European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 13, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday november 13, 1987 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary Hahn Pitburg coaches aim for title Here s what the losing coach in saturday s Continental sports conference Lilly game gets the Csc All Star coaching Job. Here s what the winning coach gels a ticket to the Safe championship game now you ask Hahn s Paul Killion and Pitburg Sjoe Green what they prefer. Green might answer this Way i old the team yesterday that there Are three seasons the exhibition season regular season and the playoffs. Nobody re members the regular season once the playoffs Green said that after his Barons bullied Span Dah tem in last sunday s Csc semifinal vaulting them into saturday s 1 . Final at Hahn. Notice he said nothing about the All Star season. You know Why no one remembers who coached All Star teams. Quick. Who coached the pfc in last Winter s pro bowl got Eha. But you know exactly who coached in the super bowl Bill Parcell Sand Dan Reeves. Which is Why Killion and Green will pull All stops to reach the Safe championship. Kind of Boss Jimmy Barber who punched his ticket to die Safe final by having unknown John Flynn kick four Field goals in the eagles 18-13 . Championship Triumph Over upper Heyford. That s the same Rynn who traded the soccer held for the football held just this year. If Barber can finagle Flynn into four Field goals think How Killion and Green Are scheming to Host the Safe title game nov. 22. Don t bother asking Hahn s Killion what he s planning. He might Tell you that Mark Van Winkle will Start at quarterback. Or that . Baker i healthy at wide receiver. He told me that last week before his semifinal with Ramstein then proceeded to i go with Terry Zitkovich the whole Way at band 2 keep Baker and his bad Back out of a Hawk uniform. Killion did something else out of character. Twice in the fourth Quarter he faced fourth Down deep in run Stein territory. Rather than Call on the Sci finest Field goal kicker in Frank Brown the coach let Wilkovich go for it. Both drives died. The Hawk barely lived 14-12, then Killion said a curious thing i Don t wont Todo what two coaches before me did to this team take away he Safe championship. We re going to such is playoff pressure. Killion a Rookie coach feels the heat not to repeat Hahn s choke jobs. In 1985, the Hawks blew a Chip shot Field goal to lose Bucky Fox ski photo by Kin s Piu kill pm led and Tilburg Joe Green 14-13 to Ramstein in the Csc final. In 1986, the Hawks had a blocked punt returned for a touchdown in heir 14-9 toss to Tilburg in the Csc title game. For the second straight year Hahn stands 10-0 entering the Csc final. The Hawks Don t need another botch on Thierfield against Tilburg a team with its own kind of vengeance the Barons still Burn Over last year s 29-22 loss at Chicksands for the Safe title. Tilburg led 22-19 in the fourth Quarter Only to trip Over penalty nags. Green who like Killion is in his first year inthe Csc feels pushed to claim Tilburg s first Safe Crown since 1980. Green has responded Well. For most of the season he had an offensive line that Hahn linebacker Dave Olson labelled Green s com cracks resembled Toast his two Point pats were failing along with hit placekicker s Confidence. Bad rumours seeped oui of Pitburg such As players skipping Baron practices to Many observers the 6-3 Barons were history beading into last sunday s Csc Semi at so Spang Dahlen just after his toss saturday Ramstein coach Wayne Eddington did t consider Wilbur when asked who would win the Csc title game Spang Dahmm will beat Hahn he had forgotten Gamblin Green. This Nebraska native threw these Dice i shifted linebacker Randy Heath to left guard 2 pushed safeties Danny Esles find Alvin Mack to the Corners and 3 let Ken Evans Boom Hii extra Points instead of trying for two Points. The results i Pitburg s offensive Hue blew open holes for Freddie Miller and Richard Specht and kept Bert Chew from getting sacked 2 Estes and Mack defused Span Dahlem s bombs and 3 and Evans hit four extra Points. Pitburg beat Span Dahlem 28-12. Suddenly the sabers 32-24 Romp at Pitburg the week before seemed like Ages ago. Green s gambles worked perfectly for the playoffs he could be moped about his Cumer Hack problem. He Couch five cried that Mack bad to slay at safety that he wat no match for Spang s speedster Willie Lawjon he could pc Sung that Bud Grant Type re Frain in the big game Well use what brought us Here instead Green acted. He did what Rhein main coach Warren Stanley says is crucial in the playoffs coaching which brings up Dave Lockwood. The Best coach in Safe is 1-4 in playoffs. He owns a 31-9 record in four years As head coach but the Span Dahlem Boss still lacks a Csc championship. It was painful talking with Lockwood after his loss to Tilburg. He blamed the Barons dirty play for causing the Ukle injury that look out Star tailback c. Boyd. He slammed the refs for not policing that dirty play especially by safety Greg Hallon and linebacker Dennis Hueston. Lockwood needed All his Energy to say thai s the Best i be seen Pitburg play All year and probably the worst i be seen us i have a theory on Lockwood. He wants to win a conditional championship. On his conditions clean disciplined play by his team. He wants a perfect title in an imperfect league. What has happened in 1983, Lockwood coached Tilburg to an eight Point fourth Quarter Lead in the Csc final but the Barons blew it to a Rar Tsirin team he called dirty. In 1984, his Barons led 6-0 at halftime of the Csc final Only to lose to a Ramstein team that featured defensive end Marlon Brown whom Lockwood chimed the ram got Ille Gally. In 1985, lock Wood s Barons lost in a Csc semifinal to Hahn which look out map tailback Dwayne Harp in the second Quarter Here s another theory. Lockwood will win a championship. Tom Landry had a 1-4 once. He went on to win iwo super bowls. Grid misfortunes on everyone s mind trouble for Bruce in Buckeye land by Rusty Miller Columbus Ohio a in Eleva tors a fast food restaurants even in the brokerage firms downtown where the have enough problems of their own every one is Tabuno about Ohio state football these Art troubled times in Buckeye land. After being picked in the preseason to win the big ten championship the buckeyes Are 3-3 in the conference. Some people even Felt this might be the year Ohio state would contend for it first National championship since the Rex Kern and Jack Tatum team of 1968. Instead Ohio Sute is 5-3-1 Overall and he lost its last two games. Those three losses to Indiana Michigan stale and Wisconsin with a tie with leu thrown in have inspired a lot of Crea Tive writing in the state. I get More mail when we lose than when we win says athletic director Rick Bay most of in is mean spirited. It s human nature. People tend to complain More than they compliment a prime target is Earle Bruce who has been the coach at Ohio state for the past nine Yean and in that Lime has the Best Earle Bow. A prime target record of any coach in the big ten 80 George strode is the sports editor of the Columbus dispatch and oversees a weekly Mailbox column that invites let ters to the editor. These Days that invitation is being accepted often. All of them Are critical of Earlc. After the loss to Michigan stale i got one Posi Tive letter on Friday Oul of about 75 let ters strode says. The crowning blow was last week when Wisconsin which had not won a big ten game All season of scored the buckeyes 13-0 in the second half and won 26-24. Already this week. Strode has received letters from Fremont Calif. Sea realer a and Gross Prinle mich., All denouncing Bruce. Most want Brace s Bead and thai of Bay who is distrusted by some simply because he is a University of Michigan graduate. Dave Burnham sports editor at the Warren Tribune chronicle Tayt Youcan talk for iwo minimal to somebody on the Street around Hen but eventually Earle Brace s name comes the future in t Bright either. A tiring of is straight trips to a bowl game eight under Bruce could end. Ohio stat closes Iti Home schedule saturday against 7-3 Iowa. The following week it must play at Michigan. To make nutters even worse Ohio slate opens next season against Syracuse Pittsburgh and leu before big ten games at Indiana Minnesota Michigan state and Iowa. Bruce who had contemplated a hefty contract to move to the University of Arizona after Ohio state s Cotton bowl Victory in january is almost fatalistic about the season so far. I heard a gnat coach say one Tim that if you slay in this business every thing will eventually happen to you he says. Obviously everything is happen Anglo us right now Bruce who followed the 28-year re Gime of the colourful and enal cd Woody Hayes says be int worried about losing his Job i m very disappointed in this season Asil stands right now. I Hope Ihil by the time the season is Over we can hold our beads up then he takes a look it what has happened to his team ibis season and adds i Don t have any sin to pay for meanwhile Ibe mail piles up the Cal come in. And the solve wait at the door
