European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 18, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 20 the stars and stripes wednesday october 18, 1967 . Standouts Gerald Breeding left of upper Heyford and Jim Geist of Ben Waters have been named lineman of the week and Back of the week respectively for their performances during last saturday s Safe United kingdom foot Ball conference action. Breeding a defensive end recovered three Alconbury fumbles one of which resulted in his team first score and was in on 50 per cent of the tackles during the sky blazers upset win Over the spartans. Geist a quarterback threw two touchdown passes scored one himself and kicked four extra Points As the phantoms romped Over the London rockets. Confident we can win again9 overjoyed Leggett realizes next game might be closer by Klint Johnson staff writer Rhine main Germany is when the Rhine main and wiesbaden1 football team meet again and the schedule guarantees a rematch it could be a much closer Ball game than last saturday stomp. 42-13 rocket this is the Post game opinion of Rhine main coach Dave leg Gett who is overjoyed at the surprisingly one sided rocket Victory but still realistic enough to admit that the teams were much closer matched than the score i Don t believe there is that much difference in the two teams said Leggett this , i feel confident that we can beat them to an innovation in this year s Safe Germany Confer ence Grid schedule the top four might teams in the standings after the first round Robin of play Are slated to play each other draws a Bye Thi saturday the final weekend othe first half of league play. The rockets face the fourth place team not settled yet and third place Hahn on successive saturdays and then wind up their Reg ular season against runner Wiesbaden at pm nov. 11. Leggett who played a big part in the humbling of wies Baden As a quarterback As Welas coach said he contemplated no major changes in his Gam strategy against the flyers next time. Well use the same defense and the same offensive plan of trying to run mostly passing Only when it s Neces revealed that the Sec Ond of his two to passes to enc Leech a 45-Yard play in Carlton on flyer loss f they capitalized on our mistakes by Ben Abrams staff writer Wiesbaden is two Days had elapsed and Wiesbaden coach Jerry Carlton had had time to digest the bitterness of the 42-13 setback the flyers suffered at the hands of Rhine main saturday. There really in t too much that can be said about Satur Day Carlton said in comment ing on the end of the 27-game flyer winning Streak. It can be summed up nicely Carlton continued by saying Rhine main deserved to were the Best team on the Field and they capitalized on Allour mistakes. I had told my team All along that when two fairly evenly matched teams meet the one who makes the mistakes will get beaten. We made them and the whipped us. We failed to adjust properly to that one pass pattern and they hit us three times with touchdowns. I m sure we will profit from those mistakes. We meet them again and Well reworking hard so that saturday does t definitely feel Carlton continued that we Are a much better club than we showed at Rhine main. We re positive Weill give them a much better game the next time we can Alibi All we want but it just could be that they forced us into the mistakes and they knew what to do when the chances came up. The season in t Over by a Long shot and we still have a Chance for the conference and Safe championships. Of course we would have liked to keep our winning Streak going. Who would to we wanted to continue until we had at least broken the 28-game undefeated string London had but we did to and All we can do now is to gout there and try to Start another expressed some Dis May Over the flyers attack especially the tendency of late to relinquish the Ball on pass interceptions. We be Given up the Ball on interceptions 12 times in the last three games the flyer Mentor declared. That Means we have to make some adjust ments there. Some of the losses can be attributed to the other team s defense but i also think some of it has to be our fault and we might have to make some revisions in our wac slates elimination for featherweight title Mexico City a the world boxing Council announced plans monday for Athree Man elimination to fill the world featherweight Champion an lists two games for weekend slate Frankfurt special the american forces network will broadcast one collegiate and one professional football game this weekend on Satur Day and sunday night. Broad cast time in each Case is 9 05p.m. Saturday s broadcast will feature the Colorado Nebraska game while the sunday play by play report will be on the National football league Battle Between the Green Bay pack ers and the new York giants. Ship vacated by the retirement of mexican Vicente Saldivar. Ramon Velazquez Secretary of the Council said the fighters to take part in the elimination would be Mitsunori Seki of Japan Howard Winstone of Wal Sand Jose Legra of Spain the top three featherweight in the wac rankings. Saldivar 24, announced his retirement from the Center of the ring at Aztec stadium Satur Day night after stopping win Stone in the 12th said arrangements for the elimination were mad sunday night. Winstone will meet Seki with in 60 or 90 Days at a site not yet determined Velazquez Winner of that bout will meet Legra within another 90days to determine the new Champion the Secretary said. The flyers take on Span Dah Lem at Wiesbaden this week and then will enter the league round Robin which will eventually de Termine the league Champion and representative in the us afe championship has some viewpoints on those arrangements Don t think it is a Good arrangement when one team has to play at another s Home Fiel twice in one season. I feel a Little More thought could have been Given to such a Carlton said he believed that playing a regular six game Loop schedule with some non Confer ence games against some of the army units being used to fill out the program would be a better setup. 2 golds for . In pre olympics Mexico City a Randy Matson won the shot put in the pre olympics monday but did t wait around Long enough to collect his Gold medal. Matson whose throw of 65-2j/4was Well shy of his world record of 70-71/4, left immediately to catch a plane Back to his studies at Texas am. Rickand Bruch of Sweden was second and Yoshijima is hide of Japan third. Earlier Charlotte Cooke of Washington d.c., won the United states first Gold medal set Ting a games record of 52.4 seconds in the women s 400-Meterdash. Gaston Roelants of Belgium world record Holder in the 3,000 meter steeplechase won his specially handily in 8 57.8, about 30 seconds off his world Mark. It was a very easy course Roelants said i ran my own got its first Gold med Al in the 800 meters won by Jean Claude Dufresne in 1 48.8. Miquelina Cobian of Cuba won the women s 100-meter dash in 11.4, three tenths of a second of the world record. Valentin Gavrilov won rus Sia s third Gold medal with a High jump of 6-11%. Jon Serbanos Hungary was second and Phil Shinnie of los Angeles was third both at 6-8%. Kle Berne Konsek of Hungary won the women s discus at 173 feet and teammate Annamarie Tot Newon the women s Pentathlon with 4,953 Points. Pat Winslo of Sari Mateo calif., was second with 4,889 , which won two Gold medals in track and Field on the opening Day of the games Sun Day now has a total of three while the United states blanked sunday has Carlos of new York City led qualifiers in the men s 200meters with a time of 20.5 seconds one second off the world record. Hungary led the modern Pentathlon team Competition with 5, 885 Points. The soviet Union was second through fencing and rid ing with 4,500 while the unite states was third with 4,420. Yoshinobu Miyake of Japan won his country s first Gold medal with a total of 865 Pound sin the weightlifting Feather Divi Sion. Rufolf Koslowski of Poland was second and Janus Benedek of Hungary third. Medal count Mexico Cit dais won in the games . Hungary United states Francee. Germany swede Belgium Ivory coast Iran Tunisia Italy Rumania Senegal Hollan Bulgaria Czechoslovakia Japan up me pre olympic Gold Silver bronze3 22 1 11 11 11 11 22 11 1 the fourth Quarter did not develop according to plan. The play was meant to be a sideline pass to Leech but they mis covered him so he kept going and was wide Leggett took the blame for Al lowing the flyers to score and tie up the game in the last seconds of the first half. We should be had a 7-0 Lead at the half said the rocket coach. I blame myself for not playing bal control and trying to run out the before the flyers launched their game tying to March the rockets with Legett at a a tried three straight passes two of them incomplete i their own territory before punt the half with the score 7-7, it looked like the rocket flyer showdown would turn into the Cliffhanger that Many expected it to be. However Rhine main melted that deadlock witha flurry of second half touch claimed that he did t give his club a Pep talk at half time. We were Down a Little because Wiesbaden had jus come Back to tie us. Several of our boys gave Little speeches saying that we had proved that we could move the Ball on them and that we should go out and do it in the second turning Point the turning Point in the game which Leggett labelled the Rock ets Best in his three years atom was Joe Gentry s 42-Yard third period touchdown run Withan intercepted Fumble according to the quarterback coach. Gentry grabbed the Ball after it squirted from the arms of flyer halfback George Craytons he was tackled. The rocket defensive Back then had 42-Yardsof Clear sailing to the goal for the to that upped the rocket Lead to 21-7 in the third Quarter. Leggett was full of Praise Fortis defensive Crew. It s Tough to single out any one defender he said. They All played a helluva game and it was the de sense that broke the game credited linebacker Lou Credle and defensive end Lou Mavromat with outstanding jobs. Mavromat a recent addition Tother a squad intercepted two passes. Leggett also paid tribute to the pass Rush of tackle Roger Angelini and the Job the Interior defensive line did in holding Crayton to just 38 Yards. Leggett revealed that his Start ing quarterback Gil Bettez has been suffering from a blood Clotin his shoulder and did not throw All week before the game. When Gil had trouble throw ing and failed to move the team in the second Quarter he Cameto me and said Dave you go in and throw a few passes to Ope them up " Bettez who threw to Leech for the first rocket touchdown returned to action in the second halt after Leggett had tossed his two to will rest his ailing Houlder this week and Legget expects his starting Qto be ready for the next Rhine Mai name oct. 28. Record for Mots staff new York up the few York mets established a station Al league record for to stitchers used in a season on sept. 7, 1967 when Al Schmel became the mets 25th Pitcher against the St. Louis cardinals
