Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 1, 1996, Winnipeg, Manitoba A8 Section editor. Julian Rachey / 697-7285 sunday free press sports Scott Taylor coach. Michael Richan son can to forget going to frs Grey cup with Urban Bowman. Gerald Wilcox has a deep abiding respect for his Friend Mike Kelly. And to Troy Westwood nobody has done More for him than the Man he Calls a mister while Lynn Bishop and his committee peruse a list of 15 to 20 candidates for the vacant Winnipeg Blue bombers head coaching Job the players have been talking. Who gets that Job is More important to them than to any other group and they have definite opinions on the subject. A nobody knows better than we do who should be in that locker room a Wilcox said yesterday. A a we re the players. We re there All Day every for Wilcox there is no doubt who head like to see in the locker room a and Down on the sidelines a next year. Its a Man he a grown to love and respect during the five seasons they be both shared in Winnipeg. A granted i done to know All 750 applicants but in my personal opinion if they re overlooking or underestimating or making guilty by association to Cal Murphy Mike Kelly then they re making a big mistake a Wilcox said. A now i enjoy Urban Bowman. He respects the players he respects the game a Heck he loves the game a and in be been to a Grey cup with him. I could really enjoy playing for Urban. A but i think its sad that we might lose Mike Kelly. Here a a Guy who bleeds Blue and Gold has been tremendous for the team and the Community and is a great coach. For some reason he did no to get much respect from the head coach Murphy Down the stretch and i think that a really Hurt him. But to me a and in be talked with him a lot a he a got the answers for this not every player agrees with Wilcox and that a healthy. Richardson who just happens to be one of Wilcox a closest friends respects Kelly but would really like to see Bowman return. A there is no question in my mind it should be Urban Quot Richardson said. A a he a one of the Best coaches in be Ever had. He a honest and he a fair and that Sall you can ask of a coach. A we went to the Grey cup with him in �?T92 and we would have won too if wed done things his Way. He wanted to Start Danny Mcmanus at quarterback but Cal came Back and made him Start Matt Dunigan even though Matt was Hurt. Quot if Lynn Bishop Ever asked me id Tell him a hire Urban a Troy Westwood a feelings for Bowman run even deeper than Richardson a. He feels he owes his career to the one time Llama Farmer from the Interlake. A every Guy they be mentioned is a Good coach a Good Guy a Westwood said. A i really done to have a Favourite. A i know coach Bowman and there is a real Comfort zone there and i know coach Dave Ritchie. I like him too. And of course coach Kelly is a Good Friend. A but the reason in a Here playing in the Cal is coach Bowman. He got me my College scholarship augustan College. He and John Gregory set it up. In a kind of indebted to or. Bowman for every player has his personal reasons for supporting one potential coach Over the others. But like our interviewees today there Are three names that always Cross the lips of the Guys who have been playing in Winnipeg for awhile a Urban Bowman Mike Kelly and Dave Ritchie. You get the feeling the bombers go wrong with any one of them. And it be perfect if one got the Job and then hired the others As assistants. _ Winnipeg december 1,1996 jubilant huskies Schneider left and Dave Fisher hold the Vanier cup aloft after Victory. Huskies Romp second half comeback sinks a men rests Vanier cup a \ Canadian press Toronto Saskatchewan head coach Brian Towriss had one simple message for his players during halftime at the Vanier cup with the huskies trailing 12-0 to the St. Francis Xavier a men. Done to panic. Huskies 31 a men 12 the heavily favoured Saskatchewan huskies exploded for 31 unanswered Points in the second half to beat the a men 31-12 in the annual Canadian University football championship yesterday. A i just told them that wed come Way too far a said Towriss. A there was no need to panic. They got one big play in the first half Andre Arlaine a 57-Yard to run. A they did no to move the Ball any better than we did. We knew that eventually we were going to get a big play. Lets just score the first touchdown. Done to let them score again because if we were 19 Down we got a problem. If we re 12 Down we score another touchdown its a whole new Ball Veteran quarterback Brent Schneider a 63-Yard touchdown pass to Rookie David Murza at 5 12 of the fourth Quarter gave the huskies a 17-12 Lead. A it was just a matter of time before we stopped making mistakes a said Schneider playing in his final University football game of his career. Jarret Rennie with two and Mike Stewart had the other touchdowns for Saskatchewan while Matt Kellett kicked a Field goal in front of a Small but vocal crowd of 18,214 fans at the sky dome. Jacob Marini booted a Field goal for the a men who scored their other Points on a safety. Schneider ended up completing 15 of 29 passes for 237 Yards and three touchdowns to win the ted Morris trophy As the map of the game. He also won the same award in 1994 in a losing cause to the Western Mustangs. Huskies linebacker Warren Muzika won the defensive player of the game award. The annual Canadian University football championship usually features explosive offence and very lit huskies coach Brian Towriss receives a a gatorade Shower. Tie defence. But the offences get anything going in the first half and the game was the lowest scoring Vanier cup since 1992 when Queens won 31-0 Over St. Mary a. The 32nd Vanier cup was supposed to be a rout for the no. 1-ranked Saskatchewan huskies with their vaunted balanced offence and Tough defence but it was the a men with a 12-0 Lead in the first half. A obviously we were really Happy with the first half a said a men coach John Stevens. A in the second the defence was making the same Effort but the offence stalled. A Nesbitt Burns member of Tho Bank of Montreal group of comp Anlea Canadas #1 rated investment research team for information on investment opportunities in the Telephone Industry Call John Fraser v 949-2527 or 1-800-506-0005 a everybody has to Chip in by Tim Campbell sports reporter it could have been a lot worse yesterday. Jean Perron could have used thumbscrews instead of Vars on his Manitoba Moose. However painful watching game tapes might have been yesterday was a Day off turned into a work Day on the heels of the Moose a 4-0 loss to san Antonio Friday night at the Arena. The teams zip-for-10 Power play was of major concern yesterday and will Likely get a substantial amount of practice time today through tuesday. But its not the Only concern for the 8-13-3 team that wound up november 5-5-1. Player issues still dog the Moose. The attempt to find a seventh defence Man continues in the Wake of the Ken Sutton mess. Fridays loss also illustrated just How much the team needs a Centre Man with a reliable soft touch. Perron Moose pm and coach admitted he continues to search for the right solutions but reiterated the necessity of players already Here doing More than going through the motions while he sorts things out. A i done to want this being grand Central station a Perron said. A i done to want players always looking to see where an empty stall might be and asking themselves who might be in it tomorrow. A i done to like that. It Means a i done to have to go to the next level because the coach or pm is going to find a hey everybody has to Chip in. We be survived in the past without players. Look around the nil. Teams who lose key players for Long times done to fold. We just have to treat Sutton like he son the injury list. There a nothing we can do about it. Lets Moose defence Man Jeff Ricciardi said the pressure is always High because the schedule has presented a steady diet of teams with High powered lines. A i think the biggest thing that happens with this team is our inconsistency a Ricciardi said. A a it a More shift to shift than it is game to game. If you Only have two Guys going on the ice its All irrelevant. We have to have five because we re not the most highly skilled team in the the Moose Are going to see More of that in the coming week. They have Home games wednesday and Friday against Orlando the Ihly Stop team and the solar bears have the likes of Mark Beaufait Zac Boyer and Bob Joyce. Perron has also been critical of his team in several other ways in the last week including a pointed attack on personal preparation. The Moose had a better first period on Friday but still lost. A Friday could have gone either Way because we had the scoring chances Quot Perron said. A Good ones. But we re going through a transition period. There were a lot of problems we had to Settle. You look at the team with a Guy like Ken Sutton so this is a big blow. Guys Are looking around and seeing who will step up and take some of that leadership. A a it a Guys like Steve Wilson and Ricciardi who will have to do it. Especially Ricciardi. He a one of the most respected defence men in the league so he a going to have to assume that poignant return to ice associated press in a in Gordeev prepares for stars on ice at Lake Placid yesterday. Lake Placid a As painful As Ekaterina Gor Deeva a memories Are of Sergei Grinkov a death they Are More poignant of his celebrated life. So she could not help but return yesterday to perform for the first time in Lake Placid since her husband and figure skating partner died Here one year ago. A time goes by quite fast and i done to know How Long this is going to take to heal a Gordeev said yesterday just prior to performing. A a in a just very very Happy that in a involved with this great group of people and i am Able to skate with Gordeev performed last night in a discover stars on ice preview show that featured Kristi Yamaguchi and Scott Hamilton and includes Paul Wylie Kurt Browning and Rosalynn Sumners. The troupe is practising in this Adirondack Mountain resort in Advance of a 60-City . Tour that begins dec. 28. In the show Gordeev skates a duet with Wylie to the gentle strains of Baches air in a and she solos to Stephen Sondheim a no one is alone and to Rachmaninov a Elegie in e Flat minor. Performing without Grinkov remains a strange feeling Gordeev said but one with which she is gradually getting comfortable. A i have a lot of things to say to people a she said. A i have a lot of things to show a memorial service was held at the olympic Arena Here on nov. 20, the anniversary of Grinkov a death. British Ace dancing Champion Jayne Torville said it was an emotional event. A i think its Good for Katia that she a in the show this year a Torville said. A she seems to be enjoying it. Obviously she must have a lot of sadness in her Gordeev said she could not have stayed away on the first anniversary of her husbands death no matter the mixed emotions. A even if i had a Choice and it Wasny to a rehearsal period for discover stars on ice i would come Back to Lake Placid a she said. A my friends and my last memories of Sergei Are Grinkov was practising on nov. 20, 1995, at the olympic facilities when he was supposed to lift Gordeev by the Waist. Instead he suddenly Bent Over. Efforts at a nearby Hospital to resuscitate Grinkov a heart with electric shocks and adrenalin failed. He was 28 ;