European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 26, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 Niu the stars and stripes saturday october 26, 1985 Sunney comeback leads Chicksands n w sky i0\ sniff writer Chicksam  Ken Smiley passed his Way to  Zirul stripes player of the week honors  sat urday his Lsfur-24 passing for 250 Yards and three Touli Clui. Led Hie j High King Chicks id their must convincing Triumph  3 of thrashing of 1 air Ford. Now lie Hopes to Complete a player of the year performance. Ii the air Force s . Sports conference offered such in award. Smiley would be a favorite. He would probably Clinch it by passing the Chicks to Victory in their i pm sunday game at  common. Of Van without a player of the year award. Smiley Aims o Clinch something else sunday i he National division championship. A chit kinds Triumph would give the fighting Chicks a 6-3 re Cord and a two game Lead Over the defending Hampton pirates with one game left. The Chicks would i tins pain their first playoff spol in nearly a decade. If we beat arc Cham and beat them convincingly. Air Force football whoever wins the other division we can beat  Smiley said. That other division Lias Alconbury sitting on top with n 7-1 record one game ahead of upper hey Ford. The spartans try to Clinch a tie for the american division title when they play Hosl to  at 1 . Sun Day. What a difference from 1984, Smiley s year of frown ing. After his hot finish of s3, Smiley went Down with a shoulder separation in the opening panic of 84. He sat out the whole season. So did the Chicks who went 0-k, with Smiley at the controls the Chicks arc the sur prise of 1, Saff. Lie leads the us. In passing yardage 99s.  Lead he league in upsets every week. He is having a Good year said arc Cham coach Dick Madden  put him out of their game. Fair Ford put him out but he keeps coming Back. He s a tremendous athlete. He should t even be out there after last  despite Smiley s reputation As a free firing lefty he entered last saturday s game with Only three touchdown passes. He broke Loose for two to losses to Greg Jack son and another to his top receiver John Lilac a. Litgen leads the league with 35 catches for 563 Yards. We finally started  said Chic Utmos coach Al Carter. We should be done it All  smile1, credits his if Ferine ranked second against the Rush for turning  into -.1 contender. I be does t think so highly of fair Ford s defense. Any team has to put pressure on in order to do Well fair Ford was t putting enough pressure on and i had my Best game smile1. A Iid we exploited them under Neath. Their pass defense was t too Good. Whatever is working Fulgen will Tell inc. He would say their lint Back ers were dropping Back so we hit them  Smiley 25. Learned those tricks after arriving at Chicksands in l jk3. That was his first game experience after languishing on the Bentti As a High school freshman in Miami. Enter the arc Cham common pirates whom Chick Sands beat 14-13 in the second game of the year. Smi Lcy s conversion run was the difference. Since then the preseason favorite pirates have Stum bled to a 4-4 record. Madden Calls this a frustrating year the worst of my  he says Jim Collier who  Greenham to the division Crown last year has been so erratic that he1 switched to wide receiver. Madden says he moved receiver . Johnson to quarterback. Madden in t saying who will play where sunday. He is saying that his defense will pressure Smiley. You Don t Stop Smiley. You try to contain him Madden said if we keep him from the big play if we Stop him inside the 20-Yard line Well be of. Everybody is trying to kill Smiley. If you let him go hell kill you. If we put pressure on him Well be All right. Well try to Knock him out. Well try whether we can is something  extra Points Madden lauds Carter for Chicksands ascension. The two coaches were running backs on the same Flag football team while stationed in new Mexico in the 1960s. Madden said of the Chicks we be got them beat Talent Wise. But the will to win is something else Alto Gether. I m battling that  both . Divisions could finish in ties. If that happens the . Sports office says it will schedule playoffs pushing the . Title game and us a i play offs Back a week. The us Ati sports office says no Way the nov. 24 Fina in West Germany is firm. That Means . Tics would have to be settled by paper tiebreakers or midweek games. Predictions last week 3-3 season 27-11,.? ii Hole Nikon at san Vito saturday the Mediterranean sports conference enters its semifinal phase. The olympians want another shot at Torrejon. Hellenic Click sails quarterback Kirn Smiley. Nabs Pla or of the week honors Kon by 13. Atsuno at Torrejon saturday the raiders must gel bored with these games. They beat the Fagles 31-0 just three weeks ago. Torrejon by 32, upper 1 icy Ford tit Bent haters saturday the sky Kings stayed in the race with their upset of Alconbury last week. They can t blow it against their old Nemesis. Heyford by it. Fairford at  saturday the Battle for the basement. Co with experience. Mildenhall by 2. Luke Heath Al Alconbury sunday that spartan loss last week was a Fluke. They rebound with a vengeance. Alconbury by in. Chicksands at Green Ham common sunday the pirates Haven t won to straight All year. They must now. Greenham by 3. Honeymoon is Over for sea Hawks Knox by Jim Cour Seattle a the honeymoon is Over for Seattle sea Hawks head coach Chuck Knox. The same fans who so warmly greeted the 53-year-old Knox As a Savior when he arrived Here from Buffalo in january 1983 arc growing increasingly restless and Crit ical. Scuttle a preseason super bowl pick by some is floundering with a 4-3 record. Even in Victory the so Hawks have been disappointing. They be been booed Loui dome this season. The local television gelling More ecu Jupp too suddenly a Copic arc udly Alk on the shows arc the questioning a Hawks will even make the much less the super bowl. When you lose everything you do looks stupid Knox said wednesday. That s the  the sea Hawks losses this season have come against inc 7-0 los Angeles rams 5-2 Denver and 3-4 Kansas City. Seattle was beaten 13-10 in of Denver last weekend underdog against to  jets on the Road " his third season with � and his i Jih in the nil is i poking on a renegotiated contract report edly Worth $550,000 a season. Only three other nil head coaches Bill Walsh of san Francisco Don Shula of Miami and Tom  of Dallas reportedly make More Money. The wealthy Nordstrom family of Seattle 51 percent owners of the sea Hawks renegotiated Knox s contract Dur ing inc of season after i to the playoffs for to son acc Octif Lutr  were lose Knox to the Detroit Lions reportedly were interested in hiring Knox after firing Monte Clark. They finally settled on Darryl Rogers of Ari Ona state. Before coming to Seattle Knox spent five seasons As head coach of the los an Geles rams and five More seasons with the Buffalo Bills. Knox has been a Winner throughout his career but he s never been to the super bowl. He s been Crivici cd in the past for being unimaginative on offence he refuses to acknowledge the voices of his current critics. Things like that i Don t hear a lot of that or Sec a lot of it. The Only thing that i m concerned about is doing my Job us a coach trying to get better and prepare harder and go do it. That s All i can  in his first two seasons As the so Hawks coach Knox compiled 9-7 and 12-4 re cords. If the so Hawks fans Are disappointed this season Knox contends he is not. I Don t think disappointed is the right word he said. Hut i Don t think anybody would be totally Happy unless we were 7-0. That s what every coach aspires for. But we re 4-3 and there in t anything we can do about that. So that s history. What we have to do is gel ready for the jets this  from i to to 5-1 in a year Colorado Wishbone thinking leads to bowl talk Boulder Colo. A the univer sity of Colorado which has t had a win Ning football season since 1978 and which was a dismal 1-10 last year is 5-1 this sea son. The buffaloes rank fourth in the country in Rushing Al 308.3 Yards per game ninth in total defense and first in net punting. In its last two outings. Colorado has Rollo. Iowa slate by scores of 38-7 and 40-6. Us Only loss came to ninth ranked Ohio state and that might have been different without four costly fumbles. We really need at least two More Victo Ries to be in the bowl picture said coach Bill Mccartney. If we could beat a team the Caliper of Nebraska on saturday we would be a Strong candidate a have a shot Al inc ago the buffaloes were the worst Rushing learn among the nation s 105 major colleges averaging a meager 59.7 Yards per game. More than a few eyebrows were raised when Mccartney announced prior to Spring practice that he was scrapping attack for the Bromir. Jct in making the Ducci said Mccartney. We had taken note of inc teams in the country that had turned their programs around and with very few exceptions All had something to do with option football. That intrigued me. We flew in option coaches  to pick . It became apparent that option schemes were the answer and the Wishbone seemed to in our personnel better than any thing else. Arc the buffs for real if we continue to improve this week we re for real Mccartney said