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i Sept. 3, 1976 S.F. EXAMINER Page 51 Examiner Football preview in Low ratings spur Bruin uuKz yes The Pac 8 signs that it might just have the talent to make it back to Pasadena come Jan. 1. Terry Donahue, who was offensive line coach under Dick Vermeil last year, has compensated for the loss of players like John Sciarra and Cliff Frazier by changing his system to suit the talents of their replacements.

Dankworth is not as quick or as clever with the pitch, so the Bruins' veer offense will have less of the QB scraping the line of scrimmage and pitching the ball at the last moment and more straight handoffs to the backs. "With backs like Wendell Tyler and Theotis Brown, it only makes sense to get them the ball as often and as early as possible," Dankworth said. "They are super backs and we want them running with it." A year ago Tyler, although playing with a broken wrist for much of the season, gained a school record 1,388 yards, 6.7 yards a carry. Brown, a 6-3, 218 pound sophomore who runs the 40 in 4.4 seconds, has emerged as the Bruins' power back in practice, even out-shining Tyler at times. Steve Tetrick is Frazier's replacement at nose guard.

He is 5-11 and 208 pounds, so he will not physically dominate people. Donahue has therefore geared his whole defense to quickness and speed. Donahue even shifted Jerry Robinson from wide receiver to inside linebacker and just about everybody from Samoan tackles Pete Pele and Manu Tuiasosopo right down the line is quick off the line. No one on the Bruin defensive unit it heavier than 240. hangup? Well, it's always a hangup to be in the gutter.

Winning is the only way to change things. Not just once every 10 years, but every year. We have to show what happened in the Rose Bowl was no miracle. My only personal goal this year is not the Heisman Trophy, but to put UCLA on the same scale with SC as a football school." As annoying as this lack of public faith is to the Bruins, almost are all are willing to concede that there are advantages to being low-rated, advantages that might be plumbed for another trip to Pasadena. Foremost among these is that they are starting off right where they did a year ago, underdogs and rallying behind a new, young coach.

No one really expects them to repeat. "If it were up to me, we wouldn't be in the preseason rankings at all," said quarterback Jeff Dank-worth. "A low ranking doesn't give us the chance to ease off and be complacent. We know we have to play well and fight for our position." More than that, the rankings stand by themselves as an incentive, like a winning season or a bowl invitation. "The coaches don't have to tell us anything about those polls," said defensive back Oscar Edwards.

"We can read just fine. We see that the polls put us down, the the media's putting us down, and we want to prove ourselves." "Oh, I understand the lack of recognition, all right. If you are, drinking Sanka for three years and then somebody tells you all of a sudden that this brand over here is better, you're not going to listen. Everybody just thinks we are a one-year freak, everybody but us." UCLA is not without question marks, but there are Lost of a series By Jim Bainbridge Examiner Sports Staff WESTWOOD The United Press poll puts UCLA at No. 14, AP places the Bruins 17th and Sports Illustrated does not list them at all.

When the Pacific-8 Conference Skywriters voted yesterday at the end of their careening tour down the coast, they named UCLA the fourth best team in the conference. Considering that UCLA is the defending Rose Bowl champion and has compiled a 32-10-3 record over the last four years, this is something of an affront, the kind of slap that would bring fiery campus reaction almost anyplace else. But, you see, at UCLA, affrontery is still the norm, at least in the fall, and is treated as such. "Why should we mind about the polls?" said linebacker Ray Burks. "They always think of us at the bottom.

We're the basketball school. USC is supposed to be the football school. The only way we can get past that is to continue playing like we did at the end of last season. We have to prove ourselves again." It is a chunk of reality that athletes at UCLA come to understand quickly. None of them likes being thought of as the in town, but that's how it is.

While USC sells 50,000 season tickets and draws 58,607 fans per home game, UCLA's season ticket sales are less than 20,000 and its average attendance just over 42,000. To the Bruin players, the publicity gap seems no less wide. "There are a lot of gifted people here who don't get recognition," said tailback Wendell Tyler. "Is it a The season schedule: 23 Oct 30 Nov. a Cslltornls Berksley Wnshlngton Seattle Oregon Lot Angeles Oregon Stata Corvalna USC LoiAngelss Sspt.

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13 Nov. 20 Slow start doesn't worry BiEefnikoff i 4 -7 If vr, By Roger Williams Fred Biletnikoff is a perfectionist. Maybe this is why he is one of the great receivers in professional football. He expects to catch every ball thrown anywhere near him. The Oakland Raiders' talented wide receiver is second only to Charley Taylor of the Washington Redskins among active receivers.

His 493 lifetime receptions place him ninth on the all-time list. The former Florida State star, now in his 12th year with the Raiders, has caught 40 or more passes for a record nine straight years. Biletnikoff's records are too numerous to recount them here, but his career marks of 62 touchdowns and 7,692 yards in receptions are among the best in the game. "He is one of the great all-time receivers in the National Football League," said Tom Flores, receiver coach for the Raiders and a former quarterback at Buffalo, Kansas City and Oakland. "Biletnikoff was vastly underrated for a long time, but he is finally getting the recognition due him.

He has always been a good clutch receiver, very surehanded. And he has always worked hard, very hard, to be the best receiver in football." As always, the 6-1, 190-pound Biletnikoff will be one of Ken Stabler's favorite targets when the Raiders host the Seattle Seahawks in their final exhibition game at the Coliseum tomorrow night. Biletnikoff, who is in the midst of a contract dispute with the Raiders and was suspended for one game earlier in the season, felt he wasn't well prepared for last Sunday's game with the San Francisco 49ers. "I ran some bad patterns," he said, "and I let one ball get away from me that should have been a touchdown. I just had trouble getting off and didn't run really good patterns." Biletnikoff's backup, Mike Siani, who suffered a whiplash in an auto accident en route to the airport for the Raiders' preseason game with the New York Jets, is working out this week and expected to play tomorrow night.

On the other side, Cliff Branch still serves as the Fred Biletnikoff, a favorite target No. 1 deep threat for the Raiders. Branch is also exceptionally good on the short passes as well. NOTES: Federal laws do not apply to exhibition football games not on network television, so there was never much chance of tomorrow night's game being televised. It will be on taped delay tomorrow at 11:45 p.m.

and again at 12:30 p.m. Sunday on KGO (channel 7) Defensive lineman Kelvin Korver will miss tomorrow night's game, and probably many more after that. He underwent surgery Wednesday for a torn chest muscle and will be sidelined indefinitely. New Spartan coach sets lofty goals By Frank Blackman Examiner Staff Writer SAN JOSE Just like almost every other head coach, Lynn Stiles has an inspirational motto prominently displayed in his office. "Is what I'm doing or about to do getting us closer to our one objective WINNING?" reads the hand-lettered poster posted behind the desk of San Jose State's new football coach.

Well, considering Stiles has inherited a squad that finished 9-2 last season, and that the school's hierarchy is convinced an even brighter tomorrow is possible, the answer had better be a resounding "Yes." "If there are any pressures to bear, they are self-imposed," the 35-year-old Stiles said softly. "Much more, so than the pressure of the situation. I'm my own worst critic. "However, I am aware of the situation and I realize where we are. I also realize and visualize where we'd like to go." Not surprisingly, the goals Stiles and the Spartans have aren't modest ones.

Last year after defeating two Pac-8 teams, Stanford and Oregon, and narrowly missing a Bay Area sweep by losing to Cal in the final moments, the Spartans began to dream some seemingly impossible dreams, like becoming the best in the West for a start. Sure, the architect of the football program, Darryl Rogers, left to take the head coaching job at Michigan State, but he wasn't the only one with a clear vision of the future. "Our goal is to be one of the top football programs in the western part of the United States," said Stiles, who last year was the defensive coordinator at UCLA, then followed head Coack Dick Vermeil across the country to the Philadelphia Eagles, only to be lured back by the Spartan job three weeks later. "If I felt any different, I'd be shortchanging myself, my players, the school." 1 Fine words, convincingly spoken, but how in blazes can he expect to compete with the glamorous Pac-8 schools like USC, UCLA, Stanford, Cal, for the prime specimens that graduate each year? Listen to the master plan: "The fact that we're sitting in the middle of the state of California, the fact that we're near the Pac-8 schools, but that we don't" necessarily adhere to all their rules, gives us an advantage. For example, where a Pac-8 rule might jeopardize an athlete's participation, if he attends San Jose State, he'll know he'll be able to play.

The fact that in this conference you can reshirt freshman and they still can have four years to play, while you can't do that in the Pac-8, is to our advantage, too. "We do have some advantages over the Pac-8, and if we continue to do well, we'll be able to get more and more athletes. And then we'll go stronger and stronger Well, you get the idea. Although Stiles grows cautious about the team's future in the Pacific Coast Athletic Association, which includes teams of the second rank and is certainly a hindrance to making the big time, it seems almost definite that the Spartans will become an independent in football soon. Already, negotiations are under way with various schools around the country to schedule games.

"We just negotiated a home-and-home series with Baylor, and we're looking at the possibility of playing other name schools. Which ones? Well, we've been in contact with the academies and with some other schools in the Midwest. Of course, we're always interested in playing Pac-8 schools." 49ers sign veteran to fill tackle vacancy falo Bills and San Diego Chargers. The Chargers placed him on He was signed by the 49ers as a free agent. The San Francisco 49ers have strengthened their offensive line by signing Halvor Hagen, 6-5, 264 pound tackle.

Born in Oslo, Norway, Hagen played football at Weber State in Utah. The Dallas Cowboys made him their No. 3 draft choice in 1969, and in the next eight years he played with the Cowboys, New England Patriots, Buf- Hagen may play In the final practice game of the season in Los Angeles Saturday night, although he will have had only two days' practice. The 49ers, because of injuries, are that Jm Mi BPTB desperate for offensive tackles. Ml Three Days Only Broncos lose Parsons for opener MON.

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The 6-foot-6, 220-pound senior at San Diego State went out yesterday as a walk-on tight end. In high school, the former Fontana football player earned scholarship offers from every Pacific-8 school but one. Instead, he went to Chaffey College and played basketball, not football, averaging 23.1 points. SAN DIEGO The Atlanta Hawks cut him. He joined an Italian pro basketball league, but an earthquake shook that up.

He went to Belgium, but didn't make a team there. The Harlem Globetrotters tried him as a straight man in their act. He walked out voluntarily on that, he said. All this took place this summer. Sports Calendar IDUNLOP I GOLF SHIRTS I GREENJOYS by i CARRY BAGS pga ong.

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Despite Rogers' departure and many coaches visiting this summer hoping to lure athletes away, the team remained intact. Because he took the job in April and didn't have time to recruit, Stiles is fortunate to inherit a squad with 23 seniors. Chief among them is San Francisco product Wilson Faumina, who played his prep ball at Balboa. "I think everything you've heard in regards to Wilson Faumina relative to being an All-America candidate is really an underestimation of his capabilities," gushed Stiles about his 6-5, 265 pound defensive tackle. "I believe that if the young man had a significant-amount of publicity and people would take the time to see what he's about as an athlete and a person, he'd be a consensus Ail-American without any reservations." You can gather from the ringing endorsement that the coach likes Faumina.

He also likes another Balboa product, starting fullback Lewis Nelson. Then there's Rick Kane, a halfback who gained 1,000 yards last year and would bring a smile to any coach's face. Sure, there are some questions yet to be answered can Steve DeBerg adequately replace Roger Proffitt at quarterback. Will the offensive line give him enough time to find out. But overall, there's a lot to like.

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