European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 25, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 26 the stars and stripes majors views saturday june 25, 1977 cos Dorsett greatest running Back in history Pitt the Best team in 76 writer Ramsten Germany s4s in the eyes of hundreds of thousands of fans Johnny majors coached the greatest run Ning Back in the history of College football. Majors without reservation agrees Tony Dorset is Numero Una. That takes in a lot of Premier names like red Grange. Jim Thorpe. Ernie Nevers. Archie Griffin. Billy Cannon Doak Walker the list could go on and on. Would Dorsett become a starting Backwith the Dallas cowboys in this his first year As a pro not the fir Day of said majors. The second Day. Definitely. The first Day is reserved for h somehow comes across that majors is awed by Dorsett. He s got everything it lakes. I mean eve said majors the new Tennessee coach at the Safe football clinic Here. He has no weakness. 1 Don t qualify As an expert but he has the ability to use his football Speed better than any College player 1 have Ever seen. Whim you watch him you think he has a gearshift in majors continued. He can Stop on a dime and accelerate in two Steps. He As smooth As greased Oil Edi Tor s note a Slick description and has As much guts As any coach could Ever majors who visited Dorsett s Home is times in Aliquippa. Pa., trying to recruit him described Tony s body in three words tougher than majors pointed out that Pittsburgh played 47 games during Dor sets four year career and Tony played in 46 of them. His records speak for him. And they alone should qualify him to be the greatest Back majors said. Dorsett rushed for 1,900 Yards last season no College Back has Ever done that. Dorsett rushed for Over 6.000 Yards in four years no College Back has Ever done that. Dorsett had four sea sons of Rushing for 1,000 Yards or better no College Back has Ever done that. And he holds the All time scoring records. I have never seen anybody like Dorsett in my first 42 years and won t in my next 42if i should should live that what about Dorsett being a one Man team Tony carried a big Toad the first two years majors said. The last two years he had a hell of a supporting cast. We had the Best punter in the nation the no. 1 Field goal kicker in College history in Carson Long Hel Lalous receivers an offensive line that played together for two years and a fantastic defense. There was no question that we were the Best team our secondary was the Best in the had 29 interceptions for the season which led the nation. Georgia threw 22 passes against us in the sugar bowl. They caught three of them and we caught obviously that tells the Story of the panthers secondary. Majors recalled the 1976 notre Dame game. They took the opening Kickoff and took seven minutes and 18 plays to drive for a touchdown. On our first play Dorsett broke Over guard swung to the outside and behind sensational downfield Block ing went 62 Yards to their 20. We scored and it was 7-7 and after that they were never in it. My wife. Mary Lynn said it was the most dramatic play she has Ever majors loves to talk about his Mother and father and How they raised five foot Ball sons and one daughter also an exceptional athlete. The father Shirley majors has been the head football coach and athletic director at the University of the South in Sewanee,term., since 1957. Johnny the oldest recalls his daddy coaching at Huntland tenn., which is near Hawks eying Csc playoffs Battle Barons in crucial three game series by Dave cow an staff writer if we can take two wins this week and split next weekend four games we can a sikh it to the said Vlahn Man Ager Jeff Bllanchard. Whose Hawks meet the Hinburg Barons in a crucial Continental sports conference three game series sat urday and sunday. Earlier in the season our pitching was hurting us but now it s starting to come through our hitting has then Good Allamong " Blanchard said. The Hawks 5-6 travel to a Limburg 110-3 for a doubleheader on saturday and then Are at Home sunday for a single Span Dahlem sheiks 6-7 invade we Brucken 2-11 and the Rhein main rockets 3-8 meet the Sembach tigers 5 9 in other saturday doubleheaders. All of the Grimes Start at 1 In sunday s single games at 2 ., Sembach is at Rhein main Pitburg travels to Hahn while we Brucken plays at Span Dahlem. The Pitburg Hahn series could spell trouble for the team that should lose two or three especially the Hawks. The Barons who Are not worrying about the playoffs need All three to stay close to the Idle ram Stein rams who Lead the Csc with a 14-1mark. On the other hand the Hawks Are on a precarious Perch in the standings now in fourth place sandwiched Between Spang Dahlem and Sembach. All three teams Are fighting for a Post season playoff berth in which Only the top tour teams can com Pete. According to Blanchard. Vlahn can make the playoffs by taking two out of three games from Pitburg this weekend and split twin Bills against we Brucken suture play july 2 and Span Dahlem monday july 4. As far As i m said Baron manager Walter Gordon this weekend and next weekend is the season for us. We need to win. It s the Only Way we re going to catch Gordon will be sending his Ace right hander Jim Lily i and Dave Verardi 2-31 against Halm s Blanchard 0-0 and George Maynard 4-1 on saturday. If both coaches stay with their tentative pitching rotations then Uley and Maynard won t meet in what could be an exciting pitching Duel for the fans. Uley. Who overcame a stubborn Sembach team. 4-3. Last week sports a 1.78 Eka and has 53 strikeouts. Maynard. Although with one loss to his credit is As equally effective with a 2.22 Era while fanning 75 in five appearance this season. On sunday Blanchard will go with George Gollyhon 1-2 against Barons skip Winkelmann 2-0. Who has a 3.20 Era. If the Barons fail to catch the rams will it be a Complete loss or Gordon no he said. It s my first year of managing. I m surprised that with All the mistakes i be made in learning that we re still doing and right in the thick of things the Barons Are Only three games behind ram Stein in the loss column and face the rams in a fourth of july doubleheader. But it s a different Story for Sembach coach Charles Mitchell whose tigers Are struggling to stay in Contention. The Barons Are More or less assured second place in the league but for Sembach. Time is running out. The tigers currently Anchor Down fifth place which Falls one Short of a playoff berth. However. Mitchell is optimistic of playoff spot and so Are the Sembach fans. More than 1.000 spectators have showed up for each Sembach Home game and with that Many fans behind the tigers Gor Don s team just might do it. First it must take two from the rockets who finally got their engines tuned by sweeping a double header from the sheiks last saturday. Mitchell will Send hard Luck Bobby Cobb 1-4 and either Doug Youngblood 11 3 or George Wright 1-0 against the rockets saturday while Ron Queen 2-0 will hurl sunday at Rhein main. Mitchell says according to different players around the league that Queen they say he s the Only Guy in the Csc baseball b Turq own add Hahn n at sir Man. 2 All games Start at i p my Sondar Samoa Chat at a in cwt Brucken at Spang Dalem league with an Arch on his Cobb. Who could just As Well be 4-1. Has had his troubles recently. Last week he lost a 4-3 Squeaker to the Barons and Liley. But Mitchell Saida controversial Call in that game stopped Cobb and the tigers from sweeping the two game series As Youngb Lood pitched a 10-6 verdict in the Nightcap. Manager Marcus Rodriguez and his sheiks Are probably wondering what went wrong at Rhein main last week. Span Dah Lem had a Chance to improve its record to 8-5 and take a firm hold on third place in the standings with two wins Over what was assumed to be a weak rockets team but failed miserably. And the sheiks Are no better off this week against the last place warriors says Mitchell. We Brucken could very Well take two games from Span Dahlem Mitchell re Tough at Home. We have two More games with them and 1 dread the though of going the sheiks barring any warriors uprising could take a firmer grip on third with a pair of wins at we Brucken on saturday arid then one at Home on sunday against the warriors. But then Gen. George Custer thought he could whip the indians in the Battle of the Little big Horn. Frosh top qualifier for gymnastics team Clarion a. Up Colleen Casey 18, St. Paul minn., a freshman at South West Missouri University was the top qualifier in the two Day trials at Clarion state College for the . Women s gymnastics team for the world University games. Also qualifying were Ann Carr 19, Phil Adelphia of Perm state Connie Joe Israel 23. Ames. Iowa of Clarion state Patti Mirtich 21, of California state University at Fullerton and Carrie Englert. 18, Talla Hassee fla., a Clarion state freshman. Casey and Englert were on the 1976 . Olympic women s gymnastics team. Clarion gymnastics coach Ernestine Weaver Wilt coach the . Team at the world University games in Sofia Bulgaria aug. 17-28. Lynchburg. The family s Home. Me and my brother Joe were playing for Lynchburg and Bur team went against daddy s. We had t won a game a year and daddy s team had won Only one out of eight games. Well we beat him 19-13.1 re member him coming Home after the game and going up to my Mother and saving hell i la Tell you what Elizabeth i May get beat but i m not going to let my boys Over beat me again he packed us up and we moved to Huntland. For the next seven Yean there was one or two majors playing at Huntland each majors continued. Each of us were two years apart. First it was me and Joe. Then Joe and Billy then Billy and the baby Bobby who is eight years younger than Larry was t coached by his dad. All of the majors were backs in the single Wing formation had great Speed and could pass. Shirley majors knew what he was doing. In those seven years. Hunt land won 70 games lost one and tied one. Two All americas three majors starred at the University of Tennessee. Johnny. Billy and Bobby. Johnny and Bobby were All americas in 1956 and 1971, respectively. Joe played at Florida state and Larry played under his father at Sewanee. Joe is a Vanderbilt Law graduate and is practising in Nashville where Shirley Ann fourth in the family lives. Billy while a Tennessee assistant coach was killed in a tragic Auto acc dentin 1965. Johnny played on the last unbeaten team Tennessee had during the regular season of 1956. He ranks fourth in career total of sense at Tennessee with 2.757 Yards an sixth in career Rushing with 1.622 Yards. Billy an outstanding defensive Back holds six individual career records All dealing with punt and kick returns. Johnny in his deep Southern accent says my Mother is hell. While she was raising us she went and got her under graduate degree. Later she got her Mas ters degree in education at Middle Tennessee state. She s a built the whole town that last sentence can describe the entire majors clan. Johnny takes Pride in telling How is great Grandfather built the courthouse jail and nearly the whole town of Lynchburg. Ton. My daddy is 64 and when he was my age he was watching me play at Tennes see Johnny said. My parents have grown up with their children and we Are Alvery this will be majors second trip Back to coach at Tennessee. He was a Backfield aide in the 1958 and 1959 seasons. Majors took Pitt through its toughest schedule in the school s history last year and claims that Tennessee s slate this year is More rugged than Pitt s. Notre Dame is off of Pittsburgh schedule now. And Tennessee has to play Urcla and notre Dame in the next couple of years along with perennials Alabama Auburn and first sat borne if playing at Home dictates a win then Tennessee will be an Early 5-0, for its first five games Are at Home California Boston College. Auburn Oregon state in Memphis and Georgia tech. The sixth game is the acid test it s Alabama la Birmingham. Majors says the 1977 edition of the volunteers is woefully thin Johnny majors is no bionic Man and miracles Aren t expected of him this season. A National championship is out of the question for now. But let majors finish 9-2 or 8-3, and people in Tennessee and else where will believe there is a "6 million Man Loose in Knoxville. Sports on of major league baseball _ Cleveland a Detroit saturday 7 h
