Morehead State University Football 1977
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Tates Creek product (Initials) 7. home for Moran, Chapman, 41. all-conference in '74 2P. freshman lineman (Initials) 49. quarterback signal Sovine, Hopkins 42. all-time total offense leader 22. Ohio Valley Gonference (abbr.) 50. returning center (Initials) 9. MSU teams 44. Gulf South opponent 24. stadium name 52. game six opponent (abbr.) 11. record-holding LB (initials) 45. major rival 28. top TD receiver (initials) 55. linebacker (abbr.) 12. defensive position (abbr.) 46. "six" (abbr.) 29. defensive tackle 56. where Eagles finished In '66 13. former player, now coach (initials) 48. 1-64 rival from 43 across (Initials) 57. 1-75 foe 15. last on alphabetical roster (initials) 50. all-time leading rusher 30. ____Joiner 59. senior TE (initials) 18. Sykes, for example (abbr.) 51. Moran and Allen 32. Vorderbrueggen position (abbr.) 60. number of opponents 19. hometown of Bell and Ramey 53. win, lose or,__ _ _ 33. Austi ~ - - - 61 . first AII-OVC player 21. promising LB (initials) 54. biggest Eagle (initials) 35. noseguar...____ Henke 62. home state of Shaw (abbr.) ,23. NCAA runner-up In '76 58. scored 15 TD's In '38 36. secondary position (abbr.) 65. 'Toppers .25. OVC's best passer In '76 63. '76 interception leader (initials) ,26. Bald Eagle Network flagship 64. Cvitkovlc's home state (abbr.) (Key on page 36) TO NEWS MEDIA: This 1977 edition of Morehead State University's Football Media Guide has been prepared to aid you in covering the Eagles and to provide information about our coaches,- athletes and University. If additional material is needed, please write or call the Sports Information Director at any time. GENERAL INFORMATION LOCATION - Morehead, Ky. (40351 ), Rowan County, on Interstate 64, equidistant from Ashland and Lexington in the foothills of the Daniel Boone National Forest. THE UNIVERSITY . .... ...... .. .......... 1 ENROLLMENT- 7,583 (Fall, 1976) THE ADMINISTRATION ................... 2 FOUNDED - 1922 THE COACHES ... .......... ............. 5 PRESIDENT - Dr. Morris L. Norfleet THE EAGLES .. .. ............. ........... 9 ATHLETIC COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN Dr. Rodger THE OUTLOOK .......... .. ...... ... ... 10 Hammonds, Associate Professor of Mathematics THE ROSTER AND OPPONENTS . ..... .. ... 17 ATHLETIC DIRECTOR - G. E. (Sonny) Moran 1 THE RECORD BOOK .... .'•••••••••••••••• 23 Office Phone: 606-783-3335 THE SCHEDULE ..... ........... ... .... BC Home Phone: 606-784-6789 ASSISTANT ATHLETIC DIRECTOR - John E. (Sonny) Allen Office Phone: 606-783-3335 Home Phone: 606-784-5332 HEAD FOOTBALL COACH - S. Wayne Chapman, Morehead State '60 Office Phone: 606-783-3317 Home Phone: 606-784-8258 ASSISTANT COACHES - PRESS INFORMATION Rod Butler, Eastern Illinois '64, defensive coordinator Jim Hastings, Morehead State ' 62, offensive coordinator PRESS PASSES - Passes for the working press are issued on an Bruce Herdman, Ohio University '70, defensive ends individual game basis by the Sports Information Director. Rich Rachel, Parsons ' 69, defensive backfield Credentials should be requested as early as possible. Press Mark Sheehan, Morehead State 74, defensive line personnel attending as guests are entitled to general admission seats outside the press box. Passes not furnished by return mail HEAD TRAINER - R. G. (Ray) Mullins must be picked up in person at Gate 4. One parking permit will SCHOOL COLORS - Royal Blue and Gold be issued to each organization covering the game. NICKNAME - Eagles CONFERENCE - Ohio Valley (NCAA Division II) BROADCAST - Permission for broadcast rights must be STADIUM - Jayne Stadium (10,000) secured at least two weeks in advance from the Sports Informa MEN'S SPORTS INFORMATION DIRECTOR - Randy Stacy tion Director. Line installations are ordered by individual stations Office Phone: 606-783-3325 through their local telephone companies. Each station is allocated Home Phone: 606-784-4472 a broadcast booth and four press passes. Telecopier: 606-783-3325 Press Box: 606-783-3100 PRESS BOX SEATING - The MSU press box is limited to accredited writers, radio-television broadcasters, scouts and other 1976 RECORD - *3-8-0 (OVC, 2-5-0) (*Note: Record includes designated officials. Only photographers and cameramen are victory over Marshall, later forfeited) permitted on the press box roof. Press box seating is assigned by LETTERMEN LOST, RETURNING -16,33 the Sports Information Director. MSU supplies a play-by-play BAND - Morehead State University Marching Band, "The Big account at the end of each quarter and first half and final Band from Daniel Boone Land" statistics. Telephones and free refreshments also are available. A FOOTBALL ADDRESS - Jayne Stadium, MSU, Morehead, Ky. Xerox telecopier is on duty at each game. 40351 SCOUTING PASSES - Passes for scouts must be requested at least two weeks in advance from the Sports Information Director. 1977 MEDIA GUIDE -Published by Morehead State University. Two seats are allocated to each organization requesting Written and edited by Fred Hensley and Rick Covington. credentials. Photography by George Burgess. Printing by MSU Office of Printing Services. 1 MOREHEAD STATE UNIVERSITY gram has produced a series of design awards from the Kentucky Society of Architects. Dominating MSU's campus skyline are the two tallest occupied struc tures in Eastern Kentucky, 19-story Cartmell Hall and 16-story Mignon Tower. Academically, t he University is comprised of six schools-Social Sciences, Education, Applied Sciences and Tech nology, Humanities, Sciences and Mathe matics, and Business and Economics. They offer 145 programs of study from the associate degree through a joint doctoral degree. Almost 50 per cent of the faculty holds earned doctorates. Admi n istratively, the Uni versit y operates under a 10-member Board of Regents with eight citizens appointed by the governor of Kentucky. The two other seats are held by elected faculty and student representatives who hold full voting rights. The administrative structure consists primarily of four bureaus academic affairs, fiscal affairs, research and development and student affairs. Dr. Morris L. Norfleet, who took office Jan. 1, 1977, is MSU's eighth president. A graduate of Purdue Univer sity and the University of Kentucky, he joined t he faculty and administrative staff in 1962 as director of student teaching. The Pulaski County (Ky.) native also served as director of research and program development, vice president for research and development and as acting president. Athletically, the University sponsors a full program of intercollegiate sports for Growth-in quality and quantity-is wards of $75 million has been expended men and women. Intercollegiate competi the continuing t heme at Morehead State in capital construction. tion at MSU is conducted in accordance University. The faculty and staff today number wi th the rules and regulations of the Ohio From a teachers' coll ege little known more than 900 persons and the fiscal Valley Conference, National Coll egi ate outside Kentucky, MSU has evolved into outlay exceeds $25 million yearly. More Athletic Association, t he Kentucky a regional university reaching out to serve than 20,000 persons ho[d MSU degrees. Women's Intercoll egiate Conference and Kent ucky, Appalachia and the nation. Physically, t he Un iversity consists of the Association of Intercollegiate Ath Morehead State stands today on a more thal),50 major structures. MSU also letics for Women. In addition, students 500-acre campus in the foothills of Daniel owns at agricultural complex north of may participate in almost 30 intramural Boone National Forest, an academic Morehead, a nine-ho le golf course east of activities. The University's athletic faci li community known for its physical the city and an outdoor education center ties include a 10,000-seat stadium with an beauty, educational excell ence and con on Cave Run Lake, west of Morehead. eight-lane, quarter-mile oval track, a genial spirit. Capital construction projects totaling $8 5,000-seat gymnasium, a nine-hole golf Statistically, the rise of MSU in the million are under way or in the planning course, a 1,200-seat indoor track, an last two decades has been breathtaking. stages. indoor swimming pool, 14 all-weather Enrollment has mushroomed more t han In recent years, Morehead State's tennis courts, a 1,200-seat baseball park 1,000 per cent to over 7,500 and up- imaginative yet practical building pro- and a lighted soccer field. 2 THE ADMINISTRATION Although he technically is a " new" 1965. He became a vice president in of the Board of Directors of the Gateway president, Dr. Morris L. Norfleet is no 1968. Area Development District, and a stranger to Morehead State University. He began his career in education as a member of the Board of Trustees of By the time he was chosen last fall to teacher in the Spiceland (I nd.) Public Campbellsvi lle College.