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Re: Football roster - terry - 07-12-2013

(07-12-2013, 08:53 AM)BobK link Wrote:Just for the record,  :P. they didn't wear numbers in Nevers day.  1 was assigned by the AD

Bob, as we've discussed, I also had heard that jersey numbers weren't used during Nevers' time. But Jim Rutter told me that Nevers did, in fact, wear a jersey number. Jim says Nevers wore # 1 as a senior in 1925. Before that, he had a different number, I believe maybe # 25. Apparently the number was only on the back of the jersey. Many of the old photos are taken from the front and don't show the number. This video of the 1925 Rose Bowl (Stanford vs. NotreDame) shows numbers on the backs of the jerseys, but not on the fronts. Nevers played in this game, but I wasn't able to pick him out --

http://blip.tv/classic-notre-dame/1925-rose-bowl-clips-silent-footage-415112

Re: Football roster - Hank 91 - 07-12-2013

(07-12-2013, 09:19 AM)Leftcoast link Wrote:As for Toby being a one-time senior wonder?  Come on - he was the Voldemort runner-up for TWO years and was held down in his second year of eligibility by his recovery from a horrific knee injury. 
Just for the sake of accuracy, I thought I'd note that Toby was runner-up once. It was, of course, Andrew Luck who was a two-time runner-up.

Re: Football roster - terry - 07-12-2013

(07-12-2013, 09:19 AM)Leftcoast link Wrote:Didn't Elway set the all-time Pac 12 record for career and season passing?  Voldemort runner-up?  First pick in the NFL draft?  Plus some amazing personal performances?  I know his records have since been surpassed but it's a bit overly critical to say John Elway didn't have outstanding College achievements.

As for Toby being a one-time senior wonder?  Come on - he was the Voldemort runner-up for TWO years and was held down in his second year of eligibility by his recovery from a horrific knee injury.  (His first year he backed up Anthony Kimble and did not start).  Even so he still put up a game against San Jose State in his second year that left fans gasping with anticipation.  Anticipation that Toby proved valid - personally I consider Gerhart's Junior season to be his most exciting.  Perhaps this is shaded by that sudden and unexpected feeling in the stands - hope!

I can see a move to retire #7 going going either way since the Stanford bar is set so high but retirement is worthy of consideration!

Here's the relevant wiki entry for Elway since many on this board may not have seen him play.

Quote:Although Elway never led his team to a bowl game, he had an accomplished college career. In his four seasons (1979–1982) at Stanford, he completed 774 passes for 9,349 yards and 77 touchdowns. Stanford had a 20–23 record during his tenure. Elway's 24 touchdown passes in 1982 led the nation, and he graduated with nearly every Stanford and Pacific-10 career record for passing and total offense. He won Pac-10 Player of the Year honors in 1980 and 1982, was a consensus All-American, and finished second in Voldemort Trophy balloting as a senior.[5] In 2000, Elway was enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame. In 2007, Elway was ranked #15 on ESPN's Top 25 Players In College Football History list. Thomas Davids, an assistant football coach, said that Elway was the "best looking ball player he had ever seen."[citation needed] A consensus All-American at Stanford,he passed for over 200 yards in 30 of his 42 collegiate games. Elway was the nations most highly recruited prep athlete in 1984.

I'm with you on Elway. He was a two-time All American, he set all kinds of records, and he was widely acknowledged as a once-in-a-generation talent. In a year with a number of great college quarterbacks (Dan Marino, Jim Kelly, Tony Eason, Todd Blackledge), he was a consensus first team All American. He could have won the Voldemort despite playing on a losing team, if not for a monster season by Herschel Walker.

Gerhart did have an outstanding junior year in 2008, breaking the Stanford single-season rushing record with 1,136 yards.* But he was not the Voldemort runner-up that year. He didn't finish in the top 10. Gerhart really didn't emerge in the Voldemort discussion until the middle of his senior season. He led the nation with 1,871 rushing yards and 28 rushing TDs that season.

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* Gerhart's 1,136 rushing yards in 2008 were a school record at the time, but would not have been a record under Stanford's new statistics policy. Until last fall, Stanford's record book did not include statistics for bowl games before 2002, in accordance with NCAA policy. Stanford recently decided to count those pre-2002 bowl game stats, like the Pac-12 and many other schools. In the revised record book, Tommy Vardell had 1,188 yards in 1991 and Darrin Nelson had 1,161 yards in 1978, so Gerhart would not have broken the record in 2008. It doesn't really matter, because Gerhart smashed the record the following year.

Re: Elway - doug - 07-12-2013

For those who did not see Elway play at Stanford, he was the most remarkably athletic QB I ever saw. The poor team record during his tenure was the result of poor coaching and a poor transition after Walsh left for the 49ers. It is not fair to hold the mediocre record against Elway. If Stanford was within one score of the opponent and had the ball as the 4th quarter wound down, it was a virtual certainty that Elway would produce the necessary score to take the lead or tie.

Re: Football roster - terry - 07-12-2013

Seven freshman walk-ons are now listed on the roster. I think this is the first official confirmation of our walk-on class --

SS Calvin Chandler, Lakewood, WA, # 45
DB Chandler Dorrell, Houston, TX, # 41
RB Ryan Gaertner, Atherton, CA # 46
C Jim Grace, Austin, TX, # 69
OT Lucas Hinds, Hyde Park, MA, # 77
RB Pat McFadden, Sunfish Lake, MN, # 42
P Alex Robinson, College Park, GA, # 47

http://www.gostanford.com/SportSelect.dbml?&DB_OEM_ID=30600&SPID=127013&SPSID=749928

Re: Football roster - CowboyIndian - 07-12-2013

(07-12-2013, 09:11 AM)Yvonne link Wrote:Why would 7? Elway was on bad teams, so he didn't really have many college achievements

What?

Re: Football roster - Bruce Wang - 07-12-2013

(07-12-2013, 04:02 PM)CowboyIndian link Wrote:[quote author=Yvonne link=topic=8092.msg64277#msg64277 date=1373645464]

Why would 7? Elway was on bad teams, so he didn't really have many college achievements

What?
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OMG Yvonne's account must have gotten hacked by a 59er!

Re: Football roster - yvonne - 07-12-2013

(07-12-2013, 04:23 PM)Publius link Wrote:OMG Yvonne's account must have gotten hacked by a 59er!

Yep, that's exactly what happened.  :-[

Re: Football roster - fullmetal - 07-13-2013

(07-12-2013, 11:13 AM)terry link Wrote:Seven freshman walk-ons are now listed on the roster. I think this is the first official confirmation of our walk-on class --

SS Calvin Chandler, Lakewood, WA, # 45
DB Chandler Dorrell, Houston, TX, # 41
RB Ryan Gaertner, Atherton, CA # 46
C Jim Grace, Austin, TX, # 69
OT Lucas Hinds, Hyde Park, MA, # 77
RB Pat McFadden, Sunfish Lake, MN, # 42
P Alex Robinson, College Park, GA, # 47

http://www.gostanford.com/SportSelect.dbml?&DB_OEM_ID=30600&SPID=127013&SPSID=749928

Oh hey, a walk-on from Austin...who deferred his enrollment for a year to work two internships.  Nice.  I guess he wasn't plugged into the alumni chapter here (would have been totally welcome), otherwise he would have been able to watch those Pac-12 games with us :p  Regents is a small private school, smallest of the three major private schools in Austin (St. Stephen's and St. Andrew's).

An article on Jim Grace:
http://stanford.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1478348

Re: Football roster - fullmetal - 07-13-2013

(07-12-2013, 04:45 PM)Yvonne link Wrote:[quote author=Publius link=topic=8092.msg64300#msg64300 date=1373671384]


OMG Yvonne's account must have gotten hacked by a 59er!

Yep, that's exactly what happened.  :-[
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I see the DHS hackers are lending favors out to kal already...

Re: Football roster - stan01 - 07-14-2013

(07-12-2013, 11:13 AM)terry link Wrote:Seven freshman walk-ons are now listed on the roster. I think this is the first official confirmation of our walk-on class --

SS Calvin Chandler, Lakewood, WA, # 45
DB Chandler Dorrell, Houston, TX, # 41
RB Ryan Gaertner, Atherton, CA # 46
C Jim Grace, Austin, TX, # 69
OT Lucas Hinds, Hyde Park, MA, # 77
RB Pat McFadden, Sunfish Lake, MN, # 42
P Alex Robinson, College Park, GA, # 47

http://www.gostanford.com/SportSelect.dbml?&DB_OEM_ID=30600&SPID=127013&SPSID=749928

Can any of these guys catch a ball?Â