News Scrapbook 1985

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Evening Tribune (Cir. o. 127,454)

SEP 2 0 1985

1oreros host fierce bunch of Poets tomorrow .,;z_ ll!JS • "W , tting better Containing Poet quarterback Mike TR Reidman Last year's 1-8-1 team was faced school semo~. ri~ g~ Owens who threw for 281 yards and ~bun~ Sportswriter ~i~h and got a face-job from five Di- kitn~ndt~i r:asveyb!tter staying two.to~chdowns in loss at Azusa- Tomorrow is the first game of the VI~);~ II ?P~"e:~- optim!Sm at the power. After running 43 first-half Pac1f1c last week, WIil be ot rti~ rest of 1ISD's fQ.Qtball life. The ere s a w y " .d Hamilton lays last week, the USD offense the Toreros tomorrow n Toreros ar~ and hosting ?"e o! : 1 ::;:~~pe-~~t last year i ~t~lled. Tailback Mark Cov:Jt':i~~: qf:t~r!!:\f~~t p~;:is"to;~~ ;;: tt!te~~i?t:~t~~/~ ;.:~;ut~h~~e ~~e: i:h:~;:~n~~~t~~: :: fi;n::iei~. 1 ~~~ t~e~~J: rk: unti~t_he r:!~::!t~!~ ~:!t a~t~~:~~ea:re~ are signs that this will not be a re- ,, Redlands quarterback bro e con m- . . t th ~at otf latst year's autumn of their doGone was Jerome McAlpin, a tail- museont inththel fi:~:r~o~i~~o:t left (e~~lr:o~::t\:::~~~~~": firs~ ;a~e d1scon en . w1 on y . I h" ld be k game" said Last Saturday on the road, for in- ------------ There are only two Division II bu· t 18 _wou "N al ~fl th· k ·t. We stance USD lost 21-17 when Red- b ll lies on the schedule this year. Roger Hamilton. ow, st1 m I IS. lands ~ored a touchdown with 13 USD foot a Cloutier, a starting tailback l~st sea- need .~ome momentum to take on the seconds left in the game. Last year son, returned to the team this_ week road. p .p·t nd USO lost to the same team 13-9, the back who rushed for more than 1,000 after completing ROTC duties, a USD trav_els ~o o~~na I z~abe- same four-point margin. . . yards in coach Brian Fogarty's first move that will add depth to Fogar- Claremont _ 10 t e nex wo wee "It was and it wasn't," said lme- season. And, as the year wore on, the ty's multiple set, ball-control offense. fore returmng home. /i backer Mike Hamilton. "Last year already thin Toreros wore O?t, -~~~~- __, we scored in the last minutes but wracked by injuries and academic- they dominated the game. I'm not related defections.

happy with some of the breakdowns we had Saturday, but if we had played the kind of defense last year we played in this game, we would have won by three touchdo~ns." . A loss is a loss, but, said semor fullback Tom Woodward, "We've just got to put all that stuff in the past, and we can. This team has the best attitude of any team I've been on here"

"We got together in the off-s~ason and worked hard," said Hamilton, who had 15 tackles and an intercep- tion last week."We told ourselves we weren't going to put up with that stuff anymore." "This is the second full recruiting year we've had here," said Fogar~y, who began the switch from recr~1t- ing junior college transfers to high

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Evening Tribune (Cir. 0 . 127,454)

SEP 2 1985

ll,11 • --- _,,, Torstro, Aztec teams stunned by tragic incidents B orn E;;, n;.g, si.1, "'' '"'"" ""''- """' tltiog ,00,1 _ __ .. " .. ,, . ..,ii!llll!il!!li!"li!i SD footba teams received Herb, he played hard." ,,. ,.... dfk, · ...;;q.,,4,-.• ' ....,,,···' '· " *· ··. tragic news this week con- Said Jack Eaton: "There was a cerning members of their programs. great guy. He was here when I came On Monday, USO head coach Brian here and he was real helpful to me. Fogarty learned that Kevin Brisco, He was a great ballplayer who could 26, a volunteer kicking coach, had rock anybody. He played 110 percent been electrocuted while on a visit to on every play. He busted his tail to his home in Seattle, Washington. make tackles. It's just a real shame and a shock to all of us." P C B I , I~· San Diego, Thursday, September 26, 1985

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Said Burnie Miller, defensive coor- dinator and assistant head coach: "That's one of the things that tells you life isn't fair. He was a good, dedicated person. Agood family man and a pleasure to coach." Said linebacker coach Mike Smith: "We're in a state of shock. He was a helluva kid. He loved football, just loved the game. His parents were great backers of the program. They made road trips with us and we all felt real close to him and his family. We're going to miss him." A 1980 graduate of Canyon High in Anaheim, Brohn led the Aztecs in tackles in 1983 and '84 with 87 in each of those years. He was captain of the Aztecs defensive unit in 1984 and earned a degree in industrial arts. He is survived by his wife, Julie, and son, Herb.

Ed Zieralski Colleges Hn co, who was in his third year as a volunteer assistant special teams coach, was a place-kicker with the Toreros w en he was an undergradu- ate from 1978 to 1982. In his third year of law school at USD, he had returned home to interview for a job. "He was just out playing with his dog near a lake and he hit an exposed wire and was electrocuted," Fogarty said. "It's difficult to keep things on the football field in perspective when something like this hits 'you." The Toreros (0-2) travel to Pomona to play Pomona-Pitzer at Alumni Field this Saturday. Over at San Diego State, senior right tackle Dan Knight said he was one of the first players to receive word that former Aztec linebacker Herb Brohn, 25. a five-year member of the team, had been killed in a one- car accident on Highway 91 Tuesday night near Anaheim. Brohn had been a three-year starter at inside line- backer and a four-time letter winner for the Aztecs. "Rich Moran (former Aztec center now with Green Bay) called me from Green Bay and told me," Knight said. "Herb's wife, Julie, had called him to tell him. "(Trainer) Steve Bartel is getting numbers for us and we're all going to wear Herb's old number (No. 46) on our helmets. And no one will wear No. 46 this year " Knight said the team planned to meet yesterday afternoon to discuss some other ways to remember Brohn. Knight said the Aztecs may dedicate their game against Colora- do State Saturday night at San Diego Jack Murphy Stadmm to him. "He came in when I was a senior," said U!ima Ufoa, the Aztecs line-

AUG 2 81985

Jl.ll~n '• )"------ . · Francisco resigns -- USD coaching job 9--.D1S-< Chet F¥anc-r'sco, the new P. c. s '"· 1s88 .

USD'S KEVIN BRISCO Electrocuted by exposed wire

SDSU'S HERB BROHN Auto accident victim

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athletic director at Torrey Pines High Schdol. has resigned his football coaching position at the U~rsity of §an Diego because of schii"irtittTTgconfl1cts. Francisco had accepted the position of offensive, coordinator at liSD prior to being named Falcon athietic director. The position at Torrey Pines opened up suddenly when Ed Burke resigned to accept the head football coaching position at San Dieguito High School. Francisco was given the OK by Torrey Pines administrators to coach at lJSD this season, but had said earlier he would only continue on unde r Toreros head coach Brian Fogerty if the job wouldn't conflict with his athletic director chores. ··r resigned reluctantly," said Francisco. '' There's only o mu.ch time in the· day to do a good, quahty Job. I talked over with Brian the things we thought were imperative to do a goorf job. I don't nave the time to do it right, so it wouldn't be satis- fying .•· The two had hoped a schedule could be worked out that would allow Francisco to continue on.

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USD practices III the afternoon on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays , and holds practice in . the evening on Tuesday · and Thursday nights , so the two discussed the possibility of Francisco's skipping the after- noon practices. " Brian was really good about it," said Francisco. "We tried to work out all sorts of ways to make it work. He really wanted me to coach." /

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