The women's basketball team closed the regular season with a 50-38 win over No. 11 Arizona. That bested the previous best defensive effort in program history for points allowed by a ranked opponent. Name the opponent and the year.
It's Women's History Month … when Rolling Stone updated its list of the 500 Top Songs of all-time in 2011, this came in at No. 5 – the highest by a woman on the list. Name the song.
From 1981: "They let you dream just to watch 'em shatter … You're just a step on the boss mans ladder … But you've got dreams … He'll never take away."
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Note that during this time with no athletic competition, we will continue to provide CU content on our social media platforms and on CUBuffs.com … Huge congratulations to Michael Westbrook for his selection for induction into the College Football Hall of Fame this December; he'll join eight other Buffs in the Hall … Both basketball teams finished over .500, the sixth time in the completed 2011-20 decade for the sport. They combined for a 37-25 record; the best combined year was 2012-13, when the women went 25-6 and the men 21-12 … The postseason tournaments were an obvious disappointment when cancelled, but the indoor and outdoor track championships it was just as big a blow: seniors Dani Jones and Joe Klecker were among the favorites to win NCAA individual titles, Jones in the 800-meter run and the mile and Klecker in the 3,000- and 5,000-meter runs. Jones is tied with five others for the most individual NCAA titles in school history with four; if the NCAA rules in favor of this year's seniors gaining an extra year of eligibility, both could return if they wish to pursue titles in 2021 (in the interim, both are vying for spots on the U.S. Olympic team later this summer for the Tokyo Olympics).
One and Done Is Pretty Rare
Mel Tucker wound up coaching the football team for one year (14 months total); the last to do that was Bud Davis in 1962, except that was by design. After Sonny Grandelius was fired for committing several NCAA rules infractions, Davis was named interim head coach on March 27, 1962 – for the entire season. The team was decimated due to player ineligibility from the NCAA's sanctions and went 2-8 under his direction, though the players gave him a goodbye present with a 34-10 win over Air Force in the season finale on November 24. Thirty-nine days later, Eddie Crowder was named head coach as Davis handed over the reins of the program after a little more than eight months at the helm. And the one before that, Frank Potts in 1940, was hired from within; he was coaching the cross country and track team at the time. Bunny Oakes was removed as coach after a player protest (35 of 40 players submitted and signed a list of complaints against him) and CU reached a settlement with Oakes between five and $10,000, using up the salary for the next season. So Potts took on the football chores that year for no additional pay and coached the team to a 5-3-1 record and a second place finish in the Mountain States Conference. (Potts actually took over in 1944 and 1945 when the next head coach, Jim Yeager, went off to war and returned in 1946.) Otherwise, Harry Heller (8-1 in 1894, our first coach), T.W. Mortimer (6-4 in 1900) and Willis Kleinholtz (8-1 in 1905) are the only other coaches who spent one year in the position and then left for whatever reason, though none were fired.
A Look Back At The Previous Postponed Or Cancelled In CU History
The Coronavirus Pandemic we are experiencing is similar to others in world history, but really the first to affect the sporting world to the current level of postponements and cancellations. The last one of this magnitude occurred over 1918-1919, but the top sports then were major league baseball, college football, horse racing and boxing; the NHL was a year old (with all teams in Canada), the NFL was a year away, the NBA two decades from its beginning, college basketball hadn't really taken off yet (no postseason championships) and the next Olympics in 1920.
I thought I'd take some of you down memory lane – or CU's historical road for younger Buff fans – and give a look at other times we paused if not cancelled sports.
World War I.
November 11, 1918 – or Armistice Day – was when Germany signed the agreement to end World War I. The United States hadn't entered the war until its latter stages (April 1917), and CU still played a normal football schedule starting in September that year. The following year, the then-Silver & Gold's season didn't start until November 16, with five games being played between that date and December 7 (the first four were over a 13-day span). Soldiers returning from the war were bringing influenza (the Spanish Flu) into the country, and that strain infected many 20-to-30 year olds. Classes that usually started around the first of September were delayed a month as the Army was using many of CU's facilities for training. The Army started clearing out as the war was coming to an end and practice started the second week of October, but one afternoon, a number of players could not report as they had been inoculated and were told to take it easy for up to a week. Eventually all the players were vaccinated and when everything cleared, only one varsity letterman – captain and quarterback Les Eastman – was back in school. He did team with many talented players from the freshman squad and the team finished with a 2-3 record, including a 20-6 win over The Lieutenants, a team made up of young servicemen. A side note: the team's quarterback from 1915-16, Eddie Evans, was killed in France in early 1918.
World War II. The Buffs played limited schedules in most sports, but the 1942-43 and 1943-44 basketball seasons were called off altogether, mainly because many basketball fieldhouses and arenas around the country were being utilized by the military.
The university was officially tagged as a naval station (despite being a thousand miles from the nearest ocean," chuckled longtime associate athletic director Jon Burianek, who filled me in on this portion). So Balch Fieldhouse was first used as large area for sleeping quarters since various other parts of the stadium were being utilized for some Navy operations, the most interesting of which was "cannon" practice. A gun off a Navy destroyer was located in the space between Gates 4 and 5; there was no second floor / upper deck at the time in Colorado Stadium (its name until Fred Folsom passed in 1944), and the cannon had to move up and down (that gun many might recall remained there well into the 1960s).
Eventually, the Navy built eight huge Quonset Huts adjacent to CU's baseball field down on the lower fields across from Boulder Creek. The baseball field was to the east of the huts, with batters facing northwest (it moved to east campus in 1968 and was renamed Frank Prentup Field to honor CU's longtime coach; family housing soon replaced where the baseball field was and when the huts were torn down, the area was converted to practice fields for the football team). With many athletes off to war, from 1943 through 1945, the farthest the football team traveled were Pueblo, Albuquerque and Salt Lake City. Opponents included air force base teams from Lowry (Denver), Salt Lake, the Second (Colorado Springs) and Fort Francis Warren (Cheyenne).
The attack on Pearl Harbor did not postpone or cancel any events; basketball didn't start until the end of month, while other winter sports got going afterward as well (wrestling, skiing, swimming, gymnastics, indoor track).
1963: JFK Assassination. In Eddie Crowder's first season the Buffaloes were 2-7 heading into the season finale at Air Force; CU actually opened up 2-0 in Big Eight play with wins at Kansas State and over Oklahoma State, but with a thin roster from NCAA penalties, the season eventually took its toll. The game was scheduled for Saturday, November 23, but at Noon Mountain Time, President John F. Kennedy was declared dead, having been assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. Many college games were cancelled the next day, though in Lincoln, the game between No. 10 Nebraska and No. 6 Oklahoma went on (NU won, 29-20). The National Football League went ahead with its games, but the American Football League postponed all of its games until December 22 (the Denver Broncos were to play at San Diego and delayed the game a month). As for CU-Air Force, anything other than postponing the game was not an option. It would be played two weeks later on December 7 in the Springs, with Air Force rallying late for a 17-14 win. The only other fall sport at the time was cross country and its season had ended, and the basketball season opener at Creighton went on as scheduled on November 30 (women's varsity sports were still 11 years away).
9/11. On September 15, 2001, the football team was scheduled to play its first game ever in Pullman against Washington State; the team had opened 2-1, dismantling Colorado State and San Jose State after losing to Fresno State in the Jim Thorpe Association Classic. Those of us advancing the game back then were still trying to figure out the best way to get to Pullman when the terrorist attacks on the East Coast occurred on September 11. Air travel was ceased for several days and all sporting events eventually postponed or cancelled; we resumed on September 22 at home against Kansas, but could not find a make-up date that season for the WSU game that worked for both schools (it eventually was rescheduled in 2004, but in Seattle). The Cougars finished 10-2 that season; if you recall, CU went on to finish 10-2 after beating Nebraska to win the Big 12 North Division and then topped Texas in the league championship game. In the final BCS Standings, Miami was at the top with a 2.62 rating, followed by Nebraska (7.23) and then Colorado (7.28) – the Buffs owned wins over NU and No. 7 Texas; had they played and defeated WSU, which finished No. 12, it might have been enough to push CU ahead of the Huskers and into the BCS title game against Miami (WSU won its make-up game was against FCS Montana). Soccer and volleyball also had multiple competitions delayed.
2013: One Hundred Year Flood (or 1,000 Year Rain). It started raining on and off on Monday, September 9; the Buffs had opened football season under first-year coach Mike MacIntyre with wins over Colorado State and Central Arkansas with Fresno State set to visit Folsom Field on September 14. But with a cold front stalling over the state, the rain intensified: those who were in Boulder recall "sheets" of water falling from the sky beginning that Wednesday. Boulder Creek swelled to levels never before seen, and there was massive flooding in and around Boulder as well as up and down the Front Range. One month into the job, new CU athletic director Rick George had his first real crisis; the game was officially cancelled early Friday when the flood waters had yet to subside but before the Bulldogs boarded a plane for Colorado. The schools did not have the same bye week over the remainder of the season, so George set out in search of another opponent.
No less than three dozen schools were contacted and or considered for a replacement, but they had gone nowhere. After receiving a waiver from the NCAA allowing CU to count two wins over an FCS school towards bowl eligibility, the Buffaloes finalized a contract with FCS Charleston Southern to play on October 19 (the waiver was required as Central Arkansas was an FCS member). Fresno State was never able to replace the game that year. That 2013 Fresno State game is finally showing up this fall as CU's home opener, some seven years after it was originally scheduled.
This P-'Tudes Number: 6
Many of you know I spent one year (spring and summer of my senior year) as the Denver Bears PR director; it was the AAA minor league team at the time. That was 1982. From May 10-13, the Iowa Cubs were in town, and on the 10th, the Bears won. 8-6; but the next three games were postponed due to rain and cold. The next we week, were at Iowa; won the first two but then then next pair were rained out. Iowa was due to return to Denver and the Bears to Des Moines just once, and the games were again scheduled over a 10-day span – with one of those at Iowa also rained out. So speaking of the unheard of, what we had to do was likely unprecedented and I would bet has not happened since: six doubleheaders from July 5-16. Iowa swept one in Denver with the other two split; Denver swept two in Des Moines and the Cubs one. So when all was said and done, Denver won the season series, 9-7.
What is now unheard of were the game times; even though minor league doubleheader were 7-inning games, seven of those games were played in under 2 hours and 17 minutes, with three under two hours.
The P-'Tudes Mailbag
Q: Has CU ever not had a spring football game (or final scrimmage)?
A: Actually on a few occasions. The last time was in 1978, when the game was scheduled for May 1 but it was snowed out (yes, snow in May). When Bill Mallory took over the program in 1974, he did not hold the annual Varsity-Alumni game that had started in 1953 for the first three years (Dave Logan recalled that they just practiced with no major scrimmage finale). The Varsity-Alumni game resumed in 1977, returned after the snow-out in 1979 and had its last hurrah in 1992 after five years of the alumni teaming with the first-team varsity players. As to before 1953, not sure if there were games or scrimmages (our spring football files start in 1953), best guess is spring football probably started here in the 1930s but it could have been optional for those athletes in other sports (many football players lettered in baseball and track, e.g., Byron White, highly unlikely to do in both if they had to participate in spring football). There are documented spring games that started at Ivy League schools back to the 1890s, but none here I could find prior to 1953.
Q: Any chance to check out the notes you do for the College Football Playoff? Saw one of the football writers mention them in his game coverage.
A: I'll attach both pregame and postgame. Not sure which ones he/she meant. Good stuff, showcases the geek in me.
Trivia Answers
CU—On March 6, 1995, Ceal Barry's Buffs defeated No. 23 Kansas, 61-45 in Salina in the Big 8 tournament (and the following year, CU beat the No. 20 Jayhawks, 75-47, also in the Big 8 tournament in Salina).
Music— The song was Respect, the classic by Aretha Franklin. It was topped only by Like A Rolling Stone (No. 1, Bob Dylan); I Can't Get No Satisfaction (No. 2, Rolling Stones), Imagine (No. 3, John Lennon) and What's Going On (No. 4, Marvin Gaye). Listen to Respect here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FOUqQt3Kg0.
Name That Tune—9 to 5, by Dolly Parton, the title song to the movie by the same name. Listen to it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRv4jxxe3Kk.
"Plati-'Tudes" features notes and stories that may not get much play from the mainstream media; offers Plati's or CU's take on issues raised by those who have an interest in the program; answers questions and concerns; and provides CU's point of view if we should disagree with what may have been written or broadcast. Have a question or want to know CU's take on something? E-mail Dave at david.plati@colorado.edu, and the subject may appear in the next Plati-'Tudes.
One and Done Is Pretty Rare
Mel Tucker wound up coaching the football team for one year (14 months total); the last to do that was Bud Davis in 1962, except that was by design. After Sonny Grandelius was fired for committing several NCAA rules infractions, Davis was named interim head coach on March 27, 1962 – for the entire season. The team was decimated due to player ineligibility from the NCAA's sanctions and went 2-8 under his direction, though the players gave him a goodbye present with a 34-10 win over Air Force in the season finale on November 24. Thirty-nine days later, Eddie Crowder was named head coach as Davis handed over the reins of the program after a little more than eight months at the helm. And the one before that, Frank Potts in 1940, was hired from within; he was coaching the cross country and track team at the time. Bunny Oakes was removed as coach after a player protest (35 of 40 players submitted and signed a list of complaints against him) and CU reached a settlement with Oakes between five and $10,000, using up the salary for the next season. So Potts took on the football chores that year for no additional pay and coached the team to a 5-3-1 record and a second place finish in the Mountain States Conference. (Potts actually took over in 1944 and 1945 when the next head coach, Jim Yeager, went off to war and returned in 1946.) Otherwise, Harry Heller (8-1 in 1894, our first coach), T.W. Mortimer (6-4 in 1900) and Willis Kleinholtz (8-1 in 1905) are the only other coaches who spent one year in the position and then left for whatever reason, though none were fired.
A Look Back At The Previous Postponed Or Cancelled In CU History
The Coronavirus Pandemic we are experiencing is similar to others in world history, but really the first to affect the sporting world to the current level of postponements and cancellations. The last one of this magnitude occurred over 1918-1919, but the top sports then were major league baseball, college football, horse racing and boxing; the NHL was a year old (with all teams in Canada), the NFL was a year away, the NBA two decades from its beginning, college basketball hadn't really taken off yet (no postseason championships) and the next Olympics in 1920.
I thought I'd take some of you down memory lane – or CU's historical road for younger Buff fans – and give a look at other times we paused if not cancelled sports.
World War I.
November 11, 1918 – or Armistice Day – was when Germany signed the agreement to end World War I. The United States hadn't entered the war until its latter stages (April 1917), and CU still played a normal football schedule starting in September that year. The following year, the then-Silver & Gold's season didn't start until November 16, with five games being played between that date and December 7 (the first four were over a 13-day span). Soldiers returning from the war were bringing influenza (the Spanish Flu) into the country, and that strain infected many 20-to-30 year olds. Classes that usually started around the first of September were delayed a month as the Army was using many of CU's facilities for training. The Army started clearing out as the war was coming to an end and practice started the second week of October, but one afternoon, a number of players could not report as they had been inoculated and were told to take it easy for up to a week. Eventually all the players were vaccinated and when everything cleared, only one varsity letterman – captain and quarterback Les Eastman – was back in school. He did team with many talented players from the freshman squad and the team finished with a 2-3 record, including a 20-6 win over The Lieutenants, a team made up of young servicemen. A side note: the team's quarterback from 1915-16, Eddie Evans, was killed in France in early 1918.
World War II. The Buffs played limited schedules in most sports, but the 1942-43 and 1943-44 basketball seasons were called off altogether, mainly because many basketball fieldhouses and arenas around the country were being utilized by the military.
The university was officially tagged as a naval station (despite being a thousand miles from the nearest ocean," chuckled longtime associate athletic director Jon Burianek, who filled me in on this portion). So Balch Fieldhouse was first used as large area for sleeping quarters since various other parts of the stadium were being utilized for some Navy operations, the most interesting of which was "cannon" practice. A gun off a Navy destroyer was located in the space between Gates 4 and 5; there was no second floor / upper deck at the time in Colorado Stadium (its name until Fred Folsom passed in 1944), and the cannon had to move up and down (that gun many might recall remained there well into the 1960s).
Eventually, the Navy built eight huge Quonset Huts adjacent to CU's baseball field down on the lower fields across from Boulder Creek. The baseball field was to the east of the huts, with batters facing northwest (it moved to east campus in 1968 and was renamed Frank Prentup Field to honor CU's longtime coach; family housing soon replaced where the baseball field was and when the huts were torn down, the area was converted to practice fields for the football team). With many athletes off to war, from 1943 through 1945, the farthest the football team traveled were Pueblo, Albuquerque and Salt Lake City. Opponents included air force base teams from Lowry (Denver), Salt Lake, the Second (Colorado Springs) and Fort Francis Warren (Cheyenne).
The attack on Pearl Harbor did not postpone or cancel any events; basketball didn't start until the end of month, while other winter sports got going afterward as well (wrestling, skiing, swimming, gymnastics, indoor track).
1963: JFK Assassination. In Eddie Crowder's first season the Buffaloes were 2-7 heading into the season finale at Air Force; CU actually opened up 2-0 in Big Eight play with wins at Kansas State and over Oklahoma State, but with a thin roster from NCAA penalties, the season eventually took its toll. The game was scheduled for Saturday, November 23, but at Noon Mountain Time, President John F. Kennedy was declared dead, having been assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. Many college games were cancelled the next day, though in Lincoln, the game between No. 10 Nebraska and No. 6 Oklahoma went on (NU won, 29-20). The National Football League went ahead with its games, but the American Football League postponed all of its games until December 22 (the Denver Broncos were to play at San Diego and delayed the game a month). As for CU-Air Force, anything other than postponing the game was not an option. It would be played two weeks later on December 7 in the Springs, with Air Force rallying late for a 17-14 win. The only other fall sport at the time was cross country and its season had ended, and the basketball season opener at Creighton went on as scheduled on November 30 (women's varsity sports were still 11 years away).
9/11. On September 15, 2001, the football team was scheduled to play its first game ever in Pullman against Washington State; the team had opened 2-1, dismantling Colorado State and San Jose State after losing to Fresno State in the Jim Thorpe Association Classic. Those of us advancing the game back then were still trying to figure out the best way to get to Pullman when the terrorist attacks on the East Coast occurred on September 11. Air travel was ceased for several days and all sporting events eventually postponed or cancelled; we resumed on September 22 at home against Kansas, but could not find a make-up date that season for the WSU game that worked for both schools (it eventually was rescheduled in 2004, but in Seattle). The Cougars finished 10-2 that season; if you recall, CU went on to finish 10-2 after beating Nebraska to win the Big 12 North Division and then topped Texas in the league championship game. In the final BCS Standings, Miami was at the top with a 2.62 rating, followed by Nebraska (7.23) and then Colorado (7.28) – the Buffs owned wins over NU and No. 7 Texas; had they played and defeated WSU, which finished No. 12, it might have been enough to push CU ahead of the Huskers and into the BCS title game against Miami (WSU won its make-up game was against FCS Montana). Soccer and volleyball also had multiple competitions delayed.
2013: One Hundred Year Flood (or 1,000 Year Rain). It started raining on and off on Monday, September 9; the Buffs had opened football season under first-year coach Mike MacIntyre with wins over Colorado State and Central Arkansas with Fresno State set to visit Folsom Field on September 14. But with a cold front stalling over the state, the rain intensified: those who were in Boulder recall "sheets" of water falling from the sky beginning that Wednesday. Boulder Creek swelled to levels never before seen, and there was massive flooding in and around Boulder as well as up and down the Front Range. One month into the job, new CU athletic director Rick George had his first real crisis; the game was officially cancelled early Friday when the flood waters had yet to subside but before the Bulldogs boarded a plane for Colorado. The schools did not have the same bye week over the remainder of the season, so George set out in search of another opponent.
No less than three dozen schools were contacted and or considered for a replacement, but they had gone nowhere. After receiving a waiver from the NCAA allowing CU to count two wins over an FCS school towards bowl eligibility, the Buffaloes finalized a contract with FCS Charleston Southern to play on October 19 (the waiver was required as Central Arkansas was an FCS member). Fresno State was never able to replace the game that year. That 2013 Fresno State game is finally showing up this fall as CU's home opener, some seven years after it was originally scheduled.
This P-'Tudes Number: 6
Many of you know I spent one year (spring and summer of my senior year) as the Denver Bears PR director; it was the AAA minor league team at the time. That was 1982. From May 10-13, the Iowa Cubs were in town, and on the 10th, the Bears won. 8-6; but the next three games were postponed due to rain and cold. The next we week, were at Iowa; won the first two but then then next pair were rained out. Iowa was due to return to Denver and the Bears to Des Moines just once, and the games were again scheduled over a 10-day span – with one of those at Iowa also rained out. So speaking of the unheard of, what we had to do was likely unprecedented and I would bet has not happened since: six doubleheaders from July 5-16. Iowa swept one in Denver with the other two split; Denver swept two in Des Moines and the Cubs one. So when all was said and done, Denver won the season series, 9-7.
What is now unheard of were the game times; even though minor league doubleheader were 7-inning games, seven of those games were played in under 2 hours and 17 minutes, with three under two hours.
The P-'Tudes Mailbag
Q: Has CU ever not had a spring football game (or final scrimmage)?
A: Actually on a few occasions. The last time was in 1978, when the game was scheduled for May 1 but it was snowed out (yes, snow in May). When Bill Mallory took over the program in 1974, he did not hold the annual Varsity-Alumni game that had started in 1953 for the first three years (Dave Logan recalled that they just practiced with no major scrimmage finale). The Varsity-Alumni game resumed in 1977, returned after the snow-out in 1979 and had its last hurrah in 1992 after five years of the alumni teaming with the first-team varsity players. As to before 1953, not sure if there were games or scrimmages (our spring football files start in 1953), best guess is spring football probably started here in the 1930s but it could have been optional for those athletes in other sports (many football players lettered in baseball and track, e.g., Byron White, highly unlikely to do in both if they had to participate in spring football). There are documented spring games that started at Ivy League schools back to the 1890s, but none here I could find prior to 1953.
Q: Any chance to check out the notes you do for the College Football Playoff? Saw one of the football writers mention them in his game coverage.
A: I'll attach both pregame and postgame. Not sure which ones he/she meant. Good stuff, showcases the geek in me.
Trivia Answers
CU—On March 6, 1995, Ceal Barry's Buffs defeated No. 23 Kansas, 61-45 in Salina in the Big 8 tournament (and the following year, CU beat the No. 20 Jayhawks, 75-47, also in the Big 8 tournament in Salina).
Music— The song was Respect, the classic by Aretha Franklin. It was topped only by Like A Rolling Stone (No. 1, Bob Dylan); I Can't Get No Satisfaction (No. 2, Rolling Stones), Imagine (No. 3, John Lennon) and What's Going On (No. 4, Marvin Gaye). Listen to Respect here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FOUqQt3Kg0.
Name That Tune—9 to 5, by Dolly Parton, the title song to the movie by the same name. Listen to it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRv4jxxe3Kk.
"Plati-'Tudes" features notes and stories that may not get much play from the mainstream media; offers Plati's or CU's take on issues raised by those who have an interest in the program; answers questions and concerns; and provides CU's point of view if we should disagree with what may have been written or broadcast. Have a question or want to know CU's take on something? E-mail Dave at david.plati@colorado.edu, and the subject may appear in the next Plati-'Tudes.
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