European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 14, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday november 14,1992 sports the stars and stripes b Page 25conway provides trojans a horse Jim Murray % i ave a Curtis Conway be anything but a us Trojan football player. Even if he did no to run the 40 in 4.z5 seconds have the hands of a Paris pickpocket and the moves of Nureyev you d know he belonged in a Cardinal and Gold uniform. Its the name. Guys with alliterative names like that Are either British poets a or so flankers or tailbacks. As chronicled before Here so usually looks As if it got its varsity from the pages of a a Ivanhoe or a the knights of the round the Only other place in the world with names like this Backfield is the House of lords. This is the school that us Addison Thorne. And forget the nickname o.j., folks his name was orenthal Simpson. He had half a Heisman right there. So Backfield have had Marcuse and a Gaius. How do you like Grenville lans Dell Aramis Dandoy Haskell Wotkyns Morley Drury they had a player named Marion Morrison once. He later changed that name to John Wayne. My Contention is if it had been John Wayne in the first place he have gotten a scholarship. So did no to Deal in Johns. If a Guys name was Joe or Pat or Butch they told him to go to Nebraska. If his name was Decius they said a come right in a and gave him the football. The Only unusual thing is Curtis Conway Isnit a tailback. Us is tailback u. First you get a name right out of elizabethan England then you get 2,000 Yards then the Rose bowl then the Heisman. Actually they did no to know what to do with Curtis Conway when he first came in. He had been a quarterback in High school. He was a world class sprinter a 10.28 in the 100 a so he could be a wide receiver. He hit hard so he could be tailback. He could backpedal and jump so he could play cornerback or safety. And he could change direction on a gum wrapper while running at 20 m.p.h., so be could return kicks. So tried him at quarterback but eventually gave up on that. Curtis Conway giving or throwing the Ball to someone else was a bad idea. Defense was out too. They did no to want Curtis chasing somebody with the Ball they wanted somebody chasing Curtis with the Ball. The first time they saw him run a pass route in practice they asked the defender if he Hadnot seen Conway going by him. Passes for 80 Yards and a touchdown a another touchdown catch was called Back because of a penalty a and he gained 18 Yards Rushing on his Only carry. He demolished Oklahoma lie caught nine passes for 115 Yards and a touchdown. He scored another touchdown on a punt return of 66 Yards but it was called Back. Against Washington he had 112 Yards in receptions including a 51-Yard touchdown play. Against California he had 121 Yards in Kickoff returns. Against Oregon be had 146 Yards input returns including one of 96 for a touchdown the longest in so history. He scored on an end around against Washington state. A a he a our Impact player a says his coach Larry Smith. Nobody goes out for Coffee when Curtis Conway has the Ball. Adds Smith a i would say Curtis Best attribute in addition to his Speed is his honesty. He makes Good decisions because news super honest. He a a Force for offence but he a also a Force for defense. Even when the other team scores they have to think a us of now we gotta kick off to Curtis a Conway likes his Muli purpose role. "1 like returning punts and kickoffs a he says. A a that a when you know the Ball is coming to you. You can plot out your moves. You can really show your ability. On a pass play maybe you re going to get hit and maybe besides velocity and honesty Curtis exercises another characteristic a curiosity. A Speed is god Given a lie says. A the rest is up to you. That a Why i like to study film. Its like a prizefight out there. Fleet Curtis Conway carries a proper Southern Cal name even if he Isnit a tailback. A Well heard him a the cornerback said scratching his head. Lots of people have heard Curtis con. Way this season. There Isnit a safety in the league who knows what he looks like from the front. They re Lucky they get the number. For their information it s 3. To Conway a credit he always knew he was destined to be a Trojan. Its All he dreamed about growing up in Hawthorne Calif. He stayed out of gangs stayed in a gym. His idol was not some Guy in Gold chains and a Pink Cadillac but the dazzlingly gifted us and Pittsburgh Steele wide receiver Lynn Swann. But he was a prop. 48 recruit. This is a student who comes in under the line academically and is admitted Semi Proba tonally. Us does not take prop. 48s. Us is not Yale. But neither is it i Miami. Conway had to go elsewhere. He chose Nebraska. But his heart Wasny to in it. He stayed for six Days then went to the coach and said in effect a i done to belong Here. In a supposed to go to he knew a Curtis Conway belonged at Troy not the Platte. He came Home went to classes at Al Camino College where he upped his Scholastic to the Point he could pass the College boards. Curtis Conway could become the first non tailback to win a Heisman at so. In a mini confrontation with the leading Heisman candidate san Diego states Marshall Faulk this year he caught five you study your Man you get curious about what he does. Just like in a fight you better know his weaknesses a out you better know his strengths too. A do i come Back to the huddle and say to the quarterback a hey i can get open on this Guy a no i used to be a Auar Turback myself and i know this can be a distraction. You take care of of your business out there and i take care of mine. I might get him to be looking for me on a play and 1 might slip. I have a wide Field of peripheral vision a i hardly Ever get Blind sided even Over the Middle a but he should Sec More than times have changed. Eight Man fronts have made flankers like Conway More important in the Trojan scheme of things than student body right. But one thing never changes a Trojan names. They still sound As they came theology a. Or the Walls of Westminster Abbey from an anthology of minor British poets. Tow pm recommends no husky forfeits los Angeles a the University of Washington will not have to forfeit any of the eight games that quarterback Billy Joe Hobert played in this season a Pacific-10 conference committee recommended thursday. Hobert a Junior was declared ineligible tuesday after an investigation by the Pac-10 and Washington found he had taken $50,000 in Loans from the father in Law of a Friend last Spring with no collateral apparently relying on his pro football earning potential. The recommendation of the three member panel will be considered by the Pac-10 Council which will meet sunday in san Francisco. A it was a very difficult decision although it was unanimous a said Douglas Hobbs faculty athletic representative at Urcla. A the outcome of athletic contests Are Best settled on the Field. We re better off sticking with the result rather than engaging in vols majors to part ways Knoxville Tenn. Apr Tennessee has reached an agreement to buy out the remainder of football coach Johnny majors contract and end the longest consecutive coaching Streak in school history at 16 years the associated press confirmed Friday the Knoxville news Sentinel and the Nashville tennessean had reported Friday that the majors Era would end at the completion of the season. Majors was to hold a news conference Friday night to talk about the situation. Details of the buyout were not immediately available. The tennessean said University officials had agreed to pay majors $600,000 for the remaining two years of his contract which makes the University liable for Only his base salary of $96,000 a year. Both papers said majors had agreed to the Deal. It was widely speculated that the Job would be offered to offensive coordinator Phiilip Fulmer 42, who guided the team to a 3-0 record while majors was recuperating from heart bypass surgery. Majors will coach the vols the remaining three games of the season the reports said. One source told the tennessean that the vols three straight losses were not the primary motivation. A we stayed with coach majors when the team went 0-6 in 1988 and we be stayed with him through some other difficult times a the paper quoted the source As saying. A people who believe this is a rash decision Basea on a few losses or the programs inability to beat Alabama Are mistaken. A this is a compilation of things Over the course of several years a unrest has been building around the Tennessee program since majors returned from his surgery the Day after the vols upset Florida. It was much earlier than expected and seemed to take even the team and coaching staff by Surprise. The vols won their next two games but since have stumbled losing by a Point to two struggling programs Arkansas and South Carolina and by a touchdown to Alabama. It was Tennessee a seventh straight loss to the Crimson tide a sore spot for vols supporters. The slide has dropped Tennessee from fourth in the country to no. 23 with a 5-3 record. This is majors 16th year at Tennessee where he starred As a player finishing second in the Heisman trophy balloting in 1956 to Paul Hornung. Majors has a 113-62-8 record at Tennessee with Sec titles in 1985, 1989 and 1990
