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...they did, 17-15, for their first victory in South Bend since 1961. When the Wildcats lost to Miami of Ohio 30-28, they looked like a fluke, but then they beat Michigan 19-13 in Ann Arbor (for the first time since '59) and Penn State 21-10. Northwestern finished the regular season at 10-1 but seemed headed for the Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Florida, until Michigan upset unbeaten Ohio State, thus making Northwestern the No. 3 team in the country and the representative of the Big Ten's 11 teams in the Rose Bowl on New Year...
...then along came a former Colorado assistant coach named Gary Barnett. He arrived on campus four years ago, and at a Northwestern basketball game in January '92, he told Wildcat fans and students that he was "taking the Purple to Pasadena." The 49-year-old Barnett now says he can't believe he made such a claim. "When I first got here," he told Football News, "I was very naive to what our problems were. I assumed that everyone here wanted to change, that everybody was sick and tired of losing. But that wasn't true. Some people became very...
Indeed, Barnett's first three seasons did not exactly foretell Northwestern's current success: 3-8, 2-9, 3-7-1. In the meantime, though, he was recruiting some very good talent and instilling in his players a new sense of confidence. Before the first game of the year, against heavily favored Notre Dame, Barnett told his players not to carry him off the field when they won. Not if they won. When they...
None of this might have happened had Barnett not convinced a headstrong and homesick theater major that he should give his college one more try. Like Tony Randall, Warren Beatty, Ann-Margret and Charlton Heston before him at Northwestern, Darnell Autry is an actor. Unlike them, he can explode through the line, break tackles and outrace defenders. He rushed for at least 100 yds. in every one of Northwestern's games this year, and had he not been a mere sophomore, he might have got more consideration for the Heisman Trophy...
...seven years ago, the Wildcats were sent off to Pasadena to play California with signs reading GO WEST, YOUNG MEN AND SMELL THOSE ROSES and MAKE WALDORF SALAD--a reference to Cal coach Pappy Waldorf. Thanks to a 43-yd. run by Ed Tunnicliff with three minutes to go, Northwestern beat Cal 20-14 for coach Bob Voigts...