. Somebody
said, "It’s tough to go, Gipp,’ and Gipp
opened his eyes and smiled and said,
'What’s tough about it? I’ve got no
complaints.’ To me he said. It’s all
right. Rock, I’m not afraid. But some
day, when the team is up against it,
when things are going bad and the
breaks are beating the boys, tell them to
go in there with all they’ve got and win
just one for the Gipper. I don’t know
where I’ll be then. Rock, but I’ll know
about it, and I’ll be happy.’ ”
The locker room, Rockne, and in the
hallway real Notre Dame lockers and
benches are all part of the National
Football Foundation’s College Football
Hall of Fame at the Kings Island Amuse
ment Park, on Interstate 71 between
Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio.
For anyone interested in college foot
ball, and there isn’t a Saturday
afternoon game going on, this is the
place to be.
The building looks as though it were
transplanted from a college campus,
with ivy already starting to climb the
brick walls. Just inside the foyer on the
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right is a replica Heisman Trophy. On
the left is the imposing block of granite
on top of the Lombardi Award for the
nation’s outstanding lineman.
The building was erected and
opened in 1978, and the Hall of Fame is
continually looking for more memora
bilia and better ways to display it. But
there is quite enough already to leave
even the casual fan bug-eyed over a
sport that traces its origin to the Nov. 6,
1869 afternoon when Princeton and
Rutgers kicked off for the first time.
The game has undergone numerous
changes since then. In one trophy case,
a display of old rubber and leather nose
guards reminds new fans what old
players once wore. There are footballs
that look more like basketballs and uni
forms that once draped the splendid
forms of such stars as Joe Bellino of
Navy, Glenn Davis of Army, Archie
Griffin of Ohio State and Biggie Munn of
Minnesota.
A relatively new display features
one of the original officials’ flags,
first used at Youngstown during the
Youngstown State-Oklahoma City game
on Oct. 16, 1941.
Youngstown State coach "’Dike”
Beede thought the game would be
better served with flags to call infrac
tions instead of horns and whistles,
which had been used at that time.
Jack McPhee, an official who worked
that game, liked the idea, and saved his
flag, which is half red and half white.
He later used it in other games, includ
ing a Rose Bowl, and the idea caught
on.
Today the penalty flags are yellow,
and whistles are used only to stop play,
but you can see the original penalty flag
in the Hall of Fame.
You can see Bob Gain’s kicking shoe,
too. He won the Outland Trophy in
1950 at Kentucky.
You can see one of the balls used in
Coach Paul "Bear” Bryant’s 315th
coaching victory that broke Amos
Alonzo Staggs record 314. Bryant’s
Alabama Crimson Tide beat Auburn,
28-17, on Nov. 28, 1981.
In a special room is the MacArthur
Bowl, a silver punch bowl-sized replica
stadium awarded since 1959 to college
football’s best team. "There is no
substitute for victory, ” is inscribed on
the side, and looming above the trophy
is MacArthur’s likeness with two foot
ball players—one from Princeton and
one from Rutgers—the two schools
that participated in the first official
game.
The inscription on the trophy reads:
"Upon the fields of friendly strife are
sown the seeds that, upon other fields,
on other days, will bear the fruits of
victory.”
continued
COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME
Now rr CNIY TAKES
ONE TO TANGO
continued
annuaWy by the National Football
Foundation to the outstanding college football team of the season.
Pop Warner, who won 313 games as a
coach, is memorialized with pictures
and his death mask. There are two
tickets to the 1942 Rose Bowl game, the
only one not played in Pasadena. This
one was held in Duke Stadium because
of the war, and the cost was $4.40 a seat.
Times have changed.
On the ground floor, visitors walk on
artificial turf while they scan murals
and pictures of games past. There is the
Time Tunnel which traces the begin
nings of the game—a student named
William Webb Ellis stunned his friends
at the Rugby School in England in 1823
when he picked up the ball and ran it in
for a score and a banner which reads
“For God, for Country and for Yale.”
Upstairs, which is the entrance level,
are computers that allow visitors to
match strategy with actual coaching
decisions, games to test football knowl
edge and a 250-word essay on every
member in the Hall.
The Hall itselfisaregalroomwithenshrinees faces etched on strips of
Plexiglas. There is a section for players
and one for coaches, nearly 500
honorees in all.
Just outside the Hall are other pic
tures and memorabilia hanging from
the ceiling. A press box pass from the
1959 Army-Navy game reads “Ladies not
admitted except teletypists.”
No chauvinism there. Nearby is the
typewriter of famed sportswriter Grantland Rice, and in the back, pictures
from the first Army-Navy game, played
on the Army parade field at West Point,
Sept. 29, 1890. Navy, having already
played six preliminaiy games to none
for Army, won, and the rivalry was on.
There are three movie rooms in addi
tion to the one that holds Rockne,
including the big James Stewart
Theater, the Coaches’ Theater and the
Fred Flintstone Theater. The first two
show continuous films on college foot
ball; the latter explains football rules to
youngsters.
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There is a 1930s-style soda shop and
a gift shop and, ofeourse, Rockne. Com
missioned by Chevrolet, the Rockne
locker room is darkened and a film pre
sented that discusses some of the
game’s coaching legends.
Then the screen goes up, the cur
tain opens and the Rockne mannequin
comes to life. The filmed face of Jack
Henri looks around at all those in the
room, and when Henri is done, he
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Foundation also bestows the Distin
guished American Award and the Gold
Medal Award, both displayed at the
Hall.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, a former foot
ball player, was the first to receive the
Gold Medal Award "in recognition of a
lifetime of devotion to American Inter
collegiate Football. ”
The Foundation also offers annual
Graduate Scholarship awards to distin
guished scholar-athletes among the
nation s college football seniors.
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exhibit in the building.
The National Football Foundation, a
longtime promotional organization, is
headquartered in New York City with a
small professional staff. A large volun
teer staff works nationwide, and new
members are solicited yearly. The
Foundation holds an awards dinner
every year, and an Honors Court nomi
nates, elects and inducts members into
the Hall. For those who have served
their country and community in other
ways in addition to football, the
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TOTAL OFFENSE
Most Plays
Game—89, Rhett Bonner (Bethel) vs. Gust.
Adolphus, 1985.
Season 537, Steve Hendiy (WisconsinSuperior), 1982.
Career—1,695, Dave Geissler (Wisconsin-Stevens Point), 1982-85.
Most Yards Gained
Game—527, Rob Shippy (Concordia, 111.)
vs. Concordia (Wis.), 1985.
Season 3,193, Keith Bishop (Wheaton),
1983.
Career 9,052, Keith Bishop (Illinois
Wesleyan), 1981; (Wheaton) 1983-85.
RUSHING
Most Rushes
Game—58, Bill Kaiser (Wabash) vs.
DePauw, 1985.
Season—335, Bill Kaiser (Wabash), 1985.
Career—1,024, Peter Gomiewicz (Colby),
1971-74.
Most Yards Gained
Game—382, Pete Baranek (Carthage) vs.
North Central, 1985.
Season—1,615, Joe Dudek (Plymouth
State), 1985.
Career—5,570, Joe Dudek (Plymouth
State), 1982-85.
Most Touchdowns Scored Rushing
;
Game—5, By many players. )VIost
recent: Joe Dudek (Plymouth State) vs.
Bridgewater (Mass.), 1985.
Season—24, Joe Dudek (Plymouth
State), 1985.
Career—76, Joe Dudek(PlymouthState),
1982-85.
^ Most Yards Gained
[ Game—513, Craig Solomon (Rhodes) vs.
Rose-Hulman, 1978.
; Season—3,274, Keith Bishop (Wheaton),
; 1983.
i Career—9,579, Keith Bishop (Illinois
Wesleyan), 1981; (Wheaton) 1983-85.
PASSING
Most Passes Attempted
Most Touchdown Passes
Game—7, Mark Peterson (Nebraska
Wesleyan) vs. Midland, 1983; Bob Lock
hart (Trenton State) vs. Ramapo, 1980.
Season—32, Flip Faherty (Trenton State),
1983.
Career—71, Keith Bishop (Illinois
Wesleyan), 1981; (Wheaton) 1983-85;
Craig Solomon (Rhodes), 1975-78.
Game—79, Mike Wallace (Ohio Wesleyan)
vs. Denison, 1981.
Season 480, Steve Hendry (WisconsinSuperior), 1982.
Career—1,346, Dave Geissler (Wisconsin-Stevens Point), 1982-85.
Most Passes Completed
Game—47, Mike Wallace (Ohio Wes
leyan) vs. Denison, 1981.
Season 262, Keith Bishop (Wheaton),
1985.
Career 789, Dave Geissler (WisconsinStevens Point), 1982-85.
RECEIVING
Most Passes Caught
Game—20, Pete Thompson (Carroll) vs.
Augustana, 1978.
Season—87, Jim Jordan (Wheaton),
1985.
Career—258, Bill Stromberg (Johns
Hopkins), 1978-81.
Most Passes Had Intercepted
Game—8, Kevin Karwath (Canisius) vs.
Liberty Baptist, 1979.
Season 43, Steve Hendry (Wisconsin-
Superior), 1982.
Career—117, Steve Hendry (WisconsinSuperior), 1980-83.
Keith Bishop
Most Yards Gained
Game—303, Chuck Braun (Wisconsin-
Stevens Point) vs. Wisconsin-Superior,
1981.
Season—1,483, Jim Myers (Kenyon), 1974.
Career—3,776, Bill Stromberg (Johns
Hopkins), 1978-81.
Most Touchdown Passes Cau^t
Game—5, Ron Caples (Iona) vs. Pace,
1984; John Aromando (Trenton State)
vs. Upsala, 1983; Greg Holmes (Carroll)
vs. North Central, 1981.
Season—20, John Aromando (Trenton
State), 1983.
Career—39, John Aromando (Trenton
State), 1981-84; Bill Stromberg (Johns
Hopkins), 1978-81.
Most Extra Points Scored Kicking
Game—13, Kurt Christenson (ConcordiaMoorhead) vs. Macalester, 1977.
Season—49, Doug Rothrock (UC San
Diego), 1973.
Career—155, Marco Vittozzi (Plymouth
State), 1981-84.
Most Field Goals Made
Game—6, Jim Hever (Rhodes) vs.
Millsaps, 1984.
Season—18, Scott Ryerson (Central
Florida), 1981.
Career—43, Ted Swan (Colorado
College), 1973-76.
ALL-PURPOSE RUNNING
Yardage From Rushing, Receiving
and All Runbacks
SCORING
Most Points Scored
Season—150, Joe Dudek (Plymouth
State), 1985; Bruce Naszimento (Jersey
City State), 1973.
Career—474, Joe Dudek (Plymouth State),
1982-85.
Season—1,979, Joe Dudek (Plymouth
State), 1985.
Career—6,509, Joe Dudek (Plymouth
State), 1982-85.
Most Touchdowns Scored
Season—25, Joe Dudek (Plymouth
State), 1985; Bruce Naszimento (Jersey
City State), 1973.
Career—79, Joe Dudek (Plymouth State),
1982-85.
(Records taken from "1986 NCAA Fooftoa//," copy
right 1986 by the NCAA; used with permission.
Copies of this publication may be purchased from
the NCAA Publishing Service, P.O. Box 1906,
Mission, Kansas 66201.)
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icture this:
A big, strapping youth, about 21 or 22, saunters into
the local college hangout to spend some time with
his pals. He's wearing a white letterman’s sweater that’s
covered with symbols of his athletic diversity. There’s the
letter he won in football. The patch he got for making the all
conference basketball team. The medal he won at the
conference track meet. The letter he was awarded for his
participation in baseball—
Clip out that picture and save it.
Put it next to the one of the brontosaurus and the dodo
bird. File it under “extinct. ”
Playing more than one sport at the college level used to be
fairly common. Until 20 or 25 years £igo, it was not unusual to
find a college football player who also carried his talents onto
the running track, the baseball diamond, the wrestling mat,
the basketball court, or even the lacrosse field.
Today those athletes are rare, perhaps not so much
because there aren’t as many good athletes but because
expanded schedules have made it virtually impossible to
compete in sports in consecutive seasons. Football schedules
now run into December and January, when basketball and
wrestling are already in fiall swing. Basketball and wrestling
run into baseball and track. Baseball and track conflict with
spring football workouts.
Of course, that hasn’t stopped some guys from trying.
Take, for example, Andre Bison, a thoroughbred who
played every sport there was at Northwestern High School in
Flint, Mich., and seemed determined to do the same as a
freshman at Michigan State.
Last fall Bison was a starting flanker for the Spartans’
football team. After playing in the All-American Bowl in
December, he joined Coach Jud Heathcote’s basketball team
and took part in 10 games. He then joined the track team and,
with only two weeks of practice, set a school record and
finished second in the long jump in the Big Ten indoor meet.
continued
From college football to professional baseball to Olympic
gold, Jim Thorpe was an athlete of many talents.
TOUCHDOWN
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It was all kind of fun, Rison will tell
you, but he won’t try it again. This year
he 11 skip basketball.
^
I didn’t like being [two months] be
hind everybody, ” said Rison. ‘Tm too
much of a competitor to sit on the
bench. I’d rather spend my time run
ning indoor track, where I can be in
creasing my speed and endurance. ”
Rison now hopes to eventually deaSi'""*? ^^o^ld-class long jumper in
addition to being a football star.
The prevailing feeling among many
modern athletes is that even competing
m two sports is too much. Concentrate
your efforts on one sport, they say, and
excel at it. But guys like Rison grimace
at such a thought.
continued
"It doesn’t make any difference, ” he
said T think I’d become restless if I
could only play one sport.”
The late Jim Thorpe undoubtedly
would have agreed. It seems like any
discussion of multi-sport athletes
bejns uath Thorpe, a Sac-and-Fox
Indian who, perhaps more than any
other athlete, exhibited the versatility
necessaiy to excel in a variety of
endeavors.
Thorpe was, of course, a gold medal
vwnner m the decathlon in the 1912
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sional baseball for a few years, was an
All-America in football at Carlisle, and 1
shovyed, at various times in his life, ex
ceptional skills as a swimmer, golfer,
bowler, boxer and wrestler. There prob
ably was never an athlete who could do
so many things so well.
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winner Johnny Lujack
also found time to star In basketball
baseball and track at Notre Dame.
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Despite his Olympic achievements,
Thorpe is probably almost as well re
membered as a football hero. Discovered by the legendaiy coach Glenn
op Warner while taking part in a
pickup game between classes, Thorpe
became an immediate star.
Legend has it that Warner tested the
youngster in his first practice by having
him tiy to run through the entire
arlisle team. Thorpe easily covered
the distance from one goal line to the
other without being knocked off his
fret. Amazed and flustered, Warner had
Thorpe tiy it a second time. Again, he
made it through the entire team with
out being tackled.
Thorpe, and the legend, were off
and running.
In his first season, 1907, Thorpe led
Carlisle to a 10-2-1 record. He starred for
th^B school in 1908, 1911 and 1912, too.
There seemingly were no limits to what
he coul^ do on the field.
As a runner, Thorpe had blinding
speed, an astonishing change of pace, a
stiff-arm that shattered defenders and a
snaky twist of the hips that shed tackI lers, Arthur Daley of The New York
Tunes once wrote. "He could sweep the
ends, slash off tackle or splinter the
center of the line. He passed well in an
era when there was little passing. He
was a phenomenon as a kicker—punts
placements or drop kicks. He blocked
beautifully. His one flaw as a football
player was that he’d occasionally not
put out to his fullest ability.”
Others through the years have tried
to live up to Thorpe’s standards.
In the 1920s, Ernie Nevers was doing
Tho^e-like things under the tutelage
of the same man who had earlier
coached Thorpe—Pop Warner. Nevers
was an All-America fullback under
Warner at Stanford in 1923-25 and was,
Warner often claimed, a better football
player than Thorpe. In three years of
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varsity competition Nevers never lost a
yard from scrimmage.
Nevers also found time to participate
in basketball, baseball and track. Like
Thorpe and many other athletes of
their era, Nevers often combined two
sports in one day, throwing the discus
in a track meet and then hustling over
to the baseball field for a game. There
were some who claimed Nevers’ skills
on the baseball diamond—as a hardthrowing pitcher and slugger of tapemeasure home runs—were equal to his
talents on the football field.
“He was the greatest football player
who ever lived, ” wrote Don Liebendorfer in his history of Stanford ath
letics. Liebendorfer pointed out that
Nevers was a big, friendly sort of guy.
“But put Nevers in one of the many ath
letic uniforms he wore and he was a
driving, relentless, ferocious compe
titor, who swept aside all who stood in
his way.”
The same could be said of another
West Coast prodigy about 15years later.
Jackie Robinson showed his versatility
by starring for UCLA in the same four
sports—football, baseball, basketball
and track. In fact, Robinson, who later
became the first black man to play pro
fessional baseball, sometimes con
tended that baseball wasn’t even his
best sport.
A few years later, Johnny Lujack of
Notre Dame showed his skills by play-
TOUCHDOWN
Fleet-footed Willie Gault excelled In football and track at
ing the same four sports as a sopho
more in college. Lujack became the
only Notre Dame athlete since 1915 to
letter in four sports during his firstyear
of eligibility.
Besides being a top-notch football
player—he won the Heisman Trophy in
1947—Lujack also was the starting
point guard on the basketball team,
split his time between second base and
right field on the baseball team, and
was a high jumper and undefeated
javelin thrower on the track team.
Several other college football players
through the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s showed
similar versatility. Jim Brown, an AllAmerica fullback at Syracuse, also was
an All-America lacrosse player. Angelo
Bertelli who, like Lujack, won the
Heisman as a Notre Dame quarterback,
also played some hockey in the ’40s for
the South Bend school.
By the mid-1960s the days of the
three- or four-sport athlete were vir
tually gone, although there have been
several two-sport standouts. The most
common combination of sports seems
to be football and track, since their
seasons don’t conflict and the skills
necessary to excel at them, like foot
speed and upper body strength, are
similar.
«
Among the most notable have been
Tennessee’s Willie Gault and Southern
Methodist’s Michael Carter. Gault was
an All-America wide receiver and an
NCAA champion in the high hurdles
and 60-yard dash. Carter was a stand
out defensive tackle and shot-putter.
He won a silver medal in the 1984
Olympics. ,
Current/Purdue star Ron Woodson,
in addition to being an All-Big Ten
defensive back, is also a three-time Big
Ten hurdles champion.
Others have combined football and
wrestling or football and baseball.
Several modern-day major league base
ball players found time to play football
during their college days, including
Steve Garvey (Michigan State), Keith
Moreland (Texas), Reggie Jackson
(Arizona State), and John Stearns (Colo
rado). Another major leaguer, Dave
Winfield, was a basketball standout at
Minnesota.
More recently. Bo Jackson ofAuburn,
the 1985 Heisman Trophy winner, also
received national recognition for his
baseball exploits and vvas faced with
the tough choice between pro football
and pro baseball. A few years earlier,
Stanford’s All-America quarterback
John Elway had a similar decision to
make.
But the three-sport men, the Andre
Risons, are rare today.
Rare? They’re just about extinct.
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INDIVIDUAL
MOST ATTEMPTS
Game - 42, Tom Mackey vs. Clarion, 1968
Season - 216, Scott Dodds, 1985; 199, Blair Hrovat, 1984
Career - 618, Blair Hrovat, 1981-82-83-84
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
SKICKOFF 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
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, 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
riNTERCEPTION RETURN
102, Jack Case vs. Brockport, 1962
FUMBLE RETURN
80, Bob Cicerchi vs. Millersville, 1980
TOTAL OFFENSE
MOST YARDS GAINED
Game - 340, Blair Hrovat vs. Lock Haven, 1982
318, A1 Raines vs. Lock Haven, 1969
Season - 1938, Blair Hrovat, 1983; 1931, Blair Hrovat, 1982
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
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;
6.3 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
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
PASSING
MOST YARDS GAINED
Game - 300, Blair Hrovat vs. California, 1982
275, Mike Hill vs. California, 1976
250, Jude Basile vs. Indiana, 1974
250, Blair Hrovat vs. Lock Haven, 1984
Season - 1702, Blair Hrovat, 1982; 1595, Blair Hrovat, 1983;
1517, Blair Hrovat, 1984
Career - 5103, Blair Hrovat, 1981-82-83-84
MOST COMPLETIONS
Game - 19, Scott Dodds vs. Slippery Rock, 1985
18, Blair Hrovat vs. West Liberty, 1983
17, Blair Hrovat, 1982; Rick Shover, 1979;
Tom Mackey, 1968
Season - 111, Scott Dodds, 1985; 99, Blair Hrovat, 1983;
92, Blair Hrovat, 1982; 87, Jude Basile, 1975
Career-309, Blair Hrovat, 1981-82-83-84
MOST TOUCHDOWN PASSES
Game -4, Blair Hrovat vs. Buffalo St. and Mercyhurst - 1983- vs.
California, 1982
Season - 19, Blair Hrovat, 1983; 14, Blair Hrovat 1982
9, Mike Hill, 1976
Career - 49, Blair Hrovat, 1981-82-83-84 (PC Record)
21, Jude Basile, 1973-74-75
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
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
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MEET THE PLAYERS
INDIVIDUAL
3, Rich Ruszkiewicz vs. Shippensburgand 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
31, Jim Trueman, 1983-84-85
MOST EXTRA POINTS KICKED
Game - 8, Jim Trueman vs. District of Columbia, 1984
7, Jim Trueman vs. Mercyhurst, 1983
7, Frank Berzansky vs. Slippery Rock, 1971
Season - 42, Jim Trueman, 1984
Career - 100, Jim Trueman, 1984
Most Consecutive - 41, Jim Trueman, 1984
29, Larry Littler, 1974-75
DEFENSE
MOST PASSES INTERCEPTED
Game - 4, Dan DiTullio vs. Shippensburg, 1968
Season - 8, Dave Parker, 1982; 8, Jack McCurry, 1971
Career - 13, Ken Petardi, 1976-77-78-79
12, John Walker, 1971, 72, 73
12, Ron Miller, 1977-78-79-80
12, Dave Parker, 1980-81-82-83
MOST TACKLES
Game - 30, Rick lorfido vs. Indiana, 1972
Season - 200, Jim Krentz, 1978; 182, Greg Sullivan, 1977
171, Rick lorfido, 1972; 169, Bob Cicerchi, 1981
Career - 572, Jim Krentz, 1975, 76, 77, 78
429, Greg Sullivan, 1974-75-76-77
428, Ron Gooden, 1974-75-76-77
MOST SACKS
Game - 7, Ron Link vs California, 1981
Season - 15, Ron Link, 1981
Career - 27, Ron Link, 1977-78-80-81
TEAM
SCORING
MOST POINTS SCORED
Game - 83 vs. Alliance, 1928; 74 vs. Mercyhurst, 1983;
68 vs. Clarion, 1930
'/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
MOST CARRIES
Game - 71 vs. California, 1979; 67 vs. Slippery Rock, 1970
Season - 571 by 1970 team
PASSING
MOST YARDS GAINED
Game - 300 vs. California, 1982; 283 vs. Clarion, 1971
Season - 1793 by 1982 team; 1667 by 1984 team
1663 by 1983 team; 1653 by 1976 team
MOST COMPLETIONS
Game - 19 vs. Slippery Rock, 1985; 18 vs. West Liberty, 1983
MOST ATTEMPTS
Game - 44 vs. Clarion, 1968
Season - 315 by 1968 team
MOST TOUCHDOWN PASSES
Game - 4 vs. Buffalo State, 1983; 4 vs. California, 1982
Season - 19 by 1983 team; 15 by 1976 team
TOTAL OFFENSE
MOST YARDS GAINED
Game - 605 vs. Lock Haven, 1983; 605 vs. Waynesburg, 1971
Season - 4611 by 1983 team; 4244 by 1971 team
PASS INTERCEPTIONS
MOST INTERCEPTED
Game - 6 vs. Shippensburg, 1983
Season - 26 by 1971 team
DEFENSE
FEWEST POINTS YIELDED
Season - 40 by 1928 team
FEWEST RUSHING YARDS YIELDED
Game - Minus 67, vs. Curry, 1965
Season - 645 by 1970 team
FEWEST PASS COMPLETIONS
Game - 0 (numerous times)
Season - 37 by 1965 team
FEWEST PASSING YARDS YIELDED
Game - 0 (numerous times)
Season - 441 by 1973 team
John Cardone
Chris Conway
Mark Courtney
Scott Dodds
Floyd Faulkner
Brian Ferguson
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CONSECUTIVITY
MOST CONSECUTIVE WINS - 18, 1970-71-^2 (regular season)
MOST CONSECUTIVE GAMES WITHOUT A LOSS-21, 196970-71-72 (regular season)
MOST CONSECUTIVE CONFERENCE GAMES WITHOUT A
LOSS - 13, 1969-70-71-72
MOST CONSECUTIVE ROAD 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 - 15
50th WIN - Ashland College (45-6), 1957
100th WIN - California (47-7), 1971
150th WIN - California (58-20), 19^2
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Dodds finished the ‘85 season, ranked 3rd in the Pennsylvania
Conference overall in total offense with 164 yards per game. Starting
for the 1st time in his college career, Dodds rose up as the Fighting
Scots leader with his outstanding performances. Named Pennsylvania
Conference player of the week once this season for his performance
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the Scots in tackles with 38 solo stops and 50 assisted tackles for a total
of 88 stops. Mark also recorded 1 quarterback sack and 3 tackles
behind the line of scrimmage. Also included in Perkins’ totals are a
team high 5 interceptions (which ranks high in the conference), and 3
passes broken up.
ROB LEWIS - 6-3, 245-defensive tackle
DAVE SPAN - 5-10, 180-running back
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First Team All-Pittsburgh Press All-Star
A steady player for the Scots in ‘85, Lewis, along with Murray
anchored the interior for the Scot defensive line. Lewis’ stats for the
season include: 16 solo stops, 22 assists for a total of 38 tackles. Lewis
total also includes 2 QB sacks and 5 stops behind the line of
A powerful runningback. Span led the Fighting Scots in rushing from
the start of the season. His stats for the ‘85 season include a 199-yard
rushing performance against Central Connecticut on the road. Span’s
10 game totals include: 119 carries for 685 yards and 3 touchdowns.
Dave also latched on to 19 passes for a team high 275 yards. Dave also
returned 7 kickoffs for 125 yards, including a 41-yard return vs
Clarion.
scrimmage.
MARK MERRITT - 5-11, 250-offensive center
Second Team All-Pennsylvania Conference Western Division
Began the ‘85 season switching off with Dave Higham at center, but
secured the position when Higham moved to tackle, to replace an
injured player. A steady, gutsy performer, Mark played the entire
season with a broken bone in his hand. Helped open holes for
runningbacks to gain nearly 210 yards per game this past season. Will
be a tough man to replace up front for the Scots.
JIM BRITT - 6-4, 260-offensive tackle
First Team All-Pennsylvania Conference Western Division
First Team All-Pittsburgh Press All-Star
A veteran member of the Fighting Scots offensive line, Britt opened
holes for Boro runningbacks over the last three seasons. Britt had a lot
to do with the following stats as an “O” lineman: 1983-EUP running
game averaging over 290 yards per game... 1984-backs gain over 244
yards per game and this past season, 1985-Scot backs churned out
209.0 yards per contest.
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Second Team All-Pittsburgh Post Gazette All-Star
A three-year letter winner, Higham returns for his senior campaign
next year to anchor the offensive line. A very versatile player, Higham
can play center, guard and tackle for the Scots. Started the last 2
seasons for EUP, where Edinboro backs rushed for over 244 and 209
JIM TRUEMAN - 5-8, 180-placekicker
Associated Press Honorable Mention All-American - 1984 & 85
First Team All-Pennsylvania Conference Western Division
First Team All-Pittsburgh Press All-Star
Second Team All-Pittsburgh Post Gazette All-Star
yards per game.
EDINBORO RECORDS:
Most Extra Points (Season) - 42
Most Consecutive Extra Points - 41
Most Extra Points (Career) - 81
Most Extra Points (Game) - 7 vs. Mercyhurst (Tied)
Most Field Goals (Game) - 3 vs. Shippensburg (Tied)
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The Scots most consistent performer throughout the season on the
defensive line, Murray emerged as an outstanding player by the end of
the ‘85 season. Murray’s stats for the year include: 19 solo tackles, 40
assists for 6th on the squad with 59 stops. Chuck was credited with 1
QB sack and 5 stops behind the line of scrimmage, while also
recovering a fumble.
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Incomplete forward pass
Penalty declined
No play
No score
Toss option delayed
First down
Inadvertent whistle
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False start
Illegal position
Offside
Illegal motion
Illegal shift
Delay of game
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Invalid fair catch signal
Illegal fair catch signal
Forward pass interference
Kick catching interference
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ILL ENGH: EDINBORO’S SUPER BOOSTER
By Mickey Curtis, Sports Information Assistant
Mark Merritt, Scott Broking, D.*„‘ cS'to MMc1tso"M?ch
<*-“>= •""> ®ritt. Rick Browning
You ve heard of the subway alumni; the term used to describe
those college sports fanatics around the country who have close ties
with schools they didn’t graduate from. Well, Edinboro University has
a subway alumnus right in its own backyard who can rival any of these
■ major-school sports supporters.
Edinboro’s Super Booster is Bill Engh, who for the past 40 years
has been a faithful follower of the local university’s and high school’s
sports programs. Engh takes an interest in all sports, but his favorite is
football, especially Fighting Scot style.
Engh loves watching the Scots play so much that he has missed
just two of their games
home and away — since he moved to
Edinboro in 1947. That’s only two misses in approximately 400 games,
a remarkable achievement in any league.
“I love the game and I love Edinboro,” says the 75-year-old Engh
from his home on Maple Drive. “Edinboro is our home and even
though we weren t alumni we adopted Edinboro as our team. I just
took Edinboro under my wing as an alma mater, that’s all. I just
enjoyed watching them play, win or lose.
“I’d rather watch Edinboro play than pay $15 to see the
(Cleveland) Browns even though I am a Browns fan,” he continued.
Engh attends the games with his wife Gretchen, who is
Edinboro’s second biggest booster. She has missed only three of the
games during the past 40 years. You could say it’s a marriage made for
the gridiron.
“We’re very compatible and anything I want to do, we’ll do
together,” said Bill. “She didn’t know anything about football before
she met me but now she knows as much as I do. She enjoys the games,
especially the halftime performances.”
One reason the Enghs follow the Scots wherever they play is
because they enjoy traveling. The Enghs, for instance, left on
Thursday for last week’s game at West Chester and returned on
I Monday.
During the offseason they travel throughout the world by
freighter. And it was because of a freighter excursion that the Enghs
missed one of their games, the home opener in 1980. (Bill Engh missed
his first game sometime during the 1950’s when he was bedridden in
the hospital.) The freighter trip six years ago extended into the second
week of the football season, but the Enghs still managed to make it for
the opening kickoff of a game played at Millersville.
“We arrived in New York City at six in the morning on the day of
the game and right away I rented a car to Millersville,” Engh related.
Engh also enjoys the trips because it gives him an opportunity to
know the players and the coaches and their wives. He was good friends
with Art McComb and Sox Harrison, two of the more popular
coaches in the history of Edinboro sports. “Art was probably one of
the best offensive coaches I knew but he just didn’t have the talent,”
Engh says. And Engh still considers former head coach Bill
McDonald one of his closest friends.
The players are also special people to Engh. He visits with them
during practice and in the locker room, and by the time they are
upperclassmen he knows most of them on a first-name basis.
“We’ve more or less adopted the Gierlak boys (Tom, Dan and
Dave) that played here,” he says with a smile. Engh is also one of the
top financial supporters of the EUP athletic scholarship fund. And
before he retired as manager of the Culbertson Hills golf course in
1976 he made a special effort to obtain summer jobs at the club for the
University’s male and female athletes.
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Engh has many fond memories of the athletes on and off the field.
He said the most unusual thing he has witnessed was during the
Waynesburg game in 1971 when quarterback Joe Sanford and
halfback A1 Raines both ran the same distance — 91 yards — from
scrimmage for touchdowns in the same quarter.
Engh says the best two teams were the 1970-71 Edinboro clubs.
He said one of the most satisfying wins was when Edinboro knocked
off highly-regarded West Chester for its first and only Pennsylvania
Conference championship in 1970. But one of the most disappointing
losses occurred a week later when Westminster defeated Edinboro on
a muddy field in New Castle to advance to the NAIA national finals.
“That was probably the biggest disappointment because we had a
chance to go to California,” he said. “Jack Bestwick (the Westminster
quarterback who is now Fairview High School’s coach) had a hot day
for them. The game was supposed to be played at Three Rivers
Stadium but Westminster’s coach, who was a member of the NAIA
committee, helped to get it changed because he knew his team couldn’t
stay with us on a dry field.”
The years preceding 1970 were lean ones for the Edinboro
football program, but Engh refused to budge his seat in the stands.
Win or lose, he’s always been a booster.
“Today, we have much more talent than we did back then,” he
said. “When I first started watching Edinboro, 500 people at the games
was a big crowd, and teams such as Clarion, Indiana and Slippery
Rock saw Edinboro as a warmup for the next opponent.
“Everyone likes to win, and at times it was discouraging, but I
always said there was another Saturday. And a win over Clarion,
Indiana or Slippery Rock then made it all worthwhile.”
Engh doesn’t consider himself a real expert of the game, leaving
the coaching to the coaches. But he’s been around long enough to
know what it takes to win.
“Basically, football is played no different today than it was when I
played,” he says. “It’s still a fundamental game, and if you don’t have
the blocking, the runner can’t go anywhere.”
The big difference, he says, is that football players are much
larger today. “One hundred-ninty pounds was big in my days,” says
Engh, who was a wingback for four years in high school but was too
small to play in college. His high school hero while growing up in
Illinois was the legendary Red Grange, and Engh says he was in the
stands for the memorable game in the late 1920’s when Grange
galloped for four quick touchdowns in the mini’s big win over
Michigan.
“Grange was a lot like Herschel Walker,” Engh recalls. “He was
big, fast and shifty and ran like a deer.”
Engh still roots for the Fighting Illini, but as long as he lives in
Edinboro they’ll be his second favorite team. Engh, who was inducted
into Edinboro University’s Athletic Hall of Fame two years ago, plans
to follow the Fighting Scots forever.
“As long as the Lord will let me keep walking on my feet I’ll be
there,” he says.
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1986 PRE-SEASON DEPTH CHARTS
NYSP Leaves a Laslii^ Inq)resskMi
OFFENSE
TIGHT END
Bob Suren
6-4, 213, Sr.
Scott Brown
6-1, 200, Jr.
Brian Ferguson
6-4, 211, So.
John Tintsman
6-4, 221, So.
LEFT TACKLE
Rob Brownrigg
6-3, 223, Jr.
Andrew Cline
6-4, 236, Sr.
Rich Urko
6-3, 250, Fr.
LEFT GUARD
Larry Rosenthal
6-1, 223, Sr.
Dave Grimaldi
6-3, 197, So.
Joseph Brooks
6-1, 235, Fr.
WIDE RECEIVER
Cleveland Pratt
5-7, 160, So.
Ernest Priester
5-9, 174, Fr.
Steve Franklin
6-1, 180, Fr.
CENTER
Dave Higham
6-2, 235, Sr.
Glenn Gross
6-3, 200, So.
Scott Johnson
6-3, 220, Fr.
QUARTERBACK
Scott Dodds
6-1, 188, Sr.
Steve Anderton
6-0, 165, So.
Michael Nichols
6-0, 170, So.
HALF BACK
Floyd Faulkner
5-9, 180, Jr.
Ross Rankin
5-11, 185, Sr.
Chris Conway
5-9, 180, Fr.
Mike Miczo
5-11, 185, Fr.
RIGHT GUARD
Dave Nye
5-11, 205, Sr.
Tony Nichols
6-3, 242, Jr.
Jeff Kujawinski
6-1, 250, Fr.
RIGHT TACKLE
Mark Courtney
6-3, 221, So.
Ron Hainsey
6-4, 260, So.
Brad Powell
6-2, 260, Fr.
WIDE RECEIVER
Dave Gierlak
5-9, 156, Sr.
Daryl Cameron
5-10, 164, Sr.
John Toomer
5-9, 145, So.
FULLBACK
Jim Pisano
6-0, 206, Sr.
John Georgiana
5-10, 195, Sr.
.y
/
PUNTER
Doug Eberle
6-4, 185, Jr.
Michael Raynard
6-2, 200, Fr.
KICKER
Jim Trueman
5-7, 180, Sr.
Stephen Bragg
5-9, 135, Fr.
DEFENSE
LEFT END
Robert Lewis
6-1, 238, Jr.
Jim Mitchell
6-1, 210, So.
LEFT TACKLE
Harlan Ware
5-11, 198, Sr.
Larry Depretta
6-1, 235, Jr.
LEFT LINEBACKER
Paul Baker
6-1, 205, Jr.
John Cardone
6-0, 195, Sr.
LEFT CORNERBACK
Claude Webb
5-10, 158, So.
Mike Green
5-8, 174, So.
Lamont Fields
5-7, 160, Fr.
RIGHT TACKLE
Abdul Hakim
5-10, 206, Sr.
Bill Clark
6-0, 225, So.
MIDDLE LINEBACKER
Regis Lux
5-11, 195, So.
Thomas Carlton
6-1, 210, Fr.
Ted Johnson
6-1, 210, Fr.
STRONG SAFETY
Martelle Betters
6-0, 173, Sr.
Carlos Wimberly
5-7, 170, So.
Michael Proviano
5-8, 155, So.
RIGHT END
Chuck Murray
6-4, 230, Sr.
Michael Pierce
6-3, 235, Fr.
RIGHT LINEBACKER
Allen Ellir^
5-11, 215, Sr.
Leonard Williamson
6-4, 195, Fr.
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the opportunity for youth from
disadvantaged backgrounds to
receive benefits from a stuctured
sports and enrichment program held
at a local college or university facility.
These activities are provided at no cost to
the participants.
Approximately 55,000 youngsters nationwide par
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two areas: an activity program that includes instruc
tion and competition in a variety of sports, and an
enrichment program that includes instruction in
substance abuse, nutrition, personal health, and
career and educational opportunities.
Economically disadvantaged young people are
introduced to a collegiate environment and receive
instruction from highly trained staff members to
enhance sports skills and self concept. Boys and
girls, ages 10 through 16 years old, are eligible to
participate in the program which took place at 140
colleges and universities in 42 states in 1986. The
NYSP program is effective June 1 through August 31
on five-week, five-days-per-week or six-week, fourdays-per-week schedules.
Each participant receives a free medical ex
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problems that are identified receive ade
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Michael Willis
6-0, 168, So.
Mike Wetherholt
6-0, 171, Sr.
Allan Wade
6-0, 170, Fr.
RIGHT CORNERBACK
Terrell Clifford
5-7, 170, Sr.
Mike Churn
5-8, 154, So.
Kevin Thomas
5-11, 185, Fr.
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1986 individual AND TEAM STATISTICS
THE PENNSYLVANIA CONFERENCE
five game totals
(2-3) (1-1 PC WEST)
rushing
Faulkner, Floyd
Pisano, Jim
Cole, Elbert
Rankin, Ross
Dodds, Scott
Georgiana, John
Priester, Ernest
Betters, Martelle
Wetherholt, M.
Ross, Jim
Pratt, Cleveland
TEAM
totals
G
5
5
4
4
4
5
4
4
5
2
5
5
ATT.
67
40
28
27
31
KICKOFF RETURNS
YG
284
190
180
147
89
26
11
11
3
24
I
12
1
1
1
8
2
220
YL
10
6
17
9
42
0
0
0
0
26
5
966
NET
274
184
163
138
47
26
11
11
3
-2
-4
(-33)
816
150
Y/C
4.1
4.6
5.8
5.1
1.5
2.2
ATT. COMP
109
61
19
8
1
INT
1
1
0
0
2
1
0
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130
70
YDS
617
118
0
0
First Downs Rushing
First Downs Passing
First Downs Penalty
Rushing Attempts
Yards Gained Rushing
Yards Lost Rushing
3.7
Priester, Ernest
Suren, Bob
Pratt, Cleveland
Gierlak, Dave
Cole, Elbert
Faulkner, Floyd
Cameron, Daryl
Toomer, John
Pisano, Jim
Georgiana, John
Ferguson, Brian
Rankin, Ross
Tintsman, John
Dodds, Scott
totals
REC
18
9
7
7
6
5
5
3
2
2
2
2
YDS
239
122
134
69
62
-8
44
27
9
2
9
17
1
1
10
0
70
735
net yards rushing
TD
4
2
0
0
Passes Attempted
Passes Completed
Passes Had Intercepted
YARDS PASSING
Total Plays
735
C/G
3.6
1.8
1.4
3.5
1.5
1.0
1.3
1.0
0.4
0.4
0.5
0.5
0.5
total offense
TD
0
1
1
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
1
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
0.2
14.0
LR
88
23
22
15
p
88
OPF
0
EUP
OPP
4
TOT
14
222
916
153
763
107
64
6
756
329
1519
59.8
8
4
26
233
4.6
430
21.5
853
40.6
99
6.6
game
10
14
19
48
91
18.2
34
56
7
34
131
26.2
Raynard, Mike
totals
YDS
888
888
AVG
37.0
37.0
LP
57
57
PUNT RETURNS
Faulkner, Floyd
TOTALS
Trueman, Jim
54,
G
_5
5
NO
12
12
YDS
83
83
AVG
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6.9
LR
16
16
FIELD GOALS
57, 32, 29
H
H
H
A
A
EUP
27
21
24
10
9
Wayne State
Mansfield
Slippery Rock
lUP
West Chester
FIRST TEAM - OFFENSE
Position
(1)
Tight End
(2)
Tackles
Guards
(2)
Center
(1)
Wide Receivers
(2)
Quarterback
Running Backs
(1)
(3)
Place Kicker
(1)
FIRST TEAM - DEFENSE
(2)
Ends
1986 RESULTS (2-3)
OPP
24
28
14
28
37
ATT.
5,500
5.500
6.500
7,000
2,264
Down Linemen
Linebackers
Secondary
(3)
(4)
(4)
(1)
Punter
♦Received first team honors
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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
1985 ALL-CONFERENCE TEAM
AVG
JNTS
NO .
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24
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.
90
40
36
SCORING
1
1
0
6
AVG
23.8
20.0
17.7
15.0
2.0
20.8
EUP
90
47
34
9
220
966
,'150
' 816
/ 130
70
2
735
350
1551
53.8
17
9
51
423
4.4
478
20.8
888
37.0
83
6.9
total first downs
RECEIVING
G
5
5
5
2
4
5
4
3
5
5
4
4
2
5
YDS
333
60
53
30
2
478
1986 TEAM STATS
TOTALS
11.0
11.0
3.0
PASSING
G
Dodds, Scott
4
Ross, Jim
2
Cameron, Daryl
4
Raynard, Mike ___5
totals
5
NO
14
3
3
2
__ [
23
Pratt, Cleveland
Faulkner, Floyd
Webb, Claude
Georgiana, John
Clifford, Terrell
HISTORY OF PSAC FOOTBALL
Player
Gary Bero
Tim Grove
JIM BRITT
♦Chuck Duffy
Bob Holtz
Jerry Dickson
Mark Plevelich (tie)
Terry McFetridge
Wade Acker
♦Rich Ingold
♦Frank Van Buren
DAVE SPAN
Dave Seidel
Chuck Sanders (tie)
John Desmond
JIM TRUEMAN (tie)
Dave Hurdle
John Reese
John Hughes
CHUCK MURRAY
Ed Robinson
Ken Edwards (tie)
Rick Ley
Bill Peterson
Terry Wallace
Pat Fahie
Jerry Haslett
MARK PERKINS
Lorenzo Burrus
Ed Nork
♦Jeff Williams
by unanimous choice.
University
California
Slippery Rock
EDINBORO
Clarion
California
Clarion
Indiana
Clarion
Slippery Rock
Indiana
Shippensburg
EDINBORO
Indiana
Slippery Rock
Clarion
EDINBORO
Shippensburg
Shippensburg
Clarion
EDINBORO
Slippery Rock
Clarion
California
Lock Haven
Slippery Rock
Shippensburg
Clarion
EDINBORO
Clarion
Shippensburg
Slippery Rock
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5-8
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260
255
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255
180
185
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180
180
208
230
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5-11
220
6-2
6-1
225
205
255
245
250
225
225
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Sr.
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6-3
6-2
6-4
6-0
6-1
6-1
6-1
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6-0
6-0
5-11
5-10
6-0
6-2
6-4
6-1
6-3
6-1
6-1
6-0
6-2
6-0
5-8
5-10
6-3
6-0
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198
210
180
177
205
215
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Wheeling, WV
Girard, OH
Pittsburgh, PA
Pittsburgh, PA
Apollo, PA
Greensburg, PA
Monroeville, PA
Somerset, PA
Pittsburgh, PA
Silver Springs, MD
Orlando, FL
Johnstown, PA
Penn Hills, PA
Dublin, Ireland
Bellevue, PA
Lancaster, PA
Boiling Springs, PA
North Canton, OH
Tyrone, PA
Toronto, OH
Freeport, PA
Mars, PA
Irvona, PA
Philadelphia, PA
Pipersville, PA
Pittsburgh, PA
Havre DeGrace, MD
Cornwall, PA
Harrisburg, PA
Ellwood City, PA
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This fan, Graham has two teammates beside him to combat
pponents. Scott Bagley ran an Olympic Trials qualifying marathon
of 2 hours, 19 minutes early in September, and his legs areTurnow
recovering. All-American Mike Piatt, like Graham, hfs just resumed
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^vel of competition. Also presently in the starting lineunTT?m
unthorne, a national runnerup in the 3,000 meter steeplechase who
looks to improve on his cross country running.
reserve'’rostelT"*‘?
^an be shown by evaluating the
reserve roster. Super freshman Chris Rauber is currently beatine two
seniors who each have three years of national meet experie^c Iteve
rtc ly“or!S:‘t'
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nercely lor the top seven in the weeks to come.
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Mike Renninger (injured). Bill Brown or Brian Mhrtin are capable o^
^eating any competitor but their own teammates in the Z^e:
hat has slowed his training considerably, is considered tL best
American born competitor in Division II.
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