The Morning News from Wilmington, Delaware • Page 23

The Morning Newi, Monday, August 19, 1974 23 Hicks defies gravity wreck Blues Gfj paul lii5BK smith ence," Hicks remembered. "But in every situation, you learn to read the plays. Somebody usually tipped off and yoa could anticipate." Hicks didn't have the Blues playbook in his pocket. It might have impeded his ability to penetrate, which happened virtually every play. But he always seemed one play ahead.

Particularly on passing plays. "Their centers would make a couple of different moves just as they snapped," Hicks said, smiling. "The rest was Before the startled center could react. Hicks had taken one giant step around him and was eyeball-to-eyeball with the quarterback. "It was a page from Mean Joe Greene," said Dover's Gary Traynor, who tried for three Henlopen Conference seasons tq find ways to navigate around Hicks.

"If one guy can turn around a program, he's it." The wounds of an 0-11 season run deep on the Delaware State campus. Memories of a leaky defensive line, a nonexistent pass rush are fresh. Like time, maybe Stan Hicks can heal the Hornet wounds. In a football world filled with demonstrative cliches such as hang time, seams of the zone, turning points, Stan Hicks defied all of them. At times, he defied the law of gravity, half the principles of physics and much of football tradition.

As a result he was a landslide victor in most valuable lineman voting. Stan Hicks, a 6-foot-l, 215-pound Berlin Wall from Milford High simply, said no to the Blues' Power-I offense Saturday and it was the main reason the Golds posted a 41-0 victory. The game's turning point was mopping the sweat from his forehead as a post-game rain poured to an earth desperately dry with need while somewhere in the near future, Delaware State Coach Arnold Jeter was quietly smiling, thinking about his new addition. Suddenly one-on-one "We practiced on double teaming all week," Hicks was saying, his face tired but totally content. "I was to play nose up on center.

But on the Power-I, the splits were out wide." And suddenly it was one-on-one, Hicks and Mount Pleasants Rod Mulhern. Or Hicks and Concord's Jeff Ritcnie. From the beginning, it was no contest. As Blues guard John Morabito would say sadly, "We just couldn't control the middle all day. We delayed, trapped, everything.

teamed after a while." For the Blues, trying to move Stan Hicks was cruel and inhuman punishment. The statistics offer a muffled drums accompaniment to a dead Blue offense. 53 yards rushing, 26 passing, 16 tackles, 11 unassisted. It is the second quarter, the Golds had already raced to a 27-0 lead, and Stan Hicks thinks natural thoughts as he starts in to keep the margin intact. When assistant Gold Coach Bruce Marine him aside.

"That was the time I thought I'd let up," Hicks recalled. "I guess with that kind of lead, it's natural. It's pretty hard to stay up throughout the game. But Coach Marine told me to keep pushing. There was too much at stake, I guess." So instead of playing out the final five-minute string of the first half, Hicks went on a one-man search-and-destroy mission.

Didn't have playbook "There was a lot of double-team in the Henlopen Confer- tackled by No. 70, Stan Hicks, jor a loss of three yards attempting to pass, blocked by Hicks, No. 70,. Public address announcer Bill Pheiffer's voice vent an ominous litany of praise around Delaware Stadium Saturday afternoon. Stan Hicks, Stan Hicks, Stan Hicks.

Gloria in excelsis. Star marks Colbert dlSW Go llllp Taylor Friday afternoon, Dave Raymond accepted a University of Delaware coed's best wishes in Saturday's Blue-Gold All-Star football game and rejoined, "I doubt I'll have much to do with it.1" The blond placekicker's contribution to the victory might have been small, but with his five successful conversions he was responsible for three of the eight records broken or tied in the Gold's 41-0 victory. Raymond's total also is a team and game mark for extra points. Sussex Central's Tommy Marvel snapped Gary Hay-man's five-year-old record with a 55-yard return of an intercepted pass for a touchdown. Newark's Jeff Taylor threw three touchdown passes, another record.

Taylor's 3-of-4 accuracy, .750 percent, surpassed the' previous best of .636 (7 of 11) set in 1971 by the Gold. MOST VALUABLE RUNNING STYLE Henry White, left, attempts to sprint by Blue defender Ron Hall of Alexis I. du Pont High in the annual Blue-Gold Atl-Star game at Delaware Stadium Saturday. Cape Henlopen's White, named outstanding player of game, led the Gold to a 41-0 victory with 110 yards rushing. (Staff photo by Ron Dubick) talks into By Monte Martin Jim Colbert played his Smyrna High players' heartstrings like a concert violinist last year as he led his undersized team to a state football tournament 'appearance.

lis could alternately have them screaming happy one minute or crying the next. Saturday, the coach cf the Gold All-Stars was at his best, and the Bluea didn't have any response. The Gold did little wrong and triumphed 41-0 in the 19th Delaware All-Star Game, played for the benefit of mentally retarded children. A crowd of 10.317 watched in Delaware Stadium. "I was juiced.

The mai psyched me up." said Stan Hicks, a defensive stindout all afternorn. Gold glitters STATISTIC RLUF GOIP F'rst Diwm 3 Yards Pi'hi 1 jm Va'ds Pass nq "5 51 Passing 3.4.1 Tola's Ya'ds r'a FuTVes 1-1 3.1 Punl rg 5-W 3-3" 2 Pu-n Ya'cac 6' '61 P'rallits .3 3n Pin 1 0 0-0 Cold 1 1 7-41 Pint Cimrter G-Pcwell pass from Tayior (k'ek failed) Sucmtd Quarter G-Mrf(j 4 fr0m Taylor (Ray ft Ha-ktf run Rarr-rd kick) '5 return Ir'-'-1 Third Quarter a -un (Pvrntnd kick) Fourth Qitarttr G-Vo'ia 4 pa from Taylor (Raymond kick) individual Rushini GoldWh te. carres for 110 vardv f'rfa, 5 fr Frrti 1 fir It; W'd. 4 for 11; Travnor, 3 for IB. 1 TO' Guv, 7 for 18: HacVett, 5 frr 18, 1 TD; Hea'n.

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1 for Will'amj, 1 for Brunswick, 1 for 0. JCPenney romp "It was the best I've ever heard from any coach," said quarterback Jeff Taylor of Newark. "He had us all up." "It was nothing fake," Paul Schweizer, the Gold- captain from St. Marks, said. "It was about how we all stuck together right from the moment we got to camp and everybody jelled so fast.

I mean we were down here with guys we didn't know, maybe didn't even like and we really became close-knit." The rousing speech cama from a fellow who 24 hours before said: "If we play a good game it will be close." He acknowledged he had one interior lineman in camp (Hicks) and most cf his Lacks were injured which might mean Henry White on a tin, Henry White off tackle, Hemy While. "The first week I think he really was worried," said Taylor, who guided the wing attack. "But the second week we really came on." Taylor dispelled Colbert's glum outlrok after Schweizer, intercepted a Rob Carney pass and returned it to the 50 late in the first quarter. "We were rotating at the time and I just read the quarterback's eyes. He was looking right at Kelly (of Mount said Schweizer.

Tavlor threw his first of a record th touchdown nasses to Danny Powell of Smyrna to spark an offensive show which saw the Gold outgain the Blue 276 yards to 78 and 16 first downs to 3. "Coach Colbert saw an ooening and called that play-a 9-29 waggle," sai Taylor, who Colbert with calling 80-90 percent of the plays. "He reminded me to watch the cross man because The 21 points the Gold scored an the second quarter and the three first downs td which its defense limited the; Blues offense are also records. mens golf CAVALIERS ABC Tournament. Winner Tom Siniegowski, 63 net; Low gross Bernie Levery, 76.

Class winner Anthony DiBatista and Paul DiEleuterio, 70 net (tie). Low gross Steve Sulrak, 62. Class winner y-James Sassone, 67 net, Low Gross Marty Zambino, 83. HERCULES low net event Class A Bob O'Brien, 67. George Duflan, 61.

Ed Vandenberg, 68. WILMINGTON individual match play tournament versus par. south course winner Ed Fogarty. north course IrvCox. ROCK MANOR member-unlor event low gross John Kornick and Eric Valiante, 71, low net Larry Carter and Jeft Wirosloff, S3.

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Bruce Cohen, 1 up. Foremost Wheel Alignment $10.95 four one shy of a record i always kill you. It is simply a matter of here is a set defense now exploit the weaknesses. They show many." "Their longest gain was 17 yards?" asked Schweizer, who shared the Jim Williams memorial award for his spirit leadership in training camp with Wilmington's Norm Allen. "It might have been on an option play (it was to Davie Williams).

Our defensive line did the job. I'm sorry this all ended as soon as it did. I wish I could have stayed here another two weeks with these guys." "We just had so mudi pride in ourselves," said the Gold's Carney. "These guys came from all over the state and we just had unbelievable team spirit." Apparently all it took was Jim Colbert to arouse it the afternoon of the game. they were rotating their zone whichever way the formation was strong." Split end Larry Olmstead of Caesar Rodney was the primary receiver, but Taylor spotted Powell, the cross man, in the middle without a Blue defender within 10 yards of him and Powell caught the ball on the 25 to race into the end zone unmolested.

'We had scouted that pass," said Blue coach Joe Heverin of Alexis I. du Pont. "We should have been rotating. I think I saw a slight crumbling after that first pass was completed and then the punt return also hurt." The last reference was to Dartmouth-bound Julin Carney's 66-yard scamper -three short of a record with the punt following the Blue's first possession after Powell's score. "The wall was suppose to form to one side, "but I saw an opening up the middle," said the St.

Marks quarterback, who started on defense. He raced from the Gold 24 to the Blue 10 before he was hauled down' from behind. "I never had a return like it. At St. Marks we usually let them roll." Three plays later the Gold flooded the left side of the end zone with receivers.

Taylor found fullback Remo Moffa in place of intended receiver Tommy Marvel for the Dickinson power back's first of two touchdown receptions. Newark's Dave Raymond added the first of a record five conversion kicks to make the score 13-0 and the rout was on. "I thought it was going to be a real tough game," said Taylor. "Henry White is so pood I t'hink maybe they were defending against him. That's Low, low prices on nylon tires.

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He was everywhere on defense. If Hicks (the game's outstanding lineman) said he wasn't double-teamed he should have been. We ran several plays calling for a double-team on the nosemen. "They seemed to be clicking on the right things, and interceptions (the Gold picked off Cathy McNichol of Wilmington set a record in the 100 butterfly in 1:01.2, won the 200 free, and anchored three winning relays to lead the girls open class. Jenni Franks of Wilmington, won the 100 Astros win 31 in soccer game with ASL Wings Hamar Alves drove a direct free kick just out of Delaware Wings goalie Chris Menan's reach last night early in the second half and the Boston Astros went to post a 3-1 American Soccer League victory at Baynard Stadium.

Alves' goal broke a 1-1 tie, gained when Juan Paletta had' scored on a penalty kick midway through the first half. The loss was the 13th straight on-the-field defeat for the Wings. Boston 1 Wings 1 0 1 Goals: Boston Barbosa, Alves, Bor-ges. wings Paletta. Saves: Carias, 9.

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