European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 24, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday december 24,1967 the stars and stripes Paga 19 commentary us passed them Oil with Peeve no arms Healing you wild inc pass is like what tin it w York Yankees dealing you with itil1 Glove Dempsey heating you with the Jab. Tilden whacking you of with inc lob. Howard Jones must be clinking a his Oatmeal some place today. His teams never Pui the Hall in the air i a capt on kickoffs and Points i Flor. Or which there were a lot when he coached. John Wayne must be embarrassed. Trojans Aren t supposed to trick you they re sup posed to run right Over you like the German army ihi1 Low countries. No one Ever Calls us an Aerial circus. They Call them the thundering Herd. Their ult ask is hum As Subtle As a Load of bricks. They come through inc Tunnel like a flood. They Don t have plays Lite a a e-7 on a Fly pall can. They Call their plays student body right. They leave thai la do a passing game to Stanford and the Insi Iluigi ins thai Don t have the pipelines of latent they do the schools that have to make do with a Tilic club Kighal. Us s sir Algy was simple round up every at Stule or top Community College player in the area Pui them in those blood red uniforms give them a no Ball. Point them at notre Dame and say kill Welt something went a Little wrong in the past few years. Us had some teams that ran of somebody and bounced Back. The team that gave inc world inc nickname wild Bunch became mild Bunch. Tail Back u. Became Famback u. The thundering Herd became the wondering Herd. So How come they re headed for the Rose bowl i Low come they won the Pacific-10 title Hunt without the brass knuckle offence and the Black Cyc Nosch cd de lenses of Yore the reason is the unlikely Cal Trojan of them All. Rodney Ivezic is a sunny smiling Young Man As cheerful As a sunday at the Beach lie has a Short Stop s Arm a St. Louis Cardinal s Speed and he is the Jim Murray trojans horse this year of our lord when All the old formulas arc missing. Rodney threw five count pm passes in a Victory Over Stanford this season. Thai s a Good season for most us passers. Rodney Puccle is More than a great passer. He s a Garcal runner. He s probably the Only Guy in the Lle Giac game today who could throw and catch inc same pass. In High school he passed for 16 touch Downs one year and ran for 9. The i9k7 trojans significantly have More first Downs passing than running. Same goes for yardage. Pc Csc is their i third leading rusher. It it s like having Johns Unitas and of. Simp son in he same Back Field a Pacio coach once remarked. It s like having them in the same body a colleague corrected. So Rodney i Eric is student body right the thundering Herd of one. Without him. A Nancy peek us is Stanford. With hiir1 mowing he winning touchdown pass a Amsl Urcla the trojans have a Jan. 1 Date with Michigan state. Us Gol Rodney i Ceil for an old worn out Rea son. Downs of schools were alter him but. When the conversation Gol around to wages hours and work ing conditions recruiters by Hughl up the old lire some business about making him a hanker n wide receiver a cornerback a running Hack. They wanted him for a Black posit Init. There an i it Black quarterbacks on major College learns this year including. Up to inc time Jamelle Holiway was injured the quarterbacks on the nos. I and 2 teams in i lie coun try Rodney Peete did l want to catch in sirs. Ik1 wanted to Lirow them. When he Lurns pro. He May not even do Hal. A ,304 hitter in baseball a Short slip ii of ii Smith Range Rodney Pele Dees not even play Spring font Ball. He s a baseball Prospect Loo. Tic hits already been drafted by the Toronto Blue jays you can always idl Rodney Prelc win haul his number 16, because hell be the one smiling. Big Lime football in t fun to a lot of players but it is to Rodney. Of yeah. I enjoy it Oul he Suys. I like it when the opposition defense is real . 1 enjoy tooling it makes him smile. But then everything does. Although most of his 17 Oul of 2 1 completions again Stanford were off option or play action passes defences cannot he sure what Peele Wili do from a straight drop Hack before the Kra of the specialist College fool Ball used to revel in the presence the press called the Ripic i Hrycai Man. Rodney i Eele a Dou ble Thrift Man. He did gel off one pull once for 32 Yards. There Aren t Many of Hose led. Either. It s difficult to picture How this Junior can be left off the Heisman trophy nest year. I did l come to so m win the Vleisman. I came loss to win the Rose says Rodney i cell. Of course he smiles when he Sas ii. Of course he smiles when he Suys anything. Carson in pro bowl for 9th time but Payton misses new York a linebacker Harry Carson of the new York giants was selected wednesday to inc pro bowl for the ninth Lime tying an All time record. Waller Payton of the Chicago care who could have broken the record Wilh his i old selection failed to make the learn. The acc and pfc squads selected by players and coaches include the game s three most it usurious quarterbacks John Elway of Denver Joe Montana of san Francisco and Dan Marino of Miami. Elway will be the starter for the acc and Montana the starter for the pfc in the feb. 7 game in Honolulu. The pfc backup quarterback is Neil Lama of St Louis whose comeback sea son has the cardinals in position to make he playoffs. Lomax had two sub Par years since making the pro bowl team in 198t. Carson 34, is the fifth player to the 1cam for the ninth Lime. The others were Payton and three defensive players linebacker Jack Lambert and lineman Joe Greene who played for Pittsburgh. And defensive Back Ken Houston who played for Houston and Washington. The pfc team includes wide receivers Jerry Rice of san Francisco and Mike Quick of Philadelphia As the starters with Anthony Carter of Minnesota and Gary Clark of Washington As the backups Mark Bavaro of inc giants is inc Start ing tight end with Steve Jordan of the Vikings As the backup. Jackie Slater of inc los Angeles rams and Gary Zimmerman of the Vikings Are the starting Lack los backed up by Luis Sharp of the cardinals. Bill Fralic of Atlanta and Dennis Harrah of the rams arc the starting guards with Brad Edelman of new Orleans As the Back up. The centers arc Jay Hilgenburg of Chi Cago the Staner and Doug Smith of the los Angeles rams. Montana and Lomax Are joined in the Buckfield by running backs Charles White of the rams and Rueben Mayes of the Denver s John Elway faces san Francisco s Joe Montana in the acc pfc clash. Saints As starters and backups Herschel Walker of Dallas and Roger Craig of the the defensive ends Are Reggie while of Philadelphia and Chris Doleman of he Vikings with Charles Mann of the redskins As he backup. The Interior linemen Are Michael Carter of san fran Cisco and Sieve Mcmichael of the bears. The starting outside linebackers Are cart Banks of the giants and Wither Marshall of the bears with the giants Lawrence Taylor As a backup. It will be Taylor s seventh pro howl appearance in seven nil seasons. Joining Carson inside Are Mike sin Lelary of the bears and Sam Mills of the saints who will be the backup. The starting defensive backs will be Darrell Green of Washington Jem Gray of the rams. Joey Browner of the Vikings and Ronnie ton of the 4l cars the punier is Jim Arnold of Detroit inc kicker Morten Andersen of the saints and the kick returner Vai sikh Cha of the cards. Ron Wolfley of is. Louis will be inc special teams player. The acc wide receivers Are Al Toon of the new York acis and Sieve of Scank As the starters plus Carlos car son of Kansas City and Slank Morgan of new England. The tight ends arc Kellen window of san Diego and Todd cons Lensun of the los Angeles raiders. The tackles Are Anthony mum of Cincinnati. Chris Hin Lon of Indianapolis and Cody Risien of Cleveland Wilh Keith Bishop of Denver. Mike Munchak of Houston and Ron Solt of the Colts at guards. Ray Donaldson of Indianapolis and Dwight Stephenso Northc dolphins . Elway and Marino Are joined in Ilie Backfield by Eric Dick non of i Colls. Curt Warner of Seattle. Be pm Mack of Cleveland and Mike to . The defensive ends Are Bruce Smith of Buffalo Jacob Green of Sauk and Howie Long of the raiders with Hill Maas of the chiefs and Hob Colic of the Browns As Interior linemen. The outside linebackers Are Duane big Keu of the Coli Andre Tippet of the patois ii jul Clay Matthews of the Browns with for Ceil Young of is Jetle Karl Mecklenburg of Denar and John offer Dahl of Miami inside. The Starling defensive backs Are flank Minn Fidd and Hanford Dixon of Cleve land at the Corners with Kenny Kasley of inc so Hawks and Dacron Cherry of the chiefs at safety. The backups Are Albert Lewis of the chiefs and Keith Bostic of the oilers. Half Moosic Junko of san Diego is the punier. Dean Biasucci of the Colls the kick a and Gerald Mcneil of Trie Hrut Vns the kick returner. Sieve Tasker of Buffalo is the special learns player
