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Show The DESERET SAMPLER, Fri., Aug. 14, 1970 Sportscape 10 Years of Bowl Games The 1970 football season is just around the comer and if is anything like the one that just ended, college football fans will be taking tranquilizers before they dare to watch. A decade that started with a blood game and also ended with one, had to have plenty of excitement in between. May lie a precedent could lie established for the 70s which were kicked off by the Texas-Nort- e Dame straggle in the Cotton Bowl. THE SIXTIES WERE kicked off by a rematch of two regular-seaso- n opponents in the Sugar Bowl. Louisiana State had been the national champs in 1958 and had Heisman Trophy winner Billy Cannon returning in 1959. They went decision to 3 through the season with just one loss, a Tennessee when the Bayou Bengals failed cm a run for two points on the conversion. During that season they had defeated Ole Miss 3 on a fourth quarter punt return by Cannon. The Rebels screamed for a rematch and they got it in the Sugar Bowl where their lieloved headknockers thrashed LSU 214). shootout With that for openers and the last December for a grand finale, the decade couldnt have lieen had, but look what happened in between. THE FIRST THING anybody thinks of after the Homs-Ilog-s I tattle is the series of Michigan State-Nort- e Dame games. In 1965 Bubba Smith, Clint Jones, George Webster and crew edged the Irish 12-- 7 and then in 1966 the teams, virtually intact from the previous year, struggled to their famous 10-1- 0 tie. Supposedly this tie allowed ND to be the national champion. It always seemed to me that the pollsters had overlooked one fact. The Spartans were the 1965 national (with Alabama), although they did lose the Rose Bowl the Thus it would seem they Gary Begans UCLA team,, should retain that championship unless beaten. At the time of the game, everyone said you had to beat No. 1 to be No. 1 and the Irish did not beat die Spartans, but their publicity alumni and press got them the championship department, anyway. Aside from the MSU-Nrivalry and that blood fued down in the Southwest Conference, the strongest, most important rivalries in the 60s were Alabama-Tennesse- e, UCLA-US- C Miss. Consider these in relation to and LSU-Ol- e the Bowl games of the Sixties. IN THE EARLY years of the Sixties Alabama was always in a bowl game. As a matter of fact they were in either the Sugar Bowl or the Orange Bowl for six years in a and they made the cotton Bowl and the Gator row (1962-67- ) Bowl in the next two years. Meanwhile, Tennessee didnt get to a major howl game until the end of the 1966 season when they lie at Syracuse in the Gator Bowl. The Vols missed the next year, but have been invited to bowls for the last three years. Unfortunately they have lost all three. the new decade 14-1- OUT Ceorge Bruce of the Civilians stretches for throw from shortstop Mike Donnelly as umpire Dennis Kruse gets set to make the call on Doug Moe of the Mels. EASY 7-- Swim Meet 89-ya- rd Texas-Arkans- as mid-deca- 14-1- 2. D games have determined the Pacific--8 chamseveral occasions, including two of the last three pionship on was the 21-2- 0 duel between Gary Beban there First years. and O.J. Simpson and last year there was the duel between the UCLA Inckfield of Dennis Dummitf, Mickey Cureton and Greg Jones and the USC front five known as the Wild Bunch. The Trojans won both tests and went to the Rose Bowl where they have been the last four years in a row; as well as in 1963, when an unknown from Wisconsin named Ron Vander Kelen put on an unbeliveable passing display and the underdog Badgers nearly upset the No. 1 ranked Trojans. Mississippi dominated the series in the early Sixties and went to bowl games for five straight years from 1060-6LSU led the nation in scoring defense in I960, allowing just 50 points in 10 games and went on to be a frequent visitor to the major liowls. The Tigers were tough customers in their six major bowl appearances, losing only that 1960 Sugar Bowl to Ole Miss. IN THE 1966 Cotton Bowl, a lowly regarded LSU team stunned Frank Broyles which had a season record of 7-Arkansas Razorbacks 14-- 7, thus ending the Hogs 170 pound winning streak. The star of that game was a halfback by the name of Joe Labrazzo. The Bengals missed the major bowl scene the next year, record. Init went to the Sugar Bowl in 1968 with a There was some question as to whether they belonged in the UCLA-US- C 4. 3, 22-ga- 59, Dugway Dumps Granger Tonight Clouts HR At Pool Kruse Hurls, The picked League decision Dugway baselall team up their fourth Beehive victory, taking an 4 from Granger on August third with a walk, but Shelhv forced him at second. Erickson reached on an error and took second as Shelby came around to score. Moes clean single brought Erickson home and gave Dugway a 3--1 lead. Both teams went scoreless in their next two turns at liat, v but Kmse gave up a home run in the bottom of the fifth to make the score 8-- 1. Denny Kruse had a hig day for Dugway as he pitched a seven-hitte- r, fanned 10 and collected three hits, including a two-ni- n homer. Doug Moe also out three hits and pounded Dave Erickson had a pair. CRANCER took an early lead as they scored a run in ' the first inning, but Dugway tied the game in the top of die second. Moe led off with a single and stole second. Chuck Edmonds and Jeff Nelson walked to load the liases and then Kruse drew another walk to force in the nin. Granger managed to get out of the inning without further damage however. Eddie Foster led off the bases-enipt- 3-- 2. DUGWAY BROKE the game open in the top of the sixth as they, scored four runs to take a 2 lead. Nelson led off with a single and Kruse followed him with his home run blast. After two were out, Shelby singled to keep the inning alive. Ericksuu then slanuned a double and Moe came up with his third hit of 7-- the game, a double that brought got out of the inning by busting his fastlxall past the next two men for his eighth and ninth strike outs of the game. With two down in the seventh, Kruse doubled and Lou Roselwro singled to produce the final Dugway tally. The lean righthander took tile mound with a four run Imlge as Granger got their last shot and he put them down in order to salt the game away. Tonight at the Post Swimming Pool, the Youth Activities Club of Dugway will hold a swim meet for the children who participated in the summer YAC swimming program. The meet will liegin at 6:(M) p.in. There will lie three events in five classes of competition. Four classes will lie restricted to participants of the program and there will lie a class open to all YAC memliers 12 years old or older. The classes are lieginuing advanced beginners intermediate swimmers, and advanced swimmers. Events will include the liack stroke, free style, breast stroke, underwater swim, side stroke and especially for the beginners there will lie a penny hunt. swimmers, Picked by Coaches The coaches met, the liallots have lieen cast and they have lieen counted. What were they for? The voting was for the selection of the 1970 Intramural Softliall League All Star Team. The team was selected by a vote of all the team couches from players nominated from each team by their respective coach. nounced after the All Star game played on August 27 at - THE MEN OF I111C NO. 1 IIIIC No. 1 team include Members of the hard-lucAI Hannah and Brad WinL Dave Bruce to R) McKain, (front, Henry, Joe Romano, ters. Rear: Harlan Dorcnkamp, Lloyd Kelly, Jeff Maloney, Ed Tonn and Rich Cattivera. Not present when the picture was taken were Phil Wendall, Randy Gibbs and Boh 6:30 p.in. Players selected for the The time has come for the people of Dugway ProvGround to tip their hats to the Met Team! ing Hiese scrappy softliall players are the standouts in intramural play this campaign. They should give the Test Center its second consecutive undefeated softliall team. Headquarters Company did it a year ago, and barring any when the umpire calls flukes, the weathermen will lie 24-that final out this time around. THESE GUYS play the game the way it was meant to be played, and every victory is the result of a team effort. As the season progressed, some lalieled them as cocky'. Not true baby! A liall player has to lielieve in himself and his teammates. The rest of the league could have used some of that pride and determination the guys in the red and white uniforms had. The Met team was the only team who never beat themselves. Oh sure there were times when they could have been had. The Civilians, Hospital, the Headquarters' teams and the MPs all had the horses to make the kill. Headquarters No. 2 had hig leads going into the last inning twice, only to have the Met team stage a dramatic rally to pull out each contest. EVERY TEAM in the league took their raps, hut it was something alxiut digging in and starting out at Roger Pestorious' strong right arm. Then there was Mike Simoneau wizing that ball by your right ear as he threw your teammate out when the steal sign was on. How alxiut Gary Nordin in centerfield? He made those hig plays all year Ixith with bat and glove, hut somehow went unnoticed. Of course, with Nelson, Freiss, Stieglitz and Little usually woeing the crowd as they covered the inner gardens and with guys like Del Lomliard coining off of the bench and hitting clutch home runs, well where do you start? Capt. Ron Stieglitz, Del Lomliard, Pat Ward, Bill Thomas, Doug Moe, John Bourne, Bob Brenner, Larry Schaunaman, Mike Lotti, Denny Malone, Jeff Nelson, Mike Little, Charley Freiss, Gary Nordin and Mike Simoneau should all lie congratulated on their outstanding contrilmtions to the Met teams success. TOMORROW Ill be packing my typewriter and heading out for 3 weeks of TDY so I won't lie around to see if the weathermen preserve their undefeated string. I know' their fans will lie cheering them on though. As a member of Headquarters No. 2 1 hated those Met fans. I still hear that shouting after those tw'o lasjt inning losses. Peering in from centerfield and seeing all those Met banners in the stands made me realize that the weathermen had found a secret ingredient to building a winner. It is a shame that the Met players wont have a chance to lie recognized as All Stars. On August 27 the Met team will play a team of All Stars comprised of players from the other six teams. If Dugway really wanted true All Star team there would lie so many red and wh uniforms out there that people in the stands would probably think the other Stars were out of uniform. THAT MOST VALUABLE Player trophy dccisi is going to lie tough too. Who would you choose? Well its off for that R & R, oops I mean TDY, hut before I go let me say a few parting words alxiut the season because it will lie pigskin time when I return. ' First, congratulations to everyone w'ho played this year. I wasnt attempting to belittle anybody's efforts on the field earlier. It was just that the Met team deserved recognition for their accomplishments. I think most of the old timers would agree that there is more talent around the diamond this campaign than for many summers passed Earl Edwards, Rick Giles, Rene Marsh, Red Kirk. Bob Bardsley. . . the list is endless! EVEN TIIOUCH the Met team rolled up all those victories the league, in general, is more lialanced than it ever has lieen. Thats what erks me I guess! Why didn't teams play their hearts out game after game? Yoi. can't turn pride, determination, and teamwork off and on. The umpires did a creditable job. Eddie Foster, Dcnm Kruse, Tom Donnelly and Mac Macbeth handled things i.ust of the time. These guys deserve recognition too. And where would we be without that unlielievuim grounds crew? Ill bet there isn't a third baseman in the league who doesn't have web feet by now. Finally, when the umpire makes that third out v i.ich .'t pulls the curtain down on another softliall campaign last for to those .u one cheer weathermen forget give fun! that was the twice (TGV) proved winning 0 - Also selected at the meeting of the coaches was the leagues Most Valuable Plaver, to lie an- All- - k Buker. . soft-ba- ll soft-ba- ll Pleasant Is Dugway Champ John Pleasant won the Championship Flight of the 1970 Dug-wa- y Open by three strokes as he shot a 292 on rounds of 75. Tom Kearney wound up in the runner-u- p slot with a gross score of 295 as he billowed an opening day of 76 with rounds of 72-7- 3 and 74. Ken Cagle was the third place finisher and the only other contestant to break 300 for the four day tourney as he finished with a 299 total. K. Malone, the first day leader with a 71. and Bruce Henry tied for fourth with 302 totals. Henry also won the 1st low net trophy as he ended with mid-deca- -- 7. 8. 7. Answers to Last Week's Puzzle 19-1- 3. 0, second place trophy for gross. Ron Goliel won the low net trophy followed by Tom Poole. Other competition in the B flight included Amie Ardell, Bill competition. CHUCK LEPPERTS 313 won Smith and Max Ware. IN THE women's championthe low gross trophy in the A ship Lucy Teagarden won the flight as he shot rounds of and 81. Walt Gooley fin- first place trophy as die carded a ished six strokes behind Leppert Ann Goeliel and Gina as he totaled 320 on rounds of Stanley tied for low net honors and 77. With an 11 as they totaled 84 net. All the players who particistroke handicap he easily won the 1st Net trophy and his net pated in the Championship flight score of 276 was the lowest in plus Leppert will represent the installation in the Sixth Army the tournament. Walden Gurney with a 324 tournament to lie held at Fort was awarded the second place Lewis later this month. In additrophy in the A" flight. Other tion LTC Paul H. Koenig will finishers in A were Ike play in the seniors tournament at and Bill Castagno both Fort Lewis. with 345; James Ault, 347; and Louis Stout 358. A 362 total won the B" flight championship for Joe Romano with Dave Keopp garnering the Rich Petsoff with a 311 total rounded out the players in the Championship flight. Malone won second place in the net a 282. 58-5- 6. Tea-gard- the-othe- The face thats launched a thousand 8-1- 3) runners home easily. The rally ended as the next liatter whiffed. Granger got to Erase in the liottom of the inning as thev tried to stage a comeliack. With one out, two singles and a stolen base put runners on second and third. They rode home cm a liase hit to cut the margin to three. Kruse tightened up and All-Sta- rs 6-3- -1 game with 10-- 0 Wyoming, but the Tigers did their upset to ruin the Cowboys first appearance in a major thing 20-1- 3 Ixiwl game. The big guns in the Big Eight Conference through the Sixties- - were Missouri and Nebraska, each of whom made four major liowl appearances in the decade. Nebraskas came in succession during the years when they were the in of the biggest teams one college game. THE CORMIUSKERS STARTED their streak with the 1964 Orange Bowl where they beat Tucker Frederickson and Aulnim 13-- In 1965 it was the Cotton Bowl where the Razor-- 1 big, burly Iluskers met the small, but lightning quick Then it was acks of Frank Broyles. Speed prevailed 10-back to the Orange Bowl where another light, quick team The victors were Bear Bryants took their measure 39-2champ Crimson Tide. In 1967 Nebraska went to the Sugar Bowl for a return engagement with the Tide and the Iluskers alworhed their third straight bowl loss 34-The busiest league in the bowl business was the SEC with 32 appearances in the four major bowls only the Big are selected for the Rose Bowl. The SEC had 10 and Pac-8- ) the busiest school, Alabama with eight, and the best record, The Atlantic Coast Conference did have a better percentage, winning the only two games its teams appeared in. over Arkansas, and Duke won the 1961 Cotton Bowl 7-North Carolina ran away with the 1963 Gator Bowl 35-over Air Force. The Big 10 was represented by all of its schools, except Iowa and Northwestern, during the 60s and split 10 Rose Bowls with the Pacific-8- . The Pac-- 8 sent only four of its memliers to Pasadena; USC, UCLA, Washington and Oregon State. THE SWC WENT TO 18 games and came away with record. Arkansas represented the league seven times an 0 and Texas six. Arkansas was 3-- 4 and Texas 4--2. The other appearances were solo shows by Baylor, Texas A&m, SMU, Rice and Texas Tech. The Big Eight had 13 appearances, winning five and losand Missouri ); Oking eight. Aside from Nebraska (1-and Kansas (0-1-) made appear), Colorado (0-lahoma ances. Independent Ixiwl teams included Penn State ), ), Florida State Georgia Tech Syracuse State-Flori). Penn The and Force Air (0-2Navy tie in the 1967 Gator Bowl was the only tie in 7 State the major lxiwls in the Sixties and the first since the famous 0-- 0 deadlock lictween Air Force and TCU in the 1959 Cotton Bowl. WHO WILL BE THE bowl kings of the Seventies? knows, Init some of the more consistent participants in Ixiwls during the past decade were around on New Year's Day 1970. Texas, Penn State, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, the Met Team Rah Rail! trips. (3-1- 1) (1-2- (2-1-- (1-2- ), ), (1-1- rcnwafcii; (0-1- .vio ats 17-1- No-Imm- Iv i and Southern Cal all have a 1970 appearance under their lielt and you can liet they'll all get more. The most interesting question regarding Ixiwl teams of the Seventies Is whether Nore Daine will continue to accept bowl invitations or wax the Cotton Bowl a one shot ileal. (JMII) MARAUDING MEDICS These are the men who make-u- p the Hospital softliall team. Front row (L to R): Dun Knipineycr, Billy Builcy, Rich Giles, Doug F.liezcr Algarin and Santos Chalmers. Rear: R. J.' Noble', John Galvin, I aiu Row-lxirhard-hittin- g Ann-hrus- Take stock in America auai.si.aanfai.iw f Joe Jaimes, Tom Furukawa and Jim Campi. I 's t, r |