I first recall them at that Gator Bowl--I was on sidelines,,

for that game. I'm not sure how many guys were wearing the towels that night. Mark McLane had been kicked off team hours prior to GT game, so he wouldn't have had one.

It was the final game for a GA named "Ruettiger." I don't think that he slept on a cot in the stadium locker room that season. Devine gave the man a job, for which he was repaid in the early 90's with the "jerseys on the desk" fraud.

Slager came back as QB for that game after missing end of AL and all of Miami and USC games w/ injury. Lisch filled in for those games. I wonder whether Montana would've played in those games under current redshirt eligibility rules.

That team, with its de facto 3d string QB, outplayed #2 USC in a narrow Coliseum loss.

EDIT: Steve Schmitz, an AWB, lived down the hall from me that year. He was lightning fast, but he was never utilized except for punt returns.