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Tuesday, February 15. 1972
University Daily Kansan
BasketballCrowd An Integral Part Of Road Contests
By BRAD AVERY
Kansan Sports Writer
Imagine hopping triumphantly onto a basketball floor ready to proceed enthusiastically with a few warm-up shots before a basketball game. Without warning, thousands of people begin to boo.
So what did you do wrong? Well, probably you're on the wrong team. Instead of a Jayhawk you're a Cormhuser or a Tiger, or the wrong team.
In an otherwise gay atmosphere of whirling frisbees and high-kicking pom-pom girls, that low, droning echo has condemned you, part of the opposing team, to the pitiful state of being totally and utterly disdained.
"When you catch it for the first time as a freshman or sophomore, senior contact Neal Mask said, it can really get to you."
Mask was one of the Jahawk players who dared to tread the shack floor of Brewer Field House during a recent road game.
"WHAT'S REALLY BAD about playing on the road is the totally foreign environment you play in. That's especially true of a place like Brewer where the lighting is so bad you can just barely see." Mask said.
Most of the gyms around the Big Eight compare unfavorably to the basketball facilities of many high schools in that the fans are practically sitting in the middle of the game. Mask said this condition did nothing for the opposing team.
"Since most of the facilities in the Big Eight are really old, the fans are extremely close to the game. That makes an already foreign environment even stranger. However, many of the new players are coming the league should take away much of that advantage." Mask said.
The jeers and boos of fans around the league hold a special resentment for KU, Mask said.
"Since we've been the dominant basketball power for the last several years, the other schools really hate us," he said.
ever a year, our other schools really hate us. . .
Sophomore guard Tom Kivisto agreed.
"It's always a little special for the other schools to play KU. Even the other team is fired up. I think that is evidenced by the fact that every team we've played on the road has shot above its regular shoot percentage," he said.
"In the beginning, if they bounce you when you're introduced, it can really pump you up. The time when it really affects you in a bad way."
KINSTO TOUCHT the adverse reaction of a crowd on the road could have an advantageous affect.
Officials are stoic individuals who systematically go about their business even if they're despised more than the opposing team.
"I think very definitely that officials are affected by the fans. I've been quite pessimistic about the officiating in this league, and it does seem that if a call could go either way the officials go with the crowd." Kvisto said.
Junior forward Dale Haase thought the same way.
"If you're a human being and 17,000 people are booing you, it's going to affect your calls." Haase said.
crowd when they weren't playing than when they were.
"When you aren't out there," Haase said. "you just try to concentrate on what you're doing and you really don't hear the fuss.
"ON THE BENCH YOU're obviously more aware, especially when you come in."
Both Hase and Mask thought they were more aware of the crowd when they weren't playing than when they were.
From a player's viewpoint, the fans can be very "fickle" according to Mask.
"I remember one game when they introduced the starting lineups and the fans booed everyone except Bud Stallworth. A minute later they were cheering for the same people they had booed." Mask said.
"Thefans really had a thing for Mark Wattles last year," Mask said, "probably because he was relatively small. It seemed as if he wanted to be like that."
Sports fans are known for their affection for the underdog. He is the little man who moves between the legs and arms of giants and on the road.
Most people at KU probably can't remember a time when the opposing teams weren't harassed the minute they stepped onto the field.
Owens said that fans had a special relevance to basketball.
Several years ago I thought we were one of the easier teams to play on the road. But in the last few weeks we've had tremendous spirit.
"In an enclosed arena the fans can really influence a game. Although most players try not to pay attention while they're playing, they can still raise a praise or criticism by the fans. And naturally players will respond to a greater extent to a positive reaction from the fans," he said.
Former Pro's Son Forsakes Football in Favor of Soccer
SEWANEE, Tenn. (AP)—Mention the name Kyle Rote and most people think of American hockey player Jerry Jr.—his mind is on soccer.
Kyle Jr., a 21-year-old senior at Sewardine University, has been drafted by the Dallas Tornados of North American Soccer League.
What does his father, a former surpass receiver, have to prove in his 13 years in the National Football League. He's also becoming a soccer player.
"My dad has been just great," says Kyle Jr. "He never tried to push me into football, although he was in high school and college."
It was while playing football a Highland Park High School in Dallas that Kyle Jr. became interested in football.
"A bunch of us on the team were looking for a way to stay in shape during the summer, so we formed a soccer team and
Fort Hays WSU Lose To Women
Friday night the Jayhawks
fair Fort Hays State College, 56
horseback rides. They throw
throws and field goals for 83 per
 Kelly, and Cindy Currie both
Wichita State University was the victim Saturday morning as Kajai kissed the team with 12 points. He and Norris also had 12 points.
The University of Kansas women's basketball team was led by Cindy Kellogg to victories in two G League games in Allen Field House.
KU's next game will be at Washburn Thursday. The team's record is 6-4.
challenged church teams and private schools," he said.
Since then, the kid who grew up with a football in his hands has been a dedicated soccer player.
For the past three years, he has been president of the Dallas Athletics organization of 28 teams supported by high schools in the Dallas Fort-Worth Area. He taught 18 to 30 games each summer.
"I SLEPT with football all my life," Kyle Jr. said. "That's been my teddy bear.
"They tried to sell it like a product on television, without regard to the future. In order to get support for soccer you've got to get involved in the junior high schools and the kids involved as well as the girls involved."
Although professional soccer failed in several cities when it was tried in the 1900s, Kyle Jr. wins it eventually will catch on.
Kyle's coach at Sawenne, Mac Petty, says young Rote will have no trouble making the Dallas team
"When it was first tried on the professional level, it was handled very poorly." he said.
"He kept up the esprit de corps on the team," Petty says.
Petty credits Kyle with much of his own success.
Kansan Staff Photo by GREG SORBER
"He was a big help to me. He was just like having another coach on the field. He has been in addition to talent and ability."
Kyle, who played forward for Sewanee, set a school record with 17 goals in a 12-game season.
Bud Stallworth Looks for Reinforcements Against OU
Neal Mask, right, earned starting spot with performance Saturday.
Coaches Wary of Basketball Violence
NEW YORK (AP)—Blood on college basketball courts this season is giving chills to coaches.
Minnesota's Bill Musselman is "afraid to sneeze."
Tennessee's *Ray Mears* is wary of heating the ceiling's emotions. And Jim Padgett of California teaches his kids to be doves, not hawks.
'My life has been disjointed and severely interfered with by vicious insults, but I want to use Musselman, referring to his team's brawn with Ohio State.'
It had been traditional for Mears to appear at the late stages of the preliminary game, wearing his blazer and walking from one end of the court to the other. His appearance usually comes from the Vanderbilt partisan sacks from to boil their emotions.
MEARS ALSO is walking on egg shells.
Musselman, afraid of a
Musselman, afraid of a
sent two Buckeye players to
the hospital, has gone so far as
to discard the gold blazer he
wore.
He's eliminated the tradition of wearing an orange blazer to keep his team warm. The transition was especially pointed toward the Tennessee, Vanderbilt and Ohio teams.
"Vanderbilt fans have always been my ally," he said to Means. "But in the last couple of years there have been too many obscene signs and too many grievances."
"All coaches, and I think most fans, are concerned with the
K-State trails Missouri and Nebraska by a half-game in the Big Eight. The Wildcats have 5 and 2-10, the leaders are 5-2.
The game will be played before a full house in the 12,500-seat
LAST SEASON, KU swept the series on the way to the Big Eight game. The season ended in Mark Matthews ied and double overtime victory by converting two free throws in the first half, who had been injured on the foul.
The Jayhawks played well in all three defeats. On the last foray, KU lost to Missouri, 64-80, and Iowa State 84-83.
NEW YORK (AG)—Grier Jones, a Wichita pro who won a huge more than $30,000 in 1970 for his golf's golf money-winning list with EKM in the PGA Tournament Division announced Monday.
K-State has been frustrated in of its last four games against the Jayhawks. The 1970 Big Eight championship team won both the league and House when Fred Bodieve put KU ahead in the last minute.
Grier Jones Leads PGA In Winnings
For KU, an inability to win
been frustrating all season. All
three losses in the Jahawks' 5-3
league record have been on the
horn.
things that have happened in basketball across the country and we want to stop those who are burling basketball."
Jones, winner of the Hawaiian Open Feb. 6, earned $428 for a teammate in the Bob Hope Desert Classie league, replaced George Archer as the top money winner. Archer, who won the Hope, has earned $93,877.
PADGETT SAYS his players are allowed to defend themselves from attack, but not to retaliate.
Bob Murphy is third with $46 million and the Hope winner with his first victory in 11 years, jumped from 18th to 23rd. The Hope first prize was $29,900.
"There is no place for fights in college basketball, or any other sport. The positive aspects of competition far outweigh the negative trouble like that can serve to unpackize the whole program."
Neither team can afford a loss in the race, because they are more team. Moreover, both teams are at 7.30 p.m. cont. attempting to cope with a frustrating challenge.
Jones also led the exemption point standings with 51.826. He was followed by Archer, 49.157.5 and Murphy, 43.027.5.
"If somebody loses his temper and throws a punch, it’s automatic—he comes out and sits on the bench, says Padgett
A more crucial road game than the one tonight against Kansas State could hardly be arranged because of the absence of Kansas basketball team.
The Ohio State-Minnesota brawl was the wildest during a basketball game this season.
But there have been other fights.
Southern Cal has been involved in two dramatic outbursts, one with Seattle and another with Providence UCLA and Santa Clara at it, and Marquette that Calda did it on national television.
By BOB SIMISON
Kansas Sports Editor
GREG WILLIAMS, Seattle's leading scorer, was felled by a
Teams Fight Frustrations
Bill Taylor haymaker in the game with southern Cal Jan. 29. Seattle's Steve Bravard and Taylor then squared off in another individual battle while a spectators moved onto the floor.
Marquette's Bob Lackey and South Carolina's Tom Risser tom each other reeling in their heated debates out of it with a damaged hand.
AND OF COURSE, there was the big one at Minneapolis when Ohio State's Witte Witte and Mark Wager suffered concussions. Even the fans got into battle, a battle royal sparked repercussions, many of them complaints voiced by outraged citizens.
A few days before, the battling Trojans and Providence's fighting Friars staged a shorter, but just as deadly, outburst.
A game-long showing match between UCLA and Santa Clara University, where the backup库 Swen Nater exchanged punches with the op-possessed.
"It might just be a sign of the times, but the spectator feels he
K-State Hosts KU
award was accepted by his coach, Don Shula.
Roger Staubach. Dallas
Houston quarterback is the league's offensive player in the National Football Conference and of the Super
Jerry Mays Enters Chiefs'Hall of Fame
KANSAS CITY (AP)—Jerry Mankins, Football League defensive end, became the third member of the Kansas City Chiefs Hall of Fame.
pays his money and has this tremendous freedom," says Southern Cal coach Bob Boyd. "I've never seen coaches and much personal abuse from the crowd as they save this year."
"They use every kind of word you would never be able to print. You can't do that with fairs. You didn't find fans pouring onto the court. You didn't find them going after players. You couldn't find them with crowd control. You go to an arena where there were 10,000 people and no ushers. What do they do?"
Bob Grisee, quarterback for the Miami Dolphins, was honored as the American Football Conference player but could not attend. His
Announcement of the selection was made at the 101 Dinner. The team will be organized by organization of sportswriters and organizers who annually compete in the sport.
Hank Stram, who coached Mays all of his 10 years in radio broadcasting, announced at the funnel Television announcer Howard Cossell, scheduled feature speaker was unable to attend
"Nobody turns around and punches someone out of the clear blue sky," said Boyd. "If you astute and watch for things that develop early in the game that might cause trouble."
BOYD BELIEVES there should be stronger officiating "to stop trouble at the very inception."
Alan Page of the Minnesota Vikings repeated as NFC defensive player of the year.
Already in the team's hall of fame are Lamar Hunt, the Chiefs' owner and founder of Lee Lee Hill, who led the Lee Hill star fullback of 1964-85.
Willie Lanier, Kansas City middle linebacker, was presented the award as AFC defensive player of the year.
Mays came to Kansas City from his home in Dallas to accept the award.
Shula was named AFC coach of the year and George Allen of the Washington Redskins was named as NFC coach of the team.
John Wooden, the UCLA coach,
thinks the basketball warfare
this season has been "a chain
reaction."
"You get one, and soon after, there'll be a another," said Willem. "When I say before: players get to thinking about fighting. Then, too, players are getting bigger and there is more body contact nowadays."
Wooden says the brawls are a spillover from the tense, modern world.
"The students are quick to rebel at anything now," said the coach of the nation's top-ranked team. "Little things they used to take in stride now cause them to violate it, just a rebellious age--that's the thing that stands out more than anything else."
Ahearn Field House. A regional television broadcast will originate with WIBW, Topeka, KBMa, and will also broadcast the game.
KU's unbeaten freshman team will play the K-State fist at 5:15 p.m. The KU team won an earlier victory in Allen Field House, 84-23.
"We'll start a bigере linee in the hoop we have on them and a sid. after practice Monday. "We'll go with Wilson Barrow Neal and Bud. But they'll get their boots on."
IT WILL be Mask's first
varsity start. The 8-foot-7 senior
has scored 12 points in each of
KU's last two games.
Stallworth. Barrow and
Nash and Kim Kiviste provide the quickness in the backcourt. They engineered a devastating attack on the defense Saturday with the rebounding of
but K-State will be a tougher team to rebound against than the Cincinnati are second in the Big East. Missouri is in rebounding; the N.C. State are third.
"We just have to rebound better to win this game," Owens said. "And we have to move well. KState's no quicker than, if you want to move fast, We'll want to take advantage of that by really moving ourselves."
In the first meeting of the teams, K-State forged a 40-28 David Hall, a 6-foot-7 advantage,
"Their inside game is very strong," Owens said. "Their board game is quite impressive."
ON THE BENCH, KState has
6 NEYMORHAM. KState will
Venkey Veym and 6 foot3 9 Larry
Williams. KU's tallest player, 6
foot4 Randy Canfield, will be on
the bench.
Stallworth, who scored 28 points against K-State last time despite a bruised knee, is within 14 points of catching Walt Wesley for career scoring list. Wesley scored 1,301. Stallworth has scored 1,301.
Todd Morgan, a high school All-American and the only player to play on both sides of the state champions, signed with his cousin, John Morgan.
KU Enlists Four Players From Preps for Football
Four high school football players have signed Big Eight University of Kansas, coach Don Fambrough announced Monday. They include relatives of a former coach and the son of a former coach.
Todd Mordger set career, single season and single game rushing records at Shawnee Mission University while games with Mordger was there.
Todd's cousin, John, is the brother of Dave Morgan. a
Judit Mitchell, son of former KU football coach Jack Mitchell, also retired. 3. 195- pound offensive and 3. backward back player his pre career.
Scott McMichael, an all-state quarterback from Shawnee Mission West, became the 20th player to sign a letter of intent with KU.
defensive back with the 1968 KU Orange Bowl team. John, a 6-foot-2, 230-pound offensive player at career at Wausatoga (Wise, a 6-foot-4).
Jack Mitchell, who now publishes the Wellington Daily News, was an All-American quarterback at Oklahoma. He coached KU teams from 1958 to 1966.
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Scores Range From 6 to 109 In Intramurals
The first week of intramural basketball action in the fraternity league produced team scores ranging from six to 10. Beta Pta PI scored the nets for 109 and Phi Pla No. 1 scored a mere six.
John McNeil of Beta Theta Tau with 40 points and with 40 points. The Betas served notice that they will be strong again this year by the end of October.
Other ridiculous scores last week include Sigma Epsilon No. 2 on the Phi Psi No. 1, 1-04; AKL No. 1 on the Phi Psi No. 3; CHI No. 3 on the Valerium Chi. 38; PH Kappa Theta over
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