USD Football 1991
THE BAY AIR-EA ness the explosion at Miami, Texas and Houston-but there was a time not too long ago when many of the nation's fi nest passers claimed a Bay Area background. Coaches schooled in this tradition soon began spreading the wealth. Mike White went to Illinois, where he was to influence quarterbacks Dave Wilson, Tony Eason, Jack Trudeau and Jeff George. Darryl Rogers shifted from the West Coast to Michigan State. Dennis Green brought the passing game to Northwestern. The Bay Area had its heyday during the aerial explosion of the '70s. John Ralston, who attended Cal, coached Stanford to back-to- back Rose Bowl triumphs with quarterbacks Jim Plunkett and Don Bunce and White as his top offensive assistant. Of the nine NCAA passing champions from I973 through I98 I, eight had Northern California roots, from Jesse Freitas of San Diego State to Jim McMahon of Brigham Young. During that same era, White developed Steve Bartkowski, Joe Roth and Rich Campbell at the University of California, while Bill Walsh was doing likewise with Guy Benjamin, Steve Dils and Turk Schonert at Stanford. If you're still not convinced, consider these facts: • Stanford produced six NCAA passing champions, from Bobby Garrett in 1953 to Schonert in 1979. Seven different Cardinal quar- terbacks have attained All-Ame rican distinction from Frankie Albert in 1940 to John Elway in 1982. • Cal is the only college in the nation to produce three Super Bowl quarterbacks: Joe Kapp (Vikings), Craig Morton (Cowboys and Broncos) and Vince Ferragamo (Rams). Marv Levy, who recruited Mo rton as the Golden Bears' coach in 1961 and had Walsh and White as assistants, made it as coach of the Bills this year. • Walsh, who reached the pinnacle of coaching success with three Super Bowl victories, attended San Jose State; worked with Morton as a Cal assistant; developed Ken Anderson and Dan Fouts as an NFL aide; coached Benjamin and Dils to back-to-back passing titles at Stanford; turned Steve DeBerg into the NFL's most prolific passer with the 49ers in 1979; and guided Montana to fame and fortune in the '80s. • White, now a Raiders' coach, attended the same high school (Acalanes of Lafayette) that spawned Norn1 Van Brocklin; played with Kapp at Cal; worked with Morton and Plunkett as an assistant; and continued grooming outstanding quarterback talent as the head coach at Cal and Illinois. • The fertile Santa Clara Valley produces blue-chip quarterbacks along with computer chips. It is the home of San Jose State, which turned Walsh and Dick Venne ii into master coaches. Dan Pastorini, Bob Berry, Morton, Bartkowski, Plunkett, McMahon and Campbell are among quarterbacks reared in the area. • The Sacramento-Stockton area also has produced its share of top-notch quarterbacks, beginning with Pacific's Eddie LeBaron down to UOP's Troy Kopp, who averaged 364 yards of total offense as a sophomore in 1990 with coach Walt Harris' run and shoot. The Northern California passing tradition began more than 50 years ago when Clark Shaughnessy revived a Stanford squad that had gone 1-7-1 in 1939. He converted Albert from a single-wing tailback to a T-quarterback, and the rest, as they say, is history. Albert used the new offense to guide Stanford to a I0-0 record in 1940, including a Rose Bowl victory over Nebraska. The other diminutive quarterbacks continued the Bay Area trend in the mid-'40s. In 1946, the 16-year-old LeBaron became the youngest college gridder in the nation for Pacific in nearby Stockton. LeBaron, a three-time Little All-American, quarter- backe d the 1950 College A ll -Stars to a 17-7 upset o f the Philadelphia Eagles. "The pros weren't that much of an influence in those days," explained former USC coach John Robinson, who grew up with boyhood chum John Madden in Daly City, j ust south of San Francisco. " I really think it was the other way around, because the 49ers didn't start until 1946. The first great pro-style passer from the Bay Area was Van Brocklin. The Dutch-man was a fourth-string tailback at Oregon
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