Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 3, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba 66 Winnipeg free press wednesday june Junior a you tells Roland Mangold he s Back. Rogers list of options includes als Montreal up trophy Winner George Rogers of South Carolina was expected to arrive Here late last night and leave this morning for Victoriaville que., site of Montreal Alou ettes training Camp. He wants to see the team practise talk to a couple of the players and then if he likes what he sees meet with Genera manager Bob Geary and executive vice president Bill said a spokesman for the Canadian football league team. Rogers the no. 1 selection of new Orleans saints of the National football league in the United states College draft led the nation last season in Rushing with Yards As a tailback. Rogers has been involved in contract talks with the saints for the past month but no agreement has been reached. The saints have reportedly made two offers both rejected by Rogers and his agent Jack Mills. Rogers said last month he expected to sign with new Orleans within two months but added that he was t closing the door on the Cal. My lawyers want me to go to Montreal for about three Days just to look it Rogers said at the time. I Don t necessarily want to go to Canada but i be got to find a Job tried to lure Georgia s Walker the Alou ettes tried to persuade Georgia running Back Herschel Walker to forego his remaining three years of College eligibility to turn professional. When that failed the club set its sights on Rogers. I imagine hell want to talk with Vince Ferragamo and Billy Johnson and see what they think about the said the Alou ettes spokesman. Ferragamo and Johnson formerly of the nil s los Angeles rams and Houston oilers respectively Are two of three nil free agent standouts who have joined the Alou ettes. The other former Chicago bears wide receiver James Scott has still not reported to Camp but called head coach Joe Scannella from Chicago yesterday and apologized for his absence. He called and said he was sorry but he was having a serious problem with his said the Alou ettes spokes Man. I have to believe its monetary the spokesman said Scott told Scannella he was anxious to join the team but that he had to wait until he had resolved his problem with agent Jack Childers. Joe feels Scott was sincere with him so Well just have to wait and see what the spokesman said. Middle linebacker Tom Cousineau meanwhile is still missing from Camp and his whereabouts Are unknown. Cousineau is apparently miffed by a report that Geary said he did t care if the former no. 1 draft pick of Buffalo Bills returns this season. In another development the Alou ettes announced the signing of 5-foot-9, 185-Pound running Back Jimmy Decuir of University of Wyoming. Kush gets Cal crash course St. Catharines ont. Up Frank Kush admits he s the one who has to make adjustments on a championship Hamilton Tiger cats team that has 40 veterans in training Camp. The biggest adjustment is to myself to the Way i would react to situations to the deployment of Kush says. This exhibitions is a real exciting time of our season and could Well decide where we Kush arrived As head coach of the Canadian football league tic ats from Arizona state University a High profile football College in the United states from which he was fired after a former player alleged Kush among others had through assorted methods deprived him of an Opportunity to play football and earn an education. Kush was acquitted of All charges after a lengthy court trial but not before he was fired by Arizona state. He subsequently was hired by tical owner Harold Ballard who liked his style on and off the Field. Hamilton won the 1980 Eastern football conference but was destroyed in the Grey cup by Edmonton eskimos. The tic ats regained quarterback Tom Clements who had bolted the team a year before to join Kansas City chiefs of the National football league. Clements who signed a four year contract with the nil team was allowed to break the Deal and return to the tic ats. Despite his experience hell have a Battle for the no. 1 Job with Dave Marler who took Over Early last season. Kush said he feels the team he inherited from deposed John Payne has the horses to go the distance again but he s going to have to learn quickly the Basic fundamentals of the Canadian game the 12-Man offences and defences the three Down system As opposed to four in the u.s., when it s Safe to go for third and one or third and three. There Are so Many variances in the game i really find the Canadian game exciting a Kush said at the team s training Camp at Brock University. I had 22 years at Arizona state but this is a different Ball Downs As cup makes rounds by Pat Calabria new Day new York the Stanley cup shines. It glows and it sparkles and it glitters. It also gets dirty. You would t believe All the thurn prints that get on Jim Higgins says. I got a Towel and wiped them off. I Felt i the cup inspires such attention and Higgins Job is to attend to the cup for the next two weeks. As Public relations director for the cup winning new York islanders of the National hockey league Higgins is responsible for planning the travels of the cup which is being placed in the players Homes for one evening apiece. Imagine the cup on the Kitchen table. Or imagine the cup in the Back seat of a Small foreign car which is where Higgins placed it after the Stanley cup Parade last week and the reception that followed. The cup was in my Higgins said. The cup usually resides in a four foot Black wooden Case with a Green Felt Cushion inside and a Hook that wraps around its neck to keep it immobile. But the Case does t fit in the Back seat of a Small foreign car. So i had to take it out of the Higgins said "1 left the Case with someone and i put the cup on the Back seat. Then i wrapped a Blanket Over it. It looked like a dead body. It reminded me of those westerns where the Good Guy stuffs two pillows under the sheets to make it look like a body. You so with the cup resting on the Back seat and looking rather dead Higgins headed for his apartment. It was a feeling of he said. It was a Beautiful summer night and there were parents strolling with their children in the Park. I wanted to shout to them hey i be got it but i knew Higgins also knew enough to take precautions. He had a Friend follow him in another car. I was More concerned about getting a Flat tire than i was about someone saying stick pm up we want the cup " Higgins drove at an excruciatingly slow Pace partly because he did not want the cup sailing into the dashboard if he had to Brake suddenly. But mostly he drove at an excruciatingly slow Pace for a much better reason he wanted to. I mean i know i could t get out and Start showing the cup to he said. So i drove slowly and pulled the Blanket off the cup just enough so that people looking into the car could see it. And when i d come to a red Light i d think great " when he arrived at his Small apartment above a Flower shop Higgins took the cup from the Back seat climbed up the stairs placed the cup on a Large desk in his bedroom and polished it. Then he invited a few friends and his Mother Over to take a look and finally went to bed knowing he had the Stanley cup to himself for an entire night. That was the problem. I could t get to Higgins said. I kept wondering what happens if someone steals the i got up at 3 o clock then at 4 and at 5.1 slept in the next morning Higgins came Down the stairs carrying the cup and walked through the Flower shop where several of the custom ers did not quite know what to make of the Blond elfish fellow in Horn rimmed glasses and baggy pants cradling this this. Thing Over his from there Higgins took it to Nassau coliseum for the team picture and it was then taken for an evening by general manager Bill Torrey who in turn passed it on to John 0. The managing Gen eral partner. Pickett threw a cock Tail party for the cup at his Home inviting he said "200 of my closest Higgins then resumed custody of the cup at a team Outing organized on a yacht that cruised around Manhattan with the cup set in a Corner of the boat a spotlight Shin ing on it while the players and their wives toasted it against the Darken ing new York Skyline. Then it was on to the players. Last year Bobby Nystrom sat his six month old daughter in the cup and snapped photographs. Lome Henning posed for pictures with the cup and his Cocker spaniels Buffy and Brandy. Bryan Trottier slept with it. This year John Tonelli was the first player to take the cup Home then it moved on to Bill Smith and Butch Goring who set it in the living room of his Home. 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