by Brad Larsen Support Your Alumne Association... GET YOUR SKI HAT! 7A AHS nse Look at 1981 WSC Football Eric Allen oO wide receiver too. W \When Mike Price was named Weber iei@Mtate's head football coach on December 18, a be promised the Wildcat faithful three 3; One, he promised his teams would 2 Z king to watch and would pass the fi Second, he said his teams would givea 0010 percent effort every game, regardless of San Jose, CA : ‘1 ( Bp Ce. Whe score; and third, he said he couldn't mromise a Conference title, but he was gin Weber State would have a winning Danny Rich son. “aiw inni ng record in i football at T-4-0. T os season began in an almost “‘fairytale Je@ishion,” with Weber State knocking off Hiidaho, 42-21 in Ogden. Idaho had been fa icked as one of the pre-season favorites to iwyin the Big Sky Conference title. As it tjurnedod out, the Vandals didn’t win a single sence game all season and Weber’s | ay was certainly a big blow to their »/tifle dreams. Toad wins at Montana State (28-20) and fontana (7-6) were something unheard of ‘suintil this season. It was the first time ever Weber State team had beaten both oMMontana schools on the road during the @ same season. ¥ | Weber got “revenge” against Portland tate with a 31-16 win. PSU had defeated Weber State, 75-0 in 1980. Against the jniversity of Puget Sound, the ‘Cats won in pouring rain storm, 31-10. It was Puget of Sund’s only regular season loss during M1. The Loggers ended with a 12-0 record, sing in the first round of the Division Two Jayotfs. "Weber State not only did well on the i ld, but in the classroom as well. Three _ were selected to the Big Sky Cone All-Academic team, while two others incrable mention. On offense, MIKE ak PHENS (6-0, 230) a sophomore from of Bulington, North Carolina was selected on ‘lie First Team. Stephens is an offensive enter and played on the kick specialty silos as well. Stephens carries a 3.60 grade 7 int in Business Management. SAM SLATPR (6-8, 265) from, Van Nuys, CA, the 2 Vlits starting right offensive tackle, was on dj te Honorable Mention list, with a 3.55 ai nBusiness Management. WSC Basketball fp ‘ Jan. 2 8 9 y 1S 16 21 23 Feb. 5 £6 12 13 20 23 27 “A Mor. 5-6 Utah State Montana State Montana Boise State idaho Nevada-Reno Northern Arizona Montana Montana State idaho Boise State Northern Arizona Nevade-Reno idaho State Big Sky Conference | * Games to be televised Check locally for game times. Logan Ogden Ogden Boise Moscow Ogden Ogden Missoula Bozeman Ogden Ogden Flagstaff Reno Ogden linebacker Ogden, UT Big Sky Conference first team choices All-Conference first team On Defense, two Weber State players were named to the First Team: DANNY RICH (6-3, 220) from Ogden, with a 3.11 gpa in Business Management, and BRIAN SCHAEFFER (6-0, 182), from Sunnyvale, CA, with a 3.38 in Botany. MIKE NICHTER (6-0, 222), from Anaheim, CA, with a 3.26 in Marketing was an Honorable Mention selection. DANNY RICH also was named to the A District Seven All-Academic First Team. District Seven includes schools located in tak, Tdako, Montana, “Wyoming snd Co. orado. Getting back to the team, they set or tied 14 school records, in the ean passing ana he amostly Weer i vailable SON (3,018). One “‘long record’”’ was broken in the last game of the season at Idaho State. JUNIOR CROCKETT (5-10, 160), from Chicago Heights, Illinois, broke the school record for the longest kickoff return, with a 100 yard touchdown run (old record was 97). Another first for Weber State was playing and winning the first OVERTIME GAME played in the school or Conference history, defeating Northern Arizona, 24-23 in Ogden. Weber and Idaho State played a triple-overtimer in the last game of the regular season, with ISU winning 33-30 in Pocatello in the most exciting game ever played in the Big Sky Conference. purple i w/white aay er j trim white w/purple trim iat] Contact the Weber State College Alumni i Association tempted 481 passes, completed 247 for 2,649 yards and 23 touchdowns - all school records. Individually, CURT MILLER (6-3, 205), from Lake Stevens, Washington, set FIVE SCHOOL RECORDS. They are: 1. TOTAL PASSES CAUGHT FOR CAREER (102) 2. TOUCHDOWN PASSES CAUGHT FOR CAREER (14) 38. MOST PUNTS FOR CAREER (218) 4. PUNTING YARDAGE FOR CAREER (8,400) AND FOR A SEA- in: in: 5 26 6 56 4 = . WSC All-Am runner e erican y= } It's no secret now that all three of the vodeihove promises were kept, and then some. dhe Wildcats came within a field goal of i ing for the Conference championship. passed the ball and for the first time 2 fim 1 a decade, Weber Sate finished with a by Nan Holyoak Asst. Sports Information Director Distance runner CARMEN GARDUNO earned All-American honors and became Weber State’s first woman ALL-AMERICAN at the recent AIAW National Cross Country Championship in Pocatello, Idaho. Carmen placed fourth in the National Division II run on November 21 with a time of 18:26. The top 25 finishers in each division were awarded | All-American honors. : A native of Toluca, Mexico, Carmen is a sophomore at Weber State. She came to the : attention of the Weber State track coaches when she set a Mexican national record of 9:35 in the 3,000-meter run at the Mt. Sac Relays in Walnut Calif., in April 1980. Before coming to Weber State, Carmen was a torch bearer at the Mexican Olympic Trials and competed for Mexico in the Pan American Games in Puerto Rico in July 1979. In her first quarter of competition for Weber State, Carmen won the 1980 Region Division I Cross Country Championship in Seattle. 7° In addition to her honors in cross country, Carmen was also the 1981 Region 7 Champion: in the 3,000-meter run (indoor) and 5,000-meter run (outdoor). : In special recognition, CARMEN GARDUNO will be honored at a basketball halftime when she returns from Mexico after the Christmas Holidays. Page 9