European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse May 1985 the stars and stripes Page 21 prep picking athletes of the year roster is the deadline for nominating athletes for the 19841985 stars and stripes athlete of the year has come and there Are 53 schools competing in the Dodds boys and girls programs counting the International schools that play a very Active role throughout the Only 10 boys and 12 girls were nominated by their athletic directors and i realize that there might not be athletes of the year Caliper at some but i find it very difficult to believe that there Are Only 22 athletes in the entire realm of Dodds whose coaches deem them Good enough for Al Europe but that the its a shame if there Are others who May be of Good enough but didst get the backing of their athletic directors or if there Are some coaches who Are suffer ing pangs of i am willing to make a Concession and recognize any late nominations which arrive be fore the athletes of the year which consists of Baum older principal Shelly Nuernberg principal Larry Vilseck principal Andy Zacharias and Kaiserslautern assistant principal Kathy no Telephone i plan on having that meeting within the so i would recommend immediate in sorry that i wont be Able to consider an Gela Armstrong for athlete of the that is Only because the athlete of the year recognition is restricted to High school Armstrong was nominated by people from the Hanau sports office because of her outstanding Basket Ball she played for Hanau in the v corps league and was nominated for the Allamy Basket Ball she made the army team and led it Ben Abrams and was selected on the armed forces which finished third in the National aau Armstrong is demonstrating further athletic skills on the Hanau Community softball Only two records fell in track and Field in 1985 and one of them was later London Kathy Cunningham etched her name in the record Book by Clearing 54 in the track and Field championships and mannheims Marie who won the Germany aaa title with a 51 took advantage of the extra Chance she got by virtue of having the Opportunity to compete in the Central european championships by Matching that prep pickins said two weeks ago that the High jump was the Only girls Mark that stood in jeopardy of being broken and it turned out that i also said that the boys 800meter record was a distinct but that was All it Only a possibility that never was the Ramstein relay team prevented the boys from being completely the combo of Tom Troy Charles Warner and Mike Polk flashed to a Mark in the years final track taking seconds off the record Wuerzburg set in Ramstein came close in the 400meter its clocking missing by Only a tenth of a second and shapes Eric Faison was three tenths of a second off the 300 intermediate hurdles Mark with his clock Faison also was three tenths of a second off the High hurdles Mark of the Patch girls finished their second straight perfect soccer season by nipping Berlin 32 in the big schools playoff the Patch and Ramstein boys took unblemished Marks into the fou team playoffs and were favored to meet for the big schools they met for third place Ramstein aaa and a second place finishers Frankfurt and Pitburg knocked off Patch and in fridays semifinals and Frankfurt nipped Pitburg for the the Small schools playoffs take place Friday and saturday at bad Agold Champion Munich boys and girls play Bennor champions shape and Friday and the winners take on Silver Champion bad Kreuz Zachs boys and girls Heidelberg Darren Murray made it two straight Dodds Central european Tennis championships when he Defeated ram steins Steve Plescha for the boys singles title 63 last week at Nordens his win helped Heidelberg take the Germany aaa Patch Leslie Larson triumphed Over accents Silke Gramsch in the girls singles championship match shapes Jens Eri Kriis and Frank Ruek Brodt won the boys doubles Crown with a win Over Heidelberg Chris Sporcic and Paul Pflaster 76 thus preventing a sweep of the boys Competition by the Frankfurt Bev Martindale and Larissa Siegel topped mannheims Abraham Marty and 75 to capture the girls doubles the stars and stripes 9 football 26 track crowns in 31 years Naples Dayton ends Long Dodds career by Ben Abrams prep sports editor Italy Russ Dayton has called it a a Long Day in Dodds and its predecessors that started at Frankfurt Junior High school in 1954 and ended May 18 on the artificial turf at Coni stadium Here with his girls track team just missing giving him still another thirty one years is quite a Long said Dayton who is retiring from the overseas school where he coached three sports basketball and track and Field for 21 there has been some Adver sity Over the for the most it has been an enjoyable he said that he had experienced Many changes in High school sports in Europe Over the when i came into the system and we went to championship we stayed in 31 years i take my team to my last championship and we sleep in a tent without electricity and i guess its time to quipped Dayton at a going away dinner in his the fact that some of the boys teams had been Given army tent accommodations be Hind Livorno High school for the 1985 track and Field it was quite cold in Livorno the night of May and the teams were moved inside after that first during the Dayton was in a More serious the most important improvement in the system was the addition of a completely sponsored girls Dayton i think that May have contributed to one of the poorest decisions Ever made by school officials Abo Lishing of the Europe wide individual sports championships in the i still get letters from former athletes Russ Dayton closes telling me those trips were the highlights of their i always Felt they added a Good Deal to the they gave the kids opportunities to compete with their Peers from All Over the that was very valuable experience for the and Many of them made lasting it certainly would be Good for the pro Gram if they Ever could be he Ujj j in Between Frankfurt and the 1985 Amer ican schools in Italy track and Field Champi Dayton went to Naples in moved to Morocco in came Back to Naples for school year went to Giessen in 1965 and returned to Naples in 1969 to finish his Dodds i had the Opportunity to go to Vicenza and Livorno when i came to Naples for the third i was sure of a coaching position at but one want guaranteed at As it is was one of the smallest schools in i took the offer from said Over the Dayton teams won nine outright football championships and shared he also won 18 boys track and Field titles and eight girls crowns and six Basket Ball when i went from Frankfurt to Naples the first there was no sports program and no physical education program and i was assigned to a sixth Grade i stayed Only a year and was glad to take the Job at Nua surer there want any program there in the but i helped set one up and it developed into a Good we competed in girls and boys girls and boys basketball and girls and boys track with athletes from Kenitra and Sidi Slimane High i have always been a firm believer in a girls sports program and i have always tried to include girls in my sports i offer a full program at but i tried to stage girls relay events in for and the schools in Africa had girls basketball in the late we certainly were Well ahead of Dodds in that Dayton and Vicenza Norm Friedman created the first football program in Italy in it was Only six Man but it was the beginning of a Good Day ton there were Only three schools Vicenza and notre Dame strongly considered Fielding a but Clear some Legal obstacles and had to drop the that was too because they would have made a great addition to the we went to lineman football next year in we went to 11man foot Ball and set up a permanent league we still had the three but new schools were opened at Brindisi and Simonel la in the 1970s and the program was expand Dayton Brindisi and Livorno have dropped football because they were too Small and Simonella is going to drop it next that will be too Well Al most be right Back where we were in the the main difference being were still playing the 11man although notre Dame was unable to get into Dayton feels it has made major contributions to the Asil notre Dame organized the american schools in Italy basketball tournament in 1959 and its still going Dayton it is strictly an ital schools tournament but one time it was like a Southern Europe championship teams came from Paris and even As far away As the Hague and fans were treated to some excellent High school notre Dame and overseas of Rome have contributed greatly to making the High school program Here in Italy More they take part in All sports except football and they Are keen and everyone knows that Competition always makes for a better he ill miss it and All the Good people Ive worked with and coached against since but its time to Dayton was very competitive in his younger he played football and basketball and ran the 100 and 200 in High school and competed in basketball and track and Field at Central Missouri state in he also was quite Active in he was a middleweight finalist in the 1948 Missouri Golden gloves and coached the Warrens Burg go team for several years after laying Down the
