FOOTBALL FACT
Consensus All-Americans
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Moen—who had fi elded the squib kick in the fi rst place—raced to paydirt as Stan- ford’s band poured onto the fi eld, includ- ing into the end zone. Moen, engulfed by musicians, leveled a trombone player as he scored. Joe Starkey, Cal’s hoarse and dazed play- by-play man, called it “the most amazing, sensational, traumatic, heart-rending . . . exciting, thrilling fi nish in the history of col- lege football.” He may have been under-
stating it. To this day, Stanford records the score as 20–19; Cal has the offi cial one, 25–20.
Less bizarre, but more impressive, Arizona State made it clear that it wasn’t content with being merely a Pac-10 member. Under Darryl Rogers in 1982, the Sun Devils went 10–2 and downed Oklahoma 32–21 in yet another Fiesta Bowl. In 1986, they went a step further, conquering the conference with a 10–1–1 mark under John Cooper.
INNOVATION: ELIGIBILITY RULES
When representatives of Cal, Washington, Oregon, and Oregon State formed the Pacifi c Coast Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in 1916, they did more than just agree to put one another on their schedules. They drafted guidelines that sound obvious in the era of the Pac-12, but were revolutionary at a time when collegiate sports were something of a free-for-all.
Here are some of the most important rules they adopted:
No one may participate in athletics unless he is a bona fi de student doing full work in a regular or special course as defi ned in his college’s curriculum.
No transfer student who has played for another college will be eligible to participate at your school until he has been registered for six months.
No athlete will be allowed to participate in college sports if he accepts any gift, remuneration, or pay for his services on the college team.
No professional athlete shall be allowed to participate in college sports.
No athlete who is found by the faculty to be delinquent in his classroom work shall be permitted to play in any intercollegiate contests.
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Don James
Much of the 1980s, though, belonged to UCLA. Businesslike coach Terry Dohahue quietly built a powerful machine in Westwood, and it bore fruit in 1982 when the Bruins went 10–1–1 and beat Michigan 24–14 in the Rose Bowl. That was the start of a seven-year run of bowl victories for Donahue’s teams, including three in Pasadena. UCLA had a string of gifted QBs includ- ing Tom Ramsey, Steve Bono, Rick Neuheisel (who would go on to coach at Colorado, Washington, and his alma mater), and, espe- cially, Troy Aikman, whom the Dallas Cowboys would select with the fi rst pick of the 1989 NFL draft.
Up in Seattle, Don James was building a juggernaut of his own. James had taken over at Washington in 1975, and his teams had been competitive in the Pac-10—or better than that—ever since. They reached their peak in the three-year period from 1990 to 1992, with a cumulative record of 31–5, three conference titles, and two Rose Bowl wins.
The 1991 Huskies, with wide receiver Mario Bailey scoring 17 touchdowns and horses such as Lincoln Kennedy and Steve Emt- man on the frontlines, went 12–0. Washington wound up No. 1 in the coaches’ poll, but fi nished second to also-undefeated Miami in one of the closest votes ever in the AP poll: The Hurricanes garnered 1,472 points to the Huskies’ 1,468.
University of Washington
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