European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 25, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday March 25, 1991 the stars and stripes Page 25 a amps l err wet Lewis or. While the hoopla rages outside Galaxy players Yeppie Paul a 57 and Pat Moorer 55 Deal with pre game jitters. World league of american Footra Fobig crowd sees fire get doused by the associate press Birmingham. Ala. A nearly 53.000. Ians watched the Olaf s debut in Birmingham As Montreal beat the Host fire 20-5 saturday night. The big crowd saw Birmingham enter its third professional league. The City had teams in the world football league which lasted two seasons and the United states football league a three year venture. Despite a fire breathing performer in the stands and a halftime show in which Jerry Lee Lewis Sang a great opening Day balls ," the fire had trouble generating any heat until the final Quarter. Kevin Sweeney passed for a touchdown Elroy Harris ran for one and Bjorn Pittmo kicked two Field goals for the machine. A Montreal built a 13-0 Lead before the fire got its Points on a 35-Yard Field goal by win Lyle and a safety both in the final Quarter. Nil Mon a Field goals were for 22 and 35 Yard sin saturday s other game surge 9, sky Hawks 3 Sacramento Calif. Paul Fra hers 1-Yard touchdown with 3 47 left in the fourth Quarter propelled Sacramento to a soggy Victory Over Raleigh Durham in a game played before 15,12b spectators. A a Frazier totalled 69.yards on 23 balloon soars in festive atmosphere by Walt Morrissette Staft writer Frankfurt Germany a they did it. They really did it. The world league of american football kicked off its history saturday at 8 15 . Central european time with a festival that made 23,169 tailgate party lovers feel right at Home in the Wald stadium. The final score read London monarchs 24, Frankfurt Galaxy 11. But dwarfing the importance of the score was the fact that the league tapped into a vein of football fans in Central Germany who were just curious enough about the world league to give the Galaxy a shot. They were treated to an Avalanche of football pageantry a american style. Traffic jams outside the stadium. American fans hosting German fans in tailgate parties. Which was in addition to the Galaxy s tailgate party adjacent to the stadium Complete with White tents food and Frankfurt Galaxy Cap Ana jacket vendors. And a colourful rocking halftime show rivalling that for a new years Day bowl game Back Home. The biggest attractions were a tent with a 20-foot High Wall of television monitors and speakers that blared out a this is the a Fly instructional videos the Galaxy Pep band with musicians from Frankfurt and Hanau american High schools As Well As German schools and 25 Frankfurt Galaxy cheerleaders. In the parking lot Mike Arthur of Athens Gay a a . Airline employee based in Frankfurt and his wife Peggy a native of Frankfurt had a tailgate party for five under the raised tailgate of his off Road Wagon. The Fried Chicken potato salad chips and Beer could easily have been tailgate fare Back borne. Peggy however was True to her roots. To a a soccer fan a she said. A but i took her to Sanford stadium at the University of Georgia and converted her a Mike said. She remembered her baptism was the 1987 Georgia Kentucky game. A and we won Loo Quot a her biggest thing All week was t getting to the game a Mike said a it was getting to the tailgate Sandi Crain of Durham was a guest of the Arthurs. She a assigned to the 3rd corps support come in Frankfurt. A Al hate football on to but i love going to the games a Crain said. A my Kaleigh Durham sky Hawks will be Here on the�.�20th�?� Crain though said Shell have to miss the visit by her Home team because her choir is singing that Day. Inside the stadium the noise was adrenaline pumping and just Plain loud. Galaxy general manager Oliver Luck welcomed the crowd. And a helicopter swooped Down on the 40 and out came Olaf president Mike Lynn with two Galaxy cheerleaders to kick things off. Big screen scoreboard to carried the . Television feed throughout the game with explanations of each offensive play and penalty. And pop hits filled the stadium during the Breaks. In fact the world league is now faced with having the Quality of play on the Field equal the spectacle. The world league sold the seats on the Promise of nonstop offensive High scoring first game fell a bit Short of that. Will these fans continue to rally behind the Galaxy in these numbers Only Lime will Tell. But on this night the world league won the super bowl of plays get new league off and running by Walt Morrissette staff writer Frankfurt Germany a London quarterback Stan Gelbaugh broke open the inaugural world league game with a record touchdown pass that might stand for awhile a a 96-Yard third Quarter bomb to Ion Horton. That gave the monarchs a 17-5 Lead and they went on to win 24-11. A i just went to the Ball a Horton said about the pass play in which he caught the Ball broke a tackle and bolted Down the left sideline to pay dirt. A Stan made an excellent throw. The do and 1 battled while the Ball was in the air. 1 just wanted it More than he did. T want to thank our coach to give me a Chance to play. I want to thank our offensive line. They blew them off the line in the second half. Stan had time to throw and smitty David Smith had room to run a Horton said. To so thrilled that we won the game a coach Larry Kennan said. A both offences were kind of Sloppy at first. But after we Settle Down we started moving the Ball. In a just glad to be a London Monarch a David Smith who bolted 28 Yards for the first to in Olaf history said the noise from the big crowd a got the blood Gelbaugh a former Buffalo and Cleveland of moved the team the Way the world league intended to with slanting pass patterns after the big play. A it worked Good against their Man to Man coverage a Gelbaugh said. A they were blitzing a lot. When you Blitz like that you Gamble because you leave things Kennan said he had decided earlier that both quarterbacks Gelbaugh and John Witkowski would play no matter what the score. He also say if Gelbaugh supplanted Witkowski As the no. 1 of with his big second half Gelbaugh led the monarchs to 17 second half Points after London led 7-5 at halftime under Witkow ski. A i can to fault the physical Effort of our team a Frankfurt coach Jack Elway said. A a i always say to win a football game you have to Excel in three areas special teams offence and defense. We did no to do Well in two of those three areas offence and defense a those delay of game penalties pestered the Galaxy All night. A a that a about As Quick a clock in be Ever seen a Elway said. A we were counting on the helmet radio up until game time then they told us. London a radio Wasny to working so we could t use it either. We did no to have signals worked out so we had trouble getting the plays in on time. We talked about it at Naif time and we just kept quarterback Mike Perez in a couple of sets in the second half. A we were Only Able to work on the Tempo the last couple of Days before the game. But we got a feel for the Tempo in this game. Hopefully Well have the radio in the i thought the defense was very physical and made big plays. That a going to be the style. We re going to try to come upheld and make the big Perez took responsibility Lor the offensive struggles a it Wasny to anything they did to frustrate us a Perez said. A we just did no to execute. When you get Down to the goal line you got to get three or seven you can t come away with despite the loss the team was encouraged by the fail support at the Wald stadium. Elway said the big crowd was a very exciting. I wish we could have won for them. But in a glad to be a part of
