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EVENING TRIBUNE OCT 2 198Z College Football The USO Toreros vs. the Occidental Tigers in a game

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Sandlot To Neon: USD, Oxy On TV Because both arc Division III teams, and because nei- ther is particularly well-known outJ ide Southern Califor- nia, the annual contest between the University of San Diego and Occidental seldom draws much attent10n be- yond the campuses of the schools involved. Today, however, several million Western States viewers are expected to join 1,500 fans at Occidental's Patterson Field to watch the contest that CBS will televise from Los Angeles in lieu of its usual National Football League game Dick Stockton will provide the play-by-play, Hank Stram the color as USO and Oxy make their first appear- ances on network television The game starts at 11:45 a.m, and locally may be seen on Channel 8. CBS approached the schools Monday when it became apparent the NFL players' strike would still be in effect this weekend. Offered $15,000 each, as well as extraordi- nary exposure, San Diego and Occidental readily moved a contest scheduled for last night to late this morning. "Obviously, we're excited," said USO coach Bill Wil- l)ams. "When you come t.o a school like ours, you don't figure you re gomg to get a whole heckuva lot of atten- tion. To know you're going to play on network television . . well, it fc-els big time, I'll tell you. We're seeing how the other half lives." USO, which advanced to the NCAA's Division III playoffs a year ago is unbeaten and has outscored three opponents by a combined 102-13. The Toreros have won 15 straight regular-season games; their only loss last year, to St. Mary's, oc·curred in the first round of the Division III playoffs USO Quarterback Eric Sweet has completed 35 of 67 passes for 615 yards and four touchdowns this season. . Defensively, USD has allowed opponents only 581 yards m three games. The Toreros surrendered their first points when Pomona scored a touchdown with four seconds to play m the third quarter last week. Occidental, 1-2 after beating the University of San Francisco last week, 1s known for its aerial game. Oxy quarterbacks attempted 70 passes against USD in losing 38-13 a year ago.

Gross. F ii ming starts m January, a ring ln A'pnl . 'l'he shows will feature sports delJates such as, who 1s better, Garvey or Carew? Or, who was better, O.J. or Brown? After hearing arguments by teammates and coaches-some or the biggest names in sports-and w tchmg film clips, a Jury of sportswnters and sports- casters will vote. ,, Steinbrenner is a fan of Or '"The Way It Was and .s me of h1 other work. That's the mam reason he agreed to host Gross' new show. "His main concern was whether he would do a good job," Gross id. ''I thmk he'll be fantastic" Steinbrenner, "For once, I'll be m th eye of a con troversy without being the controversy." Broatlcut Notn ff the Dodgen somehow make 11 to the playoffs, Vin ~ull7 wl. be on KABC along with Jem Do,rett and :Rou Porter. Scully will w k only the World Serie, for CB Radio, which ls also coverl_ng he playoffs II the Dodgers are In the World Serlca, KABC wlll pick e CBS feed with Scully and S,arky Aatlenoa . The Angels i1J uae announcen Bob Slan and Roll F•lrl7 and broadcast the games on KMPC during both the playoffs and World Series 11 the,r att In them .•• KNX will b dcast only playoff games that dQn t Involve the A ell or Dodgers but will broadcast the Seri no malll!I' who Is In It era got a 23 3 Nielsen rau g Wednes day ntghL Angels got an lmprffSlve 20 2, their highest ever Le• 1 hope that college games on CBS and ABC won t ually be head to he d they are Saturday. ABC has the more attrac uve game with San Joee State and Cal at noon. CBS Is airing ew Mexico and Air r= at 12, • 5 p.m.••• TBS has added Saturday night's Braves-Padtta game to ILi schedule The game wlll be joined tn progrea following the 5 pm TCU-Arkansa., football game. At !ta conclusion, it will be replayed In ill enUrety •

televised live on Channel 8 tomorrow morning at 11:45.

BS la lelevlalnr Division III games Sunday instea of D1vis1on I games because of a power play by Ted ner's cable network, 'l'BS. now 1s It that powerful CBS and ABC as well as the ' A had to arcedc to the wishes of Turner's relative- ] $mall network? om Hansen, NCAA ~V program director, said that w · n Turner's network purchased the rights to do a g lcmentary 1;cr1es, paying $17.6 m1lhon for two ye;irs, those nghts were ba ed on the fact that ABC and were each limited to 14 telecasts In each market ar per season. "Our legal counsel advised us that to increase that I ltation affected TBS' nghts and that the network s ould be consulted and had to approve," Hansen said. CBS Sports Presldent Neal Pilson said, ''It'a very frustr ting for us." l3ut why is CBS tclevismg DiVISiOO III football? "We be! eve the American public wants to see Jive football at:m 1t 1s the only football available to us," Pilson said. Last Sunday's Canadian telecasts o NBC got slightly ter rating than the replay of last January's Super Bowl on CBS. CBS 1s using its NFL people on the Division Ill tele- ca because most are under contracts that pay them * New TV personality: What next for George Stein- hMnncr?He's going to host a new TV show. Ii's all 1gned and sealed. He agreed to host a syn- dl

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USD Muffs One- hot TV Appearance By HA 'K WESCH Slaff Wrrttr, The SOil Doe90 Un,on EAGLE ROCK - On a given Sunday . . of withdraw!, tbe contest was probably more than sufficient. "People that watched sure had to be

entertained, said Williams, "there was a lot of scoring. some excellent plays on both sides." Occidental dominated the opeuing action and drove 48 yards in 11 plays for the game's first touchdown with 5: 15 left in the first quarter. It came on a 9-yard flarr pass from Osborn to Mueller. The Tigers caught USD's defense blitzing in the sec- ond quarter and Mueller turned a hurried flip from reserve quarterback Jeff Monteroso into a 62-yard touchdown by running through one tackle and eluding another USD play- er's desperation dive. The Toreros trimmed the lead with a 68-yard march that featured Sweet passes of 18, 19 and 24 yards to Jim Reilly, Jerome McAlpin and Michael Rish. The final completi earned the Oxy 2. From there Jimmy Smith smashed over for the touchdown. USD evened things by marching 55 yards, all but 14 of it on the ground, after taking the secoud-half kickoff. Sweet ripped 16 yards over left tackle for the touchdown on an option play. Occidental stung the Toreros with 3:17 remammg in the third period on a nicely executed overhand lateral and pass, which went from Osborn to wide receiver Finstuen to Craig Roth. The play accounted for 58 yards and a touch- down. Aft r the Tigers rrussed the extra point USD went 78 yards to tie things at 20-20, Rish gathering an 11-yard pass from Sweet for the touchdown. The Toreros could have taken the lead with a successful extra point, but Oxy sophomore David Kotrosky broke through to block the at- tempt. It was as close as USO would come, but as one banner put it: "It matters not whether you win or lose, but whether you get on TV."

On a given Sunday a foot- ball team like Occidental College's can take a 1-2 record into an NCAA Divi- sion III game against a 3-0 University of San Diego squad and pull off a master- ful 34-20 upset. On a given Sunday during a National Football League players' strike, tbe game can be picked up by a na- tional television network hke CBS and beamed into millions of horn s along the Pacific Coast. Yesterday must have been a given Sunday, for in fact all those things oc- curred. Occidental made a raft of big plays offensively and defensively to spoil the first (and probably la:-t) network appearance for a USD foot- ball team. USO overcame Occid ntal leads of 14-0 and 2().14 to gain a 20-20 lie with 11:57 I t ID th But the Tiger moved from a third-and-14 predic- ament at their own 19 to a touchdown in two plays - a screen pas from junior quarterback Dan Osborn to fullback Jeff Goldstem that carried 56 yards, and a ramble over left tackle by fre hman fullbac Vance Mueller for the remaining 2S That score put Occidental ahead for good, and the Tigers added the clincher with 3:18 remaining when Osborn connected with sophomore w1d receiver Jon F1nstuen on ,m allcy- oop lob pass from the IISD 16. The touchdown capped a 69-yard O y drive which had begun with 7:47 to play followmg th Tiger ' second of three interceptions of pa thrown by USO sen• 1or quarterback ~:ric Sweet. "You've got to hand it to Oxy, they made the big plays," said USD Coach Bill William "The game being on t lev1 ion didn't have any ff t, they had th me d tractions all week that we did "It wa n't a case of our bemg flat or not prepared to play, it was ju t they

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AWin onNational TV Little Oxy ts to Perform in a Big Way, 34-20 By JERRY CROWE, Times Staff Writer Patterson Field on the campus of Occidental College was transformed Sunday into a giant Lelevl ion studio. CBS unveiled a new show-NCAA D1v1s1011 III foot- ball-that isn't likely to crack the network's fall hneup unless the NFL players remain on strike forever, but was highly entertaining nonetheless. . Occidental and the University of San Diego, teams that normally play before family and friends-and per- haps a handful of fans who get bored and wander over from the library-treated it for what it most likely was: a once-m-a-hfetime opportunity. Although it probably will get killed in the !ocal Nielsen ratings-it was bucking the Dodgers-Giants and Braves-Padres games-the game was televised re- gionally and.picked up by 60% of the nation in th sec- ond half. Oxy's Tigers made the most of their opportunity, scoring tw1ce in the fourth quarter lo break a 20-20 tie and upset the previously unheated Torcros, 34-20. , It was evident several hours earlier that this wasn t going to be a typical small-college football game. An- nouncer Hank Stram, a former NJ<'I coach, arrived at the Eagle Rock campus m a limousine. Asked about his unusual assignment, Stram said, "It's the same game with smaller and slower people. It's mce to feature this.level off. t all beca 0 1: of tt1l sents. It reprC$ent college football in its purest form. "It will give people around the country a chance to sec pure energy expressed." Stram was talking about the players, but the energy level m the stands may have been as high as it wa, on the field. Spurred on by a four-piece bluegrass band made up of former Oxy students, lhe Tiger faithful was rockm' and rolhn' all afternoon. Even Rock-N-Rollen, Lhc guy with the rainbow-colored hair was there. "We were wondering all week if he was going to he here," Coach Dale Widolff said. "We were wondcrmg all kinds of weird thmg.." It had been that kind of a week at Oxy. ''The campus has been rather electric the last fc-w days," said Dr Richard C. Gilman, Oxy president. Gil- man was one of several people with paw prints painted on their cheeks Sunday, a surpri c gift from an aggres- sive student. "This has been the most excitmg thmg on campus in quite some time." The Oxy student body was ready for its first-and

Occidental quarteroack Dan Osborn fum- bles when hit by Ray Stuberg of USO.

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TV-game typical in that· • Hand-lettered banners and hand-painted bodies and faces - all designed to attract the camera - were evident m abundance. The Tigers' usual crowd of around 1,500 appeared swelled by several hundred seekers of regional expo- sure. • Kickoff was at the rather unusual hour of high noon - at CBS' request - and commercial timeouts extended the contest past the three-hour mark. A::; a sort of video metho- donc for addicted NFL watchers in the early stages

played an excellent game and we didn't play up to our capabihlles." The atmosphere for the contest was an interesting mix of mall college-quaint and TV-game typical. mall college quaint in that. • One could arrive 15 minutes before kickoff and secure a parking place within a short walk of the campus entrance to Occi- dental' Patterson Field • Tickets sold for only $2 per adult and a sign at the gate politely offered free admission to visiting facul- ty and staff with ID. Occ-Mueller 9 po11 from Osborn (Malttlews k Id<} Occ-Mucl er 61 IXISS from Monteroso (l,lall!1ewlkld<) lailedJ USO-R1sn 10 poss from Sweet (k1c blocked) Occ-Muder 25 r111 (~ kid<) Occ-Flnsluen 16 POii from Osborn (~kid<) A-1.500 USO-Smlfll 2 nm (Loni lid) USO-Swee! 6 'llll (Lout kid<} Oct-R 58 POSS ~om F'l!lSluen

RICK CORRALES / Loo Anseleo Time, Microphones in hand, CBS commentators Dick Stockton (left) and Hank Stram are ready fo! start of nationally televised Division Ill game between Occidental and University of San Diego at Oxy's Patterson Field. Occidental won the game, 34-20. perhaps last-chance to appear on television. . Seve al hand-pamt dsigm lined th old sta mm and the crowd of about 1,500, highly partisan toward Oxy, was boisterous t-nough t.o sound much larger. "ThC> spmt of the school really came out," said sopho- morc- Armen Najariam. "There are banners every- where. One sign proclaimed that "It doesn't mallcf wh~;her you wm or lo c-just as long as you get on nat I TV. That seemC>d to he the mood. M<.'mbcrs of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity painted th<.'ir faces 111 the Oxy colors, orange and black. "We might have gone overboard," said ,senior Kerry_ Brown, "but if you'r gomg to do this, you ve got to do tl all the way' Durmg the telecast, several students wancfered into a classroom at the. -east end of the stadium to watch on television, as 1f thc-y still needed to be convinced that the game actually was on 'l'V. Tm impressed," said Sophomore Stacey James. 'We're really on," ')'hat the game was closely contested throughout and provided an unC>xpeclcd result was almost an after- thought.

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In front of national television cameras (above), Occidental upset the University of San Diego, 34-20. Page 7.