University Southern California Trojans
Van Raaphorst, Papadakis Highlight Football Scrimmage
June 21, 1999 | Football
April 24, 1999
LOS ANGELES-Junior quarterback Mike Van Raaphorst threw a 24-yard touchdown pass to walk-on wide receiver Matt Nickels and tailback Petros Papadakis ran for a 1-yard TD to highlight a 28-play intrasquad scrimmage by the USC football team on Friday (April 23) at Howard Jones Field on campus as the Trojans concluded spring drills.
Van Raaphorst, who started USC's first 8 games of 1998 before giving way to Carson Palmer, was 6-of-7 passing for 65 yards. Palmer was 1-of-4 for 6 yards, but had 2 passes dropped.
Papadakis gained 23 yards on 4 carries, while sophomore tailback Frank Strong ran 6 times for 36 yards.
Junior linebacker Sultan Abdul-Malik, junior safeties Darnell Lacy and John Morgan, and sophomore defensive end Lonnie Ford each had 3 tackles.
"It was a good wrap-up of spring practice," said second-year USC coach Paul Hackett. "It was a great way to cap it all off. We were able to get in some good work on a lot of things today and we showed the great enthusiasm that's been there all spring."
USC is off until it opens the 1999 season on Sept. 4 at Hawaii.
USC FOOTBALL SPRING SCRIMMAGE #3
RUSHING NET YDS AVG TD LG
Morton 3 6 2.0 0 6
Papadakis 4 23 5.8 1 11
Strong 6 36 6.0 0 11
Van Raaphorst 1 -8 -8.0 0 -8
PASSING PA PC PI PCT YDS TD LG
Palmer 4 1 0 .250 6 0 6
Van Raaphorst 7 6 0 .857 65 1 24
RECEIVING NO YDS AVG TD LG
Strong 2 11 5.5 0 6
Nickels 2 33 16.5 1 24
Dalton 1 19 19.0 0 19
d'Autremont 1 12 12.0 0 12
Papadakis 1 -4 -4.0 0 -4
PUNTING NO YDS AVG LG BLK
MacGillivray 1 37 37.0 37 0
Team 1 0 0.0 0 1
DEFENSE TACKLES LS/YDS SAC/YDS
Dickerson 2
Nielsen 1
Ohalete 1
Moreno 2
Ford 3 1/8 1/8
Gibson 1
Morgan 3
Carter 1
Fox 1
Abdul-Malik 3 1/4
Lacy 3
Reese 2
SCORING
Papadakis 1-yard run (Bell kick)
Nickels 24-yard pass from Van Raaphorst
TOTAL PLAYS 28
