1985: LINFIELD COLLEGE’S NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP BASEBALL TEAMS PLAYED EACH OTHER

1966 TEAM PHOTO:

Back: Asst. Coach, Del Coursey; Frank Bake, Denny Schweitzer, Art Larrance, Bob Daggett, John Lee, Punk Wells, John Hart, Larry Barnett, ?, Coach Roy Helser.

Front Row:  Jay Gustafson, ?, ?, Frank Molek, Jay Bandonis, Gary Cox, Tom Rohlffs, Steve Collette.

1985: LINFIELD COLLEGE’S NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP BASEBALL TEAMS PLAYED EACH OTHER

It was Sat., Oct. 12, 1985, Linfield Homecoming on campus in McMinnville.

The keynote event for that afternoon was the Willamette at Linfield Columbia Football League football game on Maxwell Field. Linfield trailed 33-7, but won 36-33.

 In the morning (first pitch at 9:30) it was a game between Linfield’s NAIA National Championship baseball teams from 1966 and 1971. Thanks to 1966 team pitcher Tom Rohlffs at photo of the ’66 team is posted here. There’s no photo of the ’71 team. But, Mike Maley, an outfielder, said, "... for the record we were better looking."

On this page you will see the game’s printed program thanks to 1971 team outfielder Greg Walsh.

The 1966 team won, 3-1.

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National title teams: ROY HELSER’S 1966 vs. AD RUTSCHMAN’s 1977

Roy Helser coached the 1966 Linfield College National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Championship baseball team as it played the 1971 Wildcats’ team that also won the national title in a homecoming alumni game Saturday morning at Helser Field. Ad Rutschman coached the 1971 squad, but because he was preparing Linfield’s football team for a Columbia Football League game againist Willamette Saturday afternoon at Maxwell Field, he left the manging duties to Linfield professors Dave Hansen and Bruce Baldwin. The 1966 team won. Additional pictures and information will be published in Wednesday’s edition.  -- McMinnville N-R/News-Register, Mon Oct 14, 1985

 

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THESE GRADUATES DISCOVERED IT’S STILL A KIDS’ GAME

McMinnville N-R/News-Register, Wed Oct 16, 1985

 

PHOTO: Roy Helser, who managed 1966 Linfield College NAIA championship baseball team again the 1971 national title club Saturday morning in a Homecoming alumni game, encourages starting pitcher Frank Bake.

 

PHOTO: Down, but not down for the count.

 

PHOTO: Greg Walsh, a member of the 1971 team, catches the action on film.

 

LINFIELD HONORS

ITS

NATIONAL

CHAMPIONSHIP

BASEBALL

TEAMS

1966 ⚾1971

 

9:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, 1985

Roy Helser Field

 

1966 LINFIELD WILDCATS 
(See team photo.) 

• ·        Frank Bake, P
• ·        Jan Bandonis, 3B
• ·        Lary Barnett, P
• ·        Steve Collette, IF
• ·        Gary Cox, C
• ·        Bob Daggett, IF
• ·        Terry Durham, 1B
• ·        Jay Gustafson, CF
• ·        John Hart, P
• ·        Art Larrance, C
• ·        John Lee, SS
• ·        Frank Molek, 2B
• ·        Rocco Read, C-OF
• ·        Tom Rohlffs, P
• ·        Barry Stenlund, 1B
• ·        Bob Webber, IF
• ·        Al Wells, OF

 

Coach: Roy Helser

Assistant Coach: Del Coursey

 

1971 LINFIELD WILDCATS

(Sorry, no team photo.)

• ·        Mike Avery, IF
• ·        Tom Briggs, OF
• ·        John Buck, P
• ·        Mike Cahill, OF
• ·        Cary Clancy, OF
• ·        Vince Doherty, P
• ·        Mike Maley, OF
• ·        Jim Owens, IF
• ·        Kip Patterson, C-3B
• ·        Glen Plagmann, OF
• ·        Dave Robertson, IF
• ·        Mike Smithey, P
• ·        Mike Springer, 1B
• ·        Dennis Stevens, P
• ·        Spencer Wales, P
• ·        Bob Walker, IF
• ·        Greg Walsh, OF
• ·        Dan Waritz, IF
• ·        Ron Webb, C

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Head Coach: Ad Rutschman

Assistant Coach: Jim Corley

Honorary Coaches: Bruce Baldwin, Dave Hansen

In March 1967, Army serviceman ROGERS ISHIZU at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri writes Paul Durham, Linfield football coach

Army serviceman ROGERS ISHIZU at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri writes to Linfield Football Coach Paul Durham 

March 29, 1967, McMinnville N-R/News-Register

Paul Durham’s “Dodging with Durham” sports column

Interested in Linfield College history as it was related more than 100 years ago to Spokane?

Interested in Linfield College history as it was related more than 100 years ago to Spokane?

If so, click on this link …

https://wildcatville.blogspot.com/2024/04/interested-in-linfield-college-history.html

… to read stories which appeared in the Spokane Chronicle and Spokane Spokesman-Review daily newspapers on:

-February 28, 2024

-February 27, 1924

-March 20, 1924, and March 21, 1924 (same story)

-March 22, 1924

-July 1, 1924, and July 8, 1924 (same story)

(Click on each image for a larger, easier to see version.) 

=Was Spokane in line to get another college?

That possibility was floated on the front page of the Spokane Daily Chronicle in a story (in 1924) that said Linfield College was considering a move to Spokane.

By Jim Kershner, Spokane Spokesman-Review Wed., Feb. 28. 2024

=LINFIELD COLLEGE

SEEKS NEW HOME

Dateline: YAKIMA dateline, Fb. 26

Wed., Feb. 27, 1924, Spokane Chronicle

(See clipping posted)

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=PROSPECTS BRIGHT

TO BRING LINFIELD HERE

Local Baptists Want College in Spokane – Mrs. Linfield speaks

Thur., March 20, 1924 Spokane Chronicle and Fri., March 21, 1924, Spokane Chronicle

(See clipping posted)

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= LINFIELD COLLEGE

PASTOR’S TOPIC

Sat. March 22, 1924, Spokane Chronicle

(See clipping posted)

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=LINFIELD COLLEGE TO MOVE

Directors of McMinnville (Or.) Baptist School Take Final Action

 Dateline: PORTLAND, Ore.

Tue., July 1 1924, Spokane Spokesman-Review and Tue. July 8, 1924, Spokane Spokesman-Review

(See clipping posted)

 

Rubbing of name of Linfielder MIKE BARROW name at Oregon Memorial Traveling (Vietnam) Wal

Photo: Rubbing of name of Linfielder MIKE BARROW name at Oregon Memorial Traveling (Vietnam) Wall, March 2024, McMinnville. Photo by/permission to post from Linfielder Rusty Rae.

Mike Barrow, Linfield College Class of 1968, among those honored in McMinnville

Mike Barrow (Michael Edward Barrow), 23, Linfield College Class of 1968 grad, lost his life in 1969 during combat in the Vietnam War serving in the U.S. Army.

From Prineville, Crook County, Oregon, he was among Oregonians honored March 29-31, 2024, in McMinnville

Barrow’s name and the names of other service members from Oregon who made the ultimate sacrifice have their names on the Oregon Veterans Memorial Traveling Wall which was on display outside the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville. Their names are also on ‘The Wall’ at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Roseburg Chapter 805 of the Oregon Veterans of Vietnam brought the wall to McMinnville from Roseburg in southern Oregon.

Photos/video clip by ‘Mac News ,’ 3/30/2024

About 1965 Linfield football season ....

 

1965 Linfield College football season started with loss to alumni, wins over PLU, Cal Poly SLO

:::Linfield College's 1965 season opened at home with a varsity 21-14 loss to the alumni. (Lose or win, varsity-alumni games didn't count in records.) The real season opener saw the Wildcats beat Pacific Lutheran, 17-0, Sept. 18, at night on Maxwell Field. It was Paul Durham's 100th win as Linfield football coach and the first Northwest Conference football game for PLU, which had previously been in the Evergreen Conference. Linfield QB Mike Barrow had a "brilliant performance" in the game, according to the Salem Capital Journal. On the night of Sept. 25 at Cal Poly SLO (a member of the CCAA/California Collegiate Athletic Assn.), the 'Cats won, 10-7, at Poly Stadium before 5,500 fans.  Wildcat running backs Leroy Fails and Odis Avritt had strong performances in the non-conference game.:::

'DODGING with DURHAM' sports column

By Paul Durham, McMinnville N-R/News-Register, September 1965

LINFIELD MIDGET QUARTERBACK MIKE BARROW had a great night against the Pacific Lutheran Knights Saturday completing 14 of 23 passing attempts. He threw every kind of aerial in the book, drop backs, roll outs, screens, bootlegs, shovels and pitch outs. An most of them were successful. BARROW has to be the big surprise of the Wildcat team so far this season. He stepped into the signal calling spot when TERRY DURHAM injured his right shoulder and has already shown plenty of ability to move the football.

BARROW, a junior from Prineville, letter last fall as a third stringer.

Although he claims a height of 5-10 (at least that's what he convinced publicity man GEORGE MURDOCK to put in the pressbook) BARROW quickly turned down a bet which proposed that he wasn't 5-9 in his bare feet.

BARROW does seem to be a shade taller than Linfield wingback ROGERS ISHIZU, however. ISHIZU is listed in the pressbook at 5-6.

Most of BARROW's Saturday night passes were to ISHIZU. Some wag suggested after the game that the QB could only see ISHIZU down field. To everyone else he had to throw up hill.

ISHIZU, by the way, received a rather severely battered right leg in the Lutheran tilt and is a doubtful performer against Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo Saturday night ... ISH was in the college infirmary Sunday, Monday and Tuesday for treatment of the damaged pin.

Linfielder MIKE BARROW is buried at Willamette National Cemetery

MIKE BARROW is buried at Willamette National Cemetery

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/330957/michael-edward-barrow

Born 3 Jul 1945 Brownwood, Texas

Died 23 Jun 1969 (aged 23) Vietnam

Buried Willamette National Cemetery Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA

Plot Section S Site 3849

 

OREGON
PFC CO D 2 BN 3 INFANTRY
VIETNAM
BRONZE STAR MEDAL - PURPLE HEART

 

Photos show Mike Barrow study room in Linfield Nicholson Library and historical items

Photos show Mike Barrow study room in Linfield Nicholson Library and historical items related to Mike’s military service, death in action in Vietnam, and time as a Linfield football player

Photos by Wildcatville on 3/4/2024

Traveling Wall visits McMinnville; Mike Barrow deserves attention, too

 March 29, 2024 to the McMinnville News-Register

Appreciate the Oregon Veterans Memorial Traveling Wall is in McMinnville and to read News-Register story in the March 29, 2024, about it.

The story focuses appropriately on ‘Servicemen from Yamhill County who died in the Vietnam War.”

Mike Barrow (Linfield College Class of 1968) was not from Yamhill County. But, he lived in McMinnville while a student (and Wildcat student-athlete) at Linfield College. He grew up in Prineville, Crook County, Oregon. When he died his parents had moved to Portland. Nonetheless, Mike had Yamhill County connections. He deserves attention in the N-R.

Mike’s Army tour of duty began April 3, 1969, in Vietnam. A private first class in the 199th Light Infantry Brigade, he died during combat less than three months later. His death on June 23, 1969, in Long Khanh was a "hostile ground casualty" as a result of "multiple fragmentation wounds." He was 23 years-old.

Thank you.

Vietnam memorial visits Evergreen this weekend

The News-Register staff 3/29/2024

Servicemen from Yamhill County who died in the Vietnam War will be honored on a memorial wall set up today through Sunday morning at the Evergreen Aviation Museum.

Viewing of the Oregon Veterans Memorial Traveling Wall is free.

The wall, patterned after the Vietnam memorial in Washington, D.C., includes names such as Cpl. Brian Lyle Wilson of Amity, who was just 19 when he was killed by an explosive device on March 4, 1970. He was a light weapons infantry specialist in the Army’s 11th Light Infantry Brigade, 4th Battalion, 21st Infantry A Company.

Another name on the wall is Sgt. Roger W. Shipley of McMinnville, who died in Binh Duong Province, Vietnam, on June 6, 1968. The 24-year-old left a wife and 2-year-old son. He is buried in Evergreen Memorial Park. Shipley, a sergeant in the Army, was a halftrack commander and an armor reconnaissance specialist with the  11th Armored Cavalry.

Petty Officer Third Class Robert Dale Buswell, a Navy Corpsman, also is memorialized on the wall. He was serving in Vietnam with H&S Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines. He was 20 when he was killed while on a minesweeping mission on July 26, 1969. He is buried at Greencrest Memorial Park, Sheridan.

Other Yamhill County names are:

Lafayette – Pfc. William Arthur Oberg McMinnville – 1st Lt. Jon W. Layton III, Pfc. Richard E. Traster, Lance Cpl. Michael G. Turner

Newberg – Col. Edward H. Johnson, Cpl. Michael C. Kamph, Cpl. William W. Newton Jr., Spc.4 Dick E. Whitney

Sheridan – Capt. Robert W. Altus, Pfc. David M. Barrett, Spc.4 Ronnie O Bigelow

Roseburg Chapter 805 of the Oregon Veterans of Vietnam are bringing the wall to McMinnville. They will set it up Friday morning and take it down Sunday morning before returning to Southern Oregon.

An opening ceremony will be held at 1 p.m. today, Friday, at the museum. Speakers will talk about the sacrifices made by men and women during the war and how the veterans were often vilified when they returned to the U.S. Viewing the wall is a way to thank them, organizers said.

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MIKE BARROW is buried at Willamette National Cemetery

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/330957/michael-edward-barrow

Born 3 Jul 1945 Brownwood, Texas

Died 23 Jun 1969 (aged 23) Vietnam

Buried Willamette National Cemetery,  Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon, USA

Plot Section S Site 3849

OREGON

PFC CO D 2 BN 3 INFANTRY
VIETNAM
BRONZE STAR MEDAL - PURPLE HEART

WHY NAME OF 'EVERSON STREET' ON LINFIELD CAMPUS SHOULD BE CHANGED

Linfield campus’ BRUMBACK STREET — named for A. M. (Arthur Marion) Brumback, McMinnville College 1903-1905 president — was changed in 2021.

Reason for Linfield making the change is detailed in this story …
https://www.smokesignals.org/articles/2021/07/08/linfield-university-renames-street-in-honor-of-native-american-first-food

With that as precedent, EVERSON STREET, named for William Graham Everson, Linfield College 1939-1943 president, should be changed, too.

Why?

Go to his Wikipedia listing ...

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_G._Everson

… find the “Later career” section. Read the paragraph starting with “During World War II.”

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=Source:
Story in July 8, 2021, Smoke Signals newspaper of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde

https://www.smokesignals.org/articles/2021/07/08/linfield-university-renames-street-in-honor-of-native-american-first-food

After learning that a private two-block street on its campus was named after a former science professor who had stolen Native American burial artifacts, Linfield University chose to right a wrong.

In November 2020, the Board of Trustees recommended removing the name of A.M. Brumback from the campus street and creating a commission to discuss replacement names.

(Note: The story does not mention that in his career at Linfield U (then McMinnville College) Brumback was president, 1903-1903.)

=Source:
Biographical posting at Wikipedia under subhead “Later career”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_G._Everson

During World War II, he was chairman of the Oregon Enemy Alien Hearing Board, which conducted hearings for non-citizen Japanese residents of Oregon who were detained as possible security risks and made determinations as to whether their detainments should continue. [19]

19 Footnote:
Oregon Enemy Alien Hearing Board Arrives,
The Missoulian, Missoula, Montana, Feb. 2, 1942
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-missoulian-oregon-alien-enemy-hearin/25647009

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Photo taken 3/23/2024