European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 8, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 26 the stars and stripes saturday november 8,1966 it s Testaverde is. Guess who at bin Miami Pitt contest by Dick Brinster a parts writer with Vinny Testaverde at the controls it would be logical 10 assume that Miami football coach Jimmy Johnson has no quarterback worries As he pre pares his lop ranked hurricanes Tor sat urday s game Al Pittsburgh. But Testaverde whose passing has led Miami to an 8-0 Start in l the problem. In fact Johnson does t know who is for pin. Foresaid John Congemi is out Tor the rest of the year with a Back injury. And Johnson former Pitt assistant won t get any Advance information from Mike Gottfried because the Pitt head coach does t know either. We be got to go with the quarterback who gives us the Best Chance to win Gottfried said but did t offer a hint Asto his starter s identity. He could scrap his plan to Redskin highly recruited Junior College Transfer Sal Gunilla or he could go with Joe pc Wilsky a fourth team quarterback at the Stan of he other games involving ranked teams no. 3 Michigan is at Purdue mis Souri is at no. 4 Oklahoma California is at no. 5 Arizona slate no. 7 Nebraska visas Iowa stale Cincinnati is at no. 9 Auburn no. 10 Arkansas visits Baylor Northwestern a at no. 11 Ohio stale Stanford visas no. 12 Urcla. No. 13washington is at Oregon slate no. Is North caroling stole travels to Virginia no. 16 Iowa is at Illinois no. 17 Arizona visit Washington slate no. 19 Georgia plays Florida at Jacksonville and North Carolina is Al no. 20 Clem son no. 18 Louisiana state is at no. 6 Alabama in a night game while eighth ranked Texas aim and no. 14 Southern cat Are off. Nil from Pago 21 goal of the year and Keith Acton added three assists As Minnesota snapped a three game losing Streak with a solid Vic tory Over Toronto. Rookie goaltender Kari Takk stopped 20 ct21 shots and shut out the Maple Leafs until Vincent Damphousse. Scored the first goal of his nil career with 12 55 left in the game. The North stars bad 38 shot at to Ronto goalie Allan Bester our Cooling the Leafs 16-3 in the first period. Candiea ,kiigi4inglewood, Calif. Bobby Smith scored three goals and Sergio to Mes added the game Winner with 3 33 remaining As Montreal rallied to defeat Lea Angeles 6-4. The Victory stretched the Caudle in unbeaten Streak to seven games and pushed item past Quebec into first place in the Adams division. Football Gottfried whose panthers Are 4-3-1, has pondered the quarterback problem since Congemi the second leading passer in Pill history suffered a hairline fracture of his Back in last week s loss to lost the one Guy we could t afford to lose Gottfried said Gottfried has said he May Wail until As late As Gam time to name his passed for 3,555 Yards last sea son at a i Mateo Calif Junior has been ineffective in two seasons As Congemi s backup completing Only 10of 27 passes with three interceptions. Johnson s main concern is that con Gemi s absence May alter the panthers offensive game plan. With Congemi atthe controls of Rill s ran and Hoot of sense the panthers were averaging nearly40 passes a game. They ran a lot of two Back formations tarty in the season before they went 10 the run and shoot and they May Goback to thai Johnson said. Testaverde is the most dominant player in College football this season completing 63.4 percent of i passes tor1,938 Yards 20 touchdowns and seven was on the mind of Penn state s Joe Palermo who believes the cur rent crop of nit Lany lion defenders is As Good As any he has Ever s Tough to think we be had a team that played any better said palc Rio whose learn could extend its record to 9 0 with a Victory Over Maryland 4-4.patemo compared this defense 11 the in the nation allowing 270.7 Yards pregame third against the Rush at 65.3 and third in Points at 10.7 to his 1969team. Thai Penn state group wound up 11-0, beat Kansas in the Orange Bowland was ranked second in the nation. It featured tackle Mike Reid linebacker Denny Onkotz and safety Neal Smith. Linebackers Shane Conlan and tre Bauer tackles Bob White and Mike Russo and backs Ray Isioro and Duff Cobbs arc the key operatives this season. One would think that unbeaten Michi Gan coming off 69-13 pounding of Illi Nois would t worry about the likes of Purdue which snapped a six game losing Streak last week against be lost Siree games in Purdue s Ross Ade stadium in the last five vis its wolverines coach to Schembechler said. I remember All three of of them when we went in there we were number one in the nation. We Venot played Well there. I m scared to death of thai coach Barry Switzer plans to uses two quarterbacks As he did i last week s 64-3 pummelling of Kansas. Jamelle Holieway and Eric Mitchel will alternate against Missouri which comes in at 3-4."jamelle Holieway is our starting quarterback he s our Best quarterback said Switzer whose sooner Are 7-1. We re going to play Eric Mitchel when the situation dictates we can. We re giving him an Opportunity to prove himself right now and he s doing a Good Fresno stale 36, win 7las vegas Nev. Quarterback Kevin Sweeney moved closer to then Caa division i a passing record thursday night by throwing for 160yards and a touchdown As Fresno state Defeated Nevada Las vegas in a Pacific coast athletic association game. Fresno stale jumped to a 16-0 Lea with two touchdowns and a safety in the first Quanor and was never in jeopardy after thai. Including thursday s performance Sweeney has passed for a career 10,276 Yards Only 303 Yards shy of Doug flu tie s career passing record of 10,579 Yards set in 1984. Eye Ball John Meeuw prepare to Anlu a in level my aia to of Cal and can la majr Brown til to pc Tho Wber. Burtnett resigns at Purdue West Lafayette ind a Leon Burtnett announced his resignation thursday As football coach of the Purdue boilermakers effective at the end of the 1986 said be would remain Al Pur due indefinitely working under athletic director George King. Purdue officials extended Burtnett contract after the 1984 season. He has four Yean remaining on a five year contract the announcement came after Hurt Neit held a team meeting earlier in in afternoon to announce his decision to players. Purdue hosts third ranked Mich Igan on saturday. There Are two very important Rea sons i made my decision Burtnett said. My family first of Alt and this Burtnett said he began considering re signing prior to last week s 17-16 Victory Over this stage i fell our recruiting would suffer if i stayed on Bunnett said. No one pressured me to quit. 1 initiated the conversation with George King King said search committee would be organized within a few weeks. He said he would be looking for a coach wit major College fool Bau experience. I would of course Contact the athletic directors of anyone we re interested in to receive their permission before talking to them King , selected the big ten coach of the year for 1984, came under nervy fire from fans and alumni Thi year As lie boilermakers compiled a 2-6 record while being of scored 247-122. Included in the losses were a 37-3 pounding by Michigan state and a 36-9 loss to Minnesota after opening with a 20-3 Victory Overall state the boilermakers lost six consecutive games before edging Northwestern on a last second Field goal. Burthen 43, joined Purdue As a defensive coordinator in 1977 and i As an assistant head coach from ithe was promoted to the top Job in 1 and compiled 20-32-1 record years. Hit Only winning season 1 the boilermakers was 1984 when. I _ finished 7-5, losing 2724 to Virgin the peach bowl there Cornet a Point when to Hep Down and evaluate when going Burtnett said. He said that his fait Ian assistant 10 Kint would assistant tache�7eth�t i Mary Job. After thai sch he said., Burtnett said held of abandon coach Tell pen wanted to take took Al a Lions further Down the road"1 wait to cml Taia. 1 j. Where at Tali Point Iii try to want to go to the nil or stay 1 Burtnett Laid Bowman from Page 21 and Larry Robinson and Forward Guy Lafleur i m glad Bowman said. I m finally relieved that this Day has has made similar statements in the past and returned three times tothe sabres Bench. But the consensus at thursday press conference was thai Hewill not coach the sabres again. We decided it would be in the bes interests of the franchise to do this said sabres chairman Seymour h. Knox gave it Tome thought and Grid i of his reasons for making this change and we Bowman who replaced first Yea coach Jim Schoenfeld after 43 game Tail season a Lold last Spring by the sabres Ownen that he would be under scrutiny this year if the team did not Mart the team missed the Stanley cup playoffs for the first Lime since 1973-74,Knox said in an interview thai he expected the Sabre to Start fast or change would be nude. There was no evidence however that the retirement decision was made by anyone but , s3, led the team to an 18-1s-1 record on top of Schaen Feyti 19-19-5 record Ian year. He joined the sabres in j979 after Cadi bag the
