FOOTBALL FACT


Coaches in the College Football Hall of Fame


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endary coach Frank Kush, Arizona State had virtually owned the Fiesta Bowl dur- ing the 1970s, winning it four times in the fi ve seasons beginning in 1971. The Sun Devils had boasted All-Americans such as quarterback Danny White, cornerback Mike Haynes, and wide receiver John Jefferson.


The schools from the Grand Canyon


State would experience their share of glory in the Pac-10, but fi rst they had to wait for USC’s superiority to subside. John Robin-


son had replaced McKay on the sidelines as the head coach, but the Trojans’ basic strategy was the same: Student Body Left, Student Body Right, and a ton of yardage for the starting tailback. In 1979, that young man was Charles White. Two years later it was


Marcus Allen. White and Allen each collected a Heisman Trophy. White’s 1978 team was a co-national champion, while the ’79 Tro- jans fi nished No. 2 in the polls with an 11–0–1 mark. If USC was acknowledged as the Pac-10’s dominant team, Cal could lay claim to being the kookiest. How else to described Golden Bears center Roy (Wrong Way) Riegels’ sprint to his own end zone in the 1929 Rose Bowl, or a Berkeley fan leaping from the stands and trying to tackle Michigan’s Tom Harmon at the goal line in a 1940 game?


Both of those plays—and let’s face it, every other play in football history—are drab in comparison to “The Play.” On November 20, 1982, star quarterback John Elway led Stanford to what looked like the game-winning fi eld goal with four seconds left in The Big Game (as the annual rivalry match is called). The ensuing kickoff return might have been diagrammed by Buster Keaton. The Golden Bears began pitching the ball wildly, and after the fi fth lateral, Cal’s Kevin


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Robert Stinnett


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