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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 15, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tigers beat warriors to tie for top , Germany tic Simbach tigers bounced Back from last week s loss to Pitburg by beating the Owci Bruecken warriors 21-7. Here sunday in a Continental sports conference football game. The Victory moved Sembach into a tic for first place with Rhein main in the Ameri can division standings with a 3-2 record. National division representative Wei Bruecken fell to a 2-3 record and a third place standing. The two teams battled through a scoreless first half but  turned a Sembach Fumble into the game s first score Midway through the third period. Randy Compton gained Possession for the warriors on the Tiger 25 and three plays later Jerry Douglas connected with Eddie Warren for a 20-Yard touchdown and Pat o Orien s Pat kick made it 7-0. The Ball changed hands three More times before Rosic Johnson returned a Owci Bruch Ken punt 58 Yards to get the tigers into the scoring column. Orville Shoemaker tied the count with the first of his three conversion kicks. Given the spark by Johnson s punt re turn the tigers scored once More in the third period and then wrapped things up with a touchdown in the fourth Quarter. A Fumble recovery on the Wei Bruecken 24 on the first play after the first to Kickoff set the stage for the tigers second six Pointer. Three plays after the recovery Robert Jones hit Stanley Pridgon with a 10-Yard scoring pass and Shoemaker s Pat made it 14-7. Zwic Bruecken could t move the Ball after the Kickoff and had to punt and the tigers aided by three penalties against the homeowners marched 53 Yards in eight play with Johnson going the last 14 for the score. Johnson gained 78 Yards in 15 carries to Lead the tigers in Rushing and Jones completed ii of 29 passes for 146 to keep the Warior defenders honest. Wei Bruecken rushed for 137 Yards and Douglas passed for an additional 56. Monday september 15. 1980 the stars and stripes Page 25 setting up a Pitburg touchdown Rich Lang 55 of Pitburg tumbles while he cradles the Ball after recovering Rhein main Fumble by Marques Pharms not shown on the rocket nine Yard line in the first Quarter of saturday s Continental sports conference game in bit Burg. A Harts could t hold on to the pit Choul by rocket quarterback Graj Galloway 12. The diving Rytia main player in unidentified. From the nine Bill aug stored its second then route to a 29-10 win. S4s, Schnette Kcf Spang goes 92 Yards tops rams 6-0 Span Dahlem Germany Bert Allen culminated an 11-play, 92-Yard drive with a 15-Yard touchdown run in the third Quarter and Spang Dahlum sheiks held off the Ramstein rams with three timely inter options in the fourth period to preserve a 6 0 Continental sports conference Victory Here  did everything but score As it knocked on the Span Dahlem goal line con stantly in the fourth period. But an Alert Sheik secondary thwarted the rams every Effort the final one coming with less than a minute left in the game when Bernard sin Clair picked off a ram pass on the Spang four. Altogether Spang intercepted six passes three in the wild and wooly fourth period. David Phillips had three steals Sinclair two and Joseph costly one in which he returned 82 Yards to the Ramstein 18 from which Spang failed to score. The Spang 92-Yard to drive started As a result of a faked Ramstein Field goal that failed to pick up the necessary yardage for a first Down. The rams were on the Spang 11 with fourth Down and four for a first Down. On the faked Field goal. Wade Poston car ried to the eight and was Short by a Yard and the sheiks took Over. During the to March Kent Keek Cison carried five times for 30 Yards. A 32-Yard interference Call on a pass from Allen to Kip rider put the Ball on the Ramstein 30. From there Greg Tellis ran for seven and eight Yards to the 15. Then Allen got Loose and sprinted Down the left sideline for the score. The run for the extra Point failed but As it turned out it made no difference especially the Way the Spang secondary played. Ramstein was on the offensive practically All of the time after Spang scored. With 4 52 left in the third period. Ramstein started a 12-play drive from its 27 that car ried eventually to the Spang one and one play later after a holding Penally set the Ball Back to the 15, costly intercepted and ran it Back 82 Yards to the Kam 18. On that Ramstein drive the rams had a first Down on the Spang five. On the first play Arnold a Jackson ran it to the one and then came the holding penalty with 13 00 left in the game. To o 13-Yard punts later in the fourth period gave the rams Possession Between the 20 and 25-Yard lines and each time Ramstein failed to penetrate the 20 and turned the Ball Over the last one coming with 4 15 remaining. Ramstein had another Chance to score when Mark Miller blocked a Spang punt and recovered on the Spang 20. After a penalty set the warns Back to the 25, a nine Yard run moved to the 15. But on the next play Sinclair ended the threat with an interception and the game ended two plays later. Statistically Spang led in first Downs 14 to 12, in passing yardage 51 to 6, completing three of 17 to Ramstein s one of 10. Only in Rushing did Ramstein prevail 171 to 140. Each team lost two of four fumbles apiece. The game was beset by penalties. Spang had 15 for 140 Yards and Kam Stcin 12 for 105 Yards. The loss hurl the rams chances in the american division. A win would a pc thrown them into a tic with co leaders Rhein main and Simbach. Both with a 3-2 records. Now Ramstein in 2-3 and in third. Sports on of pro football Houston oilers at Cleveland Browns 3 . Tuesday. Piquet wins Italy up captures driving Lead 1mola, Italy a Bra an Ace Nelson Piquet in a Brabham tour phed in sunday s italian grand prix at in la and took a one Point Lead in the world Drivers championship standings. The Victory put Piquet ahead of austra Lia s Alan Jones with Only two world Evanis still , 28, scored his third grand prix Victory of the season overcoming the French Turbo charged Renault in the fourth Lap and keeping the Lead through to the , who was off with a slow Start. Fought Back desperately in his Williams or Williams look third place ahead of gaining several places but failing to catch the brazilian. Jones placed second piling up 53 Points Points. Argentina s Carlos Reutemann in Aneth Oung italian 1-Lio de Angulis who drove  to fourth place. Keke Rosburg of Finland in a Fittipaldi placed fifth. Trance s Didier i Ironi. Gained the last championship Point finishing sixth in a Ligier  
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