University Daily Kansan
Thursday, February 28, 1980
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Soccer just for kicks, but could be varsity sport
By BENJAMIN JONES
Staff Reporter
Members of the KU Soccer Club play for kicks, but Bill Evans, administrator and skierker for the team, says soccer could have a variety sport sometime in the future.
Evans said that eventually the University of Kansas would have to admit that soccer was a roaring sport.
"In the future," he said, "there will be such a demand that they won't be able to refuse."
Evans recognizes that at first soccer would not be a money-making sport for the University, but he said that eventually it would bein to nav for itself.
He said an entire soccer team "could be funded and put on the field for considerably less" than it costs the University to suit up a course of football players.
EVANS ALSO SAID soccer could generate just as much spectator interest.
"More and more, schools are realizing the validity of sponsoring soccer and making it a varsity sport," he said.
a varsity sport, he said.
Before Kansas would ever consider soccer
a "valid sport," it would require other schools to take the first step. Evans said.
The University of Colorado is the only BIG Eight school with a varsity team, Evans said, but he stressed that KU played a big part of "soccer" as varsity teams at other schools.
"We're as close to varsity status as we can get at the present time," he said.
Evans said that when a sport became varsity in nature, the school became responsible for scheduling matches, and equipment for cost of buying uniforms and equipment.
NOW, HE SAID, club members paid for their lodging on road trips and for their own uniforms. He called funding the main difference between club soccer and varisty
Evans said club does, which vary from $10 to $15 a semester, were used to pay transportation costs for the team.
referees and buy equipment, such as balls and uniforms.
The club also receives some funding from the Student Senate through Recreational Services. Evans said the club used the money allotted by Student Senate to pay
Evans said that there were 25 members, all males. But he added that females and faculty were welcome to join, and should contact him if interested.
He said there were two squads, a competitive squad that plays a larger schedule, and a second squad for those playing for enjoyment.
"We are trying to serve as many people as possible," he said.
Evans said the KU soccer club, wuntil a thought dated back to the 1940s, was "originally a club for foreign soccer players."
ONE FORGE PLAYER, who coaches the team, is Jay Yoffe, a post-doctoral research associate doing research work in quantum theory at the University.
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Voffe, from Nottingham, England, said he was not paid a salary by the University, but coaches "for the fun of it."
Oyfe said he thought the KU team, 7-1 at home and 8-4-1 overall during its fall season, was one of the better teams in the conference. The first spring match will be March 2 at Kansas State University. But he said that he would take to the attaints of the standard of British soccer.
"It's still in its infancy here," Yoffe said.
"In England, players start kicking a ball
Yoffe said soccer had advantages over football because players didn't get injured as often or as severely. He also said soccer was the better athlete who was not a top physical specimen.
around when they're youngsters of four- or five-years-old."
Yofae also said Americans were largely unfamiliar with the game, and so found it unexciting to watch.
"I think it would be a long time before we would get huge audiences," he said.
Foye came to the University in August from Nottingham, where he played for a university team.
"When I was playing soccer as a student in England," he said, "I believed that if you became professional it destroyed the nature of the game." And he became more important than the game.
But the KU Soccer Club is not professional. It is not even vexity. It preserves the nature of the game, for anyone who wants to play. Just for jicks.
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