Sports Watch
THERE may be aloha at Aloha Stadium yet before the Hawaii football season is over. Stadium to clamp down
on rowdiesThe Rainbows, who played at San Jose State today, close out their season at home the following three Saturday nights against Fresno State - in what could be Hawaii's most meaningful WAC game in years - Navy and Washington State.
Here's hoping the 'Bows total more than 100,000 in attendance for the remaining three games. They deserve that much for the turnaround season they're having.
Bigger, in this case, is better. But rowdy fans had better beware. This time Big Brother will be watching.
"For the next three UH games, the southside sections (by the locker room tunnels) will be monitored for disorderly behavior," said Herbert Naone, head of Aloha Stadium security.
Also, the makai field level behind the visiting team benches will have added police on duty, according to Naone.
It's good to know that the stadium authorities are taking action to avoid further unruly behavior by some individuals, who are ruining the enjoyment of Rainbow football for the majority of the fans.
ONE of the pleasures for many is drinking a beer or two, which is fine. So I'm not one of those proposing that the sale of beer be banned at the stadium for UH games.
Besides, notes stadium manager Eddie Hayashi, they stop selling beer at the end of the third quarter.
If anything, he adds, that's one of the reasons why they conduct a voluntary check of bags at the gate. It's to prevent people from bringing in more beer.
Hayashi, at the university's insistence, doesn't want to cut into tailgate time before the game. But he admits that adds to more beer-drinking time and the possibility of rowdier conduct.
But, first things first, and the stadium is doing just that with its plan of adding more security at possible trouble spots.
What a difference one year makes under new head coach June Jones.
A year ago at this time, the Rainbows were 0-9 after getting trounced, 45-17, by the San Jose State Spartans. At Aloha Stadium no less.
It got so bad the UH fans were already looking forward to Rainbow basketball.
Well UH football is still the hot topic as the basketball 'Bows make their debut tomorrow afternoon at the Stan Sheriff Center with less fanfare.
Herman Wedemeyer, one of Hawaii's football legends who died this past January, will be honored by his alma mater, St.Mary's College of Moraga, Calif., next Saturday. GALLOPING GAEL
The school will unveil a permanent exhibit of Wedemeyer in front of the McKeon Pavilion Fieldhouse.
There will also be a halftime ceremony at the football game between the Galloping Gaels and Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo that afternoon.
Among the guests of honor will be his widow, Carol Wedemeyer, their daughter Kittie and grandson, Tucker Brown, a senior at St. Mary's.
Also expected to attend are a number of Bay Area sportswriters who covered Wedemeyer, including Art Rosenbaum, former San Francisco Chronicle sports editor.
"I think it's a wonderful gesture. I'm told the exhibit's gorgeous," said Carol.
Star-Bulletin artist Corky Trinidad's depiction of Wedemeyer touching the hand of God that ran the day after his death is on the souvenir program's cover.
Bill Kwon has been writing about
sports for the Star-Bulletin since 1959.
