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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 14, 1982)
Seahawks clear house; Patera, Thompson gone SEATTLE (AP) — Coach Jack Patera and General Manager John Thompson were fired Wednesday by the Seattle Seahawks, who named Mike McCormack interim coach for the remainder of the 1982 National Football League season. McCormack, fired as head coach of the Baltimore Colts at the end of last season, was the Seahawks' director of football operations Don Anderson, the Seahawks' director of non-football operations, will become director of administration, filling in for Thompson for the rest of the season Announcement of the firings was made by John Nordstrom, whose family is majority owner of the team “We have been disappointed at our lack of progress on the football field the past years and that was the sole reason for the dismissal, " Nordstrom said, reading a prepared statement “It became apparent in our early season performance that things hadn't turned around "It is always difficult to make changes, but we believe that Mike McCormack will be an excellent head coach until the end of the year We have not written off the 1982 season " Nordstrom said the Seahawks' ownership had not made contact with anyone about filling Patera's old job on a permanent basis The existing contracts of Patera and Thompson will be honored by the club. Nord strom said Nordstrom described Patera as “surprised" by the dismissal, and said Patera asked. Why now?" Under Patera and Thompson the Seahawks had a 35-49 record, including an 0-2 record before the 23-day-old National Football League players' strike began In two previous NFL head coaching jobs, McCormack has a 25-48-1 record. McCormack was 5-8-1, 7-7 and 4-10 at Philadelphia from 1973 through 1975 In 1980, he had a 7-9 record at Baltimore Harriers swarm on OTC meet Oregon will have both the men and women running Sunday when a field of nine teams swarm on the Emerald Valley Golf Course for the Oregon Track Club Invitational The meet will be the fourth of the season for the women, while the men will be running for the first time since the Garrie Franklin Classic Sept 25 Kathy Hayes will be leading the women after coming off last week's victory in the Willamette Invitational where she set a new course record The race in Salem was the first of Hayes' injury-riddled season Joining Hayes for the Ducks will be Rosa Gutierrez. Eryn Forbes. Lisa Martin and Kim Roth Leann Warren is still out with an injury "We are going to run every body." cross country Coach Tom Heinonen said "Washing ton is really optimistic about their program, and Idaho looks to be the strongest they've ever been We expect to beat them, but you never know " Along with the Huskies and the Vandals. Oregon State. Colorado State. Oregon Track Club. Club Northwest. Athletics West and the Evergreen Har riers from Seattle are expected to participate The men, led by Jim Hill, who won the Garrie Franklin, will run against the same competition on the 10.000 meter course, while the women run the 5,000 The Wilderness Society annnounces a workshop on The Future of Oregon’s Federal Forests Decisiosis being made by Congress, by the Forest Service, and by the Bureau of Land Management will determine the quality of water, wildlife habitat, jobs, wilderness, and the health of federal forest lands. You can Influence these decisions. Come to the workshop and learn how. Listen to forest supervisors from the Siuslaw and Willamette National Forests and the Bureau of Land Management state director. Listen to academic researchers and environmental leaders. Listen to Congressman lint Weaver, member of the House Interior Committee and Chairman, House Subcommittee on Forests and Family Farms, and to Ross Anthony, Congressman W'eaver’s opponent. Then make your voice heard, sponsored by the Wilderness Society and the UO Survival Center, and LAW. Sunday October 17 S:15 am - 12:30 pm • Law School, room 123 and 12:30 pm - 5:30 pm • EMU, room 101 (across from the Post Office). For further information contact Peter Sorenson 683-1378 Register at the door, $5.00 requested, students free. EVERYBODY'S -at HAS YOUR MUSIC ON SALE ALL THIS MONTH STEVE WINWQOE) TALKING BACK TO THE NIGHT I Mi ludes Sllll la I he (Uae f Valeile Help Me Aapet ■*■ W* Gift* WUt V«j\ FLEETWOOD MAC - «* i ru # <’ hniurhs tluht Vi* (ii jt,sy law hi I ni/iin \t(ih: NEW MUSIC LP S& TAPES 5.89 DON HENLEY I Can’t Stand Still GtXi^uf-.StdU&NgaIi DAYLIGHT AGAIN INCLUDES WASTED ON THE WAY TURN TOUR BACK ON LOVE SOUTHERN CROSS G R E A B T CASSETTE NEW DIRE STRAITS EVERY BODY’S EVERYTHING ON SALE!! ALBANY 1977 Santiam Hwy. CORVALLIS In the Old Cannery U Y S
