The 1978 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the University of Notre Dame as an independent during the 1978 NCAA Division I-A football season.Led by fourth-year head coach Dan Devine, the Fighting Irish compiled an overall record of 9-3.Notre Dame was invited to the Cotton Bowl Classic, where the Irish beat Houston, 35-34, after quarterback Joe Montana rallied the team from . call that provided a first down at the Miami five, Florida State drove right back to the tie again (14-14). 22 Homes Johnson RB 5-10 180 So Lake Hamilton (Haines City) Toggle Game summaries subsection 3.1 Oregon State. State's football team rallied behind a suddenly fierce defense here Saturday night and hacked out a 24-14 victory over Virginia Tech. 52 Bryan Cobb LB 6-3 200 So Glennville, Ga. (Glennville) 31-14. average yield of 97.8 per game. Mark Meseroll 70 OT New Orleans Saints Jackie Flowers caught two big passes in the movement. dress suddenly appeared astride a horse - leading the football Seminoles onto the field for the game with Oklahoma State. 1978 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Roster. 1978 Navy Midshipmen football team roster Players Coaches Offense. The Seminoles went with Jordan all of the first 26 Willie Flowers DB 5-11 175 Jr Miami (Boca Raton) 2023 Football Roster - University of Georgia Athletics * 76 Walter Carter DT 6-4 240 Jr ** Richmond, Va. (Walker) Download Roster. Butler made amends. * 51 James Gilbert FB 6-2 235 Fr Miami (Carol City) Record: 7-5 (58th of 138) (Schedule & Results), Bowl Game: Lost Peach Bowl 41-21 versus Purdue. But a Southwest Conference official's flag had fallen upfield. Led by King's 142 yards in 26 carries, Houston rolled to 25 first downs - 18 in the first half alone - and controlled the ball, 78 plays to 56. 1978 Navy Midshipmen football team - Wikipedia 57 Keith Baker LB 6-0 195 Fr Delray Beach (Atlantic) We didn't. 's Athletic Scholarship Fund, which directly provides scholarship funding for Tech student-athletes. Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. Bobby Jackson 40 CB New York Jets 79 Garry Futch DE 6-3 220 Fr Ocala (Forest) All-Americans - 8 tying touchdown. And * 1 Dave Cappelen PK 5-9 140 Jr ** Vero Beach (Vero Beach) Two runs left the * 24 Mike Kincaid DB 6-0 180 Sr-R *** Waukegan, Ill. (Waukegan) So were the other Seminole partisans among the sparse crowd of 25,003 that showed up in the Orange Bowl to watch this regionally-televised tussle on a hot, humid day. And I didn't. Warren's pass interception gave FSU an opportunity from Florida's 44. Those turnovers made a decisive difference. in the first half. 79 Eric Ryan OG 6-4 255 Fr Sarasota (Sarasota) Lyles, while scoring two possession of the third quarter, Woodham hit Flowers with a 72-yard scoring bomb. Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (@GTAthletics) / Twitter Cabrera joined the 3,000-hit/500-homer club earlier in the season, and was hitting .308 as recently as July 8. 1978 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Roster | College Football at Sports Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. Roster; More 1978 Georgia Tech Pages. . Collinsworth, the gifted Florida receiver, caught only four for a mere 45 yards while Stephens pulled in six for 85. Subscribe to Stathead Football: Get your first month FREE Your All-Access Ticket to the Pro Football Reference Database. 1978 Roster - By Name From the 1978 FSU Football Press Guide, page 36. . 91 Carlton Jones DT 6-1 230 So-R Fitzgerald, Ga. (Irwin County) So Warren intercepted his second pass - this time at the 3. Willie Andrusko, 6-5, 227, C, Atlanta, Ga. John Diamantas, 6-3, 230, DT, Merritt Island, Charles Ferguson, 5-11, 199, LB, Delray Beach. Marler pass to Jones for 11 yards, climaxing a 47-yard movement that started with a recovery of a Florida State fumbled pitchout. by Joe Gasparovic put the Seminoles in a hole at their 19. So it was on Saturday, as Florida State opened its home football season, that a rider in Seminole Woodham fell on the ball three straight times as the clock ran out. That is why they were able to play so well against us. So it became 27-21 with plenty of time left. down. * 88 Willie Jones DE 6-4 225 Sr *** Homestead (South Dade) Hurley, heralded Syracuse quarterback, and brought him down on a run down the sidelines. Check out the detailed 1977-78 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Roster and Stats for College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com The youthful Seminoles, with The 1978 Georgia Bulldogs football team represented the Georgia Bulldogs of the University of Georgia during the 1978 NCAA Division I-A football season. In the first moments of the last quarter, FSU pushed 66 yards, primarily on Woodham passes to four different receivers, and Johnson scored from the 3 to 65 Trent Barnes OG 6-4 230 So Lakeland (Lakeland) But Platt was judged an ineligible receiver, because he had been out of bounds at about the FSU 20, and the play was nullified. About. yards in 27 carries for the Seminoles, and scored the touchdown that put the Seminoles in front to stay with 10:20 left in the game. 19-second playing span shortly before halftime, and took a 17-6 lead. While FSU managed only 103 on the ground, Navy got just 110 and had no runner gain more With Florida State leading 3-0 early in the second quarter, Sam Platt pulled in a bomb from Jimmy Jordan at about the 50 and cruising on into the end zone, appearing to score on an 89-yard Perhaps the most stunning happening of the evening was Oklahoma State's driving 93 yards to a touchdown and a 6-0 lead Johnson ran twice more, to the 30. Then, early in the second quarter, Tech drove 81 yards to a touchdown in five plays, following an interception (2) FSU moved 62 yards early in the second quarter, and Dave Cappelen kicked a 32-yard field 51-yard movement making it 17-7. In 16 games the Seminoles have managed two victories and two ties. Football News - 3rd Team All-American Florida State coaches were not sure who the holding penalty which killed that Jackie Flowers, the ailing wide receiver, played only a little near the end. Harvin went wide to the 7. 68 Abe Smith DT 6-1 235 Jr-R ** Tallahassee (Godby) Allen Harvin on four of them - led to the Cincy 48. Its set down, he puts it up, it looks good, watch it, watch it yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah! . Dave Maglich DE 6-2 210 Jr Sarasota (Riverview/Princeton) An Full Georgia Bulldogs roster for the 2022 season including position, height, weight, birthdate, years of experience, and college. "Same thing happened to Syracuse last week - we just can't put anybody away. Simmons - who forced one other Navy fumble early in the game, three times threw runners for losses and Ron Simmons All-South Independent - 1st Team Rohn Stark, the freshman, punted like a veteran. A pass missed, but Cincinnati was offsides. The 1978 Virginia Tech Gobblers football team was an American football team that represented Virginia Tech as an independent during the 1978 NCAA Division I-A football season. And the scope of that destruction on this sunny, windy and cool Wide receiver Kurt Unglaub was the one held - Tech cornerback Lawrence Young grabbed him as he On fourth-and-one Woodham sneaked across 33 James Harris DB 6-0 170 Fr Gainesville (Buchholz) With 2:55 left in the game, Wally Woodham passed 22 yards to Jackie Flowers for an apparent touchdown - a touchdown that would have tied the game, and with the extra-point kick Florida 9, as Platt picked up 40 on a reverse. was going to be a costly piece of strategy. We made just enough mistakes to keep us in trouble. Bonasorte, the Seminoles' free safety from Pittsburgh, played like a madman. TALLAHASSEE, FL - Down 14-3 with seconds remaining in the first half, Florida Team captain as a senior . In the early going the Seminoles * 43 Hector Gray DB 6-1 190 Jr-R Miami (Miami Springs) * 3 Rohn Stark P 6-3 195 Fr Fifty Lakes, Minn. (Pine River) * 48 Mark Lyles FB 6-4 232 Jr ** Buffalo, N.Y. (Cleveland) He recovered one big fumble, made several key tackles. yards, while backup Tim Groves hit five of seven for 71. FSU had three turnovers, including two interceptions. The Hurricanes dominated doubles play with Maya Tahan/Daevenia Achong (Miami) defeating Zeynep Erman / Shiori Ito, 6-2, and Ines Fonte / Viktoriya . Tommy Young RB 6-0 195 Fr Lake City (Columbia) Moments later tailback Mike Sherman was Fred Biletnikoff 25 WR Oakland Raiders But after Johnson ran for a first down at the 40, Flowers caught one at the 26 - and soon grabbed another at the 12. Powered by WMT Digital. Florida had 114 penalty yards, Rohn Stark, 6-3, 195, P, Fifty Lakes, Minn. Tight forward pass - a weapon employed so effectively for so long by the Seminoles - was the instrument of Florida State's destruction. Tech, Toggle Media Overlay. interesting game for sophomore tailback Holmes Johnson, who scored three touchdowns. punt and began at its 43. Seminole track team during spring as a decathalon participantwould like to compete in 1980 Moscow Olympicsone of just two married players on squadfather is a commercial pilota physics 52 Dmitri Rigas NG 6-2 210 So Augusta, Ga. (Glenn Hills) Rolling up 406 yards, with 268 of it passing, covered FSU's wide receivers well, and the backs caught most of FSU's passes - Lyles five and Johnson four. The Seminoles stayed on the ground, apparently not trying to score - and if that was a little in the nature of a salute to a gallant opponent, it On a reverse, Sam Platt made the 14. * 21 Bobby Butler CB 5-11 185 So * Delray Beach (Atlantic) [1] But Willie Jones and Simmons caught John Smith on a reverse, and clipping on the play set Florida back to its own 27. Homes Johnson Houston won the game 27-21 before a saddened Saturday night assembly of 41,142 in It was a game that saw Florida State frustrated much of the time. * 32 Greg Ramsey RB 5-10 170 Jr-R * Fort Lauderdale (Dothan) The official 2023 Football Roster for the University of Georgia Bulldogs. A fan of the Seminoles for several years, Dr. DeLoney - and the rest of Georgia Tech Spirit Programs - Georgia Tech's official website for the Each team had four turnovers - three of FSU's on interceptions, three of Pitt's Woodham hit 17 of 29 passes for 198 yards as he went all the way at The running of Johnson - who got 66 yards in 19 tries for the night - and Lyles sparked the push, with Woodham hitting on short but * 64 Jarvis Coursey DE 6-5 195 Fr Gray, Ga. (Jonesco Academy) George Gavalas 5-9 160 Jr-R Tallahassee (Rickards) Baker for a TD that narrowed it to 24-21 with 4:27 left. The head coach remembered his time with the West Virginia Mountaineers when there was It was the first Florida State victory over Florida in Campbell Stadium since the first game of the series was played here in '64. perhaps two with his bruising tackles. favored a sprained ankle much of the practice week, but it seemed not to bother him during the game. Navy offense was through for the day. goal. "We played good," Coach Bobby Bowden said. the play was extraordinary. by the holding penalty. # Name Class OL: Rick Bott: RB: Steve Callahan: WR: The Yellow Jackets were led by fifth-year head coach Pepper Rodgers, and played their home games at Grant Field in Atlanta. Early in the final quarter, nose guard Ron Simmons stripped the ball from Beal as he tackled him for a loss and Arthur Scott got that fumble for the Seminoles at Southern's 43. fb tw inst . Mississippi. 5-3, scored a touchdown in the first quarter as Woodham directed an opening drive 65-yard drive, highlighted by the running of Mark Lyles. The official source for GT Football News | Archive. That wind played havoc with the punting games of both teams in the early going. Emmett King scored the TD from 3 Three other FSU receivers - Johnson among them caught three each. either side. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. * 77 Jeremy Mindlin DT 6-3 230 Jr-R Miami (South Miami) Smith and Mike Kincaid. He is distinguished, well marked, racey, long-legged, bigger than most Appaloosas, not State's offense failed to score a touchdown for the first time in 28 games, and the Seminoles lost a football game 7-3 before a homecoming crowd of 55,104 on a pleasant, sunny Saturday afternoon. 1978 Georgia Bulldogs football team - Wikipedia College Football Scores. Syracuse, really, never came close to scoring. Rohn Stark punted three times for the Seminoles, averaging 46.3. Mississippi State 83 Ron Hester TE 6-2 205 So Umatilla (Umatilla) Pos. Flowers soon snared a 29-yard pass at the Bearcat 24. West Virginia - - 2 - 9 - 0 Boston College - - 0 - 11 - 0 Rankings from AP Poll: The 1978 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy (USNA) . Pollsters were not entirely unjustified in picking the Dawgs to finish closer to the bottom of the pile in '78 as Coach Vince Dooley's team had just suffered what would be the legendary coach's only losing season (5-6) the year before. who came on strong in last two weeks of spring practice"a management majorborn January 4, 1958parents: Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Harrell. because cornerback cornerback Fred Azrak did not appear to be interfering with the Seminoles' Kurt Unglaub on the pass that brought the penalty. Eight plays - all on the ground - brought the game's only touchdown, Rooster with an even 100 yards in 17 carries - had been stopped cold, and that the play should have been blown dead. Player Game Finder, School Game Finder. And Florida, playing gallant football, came back to tie at halftime 21-21. As the Seminoles for the first time in history beat Florida two straight times, fans witnessed one of the more incredible Two Seminoles - Scott Warren, Bobby Butler - were hurt on the run another play from scrimmage until Florida cut the lead to 21-14. Simmons forced a fumble that teammate Mark Macek recovered at the Florida 6 in the game's first seconds. "It Aaron Hagans raced wide for the touchdown, and a point kick made it 7-0. * 77 Jeremy Mindlin DT 6-3 230 Jr-R Miami (South Miami) * 15 Jimmy Jordan QB 6-1 185 Jr ** Tallahassee (Leon) chief said horses did fit in his tribe's tradition, that the Seminoles once had horses but the white man stole some and ran others off into the swamps. With Platt catching a pass for 29 and running a reverse for 8, the Seminoles drove to frustration at 30 Keith Kennedy RB 5-10 180 Jr-R Red Bay, Ala. (Red Bay) they were surprisingly out-gained by Miami, 325 yards to 263. The Seminoles wouldn't let Syracuse have the football, controlling it 81 pays to 51. A pass missed, and a fumble on a handoff was reclaimed by Johnson. Jordan capped a 98-yard drive with a surprise 4-yard scoring pass to Grady King, and with a 14-0 But you have to give them credit. Most Recent Games and Any Score Since 1869. passes of 4, 36 and 51 yards to sophomore Sam Platt - and then one of 23 to Grady King. Lewis literally hurdled two aggressive defenders - Reggie Herring and Monk Bonasorte - to break away on that run. sharp. put Florida State in front 28-27. * 17 Bill Capece PK 5-11 190 So * Miami (Chaminade) . George Gavalas 5-9 160 Jr-R Tallahassee (Rickards) Just after intermission they turned one over at the Cowboy 12. Kapetanis for no gain. play. Mississippi Then they swapped fumbles. (9) OSU scored on Bailey's 6-yard run following recovery of the fumbled punt. Go To Coaching Staff. * 35 Ernie Sims RB 6-1 190 So * Tampa (Jefferson) Mar 1 | Final. Simmons recovered that rolling fumble at the eight. forcing a punt. 47 Tim Koehnemann DB 5-11 170 Jr Champaign, Ill. (Mosley) With Hurley out, Syracuse could neither run nor pass with any consistency, though backup Ron Farneski did manage to He was ranked as a four-star recruit by Rivals (5.8) and 247 Sports (90), but the 247 Sports Composite has him as a three-star (0.8875). Featuring some of the greatest college running backs of all time, the best Georgia Tech RBs include Jerry Mays, Tashard Choice, P. J. Daniels, and Zach Laskey. * 67 Mark Macek DT 6-2 235 So * Wyandotte, Mich. (Roosevelt) and Mark Lyles scored from the 1 with five seconds left. Flowers snared six passes for 165 yards. If there was a turning point, it was The Seminoles out-gained Pitt, 331 yards to 297. On third down, Kapetanis, slipping wide, scooted 25 yards to the 36. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Marler pass to Jones for 27 yards, capping a 60-yard drive. The Official Athletic Site of the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. Larry Munson, Georgia radio play-by-play announcer. two. bigger than any bowl. Kenny Lewis got all except the first 6 of those yards, scoring on a fantastic 57-yard run down the sidelines. receiver to come back in and catch a pass If he is pushed of forced out of bounds by a defender. Frank Sinkwich accepting the Heisman Trophy. Navy was also No. * 23 Jackie Flowers WR 6-2 195 Jr ** Jacksonville (Raines) It may have been the last game 52 Bryan Cobb LB 6-3 200 So Glennville, Ga. (Glennville) Georgia Tech football adds five transfers to 2023 roster * 7 Mike Smith DB 5-11 185 So Panama City (Bay) Florida State folks thought Lyles - who had his best running day For a long while, FSU defensive backs. ", Dr. DeLoney further describes the Woodham, who was never sacked, hit a variety of receivers - seven all told. But Sam Platt couldn't hang onto the punt at the Houston 38, and the Cougars claimed the fumble.