European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 26, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday May 26, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 25 commentary a a fumbled game against Albany ready for the Kickoff of let s play fraud Ball. Here s the setting 1. The great Danes from the University of new York at Albany arc in Germany to walk through the sights and run through German american football teams. They trampled the Offenbach beavers 64-0 last saturday and will flatten the Neu Ulm barracudas this saturday. 2. When Albany landed last week Offenbach coach . Knox continued 10 Herald these games As the great Danes is. German american  no All stars showed up last week and none will appear this weekend just another mismatched third division a a team. 3. The losers arc the several Hundred fans who paid $5 last week expecting to Sec Good football be tween German american All stars and the great Danes. What they saw was a Snappy Albany gang make a mockery of Offenbach and its nickname. The beavers could t build a dam against Albany s Rush ing or passing and they Sank on offence. Imagine absorbing that under a scorching Sun and you can understand the Frankfurt Junior High band leaving in the second Quarter. 4. Who else paid the Price quite literally. Mer chants Bank which is helping sponsor this mis named series. As Jeff Vaughan coach of the a a s Eschwege legionnaires so nicely put it merchants is gelling screwed the fans Are getting screwed and Albany is getting screwed because the games arc billed As All Star  you get the idea of Frau Dball. Now let s Sec who scores and who draws penalties. Touchdown for . Knox. This army ser Geant is a major reason Albany is Here at All. Knox who helped found the a a league manipulated the system to make sure he coached a a a team against Albany s Mcaa division Iii squad. If not for his can do approach the first College team Here since 1984 never would pc made it. Even his Nemesis in the a a Hierarchy Klaus pos sink concedes the most positive thing i can say about . Knox is he does t fear any downfall. He tries anything no mat Ter How  unsportsmanlike conduct on Knox. A Veteran coach with his fifth a a team Knox knew he was having trouble forming an All Star team Well before saturday s game. The a a league s leadership was Bucky Fox mixing the All Star idea. Yet Knox continued to mis Lead the Public with the German american All stars Billing. He also avoided two issues i. His being banned from International coaching by the g a league until mid-1990 because of his participation in a football fight six years ago. 2. His Bea vers being booted from the 1989 regular season be cause of mismanagement. Touchdown and Clra Point for the German american league. Since its birth in 1977, it has sprawled into seven German slates. It s part of the european football league which has boomed from five countries in 1982 to 12 full member nations now. The a a league could be close to Landing big Buck backing by the German sports federation Buta prerequisite is proof of competence. So when the league saw Knox dodging the rules of forming an All Star team it told the coach no. I Ossineke who Dou Bles As vice president of the Frankfurt gamblers and officials coordinator for the state of l we Hesse said when you it a have 130 teams Anda 8,000 players you should have a Rule. If . Knox you Don t obey the Rule it s the Swan song of German american  personal foul late hit on the a a league. Of so maybe Knox did t Send the perfect letters requesting the formation of a German american All Star team. But he did present his plan personally to a a officials last Winter and pumped out requests to Frankfurt area teams. If the a a league had Sharp leadership in would pc Bent the rules and jumped on the Opportunity to play a College team. Instead it embarrassed the league by sacrificing the beavers to the 64-0 bloodletting. In a final knife Job the league wants to ban two americans who played saturday quarterback James Tucker and wide receiver Holly Clay for the rest of the season because they ignored the a a order for non beavers to stay Clear of the game. Knox knows his original spirit of the game was done for German players not for admin  Field goal for Knox. With the great Danes Landing last thursday Knox tried to Corral an All Star team through the waning moments. He even recruited three hulks from the Safe Champion Rhein main rockets. But when Knox received a Telegram from the a a league s Hesse division Fri Day with a final no the coach s dream dimmed. Rhein main s assistant coach Bill Carey quit Knox s staff and with him went two rocket guards. Tim Langley and Rich Lawton. The third rocket nose guard Mike Drew stuck with the Man of hard Knox. Knox who contends he played linebacker at South Ern Mississippi although the school s sports information department says it has no record of him said of the a a dictum that s Why people who never played football should t be running the  nine touchdowns and a Field goal for Albany. The great Danes displayed utter Cool in saturday s heat. They played icy mistake free football then praised Offenbach for its Effort and sportsmanship despite a silly fight in the fourth Quarter. You think the Danes arc upset Over being misled about their opponents no. Coach Bob Ford said when they landed in Frankfurt last week that this was a cultural trip More than a football venture. This week his Guys have taken Tours on the Rhein and Mosul Rivers and upcoming arc trips to Rothenburg and Amsterdam. Throw in clinics with Frankfurt and Hanau school kids and it s no wonder Ford said wednesday. It s a great experience. If we went Home today we d have had a phenomenal  How does this Frau Dball compute the German american football league shows seven Points. 11 needs More offence. . Knox has nine Points even if some arc tainted. Albany has its 64 Points. The great Danes stayed Clear of any fraud. The fans they lost at Offenbach last saturday. They la watch another rout at Neu Ulm this sat urday but at least they know what s coming. Tin Start and str pm Mannheim s Jenkins runs jumps to 3 titles by Ben Abrams prep sports editor Augsburg West Germany Mannheim s Corey Jenkins and Bonn s Tracy Losi stole most of the individual Thunder and Hahn s Stephanie Powell set the Only Dodds record As the Central european championships wrapped up track and Field Competition for the year thursday. Jenkins utilized his Speed and Spring to Best advantage to win the boys High and intermediate hurdles and the Long jump championships and freshman lost displayed the poise of a senior in loping to easy victories in the girls 800-, 1,500 and 3,000-Mcter races. For their achievements Jenkins and Losi were declared the outstanding run ners in the meet by the coaches. Frank Furt International school s Chris Vonstentzsch and  s Dawn Chirrick won outstanding Field performance recognition. Vonstentzsch won the boys shot put with a heave of 53 feet 6� inches and placed third in the discus. Cherrick won the discus and finished second in the High jump and shot put. Powell zipped to her record in the 300-meter hurdles turning in a 45.5 clocking to erase the 45.9 Mark turned in by Mannheim s Sheila  last c in osterholz. Merriweather nip Pedell in the 100-meter final earlier inthe Day in a bang bang 14.7 time. I really wanted that record a beam ing Powell said following her Triumph. I Central european track was in the Lead coming off the turn and and i tried my Best to stay there. They had to Chase me and i ran As hard As i  Jenkins was Given an outside Chance to set a record in both hurdle events especially in the 110 highs. He really was t pressed in that race and was clocked in 14.5, one tenth of a second off the Standard. The 300 intermediates was a torrid race with Jenkins catching Hanau s Richard Allen at the tape winning in 38.9 to Allen s 39.0. Jenkins jumped 25 feet 5 / inches to win the Lon jump. He was the Only one to better the 22-fcct distance. Vilseck s Emmanuel Reddix stood be tween Jenkins and four Gold medals. Reddix led the 200 meters practically All the Way and won in 21.9. Jenkins caught Ramstein s Eddie Crawford and Bam Berg s Reggie Collier at the last second to take second place and finish with 38 Points. Jenkins Crawford and Collier were All clocked in 22.2. Reddix won the 100 meters in 10.9, nosing out Collier by a stride and Craw Ford triumphed in the 400 meters in 49 seconds hat. Stuttgart s Ron Blair and Berlin s Carlos Marshall were right on his heels under the 50-Sccond Bamer. Stuttgart s Jamal Hudson cleared his own height by exactly a fool to win the boys High jump. The 5-5 stallion won with a 6-5 Mark. I Don t know what makes me get up Jenkins Bynum so High he said. I have a lot of Spring and strength in my legs and i be always like High  the top five finishers broke two min ites in the 800 meters. Lahr s Dave Lan Glois was a couple of strides ahead As he triumphed in 1 56. Ramstein s Rich Janes and Heidelberg s Shannon Rodgers look second and third in 1 58.4 and 1 58.9. Ramstein s Brian Kun added the 1,500-meter title to the 3,000 he took wednesday for the Only other boys Dou ble. Kun had a 4 03.7 in the 1,500. Other individual boys titles went to Ramstein s John Dunn in the pole vault Wiesbaden s Mike March in the disc Sand Baum older s scan Johnson in the triple jump. The relays were split three ways. Hahn took the 400, Frankfurt the sprint med Ley and Wei Bruckn the 1,600. Ramstein took the big schools boys title with 111 Points and Hahn prevailed in the Small schools with 43 Points. Losi added the 800 and 3,000 lilies to the 1,500 she had won wednesday. In All three races she Cal Stuttgart senior Juli Cyrus. She ran the 800 meters in 2 20.1 and the 3,000 in 10 37. Merriweather and Halm s Tonya me Kolvey were the Only girls multiple win ners besides Losi.  won inc Long jump wednesday. Mckelvy won the 100 meters in 12.3 and the triple jump with a 35- / Effort thai deprived  of a triple by a scan one fourth of an Inch. Mckelvy loss Oul on a triple of her own when Wiesbaden s Trina Lattany caught her at the wire in the 200. Bold girls were limed in an excellent 25.4. Ramstein s Dichelle Bynum in Lurn nipped Altany in the 400, Hilling the tape in 59.8. Chirrick won the discus Wilh a 113-7 heave. Other individual lilies went to  s Nicole Logan in the shot put and to shape s Lisa Whitchead in the High jump. Baum older took the 400 and 1,600 meter relays and Wiesbaden prevailed in inc sprint Medley. Mannheim nipped Wiesbaden by a Point 49-48, to win the big schools title kaisers Lautem had 46 and soul tart 43. Baum older won the Small schools Lilc with 49 Points to Hahn s 48. Losi s 30 Points were All that Bonn managed