European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 30, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday october 30, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary Don f pass up shot at Safe title its called air Force football. So your main Force is in the air right you bomb from inc wild Blue yonder. Which if done with precision leads to Victory. Some Safe teams have passing Down Pat. Hahn. Spang Ahtam and Ramstein do n right in the Continental sports conference. Upper hey Ford Rode inc pass to a division championship in the . Sports conference arid Alconbury and bunt Waters nearly did. The formula is really simple. Find a quarterback who can throw. Build an offensive line who can protect him. Instant Winner. Don t worry about receivers they can be found All Over the base. You question the equation Lei s take Span Dah icon the sabers suffered from 1983 to 1986 2-8, 2-6, 2-6, 3-6. When they weren t running Rick Bivens every play they were flailing away with an unprotected Randy Green. You would ask Span Dahlem for a strategy and the answer would be establish the run. Same old Csc Woody Hayes live in the past football. It got so desperate they changed their name from sheiks to Sabra two Yean ago. Span Dahlem bad no excuses. It was a sleeping giant a big base with no organization. Just like Lakenheath the . Giant that also finally awoke this year with its first playoff clinching since 1980. How did Span Dahlem become aroused it hired Acoach last Spring who knows How to build a line that can protect a quarterback who con pass. The coach is Dave Lockwood. Who at 6-foot-6 resembles a control lower. He used his bulk at Offen Sive tackle at Pitburg in the late 1970s. The Man knows blocking. So Lockwood built an offensive Wall. He placed Rick Stevens at left tackle bid Huffman at left guard Charles Groboski at Center. Robert Jasinski at right guard and David Smith at right tackle. Lock Wood eventually shifted Richard Botten to left tackle and Howard Slayer to right guard but the coach s order stayed the tame protect the quarterback. That quarterback Tony Bynum thus  spending 1986 on the run he found time to Bucky Fox s its photo by pm Tony Bynum Willie Livion. Give Spang respectable passing game fling bombs to the add Cal receiver in Safe Wil lie Lawson. Which is Why Lawson who lettered at the univer sity of Houston in 1984, owns these numbers 26catches, 614 Yards a 23.6 average 11 touchdowns. It All adds up to spin Dahlem s first playoff Posi Tion since 1981. That s no Shock even i picked the sabers to reach the playoffs. What is jarring is Spang s 7-1 record and talk of a Safe championship. Byng m s Knack for dropping Back waiting and firing is exactly How five of the last six Safe titles were won. Gerry Grandinctti did it with upper Heyford in 1981, Terry Zitkovich with Heyford in1982, Jeff Wilson with Ramstein 1984 and s5 and Herb Poirot with Chin Sands last year. Yet Safe coaches love scrambling Quarter backs. That s Why Hahn has trouble committing to Wilkovich Over Mobile Mark Van Winkle. Why Ramstein has the same problem with Wilson Over Urmin Chuck Herron. Why Pitburg thinks it can win everything with Bert Chew he of the run and Chew offence. Pitburg should plan less on Chew running than Chew shooting to flanker Dwayne Harp. In Harp the Barons possess inc finest All around threat and wickedest touchdown dance in Europe. Yet inc Barons Don t throw to Harp until they re in trouble. Harp s misfortune was Landing in Tilburg. Freddie Miller has been starring at tailback for inc Batons since 1982, which leaves Tittle room for Harp s Darl ing style. Tilburg does stand 6-2 and is headed for its fifth straight playoff appearance. Even Lockwood likes Chew Over Zitkovich and Wilson. The Span Dahlem coach explains his preference for Mobile lbs with most coaches Are defensive minded m least i think 1 am. So when you find a quarterback who s not Mobile you figure in limits the  so Why do drop Back quarterbacks win Safe titles says Lockwood maybe mobility does t mean anything in late november when it s  mostly it s this drop Back quarterbacks Dan i panic at the first sign of a Rush. They Wail for receivers to get deep then hit them. After hat linebackers can forget playing close to the line which opens inc Gale for pounding tailbacks. Ramstein found the championship  in 85 Wilson winging 10 . Toomer Wilh Willie Mccray crashing the line. Chicksands did in in 86 Poirot passing to Ron Mcnard followed by chops Chambers slamming inc line. Hahn will win it in 87 Wilh Zitkovich air ing in out to , Baker plus . Caldwell zipping through holes. Span Dahlem could have a championship combi nation in Bynum to Lawson Wilh c. Boyd cashing in at tailback. The problem is the sabers must play Pitburg two straight weeks in saturday s regular season finale for the Eiful Keg and in the following weekend s Csc semifinal and the Barons have a history of injuring quarterbacks. Without Bynum Spang is hanged. That explains the second word in air Force. To bum and bpm tigers begin amen Corner games by Herschel n1ssenson a football writer having grown up near Augusta ga.,Pat Dye knows something about amen Comer the famous stretch of holes 10-11-12-13 where the masters Golf tournament often is decided. According to Dye his the sixth ranked Auburn tigers 6-0-1, Are about to begin their own version of amen Corner with games 8-9-10-11. It starts saturday night against no. 10 Florida 5-2followed Byno. 4 Florida state 6-1no. 12 Georgia 6-2 and no. 16 Alabama 5-2. Florida is the Only Southeastern con Ference learn to have a winning record 4-2 Over the tigers in Dye s previous six years at Auburn. Florida has won the last three meet Ings with Auburn but coach Galen Hall Calls the tigers the Besl defensive foot Ball least in the  album was a 3w-Point favorite bul the game was off the boards because of the ineligibility ruling against Quarter Back Jeff Burger. No new Tine to Arall ble when the restoration of Burger s eligibility i non med thursday. See Story an Page 26. The pick is. Auburn 24-f7. Last week s prediction record was 31 right 15 wrong and one tie for a percent age of .674 for the season 241-104-5.699. Against the Point spread last week s Mark was 15-19-0.441 for the year 103-124-5.454. Saturday s Only other game Between members of the associated press top Twenty finds no. 20 Michigan stale Atno. 15 Ohio state which is favored by four Points. Since Michigan stale is 3-0-1 in the big ten and Ohio state is 3-1, the win Ner looms As the Only remaining Chal Lenger to first place Indiana 4-0. The buckeyes Are coming off their Best game of the season a 42-9 rout of Minnesota and they re playing at Home. Ohio stale 21-14. No. 1 Oklahoma favored by 53 at Kansas the g5lh consecutive year of the longest uninterrupted rivalry in major College football. Although Kansas won the first eight games the series stands 55-23-6 in favor of. Oklahoma 63-6. No. 2 Nebraska by 19 Al Missouri Mizzau handed Tom Osome his first head coaching setback 13-12 in 1973,and usually plays the Cor huskers Tough Nebraska 38-17. No. 3 Mumi thu by 30 at East Caro Lina Miami s next opponent is Miami the Ohio variety. Miami Fla 45-14, Tulane at no. 4 Florida slate by 28 flu s Only other game on halloween was a 42-0 lots to Georgia in 1959. History Doest repeat. Florida state 49-24. No. 5 leu by 13w at Mississippi the 1959 halloween game featured the most famous play in leu history As Billy can non returned a punt 89 Yards for the Only touchdown in a 7-3 Victory. Leu 28 17. No. 7 Urcla by 6 i at Arona state the Bruins Are 3-0 in Sun Devil stadium and Are out to avenge last year s 16-9 loss. Asu must win to have a shot at returning to the Rose bowl. Upset Spe Cial of the week. Arizon state 31-24. No. S Syracuse by 4w to Pill the pan thers handed Noire Dame its Only loss. Second upset special. Pill 24-21. Nuts at no. 9 notre Dame by 32 i Lou Hultz does t have to be a Genius to win this one. Notre Dame 42-7. No. 11 Indiana at Iowa by 614 for Mer Indiana coach Lee Corse the Debo Nair esp analyst says this is a lock  27-17. No. 13 Tennessee by 6vi at Boston College second of three straight non league games for the vols third upset special. Boston College 24-17. Wake Forest at no. 14 Cle Roson by 18 the tigers will eat Wake Forest lunch. You might say they la have their Wake and eat it too. Clemson 38-7. Mississippi slate it no. 16 Alabama by 23 the Crimson tide s november schedule consists of leu notre Dame and Auburn. Alabama 35-14. Kansas slate at no. 17 Oklahoma Sute by 32 the wildcats had Little enough to begin Wilh and they can l have much left after losing to Oklahoma 59 10 and Nebraska 56-3 the last two weeks. Oklahoma slate 41 -7. West Virginia it no 18 Penn slate by 7 the off week May have helped the nil Lany Lions. Penn state 28-14. North Carolina Stile it no. 19 South Carolina by \6 i the Wolf pack pays a second straight visit to the Palmetto stale after upsetting Clemson. South Carolina 34-14. Colorado by 16it Iowa slate on the theory that Colorado can l gel up again after playing Oklahoma so Lough. Fourth ups a special. Iowa Szalc 27-21. Rutgers by 7 it Vanderbilt for no Good reason at All fifth upset special. Vanderbill 27-20. Wisconsin Al Purdue by 7 on the theory that the badgers might be in a Nasty mood after losing to Northwestern sixth upset special. Wisconsin 24-17, san Diego slate at Hawaii by 6 be cause Todd Santos reached 10,000 pass ing Yards last week and deserves a Rompon the Beach. Seventh upset special. San Diego stale 3s-31. Of her games East army 28. Temple 21. South Georgia tech 24, Duke by2tt 21 Kentucky by 19 24, Virginia tech 14 North Carolina by 2�j 28. Maryland 17 Memphis slate 24, Arkan Sas state 20 Southern Mississippi 31, Jackson slate 14. Midwest Akron 28, Nicholls stale17 Northern Illinois 28, Ball stale 17 Central Michigan 24. Western Michigan 17 Cinci Ali 34, Tennessee tech 17 Eastern Michigan 21, Ohio u. 7 Illinois by 3 20, Minn Sola 14 Kuni Slaw 24, Toledo 17 Miami o. 28, Bowling green14 Michigan by 32 45, Northwestern 7. Southwest Arkansas by 21vi 41, Rice 13 Texas by 6vi 21, Texas tech20 Texas am 42, Louisiana tech 7 Texas Christian by 7ft 27. Houston 17 Texas i paso by 17 37, new Mexico 17 Tulsa by 6 a 31, Louisville 28. Far wot Utah 35. Boise slate 24 air Force 24. Brigham Young by 1ft 20 Fresno Suie 35. Nevada Las vegas 20 Fullerton state 28, new Mexico stale21 Oregon by 9 27, California 17 Southern California by 18 30, washing Ion state 17 Arizona 28. Stanford 24 san Jose state 38, Utah state 14 Washington by 22 42, Oregon Siaiku 14 Wyoming by is 37, Colorado slate 13