Von Schamann, Brazile Among Cuts

Placekicker Uwe von Schamann of the Miami Dolphins, linebacker Robert Brazile, an 11-year veteran and seven-time Pro Bowl star for the Houston Oilers, and punter Craig Colquitt of the Pittsburgh Steelers were among the veterans who were cut Monday as National Football League teams headed toward the 60-man roster limit.

Greg Buttle, who spent 10 seasons as a starting outside linebacker for the New York Jets, also was waived.

Teams must trim their rosters to 60 players by today, to 50 on Aug. 27. The teams must be down to 45 players on Sept. 2 to open the season. Last season the roster limit was 49 players.

Brazile was a first-round draft choice for the Oilers in 1975.

Von Schamann, who rebounded from a kicking slump last season with three field goals in the Super Bowl, had been the Dolphins’ kicker for six seasons. He hit 66 of 70 extra points last year, but he also missed 10 of 19 field goal attempts during the season and made only 2 of 12 beyond 30 yards.

That leaves the Dolphins’ kicking job between Fuad Reveiz, Miami’s seventh-round draft choice from Tennessee, and former Green Bay Packer Eddie Garcia. Colquitt, the punter on the Steelers’ 1978 and 1979 Super Bowl champions, averaged 34.7 yards per kick last season. His release apparently gives the job to eighth-round draft choice Harry Newsome from Wake Forest.

Buttle, who has spent his whole NFL career in a 4-3 defense, was one of 24 players waived or placed on other inactive lists by the Jets.

Wayne Peace, a former United States Football League quarterback cut last week by the NFL’s Cincinnati Bengals, walked out of the Dolphins’ training camp. Peace, a star at the University of Florida, left the Dolphins’ camp five days after showing up, saying he didn’t think would have time to learn their offense.

Other moves announced included:

--The Dallas Cowboys released free agent wide receiver Mel Lattany, a world-class sprinter who was trying to make the club at wide receiver.

Lattany of Georgia, who has the third-fastest 100 meter time in history, hadn’t played football since high school.

-- Ernest Anderson, the nation’s leading rusher in college in 1982 when he was a junior at Oklahoma State, was cut by the Detroit Lions.