European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 20, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday april 20,1990 the stars and stripes a a Page 25commernarystanley leaves Rhein main on top if you bet big on Warren Stanley you a have a fat Wallet. The Man went 7-0 in Safe championship games As coach of the Rhein main rockets. He won two titles in eight years As Rhein Mains basketball coach. He won three championships in seven years of coaching the rocket baseball team. He won the 1988 and �?T89 Safe titles to Cap five years of coaching the Rhein main football team. Period. Stanley wrote the end of his Rhein main Story two weeks ago. He announced he wont try to Lead the rockets to a record tying third straight Safe football title. He a through after coaching 20 seasons Worth of sports in 15 years. Through with Rhein main sports yes. But through fiddling with sports in the Frankfurt area now a the time to place your latest Warren Stanley bet. Take your pick 1. Stanley a 57-year-old businessman will split for Colorado or Florida within a year which is his reason for dropping the Rhein main football reins. 2. Stanley Ever the Sharp broker will stick around to help run the Frankfurt team in next Springs inaugural world league of american football season. If you placed your chips on no. 1, its a Safe bet. Stanley decided during a recent stateside trip that he should move to Colorado Springs or Clearwater Fla. He knew that while shifting into moving gear he coach football. As he said a i might be gone in six months nine months a year. But i need time to work that Stanley quickly informed Rhein Mains base commander col. De White who is searching for a successor. No one on Stanley sold staff including his son Doug expresses interest. If you bet on no. 2, you re a Gutsy Guy. Stanley is Gutsy shooting for the position of owner or general manager of the world league team. He said that would keep him in Germany a breaking new ground it would be fun to get involved in Stanley the sportsman Isnit interested in coaching the Frankfurt team. Stanley the businessman wants to run it. Let s get this straight the world league is no Continental sports conference. It is sanctioned by the nil not Safe. It has Tex Schramm running it not buddy Chapman. It has millions of Abc and Usa network dollars backing it not mar funds. The 12-team leagues european division includes Frankfurt London Milan and Barcelona not Spang Dahlem and Oesterberg. Bucky Fox you think that clusters Stanley no �?�1 have a lot to offer Stanley played Host to the Schramm delegation last year. He let his interest in helping run the Frankfurt team be known to Bill Gran Holm of nil Headquarters in new York. Stanley has lived in the Frankfurt area since 1973. He figures his contacts can mobilize the Money it takes to Corral the team. How much Money the world leagues european coordinator Billy Hicks wont get specific. He simply said Warren Stanley from his London office that a these franchises wont sell for the same As nil what does that mean $5 million $10 million $20 million Schramm will Only say a seven or eight Hicks explained that the world leagues lawyers Are hammering out a franchise agreement. They will file that agreement with states and countries connected with the league. Under the agreement the nil will own a part of each team with local businessmen completing the Deal under one of three options corporate ownership individual ownership or a partnership of owners. The world league is officially heralding its cities one by one. It tabbed Orlando Fla., last month and Birmingham ala., wednesday. To get an idea of what sort of men Are tackling world league ownership these appear to be Birmingham a Bosses Larry Lemak an orthopaedic surgeon who was involved with the Birmingham stallions of the Usel Bill Harbert an industrialist and Wayne Rogers a Birmingham native who starred in the a pm a she television series. Hicks said yes enough people have called in wanting to own teams throughout the new league no its not too late for someone like Warren Stanley to land the Frankfurt team. A a we re looking for substantial local ownership and Warren would fit that Mold a said Hicks. A i Haven to talked about ownership with him but that a not to dissuade him from being involved. I talked with him on the phone and he sounds like he knows about football in that that a for sure. Stanley went 39-13 in his five football seasons. He went 22-2 in his last two championship years. Stanley was blessed with studs like Tor Hill and Butch Watkins. He was also cursed with duds like Mike Drew the All Csc nose guard who nipped at Stanley verbally about As much As he devoured quarterbacks. Stanley said his biggest mistake was keeping Drew on the roster until he rotated to California Early in the 1989 season. Drew a gone for Good. Court martial charges were brought against Drew on feb. 8 at Rhein main according to base spokeswoman Claudia Ott. The two charges were that he used marijuana and amphetamines. He was never convicted because he requested to leave the air Force instead of face a trial. The 17th air Force accepted Drew a request and directed the discharge March 12. Stanley clarified that player problems a were not a factors in his coaching retirement. A problems arc part of the territory. If you have to Deal with players not liking the head coach or the assistants you have to overcome Tim Langley the 10-year offensive lineman whose Only titles came under Stanley said of the players reaction a there Are mixed emotions on both sides of the Fence. But i believe most of the Guys Are sad. I think hell be missed and the next Guy will have big shoes to bit urge a entrenched athletic director. George Price said a Rhein main should be cry ing in their Beer after losing him. They did t appreciate him the Way they should have. If he came to Pitburg. Id give him the key to the gym and a License to Price coached against Stanley in basketball. It s the sport Stanley says he loved coaching the most. His first Safe titles came in basketball a in 1977 and �?T79, sandwiched around prices first Crown in 1978. A the was a Good motivator a Price remembers. A the got a lot without much. The Guys a a Guy who went out on top. A Guy you done to want to bet against even if you doubt his world league focus. The stars and stripes Baum older marched Over civilian Issue by Walt Morrissette staff writer Kaiserslautern West Germany a civilian athletes in the army european Community should write this Date Down april 18, 1990. That is the Date Kaiserslautern a civilian Point guard Donald Robinson made army basketball history. In All the years Usa eur ran the theater wide basketball championships civilians were banned from playing above Community level. Until wednesday when under the new army european Champi Robinson on ships Robinson became the first. The v corps Champion Baum older bears threatened to Boycott their army european semifinal series with the 21st Talcom Champion Kaiserslautern panthers because 21st, with an Eye on a Ribinson wrote civilian eligibility into this new event. Once the teams tipped off though army basketball Robinsons civilian status became moot. Baum older led most of the Way in taking game 1 of this army european semifinal series 116-102. Game 2 is in Baum older at 7 30 . Saturday. A eventually somebody had to come along and Settle it a Robinson said of his ground breaking status. A a in a just glad i was Able to do it. Maybe this will open the door for other Robinson missed his first five shots of the game but exploded for 27 second half Points and finished with a game High 36. Most of those Points however came after the game was no longer in doubt. Tony Marsh added 26 and George Bennett 12 for the panthers but Baum holders Speed depth rebounding and balanced scoring overwhelmed a town in the second half. Robert Huff and Richard Stewart scored 20 Points each to Lead seven bears in double figures. Jimmy Davis added 18 Points and six rebounds Chester Dupree 14, Darry Frierson had 13 Points and seven assists and Clyde Haip had 12 Points and 10 rebounds and Mark Anderson scored 10. A we just played a High zone on him ass Gus scum Toller see army on Page 27 Baum older a Jimmy Davis dribbles past Kaiserslautern a George Bennett in game 1
