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VOLUME XIV NUMBER 2 Mark Swanson 6 University of Utah 10 Rice Stadium 14 Ute Administration 17 Head Coach Ron McBride 18 Behind The Scenes 20 Assistant Coaches 22 Ute Roster 24 The Utes 29 1993 Football Schedule 32 Academics and U 34 Keeping Up With the Best of 'Em.38 John Mooney Looks Back 37 Two-Deep Lineups Centerspread U of U Biologist Restoring Rain Forest 46 Thanks A Bunch 49 Official Football Signals 50 Ute Academic Leaders 52 Crimson Club Membership 53 Crimson Club Board of Directors 64 Crimson Club Car Coaches 66 Special Thanks 70 Thank You 72 Ute Concessions 74 Utah Man 75 The Vandals 77 Game Notes 80 £2 KUTVm TOGETHER Proud Television Sponsor of University of Utah Football ARK SWANSON.WHEELS ON FIELDS By Liz Abel, Sports Information Director Mark Swanson hicv Si ill scholarship before slii ing gears. Now he spends his days backpedaling. Swanson, who roams the Ute defensive backfield in reverse looking to waylay opponent passes, primed for his collegiate career by bicycling 30 miles a day in the hills of his hometown Fremont, Calif. J * ^ 1 PAGE 6 UNIVERSITY OF UTAH "I knew I would be playing either corner or free safety in college, so I wanted to get my legs in shape," says Swanson of his daily high school bicycle regimen. Although admitting he originally took up two-wheeling after his driver's license was suspended for excessive speeding tickets, Swanson quickly notes, "But I never really stopped biking after that. I'd still come home from practice and ride my bike." Swanson left his bike at home when he came to Utah, but he kept his pedals. Lucky thing for Utah. "Mark's got the speed, body control and strength you need to play in the secondary," says Ute defensive backs coach Jugi Hogue. "When he pays attention to technique and to his transition from back pedal to go (forward), or back pedal to back (reverse), or back pedal to lateral, Mark plays the corner very, very well, because he has the physical tools- excellent speed, in particular." Goodness knows the tour Swanson has made around the backfield during his career requires a good set of wheels. "Four years ago, Mark was playing right corner and I didn't feel like he had a very good year," relates Hogue. "The next year, I moved him to left corner and he had a great year. Last year, we moved him to free safety, which he played really well." And this year? It's back to left corner for Swanson. Fine by him. "It was a great move for me," insists Swanson, even though it is unlikely that he'll pick off four interceptions as he did last year from his free safety berth. "At corner, you are one-on-one with the receiver. What a way to challenge yourself. At free safety, you're pretty much on air. You don't have anyone to cover. You just follow the ball and try to be there if somebody else blows coverage. It's a good position for getting interceptions, but I prefer corner," concludes Swanson, a three-year starter and two-time honorable mention all-Western Athletic Conference pick. Getting sent to the corner by his coaches took away some of the anonymity Swanson found at free safety. "If you mess up at corner, you get beat and everyone knows it," sheepishly smiles Swanson. "Playing good technique is the key. Most of the time, if I don't get lazy and I play proper technique, I'm not going to get beat. But, for instance against Utah State, I let down my guard and it led to a 20-yard pass play. I about killed myself. I'll never forget that-even though our coaches tell us to forget the play as soon as it's over," he adds, as an afterthought. A good memory often does not belong in the defensive backfield, seconds Hogue. "We try to stress to our corners that they are going to get beat and they need to be able to accept defeat on a specific play, forget it, and come back on the next play. Everybody gets beat on coverage; corner is a tough position to play and if you make a mistake, it's for everyone to see. At linebacker or defensive end, only people knowledgeable of the situation and who «'lW hen the new (Ron McBride) coaching staff came in, they treated us more like professionals and less like robots. " happen to be cluing in right then know if they mess up. A corner must be thick skinned and able to not play the last play-good or bad. It's the next one they must play," says Hogue. Swanson has nearly forgotten the slew of plays that weren't made when he first rode into town during the dark days of defense at the U. As a redshirt freshman in 1989, he watched his teammates give up more yardage than any other NCAA Division I team in the nation. "We were probably one of the better conditioned teams in the country, but that was part of the problem," suggests Swanson. "We ran so much, that by game time the players were exhausted, both mentally and physically. When the new (Ron McBride) coaching staff came in, they treated us more like professionals and less like robots. They expect us to be responsible for maintaining our own conditioning. We only run in practice now-not afterwards- and our running comes during drills; things we're going to do in a game. You're not going to run 40-yard sprints up and down the field during the game, so we don't waste practice time doing it," he explains. Despite the defensive shortcomings of the late '80s, Swanson wasted little time in picking Utah as his choice for college. "I took a trip to Washington and Arizona first, but they had their schemes in place for the next few years and I wanted to go somewhere that I could redshirt as a freshman and then step in and play. San Diego State wanted me to visit, but they (the Aztecs) saw me as a receiver and I wanted to play defensive back," says Swanson. "I was going to visit Utah State and Northern Arizona, but canceled those trips after coming to Salt Lake. I had a great time on my visit here, even though I was scared to death at first since I flew in on Friday the 13th." Swanson may fear flying on Friday the 13th, but he's certainly not afraid of taking other "risks" "I like to challenge myself all the time. If it's easy or predictable, I don't like doing it," says Swanson, adding, "I like defense because it's an incredible challenge-you always start the play a step behind the offense." Given his penchant for batting down passes or plucking them from the hands of waiting receivers, Swanson obviously shifts into high gear quickly. And, barring any tendencies to occasionally coast on his technique, Swanson can throw a spoke into any passing plan. 1993 FOOTBALL SEASON PAGE 7 NIVERSITY OF UTAH The University of Utah, hub for higher education from the Rockies to the Sierras, boasts an academic reputation that is rivaled only by its bteathtakingly gorgeous location. To the east, the towering Wasatch Mountains are snowcapped billboards for a series of popular ski resorts. To the west shimmers the Great Salt Lake. The campus, itself, is a beautiful 1,500-acre collage of native and exotic trees, fountains, flowering malls and pedestrian walkways, nestled between the Wasatch Range and bustling downtown Salt Lake City. Utah students enjoy unparalleled outdoor diversions, from skiing at any of eight world-class resorts in nearby canyons, to backpacking, bicycling and river running in the spectacular red-rock canyons of southern Utah. More than two-thirds of the state is public land- including 14 national parks. Utah's acclaimed 'powder' snow, touted as the "Greatest Snow On Earth," blankets the local ski resorts with an average of 450 inches a season and it, along with the proximity of Salt Lake International Airport, helped Salt Lake City win the United States bid as host city for the 2002 Winter Olympics. Campus life is also stimulated by its Salt Lake City address. Salt Lake, with a metropolitan population in excess of one million, is the biggest city in the Intermountain West and home to professional symphony, ballet, modern dance, opera and theater companies, as well as the National Basketball Association Utah Jazz. Utah's "economic engine," the University of Utah generates nearly $500 million annually in non-tax revenue and is the state's third largest employer. It has the only medical, social work, architecture and pharmacy schools in a multi-state area. It offers the nation's only graduate degree in fuels engineering and is one of just three schools nationwide with a facility used exclusively for dance instruction and performance. Ninety-eight percent of Utah's faculty members hold the highest terminal degree in their respective fields. The University, which offers 67 undergraduate degree programs and 92 graduate programs, draws its 26,000-plus student population from all 50 states and 90 foreign countries. Founded in 1850, the V. has established itself as a top-notch research institution-one which ranks in the top 25 among American colleges and universities in funded research. From a field of 3,400 U.S. schools, the Carnegie Foundation classified the U. as one of 50 comprehensive research universities. The first total artificial heart was developed and implanted in a human at the University Medical Center. The University's Human Toxicology Laboratory is known worldwide, and its graduate programs in the various sciences have also been cited. The ballet, modern dance, liberal education and honors programs have achieved national recognition. The U. provides a lot of fun, too. Nearly one million people enjoy the University of Utah's athletic, entertainment and cultural offerings each sear. The state's Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Natural History and the arboretum, all located on the U. campus, provide a wide range of programs. And Utah has earned a reputation as a site of championships in the athletic arena-serving as host to a number of national tournaments, including the 1979 NCAA Basketball Final Four, six National Women's Gymnastics Championships, and a pair National Women's Tennis an<! NCAA Ski Championships. 9 PAGE 10 UNIVERSli «VH ICE STADIUM The University of Utah football team plays all its home games in Rice Stadium, one of the most attractive and complete football facilities in the country. Rice Stadium seats 32,500 and there is not a bad seat in the house. A major remodeling took place in 1982, when the field was lowered nine-and-a-half feet, with new seats added along the sidelines and in the south end zone. The remodeling made each seat even more intimate with the action on the field. Another result of the stadium upgrading was the construction of the Spence Clark Football Center at the south end of the field. The building, made possible by a SI million gift from local businessman Spence Clark, houses locker rooms for both teams and game officials, a stadium club room and a band room. Also installed was the Astroturf on the stadium floor. Several new, convenient concession stands were installed, as well. One of the most recent additions to Rice Stadium is a four-color matrix scoreboard. Nearly any kind of \isual effect can be produced by the 4,600 individually controlled lights in the matrix-adding yet another dimension of fun to Ute football. An earlier remodeling of Rice Stadium occurred in 1972, when the first artificial surface was installed, along with the scholarship box (located on the east side of the stadium). A new lighting system and new ticket and concession areas were also introduced at that time. The first rudiments of what is now Rice Stadium were completed in 1927. The Utes inaugurated the stadium with a 44-6 win over Colorado Mines in 1927. Constant improvements and remodeling projects since that time have resulted in the current beautiful and practical facility. The stadium is a timber and concrete construction, with dirt fill. The press box, located on the west side of the facility, was completed in 1966 in \et another timely renovation. In 1989. the press box was upgraded and the newly revamped press area was named the John Mooney Press Area, in honor of longtime Ute football writer-former Salt Lake Tribune sports editor John Mooney. Utah's 19S2 game against Brigham Young drew the most spectators ever to see a game in Rice Stadium, when a standing room only crowd of 36,250 came to see the annual instate battle. 9 Rice Stadium - 1. Brigham Young 2. Brigham Young 3. San Diego State 4. Brigham Young 5. Brigham Young 6. Brigham Young 7. Brigham Young 8. Air Force 9. Wyoming 10. Hawaii 11. Utah State 12. Oregon State 13. Idaho State 14. Utah State 15. Wyoming Top 15 Crowds 1982 1984 1986 1988 1986 1990 1992 1986 1985 1988 1961 1992 1987 1979 I'M) 36,250 36,110 35.982 34,216 34,128 33,515 33,348 33.281 33,248 32,892 32,438 32,298 iUSi 31,108 31,051 PAGE 14 UNIVERSI \H DR. ARTHUR K. SMITH President Dk;r. Arthur K. 'Smith's presidency at the University of Utah entered its third year in time for the 1993 football season. Named Utah's 12th president on June 26, 1991, Smith settled into his new post in late August. With a background as broad and diverse as the multidimensional University of Utah, Smith was an ideal choice for the school's top seat. To accept the U. offer, Smith relinquished his title as provost and executive vice president at the University of South Carolina. The 56-year-old Smith had also served during 1990-91 as interim president and chief executive officer of the University of South Carolina system. As interim president, Smith held full responsibility and executive authority for all USC affairs, including matters involving intercollegiate athletics, public relations, and university development. In his position as provost and executive vice president, he was responsible for the overall direction of academic affairs on the Columbia campus and for the coordination of academic matters for the entire nine-campus USC system. He went to South Carolina from the State University of New York (SUNY) in Binghamton, where he had served as vice president for administration, the campus chief business and financial officer. During his 18 years at the upstate New Y'ork campus from 1970 through 1988, he also served as provost for graduate studies and research and as professor and chairman of the Department of Political Science. Smith's academic career began at the U.S. Naval Academy, where he earned his bachelor's degree in engineering in 1959. He earned varsity letters during three years as Navy's top sprinter on the indoor and outdoor track teams. After six years on active duty as a naval officer and aviator from 1959-65, Smith went on to receive a master's degree in international relations and Latin American studies from the University of New Hampshire in 1966. A Ph.D. in comparative and international politics and Latin American studies from Cornell University followed in 1970. His background also includes a visiting professor appointment at the Centro de Estudios Internacionales, El Colegia de Mexico, in Mexico City from 1968-69. Cited in Who's Who in America since 1980, Smith has authored numerous books, articles and monographs. He has been elected to membership in several professional honor societies, including Phi Beta Kappa, Pi Sigma Alpha, Beta Gamma Sigma, and Omicron Delta Kappa. He is also active in Utah's community affairs, serving on the boards of First Security Corporation, the Utah Symphony, and the Salt Lake City Bid Committee for the Olympic Winter Games. A native of Derry, N.H., Smith and his wife June are the parents of three children and have seven grandchildren.^ DR. CHRIS HILL Director of Athletics Dt Chris P Hill has established himself as a highly-respected administrator in his five years as director of athletics at Utah. Hill is chair of the NCAA Division IA Committee on Certification and one of 12 members on the NCAA's National Certification Committee. He is also a member of the College Football Association (CFA) Athletic Directors Committee and is on the Executive Committee of Division I-A Athletic Directors. Under his direction, Ute athletics have become a national force. The women's gymnastics team won the 1990 and 1992 NCAA Championships and the men's basketball team reached the 1991 NCAA 'Sweet Sixteen,' the 1993 NCAA Second Round and the 1992 N.I.T. semi-finals. Hill was also instrumental in the completion of the George S. Eccles Tennis Facility and the Dee Glen Smith Athletics Facility-two of the finest of their kind in the entire nation. And Hill's insistence on academic performance has improved Utah's athlete-graduation rate dramatically. The former director of development at the U. instigated tremendous growth in his two years as an athletic department fundraiser. Hill's appointment as development director in 1985 marked a return to the University of Utah for the New Jersey native. He first came on board as a graduate assistant basketball coach for Bill Foster (1973-74), and later served as assistant Ute basketball coach under Jerry Pimm (1979-81). Between his two stints with the Utah athletic department, Hill was executive director of United Cerebral Palsy of Utah (1981-85). Under his leadership, the service agency attracted $750,000 in federal, state and private funding to develop a critically needed housing project for people with severe handicaps. In 1984, Hill received an Outstanding Service Award from the Utah Recreation Therapy Association. He was awarded a Milton Bennion Fellowship in 1981. Hill remains active on issues affecting people with handicaps. As an undergraduate, Hill lettered three years and was co-captain of the 1971- 72 Rutgers basketball team. In 1972, he graduated from Rutgers with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. A master's of education degree (1974) and a Ph.D. in educational administration (1982)-both from Utah-followed. He taught in the University's special education department ftom 1983-85. Hill coached boys' basketball at Granger High (Utah) from 1975-79, winning class 4A coach-of-the-year honors his first year. Hill is married to the former Kathy Cronin, who is a clinical instructor in the U. special education department. They have two children: Alyson (15) and Christopher (11) 9 1993 FOOTBALL SEASON / PAGE 17 ON McBRIDE, HEAD COACH I: n December Lof 1989, Ron McBride traded a relatively obscure existence as a longtime assistant football coach for life in the fishbowl of head college coaching. In November of 1992, he turned the fishbowl into the Copper Bowl. McBride, who fashioned back-to-back winning (pre-bowl) seasons in 1991 and 1992-the first Ute coach to do so since Bill Meek in 1972-73-promised a bowl bid when he signed up for his first head coaching post. Three seasons later, he delivered. After taking his first team to a 4-7 record in 1990, he produced 7-5 and 6-5 regular season records in 1991 and 1992, respectively. At the Weiser Lock Copper Bowl, Utah's first bowl appearance since 1964, McBride's underdog Utes threw a scare into favored Washington State before falling, 31-28. The narrow bowl defeat lowered Utah's final record to 6-6. Along the way to Utah's first bowl game in 28 years, McBride exchanged Utah's reputation as a defensive pushover for that of one of the league's crack units. He swapped the downward slide that threatened to land the Utes at the bottom of the Western Athletic Conference for an upward surge that placed them in the title chase for much of last season. He ditched an unbalanced offensive scheme in favor of a run-pass mix. He ended 10 years of sub-.500 Ute road woes by assembling three straight 3-3 road records. Back at home, McBride made Utah's Rice Stadium a regular stop for bowl scouts. The scouts saw a speedy, hard-hitting defense and a poised, veteran offense. McBride, who inherited the nation's worst defense (ranked 106th in 1989), watched his Utes move to the top of the WAC's total defense charts in 1991 and secure a third-place standing last fall. His 1992 Utes also led the league in passing defense. Offensively, the 1992 Utes ranked second in the WAC in passing offense and fourth in total offense (19th nationally). Superlatives aside, McBride is simply living up to the promise he made upon accepting the offer to become Utah's 15th head football coach. He pledged a future fraught with physical play, winning records, bowl invitations and WAC championships. He got a leg up on the list quickly- fulfilling the first three in as many years. Here's a closer look at McBride. McBride Highlights at the U.: 1992- Invitation to Weiser Lock Copper Bowl was first Ute bowl appearance since 1964 . nearly upset heavily favored Washington State in Copper Bowl (lost 31-28) . Utes went 6-5 during regular season to complete second straight winning season (first by same coach since 1972-73 at U.) . counting Copper Bowl, final record was 6-6 . WAC's passing defense and third down defense leader . first win ever at Air Force (20-13) . Luther Elliss named first-team all-WAC. 1991-Utes ranked first in WAC in total defense, second in passing defense and third in both scoring defense and turnover margin . improved defense 41 places nationally (from 106th, last in nation prior to McBride, to 65th in 1991). 7-5 record in 1991 was best Ute mark in 6 years . 4 first-team all-WAC picks: Anthony Davis, Bryan Rowley, Jimmy Bellamy, Lavon Edwards . 8 Academic all-WAC picks in 1991. 1990-Upset Minnesota on road (35-29) in second game of head coaching career . 2-1 ledger against Pac-10; missed 3-0 mark by 1 touchdown (lost at Arizona State, 21-15) . Utah's first win over Wyoming in Laramie since 1972 (57-42) . Anthony Davis was named first-team all-WAC. McBride Philosophy: Known as a players' coach, McBride coined the acronym MAFU while at Arizona to explain his philosophy. MAFU stands for mental toughness, aggressiveness, fanatical effort and unity. Assistant Coaching Highlights: At Arizona (assistant head coach, offensive-line coach, 1987-89): Second in the Pac-10 . Copper Bowl . Glenn Parker and Joe Tofflemire both gained second-team All- America honors . Parker, an offensive tackle, was also first-team all-Pac-10, while four-time all-conference pick Tofflemire won the Morris Award (awarded to the top lineman in the Pac-10) and was a second-round draft pick of the Seattle Seahawks. Wildcats led Pac-10 in rushing all three years. At Utah (offensive line coach, 1985- 86; offensive coordinator, 1977-82): Seven all-WAC offensive linemen in eight total years as U. assistant. Three players (Dean Miraldi, Wayne Jones and Dave Cullity) advanced to the NFL . During McBride's stint as offensive coordinator, Utah went 35-30-1. At Wisconsin (offensive line coach, 1983-84): Badgers were 14-8-1 . 1984 Hall of Fame Bowl . Coached Paul Gruber (first lineman taken in the 1985 NFL draft) and Jeff Dellanbach (Most Valuable Lineman in the Big Ten and a second-team All-American). A Winning Mark: In 27 years of college football, which also included stints at Cal State-Long Beach, Cal-Riverside, Gavilan Junior College and San Jose State, the 52- year-old South Gate, Calif, native has been involved in 23 winning seasons. Thirty of his proteges have advanced to the professional ranks. McBride's Playing Career: An all-city football and baseball standout at Los Angeles' South Gate High from 1954-57, McBride went on to become team captain at San Jose State, where he played football from 1959-62. Following his days as a Spartan linebacker, McBride played professional football with San Jose of the USA League, where he was a linebacker and defensive coordinator. McBride's Coaching Synopsis: 1990- present, head coach, Utah; 1987-89, assistant head coach/offensive line, Arizona; 1985-86, offensive line, Utah; 1983-84. offensive line, Wisconsin; 1977-82, offensive coordinator, Utah; 1974-76, offensive coordinator, Cal State-Long Beach; 1972-73. offensive coordinator, Cal-Riverside; 1969- 71, offensive coordinator/defensive line (one year), Gavilan Junior College; 1966-68, defensive coordinator, Piedmont Hills High School (San Jose); 1965, freshman coach/defensive coordinator/linebackers, San Jose State. Personal: A 1964 San Jose State graduate, McBride earned a bachelor's degree in secondary education. He was born on Oct. 14, 1939. McBride and his wife Vicky are parents of four children-Dannv (34), Mike (32), Jill (29) and Kelly 126) # ' PAGE 18 UNIVERSI; TAH fSPie Z/odfct/ieii. cfizza 20f/' Cf/wiu>ei)au/ 20 TOPPINGS, 18 INCHES, 5 POUNDS! 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ROBBINS Men's Tennis 1993 FOOTBALL SEASON PAGE 21 TE ASSISTANT COACHES RICK RASNICK Offensive Coordinator FRED WHITTINGHAM Defensive Coordinator KEN DELGADO Defensive Line k_» DAN HENSON Quartetbacks/Passing Game SEANMcNABB Running Backs/Special Teams FRED GRAVES Wide Recievers TIM DAVIS Offensive Line WAYNE "JUGI" HOGUE Secondary BILL SMITH Linebackers RANDY GOMEZ Graduate Assistant TED STANLEY Gtaduate Assistant JEFF SIMPSON Football Video Coordinator PAGE 22 UNIVERSIT mT\ You'll Meet All Kinds Of People h Our Classrooms. At the University of Utah's Division of Continuing Education you'll discover a variety of people and subjects to study. We offer everything from chemistry to music, woman's studies to computer science, classes for youth and degree programs, and over twelve hundred classes from which to choose. 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CONTINUING EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF UTAH No. l 7 3 4 4D 5 5D 6 S 9 10 11 12 12E 13 14 15 15E 16 17 18 18E 19 20 21 11 23 25 26 27 29 30 31 M 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 42 III Name TE ROSTER Kevin Dyson Greg Hooks Ernest Boyd Hank Dorner Kareem Leary Mark Swanson Ryan Jensen Deron Claiborne Harold Lusk Henry Lusk Mike McCoy Chris Yergensen Marcus Woods ) Ryan Hawkins Ryan Shea Xavier Tisdol Cedric Crawford ) Brandon Jones Adolph County Jason Jones Curtis Marsh Dave Tovey Bryan Rowley Keith Williams Jimmie Pryor Derek Whiddon Charlie Brown David Kozlowski Jeff Kirkman Sam Rhodes Edwin Garrette Pierre Jones Rob Hamilton Jamal Anderson Sharrieff Shah Brad Foster Nick Petronis Bronzell Miller Ed Miller Devo Fineanganofo Jason Stanley Ken Buss PAGE 24 Pos. 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Cedarburg, Wis. UNIVERSITY OF UTAH TE ROSTER No. 44 45 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 59 60 62 65 66 69 70 73 74 75 76 77 79 80 82 83 84 85 86 86D 87 88 89 90 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 Name Sione Mahe Chad Kauhaahaa Derrick Stapley Jason Hooks Anthony Hall Dave Boghossian Roy Ma'afala Chris Newman Michael Andrei Mark Rexford Lance Scott Nate Kia Jacinto Peterson Jason Emerick Gary Potts Chris Rae Cecil Thomas Mark Barton Tim Todd Anthony Brown Chad Ventriglia Kaniela Neves Al Dolan Ed Castillo Brian Alba Kurt Haws Luther Elliss Terence Keehan Rick Verbalaitis David Calnon Ryan Murry Pele Tautu Greg Hoffman Jeffjex Pouha Finau Blaine Berger Adam Swaney Toele Fa'amoe Houdini Nua Louie DeCastro Mike Wilson Yince Lobendahn Pos. 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Kihei, Maui, Hawaii Layton, Utah Claremont, Calif. Lake View Terrace, Calif. Los Angeles, Calif. Honolulu, Hawaii Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada Kaneohe, Hawaii Ontario, Calif. College Salt Lake City Honolulu, Hawaii Arcadia, Fla. Ramona, Calif. Banks, Ore. Garden Grove, Calif. Hammond, La. Riverside, Calif. Blythe, Calif. Wurzburg, Germany Claremont, Calif. Hayward, Calif. Bronx, N.Y. Union City, Calif. Salt Lake City Mesa, Ariz. Mancos, Colo. Salt Lake City Phoenix, Ariz. San Gabriel, Calif. Salt Lake City Laie, Hawaii Pocatello, Idaho Laketown, Utah Inglewood, Calif. Idaho Falls, Idaho Granite Bay, Calif. Kahuku, Hawaii Auckland, New Zealand Honolulu, Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii Carson, Calif. PAGE 26 UNIVERSITY OF UTAH? HE UTES 1 Kevin Dyson 2 Greg Hooks 3 Ernest Boyd 4 Hank Dorner 4D Kareem Leary 5 Mark Swanson 5D Ryan Jensen 6 Deron Claiborne 8 Harold Lusk 9 Henry Lusk 10 Mike McCoy 11 Chris Yergensen 12 Marcus Woods 12D Ryan Hawkins 13 Ryan Shea 14 Xavier Tisdol 15 Cedric Crawford 15D Brandon Jones 16 Adolph County 17 Jason Jones 18 Curtis Marsh 18D Dave Tovey 19 Bryan Rowley 20 Keith Williams 21 Jimmie Pryor 22 Derek Whiddon 23 Charlie Brown 25 David Kozlowski 26 Jeff Kirkman 27 Sam Rhodes 29 Edwin Garrette 30 Pierre Jones 31 Rob Hamilton 32 Jamal Anderson 33 Sharrieff Shah 34 Brad Foster " • • ' • T ' - • ' • ' • : ' • • • , . . • • • . • • :.•••. • FOOTBALL SEASON , 1 PAGE 29 HE UTES 35 Nick Petronis 36 Bronzell Miller 37 Ed Miller 38 Devo Fineanganofo 39 Jason Stanley 42 Ken Buss 44 Sione Mahe 45 Chad Kauhaahaa 48 Derrick Stapley 49 Jason Hooks 50 Anthony Hall 51 Dave Boghossian 52 Roy Ma'afala 53 Chris Newman 54 Michael Andrei 55 Mark Rexford 56 Lance Scott 59 Nate Kia 60 Jacinto Peterson 62 Jason Emerick 65 Gary Potts 66 Chris Rae 69 Cecil Thomas 70 Mark Barton 73 Tim Todd 74 Anthony Brown 75 Chad Ventriglia 76 Kaniela Neves 77 Al Dolan 79 Ed Castillo 80 Brian Alba 82 Kurt Haws 83 Luther Elliss 84 Terence Keehan 85 Rick Verbalaitis 86 David Calnon PAGE 30 UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HE UTES 86DRyanMurry 87 Pele Tautu 88 Greg Hoffman 89JeffJex 90 Pouha Finau 93 Blaine Berger 94AdamSwaney 95 Toele Fa'amoe 96 Houdini Nua 97 Louie DeCastro 98 Mike Wilson 99 Vince Lobendahn 11 DATE 9-4 9-11 9-18 9-25 10-2 10-9 10-16 10-23 10-30 11-6 11-13 11-20 TAH FOOTBALL SCHEDULE 1993 OPPONENT Arizona State UTAH STATE Kansas * Wyoming IDAHO * NEW MEXICO * Texas-El Paso * COLORADO STATE * SAN DIEGO STATE * Hawaii * AIR FORCE * Brigham Young SITE Tempe, Ariz. 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With three full-time athletic academic advisors (Charlene Doi, Rob Rainey and Bobbi Williams), the U. offers specialized academic counseling for its student-athletes. Such features as the athlete study table program, the tutorial program, the career planning program and the fifth-year program have proved invaluable to the student-athlete's learning experience. Charlene Doi, a 17-year veteran of academic advising, works with the women and men athletes, as will first-year Ute advisor Williams. Rainey is in his third year as the football team's academic specialist. The three monitor the academics of each student-athlete to ensure he or she is making progress toward a degree. They also dispense their knowledge of departmental and University requirements, and assist with course registration and the exploration and selection of majors. Under their direction, freshmen are required to attend study tables their first quarter at the U. All athletes, regardless of year or GPA, are welcomed at the study tables. The athletic department goes a step further, with its tutorial program. Individual tutors for any class are available free of charge to the athletes. Programs are in place to help student-athletes choose a major. The testing center offers information on possible career choices and aptitude tests. To assist student-athletes in career planning, the athletic academic advisors work closely with the U. Placement and Career Information Center, academic departments and community resources for possible job and internship placements related to the student's major. University of Utah students arc-certainly ideal candidates for internships. The U. is an international center for medical and engineering research, and its genetics research ranks among the world's best. While the University stresses Sharrieff Shah, with a bachelor's degree in political science, is one of four current Ute football players pursuing graduate degrees. research and has gained a national reputation in many areas, its major mission remains undergraduate education (undergraduates comprise 82-percent of the student population). Ninety-percent of the faculty have doctoral degrees and many are among the leaders in their fields. Utah researchers found themselves in elite company when the National Science Foundation annual report cited the U., Harvard, MIT, Cal Tech and Stanford as schools with the most major scientific projects, The University of Utah is a public institution with a "special overall margin of excellence normally associated with the hest private universities," said the AV-iv York Times education editor. The National Institute of Education has called the Utah Liberal Education Program a "model for other universities.' The Honors Program (the nation's third oldest) has also been a subject of emulation by other schools. The U.'s ballet and modern dance programs rank with the finest of major American universities. The "Gourman Report' rated Utah 51st out of the top 209 universities around the United States. It gave the U. particularly high rankings in the following undergraduate programs: engineering (8th), computer science (14th), molecular biology (15th), geophvsical/geoscienee (17th), speech communication (18th), biology (22nd), chemistry (23rd), nursing (25th), accounting (28th), finance (28th), and business administration (28th). Utah athletes are among the more than 26,000 students who enjoy the U.'s \aried and high caliber curriculum. And, after a student-athlete's four-year athletic career is complete, his or her academic needs continue to be met through the athletic department's fifth-year senior program. 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Calling Out The Army The West Point duo of Blanchard and Davis put up some amazing numbers, but not without controversy. No way, man, we can shake hands after the game.v TOUCHDOWN ILLUSTRATED The Seven Deadlies By Ron Reid Given a choice in the matter, every besieged soul who coaches a college football team would have every game contested in his home stadium, taking to the road only for conventions, golf, fishing and as an extreme recruiting measure. It is not that football coaches are adverse to leaving home cooking and the old home town once in a while, or that they deny the maxim that travel is broadening. Nor does anyone in the profession want his team to be mistaken for a squad of prison inmates, who never have a road game. (At least not one that was scheduled ahead of time.) No, it is simply that the college football landscape has some terrible places to visit, if winning the game is at all important. And the last time anyone looked, winning the game still ranked fairly high on every coach's agenda. Depending on who makes the assessment, home field advantage is worth a field goal, a touchdown or maybe even more. But history has shown that some home fields are advantageous to an incredible degree, and that some college stadiums have teams, fans, traditions, mystique and various other factors that subject a visiting team to a ton of intimidation. With that in mind, here is a somewhat arbitrary and certainly arguable list of the toughest college football stadiums for a visiting team to play in and win-seven places that visitors enter with dread, and Warning: Travel to any of the following seven football stadiums on fall Saturday afternoons is not advised and is to be done only at the team's own risk. Above: Over 100,000 rabid Wolverine rooters make Michigan Stadium one tough place to play. TOUCHDOWN ILLUSTRATED The Seven Deadlies usually leave with nothing more heart-warming than a reverential sense of respect. Michigan Michigan Stadium Capacity: 102,000 Home record the last five seasons: 25-5-1 (.823) With the largest college-owned stadium in the land, Michigan usually accommodates a hyper-capacity, raucous crowd in excess of 106,000 that sends up a tidal wave of noise. In a 35-10 victory over Michigan State last year, Michigan established the all-time single-game attendance record at 106,788-a total larger than all but three cities in the Wolverine state. So immense is the crowd that watching the fans stand up, row after row, is reminiscent of a wheat field moving in the wind. Whatever the number, the Michigan band pumps up the crowd in a hurry, and more than one coach has summed up the experience of going out to play in Ann Arbor's huge, sunken bowl by saying, "You get the feeling you're being fed to the lions." Michigan's physical layout exacerbates those pre-game jitters because the playing field can only be reached from the visitor's locker room via a trek through a long, dark tunnel. "If you've never played here," said Tirrel Burton, a Michigan assistant coach for 22 seasons, "it can be intimidating, because it's always full and you come out of your locker room, go through the tunnel into the sun and suddenly there's a sea of 101,000 fans-and 99 percent of them are wearing maize and blue. "It's an advantage for our kids," Burton added, "because if they are a little nervous, there's nothing like having all those home fans cheering for them. But you have to prepare your players and remind them that none of those people in the stands is It's a tough task, fraught with kind yet dangerous characters, for a visiting team to part Nebraska/s "Red Sea going to come down on the field and help make a tackle." " M i c h i g an may be the most intimidating stadium in the world on a Friday afternoon, when no one is in there," says Beano Cook, the ESPN football prognostica-tor. "The size of the place, when you're down in the middle of the field.You get an idea of what it's going to be like on Saturday. Michigan-there's ghosts in there." Nebraska Memorial Stadium Capacity: 73,650 Home record the last five seasons: 31-2 (.939) Don Bryant, the Nebraska sports information director who has been with the school 30 years, attributes the Cornhuskers' phenomenal home success to the one element no winning program can exist without- talented football players. "We've had a lot of good players over the years, and more than anything, that's the result of a stable program," said Bryant. "We haven't had a losing season since 1962, and we've had only two head coaches over that span, Bob Devaney and Tom Osborne." Feeding off one another, the stability and success have produced an intense fan fervor for games played in Lincoln. It also helps that the Cornhuskers are not only a live happening but also the only show in a state that has no professional sports franchise at the major league level. Few teams represent an entire state as well as the Cornhuskers do, nor do many others induce so many fans to make the same fashion statement- by wearing red. Fly over Memorial Stadium on game day and the place could pass for the world's largest pizza. "There's a lot of enthusiasm out here," stated Bryant. "It's the biggest thing in the state. We've had some big wins here, against Syracuse, Alabama when Bear Bryant was the coach, and the Oklahoma series has been a national treasure." In contrast to other football zealots, Nebraska fans kill their visitors with kindness. Mean-spirited stuff that may be the norm in other places has no status in Lincoln, where no matter the outcome, the visiting team files out to a warm ovation from the fans. "It's not a cruel place to play," said Bryant. "The fans here don't throw snowballs or try to pour beer on you. It's just that with the record we've had, people are sometimes a little intimidated before they get here. That has an impact on a team." Obviously. Notre Dame Notre Dame Stadium Capacity: 59,074 Home record the last five seasons: 25-4-2 (.839) Touchdown Jesus and the Golden Dome. Knute Rockne and the Four Horsemen. Leahy and Lujack. One dozen national championships, seven Heisman Trophy winners, a .759 winning percentage. Leader of the Associated Press all-time top 10. With that tradition, Notre Dame is unlike any other team in the game. One suspects the Fighting Irish start intimidating opposing players on Wednesday, long before they head for the rigors of South Bend, IN. Notre Dame's proud football history more than makes up for a relatively S l*AfmVlf3li ARE YOU? ^TIIIMM/ 1 i BAB K l lS i l l 9k I '<4 IS Wv-1 •, • ••-™ • .' % •• Ipifr -^ ^ 1 l^-^J •T:^ 1 1 "* - Mi 1 ' IP ^ 1 ^ : - ^ PJ W-:"•-•••• . m : " ' "/ am not a mson. .lama ouuaog! "I What were the Rutgers Scarlet J. Knights known as prior to 1956? a. Devils b. Turnpikes i c. Chanticleers d. Pirates Q The University of Colorado football LJ team is led onto the field by this charging mascot: a. Buffalo b. Bull c. Bronco d. Mountain Lion Q This school may be known as the O Tigers, but it has a golden eagle as its mascot based on a "War Eagle" battle cry: a. Princeton b. Missouri c. Grambling State d. Auburn Nicknames i r ^ ^ ^ J ^ ft There would be no JH TT "tomahawk chop" if : 1 the Florida State v * 1 Seminoles had been 1 named this, the runner-up 1 in a student-body vote for P^^H : school nickname when ^*™4 1 the football team was 1 formed: 1 a. Senators M^B j b. Statesmen 1 c. Crocodiles | d. Everglades ^ F JT The University of «_/ Miami almost adopted the name of Mockingbirds instead of Hurricanes. True or false? /? The University of New Mexico's nick- \J name, the Lobos, is Spanish for this animal: a. Timber Wolf b. Wild Dog c. Coyote d. Desert Fox 'yWhat school drives fear into the hearts 1 of opponents with the battle cry: "Give them the tongue.Zot! Zot!"? a. Texas Christian b. California-Irvine c. Arkansas d. Idaho Q Although the U.S. Military Academy's O official nickname is the Black Knights, you may also know the team as the: a. Mules b. Generals c. Cadets d. Fatigues Q What is the name of Oregon State's U mascot? a. The Beav b. Brian Beaver c. Beaver Brown d. Benny Beaver "1 A How did Georgia Tech's nickname, J. \J the Yellow Jackets, come about? a. The campus was infested with the insect b. A star player was once stung by a yellow jacket c. Fans liked to wear yellow coats to games d. The student-body voted for the name 1 1 Of the schools listed below, which _L J. one is not named the Bulldogs? a. Yale b. Fresno State c. Mississippi d. Bucknell 1 Q The only non-military institution J. Ld in the U.S. to have derived its nickname and symbol (Fighting Leathernecks) from a branch of the military service (U.S. Marine Corps) is: a. Western Illinois b. Northern Arizona c. Toledo d. South Carolina State ANSWERS •« "ZI :P 'II -o '01 :P '6 ;3 '8 :(swira;uv aqi) q ~i te 9 fan.ii 'S '•<{ 'fr -V Z '•* Z ^ "I The Sharp Electronics Sports Trivia Quiz FROM SHARP MINDS COME SHARP PRODUCTS1 TOUCHDOWN ILLUSTRATED The Seven Deadiies small stadium, and what tradition doesn't take care of, the Irish usually handle with superior talent-the kind that produced four first-round choices in the last NFL draft. Notre Dame students stand up and cheer throughout the game, but athletic department people say the alumni aren't as fervidly enthusiastic as they once were. Not that it seems to matter all that much. "Notre Dame is not as loud as some other places," said Skip Holtz, the team's offensive coordinator whose father, Lou, is head coach of the Irish. "The Penn State game got awfully loud last year, but it's not a consistent thing here the way it is at some places. I think with Notre Dame, it's the mystique of Notre Dame. It's more a psychological deal." "Notre Dame is just a tough place to play," said Cook. "They have the players. If they had Northwestern's players, it wouldn't be as difficult. Talent is more important than the stadium." For that reason, Notre Dame is a place where the visiting team is expected to lose. That's a tough psychological burden. Georgia Sanford Stadium Capacity: 85,434 Home record the last five seasons: 25-5 (.833) The distinctive feature of Sanford Stadium is one of the great traditions of college football-doing battle "between the hedges." The expression refers to the English privet hedge that grows between the playing field and the stands. Planted when the stadium was built in 1929, the hedges today are about five feet high and three feet wide, so that reaching through or over them is not easily done. Nor is it easy for visiting teams to win between the hedges, for reasons known only to God and voodoo botanists. "When we go on the road," said Claude Felton, the Georgia sports information director, "each player gets a clipping of the hedges, a part of home to take with him. And when some teams beat us here in Athens, they break off a piece of the hedge after the game. So it's a legendary thing, even with other teams." In addition to the mystique of the hedges, Georgia is a tough place to visit because of a hostile full house. Georgia has held sixth place in college football attendance the last 12 seasons, and the partisan crowd in Athens will never be mistaken for the folks who run the Welcome Wagon. Like the throngs in Nebraska, all Georgia fans wear red, and the Bulldogs have one other powerful influence going for them-their English bulldog mascot, Uga. With a face that apparently once stopped a runaway semi, and a tendency to drool whenever the mercury climbs above 55 degrees, Uga is a force to be reckoned with. The current mascot is Uga V, and all four of his ancestors are buried in a Sanford Stadium plot that Georgia Texas A&M players have the famous "12th Man"student body to lead the Aggies on to victory. fans consider hallowed ground. "People lay flowers on the dogs' graves on game days," said Felton. Texas A&M Kyle Field Capacity: 70,210 Home record the last five seasons: 27-2-1 (.917) Texas A&M is another place filled with adverse tradition as far as a visiting team is concerned, and none is more durable or highly vocal than "The 12th Man"-aka the Aggies student body. Standing throughout the entire contest, the 12th Man sends up a daylong barrage of cheering and volatile, high-energy enthusiasm, all the worse for the visiting players because it emanates from right behind their bench. Another tradition says an Aggies fan never gives up. "Our tradition says A&M has never lost a football game," said veteran SID Allen Cannon. "We've only been outscored. And that happened because there wasn't enough yelling and cheering." So if the Aggies, er, lose, the student body stays around afterwards, for post-game cheering practice with A&M's yell leaders. "They try to work at getting better," said Cannon. So diligent is the 12th Man in its support role that Kyle Field is one place where it is virtually impossible to take the crowd out of the game. In that regard, the A&M opponent that takes an early lead has only earned a tougher battle to hold it. In 1986, in a game Aggie fans will long remember with glowing pride, Baylor took a 17-0, first-quarter lead and appeared ready to run the Aggies off Kyle Field and into the Gulf of Mexico. But the crowd refused to be taken out of the game, hollered its collective head off and was rewarded with a 31-30 A&M victory. TOUCHDOWN ILLUSTRATED The Seven Deadlies Washington Husky Stadium Capacity: 72,500 Home record the last five seasons: 26-4 (.867) In what was a black day for all humanity, the infernal "Wave" was born in Husky Stadium several years ago, to bedevil visiting teams who had yet to be bummed out by the weather. Washington home games today invariably are contested while fans sing a few bars of "Tequila," when they are not hassling the opposition with loud cheering and echoing back and forth, a vocal tennis match. "Husky Stadium in Seattle is an intimidating place, regardless of the kind of team they have at Washington," said Dick Vermeil, the ABC television analyst who formerly worked in the Pacific-10 Conference as head coach at UCLA and as an assistant coach at Stanford. "The weather is always a little drizzly, foggy, damp and that stuff. I remember even before I was coaching against them, listening to what other coaches said, all the way back to when I was an assistant, and they all said, T wouldn't want to play there.'" To look at the place, you might wonder why. A distinctive and beautiful facility, Husky Stadium is one of the few sports facilities in America a fan can reach by boat. It offers a view of the Cascade Mountain range in the background and, from another direction, one of Lake Washington. But the place even intimidates the media, with a high-altitude press box that hangs from the stadium like a semi-tethered Hindenburg, scaring the life out of anyone who has a touch of acrophobia. The usually dreary, soggy Northwest weather hasn't been that big a factor the last few seasons at Washington. Seattle has been blessed with warm, dry autumn days into October, but the rain inevitably returns in November to force fumbles and remind folks what a quagmire the field used to be, in its pre-Astroturf past. Huge crowds and its isolation make 'Reaver Stadium, the Nittany Lions den, an unwanted destination for opponents. Penn State Beaver Stadium Capacity: 93,210 Home record the last five seasons: 21-10 (.677) The team hasn't exactly been overpowering of late, and despite the huge number of fans who occupy Beaver Stadium on game days, the place sometimes seems more suited to a tennis match than a football game. But there is probably no tougher road trip in all of college football than the one that ends in State College, PA, a place smack in the middle of nowhere. Happy Valley? By any name, it is the boondocks, so remotely rural you can't get there from here-certainly not without a crick in the neck, aching joints, and a lingering case of road-weariness. From State College, the nearest airport that can accommodate a team charter aircraft is at Harrisburg, PA, 100 hard miles away. So the Nittany Lions opponent that may have endured a four-hour flight just to reach Harrisburg, additionally faces a 100-mile bus ride through the Tuscarora mountains, on a twisting, two-lane highway that is negotiated slowly at best, depending on how many Winnebagos are in the neighborhood. So tedious is the trek to Penn State that the night before he was to bring his Alabama team to State College for the second time, Bear Bryant called Lions coach Joe Paterno with an urgent request. Could Paterno use his influence, Bryant asked in all seriousness, to get the Governor of Pennsylvania to close Route 322 and have the State Police escort the Crimson Tide from Harrisburg to State College? In Alabama, it might have worked. In Pennsylvania, request denied. A few other places deserve mention. Louisiana State Tiger Stadium used to be one of the nation's scariest venues for a visiting team. Fans showed up three hours early, pointing at the enemy while shrieking, "Tiger Meat! Tiger Meat! Tiger Meat!" If that wasn't enough, the LSU Tiger mascot somehow would be chained immediately outside the visitor's locker room, to instill fear with each menacing growl. Baton Rouge today is hardly so intimidating. Florida State's Doak-Campbell Stadium, on the other hand, has become a place to keep off the once-and- future road schedule. "If the game's at night, I would say Fl
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