News Scrapbook 1958-1961

Notre Dame Of The West Has Growth Pains But Is Already Finest In San Diego Area 'Ten yea rs ago a rabbit hunter could have strolleti through high weeds ,on the plateau up in Linda Vista ·over• looking Mlssion Vall<'Y and he could have sat down on a rock between pot-shots and reflected that San Diego County needed a nother college with a football power comparable to those up in Los Angeles. He could have looked over to East San Diego and wondt•rcd why the state colkgc there didn't have a team that would play USC and UCLA. Sa n D iego Stale College was th e onl y collt•ge in the ::n ·a then. That person eould still sit tl1<.!re and wonder about Stat" Col - 1 kgc·, but he just migh t b<: sitt ing on the stc•ps of on,• of the build - ings of the University of Sall Diego, wh ich lS one oi t he two new unive rsiti1;s in San Diego. USD is fully acc:rcdi1t·d now and already has a high scholastic reputation. That wasn't too difiicult to acq uire, but it will ta ke a great dea l longer to gain prestige in 1hc less important aHpects of a schoo l's !'unctions. For the th ird st raight year USD's Coll ege fo r Men will offe r a pr ogram of intramural sports and maintain a fu ll sc hedul e for in· Lercollegiatc games m varsity football, baskdball and baseball. USD does not plan to I.Je.:ome t!w "Notre Dame of th.., Wt,st," b ut has rather selected an athletic pulicy of gradual expansion - with pri- ma,y emphasis on a strnng academic curriculum. At tht> rate he teams 1·cpres<:nling the c-ol l<-g,, W<'le goi ng t h<: last two years, many local gl'ld fans f<·lt tha t USO wou ld be com parable to Notre Danie 111 a f<>w years. On a comparison based on ,ucc ss on the _g.idnur1 1h1, is impos,cilih•, NO FAILURE IN ARCHITECTURE The adm1r..1stretion nt USD, m p lun nmg the curriculum and the architect ure, accomplished r<: markabk ad11,•vt:me11ls. P lanuing a football pc,wr,r is somLlhing else. USF, Loyola, St. Mary's and Santa Clara had estal.Jlished school~ with nationally ranked 1eums when thi,y gave up the sport some 10 years ago. USD is the oJJly Catholic univ<.!rsity in the West playi ng foo t- ball. The otht-rs got out because they were losing too much mon<.!y, Even USC, smartmg from buns placed on them by the NCAA, lost wnsiderably last yea r. Since collcge foot ba ll big bu~iness, the program has to rea• lize profits to survive. '.Vhile p laying teams of .Notre Dame's ca li bre those profits have to come from crowds of at least 30 a nd 40 thous- imd to cover expenses and guarantees. Last year USD launched into a schedule that included the best lhe nation's small colleges had to offer. They ended up wi th a n 8-2 record and beat such t<:ums as Colorado Western, Pepperdi ni, a nd Idaho State. They lost lo Montana State, 31-(i, but the humiliatini{ part of the game wasn't on the scoreboa rds so much as a t the box office, ftom a business standpoint. You pay for what you get a nd evidently San Diego :tans can't afford big-time football. So, once again next year USD wi ll offer the best in lercoll Pgia te footbaU in San Diego. It won't be against t ill' na ti on's best, but the o thP edu~ for the Sep- tember 12 opener at Balboa Stadium m San Diego, .New h ead coach Paul Platz figures they will be tough<.!r than most of the teams on the 1958 slnw. The Pwneers travel to San Luis Obispo to meet Ca l P oly for the second game on Septemlier 19. Poly lost only to F1·esno State last year and beat Montana State, lG-6, to give that school its only loss. On following weekends the Pioneers will play New Mexico Western there, Cal Poly at Pomona, Colorado Weste rn t here, P ep- perdine in Balboa Stadium and the San Diego Marine Corps Re- cruit Depot at home. MCRD gave the P ioneers their second Joss last year when they beat them 35-0. They then wen t on to win the Marine championship game from Camp Lejune. After two open dales, USD will close out the season in San Diego against Montana State. Coach Platz believes the Bobcats will be even tougher this year. · Platz has 22 lettermen back to meet this schedule. H is biggest losses are linemen er lc R ed, Ken Cook and John Mulliga n. Mul- ligan was Cathdl c All-American last year for the second straigh t time, Two local linemen are among those Platz is counting on to fill these vacated positions. Grey Elliot, a sophomore guard who is a Sweetwater graduate, is a returning no n-letterman. P la tz believes he has a lot of potential and is plenst'd that Ell iot is .still gr,::iwing. He will probably weigh in at 195 for fall practice. CAN BE GREAT END Letterman end J oe Loeschnig, who played halfback for Sweet- water two years ago, is expected to give veterans Conrad Walker and Ra y Yoast a good ba ttle for a starting position. Platz belie ves "J oe will be a very fine one. He can be great. He 's big e nough at a solid 185 p ounds and he's getting faster. He's a lso still growing." Elliot and Loeschnig exemplify ihe Sa n Diego area's chance to have a major footba ll rep resen ta tive. Both are growing and will get better. So will USD, in time. schedule is getting stronge1·. OPEN ON SEPT. 12 The school has added Or 'l!OJI Te

The Dodgers may not make the Wllrld Series, l>ut ex-Loyola High halfback .and outfielder .Jim McAnany will. Jim, who made All-Catholic ln both sports as a Cub, was batting .361 for Indianapolis before Chicago called him up, and he's been playing regularly for the WhilP Sox ever since. Jim is so near• sighted he wears sp~ctacles even on the ball field, but he's long oii,,....,..,.. heart and power al the plate, Here's hoping we'll ietf'll~ie this ex-Loyola Cub in the Coliseum Saturday, Oct. 3, the third game of the 1959 World Series will be played in the home park of the N.L. pennant winner. Thanks to 1:)0«!-4.er voice V Scullr for p!tchlng our Tid- lngs-CYO Awa'ri iltfi . Ildliu"t~ broadca&t Satur- day.. • . Scully and l:iatterymate .Terry Doggett will be hon- ored by the L.A. Press Club at the Ambassador Hotel Tues- day, Sept, 8. (Oh sure, the Dodgers will be idle that night.) Owner Walter O'Malley suggests the Dodgers may televise road games into Angellown in 1960. Biggest stumbling block &till is that of securing a sponsor for th.e prohibitive coaxial cable costs from Clncy, Chicago, St. Loo, etc. Ex-L.A. Angel chucker Cal McLish, doing 5uch a grand Job for Cleveland, ls part Choctaw Indian. When he first re- ported to the Brooklyn Dodger spring training camp in 1944, one wise-guy newspaperman called him "half Injun and half pitcher." ApparPntly the Dodgers recognized only the first part, so Cal eventually wu gent packing. Th.e six names on this ba,;eball brave's birth certificate, by the way, are Calvin Coolldge Julius Caesar Tuskahoma McLish . Today Cal chuckles: "My mother liked the Calvin Coolidge part, my father was strong for Caesar, and both parents tacked on ·Tuskahoma just so I wouldn't forget I'm part Choctaw." But, as Manager Joe Gordon wlll tell you, Cal ls pure pitcher. * * * * BIG SIX FOR SAN DIEGO Sa,n Diego U's athletic policy-makers have seen the light. Prollting at last from the lesson of history, and perhaps after perusing their own dwindling football resources, a decision has been made to read.1ust the athletic program. "USD does not plan to become the 'Notre Dame of the West'," declares a communique from the school's athletic news bureau, "but has rather gelecied an athletic policy of gradua) expansion with primary emphasis on a strong aca• demlc curriculum." San Diego started its football program with big ideas in 1956. It quickly scheduled the Air Force Academy for a 1957 contest and that year the Pioneer gridmen, though admittedly babes in the woods, won six of nine. On this wave of enthusiasm the story went around San Diego would succeed In "bigtime ball" wh.ere Loyola, Santa Clara, St. Mary's and USF had failed. But history's lesson couldn't be ignored, and. by mid-season of 1958 the disillusion- ment probably began to set in. Although the Pioneers had an- other winning team, boast1~ "ll nsational running backs, crowds as small as 1500 attendiir',iini Witll,,uWJllllll\e teams. Guarantees couldn't be met that way. San Diego Stat• mean- time cohtinued to adroitly duck suggestions 'for a dty cham• plonship game. Rumblings of discontent with the co• who subse tly quit or was fired, and some of his grid students we laiJUr orth as Los Angeles. San ~go's schedule for 1959 calls for clashes with Oregon Tech, Cal. Poly (San Luis Obispo), New Mexico Westem (Sil- ver City, N. M). Colorado Western (Gunnison, Colo.) , and Montana State. However, after these committments have been fulfilled, the school reportedly will limit competition to elevens from and neighboring Arizona. Schools such as Cal- tier, Redlands, Laverne, Claremont and are contacted with an eyit to future hips to tuition only. itch? I save rlse.,te 1'-J djknuna," a spokes- man for San Diego , -lared. "0. proiilem was to pro- mote praiseworthy ert~ular actlvltlea wit~ut permit- ting them to grow out o( bo4uufs- For some t • f Jllmlnls- tratlon has been aware that lt1 loetba II program might be developing too quickly and could ,a$erfere with the IOlid 11chola5tlc objectives of the university. The new football pollc,' will provide a solid foundation upon which the progtam call be gradually developed." Incidentally, San Diego has recently purchased 51 acr.es of land from the Federal Government for athletic activitiel, IO YOU may be certain sports aren't to be abandoned or evfil -except for football-de-emphasized. This land adjoins the east side of the beautiful campus located atop Alcala Park overlooking~Valley and San Diego Bay. The Pio!lMrf ld be applauded for their amazing ath- letic progress in 'IM-ief years, not the least of which is this latest step towards 11 .football slowdown. The school yet will make • splash In intercollegiate sport. * * * * JUDGE READIES GRID ROAD SHOW Judge John Carberry, who produces those zingy, celebrity- packed Biltmore Hotel football rallies before the biennial Notre Dame-USC games, wil! 'take his show on the road the weekend of the ND-Cal grid battle at Berkeley. The Judge says he'll export a topflight theatrical troupe headed by songstreu Peggy King to perform for Fighting Irish fans in a pre-game rally at San Francisco's ~alace-Sheraton Hotel Friday night, Oct, 9, eve of the mtersect1onal tilt. The Judge, who really isn't, was Frank Leahy's roommate at Notre Dame. He's quite a colorful character and entrepreneur who earned that high-sounding handle more by mien and bear- ing than judicial background. He reports that his latest 30- minute public serve film titled "Boys Town of the West" (Rancho San Antonio) will be telecast this Sunday, August 23. from 4 to 4:30 p.m. over KRCA (Channel 4) . The film co-stars lllCb celebs as Irene Dunne, Pat O'Brien, Perry Como, Law- rence Welk, the Lennon Sisters, Gordon Macrae and most important of all, the boys at Rancho San Antonio. ' What, no Frank Leahy? The Judge must be slipping. * * * * SNIDER SNEAKS UP ON BIG DON Hobbled Gil Hodges has widened his lead to 45 votes over runnerup Don Drysdale and the field in The Tidings' "Most Popular Dodger" contest, with the handsome 1959 CYO A d awaiting the winner. Not only .did Drysdale unaccoun:~~Y lose gro~nd to Hodges this week, but rampaging Duke Snider Is_ ~neakmg up and soon may replace him as No. 2 man with Tr~mgs readers. Through Tuesday's mail Dulfe, battijJc sen- 1atJonally 1n recent weeks, had 64 withi five ,;anots of second aiace. Charley Neal, Junior Gilliam ~it Wally Moon are waging a spiritecl r fourt~dat!li-'-W well back of Hodges, Drysdale and The mailbag w ~bout mischief either, containing two vot~s for Vin ~Uy, the personable redheaded broadcaster Who .~ndes himself rm his objectivity (hence how could he be the Most Popular Dodger"?); one vote for controversial TV troubleshooter Tom Duggan, and one for "Ch,uck J h y Bum." o nson, ou

USD ine Awaits Bid The Univ r 1ty ot San Diego b,1 ball team is e.waltlng of- lic1al word thi~ week on wh1•th!!r It will be . elected to repr,· E'nt the West Coast in the Nation· I A!<•oclatlon ol In-1 te1·colli,giate Athletic• cham- pionships at Alpine, Tex., it wa~ announced yesterday. 'fhe Pioneers, wh.o com- plrted the sea. on with a 17- 7-2 re<'ord, were reco_m- mPnded as the No. 1 ch01ce over nine other West Coast te ms by an AlA commit- tre headrd by Bob Livingston ol the College ot Eo115at1on, Monmouth, Ore. Final selection or th eight teilm. wi ll be made by a committee ~~ion in Porales, • •M., th!~ week. I

USD Divi es With Calf soeclal te TIii Sall Dia on PASADENA, April 4 - The University of San D i e g o pounded out 14 hits to cap- ture a 11-7 victory over Cal. tech but dropped th.e night- ('ap of a doubleheader, 8-7,1 here toda;,. Buzz .i\lerritt dro\ e in John Price with a single in the bot- tom of the seventh to give Cal- tech the second game. Ron Crise, who drove in four runs with two hits, and pitcher TerQ Lorenz, \\ho drove in three with three hits paced the Pioneers in t h opener. Lote also struck out 11 battet bu allowed 11 hits. FI RST GAME g;i?ech ~i ug ifl": 1 J 11 J (8~c~~ar!l~~mo~~ncon; n,- Gold~ SECOND GAME USO . JlD 020 1-7 11 4 Caltech . 020 410 1-1 a 2 81 ~~~c:.no~e~belo (-4) and Cox; Price and

The Unlveri;ity o! San Diego and Cal Western havP. agreed to meet In ba~k@tball Feb. 20, 1960 lhU!I leaving the door open for possible football and ba~<'ball contests between the two schools in 1960. Rev. W a Is h• Murr a y, uso·, athletic -.&era tor, announced Tht. will m tint meetfnr betweffl lhe two Institution• b-8

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! AN DIEGO, CALl~O~NIA \\'ed., ,June 10, 1959 Y

USD Ado Sport olicy Competition Wi th Aztecs Athletic Aim of Pioneers Umvcr ty o( San Die1;0' adop tion of_ a ,vritten ath• Jeth• policy 1.:oulrl lead to a three-way 1walry between the Pioneer~, S n Uie:::o State Colle«e and Cal \Vestern University by 1861, D Dean of St udents Father Walsh Murray believe "We will begin athletic relations with Cal Western

next year," Father Murray said, "and we hope to be meeting San Diego State by 1961 if not next year , too. Such a local rivalry is something San Diegans want, I believe. "USO adopted the wri ten poli cy alter meeting with !an Diego Sta tc . \Ve are not a member of any athletic con- ference. hut ~ve desire to compete in intcrcolleg iate :i.th- letics in acl"ord with the con- stitu tion, by-laws and rulings of the Ca lifornia College Ath- letic Association." The P ionee rs attempted to get on the Aztecs· football s c h e d u I P d for this ye a r. St a t e ~)ready had filled its sked. l 'SD has ei~ht gamPs lined up an d ho pes to get two mor<', Fath<'r ;1!u1ray dis- closed B e <' " u s P I'SD is young, lreshm<'n will continu" to play OP thP loothall team this fall. '·It is expected this will cease when a junior varsity and fr<'shman p ram be- comes feasible ," F er Mur- rav asserted. USD's athletic not perm it grants no l!IOholar&blp $500 cade,nic Fat urra,' aid for ent- I not ex eecd per mon h tor r o o rn a nd board or ts equival nt.