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Warren Powers
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Warren Powers played in Super Bowl II as a safety for the Oakland Raiders, falling to Bart Starr and Vince Lombardi’s Green Bay Packers.
He began his coaching career in 1969, spending eight seasons as defensive backs coach for Nebraska, his college team, before coaching at Washington State and Missouri.
In his first season at Missouri in 1978, he beat No. 2 Nebraska in Lincoln. The Tigers lost their next 25 games to the Cornhuskers. Powers led the team to four consecutive bowl appearances, also losing to BYU and Steve Young in the 1983 Holiday Bowl.
Missouri complied an 8-4 record under Powers three different years, but suffered his first losing season (3-7-1) in 1984, his final year coaching the Tigers.
An itinerant journalist, Christopher has moved between states 11 times in seven years. Formally an injury-prone Division I 800-meter specialist, he now wanders the Rockies in search of high peaks.
