When Trandon Harvey caught a short pass from Alex Brink and raced down the left sidelines for the winning touchdown in the 2005 Apple Cup, Darrin Friberg, as many Cougar fans like him, stood and cheered wildly. However, unlike many Cougars, Friberg wasn’t celebrating his team’s victory in Seattle, the state of Washington, or […]
PULLMAN – WSU has moved its football game against Baylor up to Friday, Sept. 12, and will kickoff at 7:30 p.m. CDT in order to avoid complications caused by the approach of Hurricane Ike to the Texas Coast this weekend. The game, originally scheduled to be played Saturday at 11:30 a.m. and to be televised […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University head football coach Paul Wulff has announced the following student-athletes have signed a national letter-of-intent and will enroll at WSU this fall: Myron Beck, S, 5-11/205, RS-SO, Seattle, Wash. (Ingraham HS ’06) HIGH SCHOOL: Three-year letterwinner at Ingraham High School…led Metro League in receiving as a JUNIOR…hauled in 52 […]
The dimmed lights in Martin Stadium signal the end of Cougar football season for some, but for others the work has just begun. Football operations coordinator Shawn Deeds is busy planning the teams’ travel schedule for next year. “It’s a process that takes about three-quarters of the year,” he said. “We plan for the entire […]
(Photos by Robert Hubner, WSU Photo Services) PULLMAN — WSU Director of Athletics Jim Sterk Tuesday named Eastern Washington University coach Paul Wulff as the new head football coach of the Cougars. Wulff becomes WSU’s 31st head coach and the first WSU football letterwinner and graduate to lead the Cougars since Phil […]
Photo: Left to right: John Johnson, Senior Associate Director of Athletics; Al Powell, WSU Alumni Association President; Mike Utley, award recipient; Tim Pavish, Executive Director of Alumni Association; Dani Utley, and Jim Sterk, Director of WSU Athletics. PULLMAN – Mike Utley, a nationally acclaimed player for WSU and the NFL’s Detroit Lions, was awarded […]
Washington State University will host a series of events during the Homecoming weekend Oct. 5-6. The football game WSU vs. Arizona State will take place at 1 p.m. Oct 6 at Martin Stadium. Tickets can be purchased by phone at 1-800-GO-COUGS, option 3, or online. On Friday, Oct. 5 there will be a street fair […]
With a solid win over San Diego State behind them, the Cougar football team is showing real potential for the season, Coach Bill Doba told the Pullman Kiwanis Club Thursday at their noon meeting in the Gladish Community and Cultural Center. “We must win … Saturday’s game against Idaho,” said Doba, “and then it’s on […]
PULLMAN – At the turn of the 20th century, football teams from the University of Washington and Washington State University met in competition for the very first time. Around that same period, William E. Boeing left Yale University engineering school to head West and, ultimately, lead the state of Washington to the forefront of the […]
Mike Utley, former Washington State offensive lineman, is the recipient of the 2006 Walter Camp “Man of the Year” award. Utley was the most highly decorated gridiron star in Cougar history when he left in 1988 to play for the Detroit Lions. After suffering a career-ending spinal injury during a game in 1991, Utley has […]