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, by Lee L. Richards
Had a good visit with
Coach John Mazur of New
York Jets on Saturday
evening. Mazur, Ed Davis
and I did manage to meet
down in Plymouth and
talk © some football and
roundball.
John was in town to sp-
eak at Crestwood’s football
banquet Sunday night. The
former Plymouth great
believes they're got things
headed in the right
“If anyone can turn the
program back into a
It’s a shame Walt wasn’t
given the opportunity
earlier, but people in the
NFL do some strange
In regards to the coming
draft which is slated for
May, Mazur says, ‘We've
done a lot of player
evaluation and took a good
long look at the people in
the Senior Bowl. We've got
all of our draft choices and
we're not looking for any
particular positions right
now.
“We’ll take the best
turn comes. By May we’ll
know what everyone else is
looking for and we’ll select
accordingly.”
John confirmed what we
had heard earlier iin the
week that had Chuck Knox
not accepted the Buffalo
job he would have been one
of several people in-
terviewed.
While a lot of critics put
down the Super Bowl
here’s three opinions we
value very highly:
Coach Mazur, N.Y. Jets:
“There were some
deficiencies early but the
tackling by both teams was
tenacious. Overall, it was
a good football game.
Dallas’ front four was the
difference. They
physically overpowered
Denver. It's the most
physical Super Bowl I’ve
seen.”
Coach Bobby Roper,
defensive coordinator
Tennessee: ‘‘It was a
heckuva football game.
They really got after each
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Back Mountain wrestling
fans are looking forward to
an exciting meet next
Wednesday when the
Dallas Mountaineers meet
the Lake-Lehman Knights
at the Lake-Lehman Senior
High School gym.
They anticipate one of
the most exciting and
closely fought bout to be
the 185-lb. contest between
the Knights’ Dana Sutliff
and Mountaineer Ken
Kuderka. That is, if both
remain at their present
weight class.
Sutliff, a senior at Lake-
Lehman High School, met
Kuderka, a junior, three
times last year and lost
three times but by very
close scores. His losses
were in a dual meet,
district finals and in
regionals, He is looking
forward to avenging those
losses this time around.
The son of Mr. and Mrs.
W. Dana Sutliff, RD 1,
Shickshinny, this marks
Dana’s sixth year of
wrestling experience.
He wrestled for three
years in junior high and
was a two-time’ district
junior high champ at 167-
Ib. He wrestled on the
senior high varsity in his
sophomore year and was
district runnerup, losing
only to Fritz Bleich, who
later became state champ.
As runnerup, he ad-
vanced to regionals and to
states but failed to bring
home a title. Last year, at
167-1b., Sutliff was run-
nerup in Districts to
Kuderka and again in the
Regionals.
Sutliff’s record to date at
185-1bs. is 12-0.
Sutliff is a natural
athlete and has played on
both the offense and
defense of Lake-Lehman
Senior High School varsity
football teams for the past
three years.
During the track season,
he participates in the 330
IM hurdles.
He plans to attend
college but uncertain
which one as yet. He wants
to attend a school where he
can play football and
wrestle, his favorite sports.
Dana’s coach, Jim Davis
said that Sutliff has a good
attitude and is level-
headed. Dana is a thinker
and like all members of
this year’s team is loose.
Ken Kuderka, junior, is
the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Ray Kuderka of Orange.
He wrestled for three years
in junior high school.154-
lbs. in seventh and eighth
grades and at 167-lb. in
ninth grade. Ken was
junior high district champ
in ninth grade.
Last year, his first year
on the senior high school
varsity squad he took the
District title at 167-1b.,
outwrestling Sutliff as
mentioned.
Kuderka played football
in eighth and ninth grade
and for the past two
seasons at senior high, he
has played lineback on the
varsity. His brother, Ray,
and his father also played
the same position when
they were in school.
He is not certain about
college since he is only a
junior but he likes both
if he goes to college would
like to attend a small
college where he could
participate in both.
His brother, Ray, was a
member of the varsity
squad at Dallas and Ken
alet about wrestling.
Kuderka says he will do
his best to defeat Sutliff if
he goes against him
although he says one never
knows. His record for the’
season is 7-1, the loss being
to John Green of Goshen,
N.Y., in the Christmas
Tournament at Delaware
Valley. Last year, as a
sophomore, his record was
16-4-1.
Coach Larry Schuler
says Ken is aggressive and
continuously - improving.
‘Anything you can say
about wrestling, you can
say about Kenny,”’ he said.
‘‘His wrestling speaks for
itself.”
Who will win if these two
opponents meet for the
fourth time-they won’t
predict the outcome and
other and if they hadn’t
there wouldn't have been
so many people -gettin’
were great plays. They
were every bit as brilliant
as the grabs made by Lynn
Swann two years ago.
Early mistakes made the
game appear sloppy.”
Coach Gib Romain,
defensive tackles,
Maryland: “It was a tough
and hard-hitting football
football game. I was ex-
tremely pleased for Randy
(White)
him for two years at
Maryland. I know how
dedicated he’s worked to
achieve the status he now
enjoys. Both defenses got
after each other. They've
got character. There
wasn’t any cowards on the
field, that’s for sure.”
The Back Mountain
Wrestling Club defeated
Montoursville Elementary
wrestlers by a 55-12 score
at Montoursville, Sunday,
Jan. 22.
The Back Mountain
grapplers scored six pins
and three major decisions.
50-1b. Billy Mathers
pinned Ron Beck (M) in 54
seconds. 55-1b. Jeff Austin
of the Back Mountain
flattened Larry Brown in
31 seconds. The locals 60-
Ib. Dean Robinson took at
7-0 decision from Dennis
DeSanto and 65-1b. Tom
slimnastics
Kingston Twp.
Recreation Commission is
offering a slimnastics
Course starting Feb. 2. It
will be held at the Kingston
Twp. Municipal Building
between the hours of 7 p.m.
and 8:30 p.m. every
weeks. Registration is Feb.
2, 7 p.m. at the Municipal
Building.
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CLIPBOARD NOTES:
Local mat buffs looking for
a good college meet this
Saturday can take in
Bloomsburg--Penn State
Bloom.-PSU is still No. 1 in
our Eastern Mat Poll while
Bloom is still 7th. Here's
how our second poll of the
season looks: 1-Penn State,
2-Rhode Island, 3-Clarion
State, 4-Cleveland St., 5-
Wilkes, 6-Princeton, 7- tie-
Bloomsburg and Lehigh, 9-
Syracuse, 10-Slippery
Roick.
Back Mountain wrestling
fans are looking forward to
Wednesday's encounter
between Lake-Lehman and
Dallas which could be a nip
and tuck battle. Meet was
postponed.
Arkansas’ Lou Holtz,
whom we cast our ballot
Pollack outwrestled Pat
Lutz 8-0 for a major
decision. v
The Back Mountain team
continued to win when 70-
lb. Mike Borton turned
over Dave Lantz in 57
seconds and 75-1b. Carmine
Augielo earned a 14-6
major decision over Brian
Batkowski. 80-lb. Craig
Rome took a major 12-2
decision from Randy
Gardner (M) and his
teammate 85-1b. Danny
Kratz clamped Dan
Alberts in 1:47.
Montoursville garnered
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for after his team’s up-
set of Oklahoma in Orange
Bowl, was named Coach of
the Year by Football
Writers Association of
America. Holtz edged out
Fred Akers of Texas by 16
votes...
A special hearing will be
held in Williamsport this
week on a proposed State
playoff for football.
Sources informed us. last
week that George Chaump,
the offensive coordinator
at Ohio State, was recently
interviewed for the head
post at ‘Boston College.
to both-win, lose or draw,
both young men are out-
standing athletes, a credit
to high school sports.
The former West Pittston
native has been in the final
two on several jobs and we
feel he’s going to land one
anytime now. Columbia
Coach Bob Campbell,
former B.C. assistant was
another interviewed.
While the North Carolina
post was filled, we learned,
too, Bobby Bowden, who
has the da State program
turned around, was in-
terested in the Carolina
slot.
Several roundball refs
and fans inform us one of
their first six points when
90-1b. Shawn McGowan
flattened Jim Chernavage
in 1:17. Back Mountain’s
George Steltz copped a
major 14-5 decision over
Jeff Connor.
Montoursville grapplers
collected their final points
when 100-lb. Dan Diehl
pinned George Fullerton i in
37 seconds.
when 107-lb. Mark Dalton
clamped Brian Kustan-
baut®r in 40 seconds, 117-1b.
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keep an eye on the clock is
Bishop O'Reilly. Seems
they jazzed Coughlin on
Saturday night.
We can’t believe George
Allen was fired with the
Redskins. Here's a guy
that led the Skins to 7-8 log
against the Cowboys.
While many have and will
continue to bad-mouth
Allen, we think he’s a great
coach.
His
teams were
tough with every opponent.
We gotta believe the move
the team declines and he
Allen. Should Allen get the
Rams’ post, we’d bank on
him getting them ‘to the
Super Bowl.
More and more fans are
complaining over the
sports programing on
Channel 28. Like Sunday
they didn’t carry the Notre
Dame--UCLA basketball
game. They aired some old
movie instead.
p.m.
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