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Show Page 10B, Lakeside Reiew, March 19, 1981 IA nX' ? ,: Amiris lin Fun With SmwmtSS Indmtisy For all its and power maneuverability, a snowmobile is a simple machine to operate at any speed. There are no gears, no clutch pedals, and no turn signals. We make them easy to operate, of says Roger Skime, engineering at Arctic Enterprises, the countrys largest manufacturer of snowmobiles. Basically, you just get on the snowmobile and go. The throttle is operated with your right hand. It snaps back to idle .whenever you let go of it. The brake is engaged with your left somewhat like a hand by a lever As the bicycles handbrake. Background While slows, the clutch disengages. There are some instruments youll probably recognize from your car: a gas gauge, speedometer and possibly a tachometer and temperature and oil gauge. Theres also a headlight, because snowmobilers like to ride at jgr- night. Skime, who was once a driver for - Arctics professional - iSr first-timer- s. Beginning snowmobilers should start out in an open field, Skim explained, where there are no trees or boulders to make a novice nervous. After 20 minutes to a half hour of getting the feel of the machine, youre ready to follow a guide down an snowmobile trail. From here on in, the. new S J- snowmobile racing team, offers some tips for ?W honest-to-goodne- ss snowmobiler will become experienced just by getting used to his machine. Hell learn, for example, that turns go smcother if he leans to the inside of the curve as he negotiates it. There are a few safety rules. The most important one is dont tailgate. Another is to pull off the trail when stopping to chat with a few pals. The simplicity of snowmobiling is one reason it has become such a popular i HAS GROWN in popularity in recent years and these are Just four of some 10 million who take SNOWMOBILING part in the back trail fun each year, s Campbell is NFL Great running backs in National perhaps the best of the lot, who died of Football League history fall into one of leukemia before he ever played a two categories. The Roadrunners are professional game. The Chicago Bears the speedboys, the guys who run the 100 are one NFL team to have owned a in one digit times and leave the defense patent on great backs over the years, grabbing at air. The Trucks are the from Willie Galimore to Gale Sayers to power runners, the big guys who run Walter Payton. The threat of serious injury has through brick walls instead of around them, spraying opponents in all followed running backs around like a directions. shadow for years. The constant Roadrunners go beep, beep as they pounding has resulted in premature run right by you. Trucks go honk, retirements for some of the greatest, honk as they roll right over you. The like Sayers, Gifford and Simpson, first is a hit and miss proposition, the making too many careers sweet but short. second a hit and run. Defensive linemen 7UP Super Star Earl Campbell leads and linebackers agonize over the Roadrunner they cant catch, while ' the latest crop of great or potentially defensive backs cringe for fear of being great running backs. The Houston Oiler flattened by a runaway Truck. .powerhouse has a reputation for ' The parade of great running backs blasting holes through enemy lines on began during the NFLs infancy with his frequent path to the end zone. Bronko Nagursky (a Truck) and Red Earl is an exception among even the Grange (a Roadrunner). It continued great ones, in that he is blessed with excellent speed along with his brute through the 1940s and 50s with horses like Marion Motley and Steve Van strength and uncanny balance. He is Buren and thoroughbreds like Lenny more tank than truck to the defensive Moore and Frank Gifford. backs who have felt the sting of the Certain college and professional Campbell Express and would like to see teams have had a monopoly on top such vehicles outlawed. Earl is the most punishing runner in running backs. The University of Southern California turned out O.J. the game today, said one veteran His strength and defensive back. Simpson and Mike Garrett during the modern era, as well as Gifford and Jon running style make it almost imArnett from years past. The boys from possible for him to be taken down All you can do is hold on and Syracuse included Jim Brown, the career rushing leader, Floyd Little, wait for help. Brought up in rural Texas, Earl Larry Csonka and Ernie Davis, one-on-on- e. barrelled into football prominence during his freshman year at the University of Texas. He was a four-tim- e Conmember of the ference team, rushing for 4,444 yards during his career. He was a Consensus during his senior year and the winner of footballs most cherished honor, the Heisman Trophy, following the path of other great running backs like Simpson, Davis, and Tony Dorsett. In his rookie season in the NFL, die 7UP Super Star led the league in rushing with 1,450 yards in 302 carries. This means that he gained an average of 4.8 yards every time he banged through the middle or tiptoed down the sidelines. He galloped for 100 or more yards on seven occasions and finished the year with 13 TDs. He won honors hands down. The 511, running machine improved on his performance last year. He led the NFL in rushing again, this time with 1,697 yards, and scored 19 touchdowns. I dont care what people say, a running back cant do it all by himself, said Campbell. Both with the Oilers Rookie-of-the-Ye- Starving $13.42 Per Mo. (Age 26) EAST AHIICA UNITED IN Send your help ar 225-pou- and in college I was fortunate enough to play behind an excellent front line. Its really not that hard to gain a lot of yards when you have linemen that can punch holes big enough for a Mack truck to fit through. Modesty notwithstanding, Earl will be taking aim at the 2,000 yard season ' mark that has been shattered by only one running back: O.J. Simpson. A number of other top backs will be Texan for that chasing the 2,000 yard season. He came close in 1980, leading the NFL with 1,934 yards rushing. Billy Sims, the rookie from Oklahoma, has given Detroit Lion fans something to cheer about for the first time in years. Tony Dorsett is capable of breaking a long run everytime the Dallas Cowboys hand him the pigskin. 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