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Mondav. November 14. 1977
University Daily Kansan
'Huskers shoot from Hipp in victory over Jayhawks
By ROB RAINS Sports Editor
LINCOLN, Neb.-The most pressing question in the Nebraska press box Saturday was whether the Cornhuskers' third-stir b-back was going to rush for 100
It was that kind of day for the Kansas
Jahwuks.
The Cornhuskers, in handing the Jayhawks their seventh defeat of the season and fourth in Big Eight play 52-7, thoroughly dominated the game start to finish.
NEBRASKA BUILT a 28-4 lead in the first half and expanded it to 45-4 early in the fourth quarter before coach Tom Osborne began clear his bench.
"We defense played the poorest game they have played all year," Kansas coach Bud Moore lamented yesterday. "We've gotten away from a lot of the basics of our defenses by not having as much contact with them, the last couple of weeks as we should have."
But Moore was not making any excuses for the lopsided score, the worst defeat the Jayhawks have suffered since Moore took over as head coach three years ago.
"I FELT like we would have had a fairly good day off effectively if we could have gotten it"
The Cornhaskers did not give the Jayhawks' offense much of an opportunity, reeling off 550 rushing on 81 attempts in breaking a school record that had stood
...ney dtd an outstanding job of executing against our defense, he said. "I don't think we played as well as we're capable of doing it," she said on credit. They played an outstanding game.
Leading the way for Nebraska were a pair of speed merchants — first-and second-string tailbacks I.M. Hipp and Richard Berns. Hipp had his third 200-yard game of the season; Berns gained 107 yards and scored three times.
Two plays live in the third quarter seemed to typify the troubles the Jayhawks had during last season.
On a second down and five from the KU 44, NU quarterback Randy Gracy gained the ball to Tim Wuhr, who then shoved it off to wingback Curtis Craig. The Jayhawk defense, stung by the midway, overran NU, Craig scooted around right end for 21 yards.
TWO PLAYS later, Garcia handed to Wurth, who blasted his way up the middle.
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breaking three tackles as he picked up 16 yards and gave Nebraska a first and goal at halftime.
Wurth, the Cornhuskers' third-string I back,ained 90 wards on 13 carries.
"They did a good job of executing their sweep plays," Moore said. "They were knocking our corners down on the outside and walling our linebackers off."
Defensive tackle Mike Beal, who suffered a knee injury early in the game that might keep him out of the finish against Missouri, said he had an expensive play for the Cornhousins were using.
"OUR LINEBACKERS were supposed to get in there on the sweeps and then the secondary is supposed to come up," he said. "But it didn't seem to make any difference what defense we were in, we just couldn't do anything."
Free safety Leroy Irvin said that the orchidhuskers' sweeps caught in the KUYU were dead.
"They were just catching us on the weak side and running a sweep there," Irv said in a glum KU locker room. "They were watching me, but I wasn't there. There wasn't much the corner back could do."
"We were expecting them to run the sweep but we thought we could contain it."
THE JAYHAWK offense seemed to move the ball well early in the contest, but when starting quarterback Brian Bethke went down with an ankle injury midway through the opening quarter he seemed to take the movement with him.
Freshman Steve Smith replaced Betherthe and missed connections with fullback Norris Banks on the next play, giving Nebraska the ball on the KU 37-yard line.
"Norris slipped when we were trying to make the exchange." Smith explained. "I thought he was going to be a bad guy."
The Cornhuskers, taking advantage of the break, promptly broke Berns on a 63rd touchdown run to give them all the points they would need and a 140 lead.
Osborne had praise for his running backs following the victory, which set up a Big Eight title showdown against Oklahoma in Norman Nov. 25.
"THE OFFENSIVE line played well and the backs ran well," Osborne said. "We got beat up again a little in the offensive backfield, but this team is running as good
as we've ever done. Today is as good a running game as we've had in a long time,
Late in the game, it appeared the Cornhuskers were more concerned with matching the point total Oklahoma was putting on the scoreboard in Norman than they were in winning the game. And that bothered Moore.
“It's still pretty amazing to me,” Moore said yesterday. “I haven't been in that situation many times as a head coach. I guess they were just overzealous and got carried away with the situation. I assume that's what happened anyway.”
MOORE SAID that the Jayhawks, who will finish their season Saturday against Missouri in Memorial Stadium, were going to miss the game as as if it were the first one in a new season.
"It means a different of things for our football team," he said. "It's the oldest rivalry west of the Mississippi River and it's going to continue to be that way.
"They had a terrific win Saturday in State 41-44) and are a very impressive foe."
Beal said he did not think the team would have any trouble getting up for the Tigers.
"The Missouri game is kind of like K-State," he said. "Everybody gets fired up for it and gets full of confidence. That's what happened last year when we beat them."
STATISTICS
**Kansas**
NU - Crig 12 run (Toddick kick)
NU - Crig 12 run (Toddick kick)
NU - Berns 10 run (Toddick kick)
NU - Berns 10 run (Toddick kick)
NU - 58 field goal
NU - Berns 1 run (Skipkick kick)
NU - Berns 1 run (Skipkick)
NU - Stewart 3 run (Skipkick kick)
NU - Stewart 3 run (Skipkick)
| | NU | NU |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| first down | 12 | 12 |
| breads - yardz | 69.34 | 80.04 |
| breads - yardz | 69.34 | 80.04 |
| yardz | 5.15 | 3.10 |
| yards | 5.15 | 3.10 |
| locker | 3.1 | 3.1 |
| locker-lost | 5.1 | 3.7 |
| locker-lost | 5.1 | 3.7 |
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Kansas: Banks 1-16 (5) Belkade 3-16, Steve Smith 13-33.
Nebraska: Hirsch 23-20 (80), Ward 17-90. Wurth
Kansas: Steve Smith 2-1-1, 2-1-1, yards. Bethesda 0-1-0, 0-0.
Barnes: Ruma K-1-0, 3-3, yards. Carroll 6-1-4, 4-5.
Oklahoma City: Terry Benson 1-0-1, 2-1-1, yards.
Receiving
Kannah: Barrow 1-0, 1-0;
Nebraska: Miller 1-2, Loken 1-4.
Funting
Kannah: Hubach 3-8, 3-0;
T. Splind 3-2, 4-70.
Hipp pointer
Ricks looks on in Saturday's game at Lincolne. Hippo rolled up 200 yards to help Nebraska set a school rushing record for one game.
Staff Photo by GEORGE MILLENER
KU defenders Monty Carbonell and Leroy Irvin put the squeeze play on Cornhusker b-I LM. Hipp as KU cornerchack Wavne
Staff Photo by GEORGE MILLENER
r remanant defensive tackle John Odel is help off the field by teammate Lindsay Mason and David Lawrence after suffering a broken leg.
Lean on me
Cormuskus stopped the Jayhawks all day as they uped seven Orioles for 13 points. O'Bell is listed as doubtful for Saturday's home game against Mets.
Weekend Sports Roundup
Swim records set
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
The Jayhawks won 11 of the 15 events and beaten some sparkling individual performance.
Starting its season with a bang, the KU women's swimming team downed the University of Oklahoma, 81-51, in Robinson Natatorium Saturday, breaking four Big Eight records and qualifying for nationals in four events.
Janet Linstorm, Des Moines freshman, and Linda Savage, Kansas City, Kans., freshman, each captured three individual players of the winning 400-ward medley relay team.
Lindstrom set Big Eight records in the 100 backstroke (1.01,4) and the 200 backstroke (2.11). Both times qualified her for the 100 butterfly. She also won the 100 butterfly in 1.00.5.
Savage set Big Eight records in the 100 breaststroke (1:10.3) and the 200 breaststroke (2:30.9). She also won the 500 freestyle in 5:21.6.
Laurie Propt, Overland Park senior, won two events. She won the three-meter diving competition with a score of 207.7, and she also won one in one-meter diving with a 232.2 point total.
The Jahaywhs captured first and second place in three of four team events. Laurie Propisot saw the side horse vault with a score of 14-6. Kyle Wagle placed first at Angle. Wagle placed first in the floor
The KU women's gymnastics team opened its season Friday night by defeating Oklahoma State University and the Arizona in a triangular meet in Robbins Gymnassium.
Gymnasts win meet
Kansas finished the meet with 116.45 points, followed by Iowa with 112.5 points. Ohio tied for third with 109.3 points.
exercise with 8.2 points followed by Propst with 7.95.
Rene Neville captured the uneven parallel bars competition with a score of 7.60 and captured third in the all-around with a score of 8.20. He balanced the balance beam and uneven parallel bars.
Coach KK Snow said the Jayhawks' performance on the uneven parabal bars is important to the team.
"That was the key for us winning the meet," he said. "If we'd have had a big problem on uneven parallel bars we could've lost the meet as easily as we won it."
Hockey team bows
Women finish strong
The team lost to Central Missouri State University, 3-2; in the opening rounds of the competition it stormed to defeat the Tigers. It beat Bendiji State University of Minnesota, 2-0.
The KU women's field hockey team came up short of placing in the Region VT tournament.
The KU volleyball team closed out its regular season Saturday by winning the consolation bracket at the University of Nebraska Invitational at Lincoln.
The Jayhawks won six of 11 games in the tournament. The team split two games with the Universities of Nebraska, Nebraska at Kansas and against Iowa State. All of those teams will join Kansas in the Region VI tournament, which begins Thursday in Grand Forks,
"We played pretty well throughout the tournament," KU coach Bob Stancill said, "and finished strongly against Nebraska and Iowa State.
"We've made a lot of improvement since the start of the season, and I'm pretty satisfied with that improvement. We'll have to play really tough to do well in the regional, but if we don't make mistakes, we'll have a good chance of winning."
Search to begin for KSU coach
A four-member committee was named yesterday to begin a search for a new football coach at Kansas State University to replace Ellis Rainberger.
Rainsberger resigned last Thursday after the latest in a series of controversies involving the K-State football program was revealed.
The K-State coaching staff, in an effort to give two players.-L. J. Brown and Steve Parrish—game experience but still claim them as redshirts, instructed the K-State Sports information office to change the team's varsity logo. The junior varsity game against Kansas last Monday. Their yardage was credited to Ken Lovely and Burkes Burton.
The University Daily Kansan, which did not have a reporter present at the game in Manhattan, relied on information provided by that office for its story last Tuesday.
According to Dennis Boone, associate sports editor of the K-State Collegian, reporters were told after the game by K-State Sports Information Director Glen Olsen that Boone had been made by the K-State coaches, necessitating the changing of some statistics.
KU's head junior varsity coach, Mike McDaniel, said he had no reason to doubt the information provided by the sports information office because he did not have a roster of the field and did not know the identity of the different running backs.
No favorite emerges in basketball forecast
By JASON NUSS
Snorts Writer
Though most of the coaches agreed that the league appeared to be more balanced this year than in the past, the consensus was that the Jayhawks and the Wildcats—who combined have won eight of the last 11 titles—along with the Sooners would be the teams to beat.
Kansas State will be going after its second straight conference title. The Wildcats, who lost to eventual NCAA champion Marquette by one point in the finals of the Midwest regional last year, will be led by senior guard Mike Evans and sophomore forward Curtis Redding.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—The Big Eight basketball coaches gathered here yesterday for their annual preseason press conference and tabbed Oklahoma, who are the favorites to win this year's conference title.
"RIGHT NOW WE'RE going with H Dickert, a senior who has never played before," Hartman said. "He's playing well right now with the field house and he plays when it's full of people is another thing."
Wildcat coach Jack Hartman said the center position was the main concern for K-State.
The center position may be K-State's only weakness, however. The team returns three starters in Evans, Redding and 51-11 senior Scott Langton. The Wildcats also recruited two outstanding freshman, 64 Rolando Blackman from Brooklyn and Thomas Freeman from Lynwood, Calif.
"I think Mike Evanes is one of the best players in the country," Hartman said. "Redding is very talented and he had a fine freshman season. Langton came in as the captain of the season and I thought he did an excellent job."
The seven returning players who started at least one game last year are centers Paul Mokeski, Donnie Von Moore and Ken Koenigs, Clint Johnson, John Douglas, Mit Gibson and Hasan Johnson. The reserves will be joined by two highly recruited freshman guards, Wilmore Fowler and Darnell Valentine.
Blackman, like Redding a year ago, chose K-State over hundreds of other schools.
"We have seven players back from last year who started at one time or another," Owens said. "But this is the veteran team that finished fourth in the league, and they certainly need improvement from these people."
"BLACKMAN AND Redding are different personalities, thank goodness," Hartman grinned. "Skill-wise, there are some similarities, but not in style."
"VALENTINE AND Fowler will be as good someday as any backcourt in the country." Owens said. They're not ready to be effective in college ball now, but in time they will be."
Owens said he was planning on going with three guards and two centers.
Oklahoma was the surprise team in the Big Eight last year, finishing 18-10 and tied for second in the conference with Missouri. The Sooners lost only one starter. Eddie Fields.
"We will also have to fit different situations," he can envision playing three big people at once or making the same decision multiple times.
THE SOONERS return four starters: guard Cary Carrabine, forwards Jon McCullough and Drew Head and center Al Beal. Bliss expects 64 sophomore to replace the graduated Fields at point guard.
"I think this year our team should be a culmination of our last three years of recruiting." Sooner coach Dave Bliss said. "I'm very excited about our future." He added, "I only mind that we'll be a better team than last year's."
Missouri was hit hard by graduation, losing partners Scott Sima, Kim Anderson and Jim Kennedy.
But Tiger coach Norm Stewart is counting on a pair of returning starters, Clay Johnson and Larry Drew, to shoot Missouri into contention for the Big Eight crown.
Stan Ray, a 6-8 junior who sat out the second half of last season because of academic troubles, returns to FSU after a long break.
"Johnson is one of the most exciting players in the country," coach摩肯Norm Stewart said. "Drew
is an improved sophomore who puts on tremendous defensive pressure from baseline to baseline. Hopefully, Stan Ray can return and give us a solid nucleus."
STEWART ALSO IS hoping that Jeff Curriac, a 6-3 senior guard who missed last season because of a kidney ailment, can return to give the Tigers experience at the guard position.
The Buffaloes boast the top score in the conference in 1-6 junior guard Emmett Ellsworth but won only 11
Stewart said that KU, KST and OU are the favorites but that Colorado should not be overlooked.
"Colorado should be very much improved," Stewart said. "They had one of the top five recruiting teams."
Colorado has four freshman who could see plenty of action, according to assistant coach Terry Trux. Dae Netherton, Brian Johnson, Bobby Rutledge and I have impressed the coaching staff in practice.
Truxel agrees that KU, K-State and Oklahoma were the teams to beat but that Oklahoma State, under first-year coach Jim Killingsworth, could be the surprise team in the league.
"TUZ WAS first-team All-Southern California and he's really battling the veterans," Trux said. "Rutledge is an excellent jumper and a good shooter."
Kulingsworth, who came to Stillwater from Idaho
"I got the job late and didn't recruit the big man we needed," the Killingsworth said. "I do think we got three guys."
State where his team upset UCLA in the NCAA regionals last year, became the Cowboys' head coach only a week before the national letter-of-intent signed date.
The cowboys were led last year by 6.4 Ous Holder.
Last year, as a junior, Holder averaged 18.8 points a game and was the second leading rebounder in the conference.
Nebraska coach Joe Cipriano is hoping that experience will help his Cornhuskers improve upon their 15-14 mark of last year. The Huskers return to Brian Banks; Terry Novak and Carl McPike.
"OUR TEAM STRENGTH has got to be our experience. We have four people we need to build our defense area."
McPike and Banks were the two leading scorers for brekka last year, McPike averaged 15.3 points per game. Banks averaged 12.9 points per game.
Second-year coach Lynn Nance is hoping sophom-center leader Dean Uthoff can lead the Iowa State Cyclones out of the league cellar. Last year, Uthoff played in rebounding and averaged 11.0 points a game.
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"I'm not going to make any bold statements like I did last year." Nancy said. "Last year I said we would win more games than our football team did, but it took a forfit for us to tie them."