While the University of Hawaii-Brigham Young football series is the stuff of legend, the resumption of hostilities Saturday after an eight-year layoff means it is time for a refresher quiz.

So, grab a pencil, keep your eyes on your own paper and test your knowledge of some of the memorable moments and personalities that made it the rivalry for UH across parts of four decades with the B-Y-Who Quiz.

» 1. This is my ninth time on the Hawaii sideline for a BYU game and I’m hoping for my first UH victory.

» 2. I pledged to jump off Mt. Timpanogos if UH beat the Cougars in Provo, Utah, in 1991. Needless to say I never had to make that dive.

» 3. They called my aerial sack of the UH quarterback on the 1-yard line in the fourth quarter of our 18-13 win in 1984 the “leap of faith.”

» 4. So long and so painful was the eight-game losing streak to BYU that when I became UH’s head coach in 1987 some older fans actually beseeched me to please, please beat the Cougars before they died. I hope three seasons was fast enough.

» 5. Ty Detmer got the Heisman Trophy that day in 1990. But I quarterbacked the winning team and had the better stats.

» 6. BYU got so many good players out of Kahuku that I said the North Shore was the Cougars’ Guantanamo here.

» 7. I saw the series from both sides, having been offensive coordinator at each school.

» 8. I was an all-state player in high school in Hawaii, but only BYU saw fit to offer me a scholarship.

» 9. I’m the offensive coordinator at BYU, but I was heavily recruited out of high school to run the spread option at UH.

» 10. I never understood what the problem was with beating BYU. I mean, we beat ’em in my first game as UH head coach.

» 11. I got my kicks — five of ’em — in beating BYU in 1974.

» 12. I had the most memorable “kick” in the 2001 win over BYU, but you have to look under penalty yards to find it.

» 13. I’d love to see one of my proteges break my single-game touchdown record against BYU. But don’t hold your breath because it will take nine TDs to do it.

» 14. UH had gone 13 consecutive quarters without an offensive touchdown against the Cougars before I showed up. While I was there, we averaged the equivalent of seven touchdowns a game against ’em.

» 15. I was the first UH player to return a kickoff and a punt for touchdowns in a single game and doing it against BYU made it even sweeter.

» 16. I grew up in Palolo and was an All-WAC player at Utah but people in Hawaii still associate me with BYU.

» 17. Everybody knows me as an NFL and college quarterback, but UH fans’ most painful memories of me from 1980 are as an impromptu, left-footed punter.

» 18. Had I been able to hold onto the ball in the end zone, BYU would not have won the 1984 national championship.

Answers

1. Dick Tomey; 2. LaVell Edwards; 3. Kyle Morrell; 4. Bob Wagner; 5. Garrett Gabriel; 6. Wagner; 7. Wally English; 8. Kurt Gouveia; 9. Brandon Doman; 10. Larry Price; 11. Kicker Reinhold Stuprich; 12. Craig Stutzmann; 13. Nick Rolovich; 14. Paul Johnson; 15. Chad Owens; 16. Norm Chow; 17. Jim McMahon; 18. Walter Murray.

Reach Ferd Lewis at flewis@staradvertiser.com. or 529-4820.