European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 5, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday october 5, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 25 rams7 Wilson faces test at Pitburg by hike i of staff writer Ramstein s Jeff Wilson ran up big num Bers Loisl week fining for i Guy who goes 6-foot-4. 210 pounds. The biggest quarterback in us a11 completed 15 of 36 passes for 327 Yards and five touchdowns in the rams 60-13 demolition of Spang Dahlum. Wilson s performance earned him the stars and stripes player of the week in the Continental sports conference. Whether Wilson can produce like that in the biggest game of the year Ramstein at Pitburg i . Sunday is another question. Jeff thrives on pressure said rams coach Bill Schutz. He loves a game like that. He has a lot of Confidence. He has unlimited Talent. Pitburg will put pressure on him. Number 72 Micheal Coffey their defensive tackle looks like their Best football player even better than line Backer Al Hunter. But i have Confidence our offensive line can keep them  indeed the key to sunday s Battle of unbeaten a could be How Well Ramstein s offensive line protects Wilson. The big Guy might have the strongest most accurate Arm in the Csc but he s slow. In the rams last loss two years ago at Hahn Wilson s slow feet Cost them the deciding safety. Since then Ramstein s line has kept out most would be intruders. This year s Wall shows tackles Melvin Crouch and Pat Owens guards Orlando Wallace and Dale Huschka and Center Tim King. We have an offensive line that blocks Schultz said. Pitburg is no different. Rains Jeff Wilson. Thrives on pressure Well Bluck  Tilburg s major pressure will come from tackles Coffey and Richard Mitchell. Wilson pondered the Barons defens ranked first in the league and acknowledged that he was t up to dodging pass rushers. They la probably sack me if they get through the line he said. They la have Good plays and Well have Good plays. Bit Burg has a Good defense. No one has scored a touchdown on them. They re big. Strong awesome. But they Haven t seen what we have for  Pitburg has seen Ramstein s Fleet flanker. Clarence Toomir. He caught nine passes for 207 Yards and three touchdowns against Spang Dahlum. That was 20 Yards and one to shy of Csc records. When the Barons line does t reach Wilson their secondary of cornerback a Charles Woodfolk and Alvin Mack and safeties Danny Eslos and Elmo Tillar will try to slow Toomer. I think they la contain  said bit Burg coach Dave Lockwood. I Don t think you can Stop someone like  asked what was the Best Way to Stop Wilson Lockwood replied. Don t let him have the  Wilson who passed Ramstein to the Safe title in 19s4, wants another championship. Lie also wants to make his Mark on the Csc. The record for passing Ards in a season is i.xa1. Ill get that said Wilson who has h32 with four games left. The record for passing Ards in a  is 425. Ill pet  Loo added the ram sub. Wilson started calling his own plays last week. And sunday we want to see what Pitburg is lined up in first Schult said. If Jeff can see read the defences Well let him  extra Points Lockwood said  no. 2-Ratcd offence will have Ray Ransom Starling ath. With Dan Muchler ready for Relief duty. Both have been injured. They won t have wide receiver Mike Kinney. He has torn ligaments in his knee and won t play Lockwood reports. The Barons do sport an offensive line that Lockwood raves about. The last two years we were not so Strong compared to Ramstein s defensive line. We arc now. We re not weak anywhere across there. We feel we can control the line of scrim Mage against them Lockwood wid. That line is manned by tackles Michael Drew and Mel Dinger guards Alan Hunt and Charles Siddle and Center Karl Dutsch. Schull said of Tilburg s air attack. I Don t think they re that Good passing the  with the Csc and . Sports conference at mid season the four team Mediterranean sports conference joins the Usai e act with two games sat urday. Predictions last week 4-0 season 17-3. .850 Simbach at Wiesbaden saturday the tigers keep searching for their pass ing game. The flyers search for a win. Sembach by x.  Al Span Dahlem sat Urda the warriors have a Nice pass attack with their Light end. They just abandon it too fast. The sheiks thrive on Home games against second division teams. Spang Dahlum by 6. Hahn Al Camp new Amsterdam Sun Day the Hawks finally have Momen Tum. The wolfhounds can t contain the Best group of receivers in the league. Hahn by 14. Rams Cin Al Tilburg sunday the Barons finally have the offensive diversity needed to beat the rams rough House defense. Pitburg by 6. Nissenson likes Irish in upset special will no. 1 be kiss of death for Iowa by Herschel Nissenson a sports writer is this going to be another one of those College football seasons in which the no. 1 ranking is the kiss of death Iowa coach Hayden Fry requested the Vot ers in the associated press not to rank his Hawk yes no. 1 after they walloped Iowa state 57-3 last saturday. But sports writers and sportscasters being sports writers and sportscasters they did t listen. So for the first time in 24 years Iowa is the no. A ranked team in the land. Its schedule however has been decidedly second rate thus far Drake Northern Illinois and Iowa state went Down by a combined score of 163 23. But the first two opponents were replace ments for Miami of Florida and Kansas which asked out of games with the Hawk eyes. Fry called the schedule changes very very fortunate adding i am not pre pared to defend our ranking. I m not pre pared to defend our schedule. I go Back and look at a copse who have won Confer ence championships and National championships and their schedules arc just Dot Ted with people like we be been playing. This is not anything  is new is Iowa s exalted ranking. As recently As 1980. The Hawk yes held the major College record of 19 consecutive non winning seasons since broken by Rice. But George Perles. Who brings his Michigan state team to Iowa City on sat urday says that Iowa according to All the things i be seen is Well deserving of being the no. 1 team in the  Fry i can t say if we deserve it or not because of the differences in schedule. Some teams May have played a tougher schedule than we have. Some might not be ranked a High As they deserve to be right now. The Hawk eyes Are 17-Point favourites Over Michigan state which obviously was looking ahead when it squeaked past Western Michigan 7-3 last week. The pick is. Iowa 28-7. Iowa s Hayden Fry. His request ignored last a cow record was 36 right 15 wrong and one c for a percentage of .706 for the year. I 142-58-5.710. Against the spread. / week s score was 22-16 .579 on the a 65-73-1 .471. No. 2 Aroma favored by 33 at Kansas Sute the sooner should Breeze but a state s defense makes the line a Little too big. Oklahoma 30-3. No. 3 Southern methodist by 6w at Arizona you can bet Arizona was looking ahead when it got Slung by Colorado last  21-14. No. 5 Ohio state by 2vi at Illinois a Small line for the 3-0 buckeyes against the 1-2 Zillini whom coach Mike White Calls a very poor football team right now. Illinois 27-24. Tulsa at no. 6 Oklahoma state by 21 forget the Point spread when these folks tangle. Oklahoma state 24-14. Wisconsin at no. 7 Michigan by 14 to  said the Maryland game would Tell How Good the wolverines arc. After a 20-0 Victory he says of the seventh place ranking we re probably not that  some Snow from to. Michigan 24-7. No. 11 Florida by 2 at no. 8 leu the gators have got to be looking ahead to next week s Long awaited War with ten Nessee which helped strip them of their 1984 Sec championship. Leu 24-21. No. 10 Arkansas by 16 at Texas Christian Jim Wacker. Who suspended seven players for accepting Money from boosters obviously never met Abe Lemons whose basketball teams did t have a curfew because it s always your Star who gets caught Arkansas 35-14. New Mexico at no. 13 Nebraska by 45 Lobo coach Joe Lee Dunn can hit a Golf Ball 190 Yards with a pitching wedge which won t help him against. Nebraska 56-7. Mississippi at no. 14 Auburn by la a this was the week for an upset with Auburn Between Tennessee and Florida but the tigers already Nave been upset. Auburn 27 13.no. 15 Brigham Young by 23 at Colora do state the cougars Start the quest for their lot straight wac title. By 38-17. Wake Forest at no. 16 Tennessee by 18 Wake catches the Vou Between Auburn and Florida but it won t matter. Tennessee 35 13.notre Dame at no. 17 air Force by 6 no this in t a typographical error. The Falcons have beaten the Irish three years in a Row. Who would think the Irish would be underdogs in the upset special of the week. Notre Dame 30-24. No. 19 Baylor by 5 at Houston the surprising bears jct caught looking ahead to sum. Houston 27-20. Rice Al no. 20 Texas by 25 a Little Bird make that a Little owl says Rice s Watson Brown May be the next coach at Vanderbilt. Texas 45-14. In other major games around the coun try by regions East army by 27 28, Yale 13 Pitt by 3 21. South Carolina 17 Boston College by 2 i 24, Rutgers 14 Syracuse by 14 25, Louisville 13 West Virginia by 6w 24, Virginia tech 10. South Miami. A. By 14 38, East Carolina 17 North Carolina 21, Georgia tech by 7 14 Clemson 17, Kentucky by 1 13 Mississippi state by 6w 24, Memphis slate 14 Mary land by 20 / 40, North Carolina stale 17 Southern Mississippi 28, southwestern Loui Siana 14 Tulane by 4 21, Vanderbill 14 Virginia b 9 24, Duke 14. Midwest Northern Illinois 27, Ball slate 17 Cen trial Michigan 24, Kent state 10 Temple by 12 21. Cincinnati 20 Toledo 31. Eastern Michigan 13 Indiana by 11 28. Northwestern 21 Iowa Sute 28, Drake 14 Kansas 42, Eastern Illinois 7 Miami. O. 21. Ohio u. 14 Minnesota 24, Purdue by 6 21 Missouri by 3 /5 27, California 25 Bowling Green 35. Western Michigan 14. Southwest Wichita stale 24. Texas Arlington 17 Texas am by 614 27. Texas tech 17. Far West Long Beach state 35, Boise stale 28 Fresno state by 15 31, Hawaii 17 Nevada Las vegas by 9vi 27, Utah state 21 Pacific by 31i 30, new Mexico Sutic 21 Washington by 8 a 28, Oregon 14 Sun Ford 35. San Diego state by i 34. Southern California by 22 48. Oregon stale 14 Urcla by 4w 24, Arizona slate 17 san Jose state by 8 28, Fullerton state 14 Utah by 13 34, Wyoming 20