Article of Miami History

[TheMatador]

This has been such an interesting thread for me. Thanks guys. Being an old fart myself moving to Miami in '65, I am amazed at the details of your memories.

By '65 I was gone from South Florida. Tried to follow the team as best I could. There was no internet or ESPN and the Canes were rarely on TV outside of South Florida. (In the early '60s, there was usually a Sunday morning replay of the game, or mostly highlights. I think it was a coach's show with Coach Gus.) I think his very last game, at the end of the '63 season, was nationally or regionally televised because I watched in central Florida.

To say that the '63 season was a major disappointment is an understatement. That was Gus' dream team with Mira, Russ Smith and Pete Banaszak in the backfield. That offensive backfield was supposed to be comparable to the other greatest backfield he coached -- the legendary late '40's backfield he coached at Army: Arnold Tucker (former Hurricane, from Miami, and member of CFHOF), Glenn Davis (Mr. Outside) and Doc Blanchard (Mr. Inside.) All are in the College Football Hall of Fame. Gus was an offensive assistant, maybe OC, under the legendary West Point Coach, Earl "Red" Blaik.

Most here are too young to remember when Army (and Navy) were national powers. I remember UM getting beat by Navy on more than one occasion.

The '63 team, which would be Gus' last before retirement, was being touted as perhaps the best ever at Miami. Mira started out having a relatively worse year than his prior two. People started to blame his worsening accuracy on all kinds of things--one of my HS teachers in Miami had played at Penn State in the '30's. He would whisper when he said to us "If Mira wasn't spending all that time in bed with his new wife then.....". Like living with and sleeping with a woman distracted and detracted from focus on football! Mira had gotten married before his senior year.

Strange prejudices back then...it apparently was not common for unmarried couple's to live together back then.

In '64 I was at a new HS in central Florida and I asked the DL coach at my new HS if Miami had been tough when he played them as UF LB and co-captain in '62. He said, "No, they just passed a lot."

Gus had gotten away from power football and running a lot. There was a lot of talk back then that our emphasis on passing on offense softened our linemen because most of them played both ways. Coach Gus actually admitted that being so passive and emphasizing pass blocking softened our linenen overall and softened our defenses.

This was discussed in the media. We relied so much on the skilled passing of George Mira Sr that we became a finesse team. Keep in mind that many, perhaps most players, did not lift weights. A friend of mine who played on some of our very good late '60's teams told me weights were optional, not mandatory.

I know that some college athletes were doing weights and steroids. I had a friend who was a sprinter at FSU and he told me I should take Dianobol, which I think was a testosterone powder. Like it was no big deal. Nobody knew about dangers, they just knew you could add weight and muscle. I have no idea if UM guys were doing this stuff in the '60's. Based on the FSU track guy I knew, I suppose some of the FSU football guys were.

The game has changed a lot.

 

[daytonacane]

Been doing some reading. McIntyre played at Jackson High.

Folk singer Hoyt Axton played at Lee and signed football scholarship to play at Oklahoma A&M in about '56. I guess that's Oklahoma State, now.

Do you remember him, Daytona?

https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/335512

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Matador, I was a year ahead of Doug in school but he was 2 months older than me. We married his sophomore year and lived in the married dorms which were located on ****erson Dr. on campus. They have since been torn down & I think there are athletic facilities there now. We lived in the dorm closest to the little bridge that goes over to the athletic facility & field. BTW, I don't remember any of the players up thru '61 who took steroids.

Yes, we both knew Hoyt Axton quite well and he & Doug played football together in HS. He lived a block over from Doug in Jax. His Mom co-wrote "Heartbreak Hotel" for Elvis and Hoyt wrote a number of songs and even got into acting. He and Wife, Debbie, lived in Victor, Montana. He called me about 6 months before his death from a heart attack in 1999. Back in high school, Hoyt was with some guys and he decided to throw a flambeau into a paint store which obviously blew up. He didn't serve any jail time, but the insurance company tracked his income and nearly 20 years from the time he graduated high school, they sued him and got their money back. Doug thankfully was not with Hoyt when that happened.

I remember the time when half the Miami team was taken to jail for fighting. I believe they were at the Black Cat bar which was on/near Red Road & 8th St. (memory a bit foggy on that). Think it was kind of swept under the rug. Another popular watering hole for some of the players was the Cottage Inn on 8th run by an older lady named "Diamond Lil". I went to school part-time and worked @ Variety Children's hospital part time. We went with the Pikes to the Fountainebleau, and saw the rat pack.....Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, etc. etc. Miami was the winter home of the Mafia and they kept things in pretty good order!!!! Miami at its finest~!!! Loved it.

 

[fraggle]

I regard the Hurricanes history as Orange Bowl versus post-Orange Bowl. Those who missed the old swaying living entity called the Orange Bowl where you waded in **** and women used the men's room have no idea how alive and fun it was. Take the game where we beat ND at Hard Rock and multiple that by 10 and you will have an idea of how much fun the Orange Bowl was...you could buy a years pass to sit in the foot stomping end zone for 99 dollars and 2 adults and 3 teens could use the one ticket the entire season.
I miss the OB but enjoy the comforts of Hard Rock, don't miss no blockie parking 10 dollars....

 

[TheMatador]

Matador, I was a year ahead of Doug in school but he was 2 months older than me. We married his sophomore year and lived in the married dorms which were located on ****erson Dr. on campus. They have since been torn down & I think there are athletic facilities there now. We lived in the dorm closest to the little bridge that goes over to the athletic facility & field. BTW, I don't remember any of the players up thru '61 who took steroids.

Yes, we both knew Hoyt Axton quite well and he & Doug played football together in HS. He lived a block over from Doug in Jax. His Mom co-wrote "Heartbreak Hotel" for Elvis and Hoyt wrote a number of songs and even got into acting. He and Wife, Debbie, lived in Victor, Montana. He called me about 6 months before his death from a heart attack in 1999. Back in high school, Hoyt was with some guys and he decided to throw a flambeau into a paint store which obviously blew up. He didn't serve any jail time, but the insurance company tracked his income and nearly 20 years from the time he graduated high school, they sued him and got their money back. Doug thankfully was not with Hoyt when that happened.

I remember the time when half the Miami team was taken to jail for fighting. I believe they were at the Black Cat bar which was on/near Red Road & 8th St. (memory a bit foggy on that). Think it was kind of swept under the rug. Another popular watering hole for some of the players was the Cottage Inn on 8th run by an older lady named "Diamond Lil". I went to school part-time and worked @ Variety Children's hospital part time. We went with the Pikes to the Fountainebleau, and saw the rat pack.....Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford, etc. etc. Miami was the winter home of the Mafia and they kept things in pretty good order!!!! Miami at its finest~!!! Loved it.

Such great stories! Yes, Old Miami in the 50's and '60's was a fascinating city! I was a bit too young to fully appreciate the night life. I was a junior in HS when my family moved to Cocoa Beach. Right after JFK was killed.

I don't know if you remember Bay Harbor Islands, near Surfside and Bal Harbor. There were two brothers in the neighborhood named Teriaca. The younger brother was a year younger than me; the older brother was about 3-4 years older. I hated him. One of the nastiest kids I ever met. Mean as could be.

Never knew what happened to them until I googled a few years ago. The younger brother was killed in the parking lot of a restaurant by Meyer Lansky's stepson, as I recall. Some time later, the older brother disappeared from his townhouse in Bal Harbour. Nobody knows what happened to him. Complete mystery, although a friend who knows a lot about south Florida and is a published historian of the Miami area told me he will tell me more if I meet him in person. Not by email. Not by phone. Everyone assumes it was a mob hit and the old "friend" ended up wrapped in cement out in the Atlantic. The father is now generally acknowledged to have been a Mafia operative.

I probably told the story here--several times--how my parents sent me to sleepaway camp at Miami Military Academy. Why they sent me there, where there were some bad kids, I don't know. I got very friendly with another kid--probably my best friend there. My parents came to visit one weekend and I told them I had an argument with my friend about whose father could beat up the other's. My parents found the story interesting. They said, what's the kid's name? I said, "Jack LaMotta."

My mother reminded me of this story years later. She said my father turned white, and began to look sick.

I think it was Jack (Little Jake, I think he was called in The Raging Bull. ). There were two brothers, Jack and Joe. I knew them both. I remember when the father, and his wife, Vickie, came to the camp and showed his fight movies. Probably showed us his great fights against Sugar Ray Robinson.

We were all kids who were mostly elementary age but we were sitting there in awe of Vickie, the mother of the two LaMotta boys. I think she was in her '50's when she did a nude pictorial in Playboy. I couldn't believe what she looked like then. It would have been around early '80's, I think. She was with a naked man in the pictorial, someone I used to know: Pete Athas, a DB at Edison in the early '60's, then played at Tennessee than a KR for the Giants.

By then Vickie was divorced and I'm guessing was quite a cougar since Pete would've been a lot younger.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.miamiherald.com/sports/nfl/article27014446.html

Here's a NY Daily News article about their relationship:

That's Rita Jenrette, not Vicki LaMotta on the cover.
.The two LaMotta boys died young. Although I was friendly with the younger brother, I now get them mixed up. One died, I think, in the airliner crash off Long Island some years ago. The other from cancer. Jake was devastated at having outlived his sons.

Thinking about how UM recruited back then--so many working class kids from industrial areas up north. Probably the toughest kids in the country. Most of these kids had probably never seen the oceans, Palm trees, the night life. They probably came from very very modest circumstances. I once looked up Eddie Johns' background and he came from a working class town somewhere in Western Pennsylvania. I think it might have been what at one time were called "company towns." The companies built the towns for their workers, rented the homes, ran the stores, everything.

Nick Spinelli's son posts here. Nick was a dynamic flanker in the early '60's. Nick said if he had not had the college football opportunity he probably would have spent his entire adult live in the coal mines. (For those Western Pennsylvania kids, the families were either steel workers or coal miners.)

EDIT: Most here have probably never heard of the position called "flanker." It was simply one of two wide-outs, the one who lined up in the backfield. The wide receiver was usually one of the ends who split out wide.

 

[SWFLHurricane]

Such great stories! Yes, Old Miami in the 50's and '60's was a fascinating city! I was a bit too young to fully appreciate the night life. I was a junior in HS when my family moved to Cocoa Beach. Right after JFK was killed.

I don't know if you remember Bay Harbor Islands, near Surfside and Bal Harbor. There were two brothers in the neighborhood named Teriaca. The younger brother was a year younger than me; the older brother was about 3-4 years older. I hated him. One of the nastiest kids I ever met. Mean as could be.

Never knew what happened to them until I googled a few years ago. The younger brother was killed in the parking lot of a restaurant by Meyer Lansky's stepson, as I recall. Some time later, the older brother disappeared from his townhouse in Bal Harbour. Nobody knows what happened to him. Complete mystery, although a friend who knows a lot about south Florida and is a published historian of the Miami area told me he will tell me more if I meet him in person. Not by email. Not by phone. Everyone assumes it was a mob hit and the old "friend" ended up wrapped in cement out in the Atlantic. The father is now generally acknowledged to have been a Mafia operative.

I probably told the story here--several times--how my parents sent me to sleepaway camp at Miami Military Academy. Why they sent me there, where there were some bad kids, I don't know. I got very friendly with another kid--probably my best friend there. My parents came to visit one weekend and I told them I had an argument with my friend about whose father could beat up the other's. My parents found the story interesting. They said, what's the kid's name? I said, "Jack LaMotta."

My mother reminded me of this story years later. She said my father turned white, and began to look sick.

I think it was Jack (Little Jake, I think he was called in The Raging Bull. ). There were two brothers, Jack and Joe. I knew them both. I remember when the father, and his wife, Vickie, came to the camp and showed his fight movies. Probably showed us his great fights against Sugar Ray Robinson.

We were all kids who were mostly elementary age but we were sitting there in awe of Vickie, the mother of the two LaMotta boys. I think she was in her '50's when she did a nude pictorial in Playboy. I couldn't believe what she looked like then. It would have been around early '80's, I think. She was with a naked man in the pictorial, someone I used to know: Pete Athas, a DB at Edison in the early '60's, then played at Tennessee than a KR for the Giants.

By then Vickie was divorced and I'm guessing was quite a cougar since Pete would've been a lot younger.

The two LaMotta boys died young. Although I was friendly with the younger brother, I now get them mixed up. One died, I think, in the airliner crash off Long Island some years ago. The other from cancer. Jake was devastated at having outlived his son's.

Threads like this should NEVER stop EVER

 

[TheMatador]

Threads like this should NEVER stop EVER

The more I write about Miami history and not just football somebody will complain it's off topic and ship it off to the WEZ. I think it's much easier to understand UM football if you understand the city's history and how UM and its sports program grew up together.

 

[SWFLHurricane]

The more I write about Miami history and not just football somebody will complain it's off topic and ship it off to the WEZ. I think it's much easier to understand UM football if you understand the city's history and how UM and its sports program grew up together.

I agree 100%...regardless of what anyone thinks....

 

[daytonacane]

I regard the Hurricanes history as Orange Bowl versus post-Orange Bowl. Those who missed the old swaying living entity called the Orange Bowl where you waded in **** and women used the men's room have no idea how alive and fun it was. Take the game where we beat ND at Hard Rock and multiple that by 10 and you will have an idea of how much fun the Orange Bowl was...you could buy a years pass to sit in the foot stomping end zone for 99 dollars and 2 adults and 3 teens could use the one ticket the entire season.
I miss the OB but enjoy the comforts of Hard Rock, don't miss no blockie parking 10 dollars....

Oh yes, I remember using the men's room as there was always a real long line for the Women's. Guess we have smaller bladders. OMG, the restrooms were nasty. I remember sitting in the stands watching Miami vs. Oklahoma when Testaverde was QB and we lit their sooner wagon on fire and our fans went nuts. I truly thought the stands would crumble. I never wanted to sit up high because I didn't trust the structure of the stands. What a great atmosphere though.

 

[daytonacane]

Matador, I loved your Lamotto story. Reminded me that in Doug's senior year we had a baby around 1 year old and I went to fly from Miami to Jax. on a plane that had its final destination in NYC. Back then you walked onto the tarmac and up into the plane. I was holding him, baby bag, my purse, etc. when a man next to me offered to hold my baby - which he did. When we got on the plane & he handed me back my baby, my seatmate later said, "Do you know who that was" and I responded, "no". He stated it was Rocky Marciano. Lots of celebrities in all fields lived in and around Miami and still do.

Speaking of Meyer Lansky, Doug and I knew an older couple that lived in the Gables & were Hurricane fans. We met them thru mutual friends from Jax. Doug went with our friend one time to Meyer Lansky's house and met Meyer & his wife. Neither one of us had a clue as to WHO he was & what his connection to the Mafia was. Many years later we found out that our friend was a money runner for the mob. I always thought Joe's Stone Crab Restaurant was Mafia owned/managed??

The Hurricane office always got jobs in the summer for the players who stayed/lived there year-round like most of the married players. One year Doug worked as a lifeguard on the beach and another year he worked on the Miami international airport hauling "georgia buggies" full of cement. Some of the black workers teased him for being a "slow college boy", but within a week or so he was out-distancing them and gained their respect. They even started attending Hurricane football game to see him play. The players use to get 4 free tickets each to give away for every home game. I wonder if they still get free tickets for home games to give away?

 

[TheMatador]

Oh yes, I remember using the men's room as there was always a real long line for the Women's. Guess we have smaller bladders. OMG, the restrooms were nasty. I remember sitting in the stands watching Miami vs. Oklahoma when Testaverde was QB and we lit their sooner wagon on fire and our fans went nuts. I truly thought the stands would crumble. I never wanted to sit up high because I didn't trust the structure of the stands. What a great atmosphere though.

I think that burning schooner wagon was at the end of the '88 OB game when we beat Oklahoma for the NC. They used that stupid fumblerooski to score one of their TDs, just like Nebraska some years before.

I'll never forget Bennie Blades' statement after the game.....he said something about looking around and there's some "fat" kid running down the sideline with the ball. One of those years we played Notre Dame and their vaunted WR named Brown who won the Heisman. After we beat ND and shut down Brown he opined that Brown was not "worthy." Brown went on to win the Heisman anyway.

Always appreciated Bennie's directness.

It was also our lack of humility that made UM disliked around the country. The stupid and arrogant media did a lot to smear UM in the '80's.

I remember our starting DT Fred Robinson's statement after we beat Nebraska and their stupid fumblerooski in the OB for our first NC. Fred called it "bush."

Both Oklahoma and Nebraska had these oversized offensive lines. We went into both games with teeny-tiny DLs in comparison. Our nose guard in the '84 OB against Nebraska said he lined up, looked across, and saw the biggest human being he had ever seen. We played that old 5-2 defense that was standard in college football until Jimmy Johnsom made the attacking 4-3 (called the 4-3 slide by many) all the rage in the late '80's.

Fred Robinson was well under 250, so was Tony Fitzpatrick who was around 240, and Kevin ***an was the big guy at maybe 275. Our DE's were really outside LBs, not down linemen. Nebraska had all these guys like Dean Steinkuhler who were pushing 300. That was very big back then.

Back then, I remember going into an athletic shoe store in Maryland where I live. This was in the fall of '83. People were talking about Nebraska and how it was unbeatable. Some people in the store said Nebraska might be able to beat some pro teams!

I had no idea that in a few months my Canes would totally upend the world of college football.

I lived in the D.C. area and NYC for a few years back then. Ended up trying to defend UM in a lot of discussions and even arguments. I probably should have stayed quiet.

EDIT: Actually, that Oklahoma was probably the regular season game the year before, 1986. There was a lot of build-up because of Bosworth and our guys. Vinnie had that great scramble that helped him win the Heisman. Our guys back then we're so brash! They were actually a lot of fun.

I have no idea what kind of ticket allotment players/coaches get. A friend of mine attended a big game and I sent him my tickets to see if he could sell them because I couldn't go. He told me he saw one of the coaches, I think Kehoe, out there just before the game trying to sell tickets. Why are assistants outside just before a big game selling tickets? You"d think they be doing last minute game preparations or something. I think we had a problem with low staff salaries in the '80's and '90's because so many assistants had outside businesses including Solly, Kehoe, and Greg Mark. If they paid enough it would create a disincentive to spend time on outside business interests. I think that's why Pete Garcia forced Coker to fire some of these guys...and all that I mentioned had made great contributions to the program at some point. Maybe the compensation issue--if there was one--was there from the '80's to the 2000's.

 

[TheMatador]

Matador, I loved your Lamotto story. Reminded me that in Doug's senior year we had a baby around 1 year old and I went to fly from Miami to Jax. on a plane that had its final destination in NYC. Back then you walked onto the tarmac and up into the plane. I was holding him, baby bag, my purse, etc. when a man next to me offered to hold my baby - which he did. When we got on the plane & he handed me back my baby, my seatmate later said, "Do you know who that was" and I responded, "no". He stated it was Rocky Marciano. Lots of celebrities in all fields lived in and around Miami and still do.

Speaking of Meyer Lansky, Doug and I knew an older couple that lived in the Gables & were Hurricane fans. We met them thru mutual friends from Jax. Doug went with our friend one time to Meyer Lansky's house and met Meyer & his wife. Neither one of us had a clue as to WHO he was & what his connection to the Mafia was. Many years later we found out that our friend was a money runner for the mob. I always thought Joe's Stone Crab Restaurant was Mafia owned/managed??

The Hurricane office always got jobs in the summer for the players who stayed/lived there year-round like most of the married players. One year Doug worked as a lifeguard on the beach and another year he worked on the Miami international airport hauling "georgia buggies" full of cement. Some of the black workers teased him for being a "slow college boy", but within a week or so he was out-distancing them and gained their respect. They even started attending Hurricane football game to see him play. The players use to get 4 free tickets each to give away for every home game. I wonder if they still get free tickets for home games to give away?

Don't know much about Joe's Stone Crab. Never been there. I was a kid when I lived there so great restaurants and the night life were not available to me. I remember the family- and casual style restaurants my parents liked to go: Wolfie's, Pumpernik's, Rascal House, Parham's, and others. I think it was a Danny's in Surfside owned by the family into which Bernie Kosar married.

I remember as a kid going to a fast food chicken place called Pickin-Chicken.

Had I been a few years older I'm sure my exposure to a lot of Miami would have expanded. I didn't even have a driver's license when we moved to central Florida. When I moved there I started school at Cocoa High in the building that I think is now Rockledge. The kid who just recommitted, Tennison, goes to Rockledge.

One of the greatest players ever to come out of Florida came out of the old Cocoa High in the mid-50's. That was Bob Anderson who went to Army. He is now in the College Football HOF. Don't know if you remember him but a top player nationally in the late '50"s I think..

http://spacecoastdaily.com/2014/02/anderson-consensus-all-american-at-west-point/

 

[Brains]

These history posts are good stuff.

 

[TheMatador]

I think that burning schooner wagon was at the end of the '88 OB game when we beat Oklahoma for the NC. They used that stupid fumblerooski to score one of their TDs, just like Nebraska some years before.

I'll never forget Bennie Blades' statement after the game.....he said something about looking around and there's some "fat" kid running down the sideline with the ball. One of those years we played Notre Dame and their vaunted WR named Brown who won the Heisman. After we beat ND and shut down Brown he opined that Brown was not "worthy." Brown went on to win the Heisman anyway.

Always appreciated Bennie's directness.

It was also our lack of humility that made UM disliked around the country. The stupid and arrogant media did a lot to smear UM in the '80's.

I remember our starting DT Fred Robinson's statement after we beat Nebraska and their stupid fumblerooski in the OB for our first NC. Fred called it "bush."

Both Oklahoma and Nebraska had these oversized offensive lines. We went into both games with teeny-tiny DLs in comparison. Our nose guard in the '84 OB against Nebraska said he lined up, looked across, and saw the biggest human being he had ever seen. We played that old 5-2 defense that was standard in college football until Jimmy Johnson made the attacking 4-3 (called the 4-3 slide by many) all the rage in the late '80's.

Fred Robinson was well under 250, so was Tony Fitzpatrick who was around 240, and Kevin ***an was the big guy at maybe 275. Our DE's were really outside LBs, not down linemen. Nebraska had all these guys like Dean Steinkuhler who were pushing 300. That was very big back then.

Back then, I remember going into an athletic shoe store in Maryland where I live. This was in the fall of '83. People were talking about Nebraska and how it was unbeatable. Some people in the store said Nebraska might be able to beat some pro teams!

I had no idea that in a few months my Canes would totally upend the world of college football.

I lived in the D.C. area and NYC for a few years back then. Ended up trying to defend UM in a lot of discussions and even arguments. I probably should have stayed quiet.

EDIT: Actually, that Oklahoma was probably the regular season game the year before, 1986. There was a lot of build-up because of Bosworth and our guys. Vinnie had that great scramble that helped him win the Heisman. Our guys back then we're so brash! They were actually a lot of fun.

I have no idea what kind of ticket allotment players/coaches get. A friend of mine attended a big game and I sent him my tickets to see if he could sell them because I couldn't go. He told me he saw one of the coaches, I think Kehoe, out there just before the game trying to sell tickets. Why are assistants outside just before a big game selling tickets? You"d think they be doing last minute game preparations or something. I think we had a problem with low staff salaries in the '80's and '90's because so many assistants had outside businesses including Solly, Kehoe, and Greg Mark. If they paid enough it would create a disincentive to spend time on outside business interests. I think that's why Pete Garcia forced Coker to fire some of these guys...and all that I mentioned had made great contributions to the program at some point. Maybe the compensation issue--if there was one--was there from the '80's to the 2000's.

Actually...to be accurate...we probably burned schooners after both games. I vaguely recall having a photograph of John Routh, then the Ibis, riding around on something pulling a burning schooner created I think from one of those little red kid's wagons. I took the picture at the end of that '88 OB. I was not at the regular season game against Oklahoma in '86.

There was an opening season game against UF, probably the '87 season, where a policeman on the field had his police dog savage a plastic gator that Sebastian had been dragging around in the East end zone. I think that was the game where we buried the Gator 31-4. At the end, Sebastian was pulling around this inflatable plastic alligator. The cops were in place on the field I guess to keep people from running on the field. (I guess they had to preserve it for a Dolphin game maybe the next day.) The cop let his dog, probably a German Shepherd, attack the plastic alligator to rip it to shreds. This was right in front of the student section. People went wild.

I had never sat in the student section but a friend of mine, younger than me, convinced me to try it once. Said it was the best game experience you could have. I had never tried it since I was never a UM student, just a lifelong fan.

I just remembered it was hot as ****. A noontime game and I had just traveled down from the DC area. We were so much better than UF it wasn't funny. I think Danny Stubbs was still on our defense and we made Kerwin Bell's afternoon miserable. I think Emmit Smith came in for some carries in his first college game but he didn't do much. Willis Peguese as a long snapper probably hastened the trend toward snapping specialists on scholarship.