News Scrapbook 1982-1984

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By. IARK STADLER

'Tm having a lot of fun. I'm enjoying the players. Maybe that's because they're closer to my own age. " Even though the black- hairPrl Fogarty has many years of coaching experience under his belt, he is just 32 years old . He served as an assistant at St. r ranc1s, a Catholic school for boys, for nine years before being named head coach m 1979. In four seasons, his teams compiled a 28-18-2 record and qualified for the playoffs every year. At USD, like St f< rancis a Catholic school, Fogarty came into what could have been a diffi c ult situation. The previous head coach. Bill Williams, resigned under pressure after admittmg to ·minor violations of CAA rules But, Fogarty said , la st years incidents have been left m the past. ' 'I found during my Job mter• views that the school wasn't overly upset about it. that it wasn't that big a deal,'' he said. What could have pre ented a problem was ttie altitudes of the 38 lettermen who returned this fall. · I didn't kno\\ how many •Ccmt,r>ue(! ?n p g C ' 0

·J like dealing with kids who arc out here hccau~e. they .want to play fool ball, not because tht,,·'re . . .. g-oing· t(( be famous.' '

Wh n Brian Fogarty arrived at us. iast March, his biggest concern was how he would relate to college athletes. This was understandable. sine he had spent his entire profes- s10nal career as a coach and teacher of high school students. He needn't have worried. Things have worked out well '•Dealing with adults has been a nice change," says USD's new head football coach with a grin. Fogarty has also adjusted quickly to coaching football on the NCAA, Division III level after 13 years at St. Francis High in La Canada. Taking over a learn that fini hed 4 6 last year, Fogarty has already exceeded 1982's win total. Entering this weekend's game against Hayward State at Alcala Park, the Toreros stand at 5-1. Their most recent win came by a 28-14 score over LaVerne Saturday. Not surprismgly, Fogarty has had a good time so far this season 'It been a good chang ," Fogarty said the other day m his office, wh le ram dfi:i;fled to the ground outside on ftie football field

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PhJto oy Doranne Dia Brian Fogarty, USD's new head football coa~ h, pleads his case with an official from the side lines Saturday.

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SENTINEL OCT ! 9 1983

McAipin, who has gained 684 yards in six games, with a 4.8-yard average. Spencer has completed 40 of 99 passes for 579 yards, but he is also the team's second-leading rusher with :l29 yards on 73 carries . have remained in a 5-2 front , although Fogarty and defcn- si ve coo rdi na tor Kevi n 2\'kGarry have worked to add more options to that setup. USD now enters the crucial already played the other six Division III school s i n Southern California; what re- mains on the schedule are four part of its season. It has with Hayward State. "The major difference in playing Division II schools is depth,'' Fogarty said. "We have one or two big guys, but they have several. "We will definitely have to play our best game to beat Hayward. We can't stand and play with them defensively, so we'll have to try some things. And we can't just run at them offensively like we have done so far. We have to throw more . But we still have to control the line of scrimmage with the run Uetens1vely, the Toreros Division II teams, starting

against Hedlands, trying to ad- Just to a new head coach and a new "Slot I" offense. After winning their first three, the Toreros stumbled and lost 28-7 l SU then faced a crucial point in its season. Last year, the Toreros started out :1-0, then lost to Occidental on na- tional television and skidded to a 4-6 finish. This year, they went from the Oxy loss to a The Torcros fumbled on their first play from scrim- mage and quickly faced a 7-0 deficit. But they rebounded to score a 23-19 victory. "That was an important win, especially corning after last year," Fogarty said. ''Whittier was rated 13th in the nation among Division III teams at The Toreros have been a run-oriented team, passing the ball about 30 percent of the time. This is probably because the quarterback, Phil Spencer. is a converted defensive back game at Whittier. the time." "I've always been a running coach," says Fogarty. "Peo- ple accuse me of not wanting to Occidental. who. runs better than he throws.

Comeback nets Toreros a win

players were still mu," Fogarty said. may still be loyal to him. but it didn't affect how they reacted loyal to "They Fogarty said he had decided to leave St. Francis before the wanted to seek a college-level job, probably as an assistant at a Division I school. But when start of the '82 season. He "I thought often about being a head coach at a Division III school, but I thought I'd ham to start as an assistant,·' he Division III was attractive to Fogarty precisely because it isn't "big time," a la Nebraska or USC. Players don't receive any financial aid just for being athletes in Division III "I like deali,.g with kids who want to play football, who are out there because they want to play. not because they are go- ing to be famous." he said. "I also like the small scliool at- And things are m the proper mosphere. like St. Francis. to me fortunate."' I've been vcrJ he learned about opening, he applied. the USD said. programs.

first points of the game. The Toreros were aided by a pass interference penalty in the endzone on the play before Spencer's dive. Unfortunately for the Toreros that would be the last time they would see the end- zone until the fourth quarter. "We've been known to be a better second half team," said ;\IcAlpin. "We just had to hope the defense was going to be able to keep us in the game." McAlpin and the Toreros got their wish, even though they fell behind. i\Iaurice Harper caught an eight-yard scoring pass from Laverne quarter- back l\lark Van Allen with 3:39 left in the first half to tie the score. Then. with 1:51 left m the third quarter, the Leopards took the lead at l-t-7 on a 20-yard run by Clarence Thomas.

TV cameras. They lost 34-20 and were never quite the same, dropping four of their last five games . "Somehow that game on television hurt last year." said McAlpin. "We didn't play very well that day and it hurt us the rest of the year." So far this year not much has bothered the Toreros. Their only loss came against Oc- cidental two weeks ago. "This team seems to have a lot more character than last vear,''said the 5-foot-9, i80-pounder who has gained 684 yards this season. "Everyone seemed to have gotten down on each other last year after the TV game. I just hope we don't have to play on television this year." Saturday night the USD of- fense took some time getting into gear. Quarterback Phil Spencer finished off an 11-play dri"e with a one-yard plunge late in the first quarter for the

.tnlrrxln One of the olJJectives of the 'SD football team this year wa to ra.-e the memory of last sea on·. 4 6 record. Thus far into the 1983 cam- paign the Toreros have done their best at this task as they have raced to a 5-l record. Their fifth wm came at home Saturday night when they beat the Univer ·ity of LaVerne 28-11. Ttie star of the mght for the Toreros wa tailback Jerome McAlpin. The senior from Los Angeles gamed 106 yards on 22 carries. McAlpin was also one of the players on last season's team and he says one of the reasons for the 4-6 record was USD's \!,as rare television ap- pearance at midseason, during the 1982 NFL players' strike. Aftc>r winning their first three games the Toreros went to Oc- cidental and played before the

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(Continued from page C 11) Even trailing going into the fourth quarter McAlpin was positive the Toreros could come back. "We knew it was just a matter of getting the offense going," he said. . The offens~ finally got its act together on the f~r~t possess10n o! the final quarter. McAlpin fimshed off the six-play, 65-yard drive with a 19-yard run around the end. . After the defense held on the next series the Toreros went right back to work. Starting on his own 49, Spencer drove the Toreros down to the ~opard ~2. On_third-and-four , Spencer found wide receiver Michael Rish in the endzone for the touchdown that finally put the Tor eros ahead for good. USD _added its final touchdown in the game's last minute, when Spencer scored from five yards out. McAlpin said he feels that new head coach Brian Fogarty has brought in a positive attitude for t~e team.,,"H~ 's kept the whole team really up this rE:ar, said McAlpin. "We just have to stay positive the rest of the way." The Toreros, who play on the NCAA, Division II! .l~vel, now close their season against four D1VIs10n II teams. The first of these is a 1 p.m. game against Cal State Hayward Saturday at JSD.

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Photo tiy r,,,r USO tailback Jerome McAlpin breaks for daylight against Laverne Saturday.

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