University Daily Kansan
Wednesday. April 4.1973
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Rugby Teams Resume Play After Score After the game, the beer drinking begins.
Rugby Rules Flexible; Primary Goal is Fun
By BRAD REHA
Kansan Snorts Writer
Rugby is the only sport at the University of Kansas that holds a beer party for the students.
The rugby squad is also the only team that doesn't have training restrictions and encourages having a good time during a game, as well as, after the game.
The KU Rugby Club is open to anyone associated with the University and is partially funded by the University. The team plays both in the fall and in the spring.
This spring, the team has played Pittsburg State, Kansas City Blues, Rockhurst College and Arkansas. Their record to date is 1-3.
Nearly 35 are out for the sport and they hold practices Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons on the rugby field where the field is also the site for home matches.
According to Pete Young, Hannibal, Mo.,
junior "You only play rugby because you feel
you can."
*You can count on getting hurt at least once a year.* 14 Torres, Terreus, woodfreshmenn.
Rugby is played on a field 110 yards long and 75 yards wide, with a 25-yard in-goal. Goal posts, 18 feet 6 inches apart with the ball at their center, stand, on each goal line. Each team has 3 goals.
A match begins with a kickoff from the center of the 55-yard line. After the kickoff, any player who is behind the bar may at any time hit him with it, or take an opponent carrying it.
The ball is advanced by kicking, running,
or it may be passed laterly, but forward
Major Clubs Take Rookies; A's Use None
Baseball's toasted, toasted rookies of the fleeting springtime have struck by the ball with weaker major league clubs, but crushed Oakland A was a zero possibility.
Charley O. Finley's green and yellow wonders packed up and headed home from Arizona with nothing but veterans on Manager Dick Williams' roster.
Rookies had about the same chance as orange baseballs.
Elsewhere, there are blossoming heroes such as power hitter Charlie "Bogalaus Bomber" Spikes of Cleveland and 6-foot-4 shortstret Ravuse Busie of St. Louis.
Spikes, the key young talent in an Indian trade that sent Grappie Nettles to the New Yankees, has been a home run terror in Tucson and Manager Ken Aspromonte likes the way the Louisiana strongboy walks.
Busse broke up a four-man battle among Cardinal unknowns for the short job, hit 263 in the eighth position and knocked in 10 runs during the Florida preseason.
St. Louis Manager Red Schoeneder also
plans to open with a rookie at third base.
He overcame a case of chickpea to
win to 10, shifting superstar Joe Torre
to first base.
Danny Ozark, with the herculean task of making the Philadelphia Phillies into more than the Steve Carlton Show, is going with some of the greensest of muscle.
He's keeping 19-year-old pitcher Larry Christianson and 22-year-old Dick Ruthrens, who finished college at Fresno State last season.
Masters Golf Tourney Inspires Aging Palmer
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) —“I come to AUGUSTA with a great feeling of pride,” Arnold Palmer said. “To me, the Masters is what accentuate what is good in golf.
passes are not allowed. Blocking by players not carrying the ball is forbidden, and no player of the team in possession may get ahead of the ball.
Palmer, rapidly approaching the status of elder statesman in the game he has done so much to promote, is fired by fresh ambition and has earned his name an love affair with the Masters.
Scoring can be done by running or kicking with a different number of points given for division.
He's 43 years old, it's been nine almost 10 years since he won a major championship He looks a little tired, a little drawn and strained. He admits lays of confidence.
But his head snapped upright, as if jerked by a string and that fiercely competitive light flamed in his eyes when asked if he still was capable of winning the Masters.
"Of course I am. Absolutely. There's no reason in the world I can't," he said Tuesday before a practice round on the Augusta National Golf Course. The course is one of the world's most prestigious, birthplace of the Palmer legend, initial recruiting-ground for Arielle's army.
The KU club has a player-coach set up. According to Young, the players with the most experience are usually the coaches.
"It's just a matter of confidence," he said. "If I can get my confidence to where it was at Palm Springs where I won the Bob Hope Desert Classic, then I can do it.
Rugby is not for the timid. It a sport of continuous contact played without pads.
"It's a feeling you try to get, a feeling that you have when you're standing over the ball, knowing the shot you have to make and then go ahead and doing it."
The fall season is usually the strongest as
ar as participation is concerned. Last fall
had 190 teams compete.
The highlight of the rugby season is the Aspen Ruggerfest in the fall. KU competed with the top teams in the nation at the meet last semester.
That is his biggest problem going into Thursday's first round of one of the world's most popular sporting events.
"My confidence isn't all that it should be," Arnold added. "I needed a good tournament at Greensboro last week. I didn't play badly, actually, I played pretty well." The manager happened to happen. I'd get it right to the point where I was ready to do something and then
TORONTO (AP) — The National Hockey League Players Association is prepared to fight any proposed merger of the NHL and the NCCA, an association, Alan Eagleson said Tuesday.
NHL Rejects Merger Idea
"We already have consulted anti-trust counsel in Washington, and I will be meeting with them later this week," said the executive director of the players' association.
Eagleson spoke at a news conference following rumors that Bain Hatnick, owner of the WHA Winnipeg Jets, and Bill Jennison, president of the NHL, New York Rangers, met in New York Sunday to discuss a merger.
something would happen to make it just average."
"They want to destroy the players' right to baggage Eagleson said.
"A lot of good things—and a lot of bad things—have happened to me in the Masters. I've bounced a couple I should have crossed over when he and I was a little far out of position to win."
Four times he has claimed the famed green jacket that goes to the winner of this tournament that he last won in 1964. Nicklaus matched that accumulation when he took the title last year. Nicklaus is now a spur to the immensely proud Palmer.
"Now, more than ever, I'd like to win the fifth one," he said.
KU WOMEN:
A Program of Recognition
NOTICE
Important
At Recognition Night this year women will be honored from the following areas:
- Outstanding Teacher
Anyone who took "Women's Self Defense" last semester, please call 841-2057
- Outstanding Woman in the field of Academics
* Outstanding Woman Athlete
TACOS 350
3$^{50}$ A DOZEN
Outstanding Contributor in Fine Arts
Outstanding Contributor in Student Services
a). politically active—Student Senate, class office, etc.
b). contribution in the area of minority affairs
c). other—K.U.-Y, committee and student organizations
- Outstanding Woman in Community Service
- Other - please specify.
Casa De Taco 1105 Mass.
If you would like to nominate women for this award and have not previously done so, please bring a written nomination to 222 Strong Hall by Wednesday, April 11, 1973.
DANCE to the sound of Wizards From Kansas April 10 8-12 p.m.
"Go Navy" This Summer In
The Two-Year NROTC College Program
Applications are being accepted for the two-year NROTC College Program leading to a commission as an Ensign, U.S. Navy or 2nd Lieutenant, U.S. Marine Corps.
Qualifications:
- Second year college student or third year student in a five-year course, in good standing with a "C" average.
* Third year college student in a five-year course.
- Excellent physical condition. Waikers for defective vision available
- Excellent physical condition. Walkers for defective vision available.*
* Power Training must have demonstrated applicability in calculus and algebra.*
- Successfully complete the 6-week Naval Science Institute at beautiful Newport, Rhode Island this summer.
- At least 18 years of age and no more than 24 of June 30 of the commissioning year.
Waivers available up to age 27%).
Benefits:
20% of top students will be offered full scholarships covering all tuition, fees, and books.
$ 100 per month subsistence allowance.
- All candidates applying for and qualified for Nuclear Power Training will be awarded scholarships.
- $450 for attending the Naval Science Institute.
Deadline for Application - April 5th. Apply now for Fall Semester 1973 at the NROTC Unif, Room 115, Military Science Building, 844-3161.
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