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— Griffin Daily News Wednesday, February 11,1976
Mittermaier wins second gold medal
INNSBRUCC (UP) - Rosi
Mittermaier became the first
double Alpine gold medalist of
the 12th Winter Olympics today
when she captured the women’s
special ski slalom to go with
her downhill victory of last
Sunday.
Lindy Cochran of Richmond,
Vt., was the best placed
American finisher in sixth
place. Mary Seaton of Hancock,
Mich., who was promoted in
midseason from the Can-Am
team, was 10th, while downhill
bronze medalist Cinty Nelson of
Lutsen, Minn., finished 13th. Os
the 41 starters, only 17 were
classified at the finish. The
others missed gates or fell.
Mittermaier, the 25-year-old
World Cup leader who is
enjoing her best ever season in
nine years of top racing and
appearing in her third Olym
pics, had an aggregate time of
1 minute 30.54 seconds after
heat runs of 46.77 and 43.77,
respectively, down the 1,315-foot
course on Birjitzkoepfl moun
tain, which had a vertical drop
of 590-feet. The first course had
51 gates and the second, 50.
Claudia Giordani of Italy
finished second, 33-100ths of a
second behind the winner, while
world champion Hanny Wenzel
won Lichtenstein its first every
Winter Games medal by taking
the bronze in a time of 1:32.20.
Lindy Cochran was attempt
ing to keep the championship in
the family. Her sister, Barbara,
won at Sapporo four years ago.
But Lindy had trouble in the
middle of both courses and was
forced to take gates wide and
lost vital fractions of a second.
She was seventh after the first
run and moved up one place in
the second to finish with an
aggregate time of 1:33.24.
Nelson never was a factor.
She was steady but never really
attacked the course and fin
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ished in 1:37.33. Special slalom
is not her favorite Alpine type
of skiing.
Young Abbi Fisher, 18, of
South Conway, N.H., fell in the
first heat and reinjured the
knee which kept her out of
racing since Jan. 21.
The race was run with snow
falling most of the time and
U.S. team officials said the
tracks were what New Eng
landers call a “frozen river,”
icy and rutted.
Head Coach Hank Tauber
said, “I think the courses were
much too difficult for women
racers.”
Pamela Behr of West Ger
many, who led after the first
heat, finished fifth.
Early in the day Sten
Stensen, a double bronze
medalist at Sapporo in 1972,
won the men’s 5,006-meter
speed skating gold medal from
two Dutchmen, Piet Kleine and
Hans Van Helden.
The three American entries,
as expected, never were a
factor. Dan Carroll of St. Louis
College
scores
By United Press International
East
Adelphi 46 Stony Brook 42
Amer. U. 63 La Salle 61
Beckley 79 Ohio Val 68
Bryant 81 Stonehill 74
Brockpt 70 Fredonia 53
BfloSt. 60 Geneseo St. 55
Concord 76 W.Va. St. 71
Colgate 75 Alfred 54
Davis&Elkins 94 Salem 78
E. Nazarene 89 Nasson 66
Elmira 88 Eisenhower 65
Frank&Marsh 62 W. Md. 59
Glenville 75 W.Va. Tech 65
Hartwick 60 Ithaca 51
Jersey City St. 75 Kean 66
King’s NY 100 Nyack 74
Kings Pt. 70 Domincn NY 63
Mass. 88 Boston U. 73
Manhattan 70 Temple 64
Mercyhst 71 Slppry Rock 48
MIT 70 Nichols 68
Moravian 68 Wayne 52
Navy 99 Wash. Md. 68
N.E. 84 St. Anselm’s 74
Roch. Tech 76 Hobart 67
St John’s 56 RIU 47
Suffolk 94 Gordon 72
West Lib 96 M. Harvey 91
Williams 78 RPI 71 ot
South
Biscyne 64 Palm Bch Atl. 62
Carsn Nwmn 91 Tenn-Tmple 66
Citadel 76 Furman 72
Geotwn Ky. 94 Berea 80
Geo Mason 84 Salisbury 77
Jacksonvl 57 Stetson 51
Madison 77 Hmpdn-Sydny 58
Norflk St. 113 Fytvl St. 95
Richmond 68 Va. C’mwealth 66
Rollins 94 Fla. Southern 77
SE Louisiana 78 So. Miss. 75
Catholic U. 64 Towson St. 60
Wash&Lee 80 Chris. Newpt 69
Wm Carey 69 West Fla. 68
was the best placed finisher in
7:36.46. Mike Woods of Mil
waukee was 12th in the field of
32, while Eric Heiden of
Madison, Wise., took 19th place.
Stensen clocked 7:24.48 in the
third pair of the day and then
had to sit around on a cold,
overcast day for over three
hours to see if his time would
stand up for the gold medal.
It was the first time the
Russians were shut out in six
speed skating races, and also
the first time the winner failed
to break the Olympic record.
Fred Anton Maier of Norway
posted the record of 7:22.40 at
Grenoble in 1968, but in fairness
to the field, conditions were not
ripe for record breaking.
Lou Holtz talk* to reporter* here Tuesday after hein/t
named roach of the New York Jets. Holts left North
Carolina State for a fire-year contract at SIOO,OOO a
year. (IPl)
Jets hire
Lou Holtz
NEW YORK (UPI) - The
burning question among New
York’s pro football fans today
is, “Lou Who?”
The New York Jets filled the
last coaching vacancy in the
National Football League Tues
day, bypassing some of the
premier names in college
football and selecting Lou
Holtz, the highly successful but
little-publicized coach at North
Carolina State.
The 39-year-old Holtz, who
It took a freak accident to
stop the Russian success story
over the Seefeld Nordic trail.
The Soviets had a comfortable
lead in the first leg when
Evgeni Beliaev lost a ski as he
neared the end of his 10th'
kilometer. He lost nearly two
minutes before he was able to
continue and that was too much
of a handicap for the other
racers to make up.
Finland took the gold medal
ahead of Norway. The Soviets
finished third. The Finns
clocked 24)7:59.72.
Bill Koch posted the third
fastest time of the day, but he
could not take on the rest of the
Nordic elite alone and the
United States finished sixth of
said he accepted the job at 1
a.m. Tuesday, received a five
year contract estimated at
SIOO,OOO annually.
Holtz, a frail, scholarly
looking type, who speaks in
rapid-fire, machine-gun bursts
and considers himself an
accomplished amateur magi
cian, made his reputation in the
college ranks by turning losers
into winners. He’ll have another
opportunity to work his wizard
ry in New York.
Holtz, who turned both
William & Mary and N.C. State
into instant winners in his last
two coaching assignments,
takes over a Jet club that
finished as the poorest defen
sive team in the NFL. The 3-11
record and last-place finish in
the AFC East marked the Jets’
worst season ever. Head Coach
Charley Winner was fired in
November and offensive coor
dinator Ken Shipp finished the
year.
Holtz, naturally, is quite
optimistic.
“I have great confidence in
myself,” he said. “I believe in
God, Lou Holtz and the New
York Jets in that order.
Coaching is coaching no matter
what level you’re at You need
a good staff and you need
athletes and you need people
who want to win. That's what I
intend to have here.”
One of Holtz first undertak
ings will be to establish a
rapport with star quarterback
Joe Namath, who has openly
campaigned to be traded.
“You read different things
about Joe Namath but I believe
Joe Namath is a winner and I
want him on my team,” Holtz
said. “I believe Joe Namath is
a guy who desperately wants to
win and that’s the kind of
player I’m looking for. I look
forward to working with him. I
think we’re capable of playing
winning football with Joe
Namath as our quarterback.”
Despite his reputation as an
offensive innovator, Holtz says
defense will be the major food
point for him as he prepares
for his first pro assignment
“My first area of attention
will be the defense,” he said.
“A great team starts with
defense. You’re not going to
win a lot of games in the NFL
by trying to outscore people.”
the 16 teams.
Koch, 20, of Guilford, Vt.,
raced the third leg and posted a
time of 30:43.61 for his 10-
kilometer run to bring the U.S.
into third. But Ron Yeager of
Durango, Colo., was unable to
maintain the pace and lost
ground, although his 32:35.49
was the second best run of the
four Americans.
Doug Peterson of Minneapolis
took the first leg and finished
sixth with a time of 35:06.24,
handing over to Tim Caldwell
of Putney, Vt., who was 12th on
his leg in 33:16.01.
The skiers had a lot of
trouble with their waxing
because the relay, the race the
runners apparently enjoy the
most, was run in a light
snowfall throughout.
After the first run of the
women’s slalom, Linda Cochran
of Richmond, Vt., was seventh
while Cindy Nelson, the down
hill bronze medalist, was 10th.
A couple of West Germans,
Pamela Behr and downhill gold
medalist Rosi Mittermaier,
occupied the first two places,
with Daniele Deberaard of
France third.
Behr clocked a fast 46.68 in
powder conditions. Cochran,
attempting to follow in the
footsteps of her sister, Barbara,
the 1972 gold medalist at
Sapporo, Japan, was clocked at
47.%, while Nelson did 49.52.
Two of the favorites, Lise-
Marie Morerod of Switzerland
and Fabienne Serrat of France,
did not finish. Morerod ran out
when she missed a gate and
Serrat fell on the top half.
Marie-Therese Nadig of Swit
zerland, who was prevented
from defending her downhill
championship because of flu,
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most of the course on one stick,
then ran out.
Monika Kaserer, Austria’s
big hope, took a spill to the
dismay of the big crowd.
After almost perfect weather
for the first week of competi
tion, the weather turned foul
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