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Green Boy Pres-Gaiette Sunday, May 28, 978 The First Step in Sailing: Fixing the Mast HrV 1 IIIIIB Ml mmm, Prm-Catl Plwlin by Ken Benrtnd I 0 the MM Iff 11 Li AiJmmJiLm ntlmml The 'Right On Owned by Bob Schaefer and Walter Hey of Green Bay, Is Fitted With Its Mast by the Crew Fyck Feasts Among the Fjords Where Are You Now Gary Kroner? Commentary get a chance to coach the junior national team." Considering the unexpected turn Fyck's hockey career took a year ago, he can probably expect another opportunity any time. HANDCRAFTED CUSTOM BUILT later in the quarter and a conversion following the Cadets' final touchdown. He finished with 77 yards rushing in 15 attempts, returned a punt for 34 yards and caught a pass for 15 yards. Premontre went on to compile a 4-1-1 record that season, while West won its final seven games to capture the Fox River Valley Conference championship and earn a third place ranking in one state poll. Kroner, then a 6-foot-2, 195-pounder, started for two years in football and basketball at Premontre, and also lettered in tennis three times.

BY CLIFF CHRISTL Prw-GuttM Sporti Wrlttr On Sept. 11, 1958, Gary Kroner sparked Green Bay Premontre to stunning 16-0 victory over city rival West in a non-conference football game before approximately 4,000 fans at West Stadium. After a scoreless first half, the Cadets' Jeff Funk recovered a fumble at the West 48-yard line and three plays later Kroner burst 47 yards for the decisive touchdown with about five minutes gone in the third quarter. Kroner also kicked a 15-yard field goal occasionally fly does not mean Norwegian hockey is a docile game. "Fighting isn't allowed, but that's probably the dirtiest hockey I've played in my life," he says.

"Nobody drops the gloves, but it's the dirtiest. "A fight costs you a suspension, but if a guy knows he can slash or butt-end somebody and get only two minutes, why fight?" Fyck adds, "I like a rough, tough game. But fighting is healthier than getting hit with a stick. At most, all you'll get is a broken nose." Fyck got his opportunity in Norway at exactly the right time. The United States Hockey League took in some junior teams last year and limited Canadian participation.

As a Canadian, Fyck very likely would not be able to play for the Bobcats now. But he wouldn't mind coming back to Green Bay as a coach, which is something the Bobcats don't have right now. He realizes that isn't likely right now. So he is committed to at least one more year in Norway. After that? "I could plsy another 10 years," he says.

"But this will probably be my last year in Norway, unless I He also was third (17 goals in 18 games) in team scoring and Pulak was the team leader. There are other differences in Norway to what Fyck saw as a Bobcat player here in Green Bay and, prior to that, in Canada. "The players are pretty good skaters and they're in excellent shape," he says. "And GOLF CLUBS (Micro Matched) Trade in your old clubs1; for clubs especially i made for you. $284 Each weed Each iron 24.50 Includes Personal Fitting PINE ACRES GOLF CLUB ABRAMS, WISCONSIN CALL (414)826-7765 For Details Bob Becker PGA Professional Can a transplanted Canadian Green Bay Bobcat find happiness in in Stavangen, Norway? Certainly, at least if his name is Terry Fyck.

In that slightly wacky, roller-coaster world of hockey, Fyck, erstwhile defenseman for the Bobcats, struck out for the land of the fjords and struck it no, not rich, but shall we say comfortable? Aha! Professional hockey in Norway, right? Wrong. It is amateur hockey, or shamateur hockey, if you will. And Fyck found a way to make it pay better than playing for the Bobcats. His Norwegian connection was his former Junior A hockey coach in Ontario, who was a Norwegian who lived for 10 years in Canada. And when he called Fyck and told him of a player-coach job in Stavangen (a city of about Fyck was headed over the Atlantic.

Not only that, but he took Bobcat teammate Ron Pulak along as assistant coach and player. "I can come out better over there than here, a lot better," says Fyck, back for a short while. "It's supposed to be amateur hockey, but it's not like in this country. A player can make accept a free car, or anything like that. "Soccer players are supposed to be amateurs, too, but some of the Norwegian players are turning down big pro contracts to play in Germany or Holland.

You know they wouldn't do that unless they were doing all right." Fyck, 25, accomplished at least everything he hoped to in his first season. His team was in Division II and it finished 17-1. Since that was the best Division II record, he will move up to Division I this year. ft the nice thing about it is that they're eager to learn. "But it was all offense when I got there.

One guy gets the puck and keeps it until he falls down or something. It was a real Chinese fire drill. I put a stop to that." And there were full houses at home games, something the Bobcats haven't enjoyed recently. "We jammed the building every game he says. "And usually they had to turn away about 1,000 more.

The fans were good, too. Most people there are participants in some kind of sport, so they know what you're trying to do. They can see if someone is really working." Finally, there is the complete absence of fights, an element in American hockey that is now as commonplace as a goalie's facemask. Still, Fyck says, the fact that fists do not Hp GARY KRONER guess the big thing was we still had a pretty good parochial grade school conference at the time and a lot of my friends from St. Patrick were on that West team," said Kroner in recalling that 16-0 triumph and his high school career.

"It was an emotional game I had looked forward to for four years. Premontre wasn't in a conference then, and East and West got most of the attention. We always felt we had a strong team, but we played a short six, seven game schedule because most teams were tied into a conference. We had to travel to Eau Claire and Milwaukee for games, and we didn't get some of the publicity that East and West did when they played teams in the Fox River Valley. Central Catholic (which became Premontre in 1965) had been in a conference, but it won (it) something like five years in a row and had been undefeated the last three, and it was felt it was too big for the conference.

So we had lost some of the prestige we had when we were in the conference. There weren't some of the statistics and other things to compare. But this was one time we got the pub-' licity. West was pretty highly touted going into it and the stands were filled. It was standing room only.

I remember Bill Howard was doing the play-by-play and we got some pretty heavy headlines after. It was really a tight game with a lot of defense. In the third quarter, I think it was third-and-three (actually 10) and I got the handoff, and it was an off-tackle play that developed to the outside, I ran down the TERRY FYCK Wisconsin Seeking Rowing Titles sideline and it happened to win the game. It was 16-0 but that tended to set the tone. Seeing we hobbled the.

extra point there was still a question mark because West was an explosive team. Then when we got ahead 9-0 that was the cushion. From Premori-tre'a standpoint that was always our big game. It was always a prestige Jhing because it was (our) only game in "the city. Individually, though, my outstanding game was in my junior year.

There wasn 't a lot of local interest, but it was against Escanaba Holy Name. I had five interceptions in that game and a 106-yard touchdown on one of them. It was called back for clipping, but then I had a field goal in the last two minutes or so to win the game (9-7)." Cornell, the winner of the 1977 Varsity Cup, will be here, but the Ivy League crew has not had an impressive season this year. California, the 1976 winner, will be making the long trip from the West Coast after a loss to Washington by three-tenths of a second. Syracuse established itself as a contender for the Varsity Cup last week by outstroking Dartmouth here on the Onondaga Lake course.

V' Dartmouth will be back to show that its victory over Yale in the Eastern Sprints was no fluke. Pennsylvania, winner of the first Varsity Cup, always has performed well over the Onondaga Lake course, winning thateam title the last two years. The Penn sh.ll also could be a contender SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) Some 88 crews from 22 colleges including the University of Wisconsin will be stroking the waters of Onondaga Lake this week for the Intercollegiate Rowing Association championships. But three of the top college eight-oared "heavyweight" shells will not be coming here for the three-day event.

Perennial rowing power Harvard, Eastern Sprint champion Yale and undefeated Western champion Washington will not be rowing for the titles to be determined Saturday. California and Syracuse are early favorites to compete for the championship in the eight-oared event and the Varsity Cup that has been awarded to the winning heavyweight shell since 1898. Today, Kroner lives in Boulder, and sells real estate for Remax Inc. Following his graduation from Premontre, Kroner went to the Univer-, sity of Wisconsin and played three years of varsity football He started as a junior and senior first as a defensive back and then as an offensive back and also waa the Badgers' place-kicker in 1962, his final season. He concluded his varsity career.

on Jan. 1, 1963 by catching a four-yard touchdown pass from Ron VanderKelen and kicking five extra points in a 42-37 loss to Southern California in the Rose Bowl. Kroner was then chosen by the Packers in the seventh round of the NFL draft and spent the '63 season on a reserve list with an injured leg. He was released by the Packers the following year and joined the Denver Broncos in 1965. He was the Broncos kicker for two years and part of a third before he was cut in 1967.

At that time, Kroner joined Ball Brothers Research an aerospace firm in Boulder, as an electrical engineer. In 1971, he began selling real estate rather than accepting a transfer with Ball Brothers to another city. TODAY 10:30 Animals, Animals, Animals 11:302 ThraaonThrta 11 Championship Fishing I Virgil Word 12:00 Wild Kingdom 12:00 tThrooon Throt 1 2 30 2-47 A Championship Oamo: Washington Bullots vs. Soattlo Suptrsonlcs 1 :00 11 NFL Oroat Toams 2:00 11 Last of tho Wild 2 30- 1 world Tonnls Classic 3:00 12 Sportsworld 4:00 9-11 American Sportsman 4:3012 The Fisherman 5:00 7 VlrallWard 3:00 Last of the Wild Wild, Wild World of Animals 5:00 12 Fishing with Andv Andel 0:00 9-11 Indianapolis "500" Race Offl SIBIKl 0 (BO ATTENTIONi TENNIS STUDENTS Tannk Camp at Western Racquet Club, Green Bay Kansas State Gets Stiff Penalties June 1 1 thru June 17 Aug. 13 thru Aug.

19 ojurcoas ADULTS June) 5,6, 7 June 23 thru June 26 July 21 thru July 24 Aug. 1,2 A3 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CALL 497-1 161 OR 336-0511 KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) The Big Eight Conference has jolted lowly Kansas State with a four-part penalty believed to be the toughest ever slapped on a major college football program. Big Eight Commissioner Charles M. Neinas said Saturday a conference investigation revealed that Kansas State, which has not won a Big Eight game in three years, had awarded 20 illegal football scholarships over the same "Ws rlatAt-rriinfvi thia was.

Kfl iiltV 1 Pro, Larry Gagnon Camp Director, Don Rendeu in football and for the next two years cannot appear on aion or play in a bowl game. K-State's football scholarship limit shall be reduced by 13 during the 1978-79 academic year, by four the next year and three the following! During each of the next 'three fiscal years, starting this July 1, Kansas State's share of Big' Eight revenue will be trimmed by one-third "in lieu of the pceaible loss of scheduling privileges aginst other Big Eight teams." In addition, consultation committee will be appointed to "provide advice and counsel to aid the institution in moving foward in a positive manner in conformance with conference and NCAA rules." Neinas said Kansas State is not obligated to follow the recommendations of the commit- done in a premeditated fashion, in a blatant attempt to gain an unfair competitive ad- vantage," Neinas said. 1 The penalties, aa voted Thursday by Big Eight officers and announced Saturday, include the following sdmils- Cortland's when you're sure. 220 N. Washington 807 G.

B. Plaza 4' tions: Kansas State will continue on indefinite probation.