European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 26, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes saturday november 26,1988 oilers from Page 21 commentary would be like preseason Houston beat Dallas 54-10 coming in Here but 1 knew it would t be like that. When you re playing a team that s Down and you get off to a Good Start it gives them Loo much or a lift. That s when i noticed i had to say something. Dallas played us Lough and 1 knew they  we ran into a trap today Houston coach Jerry Glanville said. Dallas was emotionally High. We were Flat coming out. We should have known Dallas did t want to get embarrassed at  Dallas coach Tom Landry mid a moral Victory did t count much. My thanksgiving was not Loo Good Landry said. It went their Way in the fourth Quarter. Houston has a Good foot bait team. One play killed us that Kickoff re turn we fumbled. We still had a Chance until that happened. It seems like we just can t make the big play. We did a Good Job most of the time but they made some third Down plays that really Hurt us. I did t want just a moral Victory. We at least finally played a first  Houston improved us record to 9-4, just one hair game behind Cincinnati in the acc Central. Dallas tied a record set by the expansion cowboys who were 0 in in their first season of 1960. The cowboys behind Herschel Walker and Steve Pelluer gave the heavily favored oilers a fright before Moon provided a steadying hand. Pelluer making his first Start in three games. Tooled the oilers in the third period by rolling around right end from three Yards away to hand Dallas a 17-10 Lead. Tony Zendijas 49-Yard held goal trimmed the deficit to 17-13 for the Oil ers. Then Moon hit a vital ,14-Yard pass to Leonard Harris to keep alive the drive to what proved to be the game winning score with 11 53 left in the game. Zendijas who missed the extra Point then kicked Field goals of 47 and 22 Yards to stretch the Lead. The first half was a marked improvement for the cowboys who had been outscored 67-6 in the first two Peri ods of the last three games. Dallas lied the oilers 10-10 at half time on Roger Ruck s 29-Yard Field goal with seven seconds left. The cowboys stunned the oilers by taking the opening Kickoff and driving so Yards in 13 plays with Walker diving Over a pile of players from one Yard out for the touchdown. Zendejas 28-Yard Field goal and Mike Rozicer s 12-Yard run off a deep snap inthe spread formation got the oilers on the Board in the second period. Houston scored the winning touch Down after free safely Jeff Donaldson picked off a pc Lucr pass which had hit Michael Irvin s hands. A Case for football playoffs by Dave Kindred Atlanta per his habit every thanksgiving the tenant of this liter Ary flophouse has come Down with playoff fever. The College football bowl system is a grand waste. So much i Ergy so much excitement All Lead ing to nothing a vague feeling of emptiness when it s Over As if grandma s promised Turkey Clew the Coop. So what if notre Dame goes undefeated into the fiesta bowl and chops up the delightful adventurers from West Virginia it proves nothing. Nota Man outside those heavenly mountains believes West Virginia has fiddler s Chance. Still such a Victory will make Noire Darr the 1988 National champions in balloting by sainted sportswriters an coaches most of whom never saw Lou Holtz do a magic trick cd alone Tony Rice run a Bootleg. Notre Dame May be the Best. Any undefeated notre Dame team is a Fin team. Nothing less than a great team in fact could find a Way to escape the grinding molars of Miami s carnivores even if by a single Point even if at Home even if the zebras blew in. Nor Are Points to be deducted from notre Dame for coach Holly s decision to avoid a bowl game rematch with Miami. Only a tool volunteers for second trip to the Edge of the abyss arguments supporting the Salut quo arc hypocritical. It is preposterous to claim that any playoff system will make Young men miss Classwork. Georgia s High school season reaches15 games. The colleges could play is without risking relapses into illiteracy. Besides after so years of academic tomfoolery in College football whom do they think they re kidding it also makes no sense to say in is Good that several teams can argue about who is no. 1. If that is such a hot idea Why Don t they do it in Basket Ball the Mcaa conducts National championships in Archery. The weakest argument is that n play off would put even More pressure on coaches. Poor babies. Money is the Only reason there is no football playoff. The bowl games arc Cash cows that he colleges covet. What we need is a Way to keep the bowl folks Happy while adding the multimillion Dollar profits of a tournament. There Isa Way. First we need a television network which will put up x millions of dollars More than the bowl system produces. No problem. Given an irresistible product the networks will find x Mil Lions of dollars even xxx millions. A football playoff is at least As irresistible As an 18-hour Mej series in which world War ii seems to have been fought As much in bed As in tanks. The Georgia coach Vince Dooley Long has been an advocate of a one game playoff. His Assumption is that the bowl games leave two teams above the rest. Let them meet the next week. Penn state s Joe Palermo has spoken for a four team playoff taking four bowl winners for a doubleheader with the championship game played As pan of the super bowl weekend. Dick Schultz the Mcaa Boss has said a playoff will happen someday but not now. Traditional resistance is Gener ated by gratitude to the bowl games All of which figure they have nothing to gain in a tournament. They fear their games would be preliminaries to the main event. Today they All can claim to have settled the National championship. Here s a Way to have a tournament and keep the bowl people Semi Happy let the colleges play the current 17. Sanctioned bowls. Nine games would be unaffected. Make  games the heart of the playoffs by designating them on a annually rotating basis As Sites of first round second round semifinal and National championship games. The Rose bowl one year would have the final the Orange the next the sugar blah blah blah the Mcaa should select the Best 16 teams and seed them. The tournament would end with a championship game on the saturday before the super bowl. As Long As we re daydreaming let s pretend the Mcaa has chosen its 16 teams this year 1 notre Dame. 2miami, 3 Auburn 4 Southern cat 5 Honda stale 6 West Virginia 7 Urcla 8 Oklahoma 9 Nebraska 10 Clemson ii Arkansas 12 leu 13 Michigan 14 Syracuse 15 Georgia and 16 Alabama. Upper bracket games Send the Notredame Alabama Winner against the Florida stale slate leu Winner and Oklahoma Nebraska against Southern Cal Michigan. Lower bracket games the Miami Georgia Winner against West Virginia Arkansas Urcla Clemson against a Burn Syracuse if favourites win the second round games will be notre Dame against Florida state Oklahoma Southern Cal Miami West Virginia and Urcla Auburn the semifinals will be notre Dame Southern cat Miami Auburn. The National championship will be notre Dame against Miami forcing lot Holtz to be the Brave Man he dare not be on his own. In that Batch of is games there snot one dog. The last seven games Are so Good that any fan would pay serious Money for a ticket. Each of those seven games is belter than any bowl now scheduled except the sugar s possible Auburn Florida slate. Irresistible. Netted Turner on the phone. Tell him we need xxx millions maybe xxx c.1988 Cox news service shape All stars top Bunde Sliga Ulm Stuttgart West Germany Robert Estes scored 21 Points to Lead the . Shape All stars to a 91-72 Victory Over Ulm of the Germany Bunde Sliga at Kelly Barracks Here Friday night. Troy Russell and Marlon Perry added 12 Points each and Clovis Mcdowell got 10 Points. Ulm s Tom Norwood scored a game High 23 Points and Dieter Wester added. The team of . Army Navy and air Force All stars is touring West Germany and playing a series of games against bund Csiga or first German league teams according to coach Tom Ben son of Heidelberg. Shape is scheduled to play at Ludwigshafen saturday at Stuttgart sunday and at Giessen on monday. Prep Streak ends Doylestown a. A Central Bucks East struck again ending Arch rival Central Bucks West s 53-game win Ning Streak when Greg Glemser scored on a 3-Yard run in the fourth Quarter for al4-14lie. V vyv the end of the Streak came on the fifth anniversary of the Bucks last loss . East. The winning Streak was the current longest in prep football in the nation although still shy of the 72 Victo Ries by Hudson High in Michigan set be tween 168-75. The Bucks earlier this year broke the Pennsylvania record of 46consecutive wins set from 1955-60 by Braddock High of Pittsburgh memory from Page 21 Yard line As a partisan crowd roared its approval. Mckay exclaimed from the sideline my god they be shot him Fertig recalled that the us players were shivering on the Field before the Start of that game while the Irish waited in the warmth of their dressing room. So in 1967, when the trojans returned to South Bend Mckay would t let his team take the Field until the Irish did. V ,. ". Fertig said an official kept knocking on the door of the us dressing room to inform Mckay that the trojans should leave their Sanctuary. Finally an official said coach Mckay if you Don t get your train out there you la forfeit the game Fortig recalled. Mckay asked the official what s the score of a forfeit when he was told it was 2 0, Mckay snapped thai s the Best Damn Deal we be had Here yet."1 notre Dame students used to shake Down the Thun Der from the sky in pregame rallies in an old Field House on Campus. There was an emotional scene before the 1969 game with us when Rocky Bleir a former Irish halfback who would go on to play for the Pittsburgh Stet cars limped onto the stage As the House lights dimmed. Bleir a wounded Vietnam War Veteran who  returned Home leaned on his Cane and implored let s win this one for the Guys in the Rice  the Best the Irish could do was tie the game 14-14, notre Dame switched from Blue to Emerald Green jerseys shortly before the Kickoff against us in 1977. The emotional gimmick was effective As the Irish routed the trojans 49-19. It was coach Dan Devine s ploy and in 1983, Gerry Faust notre Dame s beleaguered coach was asked if he would try the same stunt against us. Well always Wear our school colors Blue an Gold Faust solemnly told a reporter i m not opposed to the Green jerseys because they represent the fighting Irish. But our Kemeys will always have Blue in them because that s the color of Floc blessed  the Irish were attired in Blue jerseys when they came onto the Field in s3. But they soon changed to Green with a Blue rim on the sleeves for the opening Kickoff. Notre Dame responded by beating us 27-6. Then before the 1985 game at South Bend Faust was asked the same question. He replied Well be went on to win easily 37-3, and notre Dame  embarrassed by Faust s  Anthony Davis will forever be remembered As the tailback who scored 11 touchdowns against notre Dame in his career three on Kickoff returns. It was his 102-Yard return in 1974 at the coliseum that ignited us after it had trailed 24-6, at halftime. The trojans went on to score 35 Points in the third Quarter and win 55-24. In a remarkable turnaround. Asked if people still ask him about his role in the 1974 game Davis said every year now for 14