University of Nevada Las Vegas - Epilogue Yearbook (Las Vegas, NV)

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Sports Overall 5282-4532-1412: i . .2 Coach Gordon Edwards LAS VEGAS, NEV. - Five school records fell as the University of Nevada, Las Vegas track team ended the 1972 season with a 10-9 dual meet record. Senior sprinter Angelo Stefanelli broke the only track event as he ran a 221 220 yard dash to eclipse the old mark of 2213. The tour field events broken for Dr. Gordon Edwards' squad were the shot put, discus, Javelin, and triple jump. Senior John Morgan heaved the shot 52-71A for a new mark while Junior Kyle Nelson threw the discus 155-6, Barry Hammon sent the javeiin 198-9 and jun- Ior college transfer Kevin Patterson soared 47- 7 in the tripie jump. Winning eight of their last 11 meets, the Rebel spikers were led by three-event special- ist Patterson who scored 202 points in dual meets this season. He also had the team's best mark of the year in the long jump t22-31 also tied for the top mark of 6-2 in the high jump with Craig Falk. Stefaneili, who scored 162 dual meet a 5 36:41.! Coach Bill Ireland points, had the best time in the 100 along with Larry Wright of 10 seconds flat. Mel Turner, third in dual meet points with 1111A, ran the best time of the year in the 440 with a 49.6. In the distances, Ed Brown had the best 880 of the season for UNLV, 1:590. Doug Clarke ended his track career ttour years at UNLVt with a 429.9 mile and Blaine Clarke had the best three-mile time of 16:22.4. In the hurdles Carson Madison ran a 15.5 120 HH and Ruben Perez ran a 60.5 in the 440 IH. The 440 relay team of Stetaneili. George Sherman and the Turner twins, had a 43.3 clocking and the mile relay team of Brown, Doug Clarke, and the Turners had a best time of 3:235. It's on to next season for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, football team as the Rebels finished the year with a whomping 63-6 victory over the National University of Mexico for a 5-4-1 season record. Coach Bill Ireland's Rebels finished their fourth year in history and it was also the fourth straight winning season for UNLV. M High point of the season for the youthful ,1: program was a game against a major col- lege opponent - Utah State. The Aggies won 27-7 in Logan but it was a giant step for the progressive program the Rebels have established. Next season's schedule will see the first 11-game slate highlighted by a trip to the Orange Bowl to play the University of Miami on Nov. 4. Coach Ireland and his staff have recruited some 30 junior college transfers to till the vacancies in t starting lineup. Most to be missed on offense will be the record-setting wide receivers for the Rebels 4 Greg Bro and tour-year veteran Nathaniel Hawkins. Hawkins became the first player in the school's history to - drafted into the pros as he went to the Pittsburgh Steelers in last season's annual college draft. Brown was the leading receiver this year with 38 catches for 626 yards and five touchdowns. He ai. returned nine punts for 270 yards and one more six-pointer. The Hawk was the leading scorer on the team with eight touchdowns for 48 points. He caught passes for 456 yards and seven TDs. Also missing next season will be offensive stars fullback Charles Cooper t402 yardst and linemen D. Morrison and David Nett. The tough Rebel defense will also lose some key players in linemen Bill Booker, Grant Fawce Tommy Rowland, Shayne Skipworth. linebackers Bruce Gray and Ken Mitchell and defensive bac Milton Leonard and Jim Farnham. 87.n- 1 2 Coach Biiiscdbie With records tailing galore, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas freshman basketball team finished t 1971-72 season with a 16-5 record and a player who could be the number one frosh scorer and r bounder in the nation. Jim Baker, 6'9 from Olney High School in Philadelphia, Pa, singIe-handedly rewrote the fresh reco books as he scored 738 points for a 36.7 average and ripped off 448 rebounds for a 22.4 per ga average. Coach Bill Scoblels yearlings won their last 13 straight as Baker really came into his 0 The freshman tied the single-game scoring mark in their 137-57 triumph over Paio Verde J Baker was sensational. He scored 51 points tsecond high in fresh history; was 20 of 28 fro the field, 11 for 11 at the charity stripe, grabbed 40 rebounds ta trosh recordt and added assists tanother trosh recordt to his brilliant performance. For the season Baker was .495 from the field t275-5561 and .817 from the tree throw Ii 083-2241 and although those are both excellent percentages, he did not lead the team either category. Speedy little Eddie Taylor, a teammate of Baker at Olney High, was 121 148 from the charity stripe tor an .818 accuracy rate and 6-11 Dan Cunningham, from Ali High in Salinas. Calit., carried a .535 field goal percentage to lead the young Rebels. There were four scholarship players on the freshman team this year and all four lived up Scoble's expectations Besides Baker, Taylor averaged 22.3 points a game, Cunningham 1 rebounds each game and added 15.1 points and 6-9 Don Weimer. from Chula Vista, Cal High, picked up 13.1 rebounds and 11.1 points for same. Baker has seven high scoring games that are second through eighth 0n the all-time fro list. Besides his 51 point effort, he had one game of 50 points, three of 48, one of 47 a another of 45. This was a great rebounding team for UNLV, getting 58.8 each outing. Ba now heads the all-time list while Cunningham is sixth and Weimer eighth in the record boo Weimer had a high rebounding game of 29 while Cunningham's best effort was 26. Cunnin ham's 316 points places him 10th on the books while Taylor's 469 markers put him in t number five spot. Although the 1968-69 frosh team had an 18-4 record, Scoble feels that this was the b. team in UNLV cage history tfreshman team; The schedule this year was the roughest ever t a UNLV team and the five losses were early in the year when the squad had not begun to pl together. The best example of the improvement made would be the two games with big regarded Arizona Western JC. Early in the year the Rebels lost to them 94-78 and then ne the end of the season the young Rebels ended AWCts 28-game winning streak, 93-80, behi Baker's 47 points and 25 rebounds. With players like these. it's easy to appreciate the optimism Rebel coaches have for t 9 future. ; The tennis team, directed by assistant basketball coach Bill Scobie, posted an 8-5 reco and finished fifth in the WCAC meet. The tennis team's top performer was senior Mike Roe. The Rebel racketmen shut out five opponents this season, and the only time they were sh out was by college division champion U.C. lrvine early in the season. Also on this year's tennis team were Alex Nash, junior, Bob Berg. junior, Lyn Boozer, juni- Harry Byrge, junior, and Ron Johns, sophomore.

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