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Friday, March 21, 1980
University Daily Kansan
Wonderful Waddell
FORMER KU star Waddell Smith had another brilliant year with the Edmonton Eskimos the Canadian Football League. The Eskimos won their second straight Grey Cup title this season and Smith led the league in receptions, receiving yardage and touchdown catches.
Home runs, walk lift KC
FOR MORTYRS, Fla. (IUPi) Ken Phleis, Perry McGraw, Dana Sullivan runs in the dust hush to power the Kansas City Royals to a 12-11 come-from-behind win. Pitches by Pirates in exhibition basketball yesterday.
The world-champion pitchers scored all 11 runs in the fourth inning, sending 15 batters to the plate and gaining 6 hits and two walks against three Royalts pitches, Paul McGillery, Jason Jones and Randy McGiberty. Lee Lacy led the carriage with a two-run homer.
Wilson led off the bottom of the sixth with
a homer off Andy Hassler, a former Royal pitcher who Philips扑击hit three runs in the first inning of the scoreboard in left field, and right-fielder Hardie讲到 that with a blast over the batter.
In the bottom of the ninth, pinch-hitter Steve Bauman was walked by Gene Penz with the bases loaded and none out to force home Ots Concipience for the Royals win.
Dan Quisenberry worked the final two innings and picked up his third victory against no exhibition losses.
Smith strikes it rich in CFL
By MIKE EARLE
Snorts Editor
He's exuberant. He's confident. He might be the most recognized sports figure in Canada. He'daddle Smith—'84 and '92, he was a big player, catching footballs, not hockey pucks, for the Edmonton Eskimos in the Canadian Football League.
"I want every eighth grade kid in Canada screaming my name. I want my poster on their bedroom walls. I want to be known as the best in Canada," says Smith nonchallantly.
"I leave a mark where I go."
THOSE STATEMENTS exemplify the dynamic personality Smith possesses. He might be called a braggart, but he backs up his words with his performances on the football field.
Smith played wide receiver for KU in the 1974 and 1975 seasons. Jawkay fans might not remember him because of the run-oriented teams, led by Nolan Cromwell, KU fielded those years.
"I'm not knocking Nolan, but if I'd been on a pass-oriented team my name would be right up there with John Jefferson (star wide receiver for the San Diego Chargers of the NFL," Smaill said. "My junior year I said I'd be the next Ron Jessie to come out of Kansas. All I know that it can happen, I would've caught it, whether people give me credit or not."
Smith, KU's leading pass receiver with nine receptions in 714 and 10 in 1975, don't raise many pro scout's eyebrows on his passing.
HE DID, however, get a tryattow with the Kansas City Chiefs but was released in the final cut. Undaunted, he cast his lft with the Edmonton entry in the Canadian league and suddenly became the best receiver in Canadian football.
"I was the last man on the team the Chiefs cut," Smith said. "In our last preseason game, I caught three catches against Atlanta for 80 yards and didn't drop any. I was the fastest man on the team, but they let me go."
"It was probably the best thing that happened to me. I'm not going to sit on your bench if I'm going to im-
Smith improved enough to be All-Pro three of his four years. This year he had 74 receptions for 1,214 yards and 13 touchdowns. The past two seasons the Eskimos have won 85 games, including six in a double bowl. They whipped the Montreal Abelettes both years.
HE SCORED THE first touchdown in this year's Gray Cup on a 47-yard pass from quarterback Warren Moon, who led the University of Washington to an upset victory over the University of Michigan in the 1975 Rose Bowl.
"There was one cornerback before a game this season that said with every breath I took he would be right with me," Smith said. "I told him he could breathe all he did, but he was going to see the back of my jersey all day."
"I talk a lot, but I what I do on the field says it all. There so my wayhuman possibly someone can cover me for an
"I make the best out of bad situations. If somebody is down around me, I get them up. I excite people. I dance after every touchdown I score and I throw the ball into the stands. No one can cover me for a minute."
Covering a receiver with 4.3 speed in the 46-yard dash would give any defensive back nightmares. And if seeing Smith fly on the field is too much for them to handle, they are advised to stay away from their television sets.
SMITH ALSO DOES TV commercials for Kool-Aid and a photo-film company. A deal is in the works for him to be part of his marketing campaign.
In addition to his television revenue, Smith's lawyer is in the process of working out a half-million dollar contract with Fox News to get his own network on.
Those figures are comparable to the salaries paid to American football players are just as talented. Smith contends Canadian player figures are just as talentful.
"Canada has their university football teams just like America," Smith said. "There are a lot of Canadian players in the states right now. They have their draft and scouting systems."
"THE TEAM I'm on is comparable to the Pittsburgh Steelers. I'm not saying we're as good. I don't think anybody in the world could beat Pittsburgh. They have the most powerful team in the world.
"But we are just as powerful as the top NFL teams. Since I've gone to Canada we've lost only four games in three seasons."
Losing was never something Smith had to become accustomed to. He was a track All-America eight times while at KU and was on the football team that upset Oklahoma 23-10. The team also went to the Sun Bowl, KU's last bowl appearance.
At the time I played football here, out of the 22 starters, like Eddie Lewis, Kurt Knopf and Nolan Cromwell in the defensive secondary. Our linebackers were Steve Towle and Terry Beeson. Out our four defensive linemen, three
"I WON't BE surprised to see KU rise to a national power in the next three years. When Bud Moore was coach, I'd tell a kid not to come here if he was going to be a wide receiver because he ran the ball so much.
Rumor mill churns out beauties
"For Don Fambrigh, I'll talk to any kid who can play. He's a fair man and he makes you want to play for him. I truly believe KU football is on an upswing. When they get there I'll get a lot of those dollars back that I lost on bets."
Ted Owens is headed for Nome (Alaska) Juco. Ricky
is off to the Boston Celtics. Darnell Vallentine is
retiring.
Don't believe it? You're not the only one.
But runners just as silly as those have been floated around the Kansas basketball team since it started founding.
Take Ted. Please, many have cried.
FIRST, OWENS, KU'S 16-year head coach, was supporter of the SMU. Now SMU. Now Oklahoma. Maybe he'll go, I don't know.
First, Ross, KU's glossy freshman, was supposedly on his way to Kentucky. Fellow freshman Keith Douglas was supposed to tag along, a package deal no doubt. Now it's Wichita State or Georgia. Maybe he'll go, I don't know.
OFF ON A TANGENT
gene myers
FIRST, VALENTINE, KU's stud student was supposedly
the winner of the NBA. Now it's Lawrence. Maybe he
didn't know I know
The biggest of them all is the fate of Ted Owens. Right
now, he's at home with the boys he wants.
Okapenga or Lohanhahe has offered him $250.
That's just some of the many rumors. If you haven't had your ear in tune to all the backcourt gossip, here's a little
Reports from our friends at the Oklahoma student newspaper say that Owens refuses to be interviewed by the reporters. The university said the reporter's
Lawrence and Topeka say that Owens is in his final days, Says who?
MAYBE IT'S THE same famous "KU source" that constantly appears in the Kansas City Star. This mystery source was there when Owens first came under fire in April, if it was there again in February. It was back again this week.
Who is the mystery sources for Topeka and Lawrence?
The same mystery man/woman? Is it a high ranking administrative/athletic official? A disgruntled player? A manager who like ice cream on Saturday? Archie R. Dykes.
Well, their source(s) say Ted is失神，但 ours says he stays. And our source is a high-ranked athletic official.
At least this speculation has some credibility. Owens will either stay or go. But the workers of the rumor mill who were involved in the plot have said
MY FAVORITE ONE had Athletic Director Bob Marcum take the overrs of the Big Eight conference. In need of
en **n** **u** **n**, was supposed to move in. In needs of a head coach, *Akwansas* 'Edid Sutton was supposed to fly in. To top it off, Jojo White, the famous former Jayhawk and player, was supposed to up the wandering new life and become KU's too assistant.
That rumor, at least, had creativity. At best, it was illogical. The chances of getting Sutton here are about the same as any other game in the league.
Both Sutton and Smith, native Kansans, would miss on a little money if they came to Lawrence. A coach's salary isn't his only source of income. Many have basketball camps and TV shows. Owens has a standout, big boy, and he plays in the Nets. But the department has no major market TV show. Kansas City does not want the Owens or Jack Hartman's show.
IN OTHER JUICY rumors, remember the one that Owens wasn't canned because the athletic department didn't have the bucks to absorb the remaining two years of college and have to pay $50,000 switch coaches. With a possible $100,000 budget deficit this year, a large payoff could be costly. To make three hundred dollars equals the death of about four $70,000
Hear who of Owens' competitors is supposed to be for the Oklahoma job? Bill Russell, the famous Hall of Famer, coach and announcer. And I guess Wilt Chamberlain will be back at KU.
Maybe, Wilt will return, I don't know.
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