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16 DELAWARE COUNTY (PA.) DAILY TIMES Friday, September 15,1872 By Dean Newhouse Daily Times Staff Writer WHAT DID MOST people expect when they traveled halfway around the world to see the Olympic games? Athletic competition would have to be first and foremost, especially if the person was a college athletic director. George Hansell, athletic director and track coach at Widener College, was no exception. People also expected to see different types of faces and they might have expected to find i i a cooperation. George Hansell, again, was no exception. Now, of course, after the 1972 Summer Olympic Games are a thing of the past, people have been shaken from their fantasy worlds back to reality.

They find that the Olympic Games can also harbor politics, bitterness, hate and even tragic death. Americans saw it all live via satellite and their televisions, and not only the image of the Games is shattered, their survival i threatened. This is where George Hansell jumps off the boat to swim on his own. He experienced the Olympics live and in color this summer also, but not via satellite. HE WAS THERE in Munich, Germany, for the Games.

He expected to enjoy the visit and he did. He came home Sunday night awed by "the overwhelming greatness of the spectacle" put on by Germany. But what about the killings? "You just can't describe the tragedy tins put on the German people. They cried. They felt responsible.

But, of course, they weren't; and the killings did throw a somber note over the whole thing." And what about the poor officiating, the rulings against American athletes and the racial incident in which two black Americans were ousted from the games? "The two. boys who didn't stand'at attention that was a total disgrace. They were -booed and whistled at by including Americans. They showed disrespect for their country, their fellow teammates and the Olympics ideas which they'd sworn to. "They did i a a 1 damage to the black cause, but you can't let picayune things like this and poor officiating overshadow the overall greatness of the games," Hansell said.

"I never thought it would be as completely overwhelming as it was," he said. HANSELL AND his wife left for Europe on August 20. They traveled through Britain and Germany on a group tour before settling with a German family in Ruhpolding, Germany. That's a town in the Bavarian Alps about 65 miles from. Munich.

The athletic competition they expected, they got ''it was superb." The people they expected io: GEORGE HANSELL experience were everywhere. "For lunch, we stretched, out on the grass" outside the stadium and ate with people from all over the world -New Zealand, Australia, India, Africa," Not only did the dress; look and talk differently, the Hansell's also experienced some different attitudes and ideas. The athletic director took part in a'physical education colloquium, a to discuss physical education programs in different" countries. "East Germany has a planned program where at age 6, they weed out potential sportsmen and send them to a sports school for intensified training. It's a regimented program that reminds you of Nazi Germany, but it's what accounted for the small country's third place finish at the Olympics," he said.

ON THE 65 MILE trip into Munich a the Hansell's drove on a German Autobahn a 6-lane expressway. "It really shakes you up," Hanseil said. "There's no speed limit. You'll look in your rear view mirror and see nothing. Then all of a sudden swish, swish, swish I The cars by.

"They must travel over 120 miles per. hour. I had to do 80 just to be safe," he The couple also got involved with a demonstration in "About" 1'YOOO youngsters tried to disrupt downtown Munich, and they had a real, pitched battle with the police," he said. He displayed several pieces of anti-American and anti- western literature' given to him by communists, whom, he feels are trying to take over the world, "The ticket scalpers were everywhere. All over Munich," he continued.

"A guy would hold up a ticket and he'd be swarmed with people trying to buy it. I sat next to a Texan whc boasted he paid 100 bucks for a $3 There just weren't enough for. BUT THE that impressed him most were friendliness and organization. "The people all got along Some people from India started playing guitar-like instruments and singing, songs. They' attracted big crowd.

Everybody', shbulde. rs wijtiji everybody else," he said. Hansell also marveled over the way the German's 'moved 80,000 people 'in and out of the stadium several times a day. "If they had to do that here they'd be in trouble," Teh magnificence of- the architecture of the Village was one of the most impressive computer scoring system and the free high speed transit between the Village and Munich left a strong plus mark in Hanseil'a memory. The experience of being at the 1972 Olympics was one the Hansell's wouldn't trade.

They were too overwhelmed. AP WIREPHOTO GOLD Mark Spitz (left) meets Calif ornia governor Ronald Reagan, called him an "inspirational national hero" for America's youth for his accomplishments in the Olympic Games. Regan presented gold plated bearing the seal of the state of California to Spitz. Haverf ord drops football for year HAVERFORD Haverford College, which lias fielded a football team for 92 years, has dropped football for the 1972 season, head coach and athletic director Dana Swan announced Thursday. Swan, a former Swarthmore High star under coach Millard Robinson, listed his team's small size (both numerically and physically) and its inexperience as the major factors which led to the decision not to compete this season.

Haverford was scheduled to open its eight game slate Sept. 23 at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y. The schedule was to conclude with the traditional match against Swarthmore College (The Game) Nov. 18. The rivalry with Swarthmore was the i oldest intercollegiate series in the United States.

Widener picks five 'leaders' Widener College football coach. Bill Manlove has Announced the selection of five players to serve as team Waders for the Pioneer gridders this fall. The five will act in the capacity as captains until a permanent captain, or captains, is selected in the season. to the leadership positions were Mike Anderson, junior h'nebacker from N.J.; Mike Cervin, senior offensive guard from Egg Harbor, N.J.; Bruce Eyeleth, senior defensive back from Glen Burnie, Billy Johnson, sophmore running back from Glen Burnie, Billy Johnson, sophomore running back from Marcus Hook; and John Rhubart, senior offensive tackle from MiUville. -NJ.

The five all played key roles last season when Manlove, in his third year at the helm, guided Widener College to a 7-3-0 record, the college's firitst mark in a decade. Anderson, a former All South Jersey a linebacker from St. Joseph's High in Camden, was named the Pioneers top defensive performer in five games last year. A punishing tackier at 541 and 215 pounds, Anderson is rated as Widener's finest linebacker in years. Cervi will begin his third year aa a varsity regular, and played a major role in the Pioneers outstanding rushing record last season as a pulling guard.

At Oakcrest High, he made the All-County team and served as captain of an undefeated team (9-0-0) his senior year. Eveleth, one of the smaller players on the squad at 5-9 and 155 pounds, also is one of the teaims's surest tacklers. He has been the Pioneers' steadiest performer in the secondary for three years. As a school boy at Glen Burnie High, he played quarterback on a championship team. a former Pennsylvania sprint champion from Chichester High, had a remarkable freshman season, scoring 12 touchdowns and having five more called back by penalties.

A 9.5 sprinter, he won four gold medals in i Atlantic track meet. He accounted for 1,271 yards on pass receptions and punt and kickoff returns, averaging 10.5 yards everytime he touched the ball. Swan had expected a good nucleus of returning players when practice opened but of the 30 players who tried out for the team, only 19 (including five freshmen) had previous football experience. "On Tuesday it became clear that we could not put that small a number of inexperienced people on the field," Swan explained. The 1971 season had ended, on a bright note for the Fords as they defeated arch-rival Swarthmore, 2 2 2 1 to complete a 2-6 season.

"But in the middle of June we got our first inklings of a change," Swan said. "Ten squad members weren't going to return to school. We'd been through that before, "I wrote to the rest of the squad and asked them if they'd changed their feelings about the season and the team," he added. "About 60 per cent of them responded and said strongly, 'No, let's go ahead. 1 However, five other players learned that they were not sufficiently recovered from previous injuries to participate this year and three others gave up football entirely, leaving only 12 returning players with any experience.

"On top of that. Our turnout of freshmen was unusually small," Swan noted. "There were only five men who had played high school football." Knowing that they faced a critical i a i a proceeding with practice on a day to day basis, the team tried its best to persevere through the difficulties. "They worked harder than I've ever seen any group work," Swan praised. ''We had a lot of people whose hearts weighed a ton but they didn't have the exprience to play safely." The decision as to whether the football program will be resurrected next year is still to be made.

"That decision will have to be made by the college after surveying all the factors," Swan said. At Sun Valley Saturday night Aston, Hagerstown renew fierce rivalry ASTON One of the Seaboard Football League's fiercest rivalries will be renewed Saturday at Sun Valley High Field (8 p.m. Jcickoff) when the Hagerstown Bears (4-2) take on the Aston Knights (3-3) in the battle for first place in the Southern Division. The teams met earlier in the season with Aston taking a 19-14 decision at Hagerstown in an exhibition game. Last year, when the Bears won the Southern Division title, Hagerstown topped the 7-0, in a driving rainstorm at Eddystone.

'In rematch at Hagerstown, the Knights took 27-22 decision. In the playoffs, Hagerstown blanked the Knights, 26-0 as quarterback John Waller could not connect with his receivers- on the field that was made slippery and muddy by a snow storm earlier in the week. Each team has one of the fiercest defenses 'in the le'ague, with the Bears having sacked opposing passers 27 times in their first six games. The Knights have done a fantastic job i Waller, having allowed the 1971 All-Seaboard quarterback to be dropped only three times' in six games. The Hagerstown defense is one of the biggest in the league with Mike Ballew (240), Wyoming Bazemore (255) and John Ware (250) in the middle of the line.

Tom Glasgow, Richmond Saints and Roanoke Buckskins star, is the top linebacker and Terry Sellers, former Cleveland Brown, and Art Hicks, who had a brief tryout with the Washington Redskins, head the secondary. Quarterback Wayne Liddick, who played for the champion Schuylkffi Coal Crackers last year, has thrown the most touchdown passes (8) of the league's quarterbacks and is also an runner. 'MACK TRUCK' But the Bears main running is 58, 220 pound Terry (Mack Truck) McEIfish, the second leading rusher in the league with 381 yards in 86 carries. MoElfish is deceptively fa'st for his size and is very strong. "He's just now learning to run over people every time he has said.

Henry Brown is the second leading receiver in the league with 29 receptions for 349 yards and nine touchdowns. The Bears also have an outstanding kicker in Duane Carrell of Florida State, another Washington Redskins; candidate who played behind Curt Knight and Mike Bragg in training camp. Carrell has hit six of nine field goal attempts including a 47 yarder and has the top punting average (40.9). a a Germantown Academy and Yale University a realizes that the Knights will be out to grab a share of first place and bounce back from a 53-14 embarrassment at Long Island. "We consider Aston the most physical team we've played over the last two seasons," he said.

"Until we see Hartford, there's no reason to think we'll have a tougher game- than this Saturday. "In fact, I don't see how Hartford can be any tougher than Aston;" he added. Anyone who has seen one of the four games these two teams have in the two: seasons -the Seaboard. League has realizes that there will be a lot of hard Chitting Saturday. And the half time show will be excellent as well with the Keystone, Drum and Bugle Corps presenting its precision marching and music.

Children will be admitted free when accompanied by a paying adult and each child will be eligible for.one of the free basketballs which will be given as door prizes to 12 lucky youngsters. TERRY (MACK TRUCK) MC ELEISH Marple, Nether get early tests Nether Providence Section Two and Marple Newtown of the Central League lost heavily last Spring at graduation time, but no one is writing off their chances to repeat, as a champions. That's why there'll be a lot of interest Saturday when the two open their football seasons against separate opponents. Coach Jim McFadden's Nether Providence eleven appears to have the toughest assignment. The Prowies visit Mt.

Pleasant High Wilmington for a 10:30 a.m. kickoff. Coach Harry Miller's MN Tigers visit Methacton of Section One for a 1:30 p.m.' kickoff at Fairview Village. Nther Providence, which returns two offensive and three defensive starters, will be playing a veteran team in Mt. Pleasant, which is reputed to be one of the powers in the Blue Hen Conference this season.

Marple. which thumped Methacton 39-14 last season, is expecting a- tougher game this time. The Indians opened last week by walloping Perkiomen Valley, 33-0. There are many other games of special interest, including tonight's St. James vs.

Sun Valley clash at Aston. The spotlight will also be on Section Three where league play gets an early'start with this afternoon's Archbishop Kennedy at Darby-Colwyn and Saturday morning's Darby Township at Garnet Valley games. There is' an increasingly large number of Saturday morning games. This week's early dates include Chichester at Concord, Bristol at Collingdale; a at Lansdowne-Aldan; and Oxford at Yeadon. Saturday afternoon'ts agenda offers Chester Vs.

Howard, Del. at Baynard Stadium; Downingtown at Interboro and Wilmington i at Archmere Academy, all for 2 p.m. kickoffs. On Sunday, Archbishop Carroll plays St. Pius at Pottstown and a i a O'Hara receives Archbishop Ryan at Marple Newtown High.

Both games start at 2 p.m. Two players to which are quarterbacks Dwight Speaker at Nether Providence and Burke Maze at a Newtown. They have the unenviable tasks of replacing All-Delco Joe Sterrett (NP), and All-Delco a mention Mike Allen (MN), Maze is sophomore who nipped fellew soph Pete Bartlett for the starting job during the final week of practice. Speaker, a senior, was Sterrett's understudy last year and got a lot of experience. Tight end Bob Daly and slot back Bill Emper, who'll switch to halfback this campaign, are NP's only returning offensive starters.

However, Curtis Hopkins, who started as a sophomore running back but didn't play last season, has returned and will be in the starting eleven. -Daly, Emper and defensive and Dpn Dixon return to the starting defensive unit. Ernper will be back at corner back, while Daly will switch from corner back to i i linebacker. Marple coach MiUer has only swing back Ken Bradford and guard Mark Saracino back from last year's offensive unit. He also has starting center (Mark Morgera returning, but Morgera will move to middle linebacker this time.

On defense, MN. has three starters returning. They are Bradford, Mike Campbell and Bob Florio, who composed the Tigers' secondary last season. They should get plenty of work because Methacton's offense is' built around quarterback Gary Pifer, who started as a soph, but missed last year because of an injury. Against Perkiomen Valley, Pifer threw to 6-2 split end Larry Brunt for three TDs.

Garnet Valley, which wiped out Oxford (29-6) with its new Wishbone offense, gets a chance to prove for sure that it ihas a good football' team when it meets Darby Township. Oxford wasn't a highly- touted i team and Darby Township should be stronger. DT is easily the fastest team-, in the league. Paterno impressed Eds. Note: This is the "first in a weekly series during the football season by Penn State head coach Joe Paterno on the Nittany Lions' next opponent.

takes a look at the 'scouting report and indicated the problems Penn State faces. By JOE PATERNO Penn State Head Football Coach Written for the Associated Press UNIVERSITY -PARK, Pa. (AP) We "are faced with a tremendous task this week in our opening game in Knoxville. Several of my assistant coaches and I scouted Tennessee against Georgia Tech in Atlanta last week, and I don't think I've ever seen any team play a more impressive opening game. Tennessee won 34-3.

but that score doesn't- me as much as the way they reached it. They rad great execution, poise, quickness and physical conditioning. They look like a super team. Condredge Holloway, their new quarterback, performed very well in his first game under a great deal of pressure. He should be even better this week with that first game under his belt.

He's an outstanding athlete and impressed me with his poise. He was really in control out there. They also have excellent running backs in Steve Chancey, Bill Rudder and Haskell Stanback, and a fine group of receivers led by Emmon Love and Chip Howard. They are much more.explosive offensively than, they were last year. Their defense looks every bit as good as it was last year.

They are extremely quick and aggressive. I was a impressed with their positioning on defense. They always seemed to be in the right place at the right They have some outstanding individuals on that defensive Lambert looks like a great. defensive end. Jamie Rotella is very solid as a strongside linebacker a Conrad Graham is an excellent defensive back.

As far as our own team is concerned we haven't practiced very well, a I don't think we're ready to play a team in Tennessee's class. We just aren't doing the things you have to do to be a good football team..