University of Southern California
Volume LXVIV, Number 14	Los	Angeles, California	Wednesday,	August	4, 1976
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JOHN NABER
MONTREAL—The Trojan Olympic contingent at the games of the XXI Olympiad finished the games with eight gold medals and four silver.
Since two of the gold medals were won in the same relay event, USC won medals in 11 events. Had the USC contingent been counted as an independent country, the Trojans would have finished in a tie for 13th place with Canada in total medals. Finishing just two medals ahead would have been Cuba, Great Britain and Italy.
In the gold medal count, USC would have finished seventh in a tie with Bulgaria. The only countries finishing higher in gold medals would have been the Soviet Union, East Germany, the United States, West Germany, Japan and Poland.
That’s not a bad. finish for a “country” that when all present students and alumni are in-
McKay back home at Coliseum in Tampa’s 26-3 loss to Rams
By Don La Plante
Editor
The last time John McKay coached at the Coliseum in the college ranks, he lost to UCLA 25-22. Well, when he returned Saturday night as a pro, the coach of the expansion Tampa Bay Bucs, he continued his losing ways as his team went down to the Los Angeles Rams 26-3.
However, two other former Trojans did well in their National Football League debuts. John McKay, the younger, caught three passes for 59 yards to lead all of the receivers for Tampa Bay.
Pat Haden. the former USC and California Sun quarterback, played the fourth quarter for the Rams and completed five out of seven passes for 31 yards. He also engineered a touchdown drive for the Rams in the fourth quarter.
Haden didn't do so well rushing. in three carries, he gained the magnificent total of minus four yards. At that rate, he won’t get anywhere.
After their performances in their first NFL games, both McKay and Haden figure to play in the league for a few years. Haden will likely be the third-string quarterback for the Rams this season while McKay may well start at Tampa. But for rookies one never knows what their fates will be.
After the game in the locker room. McKay, the coach, was not pleased with the performance of his team.
“We didn't hustle, we were un-aggressive and uninspired. They will hustle from now on although a lot of people won't get the opportunity to find out,” McKay said.
The game could have been closer than the final score indicated. The field goal could have easily been a touchdown with a good break and Tampa fumbled once on the one-yard line to deprive them of a second score.
However, the Rams didn’t play
most of their first team after the first quarter and had the first team remained the Rams could likely have run up a large score against the fledgling Tampa team.
Although McKay has lost a number of games in the Coliseum, he was asked after the game how it was like losing there.
“I once got beaten by Notre Dame 51-0, the feeling is the same. The score was about what I expected but not our effort. If we had played New Orleans we might have done better but not against the Rams,” McKay said.
Although the senior McKay had lost at the Coliseum before, it was a first for the junior. In his three years of varisty competition, he had never lost a game there, but after the game he wasn’t discouraged about the situation.
“I'm not discouraged. I think we’ll do all right. I'm looking forward to the season and it was a thrill coming back to the Coliseum and catching some passes,” he said.
He was fairly pleased with his performance, but said that the Rams disguised their defenses well and reading those defenses was the hardest part for him.
His father also had some kind words for him. “He caught the ball and that’s what it’s all about.”
About his other former player, Pat Haden, coach McKay said he did a fine job at quarterback.
Haden said after the game that the game was a little more active than the cricket matches he has been used to this past year as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford. He will return each spring for the next two years to finish off a master’s degree.
But for the fall Haden hopes to be playing for the Rams.
“I didn't do anything especially well, but we got a score. I did one bad thing there at the end, but I had a good time. I played and hoped for the best,”
Haden said.
It was the first time that Pat Haden and John McKay had ever played on different sides of the field. They had played together for four years in high school, four years in college and one year in the World Football League.
Both said it was hard to root against each other, but that each wanted their team to do well.. And in the end both said they thought the other one had done well.
And both had done well. It was the last time the two will play against each other this season. Unless, of course, McKay finds some of that old magic and leads the Bucs against the Rams in the playoffs.
eluded would not even make a half million, compared to India with 600 million people that didn’t win even one medal.
The biggest medal winner for the Trojans was swimmer John Naber. He won four gold and one silver medal in the five races in which he was entered.
Naber won both the 100 and 200 meter backstroke events in world record time. In the 100 meters, he swam a 55.49 to break his own world record of56.19. He defeated Peter Rocca ofthe United States and Roland Matthes of East Germany, who finished second and third, in that event.
In the 200-meter backstroke, he became the first person ever to swim the event in under two minutes. He took over a second off his previous world record of 2:00.64 with a mark of 1:59.19. In that event, Peter Rocca and Dan Harrigan of the United States finished second and third.
In the other individual event in which he swam, the 200 meter freestyle, he finished second to USC teammate Bruce Furniss. That event was held just a few minutes after Naber had won the 100 meter backstroke.
Furniss broke his own world record in the 200 meter freestyle by .03 of a second. He swam the event in 1:50.29. Naber finished second in 1:50.50 and Jim Montgomery, also of the United States, finished third.
The USC members of the United States team also did well in the relay events.
In the 800-meter freestyle relay, the United States team of Naber, Furniss, Montgomery, and Mike Bruner took over seven seconds off the old world record to take the gold medal. The time for the event was 7:23.22, with the old world record of 7:30.33 having been set by the American “B” team in qualifying.
The United States defeated the Soviet Union by over four seconds in that event.
In the other relay race, Naber
picked up his fourth gold medal with the victory of the 400-meter medley relay team. Naber swam the backstroke leg in 55.89 and the team set a world record of 3:42.22, to take over five seconds off the world record.
Joe Bottom won a silver medal in the 100-meter butterfly competition. He lost the gold medal to Matt Vogel of Ft. Wayne, Ind. by .15 of a second. He finished sixth in the 100-meter freestyle event.
Rod Strachan set a new world record and captured the gold medal in the only event in which he was competing, the 400-meter individual medley. His new record was 4:34.61 smashing the old world record of 4:26.00 that had been held of Zoltan Verras-zato of Hungary.
Steve Furniss, who also was competing only in the 400-meter individual medley, finished sixth at 4:29.23.
In track and field, Don Quarrie, representing his home country of Jamaica, won the gold medal in the 200-meter dash and finished second, for a silver, in the 100 meters.
In the 100 he finished in 10.08 second to Hasely Crawford of Trinidad who had a 10.06. Two days later in the 200 meters, he won a gold medal with a mark of
20.23.
In the long jump, Randy Williams placed second, finishing behind Arnie Robinson of San Diego. Williams had a jump of 26 feet, 7Vt inches, to Robinson’s 27 feet, 4% inches. Williams had won the event in 1972 at Munich.
James Gilkes and Rayfield Beaton were unable to participate when their country of Guyana pulled out of the games.
Guy Abrahams of USC and Panama made it to the semifinals of the 200 meters and finished fifth in the 100 meters. Sherry Calvert, coach of the women’s track team, failed to qualify for the finals in the women’s javelin.
TROJANS RETURN—In the Rams-Bucs game at the Coliseum, Pat Haden (left) returned and played the fourth quarter for the Rams leading them to a touch-
down. It was not as pleasant for John McKay, who as the coach of the Bucs, lost his first professional game, 26-3. Summer Trojan photos by Bob Chavez.
Summer
Trojan
Trojans win 8 gold, 4 silver; USC would have finished 13th