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JOHN STEARNS
S/P, 5-1, 180, 3L, Denver, Colo. (Thomas Jefferson)
A first-team All-Big Eight performer as a
senior in 1972, Stearns was the team’s
most valuable player that same season…
Known as “Bad Dude,” he was one of the
fiercest hitters in the old Big Eight and made a name for himself as
one of the more colorful players in CU history… He set the career
record for interceptions at Colorado with 16, a number that still
stood some 30 years later, with his 18 pass deflections good for
third at the time of his graduation… Pulled off perhaps the “gutsiest”
play in school history, when he ran for a 12-yard game out of
the punt formation, from the Buff 10-yard line no less, on a 4thand-9
play with CU nursing a 23-17 lead… In baseball at CU, he was
the 1972 Big Eight batting champion (.492), the 1973 NCAA home
run leader (15) and an All-American as a senior in ‘73… Career
numbers: batting (.366), hits (169), runs scored (137), home runs
(26), runs batted in (101), steals (48)… He was drafted in two
sports: Buffalo snared him in the 17th round of 1973 NFL Draft, late
on purpose because he was going to go the baseball route; two
months later, Philadelphia selected him as the second overall
pick, behind David Clyde, in the June baseball draft (catcher;
KORDELL STEWART
QB, 6-3, 210, 4L, Marrero, La. (John Ehret)
A second-team Associated Press All-
American, the highest honor ever
afforded a Colorado quarterback from the
wire service (along with Darian Hagan in
1989)… The Big Eight Conference’s all-time total offense leader
with 7,770 yards… First-team All-Big Eight as a senior… CU’s
career leader in both total offense and passing yards (6,481)…
First-team all-Big Eight as a senior in 1994, when he was the Buffs’
most valuable player… The MVP of the ‘95 Fiesta Bowl, as he
rushed for 143 yards and a touchdown while throwing for 205 and
a TD in CU’s 41-24 rout of Notre Dame… That was the first and
remains the only game in school history where a player threw for
200 yards and rushed for 100… Finished 13th in the Heisman balloting
that year, when teammate Rashaan Salaam won… Only
player in CU history to have three 2,000-yard passing seasons…
His 1,289 rushing yards were the second most by a quarterback in
school history… Had 19 200-yard passing games and seven 300yard
total offense games in his career… At the time, he posted the
most prolific first start at quarterback in school history, throwing
396
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Oakland had drafted him in the first round and ninth overall out of
high school)… He spent less than two years in the minor leagues
and ascended to the majors by the end of the ’74 season, playing
for the first time on Sept. 22, 1974... Traded to the New York Mets
during the off-season, he would spend the next 10 seasons with
the Mets in becoming one of their most popular players of alltime…
In 810 career big league games, he batted .260 (696 of
2,681), with 46 home runs and 312 runs batted in… He had 91
career steals and a .984 fielding percentage… After he retired from
baseball, he spent time as a coach and scout in the majors, working
for the Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies… He was managing
on the triple-A level with Binghamton (Mets system) in 2003.
TACKLES INTERCEPTIONS
Season G UT AT—TOT PBU No. Yds. Avg. TD Long
1970 11 39 38— 77 9 5 71 14.2 0 37
1971 11 31 29— 60 3 5 158 31.6 0 59
1972 11 35 22— 57 6 6 110 18.3 0 82
Totals 33 105 99—204 18 16 339 21.2 0 82
ADDITIONAL STATISTICS—Punting: 112-4,143, 37.0 avg., 25 In20, 60 long.
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for 409 yards and four touchdowns in a 37-17 win over Colorado
State to open his sophomore year… Key player in college football’s
play of the century, when he heaved a 64-yard pass to
Michael Westbrook that rallied CU to a 27-26 win as time expired
at Michigan in 1994 (the game became known as “The Catch”)… A
second round pick by Pittsburgh in the ’95 NFL Draft (61st overall)…
Though nicknamed “Slash” early in his professional career
because he played some wide receiver (thus a QB/WR listing on
the roster), he never went out for a pass in his college career…
Played eight seasons with the Steelers (1995-2002) before moving
on to Chicago for 2003.
PASSING RUSHING
Season G Att-Com-Int Pct. Yds TD Long Att Yds Avg. TD Long
1991 2 2- 1- 0 50.0 2 0 2 18 144 8.0 1 33
1992 9 252-151- 9 59.9 2109 12 65 60 -18 -0.3 1 32
1993 11 294-157- 7 53.4 2299 11 72t 102 524 5.1 6 46
1994 11 237-147- 3 62.0 2071 10 67t 122 639 5.2 7 60t
Totals 33 785-456-19 58.1 6481 33 72t 302 1289 4.3 15 60t