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The Rise of Washington State University Football

Author: Ben Donahue

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2023-08-28

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1439678995

The rise of the crimson and gray. In 1987, Dennis Erickson arrived in Pullman, Washington to take over the struggling Washington State University football program. Under his leadership, the Cougars ended 1988 with a 9-3 record and a victory in the Aloha Bowl. In just two years, the team had transformed, and Erickson's lifelong friend, Mike Price, took over in 1989 to build on that legacy. By the end of Price's tenure, WSU had appeared in five bowl games including two Rose Bowls, eclipsing the four bowl games in the entire program's history. The coaches also produced a number of high-profile NFL quarterbacks, including Drew Bledsoe and Ryan Leaf. Join author Ben Donahue as he explores how the Washington State University Cougars went from doormats to perpetual contenders.

Rise of Washington State University Football

Author: Ben Donahue

Publisher: History Press

Published: 2023-08-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781540258250

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The Rise of Washington State University Football

Author: Ben Donahue

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

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Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1467152919

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The Crimson and the Gray

Author: Richard B. Fry

Publisher:

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13:

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The Crimson and the Gray reviews the sports history of Washington State University from its very first athletic contest, which resulted in a shutout victory for its baseball team. Learn about early WSU football, including the miracle team of 1906, which was undefeated, untied, and unscored upon. Read about the exploits of Hack Applequist, Biff Bangs, Bobo Brayton, Hugh the Phantom Campbell, Bull Durham (who later became an admiral), the two Docs, Froggy, Ike, the Moose of the Palouse, the Silver Fox, and hundreds of other sports greats.

Washington State Cougars

Author: Bud Withers

Publisher: Globe Pequot

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780762739752

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Veteran sportswriter Bud Withers takes Washington State fans through the highs and lows of Cougar football in this book of stories, photos, and anecdotes.

Tales from the Washington State Cougars Sideline

Author: Jim Walden

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-10-01

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 1613216300

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During an association with the Washington State football program that started in 1977, Jim Walden established a foundation of competitive expectations that helped spur the success of contemporary Cougar teams. Walden’s 1981 Cougars broke a 51-year bowl drought, and with victories in three of his last five Apple Cup games against Washington, Walden finally leveled the field with WSU’s cross-state rivals. Walden’s teams beat every opponent in the Pac-10 Conference at least once, squaring off against powerhouses USC, UCLA, and Washington despite a deficit in resources that he once described as “having to fight battles every Saturday with a really short sword.” He kidded and sparred with coaches like Don James, John Robinson, and Terry Donahue, while ticking off a few others with his outspokenness. He offered his opinions so frequently and frankly that his university president had “The Walden Release” printed and ready as a disclaimer for the press: “The opinions of Coach Walden do not necessarily reflect the stance of the WSU administration.” In Tales from the Washington State Cougars Sideline, the stories cover players and coaches alike, including Jack “The Throwin’ Samoan” Thompson, the colorful “Lone Star” Dietz, Bill Doba, and many more. Walden reveals the effective strategies and the flubs and tells what really happened on the field and in the locker rooms. He also shares the ways he was able to coax prospects into coming to remote Pullman and what he was really screaming at officials all those times. Walden tells his stories the way he coached—all out and nothing held back, with wit and humor.

Washington State University Football

Author: Cameron Silver

Publisher:

Published: 2009-09-02

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9781448695461

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Visit Dr. Experimenter's laboratory in the dungeons of the Washington State University as he busily creates the perfect Cougars football player. With all the right pieces of great football players now together, the mad scientist fastens the last bolts to hold the parts in place. He removes the cover and shows the world his new creation . . . The Perfect Cougar!A great gift for any WSU!

Football Revolution

Author: Bart Wright

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2020-03-01

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1496209206

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For the last twenty-five years, the most dominant offensive strategy in college football has been the spread offense, which relies on empty backfields, lots of receivers and passing, and no huddles between plays. Where the spread offense started, why it took so long to take hold, and the evolution of its many variations are the much-debated mysteries that Bart Wright sets about solving in this book. Football Revolution recovers a key, overlooked, part of the story. The book reveals how Jack Neumeier, a high school football coach in California in the 1970s, built an offensive strategy around a young player named John Elway, whose father was a coach at nearby California State University, Northridge. One of the elder Elway’s assistant coaches, Dennis Erickson, then borrowed Neumeier’s innovations and built on them, bringing what we now know as the spread offense onto the national stage at the University of Miami in the 1980s. With Erickson’s career as a lens, this book shows how the inspiration of a high school coach became the dominant offense in college football, prepping a whole generation of quarterbacks for the NFL and forever changing the way the game is played.

Chance for Glory

Author: Darin Watkins

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781943164486

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Chance for Glory chronicles the untold story of the magical 1915 season, when the innovative strategies of Native American coach William Lone Star Dietz transformed undersized players into giants on the football field and led Washington State to victory in the first Rose Bowl. Published by Aviva Publishing.

Jim Walden's Tales From The Washington State Cougars Sideline

Author: Jim Walden

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

Published: 2007

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781613211571

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Rival coach Don James of the University of Washington once called himself a 2,000-word underdog to Jim Walden. James may have been underestimating the opinionated Walden, even at those lopsided odds. During an association with the Washington State football program that started in 1977, Jim Walden established a foundation of competitive expectations that helped spur the success of contemporary Cougar teams. Waldens 1981 Cougars broke a 51-year bowl drought, and with victories in three of his last five Apple Cup games against Washington, Walden finally leveled the field with WSUs cross-state rivals. Waldens teams beat every opponent in the Pac-10 Conference at least once, squaring off against powerhouses USC, UCLA, and Washington despite a deficit in resources that he once described as having to fight battles every Saturday with a really short sword. He kidded and sparred with coaches like James, John Robinson, and Terry Donahue, while ticking off a few others with his outspokenness. He offered his opinions so frequently and frankly that his university president had The Walden Release printed and ready as a disclaimer for the press: The opinions of Coach Walden do not necessarily reflect the stance of the WSU administration. In Jim Waldens Tales from the Washington State Cougars Sideline, the coach, a Mississippi-born storyteller, looks at coaches from the colorful Lone Star Dietz to Bill Doba and gives readers a glimpse at the personalities of Cougar All-Americans as well as the other quirky individuals who made their way onto the WSU sidelines. Walden reveals the effective strategies and the flubs and tells what really happened on the field and in the locker rooms.