niversity Daily Kansan
Tuesday, April 13. 1971
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Kansas Recruiting On a New Plane
By DON BAKER
Kansan Sports Editor
Monday night's signing of Bruce Adams now gives KU football coach Don Fambrough two of the state's three most highly ranked players.
priced pre prospect with the third still anybody's ball game. They have a high school quarterback from Bishop Miege High School, and a middle school linebacker from Shawner Mission West, are now both in the Jets, and only Shawnee Mission North's Davie Specht to be in position.
Both Towle and Adams had been heavily sought by national champion Nebraska which posed the greatest threat to KU. With Specht it's a similar situation only you can throw in Notre Dame and Kansas State among others for flavor.
Just what kind of a chance KU has of landing Specht is highly uncertain. Reportedly Notre Dame is the forerunner with Kansas State, on the sole basis that his parents graduated from KSU, running second.
ALL THREE KANSAS CITY prospects have been the targets of the masses of universities and colleges striving for success. The highly competitive world of college football and the signing of two players to the Hawkins two giants strides forward over its competitors.
BUT DON'T GIVE UP because not many gave Kansas much of a chance of landing Adams. After all he is a highly prized quarterback and anyone who knows anything at all about KU has a strong position as is affluent in talent as any position on the team.
There is no doubt that recruiting at Kansas has taken a drastic change with the passing of the People's Republic era and the 1980s, when many teams were not Nottingham Rodgers (who quite possibly is one of this country's better football coaches), it is obvious from this spring's signings that there are other clubs that have been successful.
Quite bluntly Rodgers assumed a more sophisticated approach in recruiting warfare and consequently was accused by some alumun of that to run the program from his office. Their main gripe was that he seemingly did not want their help in recruiting and thus, as opposed to the pre-Rodgers' years during the Job Mitchell regime, they did not feel a part of the program.
TAKE A LOOK AT THE freshman teams during the Rodgers' years. At best they could be graded the following: 1970-bad, 1988-bad, 1967-below average. Of course the mostREMEMBER
But still that's a hard record to be proud of and it's only a credit to Rodgers' coaching ability that Kansasnas as well as it did. Of course we'll probably always hear that Rodgers' 1989 film "Streetcar" was the best in Mitchell with, all which considers, is true.
So now it’s in the hands of Fambridge and suddenly the Mitchell years appear to be returning to Mount Oread. Recruiting is on a plane it has not been on in the last years, and once again the University offers its graduates a course shell during all of the latter’s nine years at KU and it appears they still are working together because the General (as Mitchell popularly became known in his final years at KU) has perished.
IN ALL FAIRNESS Rodgers must be partially credited with some of this year's recruiting success. The Jayhawks were well on their way to a good recruiting year when Rodgers departed in 2014, and the team was not quite ready. It was becoming apparent that Pepper had assumed a new philosophy, one more closely corresponding with Fambrough and Mitchell's in recruiting. The difference was simple—he was still an unreliable recruit.
Fambrough is a mingler. He has a sincere interest in his subjects and colleagues while commanding the respect his job demands. The amount of time he measures by recruiting, And, as has been said numerous times before, football games are most often wooed during the recruiting season.
--third-baseman Harmon Killebrew who also managed to double Rojas off the play.
Kansas Signs Adams
Bruce Adams, all-state quarterback last fall for Bishop Miege High School in suburban Kansas City, signed a Big Eight scholarship agreement with the University during a signing dinner party at the Glenwood Manor Hotel in his home town.
During a brilliant career with coach Lennon Mohlenhain's Stags, Adams advanced the football team to victory and running. In only eight games last fall Adams completed 28 of 58 touchdowns and rushed 113 times for 1,074 yards and eight touchdowns. He also played safety on
KU Netters Lose Again
An unseasonably warm Kansas sun greeted the Murray State University tennis team Monday for a meet with the Kansas team. The match was a six and three meet (six singles and three doubles matches), and, unfortunately for the Jayhawks, all of the doubles and five of the singles matches were Murray State University.
In singles play, J Ballinger,
Leawood senior, and Cal Simmons,
Alexandria Va., junior,
one and two, and two men, respectively
The only victory for the Jahyhaws, however, was credited to Mark Wick, Overland Park sophomore, who played as number four man for KU. Wick won two of three sets against his MUS opponent, Juba Nitytiva with the loss of the other set (4-6).
Ballinger and Chris Henry, Overland Park sophomore, played as KU's number one team in double competitions, losing sets to Bob Willett and Mike Whitty of MSU (6-3 and 6-4).
Competing as the number two team for Kansas, Simmons and Tim Williams, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong senior, were able to win one of three sets. Also winning one of three against Murray State were the third-ranked duel, Wick and Carlson, Leawod sophomore.
Twins Turn Back Royals, 2-0
Record Crowd On Hand
By DON BAKER
Kansas Sports editor—The
Minnesota Twins, behind the
Minnesota City Royals,
spilled the Kansas City Royals'
twenty-year-base. Bert Blythe,
spilled the Kansas City Royals'
twenty-year-base.
A record-breaking crowd of 32,728 watched the young Twin hurler completely handcuff the Royals while facing only one jam during the night's work. That included a Cookie莉 led off with a double for Kansas City. Paul Schaul followed with a single advanced Rookie to third. But pitcher Dick Wilson followed with a second followed by lining up to Twin
NEW YORK (UPI)—The National Football League announced its 182-game regular season schedule for 1971 today. The league highlighted by a Minnesota Detroit Monday night TV clash.
That was about all the Royals could muster out Bliyeven the rest of the way as only three other baserunners were allowed. Blaise, Archer and Atos Otis singled in the seventh and Otis walked in the ninth
Monday Night Games Highlight NFL.
The regular season schedule
guards with 12 games on Sunday
Sept. 24 and Monday, Sept. 25,
the Monday night battles on Sept.
20 when Minnesota goes to
Drago, who had pitched the Royals to an opening game win over California a week ago, was touched for single run in the
In this setup, each team in a four-team division will play six games within its division, five
The first round of the playoffs is set for the weekend of Dec. 28. The second round is set for Sunday, Jan. 2 and the Super Bowl will be held Sunday, Jan. 16. The winner will be the Pro Bowl. Jan. 23.
The opponents each team will face were set up a year ago at the time of the merger when a five-faced division is formed, which each division team will eventually meet the same foes as in previous years and divide over the five-year span.
Kansan Staff Photo by JIM FORBEI
JUNIOR COLLEGE TRANSFERS are being heavily relied upon this spring to bolster the Kansas defense as it prepares for this fall's Big Eight action. One of the most thought of transfers is Eddie Sheats (87), a 6-3 and 218 pound defensive end from Atlanta who played the last two years at Hutchison Community College. Sheats was a first team All-American at Hutchison this past fall.
games with the teams of the two other divisions in its conference and three games with teams from the other conference.
Frank Shorter, one of the world's great distance runners and the American indoor record holder, added to the Kansas Relief field
The final week of play starts on Saturday Dec. 18 when St. Louis is at Dallas. The regular season begins with 12 games on Sunday, Dec. 19.
Each team in a five-temple gym has three games within its division, three games the other two divisions and three games with teams in the other
Shorter Enters Relays
But the complicated part of the schedules was drawing them up in a playbook. The baseball teams playing in the same parks. For example, the Baltimore Cubs are at home for six games on the road for four consecutive weeks when the Orioles are on the road for two weeks. The baseball playoffs and World Series.
The final Monday night game will be on Monday, Dec. 13 when Washington is at Los Angeles.
The exception to this rule is Denver, which won a fourth game against National Conference teams under the terms of the merger agreement. The fourth team the Broncos will play this season is Louis Lions have four games with American conference teams.
And the New England Patriots, playing in a new stadium in Florida, are home for the first four weeks. The New York Jets, by
Denver got this exemption because the Broncos wanted an extra drawing card from the National Conference.
contrast, are on the road for the first four weekends because the Mets have a good chance to be in the baseball playoffs.
KANSAN sports
Eight teams--minnesota, Detroit, Oakland, Baltimore, Green Bay, Los Angeles, Kansas City and St. Louis--will make two appearances on Monday night. They will face those games because they throw off the training week. Detroit, which also plays on Thanksgiving
The NFL obviously feels the Orioles are going to win the Eastern Division of the American League. While the Colts are on home ground, the baseball playoffs start—the Detroit Lions and Cleveland Browns are both at home. Should the Tigers or Indians surprise, they'd be hard to expect. There'll be no conflict if the Red Sox spill the Orioles since the Patriots have their own stadium. But those are the kind of matchups.
The NFL tried to make its Monday night games attractive for the ratings. Following the Vikings-Lions are such attractions as Jets-Cards, Raiders-Bians, Glenn-Glasses, Colts-Boys, Collins-Cols, Rams-Cols, Chargers-Forties-Niners, Cards-Chargers-Forties-Niners.
But those are the kind of considerations that have to be taken into account when the schedule is made up.
Day and has a Saturday game,
Saturday and has a Sunday game,
Dallas also has only a Sunday
games with a Monday night
game, two Saturdays games
with Sunday.
Engineers To Announce Their Queen
The queen, who will reign over the exposition activities April 16 and 17, was chosen in an all school election March 24 and 25. The candidates were the girl who received the most money votes was the winner. Proceeds from the election were donated to the Student Council for Recruiting, Mentoring and Educating Black Engineers.
The winner of an election for the queen of the 1st Annual Engineering Exposition will be announced Friday, prior to the opening of the exhibits. Lee Lawrence junior, said Monday.
second and seventh innings. Rod Carew and Jim Holt delivered run scoring singles to produce the
Monday for Saturday's three mile race.
Now a law student at Florida, the 24-year-old Shorter broke the American indoor two-mile mark with an 8:26 a.m. San Diego last winter. He won the 1971 National Championship and was second fastest time ever, run under cover and less than a second off the world record.
Thomas Alva Edison had 1,083 patents in his name, says the National Geographic Magazine.
Minnesota opened in the secon with a lead-off double b
victory margin
Wednesday Is Start Of 46th KU Relays
His best time for the three-mile
outdoor is 13 13.8, a time that
ranked fourth in the world last
year.
A pair of athletes from Oklahoma figure to be slight favorites to win the Kansas Relays decathlon as a field of eight athletes tackle the 10-event competition Thursday at Memorial Stadium.
Gary Hill of Oklahoma
Cary Pettet of
Oklahoma finished the
fourth respectively last year and
have posted the best scores of the
season.
Hill has logged 7,280 points for this taxing event and Petes owns a best score of 7.187. They are the top three in who have topped 7,000 points.
At the Kentucky Relays last year Shorter finished second in the men's division and Maddaford, the New Zealand runner for Eastern New Mexico, was third. 13.94.8 Shorter improved sharply as the outdoor season started.
The host Jayhawks will provide half of the field with four men entered. The KU entrants with their best scores are Barry Schur (6,631), Marc Harets (5,842) and Doug Underwood (5,463).
Rounding out the field are Bruce  Jenner (6,991) of Grace  Lowry College and college administrator (6,688) of Northeast Missouri State.
Maddafafer is also in the three-hole field this year, along with Larbi Oukada, the 1970 outburst, who won the six-mile a year ago.
It was also announced that a late entry from Loyola of Chicago arrived at the Kansas Relays headquarters Monday and gave the meet a record total of 27 wins, helping its team for its 40th star tournament this year.
The decathlon begins at 9 a.m. Wednesday with the 100 meters and runs through the long jump, shot put, high jump and 400 meters opening day. The final five events starting at 9 a.m. Wednesday, a 10-meter hurdles, discus, pole vault, javelin and 150 meters.
The previous record entry for the major division was 26 university teams in 1965. There are 25 universities in the 1938 meet.
Harvey Greer, assistant KU track coach and a decathlon expert, says the scores posted by the team are too high for Schur rank as the top five by
Two changes were made in the decathlon this year. It was taken from an open event to collect data for training moved to the mid-week dates to take some of the pressure off the buildup Friday and Saturday.
Last year's winner, Jeff Bennett of Oklahoma Christian completed his collegiate eligibility and under the new format could not defend his title. He scored a record last year with 7,044 points.
college athletes in this area.
Russ Hodge, the 1970 runnerup with 7,075 points, also is ineligible to compete since he's a post-grad.
In the seventh Cesar Tovar doubled for the Twins only to be followed by Carews' line single to center.
Killlebrue to the right-field corner and scored the game's first run when Holt, one-out later, delivered his blows blow.
The crowd was the largest in the Royals' three-year history and here since 1858 when the Athletes moved from Philadelphia and drained on opening day. In other Americana, action Monday, Boston beat washington, then fights Fingers' four-hour and home runs by Joi Rudi and Rick Monday, blanked California aided Chicago, 3-2.
Drago, now 1-1, took the loss for Kansas City while Bileyev won his second as compared to no losses. Bileyev's first triumph came last Wednesday while he swept the Milwaukee Brewers.
In the National League in
San Francisco shut out San Diego, 5-0,
Pittsburgh nipped Philadelphia, 4-3 in 11 innings, Cincinnati
drove to a three-run edge in
eugene Houston, 5-4, and Los
Angeles turned back Chicago, 4-3.
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