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C4 Akron Beacon Journal Thursday, October 7, 1982 One hoie in the hea idea No pro football so 'Roll, Tide, RoW for ending the NFL strike Browns Ozzie Newsome I I I (j 1 IIIMI.HIIM,! But Miller is sure of this: "As long as you're talking, you can get something solved." GETTING THE owners and players to communicate is the essence of Alderson's proposal. If anything, he has taken an accurate pulse of the situation. "As the strike enters its third week," Alderson said, "the talks are at an impasse, both sides are frustrated, Garvey and Donlan are involved in a massive personality conflict and have both shown an unwillingness for compromise. Donlan wants to bring in a federal mediator to help bring the talks along, and Garvey says no. So where do you go from there?" If you are Alderson, you form a committee empowered to make suggestions to the negotiatiors.

"I believe Donlan and Garvey need an excuse to come together and save face. They can't agree on anything. Forming an advisory committee would help get the talks off dead center," Alderson said. Alderson, 56, earns his living as a lecturer and paid consultant to firms with labor problems. His father, he said, helped organize the coal fields with John L.

Lewis, founder of the United Mine Workers. Alderson hopes that his proposal eventually reaches the desk of Steeler president Dan Rooney, a member of the Management Council's executive committee. It is widely known that the players' union respects Rooney more than any member of the management team. "I don't know how far we're going to get with this," Alderson said, "but the feeling I've received from talking to the Steelers has been 'Why "Hopefully, the more people I The strike continues and your guess is as good as mine as to when we'll return to action. How many times can I tell you those same facts.

By now I'm sure you're tired of reading this stuff in this column, I know I'm tired of writing about it. So what can this week's column discuss? How about the war in Birmingham this Saturday as Penn State (No. 3) visits Alabama (No. 4)? One of the most frequently asked questions of any ex-'Bama player is what was it like to play for Coach Paul Bryant. Before looking at this specific game you must understand certain concepts Coach Bryant follows.

The first of these is to play an easy game before a big one. Playing someone like Arkansas State is no accident, especially with someone like Penn State following. Another major thing that Alabama does is use plenty of people. Coach Bryant plays the second and sometimes the third string players, regardless of the situation. This keeps fresh people in the game and usually wears down the opponents.

There were times when I would have only played 25 plays by late in the fourth quarter so I was fresher than a defensive back who had been in for 60 plays. LET'S LOOK at the week's preparation: Monday and Tuesday are press days as well as the days when the initial game plan is installed. After Tuesday there are no more player interviews. This schedule continues until Friday. Around noon on Friday, Coach Bryant comes to the athletes' dorm and posts the traveling squad.

All of the posted players then report for practice Friday. fnfuri By Kd Meyer Beacon Journal staff writer Wayne T. Aldorson. a gentleman from Pittsburgh known as "The Man With The Hole In His Head," has just as much chance of settling the National Football league strike as anyone. A labor-management expert who refers to himself as a "professional peacemaker," Aldorson has developed a proposal to break the impasse between the NFL Players Association, headed by Ed Garvey, and the owners' Management Council, headed by Jack Donlan.

Acting on his own in an effort to bring the 17-day-old strike to an end, Alderson presented his brainchild to the Pittsburgh Steelers earlier this week and was in Seattle on Wednesday to present it to the Seahawks. If all goes well, he hopes to announce the plan at the Steelers' 50th anniversary celebration Saturday night at the David Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh. UNDER Alderson's proposal, an eight-member advisory committee would be formed. The committee would be composed of two owners, two players, two coaches, NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle and a neutral party. The committee, designed to formulate a plan that would help Donlan and Garvey save face, would begin meeting in conjunction with the reopening of training camps and the resumption of the regular-season schedule.

Once an equitable settlement were reached, the strike would end and Ewing: I won't turn pro early Associated Press WASHINGTON Patrick Ewing, Georgetown's 7-foot sophomore center, says he went to college to earn a degree and does not want to think about professional basketball until his senior year. "People always talk (about the 'National Basketball Association), and I can't stop them from saying it," Ewing said. "But I haven't been thinking about the pros. I'd rather not think about it until my senior year. "I don't know why they think it's odd for somebody to want to finish college just because he's a basketball player.

"I know what my priorities are. I'm here to better myself, to graduate and get my degree. It started from my mother. She keeps telling me to graduate. No matter what other people say, I know my mother wouldn't mislead me." AIL OUAUTY RE MANUFACTURED The practice is basically the same as anyone's final edition, reviewing substitutions and the kicking teams.

But here Coach, Bryant makes one difference, the review of trick plays. He makes sure the defense sees several trick plays and the offense has at least one in their plans. All of the traveling squad eats together in Coach Bryant Hall, the athletes' dorm, wearing red blazers. After dinner we'd all go to a movie then bus to a motel outside Tuscaloosa. If the game is in Birmingham we'd bus from the movie and stay at a motel just outside Birmingham.

Curfew and bed check were at 11 p.m. with pregame meal at 9 a.m. COACH BRYANT always had the same pregame talk. He'd begin by saying four or five plays will determine the game and we've got to win them. Then he'd say the game lasts for 60 minutes but what we do we'll remember 60 years.

Next he tells everyone to expect the unexpected. The final thing Coach Bryant reminds you of is there are a lot of people who've worn crimson and white and every one of them is with you. Playing for Coach Bryant was really great and this is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of the magnitude of the man. His greatest contributions to his players were off the field and anyone ever touched by this man is better for it. Roll, Tide, Roll.

nrm7 because that's what to play Fast Eddie. searching for prizes, there's lots of sur Wayne Alderson talk to, others will pick up the proposal and say 'Why Alderson's reasoning is difficult to fault. When you're talking about a deal calling for the dispersal of $1.6 billion, "There is enough for everyone's needs, but not their greeds," he said. JUST AS HE did late last week, Browns owner Art Modell flew to New York to confer with NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle and members of the Management Council. Modell left for New York on Wednesday afternoon and intends to return to Cleveland tonight.

"I came in just to be close to the general scene," Modell said in an interview from his suite in New York. "We don't have a new plan. I'm just here to kick around a few thoughts." THE BROWNS, meanwhile, held their fifth workout Wednesday morning at Brooklyn High School. Twenty-two players were present. Doug Dieken, the team's player representative, did not inform reporters that the workout was going to be held.

Afterward, he said that the players wanted the opportunity to meet in private to discuss the issues. 20th and Sears Something to help ease ModelVs pain A small package arrived Wednesday in the office of Cleveland Browns owner Art Modell. It was sent by player representative Doug Dieken. No, the package was not ticking. Dieken, acting in Modell's interest, thought the Browns' owner might need something to ease the pain of the National Football League strike, which is now in its 17th day.

When Modell's secretary opened the package, she found a note expressing Dieken's concern and a bottle of Extra-Strength Tylenol. ED MEYER the collective bargaining agreement would become retroactive. In an interview from his office in Pittsburgh, where he operates a labor-management relations group called "Value of the Person," Alderson asked a question that must be on many minds. "I know," he said, "that some people are probably wondering: 'What does this hole in the head from Pittsburgh think he's For one thing, Alderson is not exaggerating. He actually does have a hole in his head.

During World War II, he said, fragment from a hand grenade struck him an inch above the bridge of the nose. Alderson said he spent two years in the hospital undergoing reconstructive surgery, and, to this day, has an indentation in his forehead. As a professional mediator, Alderson made a name for himself in the early 1970s when he eased tensions between labor and management at a foundry in Glassport, a steel town along the Allegheny River. Alderson brought the two sides together over a morning prayer breakfast, and soon, harmony was restored. During the 110-day coal miners' strike in 1978, Alderson said he met with Arnold Miller, former president of the United Mine Workers, and helped arrange a meeting with the controlling coalmine operators.

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