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Tuesday, December 13, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Beeson still learning plans return to KU
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—After Terry Besson plays the final game of his rookie season for the Seattle Seahawks Sunday in Oakland, he'll be going to rest uu and get ready for school.
That's right—school.
Beeson, who has been getting quite an education during his first year in the National Football League, will be in for a different kind of learning experience
**THAT'S WHEN Beeson, who moved into Seattle's starting middle linebacker position early this season, will return to football. Kanas to pursue his academic education.**
"I've got a little more than a semester left to finish up," the chemical engineering major said. "So I'm going to go back next semester."
Beeeson was one of four players selected by the Seahawks last year after a controversial trade with Dallas that gave the Cowboys the right to pick first in the NFL draft. Dallas used that choice to help Haleem Wilson Trophy winner Tony Dorsett.
"I'd do it again if I could get four starters for one draft choice," Seattle coach Jack Patera said. "Our defense against the run is 50 per cent better than it was a year ago because of Terry Beeson's presence."
BESSEON LEADS the Seahawks in tackles with 127, 28 more of 1976 team leader Dave Brown accumulated during Seattle's inaugural season. But Beeson thinks there's still room for improvement.
Rob Rains
Sports Editor
"I've still got a lot to learn," he said after the Seahawks 31-43 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs last Sunday. "I'm still making a lot of mistakes. It's been hard for me to learn my responsibilities in our pass defenses.
"Each game I go out and learn more. I'm trivially to improve with each game."
Benson led KU in tackles his junior and senior seasons and ranks third on the Jayhawks' all-time list. He played in the Blue-Gray Game, the Senior Bowel and the East-West game at the conclusion of the 1976 Big Eight season.
"The people that I talked to said the adjustment to pro ball would be more mental than physical," said the 6-3, 240-pound Coffeyville native. "And they were right. That's been as hard as anything that I've come up against."
that've come up with it.
"I didn't expect to step right in and start. But now I've proved to myself that I'm capable of doing it."
The Seahawks are touting Beeson for the NFL All-Rookie team and even for AFC rookie of the year hours. Beeson is not going to spend time worrying about it.
"Everybody starts talking about it this time of year," he said. "There isn't that much. I can do about it. That sort of staff are coming in, so sad, if we not going to worry about it."
By BILL NEWSOME
Busv schedule ahead for 'Hawks
Sports Writers
and JASON NUSS
The Kansas Jayhaws, hoping to take full advantage of a six-day layoff, will return to action Saturday night when they will be host to the St. Louis University Billikens before taking their first road trip of the season next week.
KU, 5-1, suffered its first loss of the season last Saturday night, a tough 74-6 defeat at the hands of No. 1-ranked Kentucky. Coach Ted Williams' team this game can gain a great loss from the loss.
"I thought we played with our hearts against Kentucky, but we didn't always play with our heads," he said. "If we use the mistakes we made—we had to pay for the mistakes with a defeat—to help us grow as a team, then the loss to Kentucky will be
The Billikens' coach, former Missouri standout Ron Coleman, is receiving a 31-point-a-game average from a pair of 64 seniors from Johnson and freshman Rick Frazier.
St. Louis will bring an 0-4 game into Allen Field House Saturday night. The Bulkens are coming off a 7-19 campain last season, which included a 69-84 double overtime loss.
The Jayhawks first road game, Dec. 20, will be against a young and talented Oriental Roberts squad. The ORU Titans lost three starters from last year's squad, which lost to KU but went to the NIT, and Owens said they still have a great deal of potential.
"THEYLL BE IMPROVED." Owens said,
"and they'll be impressed last year, then we'll not get a new coat."
"They have outstanding talent," he said.
When they get it together, they'll really be on their toes.
Player out to help hockey's image
Sports Writer
Field hockey has not received much attention at the University of Kansas, and Anne Levinson is ready to do something about it.
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Levinson, a sophomore field hockey player from Winchester, Mass., recently was elected Region 6 player representative to the Association of Intercollegiate Hockey联赛. She will help to make decisions concerning field hockey in the Midwest.
Levinson said she was tired of field backey's renunciation at KU.
She said that without publicity, it was hard for the KGB to receive help and attract good people.
"I FEEL that if the players are unhappy with their program, then their suggestions should be heard," she said. "If certain parties受损, they should be improved."
"It's hard to get good recruits for your sport when you have to fight to get enough money for your sport just to stay in operation," Levinson said.
Diana Beebe, KU field hockey coach, said that the team was now being funded on a year-to-year basis. She said that under him, it was hard to develop a winning team.
'IT'S NOT possible to develop a conting and competitive team on a year-to-year budget allocation system," Beebe said. "You have to know that the money will be spent, but not all of it is recruiting and it's not very fair to the girls involved in the program right now.
"How can I tell them to follow a conditioning program when I am ready?" "What year?" "next year?"
According to Beebe, the field hockey team doesn't receive any money directly from the $250,000 that is allocated for KU's women's sports programs
"I indirectly, through the vice candleman's office, we received $2,500 last year." Beebe said. "We also received about $6,500 from the Student Senate. That is not nearly enough money for any college team that wants to be competitive."
in her new position, Levinson said she hoped she could help athletes' voices be heard, especially athletes in sports such as field hockey which get little publicity.
LEVINSON SAID that field hockey might gain more popularity since it now has been included officially as a sport in the 1980 Olympics.
"It's just as important that the least known sports have as much of a say in what's going on as do the publicized sports," Levinson said. "I think that these athletes have to be assured that they can have a say on what happens in their sport."
She said the players would like to have a voice in deciding what opponents to play, how to improve playing fields and financing of transportation for their sport.
FOR EXAMPLE, earlier this year the field hockey team took a bus trip to the regionals in Grand Forks, N.D., but before they played against Vermilion, S.D., by a blizzard.
"It would have been nicer and easier if we could have flowed to the regionals," Beeber said. "It's great."
neebee said that the field hockey team would have to receive more funding next
run it on a skimpy budget," Beebe said.
"It's not fair to the girls to offer them a poorly funded program that has no chance of being competitive."
Levinson said she was surprised at first about being elected Region 6 player representative and now is hoping that he will succeed her. She is the only student member on the board.
Region 6 consists of 32 field hockey teams from Kansas, Missouri, South Dakota, North Dakota, Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska.
Beebe said that Levinson would make an excellent representative because she was not afraid to speak up and express her opinions.
"If they're not going to run it right, I'd
if they can't cut the program, than try to
"IT'S IMPORTANT that you have a representative, such as Anne, who is willing to get other players' viewpoints and then present them in a convincing manner," said Ms. Reagan.
Levinson said that her term was for one year and that her duties were to meet with the field hockey advisory board and discuss proxies that will affect the players and the team.
"We make decisions concerning such things as the methods that will be used to break ties, where regional tournaments will be, the way that the tournaments will be structured and other matters concerning field hockey," Levinson said.
She said she thought that being elected representative was not only an honor for her, but a challenge.
"I think it's a positive reflection for KU women's sports." Levinson said. "It would make KU's women's sports program look pretty bad if the representative for the field hockey region was from a school that cuts its field hockey program."
The Titans are 2-3 this season, including a 76-54 loss to Kamas State.
ORU HAS been paced this season by two players that weren't even in its starting lineup last year. Junior college transfer Lamont Reiff is averaging 18 points a game and sophomore Antonio Martin is averaging 11 points and 13.6 rebounds a game.
The Jayhawks will undergo their second major test of the season on Dec. 22 against Arkansas in Little Rock. The Razorbacks, coming off a 28-2 year in which they won the Southwestern Conference with perfect 14-6 record, un扣 8th in the country with a 6-0 record.
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And each has picked up this season where he left off last year, but Moncrief has replaced Delph as the Razorback's leading scorer. Despite being a guard, Moncrief has led the team in rebounding the last two years.
Arkansas, which stopped Oklahoma 64-33 last Saturday night, also returns a fourth starter, defensive specialist Jim Counce, a 6-7 forward.
"WE'VE IMPROVED, but they're much better, too," said Owens, whose team lost to the Razorbacks, 6743, in Lawrence last season. "It will be another indication whether we're ready to hack it with the best in the country."
After the game with Arkansas, the Jayhawks will be in action in Kansas City in the Big Eight Basketball Holiday Tournament, which opens Dec. 27 in Kemper Arena. Kansas will meet Missouri, last year's champion, in the first round.
Kansas and Missouri have dominated the tournament since 1970, together winning all seven tournaments. The Tigers have won five titles, including the last two championships, but only three finals. The Jayhawks have won the two other titles, the last win coming in 1974.
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The Tigers, coached by Norm Stewart, are 3-2 this year. They host Valparaiso tonight and Cal Poly-Pamona Friday. The Tigers also will travel to Tallahassee, Flora-, to play Florida State before the Holiday Tournament.
The KU-MU game will follow the Iowa State-Oklahoma contest. The Oklahoma State-Nebraska game will open the tournament, but it will be played by the Kentucky-Kansas State matchup.
MISSOURI OPENED the season with an 81-73 win over Midwestern State and won the Show-Me Classic with victories over Butler University and the University of Texas at El Paso.
Currently, the Tigers have lost two
straight games on the road, falling to Illinois and Alabama.
Curtis Berry, a 6-7 freshman, started at center against Alabama and is expected to start against KU if Ray or Dore is not available.
The Tigers have been hit with injuries, particularly in the center position. Six-foot-nine center Stan Ray fractured his hand and has missed the last two games. Ray's backup, 7-2 sophomore Tom Dore, strained ligaments in his knee when his car rolled over him in a freak accident. Dore missed the Alabama game.
THE TIGERS, who lost Sims Scott, Kim Anderson and Jim Kennedy to graduation from last year's 21-8 team, are led in scoring by 6-1 bophone Larry Drew. Drew, who averaged 9.9 points a game last year, now is averaging 17.6 points after five games.
Drew's running mate at guard will be 6-3
senior杰 Currie. Currie, who missed all of
last season because of a kidney aliment, is
a three-year letterman.
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miah game at 6 p.m.
The Tigers will start Clay Johnson and Brad Droy as forwards. Johnson, a 64 senior, averaged 13.1 points a game has hit him in the past. The unlucky action his first two years with Missouri.
The finals are set for 9:05 p.m. Dec.30
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