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The University Daily KANSAN
Februarv 8.1984
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SM South star Peete chooses Southern Cal
KU expects successful football signing day
Probable KU Football Signees*
By JEFF CRAVENS Sports Editor
NAME H.S./Juco Pos. Ht. Wt.
LAWRENCE PETE Wichita South DL 6-3 270
BRAD WEDEL Canton-Galva QB 6-5 190
MIKE ROGERS Smith Center RB 6-1 190
JOHN LAWRENCE Parsons LB 6-2 215
MIKE NORSETH Snow (Utah) JuCo QB 6-2 195
MILTON GARNER KC-Washington WR 5-10 180
WARREN SHIELDS KC-Summer Academy RB 6-0 200
CHASE VAN DYNE Shawnee Mission East PK 6-3 190
JOHN BREHM Green Mountain P 6-0 185
ARNOLD FIELDS Mt. San Antonio (Cal.) JuCo SS 6-1 215
MIKE WERNER Topeka West DL 6-3 235
GUY GAMBLE Ceritos (Cal.) JuCo DT 6-3 235
ALVIN WALTON Mt. San Jacinto (Cal.) JuCo DB 6-1 185
STEVE NORFUL St. Louis Maplewood WR 6-3 190
ROBERT TUCKER Los Angeles City JuCo DL 6-5 250
JAY HAGAR Pasedena (Cal.) JuCo DL 6-3 250
VON LACY Del City (Okla.) OT 6-5 250
SAL LEWIS Compton (Cal.) JuCo DB 6-0 180
TONY HARVEY Salina South DB 6-0 185
CHUCK EANES Salina South WR 5-9 175
ERIC KEELER Salina SouthRB 6-1 200
JOHN DIGGS Kingsway (N.J.) Regional RB 6-0 195
WES HENRICKS Parsons LB 6-5 190
JIMMY DREYTON Ellsworth ( Iowa ) JuCo DB 6-2 200
RICK BREDESON Shawnee Mission South RB 6-1 210
MURPHY RAY Ohio State WR 6-3 196
Despite NCAA sanctions and many other backs that the KU football program has endured over the past year, the Kansas Jayhawks are to announce the signing today of several highly respected players.
*Athletes expected to sign letters of intent today to play at KU. Others also may sign today.
Head coach Mike Gottfried is attending a funeral of a close friend and will not be on hand as his staff confirms the signings today.
The Jayhawk coaching staff is expected to announce that it has signed at least 27 athletes from various high schools and junior colleges around the nation.
Yesterday the Jayhawks received some bad news when Rodney Peete, a high school All-America quarterback from Shawnee Mission South, announced that he would attend Southern California.
However, Assistant Coach Rick Christie said that Gottfried's absence would not be much of a factor because National Collegiate Athletic Association exhibited the head coach from signing any recruit in person on signing day.
"The main factor was that he wanted to play baseball in a warm-weather setting." Christie said. "We were right up there football-wise, but he was looking for the best of both sports."
Christie said that several players were still undecided about their decision, but that KU would probably hand out all 33 scholarsh ps.
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The NCAA limit on scholarships is 30 a year, but the Jayawaks have three left over from last season to use on the 1984 recruiting class.
S sixigns that KU will announce today are junior college transfers who enrolled at the University for the spring semester Gofftried had said that he wanted to wait to announce officially on the signing day. They are:
Mike Norseth — A quarterback from Snow Junior College in Ephrain, Utah, Norseth was recruited by several schools. Former KU offensive coordinator Mike Sheppard had recruited Norseth at while he was playing college football. He expected Norseth to battle Mike Ortec for the starting quarterback role.
Norseth's coach at Snow is the brother of Jim Criner, head coach at Iowa State. The Cyclones had a snow product, David Archer, who quarter-backed the team last season, Norseth, however, decided to come to KU.
Arnold Fields — A strong safety at Mount San Antonio in Walnut, Calif.
Crystal Williams — A top defender in Washington.
"He could help our defense right
Guy Gamble = Gamble is one of the many defensive linemen brought in to bolster the KU defense. "He has real quickness for his size," Christie said.
*away,* *Christie said* "We might move in an amount or make some movement," she added.
Alvin Walton — Another of four junior college transfers from California, Walton is a defensive back. "He will either battle for a starting job or add to our depth," Christie said. Robert Tucker — A defensive lineman from California, Tucker should benefit from his experience
"The main thing is that we can get these guys in here and get them on our winter weight program." Christie吉斯在冬天里把这些 guys 在家里 at mid-year.
Jay Hagar — The final junior college transfer who transferred in at semester. Christie said the defensive human was "a very aggressive-type kid."
Two more junior college players, Sal Lewis and Jimmy Dreyton, both defensive backs, are expected to announce today that they will attend KU. Neither will enroll until fall, however.
Lewis chose between California
State-Fullerton, San Diego State and KU Both he and Dreyton are expected to challenge for positions in the KU secondary.
Wide receiver Murphy Ray has transferred to KU from Ohio State. Christie said Ray enrolled at semester after becoming disenchanted with the Ohio State program. Ray will not be eligible to play for KU until 1985.
"He's a class person all the way around." Christie said. "We recruited him while we were at Cincinnati so he is aware of us."
Because of NCAA rules, Christie could not comment on the high school players, whether they had verbally committed to the Jayhawks. No one has been asked to say anything about a specific recruitment until the player has been signed.
Most high school players made their decisions following this past weekend. The KU staff had 27 players visit. The team already given verbal commitments.
Unofficially, at least 18 high school players have said they would play football for Kansas. A few are waiting until the final day to decide.
Here is a list of the possible signees KU will announce today:
Pete is expected to decide between KU and Nebraska. He visited the KU campus this last weekend and has been at school and school here, but that could change.
Brad Wedel — A quarterback from Canton-Galva, Wedel is a good athlete who might be switched to a different team. U battled Kansas State to land Wedel.
Lawrence Pete — One of the most highly recruited linemen in America,
Mike Rogers — Rogers committed to KU several weeks ago. USA Today has him ranked among the nation's finest running backs. He has excellent schools before announcing his commitment to the Jawahres.
John Lawrence — A linebacker from Parsons, KU got a jump on Lawrence because his brother, David, was a standout offensive lineman here. He visited the campus this past weekend with his parents.
Milton Garner — An excellent athlete who is also a successful high school basketball player at Kansas City Washington. Garner also visited the University to play football at KU. He probably will play wide receiver in the KU offense.
Warren Shields — A running back from Summer Academy in Kansas City. Shields was an all-metro player who rushed for more than 1,000 yards
his senior season. He made one of his
several visits to KU last weekend.
Chase Van Dyne — The last time KU went into the Shawnee Mission area for a place kicker, it came away with Bruce Kallmer. At 6-foot-3, Van Dyne is tall for a kicker, but has excellent range.
John Brehm — A averaged 43 yards to kick last season for Green Mountain High School in Colorado, Brehm is expected to help the KU panting game, which was less than spectacular last season. Brehm has good mechanics for a punter and is known for his consistency.
Mike Werner — Yet another player who committed after last weekend's highly productive string of visits, and who brought the player out of Topeka West High School.
Steve Norful — A wide receiver out of St. Louis who also considered attending Iowa State. He wanted to go to a school that would throw, and should fit in well with the wide-open offense that Gottfried likes to use.
Von Lacey — The Jayhawks battled with Oklahoma State for the services of Lacey, an offensive lineman. He was drafted in the class that was decimated by graduation.
Tony Harvey, Chuck Eanes and Eric Keeler — All three were teammates at Salina South High School and committed to the Jayhawks earlier this semester. All three were recruited by Kansas State, but apparently liked KU from the beginning. That would sign three players from one school, which should say something about the program at South.
John Diggs — The KU staff had to go all the way to New Jersey to recruit Diggs, a running back Like many high school running backs, Diggs is supposed to be a superior athlete
Wes Hendricks — A teammate of John Lawrence's at Parsons, Hendricks is expected to choose KU over K-State. At 6-foot-5, 190 pounds, Hendricks will have to gain weight to play linebacker at a major college.
Rick Bredeson — A teammate of Peete's at Shawnee Mission South. Gottfried saw him play many times while scouting Peete and liked what he saw. He made a verbal commitment to KU after last weekend.
Two additional Kansas players, Guy O'Gara, from Bishop Miege, and David Smith, from Johnson Stanton County in Western Kansas, are also known by a sign with the Jayhawks. Both have expressed interest in the KU program.
Offensive lineman Steve Isham,
from Colorado, is also expected to
choose between Kansas and San
Diego State.
Jayhawk women hope to break OSU's home jinx
Sports Writer
By PHIL ELLENBECKER Sports Writer
The Kansas women's basketball team, with an 8-10 overall record, will put its third place conference standing on the line tonight when the Jayhawks face Oklahoma State in Stillwater, Okla.
The Jayhawks have a 4-2 conference record. Missouri and Kansas State lead
the league.
Oklahoma State, Oklahoma, and Nebraska are one game back of the Jayhawks with 3-3 records. Iowa State and Colorado stand at 1-5 and 0-6.
THE COWBOYS, 12-7 overall, own a 3-0 conference record at home. Alabama State has been the only conference with an 99-78 victory in Stillwater, Jap. 27.
Kansas lost to the Tigers at home in its conference opener, 71-62.
After finishing last in the conference last season, Oklahoma State has become a factor in the race this year. The team plays of play two juniore-college transfer teams.
When Dick Halterman was hired from Moberly, M., Junior College to coach the Cowboys this year, he brought two players with him. They
have become Oklahoma State's leading scorers.
Six-foot-1 center Kathy Schulz leads Oklahoma State in scoring, averaging 19.9 points a game this season.
Schulz's Moberly teammate, 5-11 forward Jackie Glosson, is close behind averaging 16.2 points. She won over 30 shots in the Cowboys victory over Missouri.
"GLOSSOM AND SCHULZ are excellent players," said KU head coach Marian Washington. "We tried to recruit both of them until we found out that their coach in junior college was going to Oklahoma State.
"We'll definitely have to shut off their
inside game We may elect to see how they handle our zone to start off the game.
The Jayhawks have usually stuck with a man-to-man defense this season, but during Saturday's game spent much of the time in a 3-3 zone.
"When we're playing good man defense, I think it's really our best defense. Washington said "We'll just play with him, and we'll into Glosson's and Shulz's game."
Washington said she would probably go with the same starting lineup used in each conference games so far. Starters are 5-10 senior Angie Sedge and 6-0
junior Barbara Adkins at forwards, 6sophomore Vickie Adkins at center, and 5-8 senior Cindy Platt and 5-8 freshman Toni Webb at guards
VICKIE ADKINS leads the team in scoring and rebounding in conference play, averaging 22.8 points and 11.5 rebounds a game. She has hit 64.5 percent of her shots this season and is ranked ninth nationally in field-goal percentage in the latest NCAA Division I statistics.
Snider leads the team in scoring in all games, averaging 23.7 points, good for 14th nationally in the latest statistics. He also leads the team in assists and steals.
KU returns to Big 8 play against OSU Jayhawks seeking first road victory in conference race
By GREG DAMMAN Sports Writer
The Jayhawks lost to the Cowboys three times last year, falling 85-74 on the road, 75-69 at home and 90-83 in the Big Eight post season tournament.
After straying from the conference schedule Sunday to defeat Wichita State, the Kansas Jayhawks will return to Big Eight Conference action tonight against the Oklahoma State Cowboys at Oklahoma, Oka. Tip- off is set for 7:30 p.m.
KU hasn't won in OSU's Gallagher Hall since 1979, and KU players Carl and Tad Boyle agree that the 6/760th place is the most places in the conference to play.
"Gallagher Hall is a very tough place to play because the fans are right down on top of our players." Boyle said. "It's more like a large high-school gym."
KANSAS IS 11-1 this year in Allen Field House but 2-5 on the road. This has created a problem that KU coach Larry Brown would like to solve.
Henry said, "It's a small place, but we get to prove ourselves by winning."
"In order to be a contender you have to win on the road," Brown said. "We're still a factor. We have several games to go, and we've got a chance."
Oklaaha State is 11-8 overall and
3-3 in the Big Eight. The Cowboys were defeated by Iowa State at Saturday, 67-43
Missouri, 65-42, last week in Stillwater
52-47, last week in Stillwater
Playing at home might be an advantage for the Cowboys, but they will face a Kansas defense that has allowed opponents a field goal percentage of 42.6 percent. Most often, the Jawhavks employ a 2-3 zone defense.
BROWN SAID he expected Oklahoma State to try pulling the Jawahorses.
"What they've done in the past is try to get the lead and then spread out us," he said.
"We're just trying to refine things we need to do," he said. "We've worked on situations where they might spread the court."
The Jayhawks have had only two days of practice since the Wichita State game, Brown said, but his team has won six games on things it must do to win on the road.
If the Cowboys do spread the court, it will be to make room for a pair of high scoring forwards 6-foot 7 inbound and ninth and 7 inbound Raymond Cresswell.
Atkinson is averaging 18.4 points and
8.1 rebounds a game. Crenshaw is close
behind, averaging 18.1 points and 7.1
rebounds.
THE COOWBOYS WILL START 6-9 freshman Shawn Baker, who averages 5 points and 3.2 rebounds a game, at center. The starters at guards will be 5-10 junior Winfred Case and 6-3 junior Bill Self.
Kansas, 4-2 in the conference and in second place behind Oklahoma, will start Greg Greener at center and Kelly Knight and Henry at forwards. Calvin Thompson and Mark Turgeon will start in the backcourt.
Henry has averaged 19.5 points and 6.8 rebounds since the start of Big Eight play. He has led the Jayhawks in scoring in all six conference games.
U.S. team's hope for gold lowered after 4-2 hockey loss to Canadians
Knight has also played well in the conference season, averaging 11.3 points per game.
Canada made the United States' 1984 Winter Olympic debut a rough one yesterday with a 4-2 victory. Canada's Carey Wilson scored three goals and assisted on the fourth, but subterfactor factors that contributed to the defeat included a poor goal put behind by over the Canadian roster plus containment of the United States' best player.
By United Press International
"I don't think it had any effect on us, but it may have worked for Canada." U.S. coach Lou Vairo said of the eligibility dispute that cost Canada the services of center Mark Morrison and defenseman Don Dietrich. "They were fired up and played with great intensity."
SARAJEVO, Yugoslavia — Two shadows — one cast by the eligibility dispute and the other applied by Canada to super center Pat LaFontaine have darkened the United States' chancellor for a repeat gold medal in hockey.
In contrast, the Americans were strangely flat, considering the situation. It was a game they could have won, and only David A. Jensen, with a big smile, said he would spark. Now a medal of any kind seems unlikely, since the Americans still must
face powerful Czechoslovakia and Finland in preliminary play.
"Anytime you're in a single game situation it's important to get the first goal — the confidence goal." Vairo said. "To play to full ability you have to play to full intensity, and we weren't at full intensity."
Wilson set up a goal by Pat Flatley 24 seconds into the game, immediately establishing Canada's credibility and showing on the part of goaltender Marc Behrend.
Jensen's lineates on the young "Diaper Line," 17-year-old Ed Oczyk and 18-year-old LaFontaine, combined for some chances, but the checking of Dau Tippet forced Vairo into a strategy diminished LaFontaine's effectiveness.
"You gonna finish first or second in your division for a medal, and that isn't settled yet," Vairo said, refusing to admit the director of the team's position.
Canadian coach Dave King said, "The early goal helped us give a great deal. One of the things it did was keep us from falling behind, and that's important for us. We don't score goals easily."
"All I want to do is play the tournament," he said.
Despite dropping Morrison and Dietrich, Canada used three of the players affected by the eligibility dispute. The IOC ruled Monday that players who had been held in detention were ineligible. Goalie Mario Gosselin, with the Quebec Nordiques, was a factor in containing the Americans in the second period.
After the game, Canadian hockey earlan Eagleson dismissed the controversy, saying that it was over and that the Canadian roster had been confirmed by the International Ice Hockey Federation.
To his credit, Vairo avoided bringing up sour grapes and instead praised the Canadian effort.
"The Canadian team should be congratulated for playing a great game," he said. "They deserved to win. We supported us. We didn't play up to our abilities."
Because of Tippett, LaFontaine never showed his ability, either
it (the checking) was effective"
Vainisha: But some of the "opportunities he makes to himself"
SARAJEVO, Yugoslavia — American Robert Brooke flies past Canadian goaltender Mario Gosselin in Olympic hockey action. The United States' hope for a repeat gold medal took a wrong turn yesterday as Canada defeated the U.S., 4-2.
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