South Side High School - Totem Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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Bowl and were defeated 27-22 by Tennessee. Atleast Michigan State gave the Big Ten a breath of life by winnig the Rose Bowl themselves. Another resurgent team from Indiana was the Fight- ing Irish from Notre Dame. Led by Heisman Trobhy win- ner Tim Brown the Irish re- turned to the glory days of not so long ago by posting a regular season record of 8- 3, against quite possibly the toughest schedule in the na- tion. Notre Dame's bowi trip was to the Cotton. This game will be forever re- membered by th brawl Brown started (well, finished) by attacking a Texas A M player who had swiped his towel. That wasn't all they took, as the Aggies collect- ed the rainbow, pot of gold, luck of the Irish, and the vic- tory by shredding Notre Dame 35-10. Baseball It's going, it's going, it's gone! Those words seemed to echo throughout the world of baseball in 1987, as hitters from all over the league pounded away at the plate. Overall, 1987 was deemed as the year of the hitter, and it showed. The Chicago Cub's Andore Dawson was tops in the Na- tional League with forty- nine home runs. The debate over whether the ball was actually more live raged on, and pitchers did their best to keep away from the long ball. Some, it seems, turned to dishonest methods, as in the Joe Neikro case. Neikro was questioned while pitching a game, and was found to have a nail file in his hip pocket. Whether he actual- ly used the file to alter the baseball was never officially determined though. Was this the only way to stop the incredible barrage of bat- ting talent being displayed? So it seemed, as the hitters raged on. The defending World Champion New York Mets had an average season, af- ter early expectations for them to repeat as the World Series winner. But a blazing season by the St. Louis Car- dinals, kept the Mets, and the rest of the National League East at bay. Early on in the season, the Milwua- kee Brewers looked as if they'd be the team to beat for 1987, starting out with a twelve-game winning streak. However, twelve consecutive losses, soon dashed their hopes for a dominating hand over the American League West. The Brewers had another streak, or rather a member of the Brewers did. Paul Moliter went on a thirty-nine-game hitting streak, stopping just a slight distance from the record fifty-six games. The surprise of the year, however, were the Minne- sota Twins. Picked to finish last in almost every pre-sea- son poll, the Twins came through with a potent, bal- anced offensive front lead by Kirby Puckett, and a bet- ter than average defense. On route to the World Se- ries, the Twins sent numerous home runs over the walls of the friendly confines of the Metrodome, nicknamed the homer dome for obvi- ous reasons. Home field advantage seemed to be the key for this year's World Series. The Twins jumped to a 2-0 ad- vantage over the Cardinals after capturing the first two games in the Metrodome. The Cardinals, in turn, took the next three games at their home field, Busch Stadi- um. With their collective backs to the wall, the Twins rallied back, winning the last two games, to capture their first ever World Champion- ship. In both games six and seven, the Cardinals held an early edge, but the Twins rallied back with superior slugging to eventually top- ple the Cards. Sailing Skipper Dennis Conner went to Australia to try and reclaim the America's Cup, yachting's most famous prize, which he had lost in 1983. Once down there, Conner and his crew in the Stars and Stripes succeeded in sweeping Australia's Kookaburra III in four con- secutive races in the final round. Tennis At Wimbeldon Pat Cash became Australia's first champion since 1°71, and Martina Navratilova won her eighth title overall and sixth straight to highlight the championships. Cash, the no. 11 seed, defeated Ivan Lendl in straight sets, 7-6 (7- 5), 6-2, 7-5. Navratilova snapped Steffi Graf's forty- five match, seven-month winning streak, 7-5, 6-3. Navratilova's eighth career victory tied the Wimbledon record, and her sixth straight broke the record she shared with Suzanne Lenglen. On July 24, Boris Becker and John McEnroe met in what turned out to be the longest — six hours, thirty- eight minutes — and cer- tainly one of the most dra- matic matches in American Davis Cup history. Becker, a two-time Wimbledon cham- pion and nine years younger than McEnroe, rallied from a 2-1 deficit in sets to win 4-6, 15-13, 8-10, 6-2, 6-2. The two started playing at 4:38 p.m. and didn't end until 11:16 that evening. Boxing Threatened with blindness and virtually inactive for five years, Sugar Ray Leonara provided boxing's biggest moment of 1987 when he beat Marvelous Marvin Hagler at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. The controversial twelve-round decision con- founded many boxing ex- perts. In claiming the WBC middle-weight title, Leonard sent Hagler his first defeat in eleven years and ended Hagler's seven-year reign as champion. Racing In the Indianapolis 500, Al Unser Sr. held off Robert Guerrero to win a record-ty- ing fourth time. Unser aver- aged 162.175 m.p.h. in be- coming the second four- time winner (the other is A.J. Foyt). For most of the race Mario Andretti dominated, but his engine failed sixty miles from the end. The Totem staff would like to thank Mii e Morissey, Brent Osborne, and Elbert Starks III for all their help and for all their stories and for a job well-done. Mini-mag — 27

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-r Mini-mag Sports Summary Basketball In basketball it was the year of the Hoosier. Neither Indiana's famed passion for basketball, nor the hit movie Hoosiers, nor a number one best seller — A Season on the Brink, about Indiana Uni- versity's coach Bobby Knight — could upstage the shot. The shot, of course, was Keith Smart's jumper with five seconds to play that put Indiana ahead of Syracuse 74-73 to win the national championship. The road to Ill's fifth national championship was an im- pressive one. Steve Alford became their all-time lead- ing scorer, needing just two points to tie the Big Ten record. Indiana and Purdue University shared confer- ence co-champion honors. And two unlikely heroes, jun- ior-college transfers Dean Garrett and Smart, led Indi- ana University to national prominence. In other college news. Navy's All-American c enter, David Robinson, became the only college player ever to accumulate 2.500 points and 1300 rebounds and shoot better than sixty per- cent. He was chosen first in the NBA draft by the San Antonio Spurs. All-American guard Steve Alford was chosen by the Dallas Maver- icks in the second round, a disappointing twenty-sixth overall. Perhaps the most contro- versial subject of the col- lege hoops season was a half-moon line painted 19'9 away from the basket. For the first time in history any shot taken past that line would now be worth three points instead of the usual two. UNLV was ranked num- ber one for most of the sea- son and Providence made it to the Final Four, both large- ly due to the three points. In the NBA championship series the Boston Celtics once again played the Los Angeles Lakers. The Celtics were trying to repeat as world champions while the Lakers were trying to avenge their loss of the year before. In the end the Lakers out-ran Boston in six games. Their star guard, Magic Johnson, earned MVP hon- ors ending the three year reign of Larry Bird. Football Incredible is the only word to describe football, both in college and pro, over the last year. In pro football fans were treated to a twen- ty-four day players strike, subsequent replacement scab player games, the end of a fairy-tale career, a mammuth trade, and, yes, the Indianapolis Colts post- ing- a winning record. They actually won the AFC East Division which meant they were able to participate in the playoffs. What may have been the biggest story of the NFL in 1987-88 came from the strike. The stopping of play orchestrated by the NFL Player's Association actually caused the cancellation of one week of the season and three weeks of scab-ball, football with non-union play- ers and players who crossed the picket lines. The strike ran from September 22 to October 16 and saw all kinds of people report to play for non-union teams. The Colts, it seemed, were destined to stumble through yet another season of mediocrity with touches of atrocity because of an erratic, non-productive of- fense. And then — THE TRADE. With a variety of manuevers, the Colts man- aged to sign one of the best running backs of the 1980s, Eric Dickerson. The addition of Dickerson turned the once-inept dolts into an impressive bunch of Colts. Indy finished 9-6, good enough for the pl ayoffs where they were brought down by the Cleveland Browns, 38-21. For the sec- ond year in a row, the win sent Cleveland to the AFC championship game. For the second year in a row, Cleveland got sent home with a heartbreaking loss by the Denver Broncos, who, for the second year in a row, got thumped soundly in the Super Bowl. About the only thing different for the Bron- cos this year was the margin of defeat (32 points in '88; 19 points in '87) and the op- ponents (the Washington Redskins in '88; the New York Giants in '87). The Colts weren't the only team in Indiana making noise. The Indiana Hoosiers, who once were the door- mats of college football, woke up and kicked in a few doors themselves. The Hoosiers went 8-3 in the reg- ular season, while getting huge monkeys off their shoulder pads by defeating conference rivals Michigan (14-10) and Ohio State (31- 10) in the same season. That may not seem like much, but IU hadn't beaten Ohio State in 31 years, and Michi- gan for nearly as long. For- get about monkeys; that was Kong perched on their backs. However, the Michi- gan State Spartans blew away lU's hopes of going to the Rose Bowl. Then the Hoosiers went to the Peach HAHCO 26 — Mini-mag

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Senior David Chandler, puzzled by the jig saw. continues his work. photo by Sutphin ti Spewing forth his superior knowl- edge. Mr Laslie instructs his English class photo by Sutphin I J 28 — Academics Division r=