European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 20, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday june 20, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary Csc football welcomes Back Torre on two months till Kickoff in air Force football. The latest the Torr Jon raiders Are Back. After an 11-year absence the Grinders from Spain rejoined the Continental sports conference this month. This Calls for a couple of cheers. Yea tar Tjon finally draws Competition after laughing to four straight Mediterranean spam con Ference titles. Boo the raiders might have to forget the playoff for awhile. Yea at least they la know what to do if they reach  Only when the Mac died did Torrejon switch. Good. The Mac was a weak band of four learns that stretched thinly from Spain to Greece. When that band broke who cared half of the Mac did t. Hell Nikon and san Vito dropped base level tool Ball. That led Aviano which jumped to the army s Northern Italy football league and Torrejon. The raiders had three options i. Drop football. Forget it. After years of building they were genuine Safe title contenders last season. 2. Join die . Sports conference. No go. The . Has a cozy setup of eight teams. No need to unbalance that. 3. Enter the Csc. Now we re talking. The league needed one More team for an even 10. Military flights to and from Germany looked Good. The brass said  la see How they do in our league this year then maybe they la join the . Next year. I Don know said Csc commissioner Norm Hoffman. We Don t know if it la be Cost effective until we try it. But we re glad to have  raiders will open aug. 31 at we Bruecken which nearly made the playoffs last year. Their Home opener is sept. 7 Agai nil Ramstein Winner of three straight Safe titles no one said it would be easy. The first time the raiders entered the Csc Back in 1968, they were clearly out of their league. They lost All seven games by an average of 43-6.by 1975. The raiders had improved to 2-4-1. Then they were really out of their league not to come Back until 1986."the Guys Are looking Forward to it said Delma Penn who ran Torrejon s workouts this Spring but will rotate stateside in a couple of weeks. This is their Chance to gel in a conference and show what they can do. They always could compete but they didst have the necessary Earnes to win in the playoffs Torrejon looked like a Winner last year. Only an upper Heyford bomb in the last four minutes knocked out the raiders in the Safe semifinal. Don t  on Torrejon getting that far this year. Not with a Maze of Csc teams to Battle. Do count on fun football from the dudes in red. Remember this is the team that brought you la Washington the quarterback who completes passes Over his shoulder. Pitburg the team that brings you near championship football every year Mignol be headed for  is there a head coach in the House not now. Dave Lockwood probably the Best Tacti Cian in Europe qui after lust year s bitter playoff loss to Hahn. Enter Ernie Treubig. Sort of. Treubig coached Alconbury within three Points of the . Title last year. He was scheduled to Transfer to Pitburg inline to coach the Barons in july. Word out of Alcon Bury is that Treubig might n of land in bit Burg until sept.  s the Day after the Barons open against dreaded  leaves Bill Drake Lockwood s assistant last year to mind the Camp until Treubig arrives. Dwayne Harp is one Baron who worries about this leadership by proxy. This is the same Harp we selected As the Csc s most valuable player last year. He talks As fast As he runs. He also makes As Many Points by Mouth As by  Guy Are lifting weights bul there s no set program. Harp said. We re All wondering what s going to  the Good news is that hat is still a Baron. Fed up with two straight years of playoff dives he tried All Winter to Transfer to Ramstein. The ram the team every Baron Hales the team that har i Blued for four touchdowns last year the team thai succeeded Pitburg s dynasty the same. T arts a Xvi. A v j