Photo of the day From the Stripes archives
February
19, 2008
Red Grandy ©Stars and Stripes
Landstuhl,
Germany, June 9, 1977: Elwin Clayton (92), Bill Townsend (52)
and Larry Allen of the Newton (Iowa) Nite Hawks team up to haul down Larry
Rivelli of the Chicago Lions during a semipro football game. The teams had
drawn 12,000 and 20,000 fans at Versailles and Lille, France, respectively, but
only about 200 showed up to witness Newton's 26-16 win "back in the woods
behind the 2nd General Hospital at the Landstuhl Stadion, a soccer field with
no lights," according to a Stripes story about the game.