University of Utah v '' Jl£&i^*A<(»^i^.*^*^¥f's5;' ' - '• . * #* ~j±Zmm# jy» —Z KA^J^**-:, r- ...-,. .;• ***•,•$&&. ."'•'-' -.•,--• ~. ' >•• lH ;, r .'•JhttiS&-Hmr-- -:«W- *y•**?*«-»-""i?^**^- * ' ijM _ 8, : •— •. — • '™^ w^' ~*-^ ' —•Mr,-. - . 4\ .:* '4 je*r» jflg "*^^CS «<£* ~~=pr- .•••*• i _"?»4s A- .%-.. wmm.: - 2" tbt -- — --. T\were\ty of Utah • L< seres @f tree lined Ii®werin0 land in beautiful Wasaten Mountain Range. •Foun • undergraduate jyjfflS 5w* ^ p ^BffpjJPSwf^- ^ —*-«2y#-» JSJHSfl ^FTPlHl=§= —rrr""" ^ :S»::SBH £ .:.: - _>^ =1 •*• -%-*» —••*: j,y::-gKB 9^~ KJI |--—-— I |jl j^^g~EJJjHM -_ J W^WSK^" A*^LW^^^ ''..i^"- w-JPx WV^SMW •ME ' St^^^^^^E—jLi^'^^^M f-fEjrJ -.»»i^wriihaji JBJpB^j|j|^[Jbjt^*"j'L_^_ as. J ~^F*. ~V!'"" 1 997 UTAH FOOTBALL future is Here! In 1998, the utes will open their season in a brand new 46,500-seat Rice Stadium. The $50 million project, raised totally from non-tax dollars, got a big boost from the George and Delores Dore Eccles Foundation, which donated $10 million. Designed to be a "fan friendly" stadium, Rice Stadium will feature a MM sprawling concourse lined with concession stands and merchandising shops. The crown jewel of the new stadium will be a three-story, state-of*the-art, luxury seating and press box area. .. -, t"-~- -*fy /,: *• <<* —'*«-'-.. — Htiyl " m mm, i^*ijfc mm w Computer generated rendering by FFKR Architects 1997 UTAH FOOTBALL f Success In 1892, four years before Utah was In the mid- granted statehood, the University of 1970s, women's Utah played its first football game. The athletics entered U. lost, 12-0, to Utah State-a mislead­ the Ute fold and ing start for an athletic program that quickly made up would etch its mark nationally in the for time lost on the Consensus century to come. sidelines. The Utah All-American The first 50 years of Utah athletics women's basket­ Keifh Van found the Utes with two national ball team acquired Horn led 101 wins in its first Utah to championships in basketball (the 1944 three NCAA Tournament and 1947 National five years of straight WAC Invitational Tournament). Football had existence-89 titles from its successes in the early years, as well, under future Hall- 1995-97— of-Fame coach and a No. 6 especially under coach Ike Armstrong final (141-55-17 from 1925-49). Armstrong Fern Gardner. The national led the Utes to a 7-1-2 record in 1938 Ute women skiers ranking in and a Sun Bowl victory over New took the 1977 1997. Mexico. His 1946 Utes finished 8-3 and Association for played in the Pineapple Bowl. Intercollegiate The Utah basketball program Athletics for matched strides, making regular Women (AIAW) appearances at the NCAA Tournament championship and throughout the '40s and '50s and setting sandwiched their gold with a trio of making a national splash when he won the tone for the half century to come. silvers from 1976-79. And what would the 50-yard freestyle at the 1976 NCAA And long-time men's swim coach Don soon become the premier women's Swimming and Diving Championships. Reddish laid the groundwork for a gymnastics team in the nation was born The 1980s saw athletics at Utah program that owns 22 Western Athletic in the 1975-76 season. Coach Greg continue hurtling into the big time. The Championships to date. Marsden led that first team to a 10th- women's gymnastics team won an Utah's tentative steps up the national place national finish-a place that, unprecedented six-straight national athletics ladder escalated to leaps and lofty as it may seem-now ranks dead titles from 1981-86. Cross country bounds when the '60s rolled around. In last for a U. gymnastics squad. In the coach Mike Jones led his women's team 1961, the men's hoops team advanced spring of 1979, the Ute softball team (then competing in Division II) to the to the NCAA Final Four, barely missing went to the College World Series. The AIAW Championship in 1981. The U. third place in a thrilling four-overtime men's sports kept pace, with Jeff Rolan softball team qualified for the 1982 and loss to St. Joseph's (127- '85 NCAA College World 120). In 1964, it was Series. The 1983 men's football, not basketball, basketball team upset that shoved the Utes Illinois and UCLA before into the national succumbing to eventual limelight. After an 8-2 NCAA champion North regular season, coach Carolina State in the West Ray Nagel's Utes Regional semifinals. Also accepted an invitation to in 1983, skiing became a play West Virginia in coed sport and Utah swept the 1964 Liberty Bowl to the NCAA title. The in Atlantic City, N.J., coed Skiin' Utes would win where they romped past four of the next five NCAA the Mountaineers, 32-6. Championships, as well. It In 1966, Utah again was a big year across the finished fourth in the board, with tennis player NCAA basketball Greg Holmes capturing the tourney-falling to 1983 NCAA singles eventual champion championship. Texas Western (now The upward spiral has UTEP) in the national In 1995, the Utah gymnastics team won a record 10th continued into the '90s. semifinals. national championship at Georgia—its fourth title in the '90s. Under the direction of 124 1997 UTAH FOOTBALL Uentury of Success Athletics Director Dr. Chris Hill, the coach Pat Miller. The skiers finished semi-finals. The Utes have won three Ute program has reached previously second in '94 and '95. Rick Majerus' straight WAC Championships and five uncharted levels. Football coach Ron Runnin' Ute men's basketball team has total under Majerus. The women's McBride has taken his team to a basketball team has won the last two bowl in four of the last five WAC regular season titles and advanced years-a school record. The Utes to the NCAA Tournament. Last year, in played in the 1992 and '96 their seventh NCAA tourney appearance, Copper Bowl, and the 1993 and the Ute women made the NCAA Second '94 Freedom Bowl. The 1994 Round. The softball team has made season-the best in school postseason play (regionals or nationals) an history-made Utah a national annual event. The Utes qualified for the player. The Utes won their first 1991 and 1994 College World Series- eight games, and finished the placing fifth in the nation in 1994. season with a school-record 10 On the administrative front, Hill, a wins (10-2) and a No. 10 Associ­ former Ute fund-raiser, is behind a ated Press ranking (No. 8 CNN- virtual athletics construction boom that Coaches Poll). Utah defeated puts Utah near the head of the class Arizona, 16-13, in the 1994 nationally in facilities. Among the new Freedom Bowl. In 1995, a facilities: the George S. Eccles Tennis youthful Ute team was denied a Facility, the Dee Glen Smith Athletics fourth-straight postseason Center, the Thomas Kearns McCarthey appearance, despite winning a Practice Field, Ute Softball Field, share of the WAC champion­ Crimson Court (volleyball), Ute Soccer ship-its first in 31 years. The Utah Ski Coach Pat Miller has won nine Field, and a bubbled indoor practice Utes returned to postseason play national titles, including the last two. structure. Major projects currently last season, after winning eight underway include the $50 million games. also found a niche with the national reconstruction of Rice Stadium and a leaders. The Utes made the 'Elite Eight' new $1.7 million women's gymnastics last year and finished the year ranked training facility. fUteJt ie&ms m&i only regie No. 6 in the nation. They were led by All of Utah's athletic success stories only tsmmng ihe WA€'s consensus All-American Keith Van over the last century have long since best, ihey «@mp®f® ®m & Horn, who went on to become the No. 2 rendered the 1892 gridiron loss to Utah wsestwmmi fevef. pick taken in the NBA draft. Utah also State a forgotten footnote. With a storied reached the 1991 and '96 NCAA 'Sweet past, a bright future and a national Sixteen,' the 1993 and '95 NCAA reputation, the University of Utah finds Football's success has carried over Second Round and the 1992 N.I.T itself in a good state indeed. to the winter sports. The women's gymnastics team won the 1990, '92, '94 and '95 NCAA Championships-upping its total to a record 10, all under Marsden. Utah's gymnastics success has spilled into the Ute Football stands, where it has averaged Coach Ron more spectators than any McBride other women's intercollegiate celebrated his sport over the past six years. team's victory over The Ute tumblers have Arizona at averaged 11,050 fans per the 1994 home meet during that time, Freedom including an all-time high Bowl. 13,164 average in 1993. Outdoors, the Ute skiers won the 1993, '96 and '97 NCAA Championships-raising their total to 10-nine under 125 U 1997 UTAH FOOTBALL \cademics The University of Utah enjoys a richly deserved reputation as a top- ACADEMICS AT UTAH notch academic institution. For the •Research-The U. is an international center for medical and engineering student-athlete, the U. provides the research, and its genetics research ranks among the world's best. The U. ranks opportunity for an exceptional among the top 10 most successful universities in technology innovation and academic and athletic experience. The commercialization. Utah athletic department is committed •Technology-Jhe U. manages one of the three most successful technology to providing the means for a quality parks in the U.S., with more than 50 new high-tech companies created by education to every varsity athlete.