University of Colorado - Coloradan Yearbook (Boulder, CO)

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I9 Lonorroe The Athletic Department maintained 0 silent posture during the first few weeks of the search for Colorodo's 49th heod footboll coach, but specu- Iotion reoched epic proportions in the local press as to who the new coach would be. Mike White, Bill Walsh, George Welsh, Bud Wilkinson, Don Meyer, Terry Donahue, Don Jomes, Lou Holtz and Don Devine were some of the early oonolidotes suggested by on active rumor mill. Crowder's seorch committee was reported to hove settled on three candidates in mid- December: Nebrosko Cooch Tom Osborne, St. Louis Cordinol Cooch Bud Wilkinson and UCLA Coooh Terry Donohue. When Osborne and his wife arrived on campus for o Iook-see, eyebrows notion-wide were raised in response to Colorado's eornest attempt to choose 0 Hnome cooch. Osborne Ioter declined thejob, but there was no doubt over the University's intentions. Charles L. Foirbonks. The name surfoced December 12 and ogoin 0 week loter on Mon- doy Night Footboll when Howord Cosell inter- viewed on notionol television 0 distraught New England Patriots owner Williom Sullivan, who od- mitted thot Foirbonks told him he wanted to coach in Boulder, Colorado. Wherever that is, Sullivon odded tersely. The Pots owner vowed revenge. His ooth would soon ring true. CU's other sports fared well, producing their shore of championships. Clockwise, opposite page, Coooh Jorgen Uglond's Buff booters won their second straight Big Eight Tournament titie, while Mory Decker's strong kick earned her first place at the AIAW Cross Country Championship. Work on the new Events Center was neorlv completed. The Domel irks ;3:il..!t';'t;ms, r 21017 Tit Events Center is scheduled to be ready for next basketball season. Chuck Fairbanks was a grim looking man when he appeared in Boulder District Court for hearings in January, and Buff coger Emmett Lewis looked confident as he let one fly ogoinst Kansas State late in the season.

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v.,.... Mory Decker and her Lody Buff cross-counTry TeommoTes hosTed The SISW Cross-counTry No- Tionol Championships 0T KenT CounTry Day School in Denver in November. Decker showed why she is one of The Top female disTonce runners in The counTry by winning The individual championship. The Lady Buffs fared well, Too, finishing fourTh as 0 Team. Decker, Dona SIoTer, KoThy Wilson, KoThy Woodbridge and Lee Bollenger all conTribuTed To The fine Teom-showing. A 20-46 loss To Iowo SToTe 0T Folsom Field closed a disoppoinTing 6-5 season for The Buff gridders and The deoTh knell sounded loudly in The locker room ofTerword for Bill Mallory. Mallory in- sisTed ThoT he would sToy 0nd fighT Till The end, which he did unTiI Tuesday, November 24 when Crowder fired him during 0 Ten-minuTe con- ference. Running in sub-freezing TemperoTures, The CU men horriers finished fifTh in The Teom-roce CT The NCAA Cross-counTry Championships 0T Madison, WI. The Buffs' John Hunsoker earned a 245T-ploce finish, while TeommoTe Kirk Pfeffer finished 48Th. Thanksgiving vocoTion provided everyone resT excepT for The Colorado boskeTbolT Team, which opened iTs IosT season 0T venerable Bolch Fieldhouse wiTh on exciTing 54-50 vicTory over The Air Force Academy. The cogers wehT on To win Their nexT four games, mosle on The scoring sTrengTh of oII-conference guard EmmeTT Lewis. Win number five was The most exhousTing for Buff boskeTboll followers 05 CloyTon Bullord Tossed in o 45-fooT shoT 0T The buzzer To help The Buffs nip SouThern MeThodisT, 72-70.

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