Breakers dump Boston
HOUSTON (AP) — The United
States Football League owners
unanimously approved on Tues
day the transfer of the Boston
Breakers to New Orleans. The
team will play its 1984 home
games in the Louisiana
Superdome.
“This was a difficult decision
to make, but we have every con
fidence this is the best move for
both the Breakers and the
USFL,” said team owner George
Matthews and co-owner Randy
Vataha, who will remain as prin
cipal owners of the franchise.
“The city of New Orleans is a
tremendous football area, which
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has one of the finest facilities in
pro football,” they said in a
statement at the annual league
meetings.
Portland was one of the cities
mentioned as a possible new
location for the Boston fran
chise. The Breakers finished the
inaugural 1983 USFL season
with an 11-7 record.
Dick Coury, voted USFL
Coach of the Year, will accom
pany the Breakers to New
Orleans along with his complete
staff and players, said Matthews
and Vataha.
In announcing the transfer, •
USFL Commissioner Chet Sim
mons said the league would try
to place another franchise in the
Boston area.
“We consider Boston a prime
area for the USFL,” said Sim
mons. "The reason for this
transfer is simply the present
lack of a suitable downtown
football facility.”
The Breakers played their
home games this year in Boston
University’s 20,535-seat Nicker
son Stadium. The Louisiana
Superdome has a 72,000-seat
capacity for football.
FOOD CENTERS
Wednesday, October 19, 1983
Waitz favored in marathon
NEW YORK <AP) — Norway’s Grete Waitz
is the world champion in the marathon and
broke the world best time in the event three
times, but her husband says that she has not
yet reached her potential.
“I don’t think she has come close to what
she can do in a marathon, especially timewise,"
says Jack Waitz, her husband, trainer and
spokesman.
Her best time is 2 hours, 25 minutes, 29
seconds, accomplished last April in the London
Marathon and a clocking that equalled the
world best set in the 1981 New York City
Marathon by Allison Roe of New Zealand. The
following day, Joan Benoit of the United States
lowered the mark to 2:22:43 in the Boston
Marathon.
The former school teacher from Oslo,
unbeaten in the six marathons she has com
pleted — she dropped out of two others — will
be heavily favored to win the New York City
Marathon Sunday for the fifth time in the past
six years and the second year in a row.
But Waitz says she will not be concen
trating on bettering Benoit’s time, although she
is in excellent condition.
“I just want to run a good race and win,”
says the 30-year-old Waitz.
“My preparations are going well, almost as
planned, except for about three or four weeks
ago, when I had an Achilles’ injury. But I am run
ning a little faster than last year, so I think I am
in good shape for Sunday.”
As proof, she cites the three races she has
run since winning the marathon at the in
augural World Championships in Helsinki,
Finland, in August. In each, her time was faster
than a year ago.
The first was • a 19-kilometer race in
Switzerland, in which her clocking was about
two minutes quicker than in 1982. Then, there
was a 15-kilometer cross-country event in
Stockholm, Sweden, where she lowered her
time by a few seconds, and finally, there was a
10-kilometer race in Hampton, Va., where she
reduced her time by about 10 seconds.
She says that Benoit’s clocking would be
broken within the not too distant future
because of the rapid improvements in women’s
running in the past few years.
Can Waitz break the record Sunday? ”lt
depends on so many things, mainly the
weather.”
She points out that in last year’s New York
City Marathon, the runners had to run into a
strong headwind for much of the 26-mile,
385-yard distance. Waitz finished in 2:27:14,
more than a minute ahead of women's runner
up Julie Brown of the United States.
Her previous winning times in New York
were 2:32:30 in 1978, 2:27:33 in 1979 and 2:25:41
in 1980 — all world bests.