News Scrapbook 1986-1988

Los Angeles, CA (Los Angeles Co) Times (San Diego Ed.) (Cir. D 50,010) (Cir. S 55,573) OCT 9 \987

Five years ago, urmg las NFL players strike, the TV net- works were desperately trying to fill the1r Sunday afternoons. On a whim, CBS aired a game between USO and Occidental, won 34-20 by Occidental. Don't expect any more tele- vised Division III games, not with the NFL replacement teams hold- ing forth. But USD's shutout streak has caught the eye of Chargers coach Al Saunders. A few days ago, at the weekly sportswriters-sportscasters meet- ing, Saunders marveled at USD's defense. · "Three shutouts in a row?" s-.:d Saunders.."No points given up in three weeks? ... Hey, Brian, can we borrow your team this Sunday in Tam~?'_' ________

not only to play football.' Not that evcrv member of the football team is a budding nuclear scientist, but 15 of the 16 players eligible to graduate last year earned degrees. The team's grade point average last season was 2.9 (on a 4.0 scale). "I've worked with both kinds of kids in my career," said Fogarty, who spent 13 years as a successful high school coach in La Canada before moving to USO. "And, be- lieve me, the kind of kid we have is easier to coach." The Toreros' leaders include seniors John Gutsmicdl, a 5-foot-9 defensive back from Fountain Valley and Jeff Mansukhani, a 5- 10 w·de receiver from San Juan Capi trano Hardly household nam ne player whose name is re ogmzable to San Diego football fan i receiver Ken Zampese, son of I-~rme Zampese. the longltme former Aztecs and Chargers coach now with the Rams. Last week, the 5-foot-6 Zampese, a junior, scored USD's opening touchdown on a 39-yard pa from quarterback Braulio Castillo. • • • The t:SD football program has had its share of hard times through the year The team played its first games in 1956, but ii must have been an inauspic10us ·tart becau e no m -by-game cores wer ke For the next four years, USD faced nondescript foes like the Umvcrs1ty of Mexico, Chmo Insti- tute, Colorado Western State and cw Mexico W tern. Then, foot- ball was dropped until '69, when it returned as a club sport. In 1973, USO went Division III, and put together a 9-2-1 record, thus earning its first and only NCAA playoff berth before a loss to Whittenburg (Ohio). The football program has been touched by scandal only once. After the '82 season, head coach Bill William was found to be giv- mg his players spending money, some $2,000 in all. out of his own pocket. Cahill says he had no choice but to ask for Williams' resignation. ("Maybe ti's the priest in me," said Cahill, ''but he wasn't fired; he resigned.") "He saw his players as kids n eding help," said Cahill. "He was too big-hearted." Upon USD's foundmg in 1949, Bishop Charles F. Buddy una- bashedly declared his desire for the school to become known as the uNotre Dame of the West," a noble goal by any standard. ''That was bis dream," said Cahill. "Mine isn't so grandiose in athletics. I wouldn't want to be Notre Dame. There's too much pressure, too much fund-raising, too much everything. That's not

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y ars In Fogarty four year a h d coach, the best the Torero have managed 1. two 5-5 record . Yet, unlike the wm-or-el e gu1l- lollne poi. ed over head coaches at th nation's football factorle , his JOb wa never m Jeopardy 'No, I would n ver fire a coach on the ba I of h1 won-lost record.' aid Cahill 'That's not what th1 chool 1 all about." In t ad at th1 Catholic- up- port d tn titutlon with a total en- rollm nt of 5,400 students, play- boo tak a back cat to text- book In football clrcl , USD Will never be confu d with use or Oklahoma or, heaven forbid, ~I , another church-spon ·ored chool wh re offtc1als forgot some of th I CAA's commandments. As a U1v1 IOU Ill school. USD offers no cholarshtps to its ath- 1 t , only ran loans and other \\ ork-for-pay programs, of which half the team players take ad- vantage And because yearly tui- tion runs $12,500, many top prep player who nt to attend USO, can't. All of h1ch makes Fogarty's ta k all that more d1ffacult. When Fogarty 37, came to Al- cala Park, h decided to htft the programs empha t He turned away from margmal tudents v.ho were good players but were un- likely to graduate. He sought trong tudents who w re com- mitted to playmg football, and to taymg all four years. "We kn w we would take our lumps pretty good and we did,' said Fogarty. "We've been telling oursclve that this would happen. ow our plan eems to be work- mg well. We have 12 semors who are the nucleus of our team " The past three weeks has pro- vided a bonus for Fogarty and his players. "We pnde ourselves on doing well m academics,'' said Fogarty.

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USD' Torero Free Safety Tackling Tough Stains, Opponents By CHRIS ELLO SAN DIEGO Its the end of football practice, and Bnan Day, theUn~ au.~o· start mg free safety, is peelmg off his sweat soaked, grass stained uni- form. Other players shower, change clothes and file out of the locker room into the cool evening. They are off to study or grab some dmner. However, Day stays. Now he really has to clean up. SAN DIEGO COUNTY Meet Bnan Day, not only USD's free safety, but al- so resident laun- dry man Day gathers a pile of diry prac- ttc urLforms and puts th m m the washer This matter of cleanmg everyone's uniforms will take about four hours. Which brings up a few questions. Is this any way to treat a guy who was a two-time all-state line- backer as a high school player in evada? Is this any way to treat a guy who 1s a Junior and is one of t c cornerstones of a USD defense that ha~ shut out three ,lraight oppo- nents? Is this any way to treat a guy who is second on the team in tackles and first on the team with three interceptions in four games? "Usually, we have a freshman do the laundry, and then after a while, he'll get tired of it and we have to find someone else," USD Coach Brian Fogarty said. "But Bnan actually wanted to do this job." The Job, which pays $4 an hour, 1s a necessity for Day, because USD, a NCAA Division III school, docs not give football scholarships. "I took the laundry Job because I can study while I work," he said. "My dorm is only a couple of mmutes away from the laundry room. So I can study for a while and then go over and throw some more clothes into the washer. It's like a study break." This summer, like the previous two summers, Day had a more glamorous job in his home own of Las Vegas. His mother, Carol, works at the Flamingo Hilton there, and she helped him land a Job as a lifeguard at the hotel's swim- ming pool. "The pool's only four feet deep all the way ?.round, so there's not much to do but sit there," Day said. "I can't complain with that." Most of the time, though, Day

San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) Evening Tribune (Cir. D. 123,092)

'Jl'e prid our £•Ive on doiJlg well in academics. That's why the kids are here; it' not on/, to play football.' - Brian Fogarty

my desirP,." Even a jump uo to Division II OCT 9 holds no appeal far Cahill or the school's administration. 11 /l•" ', P If. ... ''To be a good Divis1011

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school, you're talking about 30-36 full rides, and we simply couldn't afford it," he said. "Besides that, we are very happy itb VISion III football."

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USD's Bria Day, who ays on a defense that hasn't allowed a point in 12 quarters, has a message for the next opponent. doesn't do much sitting.

worker, ' Fogarty said. "He didn't say much but just let his effort do the talking. He's the same way today." As a freshman, Day filled in for USD at both safety spots, corner- back and some outside linebacker. This season he got a starting role, and so far, he has cleaned up, contributing 29 tackles and three interceptions. "Nobody wants to be the one who breaks down and ends our scoreless streak," Day said. The Toreros have not given up a point in 12 quarters, and the streak will be tested again Saturday night when USD plays at home against Azusa Pacific. "It has to end sometime, and I know it won't be the end of the world," Day said. There are more important things. As a business/economics major, Day 1s more concerned with maintaining his grade-point aver- age, which 1s 3.8. "After I get out of school I'm looking forward to going out and making money," Day said. And at a better rate than $4 an hour.

He has this dream about becom- mg a rich stockbroker some day. "I'd definitely like to see how 1t feels to have a lot of money," he said. While he was growing up, with his three older oiothers and one older sister in Las egas, his family never had much money. He played football for fun and concentrated on his studies getting good grades and scoring near 1,100 on his Scholastic Aptitude Test. He played football well en ugh to draw the interest of Stanford and Notre Dame, but because he was 5-feet 11-mches tall and weighed 175 pounds, Division I schools didn't think he would be big enough to play linebacker. Harvey Hyde, the Nev,1da Las Vegas coach who had been Fogar- ty's coach at Pasadena C ty Col- lege, suggested that Day try USO or Occidental College in Los An- geles. Day had never bet'n to San Diego. He did not visit the campus until he arrived in town the morn- ing of his first practice in 1985. "From the first day he got here, I could tell he was just a real hard