THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
October 24,1975
The Ualiversity of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Vol. 86 No.44
Focus on Sports
Inside . . .
Photo by Elli Reichman
KU's Felipe Santos swings into soccer ball
SPORTS WRITER JOE RADCLIPFEE discusses the varying national styles on the University of Kansas soccer team and talks to the players about the problem of trying to blend so many different styles into a cohesive team in a story on page four.
SPORTS WRITER KEN STONE researched the NCAA rule changes concerning recruiting, scholarships and size of coaching staffs in a story on page nine. Stone talked to story of Kansas coaches to get their reactions to the changes.
For instance, the new rules stipulate that football scholarships be reduced from a total of 105 to 95, basketball scholarships from 18 to 15, and track and cross country from 23 to only 14. Baseball, swimming, gymnastics, tennis and golf have also been affected by the rule changes, which also reduce the number of players on the traveling squad and on the home squad. They limit the number of paid visits that coaches may make while recruiting.
Other changes will limit football coaching staffs to one head coach and eight full-time assistants, which mean that three KU coaches will be gone next year. Basketball coaching staffs will include more full-time assistant staffs. Track coaches will be similarly affected.
TRACK COACH THAD TALLEY is one of those coaches endangered by the changes. Stone talked to him in a story, also on page nine.
Staff Photo by DON PIERCE
Women's athletic director Marian Washington
SPORTS WRITER KELLY SCOTT talked to the women's athletic counsellor at the University of Kansas and give their reactions to the growing emphasis on athletics in sports.
SPORTS WRITER RACHEL CASE talked to the athletes and found out why women at KU have become involved in sports and some of the rewards and challenges.
Fambrough follows new life
It seemed strange, that first Saturday, seeing Don Fambrough in the press box before a University of Kansas football game.
He just didn't seem to belong there. Oh, he acted all right, laughing and joking with the writers. But his heart wasn't really in it. His place was on the field, with his
But not any more.
players, getting ready for the game. But not any more.
FAMBROUGH GAVE THAT UP when he resigned as the KU head coach last year, terminating 25 years as a coach and player at KU. He now pays his Saturday afternoons in press boxes, surrounded by
their sidewalks rather than on the
sidewalks with them.
Former KU head football coach Don Fambrough is adjusting to a new life
Allen Quakenbush
Associate Sports Editor
He spent that first game, a disastrous 18-14 loss to Washington State, sitting beside Floyd Temple, who had been one of his teammates in the borough's brought remainal with the team.
"I was going through the routine with them," he said. "I was going through what they were doing down on the field. After you had finished, I know the routine, the last-minute details."
"IWAS THINKING ABOUT THE feelings of the coaches and the players. I felt just about like I did when I was on the sidelines. But I was not."
Once the game got started, Bambroub lost that feeling and became involved with women in the game.
"It's a lot different now," he said. "I'm enjoying watching the game for the first time. I can actually see the game for a change. The sideline is the worst seat on the field. You get a completely different aspect of the game from the press box.
"I still looked at it kind of the way I did when I was coaching. We talked about the things their defense was doing, and I tried to watch what was going on on the line. You could tell me that you tend to watch different individuals as much as the game itself."
THAT GAME WASN'T Fambridge's first realization that no longer would he experience the feeling he had when he was on the field, whether in practice or in a game.
That came much earlier, soon after he resigned. The realization became a little stronger when spring practice opened, and she was on the field with a KU football team. wasn't on the field with a KU football team.
But when fall drills opened and the season approached, it was almost unbearable.
"The week before the first game was the worst I have experienced since I gave up coaching," Fambrough said. "It was a strange feeling not being with the team on
Friday night. And on Saturday morning, I kept looking at my watch, going through in my mind what the team would be doing at a certain time."
BUT THI WORST WAS yet to come. When the Jayhawks traveled to Kentucky, Fambrough didn't make the trip. That meant that for the first time in his 26 years at Kansas, he would have to listen to the game on the radio rather than watch it.
"That was the worst experience I have ever gone through in a game," Fambrough said. "For the first time, I couldn't see what was doing on."
This hasn't been an easy time for Fambrough. He's had a lot of adjustments to make. They haven't been easy. After spending virtually his whole life on the football field, he's had to learn to spend his time in an office.
HE'S NEW AN ASSISTANT director of the Williams Educational Fund, which is KU's athletic scholarship program. His job involves promotion work. He spent this summer speaking at various towns through Kansas with the KU Ambassador Tour.
"I like the work," Fambrough said. "It gives me a chance to travel around the state and get out and meet people. It's very similar to recruiting."
That's one thing Fambrough misses about coaching. Unlike many coaches, he enjoyed going out and meeting prospects. And he was good at it.
"HE'S THE REASON I CAME to KU," said Odell Weidner, a former linebacker and now a graduate assistant coach here. "He was so honest and sincere and he believed in KU so much that it kind of rubbed off on you."
Farnbrough got along well with his players. Almost to a man, they were not in trouble.
But Fambrough always found time to listen.
"I got pretty much involved with the problem," he said. "Sometimes, maybe I got too involved. I felt that I had an obligation to work with them and sometimes the work played out."
"HE'S A GREAT MAN." said linebacker
Steve Towle who's now a rookie with the Miami Dolphins. "He was like a second father to us. You can go to him with your wife, but you can't talk to her and he always have time to listen."
Fambrough takes a genuine personal interest in his players, even after they graduate. No matter whether they become successful pro-football players or successful businessmen, Fambrough is proud of them.
"Doc Allen (Forrest Allen, the famous KU basketball coach) said you should judge a player five years after he gets out of jail, though said. That's a pretty true statement."
"AND HE DOESN'T HAVE to be a player. I've had players who were successful lawyers and businessmen. I take a lot of risks in the job, but I had a little to do with their success.
"There are so many rewards in coaching,
'But I'm not saying it was all a bed of roses.'
"Okay, I don't. And I have to do."
See FAMBROUGH page two
Spirit enriches homecoming game
Most things change with the passing of time, but one thing remains constant—the heart.
The University of Kansas renews its annual homecoming festival when the Jayhawks take on the Oklahoma State Cowboys tomorrow at Memorial Stadium.
IT MAY BE THAT the homecoming game rally got off the ground when KU hosted the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers in 1915.
No one has ever been able to pinpoint the exact year of the first KU nonceumming, but there is much speculation.
In that late November game, KU and Nebraska, members of the Missouri Valley Conference, met to decide the league champions. Both teams were undefeated in jamaica play.
The Jayhawks didn't score a touchdown against Nebraska since 1909. That didn't dampen the enthusiasm of the homecoming rooters.
The traditional pre-game pep rally had been cancelled the previous week so Jayhawk fans might have extra pep for the Nebraska clash.
DESPITE ALL THAT spirit, the University Daily Kansan had the unenviable task of reporting the "mighty Husker" win 33-0.
"Kansas Fought Hard But Could Not Stop Terrible Onslaught of Hard, read the Killers' Guide."
"They came, they saw and they conquered," the story began. "Steelm's squad, twenty-five players; they saw and they defeated Jayawicks and the Valley pennant for the fifth consecutive time. It's true it cost them a little effort but it was not much effective resistance that Kansas could offer against the strongest teams in the United States."
KU alumni of fifty years ago will remember 1925 as the year that the legend of one of the big names in Kansas football history "Story" Wall—was born
IN 1925, $14.50 BOUGHT a season's pass
to all KU sports events, plays, debates and conferences and bought a copy of the 1926 Jayhawker. In the fall, excavation for the Memorial Union building was completed.
That was also the year that Captain
Jimmy "Jack" Kelly led the Kansas
Kansas City Royals on the spring.
That Sunday, the November 22 issue of the Kansas heralded the KU homecoming victory over Missouri 10-7, with the Knicks winning at Dugout Elected Toucher Puts Atacas Winning Score. $^{1}$
"THE BIG RIGHT FOOT of one 'Sonny'
wall, assisted by the stalwart bodies of ten
Maine men."
Ron Cohn
Sports Writer
the mighty Missouri Tigers yesterday on Memorial Stadium field," the Kansas
"Wall deserted the halls of Southwestern College two years ago and came to Kansas to gain fame and fortune, and that long two years wait was well rewarded yesterday. We visited the Kansah House of immortals as the man who sent the Tigers home whipped."
The 1953 KU student could purchase a season ticket for $5 for the Jayhawk's four home games, including the Thanksgiving Missouri, Missouri, which ended in a scoreless tie.
THE KANSAN REPORTED. "One of the few dull games in the long history of the Kansas-Missouri rivalry was played last Thursday. Neither of the two teams had a marked edge over the other and as a result the game was waged almost entirely between the 20-yard lines of the teams. 17,000 spectators saw the game."
The Kansan added, "The fact that Kansas last only 19 yards from scrimmage as a receiver was worth it."
See SPIRIT page three
These two bruisers were on KU's 7-1 team of 1892.