need some foosball history
Greg Pulliam
web site,<foosworld.com,its not up yet>. he is looking for statistics
of any mid level to major foosball tournaments from any time period
70's ,80's and 90's.
If you have data to share please E-mail ra...@xbot.com
Just a Guess
person who has kept accurate info and that is Kathy Brainard.
I believe she has an email link on the northwest foosball site.
hope this helps.
"Greg Pulliam" <pul...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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DominateTakeover
world-title? It is between Loffredo, Horton, Nevois, Tommy, Gil Jackson. Who
won the most majors in a row on T.S. It was T.S. Tom Spear with 6 in a row. Who
won every major on Dynamo in Open Doubles 1985, EXCEPT WORLDS? Chesbrough &
Benitez!! Who started the far wall brush series? Tim "Zeak" Burns!! Who wore
all white and dressed like a Dr. in the 70's? Multiple World Champion Mike
Bowers, Dr. Bow!! Who came back to win the 79' Worlds down 2 games to nothing,
and 4-0? Wizwell & Fury!! Who hitch-hiked to Worlds in 75' and won Worlds on
T.S. in Doubles? Dan Kaiser!!
Pat Goff
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ARKANSASFOOSBALL
That was one of the most interesting informative entertaining post that I have
read since, I started reading this newsgroup..Thanks Dominate Takeover and keep
the historical facts
coming.........................................................Ok Ok I have
another question for you...A quick answer by you will prove you are Johnny and
If this post was really done by Johnnny Horton..
Go to www.arkansasfoosball.NET, then click on the link that says NEWS, then
look at the picture on the arkansas foosball newsgroup web site. And tell us
what kind of "Shot" you just got through shooting in the cool picture in the
pits in Vegas..
""Tip, "It was not a Pull Shot""..A quick post telling what kind of shot it was
will prove that Dominate Take...@aol.com is the real Johnny Horton.
Gregg
>subject: Re: need some foosball history
>From: dominate...@aol.com (DominateTakeover)
Marianne
past issues of FOOS NOOS.. it was a monthly newspaper that covered
almost all the TS action plus regional foos. I don't know if Kathy
Brainard kept issues?? While I was playing out of St. Louis in 78/79,
Joe McCarthey was the publisher and Dennis Sterns was the editor I
have no idea where either of those guys are. The last time I saw
Dennis he was still in St. Louis vending, but the company he worked
with is gone now. Steve Simon may also be a good resource for
Tornado/Dynamo results from the 70's too. He'll probably show up "to
watch" at Worlds. Becky Cherry may also be able to dig up stuff out
of her mothers attic. Lori Shranz may have kept her issues of Foos
Noos. I'll call her and see if she has anything. Cindy Head has been
around for quite sometime too...
Larry Davis
Yes, the best place to start is with old copies of Foos Noos and Table Talk,
maybe followed by some archive files from foosball.com and
foosballheaven.com (or contact their original webmasters, Clay Gump and Rob
Uyeyama). Another place for a few stats would be the back of Johnny Lott's
"Complete Book of Foosball" and for European stats the back of "Gewinnen
beim Soccer," the German equivalent of Lott's book. Sorry, both are very
hard to get copies of.
As for the info from Horton, the first question remains unanswered. The
inclusion of Nevois is a trick, though, because while he wasn't the fastest
from game one to a world title, he was the youngest ever to both win a major
(Open Doubles in a T.S. $50,000) and to be ranked Master on the T.S. tour
(age 15). A few Colorado players were pretty young when they became Master
(16-17): Todd Loffredo, Bob Gibson, Tim Buchli, Bob Benson, Drew Stocker,
Sergio Trevino (Gus' brother) etc.; all aged 17). Horton, Tony Bacon, Steve
Murray (Swearingen) and Johnny Valles were pretty young too (16). But from
game one to world title? If I had to guess it would have been Gil. By the
way, not many remember that Gil's sister Lori Jackson, who had never placed
in a tour event before, at age 18 paired up with Bob Gibson to win Open
Mixed in the Chicago T.S. World Championship in 1981 (the "fiasco"
tournament).
Another interesting "youngest" stat is for women. The youngest female to
ever win Open Mixed in a major (T.S. $50,000) was Sharon Clark of the
Bob-E-Q's team from the Buffalo area, at age 14 I believe (started playing
at age 12). One more stat: Lori Schranz once won Open Doubles on the T.S.
tour paired with Tim "Zeke" Burns, defeating Wiswell and Furry as I recall.
A final stat (not entirely verified, but seemed true at the time); John and
Daniel Smith of Texas are reported to have won the most consecutive Tornado
tour matches in a row in the early 1980s, completely dominating doubles
events they entered for something like two years -- until the Colorado T.S.
and California/Florida Dynamo players got up to speed on the Tornado style
of play. During the same time peroid, however, John and Daniel rarely
played outside of Texas and Oklahoma. Should they get full credit? There
sure were plenty of great players in the region at the time, so sure. When
Spear and I came down from Colorado and played them in a winners bracket
semi-finals match at a Tornado Nationals they lit us up like old barnstraw.
Anyway, though I have foosball stats going back to around '73-74, they're in
some pretty deep storage. So, go ahead and contact Kathy Brainard at NATSA
or Clay, Rob, Rocky Wilsson, or maybe even Jim Stevens from
InsideFoos.com -- all good sources. In Europe, contact Boris Atha or maybe
Tim Schmidt from NSM/Loewen/STOT. Boris probably has a contact number for
Tim at NSM in Bingen, Germany. Tim might be able to get you a copy of the
"Gewinnen Beim Soccer" book as well.
Good Luck!!
Larry "Euro-foosin" Davis
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