European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday december 22, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 25 sports letters " by my him a by do my Ami Hub a whih bib he a hmm hmm bib a without 8-Man Grid if s Nof All Europe dear editor More must be said concerning the stars and stripes announcement of what has and continues to be termed the stripes All Europe football  after much agonizing and soul searching on the part of Ben Abrams of the stripes sports department the listing of the paper s selection of prep football play ers whose play was deemed to be noteworthy enough for recognition in this August body was announced in the dec. 6 Issue. Far from being an All Europe team i submit it is an All Germany or at the very most an All Northern Europe team. Or. Abrams and or whatever group of knowledgeable individuals assists him decided that any player who did not participate in 11-Nian football could not be considered for inclusion regardless of their documented performance recommendations of coaches sports writers or anyone else. To quote or. Abrams eight Man football and ii Man football arc completely different balls of Wax. Therefore players involved in eight Man football were not  were he honouring balls of Wax i might be inclined to agree with his decision. He is not. While eight Man football has six fewer players on the Field at any one time three from offence three from defens Ethe level of play from any individual must be similar if not completely equal to an 11-Man player in order to Excel to the degree necessary to be named an All Star. Although or. Abrams or other proponents of 11-Man excellence rely argue that the fewer players on the Field leaves More running room he or they must also con Sider that any running Back or receiver has As Well that Many fewer blockers running interference and the of sense is that much easier to read and counter. Should there be any question about this opinion or. Abrams is invited to question any High school or College football coach who has had experience in both game formats. In arbitrarily eliminating any participant of eight Man football from consideration and barely although with gracious condescension conceding the inclusion of those individuals whose teams play Only five or six games in a season or. Abrams and the stars and stripes newspaper have effectively closed the All euro Pean prep football team to Germany Belgium England and those few other american enclaves in the North of Europe that have Dodds schools Large enough to Field 11-Man teams. Two players from Rota Spain were strongly recommended for this year s team and very rightfully so. Chip Beadle and Jim Russell two of the finest running backs in High school were arbitrarily eliminated from consideration solely because they played in the Spain eight Man league. This was despite the fact that Beadle in particular gained More than 1,600 All purpose Yards More than 1.300 Rushing in just five games. Perhaps it should be pointed out to or. Abrams that if he still insists on clinging to the whole different Ball of a theory the main difference Between eight and 11-Man football is that the eight Man variation is More of a passing game than the other. Far from being a reason to support or. Abrams Bias this fact alone would prove the unquestionable merits and ability of Beadle. Having played High school College and military foot Ball having coached intramural and High school foot Ball and having been a sports writer and photographer for not Only the Rota newspaper but also the . Naval Academy As Well i believe 1 speak from the position of knowledge. Should or. Abrams or stripes continue to espouse the exclusionary theory expounded his year. I strongly suggest the newspaper discontinue trying to Honor prep football players As All Europe All stars when much of Europe and nearly All Mediterranean players arc systematically excluded from consideration. In addition although it is probably More difficult if not impossible for or. Abrams to a narc an Effort to attend at least one eight Man game a year in Spain Turkey or Italy to Sec what he is denigrating it should be rather easy to realize that one cannot realistically or honestly evaluate a subject of which one has virtually no first hand knowledge. In other words Stop pontificating and passing judgments from on High and rely on correspondents coaches and stringers who have seen and can evaluate these performances. Ronald e. Hill journalist first class Roll Spain an sued for mental cruelty dear editor one More Dallas Cowboy game on an and i think i will sue the network for mental cruelty. Martin ruler Munich . Although the game against the Chicago bears on radio was enjoyable. Rams meet raiders for los Angeles title up photo John Robinon. Sees Lively rivalry by Ken Peters Anaheim Calif. A John Rob Inson predicts violence will hit the rams raiders game monday night. I think there la probably be More fights in Southern California bars than at any other Lime of the year the rams coach said with a laugh. The championship of los Angeles May stir up divided brother against brother fan loyalties but the coaches and players seem to View the game As business As usual. We have to approach it As just another game even though they re closer than anyone else we play raiders coach Tom Flores said of the trip 35 Miles Down the freeway to Anaheim stadium we re approaching it As another step toward Home Field advantage which makes it important. I think both teams would like to win and end the regular sea son on a winning  i Don t think the game will be of any higher intensity than usual Robinson said. Will it be of higher intensity than the raid ers Broncos no. Will it be of higher intensity than the rams-49crs? no. If we were playing the raiders in the super bowl then there d be a lot of Intel  although the Odds Are against it the Prospect of the two clubs meeting next month in the super bowl at new Orleans is possible. The raiders Are in the National football league playoffs is the of c West champions. The rams Are in the Post season tournament As the n pc West winners. Both teams have 11-4 records. The game will be televised locally As Well As nationally because it has been sold out since mid october. Possibly at stake will be the Home Field playoff advantage for each team. The rams who open the playoffs against Dallas can earn the Home held advantage for that game with either a Vic tory Over the raiders or a loss by the cow boys against san Francisco sunday. A raiders Victory Over the rams or a Miami loss to Buffalo sunday would assure the raiders the Home Field advantage throughout the acc playoffs. Robinson an assistant under coach John Madden with the raiders in Oak land in 1975, makes the game sound like a sort of Block party. I think it s going to be great fun he said. There la be a full House both  Are local teams and the excitement of playing a championship team on both sides is there it la be a Good game. It la be for the bragging rights of los  said inc rams Eric Dick Sun who will match up against another outstanding runner mar Cus Allen of the raiders. Said raiders cornerback Mike Haynus we like to think the raiders Are . S team and not the  the Rami and raiders have met once since the raiders shifted from Oakland after the rams left the . Coliseum for Anaheim. The raiders won that 1982 match at the coliseum 37-31. Yugoslav captures men s slalom Kranska Cora Yugoslavia a Rok Petrovic Yugoslavia s rising ski Star saturday scored his second slalom Vic tory this season triumphing on a hard packed iced Over track that eliminated co favo Ritj and scores of other Skien. Of 84 competitors 30 qualified for the second heat and Only 18 finished the race. Those who dropped out included defending world cup Champion Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg who retained he 1985-86 Lead and swedish Ace Ingemar Stenmark. The yugoslav Winner carried by a wave of 30,000 cheering fans clocked Best time in both runs on his Home track for an aggregate time of i minute. 44.83 seconds. It is Only the second world cup season for the 19-year-old Petrovic who won a Luton in its Trier Italy on dec. 1. Sweden s Jonas Nilsson 22. The reigning world slalom Champion was runner up to the yugoslav in both heats to Post second Best time Overall of 1 45.63. Petrovic commenting on his risky skiing on the demanding course said "1 skied As fast As the course permitted. I was unsure of myself at the Start of the second heat but i managed to find my rhythm at around the 20th  Nilsson was satisfied with his performance even though he did not repeat his slalom Victory at Madonna i Campiglio Italy last tuesday. I could not beat Petrovic in the second run because i was trailing him in the first too much he said. Petrovic is in an impressive shape at the moment. He is going to be even better in the  Thomas Sta Gassinger of Austria clocked 1 46.92 Overall More than two seconds behind the Winner to take third place. Richard Pra Motton of Italy clocked 1 47.63 for fourth place. Paul Frommell a Veteran from Liechtenstein captured fifth place More that three seconds behind the Winner. Max Julen of Switzerland and Klaus Heidegger of Austria placed sixth and seventh respectively. Tiger Shaw a College student from Dart Mouth in new Hampshire was a surprising eighth his Best placing so far. His aggregate time of 1 48.38 was 3.55 seconds slower than the Winner s. Shaw 24, who hails from Stowe vt., said i am very Happy with my second run and i Felt Good on this  he was tied for 17th place after the first run but then managed a daring second run in 56.41, the third Best heat time. I managed to ski the second run with no mistakes said the american. "1 had Noth ing to  the next race in the men s world cup Competition is scheduled for dec. 31, a downhill at Schlad Ming Austria. However that event May have to be relocated for Lack of Snow. Arh sports television pro football Dallas cowboys at san Francisco 49trs, 10 . Sunday. Radio pro football Cleveland Browns at new York jets 7 . Sunday Dallas at san Francisco 10 . Sunday. College football Holiday bowl Ari Zona slates. Arkansas 2 . Monday. Navy Downs air Force 70-53 in Japan tourney Osaka Japan a Junior Center David Robinson scored 19 Points and garnered 13 rebounds in pacing Navy to a 70 53 Victory Over inc air Force saturday in the first game of the Sun tory Ball Basket Ball tournament. The second game of the tournament which brings together the three american military academics for the first time will pit army against air Force in Tokyo sunday