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Player Profile
Jeremy Cloud/Sports Info
Charlie Jones, starting wide receiver for the
Bulldogs, is averaging 19.2 yards per catch in
his three-year career at Fresno State.
Charlie Jones talks to kids
"to keep them on track...
and not drugs."
on sports and not drugs," said
Jones.
Jones is aware that where the
valley lacks professional sports
teams, Fresno State athletes fill
the gap as role models to the children. It is a sacrifice he's more
than willing to make.
Jones hopes to coach a high
school football team some time in
his life.
The one child Jones spends
the most time with is his 18-
month-old daughter.
"She keeps me going," he
said, taking on the look of a proud
father.
As a football player, Jones is
undoubtedly Fresno State's NFL
hopeful. In three games this year,
he has 12 receptions totaling 220
yards and one touchdown.
Jones is averaging 18.3
yards per catch this season and
19.2 for his three-year career.
Receiver coach, Steven
Mooshagian, said Jones is a key
element to the team and the football program.
"He does everything you ask
for," said Mooshagian. "He does
what he's supposed to do."
Both teammates and coaches
are confident of Jones' chances of
making it into the NFL.
"He's a great player and has
a shot at the NFL," said Danny
Williams, defensive-end.
Currently there are three
former Fresno State receiver?
playing in the NFL: Malcolm
Seabron, Tydus Winans and
Henry Ellard.
Wearing an ever-present impish smile, the number one wide receiver for the Fresno State Bulldogs pulls up a chair at Jack-in-
the-Box.
Unlike many students still
clinging to the wonderful feelings
of summer vacation, 21-year-old
Charlie Jones, a junior speech major, said he is ready to face another
football season and school.
Jones has a 15 unit course
load this semester though he only
needs 12 units for eligibility to
play football. The extra class, he
said, is "just in case I screw up on
one."
Over the summer, Jones was
unable to escape the blistering
weather of the valley so he managed to put his time to good use
by working with children.
Jones spent one week during
the summer talking to students at
his alma mater, Lemoore High,
while attending a sign language
and a counseling class at CSUF.
Dr. Paul Ogden, professor of
communicative disorders, said he
was very impressed by Jones' performance both in class and in his
enthusiasm to learn to communicate with the deaf.
"Charlie will be more perceptive and sensitive to body language, emotions ... of children
in general," said Ogden.
Til talk to any little kid'to
keep them on the track, keep them
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Before Saturday, the last time a
Bulldog football team scored only
three points in a game was when
Ronald Reagan was President
Other teams on the Fresno State
schedule that year were McNeese
State (a Division II school), California State Fullerton and Long Beach
State.
Fullerton and Long Beach no
longer carry football programs.
The year was 1988.
The team was Colorado.
The score was 45-3.
Saturday, the Bulldogs lost 24-
3 to the Washington State Cougars.
One week after beating ex-rival
San Jose State in a game that seemed
to get the offense on track for the '94
season, the Bulldogs were completely shut down by an overwhelming Cougars defense.
Fresno State was held to only 34
yards rushing and 223 yards total.
Adrian Claiborne, who threw for
319 yards and four touchdowns
against San Jose State, was held to punt.
just 189 yards at Washington State. Yet despite so many problems.
Head Coach Jim Sweeney said, the Bulldogs trailed at halftbne by a
"I have never seen a defense as good score of only 7-3.
as Washington State's. They are awe- In the seco r.d half, however, the
some. They have no weakness." Cougars were able to penetrate a tired
Sweeney was speaking about the Bulldog defense with less difficulty.
defense, not the offense. Washington State scored on the
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"J have never seen a defense
as good as Washington State's.
They are awesome.
They have no weakness."
— Coach Jim Sweeney
opening
drive of
the second half
making
t h e
score
14-3.
"Other
than
[Larry]
Cook
[Lance]
T h o -
posed many weaknesses on offense    mas, our secondary is fairly young.
and special teams. Our inexperience showed," said
The Bulldogs and Cougars com-    Sweeny.
bined for a total of four missed field Fresno State never threatened to
goals, eight turnovers, and a -5 yard    score in the second half.
One other loss for Fresno State
was Michael Pittman. The sophomore tailback and leading rusher for
the Bulldogs suffered a broken right
collarbone on the first play of the second quarter.
Pittman, replaced by Jerome
Oliver in the lineup may be lost for
the season. Next up for the Bulldogs
is Oregon State.
The Beavers, who are 0-3 at
Bulldog Stadium, are coming off a
44-31 win last week over Wyoming.
Attempting to avenge a 48-30
loss in Fresno last year, they will return Saturday at 7:00 p.m.
Oregon State's power is the running game, specifically the option,
something the Bulldogs' defense has
had trouble with in the past
The Beavers' head coach Jerry
Pettibone is no stranger to Fresno
State either.
In 1990. Pettibone was Head
Coach at Northern Illinois, and his
Huskies defeated the Bulldogs 73-18
in a game that wasn't as close as the
score may it
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He was a quarter of a century
older than the other players, but Jerry
Collins tried out for a community
college football team at age 42. Subsequently, 1982 was a year well spent
for Collinrwho was trying to wipe
out a regret that had been with him
for years.
And if his behavior was simply
a matter of going through menopause,
as some people had suggested,
Collin's reply was, "I hope to hell I
never get out of it It's challenging."
A four-year varsity football
player at Bakersfield's North High,
Collins, now 54, said he had always
regretted not going on to play college
football.
His regrets had been festering for
years. "I felt like I left part of me
some place," said Collins.
"It was like having a second
chance."
In the spring of 1981. Collins
considered enrolling at the College of
Sequoias, in Visalia, with the hopes
of playing on the school's football
team—and creating a second chance
for himself.
Collins sought and fulfilled his
dream when his grading and trucking company he owns slowed during
the recession.
"It was like having a second
chance, though I knew it would be
much harder," said Collins.
"Damn it. I had raised kids, paid
bills and paid taxes. I had met those
obligations. I wanted to take time
out and I did."
Collins vividly recalls his first
meeting with members of the coaching staff at C.O.S. in September of
1981.
After looking him up and down,
one of the men'asked, "Exactly when
did you last play football?"
Even Collins was unable to keep
a straight face when he responded,
"1958, sir."
Although the coaches recommended a weights and running program to him for seven days a week,
Collins said no one on the staff was
very receptive to his idea.
"I began a rigorous training
schedule," said Collins.
"When I first started running, I
could barely run a mile, but after a
few weeks I was up to four and five
miles. I did this five times a week,
rain or shine," said Collins.
In January of 1982, he enrolled
in a C.O.S. physical education course
to help condition potential football
players.
During the first few weeks of the
semester, Collins said no one said
much to him.
The other athletes and coaches
eventually treated him like everyone
else.
"I think when the coaches saw
that I could surpass most of the
younger players in endurance and
agility, they finally saw me as a real
potential player," said Collins.
Collins played offensive guard
and played every game but two.
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Bulldog volleyball — THE WALL
$2.7 million needed to build
proposed softball stadium
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CSUF, Fresno has announced it
will intensify efforts to raise funds for
the $2.7 million softball stadium
scheduled to be built for the 1996 season.
The proposed 2,628-seat, on-
campus stadium will be built on the
southeast corner of Barstow and Cedar.
Once built, the stadium, along
with Warmerdam Field, Bieden Field
and Bulldog stadium, will make
CSUF, Fresno the sporting event
Mecca of Central California.
Bulldog Head Coach Margie
Wright said the new stadium will help
recruiting and also benefit the community by giving the university the
opportunity to host national softball
events.
Wright who is also a U.S. Olympic team assistant coach, said the new
stadium could be considered for 1996
pre-Olympic competition.
Diane Milutinovich, associate
athletic director, said once the stadium is built the school may look
into possibly placing a bid for the
-College Softball World Series.
The Series is currently held in
Oklahoma City. Oklahoma City's
contract expires in 1997, and the Series will be open for bid in 1998.
The drive to raise funds for the
stadium began in late April and has
so far raised $313,400 by the sale of
377 seat options.
Seat options are currently priced
at $600. $1,000 and $1,500.
Private donations have generated $500,000, bringing the total
raised to $813,400, one third of the
goal.
A scheduled checkpoint for the
drive will be on Dec. 15 when uni
versity officials will assess funds
raised and determine the next step.
Lynn Hemink, spokesman for
the softball stadium committee, said
there is the potential the university
may down-size the project if the goal
is not reached.
However, Gary Cunningham,
CSUF. Fresno athletic director, said
the university is committed to a successful fund drive.
I'm very confident we're going
to see the stadium, as is, in 1996,"
hesaid.
Construction will begin after the
completion of the 1995 season.
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