European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday August 30,1986 the stars and Stripe commentary Chicks no. 44 Hopes to relive glory was there any doubt chops Chambers would land in Raf Chicksands England no. Chicksands chops Chambers. It has that championship ring. Chambers was drawn to the base like he was drawn to numbers. Big numbers. Numbers like 164, the yardage he gained on the ground in the Chicksands fighting Chicks 20-6 Vic tory Over the Mildenhall marauders last performance in that . Sports Confer ence football opener won him stars and stripes player of the week honors. Numbers like 1975-80, the years Chambers played at Lakenheath and amassed the second Best Rushing yardage in . History. Then there s that number 44. He wears it at Chic bands. He wore it to Lakenheath and the eagles retired it but last year he heard someone at Laken Heath wore it he did t like that. I asked Lakenheath coach Baron Burton about is using it this year he replied. But we can t retire it Indef Hety. I understand that we re tired it for three Yean. If we retired numbers forever we d run out of Chicksands 44 Jersey serves Chambers Well enough. He might not relive his Lakenheath glory Days when he helped the eagles win Safe in i9v9. Lakenheath had More participants he re Calls. It s hard to get people out for practice but the Chicks did win a division title in 1985. And play Luj of in Safe football at the agey a i of 34 sure beats Iceland. That s i Ihrk. Where he Wanned up for his a mss. Second life in the . Chambers did the 5-foot-10, 185-Pounder slow Down during his Long Layoff not really says Chambers. I shocked the coach says offensive coordinator Herb Poirot he does t have the pure Speed he used to have but he has great extra Points Lakenheath s Burton said quarterback Sam Smith who dislocated his shoulder in the eagles 16-12 Triumph Over Bent Waters will miss two games. Tom Gruno is scheduled to Start in his place. Lakenheath will win the ., if you believe sex Aconbury coach Ernie Treubig. He made his prediction after Landing last sunday in Pitburg where he s coaching the Barons of the Continental sports conference. Predictions last week 3-0, 1.000 Chicksands at Bent Waters saturday the phantoms can still contend if they sweep their Home games. This gets them started. Bent Waters by 3. Fairford at Alconbury saturday the spartan open with a rout. Alconbury by 22. Lakenheath at Mildenhall sunday the Eagle stake advantage of the marauders thinning ranks. Lakenheath by 10. Upper Heyford at Greenham common monday game of the week. The sky Kings Haven t played since an exhibition Early in August. The pirates come off a 37-6 clobbering of Fairford. This is the sky Kings year. Heyford by 6. Csc Godwin flu switches from flyer will be patient. And finally win More than try lose. Scoff All you want. Tace raiders Are real. X forget their 10-year leave Csc forget their Blowout to Safe semifinal All those this Torrejon had 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 Giles passing game you can win in air Force bal the 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 tas 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 from the Mediterranean sports conf which abandoned football Tost i no More playing Aviano Beah two weeks then playing some make. Hahn Kirksey was the Only cd to refrain from predicting ram Jim or Tilburg to win the Csc. Kle until he heard Cut the ankle. Hahn ready to muscle their Way to the Randolph the key to last year s surge went Down in the third bets Are off. T or Are they Randolph who first thought he was through now says height return late in the season. That leaves last year s tailback Jeffo Johnson calling the signals. If Jeff could t do it says coach . We i would t have Himi out if Johnson can throw anything. . Baker Wurba Nihim out. Baker sped through 1985_ with 32 catches for Johnsonn a league High 780yards. That s 24.3 kids per catch. An other All Csc receive la Curt Oxley re turns at tight end. Hawks must answer an Cher ques Tion. Will Chambers keep Apro Venthem the Way Leon Hayes did Man 198. To 85? _ All Csc linebacker Rory Davis Zerback Michael Broussard Are Tulare the rest of Hahn s starting or David Olson and Rene Biffle. And All Csc kicker Orvitta Chumak or. This time he Hopes to Nike the Csc Winner. Of Spang Pohlem this team Sangba new coach Anthony Moreno name sabers and new v ,., headband. In the age of Jim Mcmahon s sweaty head i guard Don Crusen a Berry wears a band k that says West we owe whom everybody says. Crusenberry. Everybody in j2 Span Dahlem that is. The sheiks us Cusenberry sabers owe an explanation for losing to Camp new Amsterdam last year and tying the Wolf hounds in an exhibition two weeks ago. With 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. Were trying our Best to get Span Dahlem Back in con Tention he says. The 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 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 pro our pass defense Zweibruck Nas usual the Wajers could Finis last. Or first. Jar they started just year then caught few fire. One touch to i Down in the final game kept them out of the playoffs., All that came As every game on the warriors. Field is finally Fin-.,Shed after two years of reconstruct Tion. They really Tyson can go Home again can they make the playoffs again Whing they Haven t done in won two exhibitions for which included Rhein main s 60-6 loss to the /s Greenham common. Jessie Smith started quarterback i that embarrassment baseball or Jerome Maxie and soft tier Marty Yocum came out late Andje contending for the Job. One of Ern will take the snap from enter to Langley who enters his seventh sea Senate was glad to finally land All Csc ution in 985, but sad to watch his fail inside the 20-Yard line. R the key is finding a Way to open it up says Jenkins and to quit the penal ties and , who coached the defense last year will Call the offensive Oine runs the defense always Rhein main a strength. The big guns re turn ends Tom Woodard and will Goss and safety Butch Watkins. They were All Csc. After that the Talent thins. We los tall our bulk says Jenkins. All we have left is , it can t be that bad. Or can it Cna perennial to so guard tee Taylor is gone. General a lager Ben Davis who runs the offence Homer a quicker line led by Center Bryan turf Lbw head coach Mitchell tha Koson run the defense. His top returnees be ends 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 insists 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 Pekin 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. La. Jones did t3 Cut it at a a where he also tried to play at Hahn two years ago so removed to Lineback Donohoo or whoever s at Buu aim at Mike judge the All Csc Widet Eiver who also throws his weight around at n. Gill likes speedy running bib Darryl Langley you be got to realize we be scored 15 Points and had 60 scored against refers to the exhibition season Gil Bac Rhein main coach Cotton and Power backs to. A Gerry Jenkins. Willis Duckery. He likes linebackers Tim Ortag and Willie really likes everything. He d like escaping the cellar the Best
