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Get ready, football fans! The
Dallas Post is going to offer you, for
the first time ever, something to bet
against - or, at least, something to
agree and disagree with every
week.
Beginning next week (Aug. 29), in
our special Football ‘84 edition, we
will be featuring the first-ever team
of Dallas Post prognosticators. A
prognosticator, you see, is someone
who predicts the future, using signs
and symptoms around him. In this
case, the prognosticators will be
predicting the outcome of high
school and college football games -
on a weekly basis and you, the
readers, will have the opportunity to
either agree with or disagree with
their choices, congratulating them
when they're right and chastising
them when they’re wrong.
BILL SAVAGE
We will feature six prognostica-
tors - five members of the Dallas
Post sports staff whom: we will
introduce to you in the following
paragraphs and one of whom will
remain anonymous until after the
final game of the season when his -
or her - identity will be revealed.
Our anonymous prognosticator will
assume the fictitious name of
Wilkes-Barre Fats
"By LEE L. RICHARDS
Sports Columnist
CLIPBOARD NOTES:
— How many high schools in
Pennsylvania field boys’ gymnastic
teams? Would you believe only
eight. There's over 100 girls teams.
— Most of the
coaches I've vis-
ited ‘with in
recent weeks
believe Valley
West will be the
team to beat in)
the upcoming
Wyoming Valley
Conference grid
race. Wyoming
Area is
expected to have another solid foot-
ball team, along with GAR, Meyers
and perhaps Coughlin, although the
Crusaders aren’t going to be what
— Lake-Lehman Coach Mark Kirk
being more competitive this season.
He’ll be working with around 33
players on the varsity, but there’s
some hard-nosed youngsters.
— Linebacker Jeff Martin will put
a hit on folks. He’s the youngster
who rushed for over 130 yards
against Meyers last season.
— Nose guard Ed Gavlick played
last season at around 145 pounds.
He’s tipping the scales at 179 right
now and he bulked up very nicely
with the off-season weight program.
He’s another hitter.
— While St. Joe Paterno isn’t sure
as to how good this year’s Penn
State team will be, he told several
scribes at recent Press Day that he
feels the Nittany Lions will be legit
contenders for the national crown in
1985 and 1986 seasons. Very interest-
ing.
— Grit sports scribe Chuck Yorks
tells me this year’s Little League
rid Series will be one of the best
ah the various teams from around
the globe coming to Williamsport.
— While the Olympic games are
over, the performance by the USA
is still the topic of conversation by
many sports buffs. Carmen Maffei
was in LA for three weeks and is
one of the more knowledgable track
buffs I know. He’s one of the Com-
mittee whips for the Jesse Owens
Foundation.
— Carmen told me the games
went beautiful with the exception of
a couple of the little things which
always occur.
— The Mary Decker incident
stunned many of the folks in the
coliseum, but Carmen agreed with
me that it wasn’t all the British
runner’s fault and that Mary con-
tributed to her own downfall.
— I can’t help remembering that
old cliche: ‘Good athletes and good
teams never allow themselves to be
put in a position where another
person is going to determine their
destiny or the outcome.”
— Street and Smith’s College
Football Magazine appears to' be
going rinky-dink with some of its
prognostications. They only selected
10 people to their All-East defensive
team. Then in their bowl predictions
for this season they omitted Pitt?
They obviously haven’t been as
thorough as in previous years.
— Most of the people I visited
with last week felt the syncronized
swimming and the rhythmic gym-
nastics were the most boring of the
Olympic Games. They should forget
those two in the future.
— Wyoming Area Athletic Direc-
tor Si Bernoski, one of the best
roundball coaches I've seen locally,
told me he thought the USA team
was one of the best he’s ever seen.
— Said Coach Bernosky, ‘‘I
thought Bob Knight did a splendid
job in handling and manipulating
the personnel. His defense was the
best I've seen on that level. I've
always believed in most of Coach
Knight's philosophy and he did it his
way with splendid results.”
— I mentioned to Coach Bernosky
about one of the no-necks from the
New York Daily News stating in a
story that Coach Knight didn’t
deserve any credit for the USA
roundball team winning. This same
about
clown would have been the first to
blame Knight had we lost through?
— Look for Valley West’s Bob
Ontko to get a heap of playing time
for PSU as a linebacker this season.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see
him nail down a starting job either.
— One question I'm asked a lot is
seen perform for an Eastern colle-
giate team? Most think I'm going to
say Tony Dorsett. Nope. My choice
for the most complete running back
was Syracuse’s Ernie Davis. I saw
him in person on several occasions.
He did it all and played defense,
too. He ran back punts and kickoffs
I never saw Jim Brown in college.
Tony was the best pure runner I've
seen, but Davis was the most com-
plete all-around running back.
— Check out Lake-Lehman’s new
helmet design. They are quite simi-
lar to the, style of Michigan and
Delaware. I like them. It was Coach
Kirk’s idea.
— P’ve always felt that Dallas and
Lake-Lehman dress out with stylish
uniforms.
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“GoalPOST-Petie”’ and, throughout
the season, will present our readers
with the challenge of guessing his -
or her - identity.
Members of The Dallas Post staff
who have been named to the 1984
team of prognosticators include Bill
Savage, our managing editor; Dotty
Martin, editor; Lee Richards, sport
columnist; Charlot M. Denmon,
sportswriter; and Ed Campbell,
photographer.
Savage, the former sports editor
of our sister paper, The Abington
Journal, admits to being a sports
fanatic all his life. Reading as much
about sports as he possibly can, and
sometimes overdosing on it, Savage
can strike up a conversation on just
about any sport around. Savage has
reportedly already begun learning
all there is to know about local
football, in hopes of outguessing his
competition this year.
Martin, The Dallas Post editor, is
a former athlete, official and sports-
writer. Having majored in basket-
ball at Wilkes College, she has
always been a sports fan and thor-
oughly enjoys everything about a
good football game. A staunch sup-
port of the Equal Rights Amend-
ment, Martin vows to do everything
she can to beat her male counter-
parts in this contest.
Richards, whose ‘weekly sports
column always manages to raise an
eyebrow or two, is most likely to
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provide the toughest competition to
his prognosticator teammates. Rich-
ards, who is also a faithful sup-
porter of college football, writes for
a national football magazine and
sometimes seems to know more
about football than the coaches
themselves.
Charlot Denmon, who will be
reporting on local football games
throughout the season, will join
Martin in a concentrated effort to
show men that women can also
enjoy football - and understand it,
too. The former news editor of The
Dallas Post, Denmon is rather
familiar with the Back Mountain
teams and is expected to hit a few
games right on the nose.
Ed Campbell, whose photographs
throughout the past year have
become part of many a scrapbook,
will try his hand at prognosticating
for the first time. Although his
experience at ‘shooting’ things has
earned him fame in the Back Moun-
tain area, Campbell will take on the
‘‘rookie’’ role with this team of
prognosticators.
And, of course, every week there
will be “GoalPOST Petie” to con-
tend with. And, boy, will he - or she
- keep you guessing.
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Lehman, Dallas, Wyoming Valley
West, Bishop O'Reilly, and West
Side Tech. We also hope to include
the collegiate games of Penn State,
Notre Dame and Pitt.
Every week, each one of the
prognosticators will decide which of
the above teams will win their
respective. games and provide you
with what they think the final score
will be. After all the games have
been played every week, we will
tally the prognosticators’ choices
and provide you with a running
score so you can see which member
of our team knows football best.
Every one of our prognosticators
has taken an oath to do the best job
he or she is capable of and not to let
any personal preferences affect
their decisions. All of them will take
a very serious look, on a weekly
basis, at each and every team so
that they can make a very honest
choice.
So, get ready Back Mountain
sports fans! The Dallas Post prog-
nosticators are gearing up for their
first-ever season of picking the win-
ners. But, watch out! “GoalPOST
Petie”” just may be someone you
know. :
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