European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 07, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday february 7, 1991 run the stars and stripes page23sports wire from wire reports new York a the first coach of the new York knights of the world league of american football will be Darrel a a mouse Davis known throughout his 16-year College and professional coaching career As an avid proponent of the run and shoot offence. L. He was introduced wednesday at a news conference in giants stadium where the knights will play their Home games. A v v the 58-year-old advocate of a saturation passing offence spent the last two seasons As the offensive coordinator of the Detroit Lions Silver stretch attack which employed four receivers one running Back and no tight end. Quot he worked closely with the quarterbacks Rodney Peetz Bob Gagliano and Andre Ware and with the receivers Richard Johnson Aubrey Matthews Robert Clark Terry Greer Jeff Campbell and Mike Farr. Barry Sanders the main running Back led the National football league in Rushing with 1,30�?~4 Yards and also caught 36 passes for 480 Yards. It Davis resigned front the Lions two Days before the super bowl. A. His most successful coaching achievement was probably in 1984 As offensive coordinator with the Houston gamblers of the . Football. League who featured Jim Kelly How of the Buffalo Bills at quarterback. Kelly completed 370 passes 44 for touchdowns in 18 games ? ? j a Davis a first Job As head coach was at Portland state University from 1975 to 1980 when his teams compiled a 42-24 record and set 20 Mcaa division i a offensive records. A a he then spent a year As assistant at California Berke Ley and two years with the Toronto argonauts of the Canadian league before joining the gamblers in 1984 and then the Denver Gold in 1985. Before joining the Lions he spent the 1987 season As director of football operations for Arena football. Davis won Small collage All America honors As a quarterback and running Back at Western Oregon state University before his graduation in 1955. Birmingham drops bowl game coach cuts up of press in Tempe Ariz. Apr Arizona slate coach Bill Frieder always complains that there a not enough hours in the Day to concentrate on has pc tall. V a a a a. Tuesday he did something about it. He. Gave his weekly news conference and got a haircut at the same time. A a Quot John Martinez a frieders. Regular Barber sat the coach on a Stool in front of about 25 members of the Media and started cutting As Frieder answered questions. A this impress them. Just get the darn thing done As fast As you can a Frieder told Martinez who operates a local Barbershop. Bowl games a Clemens said. Instead ref the All american bowl Clemens said the foundation and other groups will try to lure the secs title game to be played for the first time in 1992, to legion Field. The Jec which is headquartered in Birmingham has set ate. 18 deadline for applications. With the addition of Arkansas and South Carolina to the conference the Sec will be divided into two divisions starting next season in basketball and in 1992 in football. Other cities also seeking the title game include Tanpa Orlando and Miami Fla. Memphis Tenn. Atlanta and new Orleans. Krickstein in Milan quarters Milan. Italy a. Sixth hooded Aaron Krickstein moved into the quarterfinals of the Milan indoor at Tennis tournament wednesday when his French oppo nent Thierry Champion retired in the first set of their second round match saying he had become ill. A Champion trailed Krickstein 4-0 when Jakob i Tlasek of Switzerland the fifth seed battled to w Victory Over Jarryd 6-3,0-6, 6-4. In the third set Laird made a string of. Mistakes while leading 4-2?. Failed to hold his serve and allowed la Lack to make. Comeback. In the first round. Swede Jan go Ivarsson a a Tel substitute for injured payout Cane Defeated Claudio Mezzadri of Switzerland 6-3,6-3 and German Eric Jelen beat South african Christo Van renshurg6-4,6-2. Michael Chang s first Ever appearance in Milan was Short lived. Chang lost 6-1, 7-5 to Carl us Stoeh in 83 minutes on t tuesday night a first round match. Agassi Mcenroe Triumph in . San Francisco top seeded Andre Agassi overcame a shaky performance and second seeded Andres Gomez narrowly fought off an upset in the Volvo san Francisco tournament on tuesday. John Mcenroe seeded fourth in this event played like someone in the top five streaking to win the last nine games of his first round match with Andrew Sznajder 6-3,6-0. Agassi coming Back from an right Wick Layoff had difficulty against qualifier Jeff Tarango but won 7-6 756-3. Tarango ranks 139th in the world while Agassi is sixth Gomez of Ecuador also had his problems with another qualifier Brian Devening ranked 371st, but won 4-6,6-4,6-4, Leggett named Raider coach Berman Gammons honoured Birmingham Ala. After 14 years the All american bowl went out of business tuesday because of tougher Mcaa rules but City leaders announced a a full court press to land the secs championship football game. Pete Clemens All american bowl president said that directors of the Birmingham football foundation opted to drop the bowl because of two Mcaa Rule changes. Under the new rules a bowl team must have at least six victories against division 1-a opponents and the minimum payout for each team was increased from $600,000 to $750,000 by 1993. With so Many bowls a getting Quality teams is getting harder and paying them is harder. There is a glut of Al Segundo Calif. A Earl Leggett who helped guide the los Angeles raiders to two nil titles will rejoin the team As a defensive line coach. Leggett who held that Post from 1980 until 1988, was rehired to work under coach arc hell the raiders said tuesday the twp men worked together As assistants under former raiders coach Tom Flores. Leggett held a similar position with Denver in 1989 and 1990. Klingler wins Baugh award Houston a Houston quarterback David Klingler on tuesday was named Winner of the Sammy Baugh award As the nations top College quarterback. The touchdown club of Columbus Ohio announced the award which twill be presented feb. 15. Klingler said ast week he will return to Houston to Complete his senior year. Klinger finished fifth in the polling for thea990 Heisman trophy. Salisbury . A Chris Berman of esp and Peter Gammons of the Boston Globe won top honors for the second straight year from the National sports casters and sportswriters association monday. Berman,35, received sportscaster of the year honors and Gammons 45, won sportswriter of the year award for his work with sports illustrated by the association which will hold its 1990 awards program on april 29. British open rules tight St. Andrews Scotland tide for i Mic met qualifying and a $148,500 incr a in prize Money we announced wednesday for this Elm British open. The Royal and ancient Golf club of St. Andrews which oversees the world s oldest Golf tournament said All but regular players on the major professional Golf Tours plus a handful of leading amateurs would have to go through regional qualifying to get into the Field israeli Soldier returns to ., basketball Miko Danan wore a different uniform by Ronald Blum new York a for three weeks Miko Danan traded his Blue Yeshiva basketball. Uniform for the Green outfit of the Israel army. A a a All of a sudden he no longer was a Forward. He was a staff sergeant. Last thursday his tour ended after three weeks. And on monday night less than 24 hours after returning to the United states he was Back on the court for the maccabees. A i did no to know if i was making the right decision or if i should stay with my family and my country a Danan said. A life goes 4 the 21-year-old freshman is the Only israeli on yeshivas team. He has com Cleved three years of service in the army it is subject to recall by the reserves at times of National need. With the Prospect of War Likely he returned to Israel on Jan. 8 As part of Yeshi vans operation a torah approximately 400 students from the University went to Israel in the Middle of final exams to express their support for the jewish state. A a there Are things More important than basketball and studies a Danan said. A my country and my family is More the Day after he got Home to the Tel Aviv suburb of Ramie Danan s Telephone rang. It was the israeli defense forces. A i said a Stop joking. Who is it a Danan recalled tuesday. A the said a you want to talk to your officer on the Telephone a i said that i wan Ted to. He said a you have to come to the army on he gave me the id number and i knew it was right and knew it was not a joke a Danan who is in a communications unit spent three Days working with equipment. He then went to an area near the jordanian Border. While he was in a sleeping bag in a 35-Man tent his team mates were Back Home continuing their drive for the Mcaa division Iii tournament. With Danan Yeshiva started the season 8-3, its Best Start in 11 years. He aver age i 11 Points and 9.1 rebounds. His 7.6 assists average is 11th in division i tops among freshmen. Naturally his teammates were not thrilled with the Prospect of not having him around. Their first reactions were basketball not War. A i said of we re in trouble a remembered guard Greg Rhine one of the teams three co captains a a it a unfortunate but the first thing you think of is without Danan Yeshiva lost four consecutive games. But last thursday his commanding officer gave him permission to go Home. A we were just waiting a Danan said. A i asked him for vacation lie said do you have to go Back a a Danan made the request because tie Hadnot had a Chance to spend much time with his family. The officer instead proposed that he return to the United states. Danan mulled the decision and took an Al Al flight Back to new York on sunday. He skipped class on monday sleeping Oft his Jet lag. And later that night scored 15 Points grabbed nine rebounds and had seven assists in an 89-67 Victory Over new York maritime up until monday Danan s View of the persian Gulf War came the israeli Side. That changed partly because he noticed the american and israeli flags his teammates had sewn on their uniforms and the players new yellow wrist hands. Quot it made me feel about the americans too Quot he said. A i had thought Only about my own country. When i heard hat Mikvah and the american National Anthem i had tears in my on tuesday he was sewing the flags on his Yeshiva uniform the one that waited for him in his locker while he was off to War. A this is one of the things you learn in the army a he said. A to
