European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 24, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday november 24, 1990 the stars and stripes a a Page 25 commentary on Karlsruhe High s Knight line wait Morrissette a rite of passage in anyone a career and one of the highest compliments you can get is when you Are asked to talk to High school students about your Job. Walter Fritz Karlsruhe High schools Tennis coach and journalism teacher honoured me with that invitation while i covered the prep Tennis championships at Wiesbaden last month. Last Friday morning i experienced a first class visit with Fritz and his students. Karlsruhe has a High tech . Studio and the students put out their school paper a Knight life on an Apple computer. I was interviewed by a Knight line Host Walter do prey who plans to attend the University of South Florida in Tampa. A How do you do the High school coverage a that a a system our prep sports editor Ben Abrams set up in the mid-1970s to get the Calls coming in from High schools across Europe. We take the Calls put the game stories together in a matter of minutes then take the next Call. The night sports editor assembles the High school sports pages while monitoring the National wires for breaking sports news. An Agate editor builds the pages with the scores and other Small Type on it. In the journalism class i met Mark Colli Gan a Dodds speech Champion and Karlsruhe High Tennis player who gave a hilarious monologue from the or. Seuss Story a Fox in socks just you try saying a twee the Beetle Battle in a puddle real fast. Cofiey Ball player and speech class student Quiana Wilson gave her speech from the school awards banquet and cartoonist Dave Bowers whose nifty Karlsruhe Knight logo is seen everywhere on Campus. Then i answered questions from the class. My a a interrogators award goes to Megan Driscoll a senior planning to major in English at Princeton uni Verity As soon As she told me that i knew to expect something Tough. Driscoll co edits the a Knight life with Tanya Hussen Jennifer Trego and Laura Maddux. Check out this line of questioning Megan a what gives with Ben Abrams saying we showed poor sportsmanship in beating Oesterberg 68 me a Good sportsmanship Calls for letting up when you be got an out manned team beaten. Did no to you still have your starting Back in when you were ahead 42-0?�?� a yes but with a school our size you can to have More than 30 players on a team. We played All our Guys and they played hard. What does he want us to do throw interceptions on purpose a a did you write him and Tell him that a  a the sign of a Good columnist is that he makes you feel something one Way or the other. Its our Way of getting in depth below the results of the game. If you a amps Walt Morrissette 2 ? Morrissette on a Knight line upper left Mark Colligan performs a Fox in m5n�i7er ? and Walter Fritz Center rear is shown with his speech and journalism class including Megan a a interrogators Driscoll third Row left. S see anything you agree or disagree with please write us and Tell us about it. Just write us maps at letters to the editor stars and stripes Apo 09211. We can serve you better through your  see other letters on this game on this Page. A How do you feel when people say negative things about stripes a a it hurts. The bad publicity we had about our in investigation shows that we Arentt immune to corruption. But i take Pride in the Quality of our work. No other paper sold m Europe covers local sports As completely As we do and no one else is sending 50,000 papers a Day to saudi  another Young Man asked me what i thought about the Arizona vote turning Down the Martin Luther King Holiday. I told him racism is a fact of life but the thing that made arizonans look so bad is that even if they did no to like what or. King stood for they still could have voted to enjoy the Holiday and the super bowl. Now it looks As if  lose both. Later i found out that the cities of Phoenix and Tempe a which have about 90 percent of the states population and would have been the super bowl hosts a Are among 21 Arizona cities that have the King Holiday. Maybe the state can still work out something in time to get the �?T93 bowl Back or get a later one i ended with a class on the filming of the 1987 movie a broadcast news in which i had a Cameo role. Although i was Able to Tell the class a bit about the a real world of sports journalism they gave me an incredible experience by putting me on the spot with their questions. Ill always remember and appreciate Fritz and his teenagers for taking me Back to school. A the stare and stripes sports letter Karlsruhe Oesterberg score ignites comments knights played to win is 68-0 a Slaughter or just a team that is out to win a Aust an unfair Rule yes the knights Are out to win. I the aforementioned Rule is that if two teams Are tied for i nest place then the total number of Points scored is i used to determine who is first in the conference. I speaking of rules what will be the next Rule inst i rated that a team who beats another team by a certain number of Points shall be disqualified it was not even i a we Trento defeat them so badly. Everyone on the Karlsruhe team got to play. Beyond the third Quarter first string players were playing in positions other than then specially. Linemen ran the Ball defense t y j a a a a Ense and vice versa. What else could coach Lee do play us anything less than our Best in a sorry. No i done to feel i need to apologize for upholding the standards that our. Coaches have instilled m a a Ich is to play our Best with the utmost intensity Nutu the very end regardless of the score. To do any Ess Ould to transform football a game for the students into a session of bureaucratic ego pampering Between coaches. And that would be truly a loss. A Randy Stroud Karlsruhe High school Karlsruhe Germany Oesterberg is still a Winner wow that certainly was an extensive article about the Oesterberg loss against Karlsruhe. However what the article failed to mention was that Karlsruhe steam was twice the size of a Oesterberg a that two of Soester bergs key players were on the Bench with injuries and by halftime they were joined by two More and that in spite of an overwhelming Victory Karlsruhe kept its first string in the entire game. In spite of overwhelming Odds the Oesterberg wolfhounds faced a giant on saturday and were undefeated in spirit in spite of the score. We re proud of our coaches and kids. A a Ellen Bell Oesterberg a Netherlands stars and stripes prep sports editor Ben Abrams responds there is considerable discrepancy Between what or. Stroud writes and what actually happened that Day. An out of position player Center Mackie Macarthur scored Karlsruhe a last touchdown in that 68-0 debacle. However Zack Lewis Karlsruhe a Best runner and one of the Best in Europe was put Back into his Normal Backfield position for the three touchdowns preceding the one recorded by a player out of position. He scored on a 5-Yard run near the end of the third Quarter and scored on 73-and 81-Yard sweeps when the score already was 42-0. That hardly is substituting freely. To Back my Point even More the Public address announcer continually pleaded with the coach to a get some new numbers in there let everybody play get Cetera. And for miss Belles claim. It was prominently mentioned in the Story that Oesterberg had Only 21 players and that Karlsruhe was blessed with Many More players than it had had in recent years. It is True that a Point differential can be used in breaking ties to determine playoff representatives in Dodds playoffs. However that category is Down the list of priorities and applies when there is a three Way deadlock and the teams involved have beaten each other i.e., Karlsruhe beat bad Kreuz Nach bad Kreuz Nach beat Brussels Brussels beat Karlsruhe. The first decider is How the teams fared in their head to head play. If a tie still exists records against common opponents Are used. If a tie still exists and there is an Opportunity to play off for the tournament Slot a game can be played. If there is no open Date then the tie has to be broken by a flip of a Coin