European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday december 20, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary re earning your sport abcs for 1985 alphabet soup after stayin alive through 85. A Alconbury. The spartans Rode a . Crest in air Force football. For seven weeks that is. Then came the final wave of games and Alconbury drowned. At least the spartans Are consistent. The Haven t won the . Title since 1961. B Tilburg. The Best football team in Europe. Period. Even Bill Schultz coach of the Safe Champion Ramstein rams said of the Barons you know it and i know it. This was Pitburg s a but could Pitburg win the big one no. C Chicksands. This team wanted to win the big one. The fighting Chicks hew atop the . S National division. Then in the a Laziest move in Safe history they were kept out of the playoffs because of Lousy scheduling. Quarterback Ken Smiley should have changed his name to frowned. D drugs. The Only thing worse than athletes on Coke is having to read about it. Boring. For Dale Berra Keith Hernandez and the rest i d give them a White Christmas All the Coke they want. Let them snort themselves out of baseball. E Ewing. No team in the Aba wanted to stand Pat. Least of All new York the big Buck Hub. The league solved the kicks problems by letting them win the Ewing lottery. F Faust. You thought Gerry s coaching of Notredame was pathetic look at some of the teams he could have coached next Youngstown state mar shall Rice Heidelberg High. Instead he chose the University of Akron he said because the zips play in the rubber bowl. G Gibson. Sure base Ball owners Are ganging up on Kirk s free Agency. He s Worth megabucks. But i d bet $2 million that hell miss most of 1986 because of injuries. H Heisman trophy. I thought sports writers were above the to mentality. Until they voted to Jack son College football s top prize. The Only thing he Hanover Miami s Vinny Testaverdi was Boob tube time. I ice hockey. If the nil Ever asks me Why i lost interest in its sport i la answer with this who the Heck arc Patrick Adams Norris and Smythy j Jabbar. The big Guy stood a fool above All other athletes. Especially Over Larry Bird and the hated celtics. K kick. The Hahn Hawks were Only a kick away from winning their first Continental sports Confer ence football title. But feeling pressure and Cross winds Orville Schumaker blew a 22-Yard Field goal with three seconds left. The aptly named kicker s miss upheld Ramstein s 14-13 Victory. L Lockwood. Dave says he won t return to coach Pitburg a fourth season. Too bad. Despite his playoff failure he owns the Best football mind in his Nemesis Ramstein quarterback Jeff Wilson. Said Lockwood s Good for the m Merrill. Brash bombastic Bossy Bill. The Chic Ken Man of Europe he s everywhere he s every where. He retired from army sports after 40 years of ushing for the Best. No wonder his first Boss Over Ere was Patton. N new England. Same colors and same should i design As Alconbury. Same direction too years ago Miami guard Bob visited our office and said of the patriots everyone says new England new England new England. They be been saying for five years they should be in the super bowl. I says Bull i Don t want to hear about new England. They May have made the playoffs a couple of years but that and 25 cents will gel you a cup of Coffee. Or five Marks in this some things never change. O Oklahoma. The Best College team outside of Miami. The sooner will plow Over Penn state. Thai will leave Oklahoma and Miami with ii i records. Since the hurricanes levelled the sooner in Misca son you Tell me Why of will be voted no. I. I la Tell you Why poll voters brains Are washed by Abc s p h Orange bowl pub. P Perry. William the refrigerator. The biggest thing to hit sports since Morganna. Q quarterback. An endangered species. Especially the Theismann whose leg can be crushed by Taylor made tackles. R Rose. Pete wins three world series titles which Tycobb never did whips Cincinnati into a contender which no one else could have done and tops the All time hit Chart. For those who Sec red Over Rose get outta Here. S super bowl. Sleep one usually induces the other. Take last january. Montana made a mockery of Miami by halftime so i hit the sack. I Hope this season s raiders cowboys game keeps me awake. T tigers in the tank. What tigers Detroit a Burn Sembach try Missouri my Alma mater. Of Mizzau 1-10, played More like mater than Fater. U upset. That s exactly How Ramstein s lady rams Felt after blowing an unbeaten season at in hands of Wiesbaden in inc Safe basketball final. V Villanova. No serious fan thought they d see Nova beat town. But geor Clown was doomed the minute it ejected Michael bad Baldy Graham for grades of All things. W Wilson to Toomer. The impossible pass of the Safe championship game. Three minutes left. Fourth and 19. Jeff Wilson drops Back tires 43 Yards to Clarence Toomir. Touchdown. Ramstein beats upper Heyford 33-32. X x out these nil coaches Jim Hanifan. Wade Phillips Dan Henning. Hank Bullough Don Coryell John Mackovic and Surprise Chuck Noll. They la be fired by super sunday. Y Yankees. George cans Yogi. George lets Billy drink himself into fist swinging Slu pors. George Wel comes Lou. Poor Lou. Z Wei Bruecken. Wait a basketball minute. The warriors stand 14-0? c an l be. Impossible. They have As much of a Chance of winning the air Force till As Well Wiesbaden s women in 1985. To Sun and Ilton Faust from Page 21 i Don t go to places just to Stop and go. If you look at my record i be Only been to two Akron president William Muse said the University is the third largest in Ohio with an enrolment of 26,000 students. He called the institution one of the larg est unknown universities in the United re confident that Gerry can build a Strong division 1-a football program said Muse whose school has applied for Mem Ben hip in the mid America conference. Muse said zips football coach Jim Den Nison had just completed one of the finest seasons in the school s Den Sowas named the school s assistant athletic director but is a candidate for the head coaching Job at Bowling Green. Dennison guided the zips to an 80-62-2 record in his 13 years at the Akron Helm. 8 bears named to pfc team new York up1 the Chicago bears whose 14-1 record a the nil s Best placed eight players on the pfc pro bowl team announced s All Lime leading rusher Walter Payton and inside linebacker Mike Singletary headed the pro bowl Matching pfc stars against acc stars will be played feb. 2 in Chicago players were named As starters in voting by the conferences 14head coaches and nil players association members. Beside Payton and Singletary Chicago s starters Are offensive tackle Jimbo Covert Center Jay Hilgenberg and defensive end Richard end Dan Hampton outside linebacker Otis Wilson and safety Dave Duerson made the team As reserves. Singletary and new York giants outside linebacker Lawrence Taylor were unanimous is joined in the Backfield by two san Francisco players quarterback Joe Montana and running Back Roger Craig. The wide receivers Are Mike Quick of Philadelphia and Art Monk of Washington and Dallas Doug cosmic is the starting tight los Angeles rams who had seven players on the team placed starting Offen Sive linemen Jackie Slater at tackle an Kent Hill at guard. Washington guard Russ Grimm completes the offence. Taylor is joined by end Leonard mar shall and inside linebacker Harry Carson of the giants As defensive and san each placed two defensive starters. The cowboys Start ers arc tackle Randy White and cornerback Everson Walls. The 49crs placed cornerback Eric Wright and safety Carlton linebacker Rickey Jackson of new Orleans and Philadelphia safely Wes Hopkins Complete the starting defense. The rams had two specialists on the team kick return or Ron Brown and punter Dale Hatcher. The other specialists were kicker Morten Andersen of new or leans and All around special learner Joey Browner of Minnesota. Completing the team Are new York quarterback Phil Simms running backs Gerald Riggs of Atlanta and Joe Morris of new York receivers James Lofton of Green Bay and Tony Hill of Dallas tight end Jimmie Giles of Tampa Bay offensive tackle Joe Jaco by of Washington guard Dennis Hurrah and Center Doug Smith of the rams san Francis co nose tackle Michael Carter inside line Backer . Junior of St. Louis and los an Geles cornerback Leroy Irvin. New England lands 7 players on acc pro bowl team new York up the 1nw England patriots battling for a playoff spot acc pro bowl team an no ced fur Day. Including starting line backers Steve Nelson and Andre Tippett new England s offensive starters Are guard John Hannah selected Foi the ninth time and tackle Brian Holloway who will Start for the third straight year. New England also had three Lection named As reserves cornerback Raymond Clayborn running Back Craig James and kick returner Irving Fryar. Miami one of six clubs with four had quarterback Dan Marino and Center Dwight Stephenson named As offensive starters. Cleveland. Denver los Angeles the new York jets and Pittsburgh also had four players on the acc team. Marino will be joined in the starting Backfield by Marcus Allen of the raiders and Freeman Mcneil of the jets. Pitts Burgh s Louis Lipps and Steve urgent of Seattle Are the wide receivers and Ozzie new me of Cleveland the tight end. Completing the offensive line Are Cincin Nati tackle Anthony Munoz and Houston guard Mike Munchak. The jets raiders and Denver Broncos had two defensive starters apiece. New York placed end Mark Gastineau and nose tackle Joe Klecko on the starting defensive line Howie Long of the raiders is the other defensive end. Chip Banks of Cleveland joins tip pct a outside linebacker and Denver s Karl Mecklenburg was voted at inside linebacker alongside Nelson. Mike Haynes of the raiders and Loui Swright of Denver Are the correr backs Wilh Seattle s Kenny Easley and Dacron Cherry of Kansas City at safety. Kicker Gary Anderson of Pittsburgh Indianapolis punter Rohn Stark and All around special team player Fredd Young of Seattle join Fryar As specialists. The rest of the offensive reserves Are quarterback Dan fouls of san Diego running Back Kevin Mack of Cleveland wide receivers Mark Clayton of Miami and was Chandler of san Diego tight end Todd christens in of the raiders tackle Chris Hinton of Indianapolis guard Ray Foster of Miami and Center Mike Webster of Pittsburgh. Completing the defense arc end Rulon Jones of Denver Cleveland nose tackle Bob Golic Pittsburgh outside linebacker Mike Merriweather jets inside linebacker Lance Mehl and safety Dennis Smith of Denver. The coaching staffs for the feb. 2 pro bowl will be i Host of the losing learns in the conference championship games on Jan. 12. Each player on the winning team receives $10,000, and players on the losing team receiver $5,000. The pfc holds a 9-6 Lead in the pro bowl. The acc won last season s game 22-14
