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Second Regular Session

Sixty-first General Assembly

LLS NO. R98­0634.01 MAS

STATE OF COLORADO

BY SENATOR Norton;

also REPRESENTATIVES Tool, Kreutz, Johnson, and Kaufman.

SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 98-008

CONCERNING THE EXTENSION OF CONGRATULATIONS FROM THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO THE COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY RAMS FOOTBALL TEAM.

WHEREAS, The Colorado State University Rams football team recently concluded its most successful football season in school history; and

WHEREAS, The Colorado State University Rams finished their 1997 football season with a notable 11­2 record, the most wins in school history; and

WHEREAS, The Colorado State University Rams football team overcame adversity, winning the last nine games of the season, which represents the third longest winning streak in school history; and

WHEREAS, The Colorado State University Rams football team finished its football season ranked sixteenth in the USA Today/ESPN college football poll and seventeenth in the Associated Press college football poll; and

WHEREAS, The Colorado State University Rams football team defeated the University of New Mexico by a score of 41­13 to win the Western Athletic Conference Championship; and

WHEREAS, The Colorado State University Rams football team was invited for the third time in four years to play in the twentieth annual Plymouth Holiday Bowl; and

WHEREAS, The Colorado State University Rams exhibited outstanding teamwork in the Plymouth Holiday Bowl by defeating nineteenth­ranked University of Missouri by a score of 35­24; and

WHEREAS, The Colorado State University Rams were led during this victorious season by head coach Sonny Lubick who was selected Western Athletic Conference Pacific Coach of the Year; and

WHEREAS, Under the guidance of Sonny Lubick, the Colorado State University Rams football team has produced two All­Americans, eighteen all­Western Athletic Conference players, two Academic All­Americans, and twenty­seven Western Athletic Conference Player of the Week winners; and

WHEREAS, Senior quarterback Moses Moreno was selected as Western Athletic Conference Player of the Year and shared co­Most Valuable Player honors with Darren Hall in the Plymouth Holiday Bowl; and

WHEREAS, Colorado State University not only symbolizes excellence in athletics, but also excellence in higher education providing educational services to the citizens of Colorado since 1870 and currently serving approximately 22,000 students, seventy­seven percent of whom are residents of Colorado; and

WHEREAS, The Colorado State University Rams football team displayed teamwork, courage, and skill during their 1997 season and enabled the people of Colorado to enjoy this inspirational and memorable football season; now, therefore,

Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Sixty­first General Assembly of the State of Colorado, the House of Representatives concurring herein:

That we, the members of the General Assembly, extend our congratulations to the players and staff who comprise the Colorado State University Rams football team for their success in the 1997 football season and offer our thanks for the inspiration they have given to all citizens of Colorado.

Be It Further Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be transmitted to Sonny Lubick, Head Coach of the Colorado State University Rams football team; to Albert Yates, President of Colorado State University; to the chief executive officer of the Colorado State University alumni association; to the Chairman of the State Board of Agriculture; and to the President of the Associated Students of Colorado State University.