1976 Media Guide

Digital Commons @ George Fox University Men's Basketball George Fox University Athletics 1976 1976 Media Guide George Fox University Archives Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/athletics_menbasketball Recommended Citation George Fox University Archives, "1976 Media Guide" (1976). Men's Basketball. 13. https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/athletics_menbasketball/13 This Media Guide is brought to you for free and open access by the George Fox University Athletics at Digital Commons @ George Fox University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Men's Basketball by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ George Fox University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. FINGERTIP FACTS College President ----------------- -- ----------- -- Dr. David Le Shana College Location------------ ------ Newberg, Ore. (8,200 pop.) Founded ------- ------ --------------------- ---- ---- -- --- -- --- ------------------ 1891 Denomination Affiliation --------- ------ ------ - Friends (Quaker) Enrollment ------------------------------------- ------ --- -------- --------- ----- 630 Athletic Director --------------------------:·---------------- Sam Willard Sports Information Director ---------------- ---- --- - Barry Hubbell Athletic Affiliation ---------------------------- Independent-NATA Home Court ------- --- -------------- ----------- ----- Hester Gymnasium Seating Capacity --------~----- --- ------------------- --- - -- -- - ----------- 1,100 Colors -------------------------------------- -- Old Gold and Navy Blue Nickname ------------------------------------------------------------------ Bruins College Switchboard --------- --------- ---- ------- --- (503) 538-8383 Athletic Staff: Basketball ----------- --------- -------- --- --- ---------- ------ Sam Willard Baseball -------- ------------ --- ---- ---------- -- ------- ------ Craig Taylor Track -------- --------- ---- ---------- --------------- --- ------- -- Rich Allen Cross-country ---------------------- -- --- ------------ ------- Rich Allen Trainer -------------------------------------------------------- Frank Kyte Statistician ---------------------- ------------------- --------- Mike Wirta Sports Information Assistant -------------- Roy Gathercoal TABLE OF CONTENTS George Fox College ---- ---- --------- ------ --- --- -- --- -------------- -- GFC Athletics ------------------------------------------------------------ 2 Bruin Nickname -- ------ ----- -- ------ ---------------- ------- ------------ i 1976-77 Outlook --- --------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- 3 Coach Sam Willard ---------------------------------------------------- 4 Assistant Coaches ---------------------------------·-------------------- 5 Individual Sketches --------------·--- ------ ·-------------- -·- ---------- 6-9 Assistants 10 Bruin Hostesses, Rally --------------- -------------------------- ----- 11 Roster ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 12-13 Season Scores ------------------------------------------------------------ 14-19 Records ---------------·--·---------------------·-------·------------------·-- 20 1975-76 Statistics ------------------------------------ ---- ---- -- ---------- 21 Opponent Information ................................................ 22-23 New Sports Center ......... .............. ............................. 24 Media Information ................................ Insio·e Back Cover 1976-77 Schedule ........................................... ,Back Cover "Did You K!'low?" ............................................ Back Gover ABOUT GEORGE FOX COLLEGE George Fox College is the outgrowth of a desire by early Willamette Valley Quaker settlers who established Pacific Academy in 1885 for the Christian education of their children. The college division was organized in 1891 to provide more advanced instruction for students. In 1949, because of the many colleges in the Northwest with "Pacific" in their name, the college was renamed George Fox in honor of the founder of the Friends (Quaker) Church. The college is governed by a 42-member Board of Trustees elected by Northwest Yearly Meeting of Friends Church, which comprises more than 8,000 mem bers in 57 churches in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Today the 60-acre rural, tree-shaded campus a half hour drive from Portland is undergoing a major expansion with the construction of two new buildings underway, including a new $2.2 million sports complex and an $850,000 academic center. A new residence hall also is scheduled for construction during the year. Enrollment is currently at a record 627, George Fox this year being one of Oregon's fastest growing colleges with a 13 percent enroll ment increase. Accredited by the Northwest Association of Secondary and Higher Schools, the college offers 24 majors in six divisions: Education, Fine and Applied Arts, Language Arts, Natural Science, Religion, and Social Science. George Fox is one of 14 members of the national Chris tian College Consortium. GFC has a student-faculty ratio of 1 : 16, with more than 65 percent of faculty mem bers having doctorates. George Fox students come from 20 states and 4 foreign countries. Nearly 40 religious denominations are represented on the Newberg campus. Alumni of George Fox are primarily in service-oriented vocations of Christian ministries, education, social work, and medical fields. The college's most prominent alumnus is the late President Herbert Hoover, who attended Pacific Academy. GFC ATHLETICS Intercollegiate athletics is an integral part of the overall education program at George Fox. Varsity athletic teams represent the college in baseball, basketball, track, soccer, and cross-country. George Fox College competes as an independent on the varsity level. Its schedules are coordinated with both the Evergreen Conference and the Northwest Conference and with other independents in the Northwest. George Fox is a member of the National Association of Inter collegiate Athletics (NAIA), District 2. Women students compete in field hockey, volleyball, basketball, tennis, track, and softball. The college is a mem ber of the Women's Conference of Independent Colleges and the Northwest College Women's Sports Association. For students not participating in the varsity program, GFC has a complete intramural program including flag football, basketball, volleyball, and softball. Athletic facilities include Hester Gym, which seats 1,100 and has facilities for wrestling and weight training; Colcord Field, which includes a football-soccer field and track; a baseball field; and tennis courts. Under construction with completion expected spring term is the new $2.2 million Coleman Wheeler Sports Center, which will contain three basketball courts in the Miller Gymnasium and seating for up to 2,500, multi purpose rooms, classrooms, faculty and staff offices, and space for saunas and handball courts. THE BRUIN NICKNAME George Fox College is represented by the nickname and mascot "Bruin." But it's not always been so, even though it should have been. The nickname comes from a real live bear captured in 1887 just two years after Pacific Academy (the college's predecessor) was established. The small cub was captured in the coast range foothills west of Carlton when its mother was shot. The young cub was brought to campus by a student and later lived with a faculty member. When it grew to adulthood it was kept in a pit in what is now known as Hess Creek Canyon south of the campus. It escaped one too many times and was turned into steak for the dining table and the hide preserved on a frame and displayed in an early campus museum. When it deterio rated several years later, it was taken to a campus furnace room to be destroyed, but the framework proved a prob lem in dismantling, so it was left sitting in a corner. Stu dents found the old Bruin skin later and began skirmishes over ownership, a tradition that continues today 87 years later. "Bruin Junior," under a set of guidelines passed down for years, is to be fought over periodically in class competition with the class able to physically drag the Bruin replica off pampus declared the rightful owner until it is next "flashed." Even with the Bruin tradition, somewhere along the line, the "Quaker" tag to athletic teams came into popular ity with sportswriters because of the college's church affilia tion, and that nickname was used, along with a mascot "Foxy George," a little fox with a Quaker hat. Both gained acceptance for a period in the 1950s and 1960s until a vote of faculty, studeats, and administration in 1970 reinstated the Bruin nickname to its rightful place. 2 Bruin Outlook: HOW IT LOOKS FOR 1976-77 Sam Willard calls it a "building season." But that designation may be deceptive. "Building" in this case does not mean struggling through a year for experience, trying to develop a future team, but "improving" on a base already established. And what a base: four starters back from a team that went 19-8, the best in the school's 11 years of NAJA competition, and a mark that was the best regular season finish among the district's 13 teams last season. Willard, stepping in for Lorin Miller who established that strong base over six years, knows he has the pressure on him to keep up the winning tradition. He says he's ready. "I'm not wanting to just maintain where we are but to have a building season-to use last year as the start of bigger and better things," Willard says. He says he's "excited about what I'm seeing"

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