Stanford University - Quad Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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SPORTS NEWS Man with the Golden Arm BY SID SPAETH Daily 5taff Writer John Elway is tall, strong, blond and blue-eyed, and he controls his surroundings with such apparent ease that it is difficult to imagine him not as the quarterback or the captain. Fittingly, Elway dealt the cards when the National Football League, the United States Football League and the New York Yankees played high-stakes poker for the strong-armed golden boy. Elway is perhaps the single most identifiable member of the Class of 1983. Whether he is firing another downfield spiral, loping through right field in the pigion-toed strut that only he could make look graceful, or just flashing his toothy smile and brushing the hair off his forehead with his left hand, El way's presence is unmistakable. On the football field, Elway did more than rewrite the record book. He fashioned it in his mame. A lengthy and stellar list of great Stanford quarterbacks erected a team passing chart that was historical in itself — only to see Elway prance roughshod over the figures as if they were mid-season stats. Elway set 17 conference records and passed for nearly five and one-half miles of yardage and 77 touchdowns. He set career NCAA records with 774 completions and 1246 attempts. His paltry 3.13 percentage of passes intercepted was a now low. Yet, Elway never won the Heisman Trophy — an award that UCLA coacn Terry Donahue said, He can't miss. He also never achieved his most important goal. He never played in the Rose Bowl. He never played in any bowl except the all-star type. He never played on a winning team and his teams had a combined record of 19-24-1 in four seasons. Personal records are always nice, he said. But I'd rather win games. Such is the attitude of the man to whom nothing comes difficult. Such is the attitude of the man, who despite the shortcomings of his team records, would come to Stanford all over again. Perhaps it was the moments that were so magic — the come-from-behind 21-21 tie with USC in 1979, the cakewalk in a driving rainstorm against Oklahoma in Norman in 1980, the punishing victory over Cal in the 1981 Big Game, or the dominating up- set of No. 2 Washington in 1982. For these and all else that Stanford offers, he feels it was worthwhile. Elway's cannon arm made Sunken Diamond's right field a garrison for two years, and his bat was just as explosive. One conference coach said, Elway could throw a runner out at third base with a football. Coming from Stanford, I was able to play both sports, Elway said, after being picked first int he 1983 NFL draft. I'm grateful that I've been able to excel in both. But Elway never lost sight of what he was to Stanford — just another student and just another athlete. After being taken out of a game against Oregon State when he was on track for even more records, he said, There are plenty of guys who go out and work five days a week just like me and can do the job. Elway finally left Stanford for the money and glamour of professional sports, but he admitted savoring every minute of his life at Stanford. I'm just trying to be a regular student. I'm having so much fun just being a kid. Next year? Heck, I'm going to be an adult. Dr. Tom's Rx BY STEVE ODELL Daily Staff Writer When first-year Stanford basketball coach Tom Davis ventured West from Boston College, he did not have the promises of an unspoiled land to greet him. What greeted him instead were nine straight losing seasons. A 6-40 road record since 1978. The school's worst mark (7-20) in 11 years and a last-place Pacific-10 Conference finish the previous season. The Cardinal had finished either in the cellar or next to it eight straight years. David changed all that upon his arrival with a youthful, aggressive style of play as radically different from years past as the results it reaped. Stanford finished at .500 for the first time in 10 years, closing out the 1982-83 season with an impres- sive crushing of defending conference champion Oregon State, 88-75, in Maples Pavilion. The Cardi-nal's 14-14 record was the best for a Stanford team since Howie Dallmar's 1972-73 squad went 14-11 and its 6-12 league mark was good for seventh place in the Pac-10. It was the attitude of the players, Davis said in citing reasons for the dramatic improvement. And not just of the players, of the community and the campus. Everybody was very receptive, willing and open and therefore we were able to accomplish things on the court. Players were willing to push harder and did what we asked them to do. The thing I really like about it is that we didn't make any promises about a great team we would be, he continued. We just took it day-by-day and tried to improve. All we were looking for was for people to take a fresh look at Stanford basketball and accept that we're trying to improve. We have made some improvements, but geez, we've got a long way to go. There is no reason to believe that Davis will not be able to go the rest of the way. A native of Rideway, Wise., he has never had a losing season in 11 years at the collegiate level, possesses a lifetime record of 230-105 and he led Boston College to the NCAA tournament two consecutive years including taking the Eagles to within one game of the Final Four in 1982. Davis is hoping to push the Stanford program to its greatest potential by increasing one variable above all others — work. It takes a long time to turn that around, Davis said, referring to the losing stigma associated with Stanford basketball. It's a tremendous losing thing they've had here that permeates the fans, the community, as well as the players. To change those habits and thoughts of expecting to lose all the time, it's tough. But we're on the right track and we're not that far away. I tell the players that everyday, we're not that far away that we can't reach for it. Sports 29 Keller Strirther

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SPORTS NEWS Women Win NCAA Swimming Crown Marybeth Linzmeier load the Cardinal swimmers to victory, breaking collegiate records in the 500 and 1650 freestyles. BY MARK ZEIGLER Daily Staff Writer Stanford's Women's Swimming and Diving team turned the tables on the Florida Gators in Lincoln, Neb., March 18-20 to win the NCAA crown. Last year, the Gators won the first-ever NCAA women's championships while swimming in their home pool. But at a neutral site a year later, Stanford was able to outscore Florida 418.5 to 389.5 and bring home the title. Since the NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships were started last year, the 1983 title marks Stanford's first NCAA title. However, the Card women won the former AIAW championship in 1980. Unlike a Florida team that features Olympian Tracy Caulkins, Stanford relied on a strong team effort, receiving scoring from 15 women to hold off a Florida comeback on the third and final day. The Cardinal, which led all tne way, got off to a fast start, scoring 172.5 on the first day to Florida's 150.5 and Texas' 110. After day two, Stanford had widened its lead to 66 points over the Gators and 110.5 over the Longhorns. Florida charged back on the final day of events to make it close, but Stanford's 800 free-style relay placed first to push coach George Haines and his Cardinal squad over the 400 point mark. Sophomore Marybeth Linzmeier paced the Cardinal with firsts in the 500 and 1650 freestyles, breaking collegiate records in both races with times of 4:39.95 and 16:03.76, respectively. Linzmeier, who won the 200, 500 and 1650 frees at last year's NCAA meet, also anchored the Card's victorious 800 free relay team. Stanford picked up the bulk of its points in the relays, which count double in a championship style meet. Of the five relays, Stanford won three (200-free, 800- Sports '82-'83 Sept. 25 — Quarterback John Elway tossed 63 passes, the last a 17-yard TD to Harry with -10 seconds left to lead Stanford over No. 12 Ohio State 23-20. Oct. 8 — The women's volleyball team surprised No. 1 San Diego State at Maples Pavilion 15-9, 13-15, 15-8, 16-14. Oct. 30 — The Cardinal upset the No. 2 Washington Huskies 43-31 on national TV. Mike Dotterer rushed for 106 yards and 2 TDs while Elway was 20 of 30 for 265 yards and 2 TDs. Vincent White's 76-yard punt return sewed up the win; Ceci Hopp, Alison Wiley and Kim Schnurpfeil finished 1-2-3 leading the women's cross country team to the WCAA championships. Nov. 3 — Stanford's No. 4 women's free and 200-medley) and was second in the other two (400-free and medley). But it was the consistent, non first-place scoring by the rest of Stanford's team that made the difference. On the first day, junior Sherri Hanna placed fourth in the 500 free with a 4:48.09 while Patty Gavin, Libby Kinkead and Kim Carlisle went 3-4-6 in the 200 back with times of 2:01.29, 2:01.56 and 2:02.74, respectively. In the 50 free, four Stanford swimmers finished in the top 12. Senior Barb Major was fifth at 23.53, Kelly Asplund eighth at 23.51, Krissie Bush ninth at 23.65 and Diane Zock at 23.81. Gavin came back later in the first day to place in the 200 individual medley, clocking a 2:02.00 in a race won by Florida's Caulkins in a collegiate record time of 2:00.34. Stanford's junior Anne Tweedy was ninth with a 2:05.10. The 200-free relay team of Bush, Zock, Asplund and Major got off to a fast start in the team scoring competition by clocking a 1:36.66, good for first place. Placing in the top three on Friday was Carlisle in the 100 back (third with a 56.50) and Linzmeier in the 200 free (second with a 1:46.64). All told, 15 Stanford swimmers achieved All-American status in one or more events: seniors Asplund, Major, Carlisle and Patty Spees; juniors Hanna, Tweedy and Bush; sophomores Jean Meyer and Isabel Ruess; and freshmen Gavin, Kinkead, Zock, Kathy Smith and Lisa Hazen. And 11 of the 15 scorers return next year, which should enhance Haines' repeat chances. With the Cardinal's first place finish in 1983, Stanford reasserted itself as probably the nation's No. 1 women's swimming school. In the last four years, Stanford has finished no lower than second place in the national championship meet and no lower than third since 1976. (This article appeared in the March 28, 1983 edition of the Stanford Daily and is reprinted with the permis-sion of its author and the Daily. spikers came from behind to stun No. 3 University of the Pacific at Maples, winning the fifth game 19-17 after losing the first two games of the contest. Nov. 20 — California captured the 85th and best Big Caine 25-20 with a chaotic and controversial 57-yard kickoff return on the last play. Nov. 23 — Big Game controversy raged on when a Pac-10 official admitted that Cal was lined up illegally before the game — winning kickoff return. Only tour men lined up within a 10-15 yard area from where the ball was kicked. Rules require that five men be in the area or the play cannot proceed. Nov. 28 — Stanford's No. 2 water |X lo team lost to No. I UC-Irvine 7-4 in the NCAA finals at Long Beach after winning the Pac-lOs for the 3rd straight year. Dec. 4 — Coach Tom Davis led the basketball team to its 1st tournament win in 11 years as it beat Temple 77-70 for the Stanford Invitational championship. Dec. 17 — Stanford's women spikers finished 4th in the national after losing to eventual NCAA champion I Jawaii in the semifinals. Jan. 3 — Athletic Director Andy Geiger announced that Stanford will host live first Bay Area NFL Super Bowl in 1985. Feb. 4 — The men's swimming team knocked off No. 1 and defending NCAA champion UCLA 66-47. .March 12 — The nven's basketball team completed its best season in 10 years, finishing at .500 with an 88-75 upset of Oregon State at Maples Pavilion. March 18-20 — The? women's swimming and diving team won the NCAA crown. The men trxik fourth tk following week after winning the Pac-lOs. April 6 — The men's volleyball team blasted No. 1 Hawaii at Maples 15-12, 15-12. 10-15, 15-3. Coach Fred Sturm called the win the single biggest in Cardinal men's volleyball history. April 15-17 — Stanford's men's golf team won tlx? U.S. Intercollogiates by a single stroke over USC on Lew Dickers three-foot putt on the 18th lx le; Tne baseball team took 4 out of 5 games from UCLA at Sunken Diamond to stay in 1st place in the 6-Pac. April 26 — All-American Quarterback John Ehvay told tk Baltimore Colts to trade him or he'd play baseball for the New York Yankees after the Colls selected him as tk No. I |xck in tk National Football League draft. April 26-May 1 — The men's tennis team defeated No. 2 Pepperdine, No. 3 USC and No. 4 UCLA, clinching its first Pac-10 title since 1980. John Elway signs with the Denver Broncos of the NFL after a trade was made with the Baltimore Colts. 28 Sports !o» 0 W Jt

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WORLD NEWS Wf I Arms freeze debated BY JEFF BIDDULPFJ Daily Stiff Writer The nuclear freeze movement began where many such popular issues have historically begun: in the town meetings of citizens fed up with a situation that grew beyond their control. In this sense the nuclear freeze, which in its most basic form calls for a mutually verifiable freeze of nuclear armaments at their present level, will be remembered as the populist issue of the early 1980s. Through mass democratic action, Americans voted (and may vote in the future) to end the nuclear arms race. They see themselves as being held hostage by a mutal balance of terror as the Soviet Union and the United States pile up more and more weapons. President Reagan's seeming lack of commitment to serious arm control and his bellicose banterings about the Soviet Union being an evil empire as well as his rabid opposition to the freeze, bolster the movement in its supporters' eyes. But many charge that the freeze is too simplistic; they say it is based more on emotional solutions to a complex problem than rationality. They point out that the theory of deterrence, which is based on the assumption that any rational state will not launch a nuclear attack if it knows its citizens will be killed by a retaliatory strike, has deterred a major war in the western world for almost 40 years. Others say the Soviet Union could beat the United States in a nuclear war and that the freeze would lock into place an inequitable situation. Many claim the movement is even being World '82-'83 Sept. 29-30 — U.S. marines arrived in Beirut to join an international peacekeeping force overseeing the ceasefire between Israeli and Palestinian troops. Oct. 1 — Five people died in Arlington Heights, IL after swallowing Extra-strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide; the House of Representatives rejected a proposed constitutional amendment requiring a balancer! Federal budget. Oct. 8 — The Polish parliament outlawed the independent labour group Solidarity. Oct. 27 — The federal budget deficit hit an all-time record high of $110.7 billion for the fiscal year ending September 30. Nov. 2 — In California state elections, George Deukmejian defeated Tom Bradley for Governor, Pete Wilson beat Jerry Brown for U.S. Senate and Tom Lantos triumphed over Bill Royer for the 11th Congressional District seat in heated campaigns. Voters passed the nuclear freeze initiative but turned down bottle deposit and handgun control bills. Nov. 11 — Leonid Brezhnev, head of the Communist Party and President of the U.S.S.R. died after 18 years of power. Yuri Andropov was named successor. Dec. 3 — Barney Clark became the world's first manipulated by the Kremlin. Regardless of one's view of the freeze, it remains a powerful issue. Reagan's attempts to discredit it may have given it legitimacy as a topic of debate. The Democratic presidential hopefuls' attempts to one-up each other in supporting the freeze lend it even more strength. The nuclear freeze became a national issue last summer. At least 500,000 people marched in support of the freeze June 12 in New York City in the largest demonstration in American history. The House of Representatives defeated the freeze 204-202 under intensive pressure from the White House. But the movement gained the most legitimacy when 18 states ratified the freeze in elections across the country in November. The freeze was publicly supported by a legion of politicans — both Democrats and Republicans — before the election. Locally, 83 percent of the voters in the Stanford area voted for Proposition 12, the nuclear freeze initiative. But Reagan's oppostiion to the issue has been unrelenting. In December he reintroduced a nuclear weapons issue which had not been a feature in public debate since the Carter years: the MX missile. The need for the MX pointed out the problems with the nuclear freeze, Reagan implied. The president claimed the missile would help close America’s window of vulnerabilty by providing vital protection for the country. Then in March Reagan dropped another bombshell. The country, he said, should recipient of a permanent artificial heart at the University of Utah medical center in Salt Lake City; The House Appropriations Committee approved legislation prohibiting Secretary of Interior james Watt from granting oil drilling rights off most of the California coast and in federal wilderness areas. Dec. 8 — The House voted 245-176 to cancel funds for the MX missile in a historic and resounding defeat for the Reagan administration. Dec. 21-23 — Congress passer! a measure increasing federal tax on gasoline and diesel fuels a nickel a gallon to finance repair of the nation's roads, bridges and transit systems. Dec. 28 — Israeli and Lebanese negotiators began talks toward a pullout of Israel's invasion force. |an. 3 — The 98th Congress convened with leaders of Ijoth houses calling for bipartisan effort to deal with Social Security reform and the recession. Jan. 7 — The Labor Department reported the nation's December 1982 jobless rate to be 10.8%. bringing 1982's .average unemployment rate up to 9.7%, the highest since 1941. Jan. 19 — Interior Secretary Watt evoked criticism for remarks describing American Indian reservations as an example of the failures of socialism. Jan. 20 — The Commerce Department announced that the nation's economics output fell 1.8% in 1982, the sharpest drop in 36 years. Jan. 25 — In his second State of the Union message. Pres. Reagan reluctantly endorsed standby tax in- Speed research on another generation of missiles: space-based Anti-Ballistic Missiles (ABMs). He talked of releasing Americans who are being held hostage by the doctrine of deterrence through the development of a new weapons system, which most experts assumed would protect the country through lasers or other means. A proposal at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, it was discovered, would help research these space-based ABMs. Two hundred-eighty staff and 15 faculty members at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center signed petitions in January protesting the proposal. And arms creases as an insurance policy to check soaring federal deficits in the future but staunchly held fast to other basic elements of his economic program, demanding a virtual freeze on non-defense spending while insisting on a 14% increase for the Pentagon. Jan. 31 — Pres. Reagan offered to meet with Soviet leader Andropov to sign an agreement banning all intermediate-range, land-basednuclear missiles. The following day, Andropov dismissed Reagan's offer as merely a restatement of his ‘zero option' plan which called for the U.S.S.R. to dismantle all its missiles in Europe in exchange for a halt to planned NATO deployment. Feb. 22 — The federal government offerer! to buy all the homes and businesses in Times Beach, MO after tests revealed dangerously high levels of the toxic chemical dioxin in the town's soil. March 3 — The House passed 324-95 a $4.9 billion package of recession relief designed to provide temporary employment for nearly one million people as well as food and shelter for the neediest. March 9 — Anne McGill Burford resigned as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under pressure of a contempt of Congress citation for refusing to release subpoenaed documents, and charges of mismanagement and possible conflicts of interest of several aides. William Ruckelshaus, the first EPA head, was named to replace Burford on March 23. March 23 — In a nationally televised speech. Pres. Reagan called for long-term development of an anti- 30 News Review