Tag: Football
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One happy ending The WSU Cougars football team pulled off the biggest comeback in Apple Cup history in 2012. 3D-4U technology, developed by WSU professor Jay Jayaram and his team of (mostly WSU) engineers, puts replay and different views into the hands of the audience at sports and other events. Bob Robertson has been the voice that fans of WSU Cougar football have connected with for over 510 games. A conversation with WSU head football coach Mike Leach ranges far and wide, from Cougar football prospects to hunting bears to the Tokyo Fish Market.
Spring 2013
Categories: Athletics
Tags: Apple Cup, Football
Replays for all
Spring 2013
Categories: Business, Engineering
Tags: Concerts, Football, Mobile and tablet technology, 3D technology
That voice
Winter 2012
Categories: Communication, Athletics
Tags: Broadcasting, Football, Sports broadcasters
A talk with Mike Leach about life, animals...and Cougar football
Fall 2012
Categories: Athletics, Campus life
Tags: Football, Coach
Running with the Pac-12—A conversation with Bill Moos
Fall 2011
This summer, Washington State University and the other nine schools
in the Pac-10 conference expanded to the Pac-12, welcoming the
University of Colorado and the University of Utah. WSU Athletic
Director Bill Moos has been part of the c...
Categories: Athletics
Tags: Football, Pac-12, Buildings
Living for a cure
Winter 2010
At his home on the banks of the Columbia River just north of Wenatchee is one of Mike Utley’s achievements. A Ford F-350 pickup. Black with blue flames jutting from front to back, the truck gives
off as imposing a
presence as the 6-fo...
Categories: Health sciences, Athletics
Tags: Philanthropy, Football, Spinal cord injuries, Mike Utley
Cougar pride
Spring 2010
Though they attended Washington State nearly a half
century apart, Gary Schneidmiller and Herbert Meeker share an
unbreakable bond to a storied tradition. For the past three decades, Washington State’s mascot, Butch, has
been an anonymous stu...
Categories: Alumni, Athletics
Tags: Football, Butch Cougar, Statues
Doubling back
Winter 2009
Drew Bledsoe may be best remembered by Washington State fans for what he accomplished on a snowy day in November 1992.And while visions of Bledsoe, receiver Phillip Bobo, and a snow bank
are foremost in their memories, these days, Bledsoe wants Coug...
Categories: Alumni, Athletics
Tags: Wine, Football
A player to be reckoned with
Fall 2009
On October 2, 1954, a day shy of his 21st birthday, fullback Carl Talmadge “Duke”
Washington ’59 and his fellow Cougars played the University of Texas on a sweltering day at Memorial Stadium. The result was a 40-14 Texas victory, a forgettabl...
Categories: Athletics
Tags: African Americans, Football
Unstoppable Rueben Mayes
Winter 2008
On a raw, wet fall afternoon in Eugene, Oregon, in late October
1984, Rueben Mayes' feet carried him to what was at the time the
greatest accomplishment of any NCAA running back.
Just a week earlier, Mayes ran for 216 yards at Stanford in a
rally...
Categories: Athletics
Tags: Football, Hall of Fame
Stadium on the rise
Fall 2008
In 1978, Sam Jankovich knew something had to be done about
the football stadium.With just 27,600 seats, Martin Stadium was much smaller than its
counterparts in the Pacific-10 Conference. Because of a Pac-10 rule
requiring guarantees of $25,000 to...
Categories: Athletics
Tags: Football, Martin Stadium
Signing Day Central
Summer 2008
During the early morning hours of Wednesday, February 6, Rich
Rasmussen enters the Washington State University football office
carrying two boxes, each containing a dozen donuts, and places them
on the front counter.
Rasmussen opens the door to h...
Categories: Athletics
Tags: Football
One Hundred Apple Cups
Winter 2007
The first contest between cross-state rivals Washington State
and the University of Washington took place on a muddy field in
Seattle in November 1900. The Washington Agricultural College
"Farmers," as we were known then, made the 290-mile trek fr...
Categories: Athletics
Tags: Apple Cup, Football
A burning mystery
Fall 2007
During spring break in
April 1970 an arson fire destroyed the wood stands of
Washington State University's football stadium. The Cougars
were forced to play off campus for two years while the
University built a new stadium. To thi...
Categories: WSU history, Athletics
Tags: Football, Crimes
What I've Learned Since College: An interview with Robbie Tobeck
Summer 2006
Categories: Athletics, Alumni
Tags: Football
Legends of the Palouse
Fall 2005
Categories: Athletics, Alumni
Tags: Film, Documentary, Football
I never said thank you.
Fall 2005
May 2005Inside the First Samoan Congregational Church in Oceanside,
California, the Rev. Junior Tupuola is addressing his congregation,
when he notices a figure in white moving across the back of the
sanctuary. To Tupuola, it resembles an angel.As...
Categories: Alumni, Athletics
Tags: Guns, Football
WSU Hall of Fame adds 5 who excelled
Summer 2004
Carol GordonOn February 21, the day of her induction into Washington State
University's Athletic Hall of Fame, Carol Gordon offered a silent
prayer. That evening she shared her petition with 180 guests at the
induction banquet in the Compton Union...
Categories: Alumni, Athletics
Tags: Women athletes, Coach, Basketball, Football, Track and field, Hall of Fame
They're back! Doba's football staff includes five former Cougars
Summer 2003
As athletes they brought recognition to Washington State
University. Now, as assistant coaches, Mike Levenseller, Michael
Walker, Timm Rosenbach, Ken Greene, and George Yarno are being
counted on to help shape the football future at their alma
ma...
Categories: Athletics
Tags: WSU staff, Football
There’s no give-up in Jason Gesser
Spring 2003
When the Cougar football program was at its bleakest, he was at his best.
Categories: Athletics
Tags: Football
Patient Doba pays his dues, realizes his dream
Spring 2003
Washington State didn't need to conduct a national search for a
new head football coach when Mike Price resigned December 17. His
successor was already on campus. He was familiar with WSU, Pullman,
and the Pac-10.Bill Doba, defensive coordinator a...
Categories: Athletics
Tags: Football
Long wins Outland Trophy, four named All-America
Spring 2003
Washington State's Rien Long proved to be more than a "West
Coast wonder." The 6-6, 286-pound defensive tackle earned the
Outland Trophy as college football's top interior lineman for
2002."He put us on the map tonight," coach Mike Price said of t...
Categories: Athletics
Tags: Awards, Football
Lone Star Dietz left a football legacy
Winter 2002
"That was the game
which was to change the face of New Year's Day in the years to
come." —Rose Bowl historian Rube
SamuelsenIn the first four decades of the 20th century, hardly a week
went by during football season when the name of Wil...
Categories: WSU history, Athletics
Tags: Native Americans, Football
"D" is for Doba
Fall 2002
“I missed
those butterflies.” - Coach Bill DobaBill Doba doesn’t think the football turf is greener elsewhere.
He likes his coaching job at Washington State University and living
in Pullman, where “the only traffic congestion is on foo...
Categories: Athletics
Tags: Football
A Titan's Tale
Summer 2002
Bill Nollan didn't like not understanding. So he drove his athletes and his students ever harder. As if their lives depended on it.
Categories: Memoirs, Athletics, Alumni
Tags: Football
The Cougars win their place in the sun
Spring 2002
Forget the adage, “Nice guys finish last.” Coach Mike Price and
his Washington State football team are proof to the contrary. The
Cougars overcame a 20-17 halftime deficit to defeat Purdue 33-27
December 31 in the Sun Bowl at El Paso. The crow...
Categories: Athletics
Tags: Football