UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON 2004 HUSKY FOOTBALL www.gohuskies.com Contacts: Jim Daves, Jeff Bechthold & Brian Beaky • (206) 543-2230 • Fax (206) 543-5000 2004 HUSKY SCHEDULE / RESULTS WASHINGTON vs. FRESNO STATE Sept. 5 FRESNO STATE (Fox Sports Net) 2:30 p.m. Huskies Open 2004 Slate With Sunday Game vs. Bulldogs Sept. 18 UCLA (ABC-TV) 4:00 p.m. Sept. 25 at Notre Dame (NBC-TV) 12:30 p.m. THE GAME: The Washington football team kicks off the 2004 season Sunday, September 5, when the Oct. 2 at Stanford 2:00 p.m. Huskies play host to Fresno State in a 2:30 p.m. (PDT) game at Husky Stadium. Last season, the Bulldogs Oct. 9 SAN JOSE STATE 12:30 p.m. posted a 9-5 overall record and a 6-2 Western Athletic Conference mark. Their season included wins over Oct. 16 OREGON STATE 12:30 p.m. both Oregon State and UCLA from the Pac-10. The meeting will mark only the second time in history that Oct. 23 at USC 1:30 p.m. these two West Coast teams have met and will be the first Sunday game in Husky football history. After the Oct. 30 at Oregon 12:30 p.m. Fresno State game, the Huskies (6-6 overall, 4-4 in the Pac-10 in 2003) have a week off before hosting UCLA in the Pac-10 opener Sept. 18 at Husky Stadium. Trips to Notre Dame (Sept. 25) and Stanford (Oct. 2) follow Nov. 6 ARIZONA 12:30 p.m. the game against the Bruins. Nov. 13 CALIFORNIA 12:30 p.m. Nov. 20 at Washington State (ABC-TV) 5:00 p.m. HUSKIES vs. BULLDOGS HISTORY: Surprisingly enough for two teams from the West Coast, Washington all times are Pacific and subject to change and Fresno State have met only one time in their history. Sept. 29, 1979, at Husky Stadium, the No. 9-ranked Huskies beat Fresno State, 49-14, in what many in the press (as well as Coach Don James) regarded as a lackluster UW performance, final score nonwithstanding. Washington, fresh from a come-from-behind 21-17 2003 PAC-10 FINAL STANDINGS win the previous week vs. Oregon in Eugene (the UW scored on a 53-yard punt return with 1:59 left to win 21- Team Pac-10 Overall 17) had moved into the top 10 for the first time in the Don James era when the unranked Bulldogs came to 1. USC 7-1 12-1 Husky Stadium. After quarterback Tom Porras got the UW on the board with a nine-yard TD run 2:48 into the 2. Washington State 6-2 10-3 first quarter, Fresno State replied with a 73-yard touchdown drive that was helped along by a converted 3. Oregon 5-3 8-5 fourth down and a 40-yard pass interference penalty. Ken Lovely scored on a one-yard run to cap the drive. On California 5-3 8-6 the ensuing kickoff, UW return man Anthony Allen was tackled in the endzone for a safety and Fresno (which 5. Oregon State 4-4 8-5 had missed its PAT) led 8-7. Late in the opening quarter, the Bulldogs made it 14-7 when Gary Kaiser hit Washington 4-4 6-6 James Terry on a 20-yard pass. However, Washington would go on to score 42 unanswered points, including UCLA 4-4 5-7 21 in the second quarter, to roll to the win. Mike Lansford hit two field goals, the UW got scoring runs from Toussaint Tyler (3 yards), Joe Steele (69 yards) and Willis Ray Mackay (1 yard) and two TD passes (Tom Porras 8. Arizona State 2-6 5-7 to Paul Skansi, 23 yards; Tom Flick to Steele, 5 yards) to account for their total. Steele finished with 133 Stanford 2-6 4-7 rushing yards on 14 carries while Porras passed 11-for-16 for 158 yards and one TD. For the Bulldogs, Lovely 10. Arizona 1-7 2-10 ran for 83 yards on 24 tries while Kaiser was 10-for-27 for 197 yards and a TD to go with five interceptions. Incidentally, future Fresno star Henry Ellard, only a freshman in 1979, had two punt returns for 51 yards. EARLY PAC-10 GAMES ORANGE BOWL TEAM REMEMBERED: Washington’s 1984 team, which won the 1985 Orange Bowl USC 24, Virginia Tech 13 (Aug. 28) vs. Oklahoma, will be honored as part of Saturday’s game as the “Husky Legend”. The day will also include UTEP at Arizona State (Sept. 2) special recognition for that team’s defensive coordinator, Jim Lambright. Lambright, a former Husky player Washington State at New Mexico (Sept. 3) and longtime assistant coach, went on to serve as the UW head coach from 1993 to 1998. Northern Arizona at Arizona (Sept. 4) California at Air Force (Sept. 4) SUNDAY OPENER: In an unusual turn, the Huskies will open the 2004 season on a Sunday, having moved their opener back by one day so that their matchup vs. Fresno State can air live to a nationwide Oregon State at Louisiana State (Sept. 4) audience on Fox Sports Net. The fact that the NFL doesn’t get its season underway until the following San Jose State at Stanford (Sept. 4) weekend allowed for the move. The obvious question — has Washington ever played a game on a Sunday? Oklahoma State at UCLA (Sept. 4) The answer is no. At some point in their history, the Huskies have played a game on every day of the week Fresno State at Washington (Sept. 5) other than Sunday, many of those non-Saturday contests coming in bowl-game action. In the early years of UW football, games on Thursday and Friday were not at all uncommon. On two occasions, 1961 and 1978, SEPTEMBER 11 GAMES the Huskies played in the Rose Bowl on January 2, as those two years, New Year’s Day fell on Sunday. Utah at Arizona Incidentally, the last time the UW opened a season on a day other than Saturday was in 1999, when the Arizona State at Northwestern Huskies traveled to Brigham Young for a Thursday night ESPN game and fell to the Cougars, 35-28. New Mexico State at California TELEVISION: The Washington-Fresno State game will air live on Fox Sports Net to a national audience Indiana at Oregon with Barry Tompkins and Petros Papadakis calling the action. The game will also re-air Monday, Sept. 6 at Oregon State at Boise State noon on Fox Sports Northwest. During the season, all Husky games will air on tape delay Sundays at 3:00 Brigham Young at Stanford p.m. The lone exception is the Stanford game, which will be shown at 5:00 p.m on Oct. 3. Additionally, “Husky UCLA at Illinois Football Experience” airs each Thursday at 7:00 p.m. during the season on Fox Sports. The third-year, two-time Colorado State at USC Emmy-winning program is an up-close look at each Husky game, with one-on-one interviews and sideline video. Colorado at Washington State (at Seattle) RADIO: The Husky Sports Network, with its flagship station KJR 950-AM, will carry the live broadcast of every football game to four different states on 25 different radio stations. Longtime play-by-play man Bob Rondeau and color analyst Chuck Nelson are joined by sideline reporter Elise Woodward. WASHINGTON vs. FRESNO STATE • HUSKY STADIUM • SEPTEMBER 5, 2004 • 2:30 P.M. PDT THE COACH: Husky head coach Keith Gilbertson hit the ground running, as his first official day as the Washington coach was only a month and a day before MEDIA RESOURCES opening the 2003 season against defending national champion Ohio State. How- UW ON THE INTERNET: The Washington athletic department’s official web site can ever, Gilbertson had the advantage of having served as an assistant coach at the be found at www.gohuskies.com. The site features information on all 23 of the Hus- UW for the previous four seasons, his third stint as a Dawg assistant. In his first kies’ intercollegiate sports programs. season, the Husky head man managed a 6-6 overall record and a 4-4 Pac-10 mark FRESNO STATE ON THE INTERNET: Fresno State’s official website can be found at in a season that was highlighted by the UW’s sixth straight Apple Cup win over www.gobulldogs.com. Washington State as well as wins over Northwest rivals Oregon and Oregon State. Gilbertson, a native of Snohomish, Wash., north of Seattle, served as a graduate PAC-10 ON THE INTERNET: The official Pac-10 web site, which includes a copy of assistant at the UW under Don James in 1976, James’ second season. In 1989, the weekly Pac-10 football release, can be found at the following address: www.pac- Gilbertson left his head coaching job at Idaho to join the Washington staff, first as 10.org. offensive line coach before taking over as offensive coordinator in 1991, when the Huskies won the national championship and led the Pac-10 in rushing offense, PAC-10 SATELLITE FEED: The Pac-10 runs a weekly satellite feed featuring inter- total offense and scoring offense. In 1992, Gilbertson took his second head coach- views and game highlight footage. The 30-minute feed runs every Wednesday at ing position, traveling down to the coast to California. His four-year stint at Berke- 11:00 a.m. PT (2:00 ET), beginning Sept. 8 and running until Dec.