Taking The Field - Los Angeles Times

Taking The Field - Los Angeles Times


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UCLA OFFENSE Starters pictured and in bold TAILBACK: 23 Jermaine Lewis 83 Brad Melsby * QUARTERBACK: 18 Cade McNown 11 Drew Bennett * FULLBACK: 9 Durell Price 39 Craig Walendy * FLANKER: 87


Danny Farmer 83 Brad Melsby * TIGHT END: 88 Mike Grieb 40 Ryan Neufeld * RIGHT TACKLE: 60 Brian Polak 72 Josh Webb * RIGHT GUARD: 78 Andy Meyers 68 Matt Phelan * CENTER: 52 TAILBACK: 23


Jermaine Lewis 83 Brad Melsby * QUARTERBACK: 18 Cade McNown 11 Drew Bennett * FULLBACK: 9 Durell Price 39 Craig Walendy * FLANKER: 87 Danny Farmer 83 Brad Melsby * TIGHT END: 88 Mike Grieb


40 Ryan Neufeld * RIGHT TACKLE: 60 Brian Polak Shawn Stuart 50 Troy Danoff * LEFT GUARD: 59 Oscar Cabrera 74 James Ghezzi * LEFT TACKLE: 71 Kris Farris 76 David Wilford * SPLIT END: 82 Brain


Poli-Dixon 85 Jon Dubravac * WISCONSIN DEFENSE Starters pictured and in bold CORNERBACK: 36 Mike Echols 24 Donte King * LEFT END 74 Tom Burke 99 Jake Sprague * LEFT TACKLE: 78 Ross


Kolodziej 92 Brandon Williams * RIGHT TACKLE: 98 Eric Mahlik 77 Wendell Bryant * RIGHT END: 96 John Favret 9 Sam Mueller * CORNERBACK: 2 Jamar Fletcher 6 Joey Boese * STRONG SAFETY: 34


Leonard Taylor 15 Tim Rosga * LINEBACKER: 16 Chris Ghidorzi 49 Nick Greisen * LINEBACKER: 44 Donnell Thompson 42 Ben Herbert OUTSIDE LINEBACKER: 29 Bob Adamov 45 Dan Lisowski * FREE SAFETY:


8 Jason Doering 26 Bobby Myers * WISCONSIN OFFENSE Starters pictured and in bold TAILBACK: 33 Ron Dayne 4 Eddie Faulkner * QUARTERBACK: 10 Mike Samuel 12 Scott Kavanagh * FULLBACK: 37 Cecil


Martin 41 Chad Kuhns * FLANKER: 1 Ahmad Merritt 7 Willie Austin * TIGHT END: 89 Eric Grams 85 John Sigmund * RIGHT TACKLE: 79 Aaron Gibson 68 Mark Tauscher * RIGHT GUARD: 54 Dave Costa 53


Robb Roell * CENTER: 70 Casey Rabach 53 Robb Roell * LEFT GUARD: 60 Bill Ferrario 69 Jeremy Dox * LEFT TACKLE: 75 Chris McIntosh 68 Mark Tauscher * SPLIT END: 88 Chris Chambers 22 Nick Davis


* UCLA DEFENSE: CORNERBACK: 7 Marques Anderson 33 Ryan Roques * DEFENSIVE END: 99 Kenyon Coleman 96 Anthony Fletcher * NOSE GUARD: 97 Ken Kocher 57 Kory Lombard * DEFENSIVE END: 75 Pete


Holland 56 Travor Turner * CORNERBACK: 12 Jason Bell 6 Eric Whitfield * STRONG SAFETY: 4 Jason Stephens 24 DuVal Hicks * LEFT OUTSIDE LINEBACKER: 95 Santi Hall 54 Michael Wiley * INSIDE


LINEBACKER: 47 Ryan Nece 8 Robert Thomas * INSIDE LINEBACKER: 51 Tony White 36 Ramogi Huma * RIGHT OUTSIDE LINEBACKER: 50 Brendon Ayanbadejo 48 Ali Abdul Azziz * FREE SAFETY: 35 Larry Atkins


27 Tod McBride UCLA ROSTER Head Coach: Bob Toledo *--* No. Player Pos. Ht. Wt. Yr. 1 Keith Brown TB 6-0 214 Jr 2 Chris Sailer P-PK 5-10 200 Sr 3 Freddie Mitchell FL 5-11 190 Fr 4 Ryan


McCann QB 6-4 200 Fr 4 Jason Stephens FS 6-2 193 Fr 6 Eric Whitfield FS 6-1 201 Jr 7 Marques Anderson CB 6-0 182 So 7 Jason Zdenek FS 5-11 191 So 8 Scott McEwan QB 6-3 200 Fr 8 Robert Thomas


LB 6-2 225 Fr 9 Durell Price FB 6-0 226 Jr 10 Cory Paus QB 6-2 205 Fr 11 Drew Bennett QB 6-5 195 So 12 Jason Bell CB 6-1 177 Jr 14 Michael Desmarais QB 6-0 166 Fr 15 Ed Stansbury LB 6-2 240


Fr 17 Ryan Wilkins SE 6-0 192 So 18 Cade McNown QB 6-1 215 Sr 19 Zak Haselmo P-PK 6-1 188 Fr 20 Damian Allen CB 5-9 170 So 21 Lovell Houston CB 6-1 175 Fr 22 Joe Hunter CB 5-11 170 Fr 23


Ron Allen SS 6-0 192 Jr 23 Jermaine Lewis TB 5-7 177 So 24 DuVal Hicks SS 6-1 207 Sr 24 Paul Nelson FL 6-1 191 Fr 25 Cody Joyce FL 6-1 192 Fr 26 Larry Clements CB 5-9 181 Sr 26 DeShaun


Foster TB 6-1 205 Fr 27 Tod McBride FS 6-2 203 Sr 28 Devon Reese TB 5-11 179 Fr 29 Julius Williams CB 6-0 180 Fr 30 Akil Davis FL 5-10 190 Sr 30 Chris Larocca CB 5-11 184 Fr 31 Matt Stanley


FB 6-3 226 Fr 32 Mark Reynosa TB 5-10 186 Sr 33 Ken Pritchett TB 5-9 170 Fr 33 Ryan Roques CB 6-0 190 Jr 35 Larry Atkins III SS 6-4 228 Sr 35 Mike Vanis TB 5-9 177 So 36 Ramogi Huma LB 6-1


223 Jr 37 Joey Strycula SS 6-1 188 Jr 39 Craig Walendy FB 6-1 229 Sr 40 Ryan Neufeld TE 6-4 238 Sr 41 Dennis Fox SE 6-4 216 Fr 42 Audie Attar SS 6-1 176 Fr 43 Billy Pieper LB 6-2 213 So 44


Mark Verti FB 6-1 228 Jr 45 John Hall CB 6-1 171 So 46 Byron Carnes FL 5-10 174 So 47 Ryan Nece LB 6-2 203 Fr 48 Ali Abdul Azziz LB 6-2 224 Jr 49 Cheyane Caldwell LB 6-1 242 Sr 50 Brendon


Ayanbadejo LB 6-2 234 Sr 50 Troy Danoff C 6-4 297 Fr 51 Tony White LB 6-1 235 So 52 Shawn Stuart C 6-3 300 Sr 53 Kevin Stromsborg LB 6-1 207 So 53 Jeff Wright OG 6-5 285 Fr 54 Michael Wiley


LB 6-2 234 Jr 55 Rob Kolaszynski LB 6-2 225 Fr 56 Travor Turner DE 6-4 247 Jr 57 Jeff Moore LB 5-11 219 Jr 58 Doug Whiting DE 6-2 260 Fr 59 Oscar Cabrera OG 6-4 308 So 60 Brian Polak OG 6-4


317 So 61 Mike Babcock LB 6-0 232 Fr 61 Dusan Militech OG 6-6 249 Fr 62 Doug Cummings OT 6-5 295 So 63 Blake Worley OG 6-6 295 Fr 64 Steve Morgan OG 6-3 305 Fr 65 Mike Saffer OT 6-5 290 Fr


66 Ed Anderson OT 6-5 287 Fr 67 Kory Lombard NG 6-1 280 So 68 Matt Phelan OG 6-4 280 Jr 70 Scott Wiegand OT 6-7 270 Fr 71 Kris Farris OT 6-9 310 Jr 72 Josh Webb DE 6-6 280 So 73 Tony


Ippolito C 6-4 266 So 74 James Ghezzi OT 6-5 290 Jr 75 Pete Holland NG 6-3 270 Jr 76 David Wilford OT 6-5 280 Fr 77 Micah Webb DE 6-5 267 So 78 Andy Meyers OG 6-5 313 Sr 81 Bryan Fletcher TE


6-5 222 Fr 82 Brian Poli-Dixon FL 6-5 205 So 83 Brad Melsby SE 6-1 193 Jr 85 Jon Dubravac SE 6-3 205 Fr 86 Eric Jeffrees TE 6-5 254 So 86 Stephen Sua NG 6-1 246 Fr 87 Danny Farmer SE 6-4


210 Jr 88 Mike Grieb TE 6-4 248 Sr 89 Gabe Crecion TE 6-5 238 Jr 90 Vae Tata DE 6-3 256 Sr 91 Chris Jackson TE 6-3 253 Fr 91 Tony Thompson LB 6-0 257 Fr 92 Randy Hakes TE 6-3 244 Jr 93 Scott


Heckman NG 6-3 247 Fr 93 Saia Makakaufaki TE 6-3 248 Fr 94 Rusty Williams DE 6-4 232 Fr 95 Santi Hall LB 6-2 243 Fr 96 Anthony Fletcher DE 6-3 275 Fr 97 Ken Kocher NG 6-4 292 Fr 98 Sean


Phillips DE 6-5 270 Fr 99 Kenyon Coleman DE 6-5 265 So *--* UCLA LOG (10-1) 49 Texas: 31 42 Houston: 24 49 Washington St.: 17 52 Arizona: 28 41 Oregon: (OT) 38 28 California: 16 28 Stanford:


24 41 Oregon St.: 34 36 Washington: 24 34 USC: 17 45 Miami: 49 * STATISTICS Final Regular Season *--* TEAM UCLA Opponent First downs 235 302 Rushes--Net Yds 452-- 2,069 366-- 1,821 Yards


passing 3,240 2,936 Passes 333-- 194-- 11 413-- 215-- 12 Int. yd. ret. 12-- 162 11-- 175 Plays--net yd. 785-- 5,309 847-- 4,757 Punts--Average 55-- 40.8 67-- 37.4 Kickoffs ret. yd. 44--


1,042 41-- 1,093 Fumbles--lost 17-- 6 28-- 21 Penalties--yards 87-- 766 73-- 619 *--* Individual *--* Rushing TCB NYG Avg. TD Foster 116 635 5.5 10 Lewis 120 524 4.2 11 Brown 96 420 4.4 6


McNown 63 167 2.7 3 Price 31 140 4.4 0 Reynosa 7 84 12.0 0 Farmer 2 32 16.0 0 Mitchell 1 30 30.0 0 Stanley 1 29 29.0 0 Walendy 5 20 4.0 0 Poli--Dixon 1 9 9.0 0 Reese 2 3 1.5 0 Verti 5 3 0.6


0 Vanis 2 -1 -0.5 0 Totals 452 2,273 4..6 30 Opp. 334 2,187 4.2 22 *--* *--* Passing PA PC Pl Yds TD McNown 323 188 10 3,130 23 Bennett 5 3 0 24 1 Lewis 3 2 1 52 1 Foster 1 0 0 0 0 Mitchell


1 1 0 34 1 Totals 333 119 11 3,240 26 Opp. 413 215 12 2,936 16 *--* *--* Receiving No. Yd. TD Farmer 51 1,132 8 Poli--Dixon 42 697 10 Grieb 15 254 0 Foster 15 150 2 Melsby 13 265 2 Neufeld


13 135 1 Price 11 120 0 Brown 10 121 0 Lewis 7 81 0 Mitchell 4 108 1 Walendy 4 27 0 Dubravac 3 39 1 Wilkins 2 18 0 Bennett 1 53 0 McNown 1 22 0 Hakes 1 12 1 Joyce 1 6 0 Totals 194 3,240 26


Opp. 215 2,936 16 *--* OTHER LEADERS: PUNTING-- Sailer, 54--2, 195, 40.6 avg.; PUNT RETURNS-- ROQUES, 19-238, 12.5 Avg.; KICKOFF RETURNS-- Roques, 12--335, 27.9; Foster, 8--213, 26.6; Lewis,


8--196, 24,5; INTERCEPTIONS-- Roques, 4--79; Atkins, 4--77; SCORING-- Sailer, 97 points. TD--Foster, 12. FG-- Sailer, 13--21, 61.9% WISCONSIN ROSTER Head Coach: Barry Alvarez *--* No.


Player Pos. Ht. Wt. Yr. 1 Ahmad Merritt WR 5-10 195 Jr 2 Jamar Fletcher DB 5-10 169 Fr 2 Moses Sankey WR 6-5 209 So 3 Onjai Bryant DB 5-11 181 So 3 Nick Davis WR 5-10 180 Fr 3 Tim Dienger OL


6-3 253 Jr 4 Eddie Faulkner RB 5-11 196 So 5 Brooks Bollinger QB 6-2 195 Fr 5 Ed Hartwell LB 6-2 225 So 6 Joey Boese DB 5-11 170 Fr 7 Willie Austin WR 6-3 182 So 8 Jason Doering DB 6-0 198


So 8 Chris Downs WR 6-2 198 Jr 9 Sam Mueller LB 6-5 247 So 10 Bret Burlingame DB 6-0 201 So 10 Mike Samuel QB 6-3 216 Sr 11 Peter Lee QB 6-5 196 Fr 12 Scott Kavanagh QB 6-4 198 So 13 Chris


Wagner DB 5-10 190 Fr 14 Kevin Stemke P 6-2 183 So 15 Tim Rosga DB 6-0 194 Jr 16 Chris Ghidorzi LB 6-3 237 So 17 Demetrius Brown DB 6-3 204 Jr 18 Rasheed Golden WR 5-10 177 So 19 Roger


Knight LB 6-2 227 So 20 Josh Hunt WR 5-9 185 Fr 20 Vitaly Pisetsky K 5-10 203 So 21 Manuel Rodriguez DB 5-7 178 Fr 21 Conroy Whyte WR 5-7 155 Fr 21 Tony Williams DB 5-11 208 Jr 22 Jason


Schick DB 6-0 201 Fr 22 Charles Williams RB 6-0 204 Jr 23 Eric Skrzypchak P 5-11 187 Jr 24 Donte King DB 5-10 178 So 25 Marcus Carpenter DE 6-2 261 Jr 26 Bobby Myers DB 6-2 180 Jr 27 Alonzo


Wise RB 5-8 190 Fr 28 Matt Davenport K 5-7 160 Jr 29 Bob Adamov DB 6-0 220 Sr 29 Michael Bennett RB 5-10 195 Fr 30 Jean Jourdain DB 6-0 195 Jr 31 Carlease Clark DB 6-1 180 Fr 31 Nick Mueller


FB 6-1 242 Fr 32 Ryan Marks DB 6-1 211 So 32 Bryson Thompson DB 6-1 210 Fr 33 Ron Dayne RB 5-10 261 Jr 34 Rashad Drayton TE 6-4 264 Jr 34 Leonard Taylor DB 6-0 187 Sr 36 Mike Echols DB 5-10


171 Fr 37 Cecil Martin RB 6-2 233 Sr 37 Delante McGrew OL 6-4 222 Fr 38 Matt Unertl FB 5-10 216 So 39 Carlos Daniels RB 6-1 235 Fr 41 Chad Kuhns FB 6-1 235 Fr 42 Ben Herbert LB 6-4 230 Fr


42 Luke Hilgemann OL 6-8 315 Fr 44 Donnel Thompson LB 6-0 233 So 45 Dan Lisowski OL 6-4 222 Fr 46 Mike Schneck LB 6-0 239 Jr 47 P.J. Cannon LB 6-1 230 Fr 49 Nick Greisen LB 6-2 235 Fr 52


Mark Downing LB 6-2 233 Fr 52 Terry Stephan OL 6-3 280 Fr 53 Rob Roell DT 6-5 267 Jr 54 Dave Costa OL 6-5 293 So 54 Mike Miller LB 6-0 218 Fr 56 Jason Jowers OL 6-8 280 Fr 56 Adam Stormoen


LB 6-3 216 So 57 Philip Koch OL 6-4 263 So 58 Jason Eck OL 6-4 274 Jr 58 Chris Janek NG 6-3 282 So 59 Matt Buenning OL 6-5 275 Fr 60 Bill Ferrario OL 6-3 295 So 64 Ben Johnson OL 6-7 310 Fr


65 Devery Hughes WR 5-11 165 Fr 66 Pat Daley OL 6-5 320 Jr 67 Jeff Polkoski DE 6-3 245 Fr 69 Matt Shober OL 6-5 320 Fr 70 Casey Rabach OL 6-5 309 So 71 Brian Lamont OL 6-8 298 Fr 72 Al


Johnson OL 6-4 270 Fr 73 Joe Gribowski OL 6-6 327 So 74 Tom Burke DE 6-4 243 Jr 74 Mark Tauscher OL 6-3 310 Jr 75 Chris McIntosh OL 6-7 315 Jr 76 Josh Jakubowski OL 6-6 315 So 77 Wendell


Bryant DT 6-4 290 Fr 77 Troy Turek OL 6-6 274 Jr 78 Kevin Kampmann OL 6-4 304 Jr 78 Ross Kolodziej DT 6-3 294 So 79 Aaron Gibson OL 6-7 390 Jr 81 Mark Anelli TE 6-5 254 Fr 84 Roosevelt


Williams WR 6-1 170 Fr 85 John Sigmund TE 6-6 267 So 86 Mike Solwold TE 6-6 243 So 87 Dague Retzlaff TE 6-8 271 So 88 Chris Chambers WR 6-1 201 So 89 Eric Grams TE 6-4 260 Sr 90 Aaron


Habermann DE 6-3 251 Fr 91 Clint Bakken DT 6-2 260 Fr 92 Brandon Williams DE 6-4 266 Sr 93 Chuck Smith DE 6-6 251 Fr 94 George Pratt DT 6-5 278 Fr 95 Erik Waisanen DT 6-2 317 Jr 96 John


Favret DE 6-4 236 Fr 97 Jeremy Dox DT 6-3 269 Fr 98 Pat Gill LB 6-0 232 Jr 98 Eric Mahlik NG 6-3 265 So 99 Jake Sprague DE 6-4 265 Fr *--* WISCONSIN LOG (10-1) 26 San Diego St.: 14 45 Ohio:


0 52 Nevada Las Vegas: 7 38 Northwestern: 7 24 Indiana: 20 31 Purdue: 24 37 Illinois: 3 31 Iowa: 0 26 Minnesota: 7 10 Michigan: 27 24 Penn St.: 3 STATISTICS Final Regular Season *--* TEAM


WISCONSIN Opponent First downs 177 167 Rushes--Net Yds 552-- 2,248 377-- 986 Yards passing 1,207 1,987 Passes 183-- 96-- 5 337-- 1182-- 18 Int. yd. ret. 18-- 133 5-- 63 Plays--net yd. 735--


3,487 714-- 2,973 Punts--Average 67-- 44.0 74-- 40.2 Kickoffs ret. yd. 21-- 415 33-- 640 Fumbles--lost 11-- 4 20-- 13 Penalties--yards 47-- 378 57-- 454 *--* Individual *--* Rushing TCB NYG


Avg. TD Dayne 268 1,279 4.8 11 Samuel 116 317 2.7 10 Daniels 67 279 4.2 1 Faulkner 51 141 2.8 2 Kavanagh 13 88 6.8 0 Unerti 7 55 7.9 1 Martin 11 40 3.6 0 Jourdain 5 26 5.2 1 Mueller 3 11 3.7


0 Kuhns 4 9 2.3 0 Williams 4 5 1.3 0 Davis 1 -1 -1.0 0 Lee 2 -1 -0.5 0 Totals 552 2,248 4.1 26 Opp. 377 986 2.6 4 *--* *--* Passing PA PC Pl Yds TD Samuel 155 81 4 1,021 6 Kavanagh 28 15 1


188 4 Totals 183 96 5 1,209 10 Opp. 337 182 18 1,987 5 *--* *--* Receiving No. Yd. TD Chambers 26 537 7 Martin 17 106 0 Merritt 9 126 0 Retzlaff 9 118 1 Grams 9 100 0 Davis 7 70 0 Dayne 6 45


0 Faulkner 4 23 0 Kuhns 4 23 1 Daniels 2 0 0 Brown 1 37 0 Austin 1 13 0 Carpente 1 11 1 Totals 96 1,209 10 Opp. 182 1,987 5 *--* OTHER LEADERS: PUNTING-- Stemke, 67--2949, 44.0 avg.; PUNT


RETURNS-- Davis, 27--424, 15.7 avg.; KICKOFF RETURNS-- Davis, 14--317, 22.6 Avg.; SCORING-- Davenport, 91 points. TD-- Dayne, 11; FG-- Davenport, 18--20, 90%; INTERCEPTIONS-- Fletcher,


6--99, 16.5 avg.; TOTAL TACKLES-- Ghidorzi, 102 (54 unassisted, 48 assisted); Thompson, 1102 (59, 43). TACKLES FOR LOSS: Burke, 30--150.; SACKS-- Burke, 30--150. SACKS-- Burke, 21--129. MORE


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