11-06-2017, 02:30 PM
(11-06-2017, 11:34 AM)Duck Tears link Wrote:Mike Dotterer lamented, years later, how the '82 team "celebrated like we won the Rose Bowl" that day.
If you began following Stanford football in the early '80s, you have a special hatred for the song "Tequila," (a Washington marching band staple).
The Huskies back then were just loaded. They won the conference twice (1980, 1981). Only losses in the Apple Cup (1982, 1983) denied them a Rose Bowl four-peat. In 1984 they spent over a month ranked No. 1 before going 11-1 and winning the Orange Bowl -- a first for a Pac-10 team -- over Oklahoma.
Don James loaded his roster with their home state's best players. He sprinkled it with lots of California recruits (Lonzel Hill, Jacque Robinson, Reggie Rogers, Vince Newsome), some questionable characters among them.
After 1982, Stanford didn't beat Washington until 1994...and didn't do it again until 2004...while going 31 years (1975-2006) between wins at Husky Stadium.
David Shaw did some amazing things in his first five seasons (54-14 / .794 winning percentage) here. The 1980-1984 seasons amounted to Don James' best five-year run (48-12 / .800) in Seattle.
Colorado, Stanford and USC (twice) won the Orange Bowl subsequent to Washington in 1982.Â
TRIVIA: what was the only West coast football team to win the Orange Bowl before Washington in 1985?
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