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Cos Angeles Slimes VALLEY SPORTS 22 Part III Sunday, September 13, 1987 Steve Springer In Boise, Football Is Everything BOISE, Ida. Attention Al Davis: Tired of playing bump and run with California politicians? Tired of being intercepted by one legal defense after another? Ready to concede that your Raiders' proposed new home in Irwindale might be the pits? Have I got a deal for you! How do the Boise Raiders sound? Oh sure, they don't have a lot of people out here. Certainly not by L.A. standards. There are only about 125,000 in Boise, only about a million in the whole state of Idaho.

But they know a little something about football as evidenced by the 30-0 massacre staged by Boise State on Saturday night against Cal State Northridge. And they know plenty about building sports facilities. Example: The school wanted a first-rate arena for its basketball team. A group headed by Lt. Gov.

C.L. (Butch) Otter, was given 14 months to raise $3.2 million. Six months later he had collected $3.8 million. About ISO of the area's wealthier sports fanatics gave $65,000 each for a lifetime seat in both the basketball arena and the football stadium. Other sources of revenue included concerts involving everybody from the Beach Boys to John Denver, huge contributions by the Bronco Athletic Assn.

and funds raised by the student body. The result: the BSU Pavilion, an $18 million structure that already has been paid off several years ahead of schedule. Example: The BSU football stadium was financed by student revenue. It was built two decades ago with a seating capacity of 14,500. It since has been enlarged to hold 21,500 and there are plans to add additional seats, perhaps as many as 40,000.

Example: BSU athletes needed a weight room. Local businessman J.R. Simplot, who made his fortune in potatoes, donated $300,000 to $400,000 to build what he calls "a muscle shop." Example: The school never had a marching band. Keith Stein, another local businessman, pledged $250,000 to begin what has become Please see SPRINGER, Page 25 GLENN OAKLEY Associated Press Cal State Northridge tailback Richard Brown, right, makes a run for Plague of Turnovers daylight in the open field in the first quarter of a season-opening 30 Throws CSUN for a 0 loss to Boise State on Saturday 30-0 Loss By GARY KLEIN, Times Staff Writer BOISE, Ida. -Both Cal State Northridge quarterback Rob Huffman and the field he had just made his debut upon looked about the same after CSUN's opening game Saturday night against Boise State.

Blue. Huffman, a junior who was a JC Ail-American last season at Glen-dale, threw five interceptions and spent much of the evening lying flat on the boysenberry blue artificial turf of Bronco Stadium as Boise State rolled to a 30-0 nonconfer-ence victory before a crowd of 18,534. "I made a lot of mistakes and a lot of bad reads," said Huffman, who was 12 for 28 for 121 yards. "I'm sure that will be my worst game." CSUN Coach Bob Burt certainly hopes so, but Huffman's troubles were only part of the Matadors' problems against the Broncos, a Division I-AA team that is coming off its only losing season (5-6) since 1946. CSUN had eight turnovers, was bullied at the line of scrimmage and didn't start playing defense until the second half, which it entered trailing, 24-0.

Boise State quarterback Vince Alcalde burned the CSUN secondary for touchdowns twice in the first quarter and finished 9 of 16 for 184 yards in part-time service. "If you turn the ball over eight times to the Little Angels of the Poor, you're going to get beat," Burt said. "They threw the ball better than we thought they could. Of course, we helped them with some blown coverages." CSUN toughened in the second half and allowed just two field goals by P.K. Wiggins.

One other bright spot for the Matadors was the play of sophomore tailback Lance Harper, who gained 120 yards on 11 carries while splitting time with senior Richard Brown (13 for 58) and freshman Albert Fann 3 for 24 The first quarter featured the passing of Alcalde, who riddled CSUN's secondary for 131 yards. The CSUN offense was the scapegoat of the second quarter, committing four turnovers, including three interceptions, two by Huffman and one by Sherdrick Bonner. CSUN was called for illegal procedure on its first play after the opening kickoff and things didn't improve from there. After the Matadors punted, Boise State scored its first points minutes into the game on a 46-yard field goal by Wiggins. The Matadors did nothing with their next possession, punted, and the Broncos took over at their own 17.

Alcalde marched them 83 yards in 14 plays and concluded the drive with an 18-yard touchdown pass to Olaf Reinwald. CSUN failed again to move the ball after the ensuing kickoff, was forced to punt and Boise State got the ball on its own 18 with 37 seconds left in the quarter. One play later, Alcalde hit Steve Hale on a post pattern over the middle and Hale covered the remainder of the 80 yards for the Please see CSUN, Page 25 Cal Lutheran Wins Without Much Protest By GORDON MONSON, Times Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO-Cal Lutheran opened its football season Saturday with a convincing, sorrier-than-it-sounds 23-13 win. But before the dancing begins in Thousand Oaks, it should be noted that the Kingsmen beat up on a school with perhaps the worst football program in the NCAA's Division II San Francisco State. The Gators have not had a winning season since Richard Nixon was in the White House.

A year ago, they rolled up a record of 2-9, and one of the victories was a forfeit by Azusa Pacific, which used an ineligible player. There are numerous explanations for all the futility and fumbling at SFSU, the most interesting of which comes from Sam Goldman, the school's sports information director. "It's because of all the protesting that went on here back in the late '60s," he said. "We used to do all' right before that. But then a lot of students, football players, stayed away because of the reputation we had as a radical school.

The protest years caused it. "Ever since, we've been searching for a so-cailed winning season." Ironically, on the same afternoon CLU was pushing San Francisco State around, many of the former flower children who supposedly ruined the Gators' football program were gathering at a nearby park for the 20th -anniversary celebration of the "Summer of Love" an idyllic time when the hippies and the peace movement took precedence over stingy defense and sophisticated passing. Peace, however, was the last thing on the Kingsmen's minds. They were anxious to get off to a fast start in their opening game and they did. CLU scored its first points midway through the first Please see KINGSMEN, Page 23 FOOTBALL ROUNDUP L.A.

Lutheran Manhandled in 8-Man Debut L.A. Lutheran got off to a rocky start in the world of 8-man high school football Saturday afternoon. The Lions, who compiled a 2-7-1 record as a member of the Alpha League in 1986, were tamed by Twin Pines, 40-6, in their first-ever 8-man contest. After L.A. Lutheran's Travis Canel fumbled the opening kickoff, visiting Twin Pines wasted little time in lighting up the scoreboard.

On the first play from scrim-, mage, Marvin Burns hit running back Eric McDavis with a 30-yard touchdown pass. Later in the first quarter, running back Shawn Fletcher scampered 48 yards for Twin Pines' second touchdown, making the score 12-0. Lutheran scored its only points in the fourth quarter when Ron Nohles ran 42 yards for a touchdown. Twin Pines 12 8 20 40 L.A.Lutheran 0 0 0 6 6 McDavis 30 pass from Burns (run failed) Fletcher 48 run run failed) Hines 20 pass from Burns (run failed) McDavis 62 run (Fletcher pass from Burns) McDavis 23 interception return (Fletcher pass from Burns) Bums 13 run Nohles 42 run Rio Hondo Prep 35, Faith Baptist 24 Rick Johnson passed for two touchdowns and Dave Carson ran for one score and caught a touchdown pass to lead Rio Hondo to a nonleague victory in an 8-man football game at Faith Baptist. Faith Baptist took a 24-14 lead in the third quarter behind a pair of touchdown runs by junior David Hairston, but Rio Hondo scored the final 21 points of the game.

Richard Leon had two interceptions for Faith Baptist. Please see ROUNDUP, Page 25 Alvin Goree of Harbor, who recovered his fumble on this play, is GEORQE WILHELH Loj Angelea Ttmea tracked by Moorpark's Willie Gutierrez, center, and Michael Regan. Moorpark Foils Ferragamo's Graduation Plans By TIM BROWN, Times Staff Writer Chris Ferragamo did not go softly into the plight at Harbor College. After winning 10 City Section championships in 18 years as head football coach at Banning High, Ferragamo left the trophies behind to take the same post this season at Harbor. And he immediately made a bold proclamation, underlining his belief in the resurgence at Harbor by calling it, a "major college program at the junior college level." As it turned out, his debut was not major in any way.

Moorpark College, a junior college team at the junior college level, easily handled the Seahawks, 28-0, in the first game of the season for both teams Saturday afternoon at Moorpark College. "He's new to junior college football," Moorpark Coach Jim Bittner, in his ninth season, said of Ferragamo. "I think he does have good players, but they're young players. "Junior college football is a little different than all other levels." What's not different is the importance of controlling the line of scrimmage. Harbor boasted an of- fensive line that averaged 6-5 and 275 pounds.

However, the Sea-hawks clearly were beaten across the line. Ferragamo blamed it on a lack of intensity. "We've got to learn how to get a little fire," he said. "The fire just wasn't there." Perhaps it was doused early, when the Raiders took the opening kickoff and went 80 yards in 15 plays, capped by running back Larry Roberts' nine-yard dash around left end for a touchdown. Or maybe what put out the blaze was John Goslin's fumble recovery in the second quarter that led to Roberts' second touchdown of the half, putting the Raiders ahead, 14-0.

Harbor was never able to move the ball consistently. The Sea-hawks punted seven times in the game and lost three fumbles as Moorpark held them to 113 yards of total offense, 42 in the first half. "Their defense had a lot to do with our offense," Ferragamo said. "They're a very, very aggressive bunch. They're outstanding." Harbor quarterback Jeff Sullivan was sacked five times, and Moorpark even beat up on the Please see MOORPARK, Page 23.