Info below is text from or
based on information from Sunday Oregonian, Nov. 9, 1969 -- story by
sports writer Lynn Mucken, who
covered the game -- and other sources.
Photo by Cathy (Bake) Sullivan,
then a Linfield student and now a Linfield grad. In a posting
10/9/2014 at BWC-Linfield Facebook page she said, "I took this picture of (L-R) Jeff Richards, Dick
Bushnell, Bob (Sullivan), Jim Massey, Coach (Ad) Rutschman, Randy Marshall, Tim
Smith and Coach John Knight, at College of Idaho, in 1969. This win
clinched Coach Rutschman's first Northwest Conference championship, in his
second year of coaching at Linfield."
Extra info:
--Notice Coach Rutschman wearing a cardinal colored windbreaker. Cardial & purple are Linfield school colors.
--Game was played at/photo taken at Simplot Stadium in Caldwell, Idaho.
--Interesting that this game (Saturday, Nov. 8, 1969) clinching part of a Northwest Conference title, the first for Ad Rutschman as Linfield football coach, took place in Caldwell, Idaho, just about 27 miles from Boise. It was at the old Bronco Stadium in Boise that his Linfield coaching career on Sept. 21, 1968, when the Wildcats upset the favored BSC Broncos, 17-7. For the record, both the C of I and BSC wins took place in the Mountain Time Zone.
--Notice Coach Rutschman wearing a cardinal colored windbreaker. Cardial & purple are Linfield school colors.
--Game was played at/photo taken at Simplot Stadium in Caldwell, Idaho.
--Interesting that this game (Saturday, Nov. 8, 1969) clinching part of a Northwest Conference title, the first for Ad Rutschman as Linfield football coach, took place in Caldwell, Idaho, just about 27 miles from Boise. It was at the old Bronco Stadium in Boise that his Linfield coaching career on Sept. 21, 1968, when the Wildcats upset the favored BSC Broncos, 17-7. For the record, both the C of I and BSC wins took place in the Mountain Time Zone.
Linfield Tips C-I, 35 To 0
CALDWELL, Idaho (Special) --
A typical Linfield defense -- big, mobile and mean -- and a pair of substitute
backs demoralized College of Idaho in the first 16 minutes here Saturday and
fired the Wildcats to a 35-0 Northwest Conference football victory.
(The win moved Linfield into
a conference championship tied with PLU, Whitman and Lewis & Clark. All
completed the season with 4-2 conference records. PLU and Whitman had 6-3
season records and Linfield and Lewis & Clark were 5-4 over all.)
Linfield's defense dominated
the opening quarter, dumping C of I Coyote QB Lon Troxell three times and
picking off his passes. Twice in the
quarter the Wildcat defense forced turnovers deep in Coyote territory. Bob
Sullivan, defensive tackle, picked off one Troxell pass on the C of I
10-yard line with two minutes left in the quarter after the QB threw blindly
under a Ron Stromme charge.
Dennis Davidson ran the ball three times
and got it to the one yard line. Then, Linfield QB Len Gann threw to
"super-sub" Jim Massey in the flat for the TD.
In addition to Sullivan and
Stromme, also playing stellar defense for Linfield were Roy Umeno and Randy
Marshall. Also playing well was running back Bobby James, a former
starter who lost his job midseason due to injury.
Linfield .... 14 7
0 14 -- 35
C of I ..... 0 0
0 0 -- 0
L--Massey 17 run (Steve
Davis kick)
L--Massey 1 pass from Gann
(Davis kick)
L--Massey 32 pass from Gann
(Davis kick)
L--Bob Murphy 7 pass from
Gann (Davis kick)
L--Bobby James 59 punt return (Davis kick)
