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49ers’ Montana
needs long ball
Associated Press
ROCKLIN, Calif. — Joe Mon
tana’s personal training camp pro
ject involves gaining confidence be
fore the San Francisco 49ers open
the National Football League season.
It’s not that Montana was running
scared last January at Stanford Sta
dium, where he set several Super
Bowl records while leading Coach
Bill Walsh’s 49ers to their second
NFL title.
“Right now, Bill knows I still don’t
have confidence in my long peissing.
We’re working a lot on it in practice
and it’s improving,” the 49ers’ quar
terback said with the season opener
2V‘j weeks away.
“But the important thing about
improvement is to get it done in
games,” Montana added. “It used to
be that I’d feel I couldn’t get the ball
downfield far enough on some
plays, so I might let it go a little too
soon,” Montana added.
Montana, whose 28th birthday
was two months ago, was in his first
season as a starter when the 49ers
beat the Cincinnati Bengals in Super
Bowl XVI following the 1981 cam
paign.
During last season, which the
team finished with an overall record
of 18-1, Walsh said he considered
Montana at least two years away
from fully maturing as a quar
terback.
Walsh has not changed his mind,
Montana’s performance in Super
Bowl XIX and his career quar
terback rating, highest in NFL his
tory, notwithstanding.
Montana won the Super Bowl
Most Valuable Player award last Jan.
20, for a second time, completing 24
of 35 passes for 331 yards and three
touchdowns, and running for 59
yards and one touchdown-in the 38-
lb victory over the Miami Dolphins.
“Joe will continue to improve as
long as he plays,” Walsh said. “At
some -point, but hopefully not too
soon, the physical erosion will cross
paths with the knowledge and expe
rience.
“But at this point, he’ll improve
each year, especially being within
our system and playing with this
group of players.”
In an exhibition game Monday
night against the Denver Broncos,
Montana played 1'/a quarters and
completed 9 of 13 passes for 115
yards, including a 23-year touch
down strike to tight end John Frank.
This summer, pre-season camp
meant parting from a wife.
Montana and Jennifer Wallace, an
actress-model he met last year while
doing a television commercial, were
married a month after the Super
Bowl, and the couple expects a baby
late in the NFL season.
SWC Race
(continued from page 9)
kins, will be back to give the Mus
tangs a 1-2 punch that should be the
envy of the nation. Make that a 1-2-3
punch with the addition of freshman
Bill Jones, one of the most sought-
after Texas high school stars.
While saying that SMU would
have been favored, “every team
should be a notch better,” said Ar
kansas Coach Ken Hatfield.
Arkansas
Arkansas is loaded on defense, re
turning nine starters.
The Razorbacks led the SWC in
scoring defense and total defense
last fall.
Hatfield must find a quarterback
to replace Brad Taylor and Danny
Nutt. And he’s find them in the
presence of runner Greg Thomas
and passet Mark Calcagni, brother
of former Hog signal caller, Mark.
Razorback wide receiver James
Shibest, who caught 51 passes for
907 yards and seven touchdowns, is
the cream of the SWC crop.
Houston
Houston, a Cotton Bowl loser to
Doug Flutie and Boston College,
brings back the exciting Gerald
Landry, a veer quarterback su
preme.
The Cougars have swift receivers,
in tight end Carl Hilton and split
end Larry Shepherd, and tough
running tailbacks, led by Raymond
Tate.
All-America tackle prospect T.J.
Turner will anchor a respectable
Cougar defensive unit.
Texas A&M
Don’t sell A&M Coach Jackie
Sherrill’s and his Aggies short. A&M
closed fast last year and are loaded
in talent positions, particularly at
quarterback, where Craig Stump
and Kevin Murray can produce in
stant excitement.
Sherrill said the final victories
over the Horned Frogs and Long
horns “should serve as' a good
springboard for the next year. We
reacted well to adversity.”
On defense, A&M has nine start
ers returning, including pre-season
first team All-SWC linebacker Joh-
hny Holland and second team All-
SYVC end Rod Saddler.
Texas
Texas could be pesky if Coach
Fred Akers can solve his inconsistent
quarterbacking. Texas fell from No.
1 in the nation early on last season
during a seige of bad offense.
Todd Dodge and Bret Stafford
will be battling it out at quarteback,
while redshirt tailback Charles
Hunter is-expected to add punch to
his position.
“The way things went at the end
of last year can be turned into an in
centive for this year,” said Akers,
whose team was bombed 55-17 by
Iowa in the Freedom Bowl.
A non-conference schedule which
includes Missouri, Stanford and Ok
lahoma should tell Texas where it
stands.
TCU
Then there’s the return of Heis-
man Trophy candidate Kenneth Da
vis at runningback and a resurgent
TCU under wildly enthusiastic
Coach Jim Wacker.
TCU’s 8-4 record and Bluebonnet
Bowl bid against West Virginia was
its best in two decades.
“Who would have ever thought
the little of Horned Frogs would be
8-1 and ranked in the Top 10 last
year?” Wacker said. “That was a
great experience and one we would
like to continue in 1985.”
Speedy quarterback Scott Ank-
rom, a standout at San Antonio Jay
High School just two years ago, is
now expected to give the Horned
Frog Veer offense an added dimen
sion.
“We’re still have to completely
overhaul our offensive line after
graduation losses and we’re not deep
in the defensive front,” Wacker said.
“We still have an inordinate amount
of speed at our skill positions. We’ll
have three guys in the backfield with
4.4 speed.”
Baylor
The Baylor Bears have two excel
lent quarterbacks in Cody Carlson
and Tom Muecke. Coach Grant
Teaff has retooled his offense to
take more advantage of their passing
talents.
Freshmen running backs Charles
Perry, a former Bryan High star,
and Jeff Murray could contribute
immediately to the Bears, who have
a rugged non-conference schedule
which includes Georgia and USC.
Texas Tech
Texas Tech Coach Jerry Moore
has gone from the I-Formation to
the “Wing-Bone” attack which was
popularized by Hatfield at Arkansas
last season.
However, the Red Raiders will
have to depend on green quar
terbacking and that can be fatal in
the SWC. Sophomore signal caller
Aaron Keesee returns to take back
his position, but he’s still unproven.
Tech’s defense should again be
strong to keep the Raiders respect
able. Tech is led by All-SWC hopef ul
Brad Hastings at middle linebacker.
Rice
Watson Brown’s Rice Owls could
be much better and still not win a
SWC game in ’85. Rice plays Air
Force and Miami on its non-confer
ence schedule, but the Owls’ best
chance for victory appears to be
against Lamar.
NFL Cuts
(continued from page 9
placed nose guard Bob Baumhower
and offensive tackle Eric Laakso on
the physically-unable-to-perform
list, meaning they can not play until
at least the seventh game of the sea
son. Baumhower is suffering from
knee and ankle injuries, while
Laakso still is recuperating from a
knee injury suffered during the
fourth game of the 1984 season.
The Indianapolis Colts waived
seven players, including four who
started last year on one of the wea
kest defenses in the NFL, Those
four were safety Mark Kafentzis,
cornerback James Burroughs, and
linebackers Greg Bracelin and Mike
Humiston.
Also cut were linebacker James
Gross, punter Tom Orosz and de
fensive end Scott Virkus.
Free safety Mike Whitwell of
Texas A&M was the only veteran
among seven players out by the
Cleveland Browns. Cleveland also
put 13 players on injured reserve,
including veterans Clinton Burrell
(safety), Elvis Franks (defensive end)
and Willie Jones (defensive end).
Veterans Keith Baldwin, a defensive
end, and Bill Contz, a tackle, were
put on the physically-unable-to-play
list.
The Los Angeles Raiders released
15 players, among them veteran
nose tackle Rick Ackerman and line
backers Mark Merrill and Darryl
Bird. They also placed eight others
on injured reserve, including start
ing inside linebacker Bob Nelson.
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