European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 29, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday August 29, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 25 comm enter y com Goon has Wiesbaden hoping to Fly again the Wiesbaden wait is Over. The Wiesbaden watch on Start. The reason Gary Covington is Back. I d love to make the playoffs he says while leaning Over his Lindsey As desk. How Long has it been since this team was in the playoffs too Long. Eleven Yean. In 1975. The flyers won their sixth Safe title most of any team. Then nothing. Eleven years or losing. A couple examples in last year s 2-6 Campaign 52-0 to bit Burg 45-0 to Ramstein 37-9 to Simbach. Covington who hails from the dirt roads of Calhou City miss., knows about starting at ground level i want to be in every game. I Don t want losses of 64-0,35435-6." the three year exile is Over. Gary Covington Misback As a football coach in the air Force s Continental sports conference How Long ago it seems when he made his debut. That was in 1981 at Ramstein. Back when the ram were a drag. People who dismiss the current Ramstein dynasty with Headquarters always wins should remember the bad Days. Before Colington s arrival the rams adn t won a league title in 22 years. Soon after Landing the Ramstein Job at the age of30, he sat in a tavern discussing the rams prospects. Dave Walczak my colleague who covered Safe football at the time asked Covington Why would you want to coach Ramstein it was that bad that in 1980 the rams went 3-7, losing their final game 61-31 to wasted Little time. In that Rookie year of 1981, his rams went 5-5, winning their final game42-14 Over Sembach. In 1982, Covington utilized his stable of running backs by drawing up a unique Wishbone attack. A Wishbone without options. The equivalent of a full House Backfield barging downfield. It produced a Csc championship. The rams Haven t lost it . Baker the Star wide receiver at Hahn played for Covington in those Early Days. You could see tithe first Day of practice. Everything was in place says knew football says Bill Schultz Ramstein s current coach and assistant under Covington in 82.that s where Schultz s love for Covington ends. Schultz still Burns Over the 1982 Safe final which Ramstein lost 34-6 to upper Heyford. Schultz con tends Covington panicked and grabbed Schultz s offensive coordinator reins. Answers Covington i called virtually every playoff and on the whole this week Schultz blasted Covington for calling him a receivers coach in 82. A receivers coach i was running the offence says Schultz. Maybe Gary Schultz won t forget saturday. Thai s when retakes his rams to Wiesbaden in Covington s debut with the s new flyers against his old rams. How badly does Covington want 10 win the Csc Kickoff i just want to be he s Joist glad to be Back. Two months after losing that upper Heyford game Covington left Ramstein for a Remote assignment in merged tur key. He stayed there while the rams won the Safe 1984, he was at Columbus fab miss. He stayed there while the rams won two More Safe on May 27, 1986, Covington came Back. Wiesbaden had known for months that he was on the Way. The flyers want to remind people of those six Safe flags. And soon shoot fora seventh. Tim Star my Scptt Csc from Page 23 Godwin who switches from flyers will be patient. And finally win More than they lose. Torrejon scoff All you want. The raiders Are real. Forget their 10-year leave from the Csc. Forget their Blowout losses in the Safe semifinal All those this Torrejon had upper Heyford by the Throat in last year s Safe a bomb with 3 53 left kept the raiders from advancing to the Safe championship proved at Heyford that when you take advantage of a Fine Gaynei passing game you can win in air Force raiders still have their Star quarterback Lenny Washington. They still have Harold Jackson at split end. They still have Mark Mckie who caught touchdown pass in that Heyford game and shifts from hideout to tight new look Backfield has Tommy Gaines moving from fullback to halfback and Randy James from tight end to full Jim Kirksey figures Germany s cold weather could Hurt his men fro Spain. He also has to acclimate his play ers to a weekly schedule. We Don t have any Breaks in Between anymore says Kirksey recalling the lean schedule inthe Mediterranean sports conference which abandoned football last More playing Aviano Healing for two weeks then playing someone else. Hahn Kirksey was the Only coach to refrain from predicting Ramstein or Pitburg to win the Csc he he heard about the ankle. Informed that Hahn quarterback Barry Randolph was out indefinitely with a broken ankle the Torrejon coach changed Bis pick to Pitburg. Poor Hahn. The Hawks came within a missed Field f of Taring the up three exhibitions ready to muscle their Way to the Randolph the key to last year s surge went Down in the third bets Are off. Or Are they Randolph who first thought he was through now says he might return late in the leaves last year s tailback Jeff Johnson calling the signals. If Jeff could t do it says coach . Chambers we would t Nave him out Johnson can throw anything,. Baker will bail him out Baker sped through 1985 with 32 catches forgo Tuvoa a league High 780 Yards. That s 24.3 Yards per catch. An other All Csc receiver Kurt Oxley re turns at tight Hawks must answer another ques Tion. Will Chambers keep improving them the Way Leon Hayes did from 1983 to 85? linebacker Rory Davis and cornerback Michael Broussard Are Stih the rest of Hahn s starting linebackers David Olson and Rene All Csc kicker Orville Schumaker. This time he Hopes to make the Csc Winner. Span Dahlem this team sports a new coach Anthony Moor new name sabers and new headband. In theage of Jim Mcmahon s sweaty head guard Don Crusen Berry wears a ban that says we owe owe whom everybody say Crusenberry. Everybody Ainspan Dahlem that is. The sheiks us sabers owe an explanation for losing to Camp new Amsterdam last year and tying the Wolf hounds in an exhibition two weeks a habit like that the sabers can count on More 2-6 seasons like in 1985.but the sabers can also count on Moore a realistic Man. We re trying our Best to get Span Dahlem Back in con he sabers Haven t been near the play offs since 1982. If they get there this time much of the credit will go to Moore s top Grue Abeny assistant Jim Hill. He s the Best thin that s happened to Span Dahlem says wide receiver John , who played at Pitburg a decade ago provides a charge under the Low keyed Moore. Hill must prove his coach ing ability because he will become head coach for four games in mid season while Moore attends first sergeant Moore Hill tandem must find an Swers in the air. Ernest Bynum takeover at quarterback. The secondary Moore answers our biggest problem sour pass we Bruecken As usual the warriors could finish hut. Or first. They started 1-3 last year then caught fire. One touch Down in the final game kept them out of the playoffs., All that came As we Bruecken played every game on the warriors Field is finally finished after two years of reconstruction. They really can go Home can they make the playoffs again something they Haven done in fou years they won two exhibitions for All Csc guard tee Taylor is gone. General manager Ben Davis who runs the offence Hopes for a quicker line led by Center Bryan coach Mitchell Thompson runs the defense. His top returnees Are end Jeff Tyson and Robert Chandler. Rhein main the rockets have the most generous schedule in the league. They play most of the contenders at Home and most of the underlings on the Road. They also open at Camp new Amsterdam which should be a Gimme. That s is not a Gimme insist Rhein main coach Gerry you be got to real ize we be scored is Points and had 60scored against Jenkins refers to the exhibition season which included Rhein main s 60-6 loss to the . S Greenham common. Jessie Smith started at quarterback i that embarrassment. Basc Baller Jerome Maxie and soft Baller Marty Yocum came out late and Are contending for the Job. One of them will take the snap from enter Tim Langley who enters his seventh season. He was glad to finally land All Csc recognition in 1985, but sad to watch his team fail inside the 20-Yard key is finding a Way to open it up says Jenkins and to quit the penal ties and Jenkins who coached the defense Las year will Call the offensive plays. Barry Cline runs the defense always Chin main s strength. The big guns re turn ends Tom Woodard and will Rossand safety Butch Watkins. They were All Csc after that the Talent thins. We lost All our bulk says Jenkins. All we have left is a it can t be that bad. Or can it Cna Tyso. After the wolfhounds beat Rhein main monday the wolves will be at Camp new Amsterdam s door. The must hit the Road for two weeks then Host honeymoon will turn into a there s Ron Gill Camp new Amsterdam s or. says things like nobody in the Csc hits As hard As the Bruce Ackerman at Span Dahlem last year. Gill belittles the Csc As a simple league. Easy Pickin s. Ackerman went 2-6. How will Gill avoid that starting with Rod Donohoo at quarterback. I Donohoo does t Cut it watch Lee Massey step in and strut his All Csc stuff. . Jones did Cut it at a a where he also tried to play at Hahn two years ago so removed to Lineback Dom Hoo s at a a will aim at Mike judge the All Csc wide receiver who also throws his weight around at tight end. Gill likes speedy running Back Darryl Cotton and Power backs . Payne and Willis likes linebackers 1 in Ortung and Willie really likes everything. He d like escaping the cellar the Best
