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University Daily Kansan
McMichael accepts backup role
Staff Photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Scott McMichael
Scott McMichael seems to be a forgotten man on this year's University of Kansas football team.
Michael, a junior quarterback from Shawnee Mission, has played most of the season in the shadow of teammate Nolan Cromwell. That's been quite a change for him, who practically the whole offense revolved around him.
BACK IN 1974 MICHAELA established himself as the best sophomore move quarterback in KU history, throwing for more than 1,000 yards. But his mid-season season was short, big reason the Inavhawks last their last six games.
After Bud Moore became head coach last December, the quarterback spot was up for grabs. And Moore made no bones about the fact that he wanted a runner, somebody like Cromwell, to lead the wishbone offense
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that he was installing. That was a strike against McMichael who's generally considered to be a better leader in the business world.
three injuries last year—and a broken collateral bone he suffered in 1973—didn't help McMichael's cause. They tagged him as a "brittle" player, afflicted with injuries and consequently unreliable.
THE WHOLE SITUATION has been a little frustrating. McMichail admitted yesterday. But he took a realistic view, looking at the way his career has turned around.
"I think he (Moore) had a legitimate reason for looking at another quarterback," McMichail said. "He's good."
"Last spring I was having trouble with my injuries. I was coming off a knee injury. He saw that I was having trouble and he was looking for a man to run the team. I couldn't blame him."
All summer long, Cromwell was ballyhooed as KU's next quarterback. Then the questioning started after fall drills opened when Cromwell had trouble adjusting from his free safety job to the quarterback controls,
"NOLAN HAD A LOT OF pressure on him," McMichael said. "He had a lot riding on his shoulders. He'd had that publicity in the summer. He hadn't worked on it very much in the spring because he was out for track. He couldn't make the change just like that. It took time."
But being the all round冠军 he is, Cromwell made the change. By the third week of the season, Cromwell
was the starting quarterback. And after that 294 yard rushing effort against Oregon State, he was solid in
All of which naturally leaves McMichael a little
tattered. But he stresses that he can't an criticize
or bellkite him.
"I CAN'T SAY IAM TOTALLY happy with my situation," she said. "I don't think anybody who really wants to play would be. But it's a situation I have come to know in the past because of play. I've got to do my best to help the team."
But this year has been a different story, McMichael conceded.
McMichael is the backup quarterback this year for one major reason: the Jayhawks from last week had a strong win against the window-shooter.
"IT WAS A BIG TRANSFITION for me to go from the veer to the wishbone," he said. "Nolan's got the ability to run the ball. And despite what people say, his passing has really improved."
All of that leaves McMichael pretty much on the outside, looking in. On the other hand, he said, it has always been a challenge for him.
"Professional football never entered my mind too much," he said. "There hasn't been a great deal of wishbone quarterbacks make the pros anyway. Especially backups one," he added smiling.
In his limited action this year, McMichael has completed 12 of 32 passes for 113 yards. He's run 23 times for 40 yards and three touchdowns. Those games are a far cry from what he accomplished last season.
YET THERE HASN'T BEEN much complaining from the usually reserved McMichael. What he does get a little perturbed at is the notion that he's easily injured.
"That's what was strange to me," he said. "I've played football since, oh, grade school. And last year was the first year I really got injured. People are just saying, 'You must be injury prone.' It all happened in one year."
McMichael has seldom been accorded the limelight this season, one which has been so different from last year. Yet he plays on, he said, working just as hard as he did last fall.
And he stresses that he's now working more for the team than himself. That, perhaps, is more the mark of a real athlete than the amount of clippings in his stringbook.
Butler's status uncertain; more players ailing
Mike Butler
Both reactions were to the reports on Mike Butler's status for this Saturday's Kansas-Oklahoma game in Iowa.
Oklaham coach coach Barry Breatha breathed a little easier as the Warriors and Moore probably felt he could grab apples.
Butler suffered a knee injury in last week's 28-0 win over Kansas State. Moore said that he still didn't know the extent of that injury. But he admitted that he didn't think Player would play against UO.
Switzer said that he hadn't been aware of Butler's inlury.
When told that the defensive tackle might be sidelined Saturday, Switzerland said, "He might! I didn't know that. It's got to hurt Kansas if Butler doesn't play."
"THAT'S A SEVERE BLOW to our football team." Moore said with a grimace. "He's a great player, and you've got to have the best you've got when you play Oklahoma."
About the upcoming game, Switzer said, "I think the
"WE'VE GOT MORE PEOPLE injured than we have on the team, almost," he said, noting that at least nine Jayhawks are considered doubtful for Saturday's game.
By Saturday, Moore might be worrying about whether he has enough players to field a team.
Players injured besides Butler in the K-State game were wide receiver Rich McAuliffe (shoulder); safety John O'Rear (shoulder); and tight end Lloyd Sobek (back).
The five players held out last week are still questionable. They are safety Kurt Knoff (knee); noseguard James Emerson (ankle); defensive Steve Jockney (left); and kicker Joe Kerbel (leg).
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Basketball practice ending third week; Cook returns
Things are beginning to take shape for KU's defending Big Eight championship basketball team, as well as the end of its third week of practice.
Assistant coach Sam Miranda has been guiding the team the past two weeks, with head coach Ted Owens in the hospital recovering from a hernia operation. Owens was back at practice yesterday but was watching from the stands where he's expected to stay this week.
MIRANDA SAID yesterday that the Jayhawks, who will field no seniors this year, are coming along as expected.
“Our basketball team is where our teams always are at this stage,” Miranda said. “There’s a lot we need to learn—it just takes repetition.”
Junior co-captain Norm Cook returned last week from his trip to the Pan American Games in Mexico City, where he played a big role on the United States' gold medal-winning basketball team.
"Physically, he is in pretty good shape." Miranda said.
But Miranda said that Cook was having to adjust tc his third coaching style in Europe months, and he is stung by the Amor games and a summer intuit.
"Paul Mokeski is coming along," he said. "Again, it's a big jump, coming from high school to college and with his progress to this point."
PAUL MOKESKI, 7-foot-1 freshman from Canoga Park, California, is also doing some adjusting, Miranda said.
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Rams whip Eagles, 42-3
PHILADELPHIA (AP)—James Harris threw three touchdown passes and the Los Angeles Ram defense dominated as the Rams rolled to a 42-3 National Football League win over the Philadelphia Eagles here last night.
Harris, dissected the Eagle pass defense, throwing scoring bombs of 54 and 30 yards to Harold Jackson in the second period and a 42-yard strike to Jack Snow in the third.
The Ram defense also scored twice. Fred Dryer recovered a Gabriel fumble and ran 20 yards for a score and Isiah Robertson ran another for interception for another Ram touchdown.
The Rams raised their record to 6-1 in the nationally televised game and opened a new stadium for them.
The Eagles fell to 1-6.
Simpson's interception, first of two for the Rams in the game, came in the first period, and began the runaway. He picked off a pass intended for tight end Charles Young at the Philadelphia 40-yard line and returned it to the 23.
KU rugby wins cup
KU's rugby club brought the First Lady of Kansas Rugby Cup with a 1-7 win over Michigan State University at Manhattan. Mrs. Olivia Bennett, Gov. Robert Bennett's wife, presented the cup to the Jayhawks. KU's Steve Francesco, Bill McIntosh and McGrade scored the Mintas the Wildcats.
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