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2R July 24, 1980 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH BIG RED IN CAMP i i I By John Sonderegger Of th Pott-Dispatch Staff Dan Dierdorf, weighing in at 295 pounds, stood atop the bleachers at Lindenwood College Wednesday morning and surveyed the fresh meat. He had heard all about these young defensive linemen, and he had come to observe. "No, I'm not standing up here wondering how hard they're going to hit me," he said, laughing. "If I had deteriorated mentally to that point, then lt'd be time to retire." Dan Dierdorf wishes the youngsters well.

He says good luck to Curtis Greer, Stafford Mays, Rush Brown and Bill Acker. But the veterans, including Dierdorf, will be checking into their rooms tomorrow and will be on the field for the first time Saturday evening. And Dierdorf's motto on hitting is: "It is better to give than to receive." The young defenders have looked good in this week of practice for rookies, free agents and selected veterans (selected because they are fighting for jobs or to make the club). But Dierdorf's gang hasn't been around to intimidate them, either. It remains to be seen if the youngsters can cope with the likes of Dierdorf and Keith Wortman at offensive tackle, Bob Young and Terry Stieve at guard and Tom Banks at center.

That offensive line has turned top sirloin into hamburger many times. But there are three questions that must be answered about the offensive line: (1) Has Dierdorf recovered fully from th. Knee injury that sidelined him for almost all of last season? (2) Can 37- Dierdorf condition. The moment of truth will arrive in the next couple of days when Dierdorf collides with some of the young bucks he was watching Wednesday. "Mentally," he said, "you've got to put it (the Injury) out of your mind." For three consecutive years, Dierdorf had been named the game's best offensive lineman by the National Football League Players Association.

And for five consecutive years he had been named All-Pro. Then came 1979, and the big right tackle went down In the second quarter of the second game. "In my mind," he said, "I know everything's gonna be just fine." Dierdorf's replacement last season was rookie Joe Bostic. Now a second-year man, Bostic is being worked at left guard as well as tackle. Young is the incumbent left guard.

Despite suffering a hamstring pull and a leg injury last season, he was named All-Pro for the second consecutive year. But he has had some back problems during the offseason. "If Bob Young's healthy," Dierdorf said, "there's not a guard in the league who can beat him out. But Bob's got to come in and show everybody he is healthy." Banks is expected to report along with the rest of the veterans tomorrow night, but no one is sure if he will show on time. Last year, he had not signed a contract and didn't come to camp for the first two weeks.

There is no question about the health and readiness of Stieve and Wortman, two of the team's most reliable performers in 1979. BIG RED NOTES: Rookie Greg Dan Dierdorf year-old Bob Young shake off his back problems? and (3) Will Tom Banks sign his contract and report to camp on time? Dierdorf says he's anxious to play football again. Everyone has been speculating whether he'd be able to return. "At times I wonder, too," Dan said. "I've done everything except play football.

I've played racquetball, softball, ran and worked out. I'm anxious to see how it (the knee) holds up under the strain of two-a-days. I'm not anticipating any major problems. I've been hurt before." When Dierdorf was playing at the University of Michigan, he suffered an injury to his right knee. In the second game last season, Dierdorf's left knee was mangled beyond recognition.

"The knee was completely out of socket," Dierdorf said after the game at Giants Stadium. "It moved a couple inches off to the side. My leg was all twisted around and my foot was pointed in the wrong direction." He underwent surgery the next day, was hospitalized for a week and began rehabilitation the.ov "'hen the cast came off in the third week of October. "I tore up everything you could tear up," Dierdorf said Wednesday. Because the injury was diagnosed as one of the worst ever seen by Dr.

James Ellsasser, the team's physician, a favorite offseason topic has been i 1 Kolenda suffered a slight "shoulder separation in practice Tuesday night and is out indefinitely. Ten players missed Wednesday morning's workout with minor injuries, including the club's top two draft choices, Curtis Greer and Doug Marsh. There will be no practice sessions tomorrow Saturday morning and Sunday morning. Veterans are scheduled to arrive tomorrow night and will take physicals Saturday morning. Their first workout will be Saturday night The Big Red will scrimmage the Kansas City Chiefs Aug.

2 in Columbia, at the University of Missouri practice field. AP Dress Rehearsal Podolski Gives Up On Foot-ball Try Mariana Simionescu models her $7,000 wedding dress at a London hotel before leaving for her native Romania, where she was married today to tennis star Bjorn Borg in a lakeside ceremony 45 miles outside Bucharest. The dress is embroidered with 2,000 pearls and 1 ,000 rhinestones. and gets the rest of the results next week. He plans to work for a St.

Louis accounting firm. Podolski had expected greater success in his football fling but quickly came to realize how unlikely it would be ingest for him to make the NFL after not playing the game for five years. Somerville Takes Job As Saluki Assistant CARBONDALE, 111. -i- Tim Somerville, a former head basketball this season were extremely slim. But, with luck, he thought he might learn enough to catch on with the Patriots or another team some day.

Then he went to his first practice. "It didn't feel that strange. I wasn't shocked or uncomfortable, but I just felt a bit awkward in the line play," Podolski said. "These guys have techniques down that I haven't done before. I just feel I've been out of it too long." Erhardt agreed.

"He's a long ways away," the coach said. "Very green and raw compared to what he has to go against. A very willing guy but he just hasn't had the experience." At one time Podolski had planned to play college football last season but he decided to focus on the hammer throw and make the Olympic team. He improved his distance by 26 feet this year. Now he is giving up football again to concentrate on a more solid career.

He has passed the first part of his test to become a certified public accountant SMITHFIELD, R.I. (AP) The deck was stacked against him from the start and, after only a couple of hands, SUn Podolski stopped fighting the odds and pulled himself out of the game. A hammer-thrower taking a long-shot stab at professional football, the 280-pounder from St. Louis requested and received his release from the New England Patriots Wednesday. It came on the third day of the team's training camp after just two practices.

"I just gave up," a subdued Podolski said after leaving Coach Ron Erhardt's office. "I feel it's been too long to get back into it." Podolski, 23, played football at Rosary High. But, in his five years at. Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, he didn't play the game. Instead, he concentrated on track and field and went to the Olympics Trials as a hammer-thrower.

That's where New England scout Mike Holovak spotted his 6-foot-5 frame and figured he'd give Podolski a shot at a defensive line job in the National Football League. "I was tied for fifth in the qualifying coach at Texas Christian University, has been named as an assistant coach at Southern Illinois University, it was announced by SIU head basketball coach Joe Gottfried. Somerville, 34, who coached the Horned Frogs in 1977-78 and; 1978-79, comes to SIU after one season at Bowling Green State University. Somerville, a native of Cleveland and a graduate of East Carolina State, also was an assistant three years at Ohio State from 1971-74 Stan Podolski round and then he came to me," Podolski said. "Then I got a little bit excited about football.

I couldn't sleep that night. I came in ninth the next day in the finals. Only the top three make the Olympic team." Podolski had no illusions. He knew his chances of sticking with the Patriots i -r 1 SCOOTERMOBILES' LOSS: Ben Starr, a retired Air Force master sergeant who lives in Montgomery, remembers how his son almost gave up football. His son is Green Bay Packers Coach Bart Starr, for many years an outstanding National Football League quarterback.

"When he was a sophomore in high school, Bart was on the 'B' team," said the elder Starr, 70. "He missed practice one day and came home with a friend riding a scootermobile. I said I wasn't going to make him play football but I also said I wasn't going to have him coming home running that scootermobile on the streets. "I told him, 'Just turn your uniform in and I'll have an itinerary of jobs for you to do around the house. And your mother is going to see to it that you do those jobs." The next day Bart returned to football practice.

"And I never had any more problems," Ben Starr said. SINGING HIS PRAISES: There must be something about baseball players named Joe that inspires composers and lyricists. Les Brown's 1941 recording of "Joltin' Joe DiMaggio" helped introduce the music world to the former New York Yankees slugger. Now, "Go, Joe Charboneau," based on the exploits of the Cleveland Indians' rookie designated hitter, is getting regular play in the team's radio listening area. The new song, whose sound has been likened to a tribal war chant (it includes crowd noises and tapes of broadcasts done by Indians announcer Herb Score), was written by Don Kriss and Stan Bloch, who call themselves Section 36.

The name is taken from the area of Cleveland Stadium where the two sat during this season's home opener when Charboneau hit his first home run. "We had a couple of beers aand made up a joke song at Stan's house afterward," Kriss remembered, "but on the way home, I began to feel the song was kind of catchy." The song, which is played on Cleveland radio stations after every Indians game, is fast becoming a hit which is something Charboneau hadn't done much recently before he went 3 for 4 Tuesday against Seattle. Although he was benched while in a l-for-26 slump, Charboneau still leads the team in home runs and is batting about .280. RECESSION VICTIM? Kentucky Finance Secretary George Atkins said Tuesday the state lacks the money to help pay off the bonds for the proposed $30 million, arena for the NCAA national basketball champion University of Louisville. Atkins noted the state faces a possible $114 million budget deficit this year and is concentrating on meeting its payroll and avoiding layoffs.

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