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FOOTBAL L CLUB Third Annual Lu Ball Reunion June 29, 20 13 Sunset Hills Country Club 2 Program 6:00 PM Reunion Committee and Cheerleaders will greet attendees as they arrive giving brief orientation. No host bar is open. Silent auction starts with putting the half of the op - portunity ticket, with your name, into the container identifying the item of your choice. Random drawing will follow and winners to be notified before the live auction. Gerald M Halweg 6:50 PM Everyone please be seated for the start of the program. 7:00 PM Gerald M. Halweg Welcome, Introductions and 5th Quarter President Acknowledgements 7:10 PM Christine Hansen Singing Star Spangle Banner 7:15 PM Pastor Larry Wagner Innovation 7:20 PM Gary McGinnis Dinner Robert Shoup 8:00 PM Mike Sheppard Award – Eric Rogers, Receiver 8:08 PM Davey Spurlock Award – Fighting Heart Award -Dr. James Callas 8:20 PM Mike Sheppard Introduce Rod Marinelli as Keynote Address 8:40 PM Coach Ben McEnroe Preview of the 2013 Football Season & Victory Club 8:50 PM Gerald M. Halweg Live Auction Rod Marinelli 9:20 PM Mark Arthur (DJ) Dancing/Bragging, Reminiscing and Story Telling 11:45 PM Be Safe Traveling Lights Out Reunion Committee Gary & Gail McGinnis, Chair Anthony Lugo Gerald & Judy Halweg Don Kindred Bob & Laura Davis Mike Sheppard Kathie & George Ferkin John & Goldie Luebtow Bill Swiontkowski Don & Carol DeMars Lynn ompson Jesse R. Matlock Robert D. Trevathan Isiah Gomer Robert & Helen Shoup Ron & Christina Myren Fredrick C. Kemp Kimberly Peppi Lloyd “Ant” Andreas Cover Photo by VENTURA COUNTY STAR staff photojournalist Troy Harvey. Graphics by Kindred Associates, Printing by California Lutheran University Ben McEnroe 3 Brief Profiles of Our Kingsmen/NFL Coach Guests 4 Cal Lutheran Kingsmen Career Receiving Records Receiving Yards Player Years 1. 3,461 Eric Rogers 2009-12 2. 2,792 Mike Hagen 1977-79 3. 2,269 Joe Fuca 1983-86 4. 2,202 Skip Mooney 1962-65 5. 2,141 Eugene Sullivan 1998-2001 6. 1,962 Steve Hagen 1980-82 7. 1,931 Jimmy Fox 2000-03 8. 1,906 Jim Quiring 1965-68 9. 1,817 Jesse Matlock 2005-2008 10. 1,573 Brian Woodworth 2000-01 Receiving TDs Player Years 1. 41 Eric Rogers 2009-12 1. 25 Skip Mooney 1962-65 2. 23 Mike Hagen 1977-79 4. 19 Jimmy Fox 2000-03 5. 17 Butch Eskridge 1973-76 Eric Rogers 6. 14 Harry Hedrick 1975-77 7. 13 Steve Hagen 1980-82 8. 13 Jim Quiring 1965-68 9. 13 Geno Sullivan 1998-2001 10. 12 Jesse Matlock 2005-08 Receptions Player Years 1. 220 Eric Rogers 2009-12 2. 176 Jimmy Fox 2000-03 3. 175 Mike Hagen 1977-79 4. 161 Eugene Sullivan 1998-2001 5. 146 Skip Mooney 1962-65 6. 139 Joe Fuca 1983-86 7. 133 Jesse Matlock 2005-2008 8. 113 Steve Hagen 1980-82 Jesse Matlock 9. 108 Brian Woodworth 2000-01 10. 107 Butch Eskridge 1973-76 Skip Mooney Jim Quiring Mike Hagen 5 Year of the Receiver 2013 6 OUR SERVICES ASPHALT With over 60 years of experience in asphalt paving, Hardy & Harper is a skilled and knowledgeable com - pany that is capable of handling all of your paving needs. 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HARDY & HARPER, INC. 1312 East Warner Ave., Santa Ana, CA 92705 Phone: (714) 444-1851 [email protected] • hardyandharper.com 7 tice in the bus affectionately called “e White Tornado” and driven by Norm Denison, was an adventure in survival in and of itself. The Beginnings While the first team began its inaugural season with no home field, Orville Dahl, Bob Shoup, and representatives from the Los Angeles Times, were able to attract a new NFL team, the Dallas Cowboys, to the campus for their summer camp. Working with the Cowboys, the University was able to fast track the development of better locker room and training facilities as well as the creation of the first home field and adjacent practice fields on the north cam - pus. For the next 26 years these two organizations, the CLU Kings - men, and the Dallas Cowboys, grew into very competitive and nationally recognized teams. Each team reached the pinnacle of By George Engdahl hen Richard Pederson, the Wfarmer who owned the land on which CLU was developed, re - sponded to Orville Dahl’s, CLU’s first president, knock on his door, in 1957, he said “I have been expecting you.” In provid - ing the land, Pederson’s goal was simple: “I want to provide youth with the The first team - 1962 Kingsmen benefits of a Christian ed - ucation in a day when spiritual values may well decide the course competition by winning their own versions of the national champi - of history.” Since that time CLU has never wavered. Expecting onship. e Cowboys helped put the city of Dallas on the map, and great things has always been at the core of CLU and it has re - Kingsmen football helped to promote and develop brand identity mained steadfast in defining and being faithful to its spiritual val - for this new fledgling university in the southwest. Tom Landry was a ues. man of faith and high spiritual values as was coach Shoup and coach Orville Dahl wasted little time in making the development of a Garrison. In fact the “Letterman’s Club” as such organizations were first class athletic program a high priority in CLU’s first year. He called in those days, was named Chi Alpha Sigma, “Christians, Ath - hired a visionary athletic director, Luther Schwich, and then set letes, Scholars.” Perhaps Chi Alpha Sigma can become a part of the about the task of recruiting Coach Shoup as the University’s foundation, history and tradition of e 5th Quarter. founding football coach. Coach Shoup in turn brought with him e first season (1962) was the launching of the CLU football Don Garrison, who was not only a successful and charismatic program. It was a bare bones program. ere was no nickname or coach in his own right, but like Shoup a person of deep personal fight song. Facilities were limited at best. ere was no home field, faith. e Shoup’s (Bob and Helen) arrived on the campus in the or a strong student and community following. ose things were spring of 1962 and immediately set about the task of recruiting being developed on the fly, or sometime in the future. However, in the first football team. Along the way he recruited a couple of fac - the great CLU tradition, players, coaches and students didn’t know ulty members, James Kallas, and Robert Hage to help him. Hague what they didn’t have. e team’s 1962 record 3-4, wasn’t as impor - was also a Dean at the college. Both of these men became legends tant as commitment and dedication of those first players and in their own right with regard to the development of the football coaches. Most of the players came from very competitive high program and the academic tradition of the University. schools and community college programs. ey were used to win - In the fall of 1962 the first scraggy recruits showed up. ere ning and having great facilities, traditions, a fight song, a band and were no fields on which to practice. e gym was under construc - cheerleaders backed by a large and faithful student body that had tion, so Beta Hall, the men’s residence hall at the time, served as come to the same home field for years. In 1962 neither the Cowboys the locker room until Mountclef Hall was finished that same fall. nor the Kingsmen had any of those amenities, but it didn’t matter. We started with two a days. ere was no hot water in the resi - CLU players and those students and faculty were affectionately dence hall. e practice field was a small grassy area located where called pioneers. ey pioneered. at’s what they did. ey laid the Alumni House (the Pederson home) is now located. Eventually we groundwork, they had high expectations and they established the were able to practice at Camarillo High School. Getting to prac - mantra for a winning tradition that continues to this day. 8 9 1963 The Year that Changed the World e sixties followed the innocence of the fifties, and Cal Lutheran opened its doors to face realities and con - frontations and exposures that would create a whole new paradigm shift. During the year of 1963, we saw the beginning of the civil rights movement and the assassination of John Kennedy, the emergence of the Beatles and the war in Vietnam. is was also the first winning year of California Lutheran football and the year that the Dallas Cowboys moved to Cal Lutheran as the home of their Summer Training Camp.