European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 23, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse November the stars and stripes Page 13 Al winning jays stressed team desire by Bob Austin slur writer i i r m n n y ingredients for u successful army fun Lonill season scan personnel in search for just 3d Able bodied individuals who desperately want to play the Grid Iron mix in heavily with a vet eran coaching Sprinkle Over Ullh the arrival of a professional linebacker who just bulks into the Bat finish off the product with a theme of determine team Pride and an Over Blossom into a Champion team my a great defense that or Hird o stated head coach Bob according to this is Only n Small por Tion of the reason Why the copped All the Bunting in most of it belongs to preparation Vii corps almost didst get Russell Matt Llo Molly suffered broken Bone whelming belief that you will not be result the 1h4 Usa eur Champion so it was with the Vii corps a team which was selected to finish in the lower echelons of the Usa eur con Ference in a preseason poll con ducted by 7th army sports edit the Jay concluded their Teu ton but weekend with a resound ing 210 Victory Over the v corps putting an end to speculation that they perhaps were the second or third Best team in the the jays finished unbeaten seven wins but tied How was it that a team which just one year before had com piled a 18 record could suddenly and a marvelous coaching All Mir Iru spread jul from Strai Liing to Wurms in Ami limed and attempting to get the in formation to phipers was diff Many weeks before the sea son we started sending out printing up getting Fri cups in the local Germany whats your reaction when you Are a football on the Lookout for prospective and you learn that a professional is Silling right under your nose for Vii corps Jayhawk Mentor Bob it was a Complete Blessing in disguise and he shudders to think How close he came to losing Pittsburgh Steeler prop Erly Andy an nil Rookie selection in the nil in let me Tell you How we got muted still receiving congratulations from members of his command on winning the 1064 Usah Kuli Grid Iron Andy was coming Over on the Phlp a year ago and he happened to meet up with Mike who played halfback with the 4th army div tankers this Mcclellan asked Andy if i was going to play football and Andy said if it was Mike then told Andy to re quest u 1049 fur a Transfer to the 4th army div Andy was Jayhu mks proved dangerous inside foes 10yard line Germany living up to their reputation As a Short yardage Ball the Vii corps Jay Hawks scored 11 of their 14 ground touchdowns inside the 10yard the longest to sprint via run Ning was a 28yard burst by Joe Stephens against shape com five scores were accounted for from the on Yard Stripe with one from the two and three from the three Yard quarterback Tom Adams Long est to toss was a 42yardcr to fullback Joe Aulse against 24th inf the jays Only made one Field that being a 37yard Effort by Thomas Hopkins against 4th army slated to report to Vii corps in the first when Andy reported into his he asked for his trans Fer two Days later and his Bat Andy Russell Peerless linebacker Tallon commander retorted whal is wrong with our football team we have one Andy didst know this so the battalion commander called Vii corps Headquarters and re ported that Russell was in his unit and did they want a professional linebacker for nest year i was contacted and of course was immediately 1 met Andy two weeks later and he was a member of our coach ing staff right in addition to army papers and making Many ices anal trips to screening i would say that we screened records in eight uces and invited some Joys for As a Iso Iros pacts turned out in August or the then the hard we three Days in sweat clothes me then went to full prac icing twice a by August we Down to 60 persons my by the Middle of we had the required we worried on the idea that he Type of individual we wanted for our team was the very competitive at the first 1 Lold the 190 prospects to look around because Only one out of three was going to we were out to eliminate the Azy i even let go a 100yurd dash Man be cause he just Cut we were defens minded from he very continued we knew that we could develop a Good defense in five but it lakes almost three months for an offence to gel several of Nur athletes came into the Camp grossly Over our Condoll inning pro Gram really look the excess poundage decided to place i Best 11 men on the defense with the idea of keeping the other team in the Hole at All As the defense had Only one bad that being a 77 tie with arly pro Type defense our defense appeared to be n due to the fact that the two outside line bikers stood so close to the said ii was a pro Type taught by which was actually a when Lindquist utters the name of a burning glow seems to emanate Frum his fantastic Ball commented he just walked into the battalion one Day and we grabbed he assisted in the coaching duties All season and the defensive Backfield was his who played last year with the Pittsburgh sle Elera pounded in one theme All season Long with his defensive backs never get beat Only one Long bomb was com dieted against the that be ing ii 43yarder by 4th army Delvs Henry Lindquist then turned his at Tention to his coaching staff which began preparing for the 1m4 edition of the Jay Hawks As Early As last sell formerly of Dart switched Over from now defunct support command to Lake the offensive Backfield reins my was credited with the late surge of the jays offensive Power Liing with Dick the offensive line coach who played at masterminding the defensive was Tom who Bob guided Jay awl played his College Ball at Iowa gave an example of the brain work of his coaching staff just after the deadlock with 32nd arly we instead of really pouring it on in preparation for Soliai Iscom to goof we Cut our practices by 15 minutes und didst hit hard All look what happened the jays mauled shape com Lundquist heaped Praise on the tremendous depth of his in the final game against v i Felt that we could have played any one of 19 players and not be Hurt one it was the developing of our second team players throughout the year that came As a big Aid to Lindquist is planning on coach ing the Jay Hawks in the ins season and is saddened by Only one incident he wont have sell backing up his calling All the defensive shots and intercepting Russell is heading Back to Pittsburgh for the pros in Early september and continue his Ca reer with the at least Well have him for the first part As a said undo lust which should help the jays in their quest for a second straight Usa eur defensive stars is the defensive unit for the Vii corps Jay which was the Best in the Usa eur conference this being the Mala reason Why the jays won the Usa eur left to Alfred Pryor Fred Cooper Bui Huiard Andru Jere Miah Dyer defensive line coach Tom Andy Russell Martin Manning James Gordon turn Hopkins George Zwosky m and George Bentley the defensive it att allowed Only Points this tops in the Usa eur
