many ways. The Wildcats participated in the Division I-AA playoffs for the first time and finished the season ranked ninth nationally. Three team members were selected to the All-Conference first team, six were picked to the second team, and five more were given honorable mention. Coach Mike Price was selected as the conferences Coach of the Year, the first time a Weber coach had been give the honor since Sark Arslanian received it in 1965. Price was also chosen as the District VII Coach of the Year and as Utahs Sportsman of the Year. In retrospect Weber State has fielded a fundamentally competitive football program during its 26 seasons of four-year football competition. The drought suffered during the 1970s has overshadowed more successful showings in the 1960s and the current program. Webers overall record as a four-year school is a reasonable 129-138. Weber has shared in two conference championships, and many of its fans undoubtedly believe it deserves recognition for a third in 1987. Numerous Wildcats have received All-Conference gridiron recognition and eleven Wildcats have been named to College Division or Division 1-AA (after 1978) All-American first or second teams: offensive tackle Sid Otten 1965, defensive end Ron McCall 1966, offensive guard Jim Schmedding and running back Lee White 1967, defensive tackle Carter Campbell 1969, defensive tackle Henry Reed 1970, offensive tackle Dave Taylor 1970, quarterback Rod Buckwoldt 1978, defensive back Dennis Duncanson in both 1977 and 1978, wide receiver Randy Jordan 1978, and linebacker Mike Humiston in 1980. Humiston was also selected the Defensive MVP by the Big Sky Conference in 1980. Finally, five former Wildcats were chosen to the 50-man Big Sky Conference Silver Anniversary team in the fall of 1987: Lee White, Jim Schmedding, Carter Campbell, Danny Rich, and Dennis Duncanson. Just as basketball established itself as the pre-eminent and most successful sport at Weber during the post-war junior college era, it has possessed the same record of success during the years since 1962. During its 26 basketball seasons as a four-year school, its overall record for the period is 485 wins and 246 losses, the seventh highest winning percentage of all Division I schools that have competed for this length of time. In the process they have won 12 of 25 Big Sky Conference championships, including eight of the first ten, and finished lower than fourth in the conference only four times with an equal number of overall losing seasons. Once Weber began to play the other Utah schools in basketball they have also done extremely well against this competition. Weber presently stands 17-16 against Utah State, 8-9 against the University of Utah, 4-9 against BYU, and 5-1 against Southern Utah State College. Six coaches have now been in charge of Weber State basketball. Dick Motta successfully carried over from the junior college program, leading the four-year program from 1962-1963 until 1967-1968, establishing a record of 120-33 during these six years before he departed to become a coach in the NBA. He was succeeded by Phil Johnson from 1968-1969 to 1970-1971, posting a three-year record of 68-16 before he also departed for the NBA coaching ranks. Gene Visscher then coached for four years, 1971-1972 to 1974-1975, with a 63-45 record. Neil McCarthy was coach from 1975-1976 to 1984-1985 with a ten-year record of 200-98. Larry Farmer coached from 1985-1986 to 1987-1988 with an overall record of 34-54. Denny Huston, appointed in the spring of 1988 as Webers sixth head basketball coach, opens his first Wildcat season this fall. As in the case of football, Webers first basketball teams as a four-year school were built on products of its junior college past. Players such as Mike Sivulich, Jon ODell, Jerry Trice, Bob Belka, and Eddie Tillman all made substantial contributions. The Wildcats posted a 22-4 season and finished the year rated fifteenth in the country in the College Division. Jim Lyons was selected to the second Little All-American Team. Weber placed second in the conference during its first basketball season with a 17-8 overall record and 7-3 in league play. With this successful initiation to conference play, the Wildcats then won eight of the next nine conference basketball championships from 1965 to 1973, unable to claim the crown only in 1967. Two chief contributors to Webers first two championships in 1965 and 1966 were Gene Visscher and Jerry Trice. Other major contributors on these teams included Belka, Tillman, Greg Harrop, John Silbernagel, Frank Hitchens, and Ted Bryant. The 1968 team, led by Justus Thigpen, Dan Sparks, and Nolan Archibald restored Webers claim to the Big Sky trophy. The dominant figure on Webers next three championships was Willie Sojourner, the Pennsylvania native whose scoring and rebounding achievements during his three years of varsity play still mark school and conference record books. The 1969 team, Johnsons first as coach, posted a 27-3 overall record and a 15-0 conference record, the only team in conference history to go through the regular season undefeated. Making important contributions to this team were Sojourner, Justus Thigpen, Sessions Harlan, Gus Chatman, Gary Strong, Rich Nielson, and Dave Sackolwitz. Weber State was the first Big Sky champion to secure an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament in 1968. The Wildcats lost, however, to New Mexico State 68-57. In 1969 Weber defeated Seattle University in the first round of NCAA play (in a 32-team field) 75-73. Qualifying for the Far West Regionals, Weber lost a thrilling 63-59 overtime game to a powerful Santa Clara team. The Wildcats secured third place in the tourney by defeating New Mexico State 58-56. During Sojourners and Johnsons last two years at Weber, 1970 and 1971, Weber again won the league title and on both occasions were eliminated in the first round of NCAA play by Jerry Tarkanian-coached teams from Long Beach State. Webers non-conference schedule became more difficult during these years with games on the road against Arizona State, Arizona, San Francisco, and California. The most significant non-conference game of the 1971 season, however, was Webers win in Logan over Utah State to initiate the series Weber has had with in-state schools ever since. A changing of the guard occurred the following season as Gene Visscher took over as head of Webers program beginning with the 1971-1972 season. Led by Jon Knoble, Brady Small, Rich Cooper, Bob Davis, and Riley Wimberly, the Wildcats continued Webers long winning tradi-