University of Arizona - Desert Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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When you study films and read the scouting reports of our opponents, there isn ' t a team on our schedule that we can ' t beat. But if we don ' t go out and play and our fans don ' t go out and yell like it was at the ASU game, we could go 0-11. Head Coach Larry Smith TOUCHDOWN! That seemed to be the Wildcat ' s motto this past season. The team has scored three different ways offense, defense, and the special unit. By the mid- way of the season, the ' Cats had already accumulated 70% of the total points scored during the ' 82 season. With the help of a stagger- ing offensive line, Senior Tom Tunnicliffe, a Heismann Trophy candidate, completed pass after pass to place him in the elite group of top five all-time Pac-Ten pass- ers. On the other side of the scrim- mage line, Arizona boast All- America Linebacker Ricky Hun- ley. The team put together by Head Coach Larry Smith and his assistants may not have gone 11-0 as they would have liked, but when the Wildcats were on the field, Arizona stadium was in the presence of more talent than in 84 years of UA football. 1) Tom Tunnicliffe reads the Utah de- fense after receiving the snap. He passed for 298 yards that day. 2) Craig Schiller kicks a 71-yard punt into the Utah endzone. 3) Tom Tunnieliffe drops back for a pass. He passed for 1 5 1 yards against Cal-State Fullerton. 4) Ivan Lesnik, George Hinkle, and John Barthalt force Cal-State Fullerton to give up the ball. 5) Larry Smith, Assis- tant Mark Lundsford, and Tom Tunni- cliffe discuss play selections against Or- egon State. Tunnicliffe threw for 244 yards and two touchdowns that day. 242 FOOTBALL

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