European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 12, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday january 12,1989 the stars and stripes Page 23 sports wife coaches urge Mcaa to enact tiebreaker from press dispatches Nashville Tenn. The american football coaches association recommended tuesday that the Mcaa adopt a tiebreaker for All College football games. The recommendation announced at the Acca s an Nual convention is different from the nil s sudden death procedure. It is one of Many proposed changes that will be voted on when the Mcaa football rules committee meets next week and stands a Good Chance of passing for the 1989 season. Dave Nelson Secretary rules editor of the commit tee said i think if the seven coaches on the 12 Man committee support a tie breaker it will pass. It needs eight votes and i think if they got seven i d support the proposed tiebreaker would be the one currently used to decide Mcaa and naia playoff games and by some conferences in regular season games. It would be the first tiebreaker for major College teams. The overtime starts with a Coin toss. The Winner selects to be on offence or defense during any Odd numbered extra periods and the loser gets the same option in even numbered periods. All overtime periods Are played toward the same goal line. After team a has had the Ball on team b s 25-Yard line for Ite series whether it has scored or not team b becomes the offensive team at the 25, first and 10. Each team has Possession of the Ball until it scores fails to make a first Down or turns it Over on a Fumble interception or missed Field goal. Excluding penalties a team in most cases would have a maximum of 12 plays to score. The defense May not score during an overtime period. An overtime period consists of one Possession by each team. If the score is still tied after one period they go to a second period or As Many As needed to determine a Winner. The team scoring the greater number of Points after an equal number of possessions is the Winner with All overtime Points added to the regulation Points to de Termine the final score. Irish will visit White House Washington president Reagan has invited the notre Dame football team to visit the White House on Jan. 18, presidential spokesman Martin Fitz water announced tuesday. The fighting Irish won the National championship Jan. 2 by defeating West Virginia in the fiesta bowl. In one of Reagan s notable movie roles he played George Gipp legendary notre Dame football player in Knute Rockne All giants Nelson says illness Back East Rutherford . New York giants offensive tackle Karl Nelson met the Media tuesday and said he was disappointed to announce his Hodg Kin s disease had returned. He is disappointed not for himself he stressed but for the people who have been so supportive since his condition became known before the 1987 season. I be known for some time Nelson told a gathering of More than 50 reporters at giants stadium. I kept it to myself because i Felt bad about it after All the interest and encouragement. I did t want to let anyone after missing the entire 1987 season Nelson s fight for a roster spot this year made National headlines. He started three games but an ankle sprain kept him on the sidelines As the season wound Down. With two weeks to go Nelson said he began feeling tired and run Down. He assumed it was his thyroid acting up a com Mon Side effect following radiation treatments. A week after the season a routine examination showed a malignant Lump on his neck and it was re moved three Days before Christmas. Doctors have determined that the cancer has returned to the original site near Nelson s sternum and has spread to the Lymph nodes of his neck. According to Nelson the cure rate for his disease is 80 percent. Nelson is scheduled to undergo 12 chemotherapy treat ments Over the next six months but he said despite the usual Side effects of nausea and loss of hair he would continue to work out As Long As he Felt up to it. He said he would still try to make the giants roster in 1989. Writers name Esiason map new York quarterback Boomer Esiason who led the Cincinnati bengals to the super bowl was named the nil s most valuable player by the professional football writers association tuesday. Esiason received 33 percent of the writers vote while san Francisco 49ers running Back Roger Craig was runner up with 19 percent. Philadelphia eagles quarterback Randall Cunningham was third with 15percent, followed by linebacker Mike Singletary of the Chicago bears with 11 percent. Esiason earlier was named the map by the associated press based on a vote by a panel of sports writers and broadcasters who cover nil games. Florida St. Defender honoured Oklahoma City All America cornerback Deion Sanders of Florida state won the Jim Thorpe award on tuesday As the nation s top collegiate defensive Back. Arkansas safety Steve Atwater and Florida safety Louis Oliver were the other finalists for the third annual award presented by the Jim Thorpe athletic club. In addition san Francisco 49ers running Back Roger Craig was honoured with the nil most valuable player award. The nil players association con ducted a poll to determine the Winner of that award. Sanders also was a finalist last year when Bennie Blades of Miami fla., and Rickey Dixon of Oklahoma shared the award. Sanders intercepted five passes and returned two for touchdowns though he missed two games in october. He also led the nation in punt returns averaging 15.24 Yards on 33 run backs. Joyner files for arbitration new York following two years of bitter con tract negotiations first baseman Wally Joyner of the California Angels filed for salary arbitration tuesday. Joyner who is eligible for the first time became the second player to file. Shortstop Dickie Thon of san Diego filed last week. Players can file through monday. Olympian voted top collegian san Francisco Teresa Weatherspoon a guard on the Mcaa Champion Louisiana tech Basket Ball team and a starter on the Gold medal winning . Olympic team tuesday was named collegiate woman athlete of the returned from Milan Italy where she is playing for a club team to accept the Honda Brodeck cup at a banquet with the National association of College directors of athletics. Weatherspoon selected by a vote of athletic directors at More than 800 Mcaa member schools won Over nine other candidates named As the Best in their respective other top women athletes were Kim Betz Cross country Indiana Tracey Fuchs Field hockey Connecticut Christina Barrett Golf Longwood Kelly Garrison Steves gymnastics Oklahoma Lisa Longaker softball Urcla Betsy Mitchell swimming and diving Texas Shaun staff Ord Tennis Florida Vicki Huber track and Field Villanova and Suzanne Eagye volleyball Hawaii. Weatherspoon 23, averaged 9.1 Points 6.0 assists and 3.1 steals As the lady tech sters of Louisiana tech went 32-2 and won the Mcaa championship in 1987-88. Tech beat Auburn 56-54 to take the title game in april. Gainey sidelined for 6 weeks Montreal left Wing and team Captain Bob Gainey will be sidelined for at least six weeks because of a broken Bone in his right foot the Montreal Ca Nadies said tuesday. Gainey 35, who broke a Bone in his left foot during Las year s Stanley cup playoffs suffered his latest injury Mon Day night in the first period at Detroit when he blocked a shot by red wings defens Eman Lee Norwood. Soccer body ignores Ioc Rotterdam Netherlands fifa the govern ing body of world soccer is going ahead with plans to limit the 1992 olympic soccer tournament to players under 23, despite increasing pressure from the International olympic committee fifa officials said wednesday. The decision by the International federation of football associations fifa was taken last july and was an Issue of debate at an Ioc executive Board meeting in Vienna last month when Calls were made for an open tournament without age fifa will keep on a collision course with the Ioc when it sends a letter to the National soccer federations in the Corning Days confirming its plan to stick with the age ruling is to oblige All National federations to prepare More than one National team and thus assure gradual coming of age for Young players Sepp Blat Ter the Secretary general of fifa said in an interview. The top teams will be fielded at the world cup and Continental championship tournaments while the youngsters can use the olympics As a showcase for their budding talents. That is not what the Ioc has in mind. It wants the Best of any sport to participate in the olympics. Soc cer cycling and baseball Are expected to be the major exceptions in Are sorry there is this problem said Juan an Tonio Sam ranch president of the Ioc in Vienna last month. But it is a very important sport to All of he said the Ioc is further investigating the Issue before making a decision whether to take additional action. Qualifying matches for the olympic soccer tournament Start in the fall of 1990. The age Rule has caused few Ripples within soccer circles because the olympics do not draw the interest the world cup or the Continental championships do. The top thing you can achieve is the world cup not the olympics said Blatter. Services set for Driver Hurtubise Indianapolis services will be saturday for Veteran race car Driver James Earnest Herk Hurtubise who died after suffering a heart attack near his Home in port Arthur Texas. He was 56. Hurtubise died he competed 10 times in the Indianapolis 500, he finished Only once when he came in 12th in 1962. He suffered disfiguring Burns in an Accident at the a Wisconsin state fair Park in 1964, but continued to race. In 1968, he drove the last front engine car Ever to make the 500-mile race but it lasted Only nine laps. A native of North Tonawanda n.y., Hurtubise lived in Indianapolis Many years before moving to include his wife Jane Stahl Hurtubise one son two daughters his Mother Ruth Whitehead Hurtubise and a brother. To today superstition an to wednesday s programs 1800 headline news 1830 an evening news 1900 Kate and Allie Kate is Quick to say i do when a Bachelor offers her $500 to pose As his wife for an evening. Starring Jane Curtin and Susan St. James. 1925 Golden girls a War erupts in the household when Dorothy s son ends up in bed with Rose s daughter. Starring Bea Arthur Estelle Getty and Betty White. 1950 Gasthaus find out what the air Force is doing to improve billeting. 2000 an evening movie Uphill All the Way a couple of con men unwittingly become desperado after a series of misunderstandings in 1916 Texas. Starring Burt Rey nolds Glen Campbell Mel Tillis and Roy Clarr. 2145 Sledge Hammer when a Young detective mysteriously cracks on the witness stand As he is about to testify against a colourful mobster Dori Doreau realizes that the officer was brainwashed. Hammer s claim that he has vital information to spill about the gangster gets him kidnapped and brainwashed. Starring David Rasche and Anne Marie Martin. 2215 an late edition 2235 knots Landing Ben is caught trying to leave town but is Given a reprieve to accomplish his deadly task. The Lotus Point gala opening ceremony brings an unexpected guest. 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They Tell How they gained a better understanding for the homeless who survive on a Day to Day basis. 1320 general Hospital 1405 guiding Light 1450 just for kids cartoons 1500 Punky Brewster 1530 Day by Day Eileen goes overboard planning her future when she meets an attractive Man whose child attends the Day care Center. 1600 the today show 1800 headline news 1830 an evening news 1900 macgyver 1950 Gasthaus learn some photography tips. 2000 227 it turns out that Alfonso who would rather prac Tice on his violin than fiddle with water pipes in t much of a Handyman. 2030 in the heat of the night 2130 Cagney and Lacey 2220 an late edition 2240 the tonight show 2340 an s late show Elvira s movie macabre the Mea Teater 0130 Abc nightly news 0200 sat net German television wednesday s programs first program 1725 regional programs 2015 to movie la Storia part2of3 2345 crime series Bronk part 1 of 13 second program 1740 series Matlock 1930. Musical entertainment pop sounds of Germany 2100 series Jake and the fat Man american 2240 movie delayed danger French thursday s programs first program 1505 series for children Sinha Moca 1725 regional programs 2103 musical entertainment second program 1558 series Indian River 1745 series the Wicherts from next Doort 1930 quiz show big prize 2325 movie Don t be afraid Jacob German the stars and stripes american to schedule is based on the latest information furnished by superstition an. However the scheduled programming is subject to change
