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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 16, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes monday. May 16, 1977 Steinke will give up Al football Post Kingsville. Tex. A Gil Steinke. Whose Texas a i football teams Haven t lost a football game in three years said Here he will resign As head football coach. Steinke. 58. Will remain As the school s athletic director and As a  javelins hold a 39-Gamc win Streak second longest Mark in collegiate history. Last summer Texas ail played a series in Europe against Henderson ark., state i m stepping Down from a position where i have so Many friends have been fortunate enough to have had some Success and to have come in Contact with so Many great athletes and  Steinke  More Complex the problems of trying to neat Letic director s office and serving As head football coach at a school with a program such As we have Here have become More Complex. I think it is in the Best interest of Texas Al my family anime to concentrate on the athletic director s  s 2.1 years at the reins of Texas Al football have a produced a legacy that will be hard to follow. Besides the current win Streak his teams have posted an Over All Mark of 182-61-1. The 1974. 1975 and 197s teams led the nation offensively and last fall s squad set a National record for most Yards gained during a season 6.269 and for most offensive Yards per game 369 9. Steinke s squads have won three straight National association of intercollegiate athletics Naiad championships and three straight Lone Star conference titles. His teams have also won six National col lege division titles and 10 Lac Champion ships in Post season play his teams Are 14-1-0 Alitz helps army end Navy track dominance Annapolis. My Lai i a double Vic tory by distance runner Curtis Aliu pared army s i rank and Field team to an 8.1 80 win Over Savy Sal Urda Yit was the cadets first Triumph in six years against Navy Alitz captured the 3,000-meter Steeple Chase with a time of 90.15 Selling a Thompson find record As Well As a meet Mark. He later sealed the cadets Victory by winning i he .1.000 meter run m 14 49 8 Barnes leads 2-3-4 american finish As austrian tops formula Ford event by Randy Barnetts a Auto racing columns Bockenheim Germany its paced by racing Wise Veteran Barney Barnes american Drivers took second through fourth places Here saturday in the second round of the German formula Ford championships the three american Drivers slugging  wheel to wheel from Start to finish. The race was won by austrian Driver Peter Krober. In a Vandiemen who took the Check ered Flag 11.4 seconds ahead of Barnes. Kronor had started in pole Posi , in a new Hawke Ford car made a perfect Start to Lead the 27-car Field through the first Lap. Then Kronor applied pressure to take the Lead at the Start of Lap two. And he kept it to the end of the 10-Iap race driving smoothly and was never  Krober in command the in Ernst focused on the All american struggle for second place a race Long fight involving Barnes. Don Bidwell Royal Ford and Mike Argetsinger also in a  Lap two Onward the three a Meri can Drivers were never More than four car lengths apart and the order of finish was t determined until the last few Yards of the very last Lap. The nose of my car is very narrow Barnes said afterwards but the Back end is very wide and it got wider All the time near the end. I did everything i knew to keep Bidwell and Argetsinger off my Back. We re All pretty equal in ability but today was my Day. It was a hard race but a Good sugar Ray throws Sweet right Junior welterweight sugar Ray Leon Ard bounces u right off the jaw of Willie fireball Rodriguez in the second round of their six round fight at Balti More saturday. Leonard winning every round got a unanimous decision to win his 42nd straight fight including his Only two As a pro. Rodriguez lost for the second time in 12 outings Mac turn ing pro. Al photo says communist judges out to get even roman a walks out in Europe gym Budapest api romanian officials charging sunday that judges from the other communist countries were out to get their team at the Lith european women s gymnastics championships in Prague withdrew from the Competition saturday even before the championships sports fans Here believed the soviets would take advantage of the Prague location to get even or the summer games at Mon Treal where olympic heroine Nadia co mane i had broken soviet supremacy in the sport and marched off with three Gold  sunday the news Agency a crores quoted rumanian gymnastics coach Maria skin Nesseu As saying. As soon As we arrived in Prague. I Realia a thai the atmosphere was unfavourable for us and that the ground was prepared fur our gymnasts to lose then came the Back stage arrange ments in such conditions we could no longer continue so the decision of our sports organization to withdraw from the Competition was just and understandable. Among the referees who handicapped us were Silvia Slavicek of East Germany. Lidia Ivanovo of the soviet l Nion and la Rosalva mat Chuva of Czechoslovakia said Simonescu the romanians protested that Teodora l a Turcanu was unfairly kept out of the medal ranks Friday. They added that on saturday the referees increased the Points of soviet gymnast Selli Kim and deprived Comanici of the guld  in the vault the romanians marched out of Pra gue s Jan Funk sports Hall after Comanici had Given a not entirely flawless performance on the beam and received a perfect score of 10 Points observers fell the Good Marks were intended to make the romanians change their mind and remain in the championships age pres. In an unusually quirk report saturday said romanian Public Opin Ion Afler watching the championships on television noted with profound indignation this incorrect Boi Kivior of the referees and requested thai the romanian learn be Wilh drawn from the Competition. After their walkout the rumanian had a Short Stopover in their Prague embassy before they resumed by special plane to Bucharest despite the late hour they were greeted by thousands at the Airport age pres said. All those present expressed their indignation at the biased be Havior incompatible with the ethics of fair play of the Competition of the team of referees when by their erroneous decisions and Back stage scheming deprived Nadia Comanici. The acknowledged no 1 world sportswoman the heroine of the Montreal games of the title of cd Nimrie no Champi on in the vault event while tvo Dura l no Reanu. Whose exercises Rose Lar above the value of Oisiu a competitors was barred Lii was to the Silver or Bronze medal she  " Nicolae Viera. The Secretary of the romanian gymnastics Kedi ration. Said. We warned the organizers from the be ginning Uruu in the rules were not observed we would withdraw from the compete lion and they did i also had some Luck in the Sachs  Barnes said with a smile. But i brought it  was referring to his near Spinous in the Sachs curve on the next to last Lap while being hounded by Bidwell and Arget Singer. Powering out of the turn. Barnes almost lost control but he caught in All up at the last split second to continue. Bidwell and Argetsinger. Meanwhile were miming too close behind to take advantage of the  there was some position Swap Ping out in the Long stretches behind the stadium it was Barnes who came across the line ahead of Bidwell and Argetsinger each Lime around on the Start finish line. Not so with Bidwell and a Gelsinger. How Ever Wilh the two trading positions for third until Lap eight when Bidwell powered ahead of Argetsinger to hold Down third place to the end. Argetsinger taking fourth. The three americans were Sepa rated by less than a second As they sped across the finish Lin taking fifth was German Driver Wolf Pang Stahl Royale Ford. Who finished 262 seconds behind Argetsinger German Drivers also filled out sixth through 10th of the 27 entrants 119 Drivers finished the 10 laps. Only five were from the u.s.,. But Barnes. Bidwell and Argetsinger made up in action what the american contingent lacked in numbers the other two Ameri can Drivers entered. Craig Higgins and Steve Nixon both in royalist left the Rac Wilh engine problems during the first Lap. In american Driver qualifying. Barnes was second and he started across from the pole sitting Krisher. A Gelsinger had Quali fied third. Bidwell fourth. Dixon seventh. And Higgins 17th along with his Victo Riiber also set fastest Lap of Day Louring the 42-mile Bockenheim circuit in 2 minutes. .12 seconds Flat an average Speed of 9969 Miles pit hour his time for the 10 laps 42 Miles was 25 32.2. Afler two races. Krober leads for the 1977 formula kurd title Wilh 40 Points while Barnes is next up with 30. At the opening round in /.older. Belgium in was also Riiber first and Barnes second. The third race in the series is set for sunday at the Many pm Lhnn Airport circuit in Ger Many. L,500see3tkos in outdoor boxing show at Giessen Giessen. Germany three to s featured the action in an outdoor boxing program at Rivers Barracks that High lighted a German american open House Here  ring was set up in the Middle of the Parade grounds and the bouts attracted some 1.500 spectators in Cool and threaten ing weather. The visiting germans registered two of the Kos. Middleweight Rolf dings of the Giessen boxing club beat Charles free Man of the Giessen military Community in 1 15 of the second round in a middleweight bout and heavyweight Lutz Arnold of Stein Bach halted Wilfred couture of Giessen in m seconds of the third round the third to was registered by usar Al r heavyweight Champion Elijah Dean of Kirch cons who slopped Inge Wohl Mug of Wal Lar in 1 23 of the third round. Omta eight Greg pal Tod it a Woll Light  e my  i Kirin in a i i   tort to m  of a lilt v Warrner gum did Tif min in Dpi Kirin Borttl Ajjia a c it Ujj 3rd round  
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