Monday, March 29.1976
University Daily Kansan
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Murphy moves to safety
By ALLEN QUAKENBUSH
Harry Murphy moved from his strong safety position, grabbed an errant pass, turned up field and returned the interception 38 yards for a touchdown.
Not a bad start for a guy playing strong safety for the first time. In the first big experiment of spring football, head coach Moore moved Murphy, a starting defense end that season, to safety in an effort to improve KU's depth-phy secondary.
"He has a lot to learn," assistant head coach and defensive coordinator Lance Van Zand said. "But I think he can do it. He has enough speed to play it."
At 5-3, 215 pounds, Murphy has run the 40 in 4.6, showing that he has the speed needed to stay with fast wide receivers. He is enjoying the challenge of the new position.
“It’s been a lot of fun,” he said. “I had a good time at the scrimmage.
"I'm still not real comfortable back there. I have a lot to learn as far as covering receivers. There's a lot more running at me than I can handle, a defensive end. I'm really not used to it yet."
Murphy's move was prompted by the loss of starters Edwin Lewis, Steve Taylor and Kurt Knoff from last year's secondary. Part-time starter John O'Rear, who decided to resume his professional baseball career, also is gone.
In addition, Chris Golub and Tom Fitch.
Harry Murphy
the top two returning safeties, are expected to miss much of spring practice while recovering from nine surgery. Golub has seen that he has been held out of all contact work.
"I think we'll be all right," Van Zandt said of the secondary. "We just won't get it."
Rugby club slams Topeka
TOPEKA-KU's undefeated rugby club
overwhelmed the Topeka rugby club 15-4
here Sunday afternoon to run its record to 5-
0.
The ruggers got off to a slow start before Brian Hunter scored on a 35-yard penalty kick midway through the opening half to put KU ahead 3-0.
Flyball Dave Grauer made it 7-0 as he scored a try similar to a touchdown in football, and Hunter added the conversion kick to stretch the marzipan to 9-4 halftime.
In the second half, both teams moved the ball, but neither team managed to score until late in the period when Grauer intercepted a lateral and ran 55 yards for a try. Hunter kicked the two-point conversion to complete KU's scoring.
Topeka's only try of the game came during the final minute of play. The conversion attempt failed, leaving the final score 15-4.
KU's B-Steam also won, blanking Topeka 14-0. Grauer scored two ties for KU. Including one on a 52-yard run, Mike Forth had three saves, and he converted a conversion to complete KU's scoring.
Next action for KU will be this weekend as hosts the third annual big game toon show.
very deep. We can't afford all the injuries we had last year."
Andy Reusel, Eric Franklin, Caleb Row and junior college transfer Wayne Ricks are battling for the two cornerback spots vacated by Taylor and Lewis. Van Zandi said Reuset was the most impressive so far.
against the conference schools with the exception of Colorado, which has indicated that these institutions are not
McMichael completed of 19 passes for 223
yards and three touchdowns and added 49
yards rushing on 12 carries. Vicendese was
the game's leading rusher with 125 yards
on 17 carries. He was a 4 of 11 passing for 81
yards and a touchdown.
The inexperience in the secondary was evident Saturday as quarterbacks Scott McMichael and Mark Vicondes combined for more than 300 yards and four touchdowns.
Wide receive Walt Little had a big day, grabbing four passes for 131 yards and two touchdowns. Also impressive were Lloyd Sobek, who caught three passes for 72 yards and a touchdown and Jim Michalis, who catches for 60 yards and a touchdown.
All tournament games will be played on the intramural fields at 23rd and Iowa.
The offense scored six touchdowns, despite playing without three-fourths of its opponents. The defense outwitted Nolan Cromwell and halfback Laverne Smith missed the scrimmage because they were with the KU track team in Dallas, and Campfield was out with a pallet legged术
NCAA medals elude Compton
All in all, the coaches got just about what was expected from the first scrimmage of the season.
Tom Compton, KU's only participant in the NCAA swim championships at Providence, RI., over the weekend, swam well as any other Big Eight performer did.
He didn't place.
Compton, who traveled to Providence expecting a chance to swim in two events, found out he had qualified in just one—the 100-yard breaststroke. His best 300-yard breaststroke time of 2.061 was just off the NCAA qualifying mark of 2.088.
"The West Coast domination was just fantastic," said KU swimming coach Dick Reamon. "The Big Eight was just totally blanked."
"We're not a very good football team," Van Zandt said. "We're making too many mistakes. Our tackling was poor and we fumbled the ball to too many times.
Compton's nonplacing time in the 100- yard breaststroke was :100.47, off the 58.66 he swam in taking 14th at the NCAA meet last year.
"But our attitude and effort were good. Everybody was trying hard. That's the most important thing."
Softball team opens with 4 wins
By KRIS ECKEL
Scratch Writer
The KU women's softball team came shining through a weekend of gloomy weather, defeating Southwest Missouri State Saturday and Fort Hays State College Friday in two weekend doubleheaders at Holcomb Sports Complex in Lawrence
the season opening games, KU whipped Southwest Missouri, 13-2 and 14-2 and defeated Fort Hays State, 4-1 and 12-3. Southwest Missouri State, 1974 College Champions, looked inexperienced compiling bowls and team cohesion. KU made the first short a and sweet victory, ending it by an 11-run spread at the top of the fifth innings.
Pitchers Gloria Graves and Shelley Sinclair fired three strikeouts in the first innings, but it was the Jayahawks' batting team responsible for the overwhelming defeat.
Debbie Kuhn started off in that inning with a triple to right field, knocking in Nancy Stout and Sinclair. After the next two KU players singled to load up the bases, Janet Brown tripled, bringing in three runners.
SMSU made a feeble attempt to rally in the top of the fifth, but two runs were all they could squeeze by KU, and the game was completed.
KU coach Sharon Drysdale put a different
team on the field in the second game, though an equally disastrous one for SMSU. Sloppy拜垫 by SMSU gave KU run after SMSU helped by Eda Isels held SMSU to four runs.
It was apparent that SMSU was not the championship team they were. Drysdale attributed the decline to the loss of a once stable pitching staff.
"They're not the team that won the nationals in 1974," she said. "They just aren't very strong. They're not the team I expected to play, not the team I hoped to play."
BOCO dance is Wed. night
Drysdale said KU's pitching was the highlight of the weekend play.
"The pitcher has been the brightest spot," the pitchers have been the brightest spot. "The they were much better than I expected. I'm very pleased, because the weather conditions were so terrible."
A free dance for participants in the computer date match venture sponsored by the Board of Class Officers (BOCO) is now set for Wednesday night, BOCO chairman Rich Coulson said yesterday. The dance had been scheduled for last Friday.
Terrible as the weather was, it didn't stop pitchers Graves, Isles and Sinclair from firing 18 strikeouts in the doubleheaders against Fort Hays State.
Participants haven't received their computer date selection cards yet, Coulson said although BOCO now has them. He said the cards are meant to be distributing the cards early this week.
Drysdale said she also was pleased with KU's hitting this weekend.
Drysdale said the most disappearing aspect of KU's play this weekend was on the pitch.
"Hitting's been great," she said, referring to Teresa Brown and Bella Springgate, whose hitting she termed "a pleasant surprise."
"Defense hasn't been very sharp," she said. "It think it's because we're ruined, but don't bother."
Drysdale said the women will be working on their defensive play before their game with Kansas State at 2 p.m. Wednesday at 'Holcob Sports Complex.
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