Page 16 University Daily Kansan, May 4, 1981
By TRACEE HAMILTON Associate Sports Editor
The Alumni team played like a bunch of young college kids ending their spring football practices with a fun game against some old guys.
It was clearly a case of role reversal.
THE VARISTY play like a group of older men, most of whom hadn't seen a football in their childhood.
The Varsity did manage to win the Varsity-Alumni game Saturday, 23-6, but Head Coach Dam Fobmaugh's team certainly didn't shine on their way to victory.
"It's obvious we didn't play well," Farm broad said. "It was the worst day of spring training."
The game, played in front of 1,100 fans in Memorial Stadium, counted as KU's 20th day of spring workouts, the maximum allowed by the NCAA.
Fambrough, who had said all spring that this year's preamble to the 1981 season was his best ever, could not explain what was wrong with the Varsity team.
"I don't know," say. "I really don't know. I guess we just had a bad day."
A bad day except for the KU kicking game, which had one of its best days in recent memory. Bucky Scribern, 6-foot, 205 pound sophomore phormur who last year averaged 44.1 yards, kicked only once, a 43-yard kick against the wind.
AND THE INTENSE competition for place-kicking chores led to outstanding performances by both Bruce Kallmyer, freshman who kicked for KU last season, and
Kallmeyer booted a 39-yard field goal in the second quarter to make the score 13-18 in favor of the varsity. But Schwartzkopf added with 20 seconds left, a fourth down, the windy Kallmeyer also kicked two extra points.
Dodge Schwartzberg, who kicked for last season's minor varsity.
The Varsity got on the board first on an 18-yard pass from 6-2, 185-pound freshman quarterback Frank Seurier to Russ Bastin, 6-2, 205-pound sophomore flanker, Jeff Seed, 6-2, 204-pound junior guard, Jon Jones, 6-2, 119-pound freshman, for a 22-yard touchdown strike and the final varsity tally.
The Alumni's only score came on a 45-yard pass from quarterback Bobby Douglass to wide receiver Jimmy Little in the early second quarter.
"We'll be all right," Fambrigh said of his team. "good things, a little sharper. But good things happened."
"Our kicking game was good, a lot of people got to play and one no one got hurt."
JAYHAWK NOTES: Two awards were presented during post-game festivities Saturday. Head Coach Don Fambrough presented the Don Fambrough offensive award to Bobby Douglass and the Dean Neashim defensive award to Bobby Barrow.
Fambrough also announced Saturday the co-captains for the 1981 football season.
Seniors Greg Smith and David Lawrence have been selected to lead the Jawhaves.
Two Jayhawks have signed on as free agents with professional teams. Frank Wattelte, senior free safety, has signed with the New Orleans Saints of the NFL, and Steve Hamm has signed with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League.
The KU baseball team stayed in the post-season playoff picture with a split against Oklahoma over the weekend. Now all the Jayhawks can do is wait.
Baseball team splits with Sooners still part of regional playoff picture
By ARNE GREEN Sports Writer
Sports Writer
The Jayhawks, who held a half game lead over Oklahoma State for the final tournament spot, split doubleheaders both Friday and Saturday at Norman, giving them a final Big Eight record of 12-11. The other six teams (Colorado dropped baseball this year) still have four games to play, so the Jayhawks won't know until next weekend whether they made it.
Against Oklahoma, it was a familiar story for KU. Outstanding pitching was again responsible for the Jayhawks' two victories.
The Jayhawks lead the league in team ERA with a mark of 3.00, well ahead of Nebraska's
After the Javhawks dropped the series opener,
5-2, Jim Phillips (7-2) taking the loss, Kevin Clinton went to work.
Clinton, 4-4, kept the Sooners' lefthand batters off balance the entire game with his screwball as he yielded just four hits while striking out 10.
The Jayhawks wasted little time getting on the scoreboard in the game as they scored three runs
Russ Blaylock the scoring with a two-run homer, his 16th of the year, and Brian Gray the fourth. He was 4-2.
In Saturday's games, the Jayhawks got two good pitching performances as they split a pair
The Jayhawks added an insurance run in the second when Nezuki singled and scored on a doubled.
IN THE NIGHTCAP it was shoddy fielding by Kibernaher and Matt Gibson's relief pitching that night.
With the Jayhawks trailing, 21-6, Gibson came in to pitch in the fourth inning and shut down the
Sooners the rest of the way. Gilson allowed just one hit and retired the last 10 battens he faced.
Blaylock again provided the fireworks for the hayhaws, driving home two runs with a home run.
The home run, his second of the series and his seventh in the last nine games, gave the Rangers a lead.
Catcher Kent Shelley followed with another single to right, scoring Lewallen. Shelley then went to second on another error by Russell and scored on Blaylock's double.
After Oklahoma answered with single runs in its half of the first and second, the Jayhawks bounced back with the game-winners in the third.
Center flicker Dick Lewallen led off the inning with a single, then took second when Sooner made it 2-0.
BLAYLOCK' HOME runs gave him 16 for the year and tied him with Matt Gundelfinger as the all-time single-season leader. Gundelfinger hit 16 last year.
With much of the KU men's track team in Lawrence with injuries, Kansas State probably counted on an easy time in Saturday's Sunflower Classic at Manhattan.
Kansas track teams finish second to K-State
field. Kansas State won with 161 points.
The Wildcats, hosting their only outdoor meet of the season at R.V. Christian track, won the triangular meet with 90 points, six points over Jayhawks. Wichita State finished third with 37
The women's Kansas State Invitation, who also held Saturday in Manhattan the Joyawakes game, was played on Sunday.
Part of the reason for the men's success was the performance of KU junior Kevin Graham, who tied a track record with a victory in the high jump and captured second place in the triple jump. Both were season-bests for the Hutchinson native.
Graham jumped 7 feet in the high jump, tying a track record set by KU's Joel Light last year. Light, who also competed Saturday, tied for second with a tumor of 6-10.
triple jump was important because of the absence of junior triple jumper Sanya Owalaheh, a British teenager.
Graham's previous bests this year were 48-0 in the triple jump and 6-11 in the high jump.
Senior spinner Mike Ricks won the 400- and 200-meter runs, the only Jayhawk to win two events. Other KU winners were Mark Hanson in the long jump (25-7*4), Van Schaffer in the 800 meters, Laeks in the 400 hurdles (33.3). The Jayhawks also won the mile relay with a time of 3:16.4.
After baseball, football career Douglass still has the arm
By TRACEE HAMILTON Associate Sports Editor
Bobby Douglass strode through the room, his hair still damp from the shower. People gravitated towards him, and he scattered smiles and handshakes among them, but he didn't
"Beverage," he intoned, and the crowd parted. He lifted five Budweisers from a washut of ice and brew, popped one open, and carted the other four to a corner in the court, calling签
"I haven't touched a football in a year," he between swings, the arm's arm, but my leg is bent. "I don't know."
HE LOOKED LIKE the scrubbed-face college All-American he had been at Kansas in the late '60s, clad in a blue T-shirt, jeans and sneakers; hair still curly, attitude still cocky.
That didn't seem to worry Douglass, who had just quarterbacked an Alumun team against the KU Varsity. The Varsity won, 23-6. Douglass was second selection during the game at Memorial Stadium.
"I wore a little knee knee, about what I wore in the 1989 Orange Bowl," he said. "No hip pads, no rib pads. Quarterbacks aren't used to getting hit. No really. I just feel more comfortable with
"I was putting them on a little," Douglass said of his abuse of the referees.
The loss to Penn State was the famous '12th man' game, when Penn State went for a two-point conversion near the end of the game, with the score 14-13. The attempt failed, but KU's Rick Abernathy was on the field by mistake, bringing the team count to 12. The result was a flag for the Jayhawks. On the second attempt, Penn State converted and won the game.
Douglass was comfortable enough to complete a 45-yard pass to Jimmy Little for the Alumni's only score in the second quarter, and also comfortable enough to endear himself to the referees with his rather vocal protestations concerning the officiating.
"I didn't think they would kick me out," he added coyly.
HEAD COACH Don Fambrough jokingly awarded Douglass with the Sportsmanship Award, "voted on by the officials," then awarded him the Don Fambrough offensive tackle award. He also former Chicago Bean quarterback completed 3 of 10 passes for 54 yards, and even took alums down nostalgia lay in scrambling out of the pocket for an eight-yard-ropot.
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SATURDAY'S GAME had its 12th man, Armand Baughman, class of 83, who ran on the field in the closing game of the game to catch a Doullass pass that was, of course, nullified.
Douglas admitted, however, that during the clear memoirs of days gone by flashed through his eyes.
"I didn't think about it a lot," he said. "The competitive juices were flowing. Not even on the sideline. I just thought about something on the field.
"It takes two or three years to develop control. I have a tremendous arm, but that's nothing without experience. Most pitchers spend four or five years before they go to the majors."
Bobby Douglass, a 1969 KU graduate and an ex-pro quarterback with the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears, grabbed much of the attention at Saturday's Yarsity-Alumni game. Autograph seekers like these abounded.
The game did, however, jostle some of Douglass' love of professional football. The 32-year-old Chicago resident left pro football after 11 years, played a season of professional basketball and taught farm team in Iowa, then left sports to become a real estate developer and restaurant owner.
"He wanted to be competitive. Some of the varsity wanted the pre scouts to see them. So we went to the field and he came in."
"I PITCHED through the 1880 season and didn't come back," Douglass said. "It's financially impossible for me to drop my business and tell my family I'll be back in a few months.
"Not many teams keep an old back-up quarterback, he said. If someone gave me a couple
Although Douglass lamented the fact that he didn't have the time to develop into a major league pitcher, his first love is still football, and he said he thought he had several good years left.
"I go to training camp, make the team as the third quarterback, and someone go hurt, that's it."
from professional sports affect his physical condition. He was not too tired from the game, and in fact, told Fambrouh he wished the quarters had been longer, to give his team more of a chance. The quarters were shortened to 12 points, so they stopped, except for timeouts, in the second half.
BUT DOUGLASS hasn't let his retirement
"I don't work out as much as I used to," he said. "I play basketball and jog. I'd like to work out about four hours a day. But it's hard when you've got a business. It's hard to find the time. I
But those days are over, at least temporarily, for a 32-year-old businessman from Chicago who became one of the world's most successful CEOs.
used to work out two and three hours a day."
"I could play for the Chiefs," he said. "I can throw as good as their back-up quarterbacks.
"But not many teams are likely to give me a chance. There aren't that many players in their 30s. They want to take a young kid out of college. They will say, 'Hey, let you go by Gobby Douglass.'"
Lost Olympics, lost case haunt Wiley
Sports Writer
By PAUL D. BOWKER
The boycott of the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow has been forgotten by most Americans. Gone are the sad memories of thousands of athletes who spent years training for the ultimate in sports competition and then had to cancel their plans.
It was almost two years ago that the United States Olympic Committee, urged by President Jimmy Carter, voted against competing in Moscow, but for track athletes who were looking forward to the Games, the hurt still exists.
Cliff Wiley, a former member of the KU track team and one of those athletes who made the 1980 Olympic team, stood in the middle of Memorial Stadium during the Kansas Relays two weeks ago and just shook his head.
Wiley, who fought a constant battle with the NCAA while he was an undergraduate student at KU, graduated in 1978 with a degree in political science before going to work full time. He then served in the United States boycotted the 1980 Games, Wiley returned to KU Law School last August.
Wiley's courtroom troubles started in March 1976 when the NCAA ordered him to return $300 of his scholarship money. He had already applied for and received money from the NCAA Opportunity Grant fund, and NCAA rules prohibited athletes from receiving both.
Wiley eventually lost the suit, but that wasn't all. The NCAA also stripped him of his jersey and gave him a bad set. He still was able to fight off the NCAA and earn a spot on the Olympic team in the
"I SPENT TWO years training for the Games and doing hardly anything else but training for the Games," said Wiley, now a D.C. International Track Club.
"That was the only motivating factor in my life."
THE NCAA QUICKLY barred him from competing in meets, but Wiley was allowed to run after getting an injunction from a federal court in Topeka.
Wiley, who was part of a 400-meter relay team that set a world record in the World Cup at Düsseldorf, West Germany, in 1977, still races into third. He proved two weeks ago on the Kansas Relays.
"I THINK THAT I'm in fair shape, not great shape," Wiley said. "I haven't run very well."
All that is over now. Wiley is spending much of his time in Green Hall as a law student instead of at Memorial Stadium or Allen Field House as a hopeful Olympian.
"I'm still going to run. I've reorganized my
warehouse. I still have the chance to meet
some more guys."
"I've thought about it—the fact that I didn't
have a chance to run in the Olympics," he said.
He won the 100- and 400-meter dashes at the 2015 U.S. national championship was voted the meet's outstanding male performance.
The Celtics became only the fourth team in NBA history to rally from a 3-1 deficit in a game where they lost to their 10th NBA title when they open a championship series tomorrow night against Houston.
200-meter dash and spent most of 1979 competing and training in Europe.
"Now, other things are my motivation,"
"How said. 'Track is not first by any means'
BOSTON (UPI)—Larry Bird's 23 points, including the go-ahead basket with 1:03 left, helped the Boston Celtics complete their comeback in 14-7 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers.
Bird's 23 points lead Celtics to 91-90 victory
Robert Parish then hit a turnaround jump shot with 3:41 left and after a Celtics' steal, Bird was fouled by the Sikers' Julius Erving and tied the game for the final time with two free throws.
The Celtics, as they have done throughout the series, rallied in the final minutes to gain the victory. Boston trailed 89-82 with 5:24 to play, but the Sixers scored only one point the rest of the way, a free throw by Maurice Cheeks, with 29 seconds left.
Boston killed the clock until M.L. Car missed a jump shot from the left side and the Sikers got the rebound and called timeout with one second left. The Sikers quickly harmlessly off the top of the Sikers' backboard.
Boston began its comeback with 4:34 left to play when Cedric Maxwell dropped in a free throw and Nate Archibald followed in two more 17 seconds later.
Putnam, who helped tie the game in the eighth, hit a 3-2 pitch from Juan Berenguer, 1-1, off the right field foul pole to give John Henry Johnson, 1-1, the victory.
ARLINGTON, TEXAS (UPI)—Pat Putnam led off the 10th inning with a home run yesterday, giving the Texas Rangers a 9-8 victory over the Kansas City Royals.
Texas scored twice in the first when John Grubb, who has 15 RBI in his last 11 games, singled in two runs. The Rangers made it 3-0 in the second on Bump Wills' sacrifice fly.
The Royals scored seven runs in the sixth inning. Hal McRae and Willey Aleksens had RBI singles and Amos Otis a two-run homer. Frank Posey pitched a two-run homer to make it 7-3. Kansas City
Texas rebounded with two runs in the seventh on Al Oliver's two-run single and two in the eighth on an RBI double by Pat Putnam and an RBI single by Bump Wills.
added a run in the seventh on an RBI single by Otis.
The Royals return to Kansas City tonight to face the Boston Red Sox in a three-game series.
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
American League
Boston 1
Boston 2
Toronto 4
Balmore 2
Chicago 6
Cleveland 7
Detroit 8
New York 2, Oakland 2 (1st)
New York 2, Oakland 2 (1st)
Milwaukee 4, Califronia 5
Oakland 3, Kansas City 8
San Diego   New York 11 (first)
Chicago    New York 12 (second)
Houston   5. Pittsburgh
Philadelphia   7. San Francisco
Chicago    5. Pittsburgh
Leigh 9. Chicago    3. Seattle
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Tennis team preys on small college
Kansas' men's tennis team has had good luck playing small colleges at home this year and Saturday was no exception as the Jayhawks defeated Cowley County Junior College, 9-0. It was the Jayhawks second straight 9-9 victory against a smaller school.
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The Jayhawks took five of the six singles matches in straight sets. Freshman Charles Stearns was pushed to three sets winning 6-2, 5-7, 6-2. Junior Tom Hall and freshman Oscar Carega won 6-0, 6-0 in singles. It was Hall's second straight 6-0, 6-4 victory.
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"Everything's starting to fall in place," Hall said. "It's heen steadily impronging."
The Jayhawks had Oral Roberts scheduled for May 8th, but Oral Roberts' coach cancelled the match because ORU had already finished with school.
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