European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 26, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Oct bar 1967 the stars and St mfrs Page if ready for Berlin coach Bob Leverett s palatinate District defend ers Are aptly named. They have yielded Only 25 Points this season. Ready to display their wares against Berlin in the come title showdown sunday Are Ben Morrison 71warren Gibson 64james Batten 98car Roll Zepp 92bennie Jackson 65don Anthony 29bui Palmer 32 and Jim Williams 84. Both clubs Are undefeated. Is photo by Gate defenders depend on deslre9 depth9 defense by Ben Abrams staff writer Kaiserslautern Ger Many is coach Bob lev Erett of the palatinate District defenders believes d is a pretty Good Grade and three d s Are even More impressive. Leverett s three d a desire depth and defense have made palatinate District one of the Thurman Toliver. A Long Long time stronger teams in usage Irgrid circles this season. Whether the defenders Are the strongest in Usa eur might be deter mined sunday when they invade Berlin for a game which will de Termine the com z conference championship. We have a Good blending of veterans and newcomers lev Erett appraised his club recent same position. This desire has really made Kathy Whitworth keeps Lead Cincinnati up Kath Whitworth Clung to a comfortable Lead this week in the ladies professional golfers association Lyga earnings race although second place Sandra Haynie gained on her. Miss Haynie raised her Noney winnings to $23,168 with a second place finish in the Carlsbad n. Mex., Jaycee tournament sunday. She still trails. Miss Whitworth by More than $5,000 with four tourney left on this year s Lyga tour. Murle Lindstrom won he first official Lyga tourney in five years when she triumphed at Carlsbad. It boosted her earnings to $10,310. A big difference for us. Because the Competition has been so keen the players have devel oped quite rapidly and i feel i can make several substitution sin key positions without affect ing the playing potential two of the defenders have been playing service football for a combined total exceeding three decades. Thurman Toliver nine times an All army pick is play ing his 20th season and Ralph Benton is in his Lith these men play key roles by. And the combination is he s Veteran of army of football wars Kaiserslautern Germany is when football season rolled around chances Are that Thurman Toliver was heard singing an old Standard ill because Toliver the 6-0, 235-lb defensive Demon for the Palatin ate District football team has been around for a Long longtime. Nine Tim san All army Selec Tion and twice honoured by the air Force Toliver has missed Only one football season since 1947. That was in 1950 when he was involved in a bigger game the korean War. He played at fort Sill okla., in 1&7 and 1948, moved to Cam Yokohama Japan for the 1949 Campaign returned there Fol lowing korean service and played on the next six Yoko Hama teams before starring for Camp Drake Tokyo in 1957. Back to Korea he went in 1958,this time for Gridiron strife. Then came three years with the 82nd airborne div at fort Bragg,n.c., and on to Europe. He played with shape in 1962 and 1963, went to the 32nd air defense come the next year moved to Sembach and Safe Germany Confer ence Competition in 1965 and 1966."you must really like football someone ," Toliver beamed i sure do i sure , come 1968, the 37-year-old perpetual grinder will probably be around for some More. Working out Good. Everyone really wants to play football and the experienced players Are helping the novices out every Way they can even when they Are trying to beat each other put for the for palatinate District. Tol Verhas carved his Niche As one of the toughest defense players in army Grid annals and Leverett has designated him defensive Captain for the defenders. And Thurman has done a Fine Job for us too Leverett said. We Are proud of our fact it was our defense which was the big thing in Early season wins. Our offence had t jelled As yet and we t get Ting too Many Points. However we gave up Only six in our first few games and picked up wins. With the defens Eso Strong we Leverett and aides Mike Nowicki and Gary Van Galder were Able to pay More attention to developing our offence and we feel we have made much Progress in Benton has come along the last few games to bolster the defensive u n i t. The 270-Poundtackle missed several games be cause his unit was on Maneu vers and his military obligations had priority Over football. He was one of the leading tacklers in Las week s easy Victory Over Karls defensive luminaries in clude Ralph Ramey a 195-Pound guard 230-Pound Johnnie Gray 325-Pound Carroll Zepp Nowicki who tips the Scales at 210, Edben Morrison linebacker Mike Rucker and halfback Don an Thony and Jim Williams. Ramey leads the team in tackles a Danthony and Williams have intercepted eight passes apiece so far this Campaign. The defend ers have yielded Only 25 Points while winning their first five games and 12 of them came on offensive , the thing that has been a big Factor for us has been the football knowledge of our veterans the general All around savvy and the ability to adjust As special situation arise Leverett went on. The experienced boys have passe some of this on to the inexperienced right there in the , for instance did t even have High school experience and he is becoming an out standing defensive end and he Learned practically All he knows in the heat of Battle so Speed Power and a Good pass ing combination have been the ingredients around which the of sense has jelled. Jerry Jefferson and Bill Henderson Supply the Speed and agility Bill Franklin hits the line with 220 pounds of brute Force and Otis Lincoln runs almost As same thing applies to our offence As it did to the defense Leverett a former Tufts Grid and Cage Star said. I can make substitutions in key positions and not Hurt the Caliper of play. Behave several Good runners and two excellent quarterbacks who can pass or run depending on the Lee and Rich Hefferan Are the signal calling expert Sand they team up with flanker Back Jackie Sample and ends Williams Van Galder Lewis Turner and Jules Goudeau for passing combinations. Leverett credits Van Galder a former Stanford end for developing much of the passing game. Our Speed Maneule ability and goo passing patterns help keep the opposition honest Leveret summarized. The defender Backfield oper ates behind a big Mobile line. Williams goes 202 and Van Galder hits 195. Zepp plays quite a bit of offensive tackle As Wellas on defense and 235-Pound Syl Vester Robinson handles the new reels publicity Man Cincinnati a to Seeberg former publicity director of the los Angeles dodgers has been named publicity director of the Cincinnati reds by general manager Bob Howsam. Seeberg 32, replaces Hank Zur Eick who resigned. Ball voters this contingent plays a prominent role in the palatinate District football Success. Entering the Ball is Ron Littlehale and the quarterback is Mike Lee. Waiting for the snap Are flanker Back Jackie Sample 49fullback Bill Franklin 44 and halfback Bill Henderson. Is photo Bob Leverett. Pleased with defense other tackle assignment. Glenn Andrews 5-10, 200 and Mac Drayton 5-11, 198 Are Good Quick guards and Ron Littlehale is a 235-Pound Center. Leverett sees the Berlin games quite a Battle Between two Fine clubs. Berlin has Speed an size and likes to throw a lot and we feel we can move Heball too. So i m looking for a Fine Ball game. I feel our Pas defense is better than that which Berlin has seen so far this Yea Rand we Are confident we can win the palatinate coach appraised. Fordham 5 joins All College Field Oklahoma City up Fordham University will become the 98th team to play in Hie All College tournament the nation oldest Holiday basketball meet Here dec. 27-30. Fordham will oppose Host Oklahoma City University in the second game of the 32nd annual tourney. The opener will match Auburn against Arkansas. Games the second Nii it will match Brigham y o u n g is. Xavier and top seeded Virginia tech is. Idaho state
