1980 ARC Alameda Open - Mark Roth vs. Bill Straub - Pt1

The date was January 5, 1980 at Mel's Southshore Bowl, Alameda, CA for the $85,000 ARC Alameda Open. We will look at the first match of the new 80s decade between #5 Mark Roth and #4 Bill Staub. This match is most famous for Roth's conversion of the 7-10 split. What most people fail to realize that besides the conversion, it was a really great close match up until the end. I hope you enjoy it. Let's now go to Dave Diles and Nelson Burton Jr. for the call.

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Sports

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• bowling
• 7-10
• split
• pba
• mark
• roth
• bill
• straub

[0007123451]

thanks for these uploads im sure these are rare videos

[upliftmofo00]

OMG he does look like Poindexter...with a moustache :).

[ShutupHollywood]

Bill Straub was "Poindexter" on Revenge of the Nerds

[jhankemeyer]

and you're observant!! :)

[Haryazz]

your old

[jhankemeyer]

I remember this match, one of the first ones I remember. My bus driver knew I liked bowling and asked if I saw Roth make the conversion.

[NipkowDisk]

Thank you for uploading this. I used to roll the ball almost identical to Bill Straub when I was a sophomore in high school back in '75-'76 and somehow lost the "knack" and never really regained it. I'm probably too old now to tear the cover off the ball these days...

Way cool. Thanks again.

[dunner228]

Straub is now the head bowling coach at the University of Nebraska.

[joelspan]

haha. Straub looks like a zombie when he bowls.

[MarciusSim]

cool