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tions en UiL Amy recruiting and on Army Reserve
Officer Training Corps (ROTC) programs.
l!ocney, 23 Array sergeant stationed at Ft. Eras
Faycttcv2e, H.C. made it all the way to the finals rathe
bantam weight (125 D. weight liniitation) division hefore
losing to Ycng Jo Ca of North Korea m a unanimous de
cision. Ife talked with the Ds2y Nehraaiaa and ROTC
nercbers at a luncheon Friday afternoon.
"I hope to be ia the Army another 25 yean, God wiH
fcg, l!orjBsy said. -"My pal is to become a sergeant
major.
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Mooney had never formally boxed until he pined the"
army fear years tp. I2e became interested when two ser
geants tailed fcini into boxing for their company.
1 coulln't play feaahethaH because I was too short,
and I codiat play focthaS becanse I wasn't heavy
enough," tlccndy said, so I turned to boxing. I learned
mcst of my boxing ia the streets."
that after he started boxing he gradual!
set U$T gsds for himself. He made the all-Army boxing
team and went to Panama to box ia international com
petition ia 1973. Whfh; ia Panama, he decided to try out
for the 1976 Olympic team.
"I asked someone down there if they thought I was too
old to try for the Olympics and they convinced me that it
was never too late," saM Mooney who is 25.
Mooney said American boxers were not intimidated by
the more experienced European boxers.
"The European boxers are more picture boxers," he
said. "They would stand straight up and come right a
you. I think they figured one punch could take US. box
ers out in the last round." -
Mooney was involved in a controversial bout with a
Soviet athlete prior to his final bout.
"The Russian hit me below the belt and it took a lot of
my strength out of me," Mooney said. "The referee gave
me a standing eight-count and then I got mad. It turned
into a fight then-not a boxing match."
Mooney said he thought the biggest asset of the Ameri
can team was their excellent physical condition.
"Pat Nappi (American boxing coach at Montreal) ran
us ragged getting us in shape," Mooney said. "He person
ally helped me to gain a lot of technique."
Mooney said he felt there would always be politics in
volved ia the Olympics but he alio said he thect the
jsdjng had beea pretty fair.
tlocney a&o discussed Cuba's heavyweft representa
tive, TeofZo Stevenson, who wca the geld medJ fcr Us
weight dass for the second strr-ht fee, and srJ Is
thought many cf the Cubaa boxers were "burned cut" at
the Olympics becanse cf overiiiing.
"Some of the Cuban boxers had had as many as 150
bouts prior to the Olympic Games," ITooney said. "It
was just hearsay, but we heard that the Cubans locked
Stevenson up ia ja3 prior to the games because he dlfa't
want to fyxt"
Mooney offered a few thects sheet Howard Ccccll,
who covered the boxing matches fcr ATX-TV ia Montreal.
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"He's a real smart man," Mooney said. Tat he's pat
Lie anybody ealse. He doesn't put ca anything. He's a
real good gay."
llocncy, rnarrisd and the felher cf a cnycar cIJ sea,
fts bfw ci thg fnsA far faro months since the end of the
- Montreal
"rrn getting anxioss to get home now" he said, "rra
going to start gaing to ccHege half-days at FayetterZe
State ia North Carolina."
Mooney sail the close-knit boxing team was going to
hold a reunion soon at the home cf the Spfnks brothers cf
St. Louis, both cf whom won gold medals ia Montreal.
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last weekend may go down as one of the greatest
upset weekends in collegiate football history.
- Eight teams in the Associated Press (AP) preseason
top 20, and nme in the United Press International's (UPI),
failed to win last weekend.
The prognosticators at Playboy and. Sports Illustrated
(SI) magazines did equally as bad. The only victorious
team in Si's top five was Michigan, 40-27 winners over
Wisconsin. Eleven of the magazine's top 20 choices didn't
win.
Playboy's number one team, Nebraska, was tied.
Southern California 46-25. USC's Trojans had been rated
The weekend started on an ominous note for favorites
when UCLA upset Arizona State 28-10 Thursday rught.
Arizona State was ranked third and SI, fifth by
Playboy and seventh by UPI.
One of Saturday's biggest surprises was Mississippi's
10-7 upset of Alabama, ranked second by SI, fourth by
UPI, sixth by AP and seventh by Hayboy. Only Hayboy
had Mississippi in the top 20.
Missouri, which opened last season with an upset of
Alabama, continued on the same note this year, dumping
Southern California 46-25. USC's Trojand had been rated
second by Playboy, fifth by SI, and eighth by AP and
UPI. r
Other upsets Saturday included LSU's 6-6 tie with
Nebraska, Boston College's 14-13 victory over Texas,
Pittsburgh's 31-10 win over Notre Dame, California's
36-24 loss to Georgia. North Carolina State's 24-21
win over Florida, l.'ianus (Ohio) 21-16 loss to t&rshaH
and Texas Tech's 24-7 whipping of Colorado.
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