European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 8, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 34 the stars and stripes sports thursday december 8,1994 1 Steve Spurrier the University of Florida football coach,1 is a Southern boy of some swagger whose fire in the belly is revealed when sleepy eyed and with a drawl he explains Why his a beat your in by five touchdowns. Throughout the South North of Florida Spurrier s explanations have caused listeners to press their hands against their ears while calling for the coach s arrest on the charge of premeditated immodesty. Immodesty is a crime against the memory of Bear Bryant. The Alabama god invented the Mush Mouth Way of congratulating losers while deflecting Praise from himself so it would land on his players and their Good commas and daddies. Bear also created in Alabama football the virtue of Bedrock fundamentals. His football was a simple game just a matter of a a putting your Hose where it done to want to  what we have in Steve Spurrier near the end of a millennium is the coming of the anti Bear. He has confessed to charges of letting you know he is darned Good. He has done what not even the Bear did win three Southeastern conference championships his first five seasons. And Spurrier steam won this year by defeating Alabama with football plays so far removed from Bedrock fundamentals that they looked like. Well the plays looked like. A i grew up with Steve in East Tennessee when he was scratch ing those plays in the dirt a said Joe Biddle a Nashville sportswriter. V a a \ a a a. A a a a a Florida beat Alabama 24-23 on a touchdown scored with just less than six minutes to play. To say that touchdown came on the 10th play of an 80-Yard drive is to say nothing. Florida a work on that drive was bolder by a multiple of three than anything done on a football Field anywhere at any time since. Well any time since. Well when did Emory amp Henry College touch Steve Spurrier a life a the 1950s,�?� said Joe Biddle. What Florida did on a saturday afternoon in 1994 was done on saturdays when Annette Funicello wore Mickey mouse ears. On that winning drive j Florida faked an injury a As notre Dame faked an injury in 1953 and so preserved an undefeated season. Florida went into an unorthodox spread formation with a wide receiver set far out on each Side directly behind two other receivers a As a Little Virginia College did so Well it became known As a the Emory amp Henry  Florida threw a Long lateral followed by a pass downfield a a a double pass done by everyone from pop Warner to Dave Kindred commentary the Stanford band and yet a risk Seldom taken 22 Yard from a touchdown on what might be your last Possession. Florida ran the Ball Only twice once a scramble by quarterback Danny  later on fourth and one at Alabama s 33 when a Field goal might have been prudent. Even at the 2-Yard line Florida threw because the quarterback decided he  score on the sneak or ered by Spurrier. Amazing every play a Gamble every play built on the one preceding it and every one worked. Put your nose. Where it done to want to go Spurrier Guys won by  their noses where nobody could find Mem such As on the faked injury play on first Down 67 Yards from a touchdown the third play of the winning drive. Florida practice the charade All week. Wuerf Fel would Limp off the Field. To turd Stringer Eric Kresser would Rush in. The defense would expect a frenzied backup to hand off. Instead because his Arm is stronger than Wuerffel a Kresser a role in the Shadow show was to throw deep. Which he did for 25 Yards moving Florida into Alabama territory. Wuerffel promptly sprinted Back in and said later a it was All  he had in fact gone Down and might have been Hurt. At that sight Spurrier immediately said a Kresser a Kresser was Rushing onto the Field snapping his Chin strap when Wuerffel saw him. That a when he began to Limp. A hobbled off a Wuerffel said to reporters smiling. A hobble hobble a he said smiling. A a fake hobble a he said. You can to be too Clear with reporters then one More smile a look Good a nothing much looks As Good As College football when it Means something. More than 74,000 people saw Florida Alabama All but three or four of those Happy folks with elephant noses and Gator jaws attached to their bodies. The bowl games Are next full of sound and fury but alas and the time is Long past to change this signifying no undisputed National Champion. Even in dramatic Victory Spurrier offered no Tor turd logic that would move his 10-1-1 team to the top of the voters polls. He just said a i can to see Why College football is the Only sport in the world that does no to have a tournament to determine a Champion. Its just the fairest Way to do  we spoke of notre Dame faking injury. At South Bend ind., on nov. 21, 1953, a fighting Irish team undefeated in six games was losing to Iowa 7-0, with time running out in the first half. Coach Frank Leahy steam needed 12 Yards for a touchdown but had no timeouts. So Leahy signalled tackle Frank Varrichione who screamed clutched his Back and fell to the turf in pain clearly excruciating. Florida head coach Steve Spurrier boldly gambled and won on the decisive drive against Alabama. / a referee rushed to Varrichione a Side and stopped the clock. The poor Guy was helped off the Field. No doubt he hobbled. During the timeout Leahy conferred with quarterback Ralph Guglielmi who returned to throw a touchdown pass. The game ended 14-All. Notre Dame went 9-0-1 that season Leahy a last. He would be remembered As a Brilliant coach who gave College football both the fighting Irish and the fainting Irish. As to the identity of the Emory amp Henry College coach who Drew up that Odd spread formation the sportswriter Joe Biddle said a i have no  he did remember one thing though. The mention of the school reminded Biddle of his boyhood Days with Spurrier when for a while both dated the same girl. A then she went off to school a Biddle said. A she brushed us off and she married a football player a at Emory amp Henry.a. A the sporting news a on Boulder Colo. A Bob Simmons has become a Symbol in the debate Over claims of racism in College football. This week Jesse Jackson a Rainbow coalition accused University of Colorado administrators of practising a blatant racism in their selection of new coach Rick Neuheisel who is White. Simmons a Black assistant head coach was in Houston recruiting tuesday. He said Jackson a allegations were not about him but about a what the decision stands   a Quot Colorado selected Neuheisel 33, Over Simmons 46, who has More experience and was coach Bill Mccartney a main recommendation to be his successor. Simmons said he had no idea How Jackson heard about the situation. A i honestly done to he said. A i done to know what a going on. Papers Are calling my Home people Are saying this and that. But this Isnit about me. Its about what the decision stands for. People Are asking for  v Simmons declined to speculate on whether cd was racist. His Only reply a no comment.�?�. J Simmons who has interviewed for the Oklahoma state coaching position said Simmons he does no to feel like a Symbol but knows he a become one. A this is a reaction from the feeling of a lot of minority coaches out there a he said. V meanwhile the National Rainbow coalition appeared to Back off its initial claims of racism in Colorado a selection process. Quot Charles Farrell the National director of the Rainbow coalitions fairness in athletics movement described the University a football program As a a Stellar and denied the group had called for a National Boycott of it the Rocky Mountain news reported wednesday. A we Are not planning that. It is a weapon in our Arsenal that we Are ready to use a Farrell said tuesday. Running Back Rashaan Salaam took Issue with Jackson a charge of racism. Salaam was asked about the comment in Dallas where he received the Doak Walker award As the nations top running Back. He frowned and said a for him to make remarks like that he did no to do his research very Well. What he said is not Correct at All.Salaam praised Neuheisel s promotion mating that he had recruited him in High school. A Simmons is a Good coach but he was just a line coach a Salaam said. It earlier this week the coalition sent a letter to University president Judith Albu no threatening action that May include a lawsuits censure or picketing and we May also consider launching a National  _. Roof of Northern Iowa dome by Snow Cedar Falls Iowa apr the fabric roof of Northern . Una dome collapsed. Tuesday under the weight of a heavy snowfall. A about 3 30 this morning a Small rip about 6 feet Long occurred in the fabric of the dome roof along a seam where the fabric meets the Cable support sys Tern a uni spokesman Gerald Anglum said. A by about 3 50, the wind had caught that and Tom out a Large triangular shaped panel of the  there were do injuries. The Waterloo area got 10 inches of Snow overnight. The dome Home of the uni football and basketball teams opened in 1976. It seats 16,400 for football and can House 25,000 people for special events such As concerts. A basically the dome is unusable at this Point a Anglum said. Quot the entire fabric roof of the dome sagged to within about 20 feet of the Concrete floor which was covered with water from melting Snow. A triangular Hole gaped near the North scoreboard Early today a a we be got some water on the floor not , amount a Anglum said. A Tarp covered the surface of the basketball floor protecting it from much of the Snow and water. A a a a. A women a basketball game tuesday night Between 14th-ranked Kansas and Northern Iowa was stopped Early in the second half when water began to leak 011  floor. The game was called with 16 minutes 31 seconds left to play with the consent of both coaches. Kansas won the game 83-38. I he Waterloo Cedar Falls area had received 2 aches of Snow and freezing rain by game time which was delayed 45 minutes