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Bulldogs freshmen fight for playing time

Freshman RB Root will redshirt for Bulldogs

The gifts that propelled Dillon Root to school-record rushing totals and two state long jump medals in track and field at Redwood High won't be seen in games at Fresno State until next year. Bulldogs coach Pat Hill, confident in four junior running backs, said Friday he'll redshirt the freshman Root.

Take a trip down WAC football's memory lane

This is it, the final year for Fresno State football in the Western Athletic Conference. So as the Bulldogs prepare to close this chapter of their athletic history, and attempt to win their first WAC title since 1999, here is coach Pat Hill's look back at his most memorable moments in conference games.

Bulldogs hope to force more turnovers

Fresno State hasn't just struggled at intercepting passes or forcing and recovering fumbles, the Bulldogs have been among the worst in the nation in each of the past five seasons, ranking no higher than sixth-to-last in turnovers gained. The most turnovers they've forced in an entire season is 15 in 2009.

Given the day off by coach Pat Hill on Thursday after 17 consecutive days of practice, Fresno State's football team spent the afternoon at a local water park.

For several Bulldogs true freshmen, their next experience could be an immersion of an entirely different kind.

It may be a Division I baptism against Cal of the Pac-12 Conference on Sept. 3 at Candlestick Park.

And that could extend the following week to Lincoln, Neb., where they'll play the Huskers of the reshaped Big Ten Conference before a guaranteed crowd of more than 80,000 at Memorial Stadium.

"There are some [true freshman] defensive players we're strongly considering to play," Hill said. "We've got some really good athletes here – a strong freshman class. We're very fortunate."

Hill said nothing's been decided, that his staff will devote much of Sunday discussing the issue.

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The artistic director of the summer Conducting Workshop for Music Educators. Previously at Juilliard, she taught orchestral conducting for non-majors (1998-2008), was executive director of the biennial Starling-DeLay Symposium on Violin Studies, and co-founded and conducted the Juilliard Trombone Choir. Allen studied French horn with Edwin C. Thayer and Wendell Hoss, and conducting with Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Lloyd Geisler, Frederick Fennell, and others. She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., a diploma in wind conducting from the University of Calgary, and a Doctor of Education degree at Teachers College, Columbia University. Currently on the faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music and the University of the Arts, Allen has conducted and arranged for ensembles all over the world and was artistic director of the Sun Valley (Idaho) Summer Music Workshops and founder of the Sun Valley Youth Orchestra. She was the first woman conductor of West Point’s and other army bands during her 20-year military career in the Army bands program.  principal tuba at the New York Philharmonic since 2004, previously held that position with the Milwaukee Symphony, Long Beach Symphony, and Louisiana Philharmonic. He did his undergraduate work at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and received his B.M. at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Baer did graduate work there and at the University of Southern California and California State University at Long Beach. He has recorded with the Cleveland Orchestra led by Vladimir Ashkenazy and performed with the Peninsula Music Festival of Wisconsin, New Orleans Symphony, Los Angeles Concert Orchestra, Ojai Festival Orchestra (California), Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He has also been a featured soloist in Switzerland, Austria, Germany, and France.

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