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There was a time in Paul Scheper's football career when he got the ball a lot. At Granada Hills High School outside Los Angeles, he set a school mark with 53 pass receptions in his senior year, and was All-San Fernando Valley as a halfback. That put him in some pretty hefty company. John Elway, a starter and potential Heisman Trophy winner at Stanford, was the quarterback at Granada Hills when Scheper was there. Tom Ramsey and Dave Laufenberg, quarterbacks at rival high schools, now practice their specialties at UCLA and Indiana, respectively. When Scheper returns to California...
Seventh-place finisher Fernando Branz of Boston College, and Dartmouth's Keith Hampton, who took tenth, were the other individual qualifiers. Hampton will be the only Ivy Leaguer competing in the national championships...
...thumb began swelling from a slight fracture, and he sat out the next three games. Other small earthquakes awaited the Yankees in L.A., including real ones. "What were you doing during the earthquakes?" Steinbrenner was asked. "I was stamping my foot," he said. Nothing earthshakingly wrong with losing to Fernando Valenzuela, you understand, but after that 5-4 loss, George started really stamping his feet...
When the teams moved from The Bronx to Chavez Ravine, Watson homered in the second inning of game three off the Dodgers' rookie, Fernando Valenzuela, 20, and subsequently doubled...
...Fernando hung on for a gritty 5-4 victory, and Los Angeles Manager Tommy Lasorda exclaimed: "This is the year of Fernando!" The Mexican ace was wild, and the pressure of pitching with too little rest between playoff emergencies finally seemed to show...