European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 15, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday september 15, 1977 raiders picked again the stars and stripes Page 25 bengals pass also tabbed to take acc division titles by Hal Bock a sports writer after waiting so Long for a super bowl championship the Oakland raiders want to savor the flavor As Long As they can. When Oakland buried Minnesota in the super bowl last january it climaxed a Long hard climb up the pro football Moun Tain. Now that the raiders Are on top they plan to stay there for awhile. And who is to say they wont the most important thing now is that we Don t do anything different or anything less than we Ever have done said Raider coach John Madden whose club was 13-1 last season and has the Best record of any franchise in professional football since 1963. If anything we will work a Little harder the super bowl is something that we talked about for years and always wanted to reach said Madden. N new coach Rick Boeglin was planning on building his Hahn football team around the running of diminutive speedster Dave Lyman but the Hawk senior decided to go to the states to live just before practice began. Tilings did t look too Good at that Point but As they say every Cloud has a Silver lining and Boeglin got a couple of surprises As pre game drills continued. Newcomer Bill Yates in from California and John Coxe took up the Slack created by Lyman s de parture. Yates scored the first touchdown and Coxe added the second two As the Hawks opened their Campaign last Friday by ending bad Kreuz Nach s six game winning Streak 19-0, in a non conference game. The hard running duo accounted for 169 Yards Rushing in the Vic tory. That Victory achieved on Friday because of a conflict with the air Force s Hahn Hawks helped prep Pickin s get off on the right foot in prognostications for 1977. The next Day Karlsruhe outlasted Bonn 14-9, and Bremerhaven whipped Ansbach 18-0, giving us a perfect 3-0 opening week Start. Maybe we should quit while we re still ahead. This week practically every one gets into the act with the Blue red Silver South and North Gold West ., Italy and Turkey having full league commitments. The Spain teams Don t make their debut until next week. Even without the Spain Competition there will be 19 games on the Agenda. So that Means we get into the full swing of picking the winners. This week we like Frankfurt 20, Stuttgart 0 Kaiserslautern 19, Wiesbaden 14 Pitburg 12, Wei Brincken 6 Mannheim 6, Heidelberg 0 Augsburg 12, Munich 8 Nurnberg 13, a Litzburg 12 is 12, Baum older 8 Hanau 20, Berlin 12 Bonn 14, Ansbach 12 Hahn 19, Karlsruhe 14 shape 12, accent 8 Bremerhaven 14, Brussels 12 Lakenheath 20, London 12 Woodbridge 14, upper Heyword 12 Aviano 16, Vicenza 12 Livorno 8, Brindisi 6 Naples 20, Simonella 6 in Ciurlik 12, Ankara 6 Izmir 20, Kar Mursel 16 Al he other athletes boys and girls also swing into action As volleyball and Cross country competitors open formal schedules and the golfers continue their informal Competition in preparation for their in country championships Early next month. Bonn has been the big team on the volleyball front. The crusaders have never been beaten since the sport was inaugurated into the Dodd eur program. Bonn takes a 33 game winning skein that includes two straight Benelux championships into a Home opener against is Hahn and volleyball championships were won by Heidelberg in the Germany class a com petition Kar Mursel in Turkey Naples in Italy Berlin in the Germany class a Torrejon in Spain and London in the Torrejon has dropped Only one match in two years. Speaking of Cross country 71 harriers parti rated in Kaiserslautern s All Comers Jamboree last saturday. Coaches Mike Allen of Mannheim zweibrilcken1 s Fred Clark Baum older s Randy Tomkins and Host Wayne Sabin sent their boys and girls through a full scale dress rehearsal for this week s season openers. In the boys open division a town s Bob Engel edged teammate Mark Burdan by one second to set a record Over the new difficult 4.4-mile local course in 27 05. Mary Bradach of Baum older set the girls record Over their 2.2-mile course with a time of 17.30, while a town s Timothy Davis took Novice division honors with a time of 29 08. Or the past two years Baum older s Bill Floyd has highlighted the Cross county action compiling an undefeated skein that includes two Germany regional titles and a Victory in the european invitational at Brussels that capped the 1976 Competition. Frank Furt s Kristan Dinges won the Germany girls title. Frankfurt won both the girls and boys class a title while Floyd led the bucs to the Germany class b Crown and Hanau took the girls championship. London continued to dominate the Cross country action. Rex Ellington s harriers racked up their seventh straight boys title and Woodbridge s girls prevailed. Wood Bridge s George Collier and London s Donna Smith captured individual laurels. Italy championships went to Aviano and Naples As the saints Jerome Hunter and Liv Orno s Linda Branch showed their heels to the rest of the Field Zaragoza and Torrejon triumphed in Spain behind the running of James Reed and Liz Trevino and Ankara and in Ciurlik took the respective Turkey crowns. Ankara s Lori Stallings and Izmir s Don car rothers were the individual champions. Although Many of the performers have graduated the coaches report that they expect Competition to be keen again especially As volleyball continues to improve on All fronts. Prep Pickin s wants to wish All competitors teams and individuals alike the Best of everything in their athletic endeavours. You never really know what the feeling is like to win that super bowl until you do it. Once you be won it and enjoyed that Spe Cial feeling you never want to lose it. Never so Oakland will try to make it two straight with the same cast that went All the Way last year. The quarterback is nil passing Cham Pion Ken Stabler who has moved his team to acc West titles in each of his four years As a starter. His main receivers Are flank ers Cliff Branch 46 catches for 1,111 Yards in 1976 and super bowl hero Fred Biletnikoff 43-551 and tight end Dave Casper 53-691. The starting running backs Are Mark Vaneeghen 1,012 Yards in 1976 Are Clarence Davis 137 Yards in the super bowl. The offensive line is led by Gene Upshaw and Art Shell. The defense features e 3-4 alignment that proved so effective last year with Otis Sistrunk John Matuszak and Dave Rowe up front. 8 titles in 10 years the Talent adds up to Madden s eighth division title in nine years As head coach. The raiders won by four games last year and look Strong enough to match that margin this time around. Denver finished second a year ago with san Diego third. Look for those two teams to reverse positions this time around. The chargers have added some Bright new Talent in quarterback James Harris and tight end Bob Klein from los Angeles and flanker Johnny Rodgers the sex leis Man trophy Winner who returned from Canada. Running backs Rickey Young and Don Woods and wide receiver Charlie Joiner add to the Charger offence and Coy Bacon Heads the defense. Denver is coming off its most successful season and new coach red Miller Hopes the Progress can continue with a new Quarter Back. Craig Morton acquired from the new York giants. The Bronco offence also includes Otis Armstrong who won the nil Rushing Crown with 1,407 Yards in 1974 and had 1, 008 and 39 pass receptions last year. Miller is expected to employ the popular 3-4 defensive with Lyle Alzado and Randy Gran Dishar the key men. Chiefs rely on Livingston Kansas City Hopes to improve on last year s 5-9 with an offence constructed around quarterback Mike Livingston run Ning Back Macarthur Lane and receivers Walter White and Henry Marshall. Seattle switching to the acc after spending its first year in the pfc should find things just As Tough in the other con Ference. The sea Hawks Hope quarterback Jim Zorn can pull a few surprises off for them. Cincinnati got nosed out for the acc Central Crown by Pittsburgh a year ago and the bengals Are anxious to make up for that disappointment. They have the Talent to do it to. Quarterback Ken Anderson a two time nil passing Champion Heads an offence that includes two time Heisman Winner Archie Griffin and rugged Boobie Clark in the Backfield and Slick Isaac Curtis one of the nil s finest receivers at flanker. Pittsburgh is missing some of its familiar names with defensive Back Mel Blount Center Ray Mansfield and linebacker Andy Russell All gone. That could Hurt the steel ers despite Holdover offensive stars like quarterback Terry Bradshaw running backs Franco Harris and Rocky Bleier and flanker Lynn Swann. Cleveland rates As the acc Central dark horse following a 9-5 turnaround last season. The Browns have a viable ground game with Greg Pruitt and Cleo Miller and two Topflight flankers in Paul Warfield and Reggie Rucker Are targets for Quarter Back Brian Sipe. Houston has the misfortune of playing in the same division As Cincinnati and Pitts Burgh. The oilers lost eight of their last nine games in 1976 and quarterback Dan Pastorini is charged with the Job of revers ing that spin. The oilers 3-4 defense includes curly gulp and Elvin Bethea two of the Best Rush men around. They helped the club set a record of 50 sacks last season. In the East new England looks ready to Rule the Roost. The patriots have a comfortable schedule and Are oozing with Talent like quarterback Steve Grogan who set an nil record by running for 12 touch Downs last season running backs Sam Cunningham Don Calhoun and Andy John son and tight end Russ Francis on offence. New England also added some Speed in the draft with first round picks Raymond Clayborn a defensive Back and flanker Stanley Morgan who both returned kicks for touchdowns during the exhibition schedule. 3 of sack pack return Baltimore has some awesome offensive weapons As Well in quarterback Bert Jones running backs Lydell Mitchell and Roosevelt leaks and receivers Roger Carr and Glenn Doughty. Defensively three members of the sack pack Fred Cook Mike Banes and Joe Ehrmann return eager for More quarterback chasing. Slow Ever John Dutton is a holdout. The Colts had 5g sacks last season. Miami seems improved offensively with Bob getting a Cvar look through glasses to Correct i double v Ion prob Lem. Norm Bulaich and Benny Mao in Are capable running backs and Freddie Solo Mon has the Speed to be an outstanding wide receiver. The defence has some maturing to do however. Buffalo s . Simpson gained 1,503 Yards last season for his fourth Rushing Crown in the last five seasons. And this year the Bills have fullback Jim Braxton Back to Block for the juice. Braxton missed last season tearing up his knee on the first play from scrimmage. The jets can Start their rebuilding in Earnest now that Joe Namath is finally gone and the offence has been turned Over to Richard Todd. Did somebody say what offence the picks West division Oakland san Diego. Denver Kansas City Seattle. Central division Cincinnati. Pittsburgh. Cleveland. Hous ton. East division new England Baltimore. Miami. Buffalo new York jets new York jets. Former heavyweight Boxer John retry Dies at 60 Florence Colo. A former heavyweight Boxer John Petry who was once ranked 10th by ring Magazine died saturday. He was 60. Petry s professional boxing career extended from 1939 to 1942. Prior to that he held the title of Yalj Golden gloves five state heavyweight Champion. Petry was owner of the Capri restau rant and lounge in Florence. He was Active in the Florence chamber of com Merce a member of the Fremont county cattlemen s association and a member of the Board of directors of the Florence first National Bank. Briton leads London to Sydney race Singapore a British Driver Tony Fowkes in a Mercedes 280e, is the new Leader of the London to Sydney Mara Thon rally at the Singapore stage. Polish Driver Sobi Slaw Zasada in front from the beginning aboard a porsche car Rera Drew a nine minute penalty after losing his Way on a special stage in malay Sia and he now is classified second. Third is Scotland s Andrew Cowan Mercedes 280e fourth Germany s Alfred Kling Mercedes 280e and fifth briton Paddy Hopkirk in a citroen. Of the g9 cars that started in London 52 reached Singapore. The rally resumes sept. 20 in Perth Australia
