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3 SEP 171987 Sept. 17, 1987 3EV Sports ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH HIGH SCHOOL CLOSE-UP To Sullivan Coach, The Job Is More Than Just Winning --w X- ft L.T. SpencePost-Dispatch with his Sullivan High School football team during Tuesday's practice session. By Marsha Sanguinette Of the Post-Dispatch Staff i avid Olivo, former shoer of horses and mules, Isn't sure he has the rieht nhilosnnhv tn be a high school football coach.

David Olivo, former professional football player, is confident of his knowledge, but he questions whether he will survive in a world in which "winning seems to be the bottom line." "I believe winning is secondary. For every minute I spend driving football knowledge into them, I want to spend a minute teaching them to be gentlemen," said Olivo, head coach at Sullivan High. "People need to realize these kids are not going to be football players for the rest of their lives. Maybe we need to deal with that as much as we can, or more than we do. "Is that the philosophy of a head coach? I don't know.

Maybe my administration will talk to me about that." After spending four successful seasons as a freshman and junior varsity coach in Owensville, Olivo is in his first year at Sullivan, a 10-2 team last season that is 0-2 in 1987. "I've swung around to thinking winning isn't the bottom line," Olivo said. "'Now, people are going to say, 'Sure, you're going to say that because you're not But I believe an 0-10 coach can be just as successful as a 10-0 coach as far as the citizen he's turning out." Don't label Olivo, 41, non-competitive. As a quarterback at Arnold (Pa.) High, he led his team to three consecutive 9-1 seasons. He received a scholarship to the University of Miami and helped the Hurricanes to the Liberty Bowl and an 8-2-1 record his sophomore season, then the Bluebon-net Bowl and a 7-4 mark his junior year.

He is sixth in the Miami record book in pass completions, fifth in touchdown passes, seventh in passing yardage and seventh in total offense. After Miami went 5-5 his senior year, Olivo was passed by in the National Football League draft. Nevertheless, he made the Cardinals' taxi squad in 1969 and served as backup to Charley Johnson and Jim Hart for the next three seasons. Don't try to label Olivo. He is a man of Italian descent living in a house built by a German baker more than 135 years ago.

The house, renovated by Olivo and his wife, Vicki, was one of the first wineries in Hermann and served as a hospital during the Civil War. It sits atop a hill thai was once covered with grape vines. From the back porch one can see the Missouri River when the trees are bare. Olivo sat On the front porch, answering questions and questioning himself. "Now that I'm back in the mainstream, doing what people say is normal, I'm having trouble," Olivo said.

"I don't know. I may be a hippie without the long hair." Olivo left the mainstream after he was injured in a motorcycle accident in 1972. He had surgery on the elbow of his throwing arm and on his knee, and was cut by the Big Red. "I remember the day I came in and they said, 'You're no longer a part of this Olivo said. "Afterward I was walking across the street and (sportscaster) Ron Jacober asked me, 'What are you going to "I said I didn't know.

I truly didn't know. I had just gotten married. "I came home and read in the paper about a head coaching job at Lafayette High. I called for an interview, and they told me to come out the next day. I hung up the phone and told Vicki, 'I don't want to be in football I never went to the interview.

"Was I bitter? I don't know what my thinking was. I should have gotten right back in. That was my background. "I've heard that professional ath-. letes go through a debriefing I don't know if that's the right word for it when they come back to reality.

Because when you're a professional athlete, you're not really in reality." For a while, reality for Olivo was working as a salesman. "I kicked it around for two or three years," he said. "I'm not a salesman. If you need something, I'll talk you out of it." Then he met a horseshoer who needed help on the weekends. For 2 years Olivo served as his apprentice.

Finally he started his own business. "I was probably most at peace with myself doing that," he said. "To me there was nothing better than on a cold, drizzly day to be in a warm barn shoeing an animal that is powerful but is willing to stand there and be your friend for a while. J0fT if David Olivo drives home a point I believe winning is secondary. For every minute I spend driving football knowledge into them, I want to spend a minute teaching them to be gentlemen, fj DAVID OLIVO, Sullivan football coach 1 "The smell of the hay.

The rain on the tin roof. All the small animals, the dogs and the cats, snuggled around. It was euphoric. I know that sounds corny. But I had done something with my hands.

I had worked hard. I had earned some money. "Of course, there were days I cursed it, too. One hundred degrees. asked Olivo to work out with him.

"I hadn't thought about football since my injury," Olivo said, "but for the next two months we worked diligently, every night." Schulte went to Columbia, and although he never lettered, he made the team. "That was the most gratification I'd ever had from a person," Olivo said. A fire was rekindled. That fall Olivo took a job teaching physical education at Owensville and coaching the freshman team. Now he is a head coach with a different twist.

It pains him that Jim Hart, the "quintessential Ail-American," does not receive as much publicity as Jim McMahon. Olivo says he cares as much that the bus is clean after his team uses it as he does about winning. He will stop a drill to correct a player's English. "I try to bombard them with as many unusual words as I can," he said. "If I've done nothing else, now they know what the word 'prudent' means as in 'It's raining today, drive "After our second loss, I was down in the dumps.

Then the bus driver Horseflies. But the good times outweighed the bad, 100 fold." By that time Olivo had lost his de- sire to "go east of Lindbergh Boulevard" and moved his wife and three children to Hermann. There he met Tim Schulte, a graduate of Hermann High, a wide receiver who wanted to try to walk on at Missouri. Schulte Flyers, Hawks Finally Make A Date FOOTBALL SOCCER High school boys soccer rankings as voted by the Post-Dispatch board of coaches and staff. Top 10 listings include first-place votes, record and total vote points.

Second 1 0 listings include record. Records include games through Tuesday. MIKE E1SENBATH NOTEBOOK complimented the boys, told me how easy they were to drive. Now maybe the administration doesn't care if the bus is clean after we get off, but I'm-' hoping they do. "I hope that people give me enough time to let my philosophy take root.

think I can win in football. I played against Bear Bryant and Ara Par- seghian. I know what it takes to There's no secret formula. It's hard work and discipline, at any level." Olivo knows if he wins, his philoso- phy will be accepted. He is also aware, however, that if he loses, he could be "out the door." "If we lose, no one should feel sop ry for me," Olivo said.

"I'm not going to change my beliefs. If I'm fired today, I know I put more into this school than I've taken out. And isn't that what it's all about giving more than you're taking? "Who was it that said 'Nice guys A finish last'? I think that may be true, and that's too bad. I like nice guys." Olivo hugged his 8-year-old daughter, Daisy, and looked across the sweeping hill that once was a vine-" yard. He shrugged.

"I can always shoe horses," he said. place-kicks. Waters decided to take advantage of Hentrich's booming leg, so rather than punt on fourth down, the Explorers kicked. "You can't do it in college or pros, but you can do it in high school because you have to cover it," Waters told Post-Dispatch writer Dan O'Neill. "People must have thought I was crazy or something.

We'd line up to kick a field goal from our own 30-yard line. But it worked real well." In high school, missed field-goal attempts that reach the end zone automatically are returned to the 20-yard line. However, a kick that doesn't reach the end zone still is in play. Under college and professinal rules, missed field goals are returned to the line of scrimmage. And there always was that off chance that Hentrich would make that 70-yarder.

Quotem: This from Wentzville football coach Scott Swofford after his team took a lackluster 20-14 victory over Francis Howell North: "We came out here looking like Tarzan and played like Jane." The inexperience isn't showing for the unbeaten Parkway West soccer team. Story on Page13W ILLINOIS There are some things that just don't change in Roxana such as a winning football team. Story on Page 51 Team W-L Votes 1. CBC (8) (4-1) 252 2. Vianney (4) (3-3) 245 3.

McCluer North (4) (4-0) 238 4. DeSmet (3-2) 194 5. Aquinas-Mercy (3-2) 188 6. Parkway West (2) (5-0) 184 7. St.

Louis U. High (2-2-1) 154 8. Granite City (4-1) 132 9. Lindbergh (2-0-2) 122 10. Hazelwood Central (2-2-1) 96 Hfgh school boys football rankings for the 1987 season as voted by the Post-Dispatch board of coaches and staff.

Top 10 listings include first-place votes, record and total vote points. Second 10 listings include record. Schools with more than 1,000 stu-dents are classified as large schools. Large Schools Team W-L Votes LHazelwood Central (15) (2-0) 232 a. East St.

Louis (5) (2-0) 227 3. Sumner (5) (2-0) 212 4. Hazelwood East (1-1) 146 5. Vianney (2-0) 130 6. Riverview (2-0) 116 1.

Cadue (2-0) 103 8. Kirkwood (1-0) 72 9. Lafayette (2-0) 61 10. Mehlville (2-0) 54 SECOND 10 11. Parkway West (1-1), 12.

CBC (2-0), 13. Webster Groves (1-0), 14. Lincoln (2-0), 15. Parkway Central (2-0), 16. Jerseyville (2-0), 17.

St. Charles (2-0), 18. OTallon (1-1); 19. St. Charles West (1-1), 20.

Oakville Small Schools to go back to work on some basics, anyway. We needed to toughen some guys up." In the Public High League in St. Louis, word should come today on whether McKinley will have to forfeit a game for the third week in a row. McKinley, whose varsity roster size estimates have ranged from eight to 13 players, already have had to call off games with Rosary and Northwest. The Gold Bugs are supposed to meet Soldan on Saturday.

Praying For Wind: More than a few fans in the stands were wondering about the sanity of Marquette coach John Waters during the Explorers' game Friday at Roxana. Whenever Marquette was in a punting situation, Waters sent in the field-goal unit and senior kicker Craig Hentrich. No, he wasn't really trying for 70-yard field goals. Waters simply was doing a little improvising. Hentrich, who is also the team's punter, suffered a separated shoulder before the season began.

He is still unable to lift his arm to punt, but he was available this week for Team Vote CROSSCOUNTRY 1. Country Day (17) (1-0) 236 rrjr. ony High school cross country rankings as vot- 2. Althott (Z) 0) ed by post-Dispatch board of coaches. 3.

Assumption (4) (2-0) 199 Listings include first-place votes and total 4. Hillsboro(2) (2-0) 184 vote points. 5. Berkeley (2-0) 140 Boys 8. Roxana (2-0) 115 Team Votes 7.

Brentwood (2-0) 95 1. Pattonville (9) 99 8. Jennings (2-0) 68 2. DeSmet 80 9. Red Bud (2-0) 57 S.Lincoln (1) 78 10.

Herculaneum (2-0) 53 4. CBC 59 SOUTH WEST ball fan, this is a high school game you should want to watch." From The Penthouse To Last year, the Granite City Warriors were the talk of area football. They ended East St. Louis' winning streak at 44 games. They had hard-playing Hogan twins, Jamie and Tim.

Their coach, Ron Yates, was named Post-Dispatch football Coach of the Year for 1986. The Warriors also graduated most of their '86 starters. How far can a team fall? On Saturday, the Warriors played Normandy, a recent Suburban North Conference doormat that went 2-8 last season. Granite City piled up 284 yards of offense; Normandy totaled 58 yards of offense. Normandy won 14-6 on Malon Carter's 70-yard kickoff return in the fourth quarter, Really Away Games: When they say you've made the traveling team at Assumption High in East St.

Louis, they aren't kidding. Friday night, the Pioneers will play in Areola, 111. That's a 320-mile round trip. Assumption will travel to Fairfield, Iowa, on Oct. 3 a 500-mile round trip.

On Oct. 17, Argenta-Oreana (111.) will have to trek 300 miles round trip to East St. Louis to play the Pioneers. Assumption plays only nine regular-season games. One would assume that the Pioneers could find someone around here to play rather than scouring the hinterlands.

Not really. Assumption is usually one of the top Class 2A teams in Illinois; this year's team is one of the quickest and biggest in the metro area, regardless of school size. Therefore, many possible small-school opponents in the area won't consider playing the Pioneers. Assumption could compete with many big schools this season. But football coach Jim Monken is reluctant to get in over his head.

"I think we could compete with some bigger schools around here," he said. "But then if we play the bigger schools, the injury factor comes in. We really have no depth. And we can't expect to be strong every season." Instead, Assumption probably will have to expect a big travel budget every season. Forfeits: A teachers strike in the Chicago public school system has meant a couple of easy victories to Lincoln High and East St.

Louis High. Lincoln was were supposed to play at Chicago Julian last weekend. Instead, the Tigers took a forfeit triumph and played what amounted to an exhibition game with defending Class 6A champ Homewood-Floss-moor; Lincoln lost 38-0. East St. Louis was supposed to meet Chicago Robeson on Saturday at Parsons Field; the Flyers will take the forfeit victory and the day off.

"We didn't inquire with anyone for anotlK- game; nobody's called us," Shannon said. "We needed the week 'i SECOND 10 If. John Burroughs (1-1), 12. Soldan (1-1), 13. St.

Clair (2-0), 14.Carlyle (1-1), 15. Lutheran North (0-1), 16. Lutheran South (1-1), 17. Priory (1-1), 18. Union (1-1), 1 9.

Freeburg (1 -1 20. Grandview (2-0). VOLLEYBALL High school volleyball rankings for the 1967 season as voted by the Post-Dispatch board of coaches. Top 10 listings include The state champion Northwest-House Springs Softball team is set for an encore. Story on Page 6S NORTH How do you stop the Sumner football team? Nobody has figured that out yet.

Story on Page 6N David Fears Hillsboro (Mo.) quarterback Better late than never? We'll find out Sept. 17, 1988, when one season after the graduation of Mario Johnson, two seasons after Jim Russo and three seasons after Tony VanZant the Hazelwood Central Hawks play the East St. Louis Flyers, who will be without past and current stars Michael Cox, Kerwin Price and Marvin Lampkin. The final papers for the game haven't been signed, but everyone involved says it's only a matter of time before the football game that so many have wanted to see the past three years becomes official. It will be the feature attraction in the third annual St.

Louis Sports Hall of Fame Classic doubleheader at Busch Stadium. "It looks like we'll be playing them," Hazel-wood Central coach John Hot-felder said. "It would be something really exciting when Bob Shannon and I both have good football teams. I guess because of the reputations we both have, there will be a lot of people come out to see it. "I'm not sure that we'll have a John Hotfelder great team next year, though." East St.

Louis and Hazelwood Central have played other teams in the first two Hall of Fame doublehead-, ers, including Saturday when East St. Louis beat DeSmet 38-15 and Hazel-wood Central upended Hazelwood East 21-13. Both teams will lose some tremendous talent from this year's squads. But, among many other things, both teams will be returning this year's quarterbacks East St. Louis junior Vernon Powell and Hazelwood Central junior Lorenzo Brinkley.

Both promise to be among the top recruits in the area next year. "Next year, we'll have Lorenzo, but I don't know that we'll have a full complement to go with that," said Hotfelder, whose team was the Missouri Class 5A runner-up last season and 5A champ in '85. "But I think we'll be able to give East St. Louis as good a game as DeSmet did." At least the game should pick up the normally disappointing attendance for high school football games at Busch. Last weekend's doubleheader drew 8,512.

"I think this will be one most football fans will want to see," Shannon said. "Even if you're just a pro foot- V-7 1 Bob Shannon SECOND 10 11. Kennedy (2-1), 12. Rosary (3-1), 13. Collinsville (3-1-2), 14.

Parkway Central (2-1-1), 15. Mehlville (2-2), 16. Belleville West (3-0-3), 17.DuBourg (2-3-1), 18. Hazelwood East (3-2), 19. Chaminade (3-1), 20.

St. Mary's (2-2). HONORABLE MENTION Affton, Belleville East, Chaminade, Eureka, McCluer, Parkway North, Parkway South, Pattonville, St. Dominic. 5.

Hazelwood West 44 6. St. Clair 37 7. Lafayette 32 8. Lindbergh 21 9.

Belleville West 17 10. Parkway South 16 HONORABLE MENTION Edwardsville, Eureka, Fox, Francis Howell, Hazelwood Central, Hazelwood East, Herculaneum, House Springs, Kirkwood, Mater Dei, McCluer North, Parkway West, Ri-tenour, St. Charles, St. Dominic, Triad, Wentzville and Wesclin. Girls host to a first-round competition earlier this month.

All teams scoring a skin plus the teams with the low better-ball totals will advance to the semifinal round Oct. 12 in Scottsdale. Each team consists of one professional and one amateur. season and total vote points. Team Votes Team W-L Votes 1.

Francis Howell (7) 97 1. Cor Jesu(4) (3-0) 87 2. Lincoln (3) 93 2. Mater Dei (3) (8-0) 82 3. Parkway West 7l 3.

Festus(2) (3-0) 79 4. Parkway South 58 4. Belleville West (8-0) 72 5. Lafayette 54 5. Borgia (1) (4-0) 60 6.

Hazelwood Central 47 6. Incarnate Word (2-1) 46 7, Triad 34 7. Union (3-0) 41 8. Duchesne 33 8. St.

Joseph (3-1) 29 9. OTallon (III.) 11 9. Washington (8-1) 28 10. Oakville 10 10. Freeburg (5-2) 17 HONORABLE MENTION SECOND 10 Belleville East, Belleville West, DuBourg, 11 buchesne 12.

Althoff, 13. St. Dominic, Eureka, Hazelwood East, Hazelwood 14 Hermann 15. Parkway West, 16. Cen- West, Herculaneum, Kirkwood, McCluer tral, 17.

DuBourg, 18. Rosatl-Kain, 19. Red North, Pattonville, St. Charles West and St. Bud, 20.

Ladue. Claif- Year In School: Senior. Height: 6 feet. Weight: 200 pounds. Vital Statistics: Hillsboro put the Fears into St.

Charles West on Friday night. He rushed 1 8 times for 1 1 0 yards and two touchdowns. He hit 1 1 of 1 8 passes for 1 57 yards and tossed a 2-point conversion; thus, he helped account for 14 of his team's points in a 28-13 victory. He also had 10 solo tackles from his safety position. Comments: Fears is a four-year starter for Hillsboro.

As a freshman, he started the team's first five games A five at quarterback. With him callina at middle linebacker and the last Skins Regional At Bogey Hills the signals, the Hawks are 24-4. He has good size, a superb arm, strength and 4.6-second time in the 40-yard dash. He is prime college material; Friday's game would convince any unbelievers. "On defense, he was ferocious," Hillsboro coach Bob Droege said.

"He was around' the ball all day. He said it was like watching the game film; he saw the play develop so easily and got right to it. He's just a great athlete." Fears, also a basketball and baseball starter, carries a 3.0 grade-point average. To nominate an area high school boy or girl for Athlete of the Week, please call Mike Eisenbath between 10 a.m. and 7 p.m.

Mondays at' 314622-7360. Bogey Hills Country Club will be host to regional competition for the National Skins Game on Friday. The competition is aimed at producing a pro-am segment for the fifth annual Skins Game Nov. 28-29 in Scottsdale, Ariz. Bogey Hills played.