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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, October 4, 1967
As he waits to kick
Bell edgy on bench
Bill Bell, KU's sophomore kicker, feels responsible for the Jayhawks' losses to Stanford and Indiana.
"I hope to start kicking the ball better," he said. "If I could have hit that one against Stanford, we could have won, and the same goes for Indiana, only we would have gotten a tie."
Bell's kicking is not so bad as he makes it sound. Those two kicks are the only ones he has missed this season. He ranks eighth in Big Eight scoring with three field goals and two conversions for nine points.
Pressure is tough
Bell feels that one of the toughest things about kicking in a game situation is the pressure.
"A guy is always nervous before a game, but once it starts he is playing football and doesn't have time to be worried," Bell said.
"But I only get into a game for seven or eight plays so I have time to sit on the sidelines and worry about how I will do when I do get in there," he said.
Experienced kicker
Bell has been kicking since his high school days in Falls Church, Va. He played quarterback for Falls Church High School and was voted the best back and the most valuable player of the team in 1965.
Bell, who is 61" and weighs 190 pounds, started at quarterback on last year's freshman team. He completed 30 of 74 passes and punted 23 times for a 36.3 average.
Bell is now the number three
quarterback on the varsity. Coach Pepper Rodgers devotes most of his time to his top two quarterbacks so Bell gets a chance to spend some extra time on kicking.
Early to practice
"I generally get on the field about 15 minutes before everyone else and work on place kicking," Bell said. "Later I work on my punting."
This year's new punt rule has changed Bell's punting style considerably.
Punts higher
"Since the punt rule won't let the linemen leave the line of
scrimmage until the ball is kicked, we try to kick the ball higher to give them more time to get down field," Bell said.
"Also, instead of standing 15 yards away from the ball and taking three steps before kicking the ball like I used to. I now use what is known as a 'rocker step'. I swing my left leg back, then move it forward with a long step. This gives me enough forward movement that I can kick normally with my right foot."
"When an athlete thinks that he can't improve he is in trouble," Bell said. "We have a great coaching staff here and they have helped me a lot. Coach Mullers (Charlie) and Coach Tommey (Dick) are always finding little things which help me."
Pains slow Jayhawks
The injury list grew Tuesday as the Jayhawks prepared for their home opener against Ohio Saturday.
Defensive tackle and two-year letterman Bruce Peterson is out indefinitely. A cast was applied to his right leg to correct a hairline fracture below the knee.
Fullbacks Mike Reeves and Spencer Kissell are listed as doubtful participants Saturday. Reeves suffered a sprained ankle in practice and Kissell is nursing a bruised thigh. Defensive back J. C. Hixon was brought over from the defensive backfield to run at the fullback slot.
Intramural football results
Phi Kappa Psi 6; Delta Chi 0; Delta Sigma Phi 0, Phi Kappa Theta 25; Triangle 13, Phi Psi II 0; Theta Chi 6, Alpha Tau Omega 6; Phil Delta Theta I 19, Sigma Chi 6; Tau Kappa Epsilon 0, Phil Delta Theta 0; Sigma Alpha Epsilon 0, Pi Kappa Alpha 0; Phi Kappa Tau 0, Delta Tau Delta 19; Delta Upsilon 1 14; Acacia 0;
Gamma Delta 18, Alpha Kappa Lambda 0; Battenfeld Hall 6, Grace Pearson 14; Radiation Blophysics 14, Beta Tau 0; Phi Delta Theta III 6, Lambda Chi Alpha 0; Jolliffe Psil 0, Flower Children 39; Kappa Psil 1, MBA 0; Stephenson Hall forfeited to Pearson Hall.
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