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November 30, 1983 Page 16
Study says women also can benefit Weights are not just for men
By JANELLE MARTIN Sports Writer
Women athletes long have wrestled with the traditional question of just how physically active they could be. For example, folklore says that women will develop male characteristics and too many muscles if they work with weight.
But all that is changing.
Earlier this month a survey of physicians and weightlifting experts said that most American women were vastly undmuscled and should not fear that they would overdevelop their muscles endurance-building weight training.
The survey was part of a White House Symposium on Physical Fitness and Sports Medicine in Washington, D.C. The symposium was co-sponsored by the President's Council on Physical Fitness and the Campbell Soup Co.
Speakers at the symposium said that a large number of women were not close to being physically fit and should not fear tears. The booth was biky, buky, and the appearing muscles.
"MANY AMERICAN women are so undermissed that their basal metabolic rate is lower than 1.4 kg/m² and Richard O Keeler, physician and Camden, N.J."
health and fitness expert.
Also at the symposium, Harvey Newton of the U.S. Weightlifting Federation, said women were able to improve quietness when taking part in a competition.
Newton cited a study compiled in Arizona that involved five female national track and field champions between the ages of 12 and 14 who were placed on a seven-month weight-training program.
At the end of the study, he said, the girls had made substantial gains in strength. They improved upper-body strength by 37 percent and lower-body strength by 29 percent. Despite these improvements, only small increases in muscle bulk.
Wayne Osness, professor of health, physical education and recreation at the University of Kansas, said he had noticed an interest in strength development by women in the past 10 years and participated in the past five years.
He said that physiologically the balance of hormones in an individual's body would prevent women from becoming muscular.
"GIRLS WILL ALWAYS be girls and boys will always be boys as long as their hormonal balance stays the same in the room, that they do in the weight room," he said.
He also said that in the past females had been weaker in upper body strength, but the difference in potential between men and women had closed.
"This limits the things they can do and is largely due to societal pressure."
Parents and society in general, he said, are concerned about girls looking
He said that the goal of weightlifting was to develop one's body to accomplish what one wanted to do and that a skill required strength was required to do anything.
"We have quickly learned when a female is involved in activities that will improve her strength, she will improve according to her genetic makeup," he said. "The myth of girls like looking boys is far from the truth."
MARIAN WASHINGTON, head wrestler at the gym coach, is glad with the myth dispelled.
"We are becoming a nation that is fitness conscious," she said. "Women are just beginning to reap the benefits of a good weight program. For many years we were inhibited because the lack of exercise could generate masculine characteristics. This has impaired physical progress in many sports."
See LIFTING, p. 14, col. 1
KU freshman guard Toni Webb concentrates as she works out in the weight room at Parrott Athletic Center. Working with free weights and machine weights is an important part of head coach Marion Washington's conditioning program for the women's basketball team.
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Nebraska still atop UPI poll Close call at OU does not affect coaches' choices
By United Press International
NEW YORK — Not even a narrow escape for Nebraska did much good for No. 2 Texas in this week's UPI Coaches' college football ratings.
Despite a scary 28-21 victory over Oklahoma, the Cornhuskers received 33 of a possible 36 first-place votes and 53 points. Texas, which also finished its regular season, gained two more first-place votes than last week to give the Longhorns three votes for the top spot and 54 points.
It isn't good enough for Texas coach Fred Akers.
"Right now I don't think we're second to anybody," he said.
Nevertheless, the Longhorns find themselves in precisely that situation entering the bowl season. The last regular season ratings will be released next week and the final rankings to be released by the champion will follow the bowl games.
THE TOP 11 teams remained the same after a light weekend. Nebraska and Texas are followed by No. 3 Auburn, No. 4 Miami (Fla.), No. 5 Illinois, No. 6 Southern Methodist, No. 7 Georgia, No. 8 Michigan, No. 9 Brigham Young, No. 10 Iowa and No. 11 Florida.
Boston College moved three spots up to 12th after its 20-13 victory over Alabama knocked the Tide from 12th to out of the rankings. Roundting out the Top 20 are No. 13 Ohio State, No. 14 Pittsburgh, No. 5 Maryland, No. 16 Florida, No. 17 Baylor, No. 18 Virginia Tech, No. 19 West Virginia and No. 20 Oklahoma.
Texas. Southern Methodist and Georgia finished their regular seasons with victories Saturday. The Longhorns crushed Texas A&M 45-13 to finish 11-0 and win the Southwest Conference title outright. SMU melted Houston 34-12 in the Mirage Bowl Sunday morning in Tokyo for a 10-1 finish and Georgia nipped Georgia Tech 27-24 to improve to a 9-1 final.
OKLAHOMA, 7., tumbled four spots after losing to Nebraska. Idle Maryland, Air Force, Baylor and Virginia Tech all moved up two places. Idle West Virginia, #3., rejoined the rankings at a one-week absence.
Nebraska was ranked first since the pre-season and solidified its rating with a 44-6 season-opening victory over Penn State. The Cornhuskers are an Orange Bowl victory against Miami away from a perfect season.
Nebraska hopes to add to its stellar season by copping top individual awards. I-back Mike Rozier is the leading Heisman Trophy candidate and guard Dean Steinkuhler is in the running for the Outland Trophy and Lombardi Award for the nation's best lineman.
"To go 12-0 is a tremendous feat," Nebraska coach Tom Osborne said, "but we still have a tough game left in the Orange Bowl."
The Big Ten has the most ranked teams of any league with four. The SWC and Southeast Conference have three apice, followed by the Big Eight and Western Athletic Conference with two and the Atlantic Coast Conference with one. Five independent schools are in the Top 20.
| | Att. | Comp. | Int. | Yards | TD | Pct. | Long |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| 1980 | 146 | 64 | 11 | 797 | 5 | 43.8 | 72 | CU |
| 1981 | 176 | 89 | 11 | 1199 | 4 | 50.5 | 62 | CU |
| 1982 | 259 | 127 | 15 | 1625 | 7 | 49.0 | 80 | OSU |
| 1983 | 353 | 187 | 15 | 2789 | 14 | 53.0 | 74 | USC |
| Tot. | 934 | 467 | 56 | 6410 | 14 | 50.0 | 74 | OSU |
Seurer: a season of glory and grief
Seurer's Career Passing Stats
Senior sets records despite adversity
By JEFF CRAVENS Associate Sports Editor
Stripped to the waist, the tall, young athlete leaned against the locker room wall surrounded by a group of sports writers. Weariness was etched in his face.
Kansas quarterback Frank Seurer was going through the ritual of another post game interview, this time after the Jayhawks had lost, 67-13, to Nebraska.
when I about the game.
"How much did the trial affect you?"
How much did the trial end yet? The writer was asking about the murder trial of Bryan Keith Bell, who two days before the game had been convicted of murdering Seurer's father, Frank Seurer Sr.
Patiently, Seurer turned to the topic, as he had many times before, with the same attitude, the same rehearsed tone:
"The way it affected me was that I missed two practices, didn't get to watch a lot of film and missed some meetings. That's really the only way it affected
HE REFUSED TO USE the trial as an excuse for his performance against Nebraska, a game in which he had two interceptions. He had already accepted the offer.
Seurer's final season with the Jayhawks was one of celebration and consternation. He became the Big Eight's all-time leader for passing yardage in a season and a career, but watched the Jayhawks stumble to a 4-6 record. His father's death and the subsequent turtle further complicated matters.
The murder was always lurking omniously in the background during the season. Before the season began, Seurer's father was stabbed to death in Pop's Bar-B-Q, 2214 Yale Road. The elder Seurer had purchased the restaurant in February so that he could move to Lawrence and watch his son play his final
Testimony during the trial revealed that Bell, who was fired from Pop's, had entered the restaurant on the morning of Aug. 20 to ask Seurer to hire him back. An argument ensued and Seurer was killed,抓获 23 times with at least two different weapons.
The murder occurred seven days before Seurer was to begin two a-day workouts in preparation for the season. The media swarmed in, wondering if Seurer would be able to deal with the tragic loss. Would he be able to play?
See SEURER, p. 14, col. 3
Big 8 attendance number of KU fans increases slightly
Staff Reporter
By COLLIN HERMRECK Staff Reporter
Despite a one year drop in Big Eight Conference football attendance, 1983 figures showed an increase of more than 10 percent for the Big Eight office reported this week.
The total approximated attendance turned in by the eight schools was 2,508,963 for 49 games compared with 2,434,753 last year. On the average, 89.4 percent of all the seats in conference stadiums were full each game this season.
Those totals made this season the fourth best draw in conference history. In 1980, more than 2.6 million fans filled stadiums for the largest
JAMES ATTRIBUTED much of this year's increase to Nebraska, its Heisman candidates and their No.1 one ranking the entire season.
"We think the conference is recog- nized across the country as a quality conference," Big Eight Commissioner Carl James said yesterday.
He also credited the addition of KU coach Mike Gottfried and coach Jim Criner at Iowa State for the renewed enthusiasm.
"Certainly the offenses at Iowa State and Kansas created a lot of excitement, "
Although KU also showed an attendance increase this year of almost 20,000 or 3,434 fans a game more than last season, the team still ranked next to last in the conference.
KU averaged about 35,016 a game this year in 51,500-seat Memorial Stadium for 68 percent capacity, lowest of all eight schools.
Kansas State, the last place finisher in the conference standings, also finished last in average attendance with 32,338 a game.
THE BIG RED fans of Oklahoma and Nebraska were responsible for much of the attendance increase. The fans from OU and NU not only filled Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Neb., and Owen Field in Norman, Okla., for each home game but much of other stadiums as well.
Memorial Stadium in Lincoln has a capacity of 79,650 but the Cornuskers jammed almost 2,000 more fans in the stadium each game.
No seats were open once again this year in 75,008 owen Owen Field
Nebraska led the conference in attendance with six sellouts and a single-game average of 76.334. The Cornhuskers were followed closely, however, by Oklahoma with an average of 75.008.
Missouri was third with 52,029,
followed by Iowa State with 49,277.
Oklahoma State 48,788, Colorado 39,612,
KU and K-State.
More Sports, p. 14
Days of the strong Kansas City defense are in the distant past
By RICK GOSSELIN United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Remember that great defensive tradition of the Kansas City Chiefs . . . the defensive tradition woven by the likes of Bobby Bell, Buck Buchanan, Willie Lanter, Jerry Mays, John Robinson, Emmitt Thomas and more recently Art Still, Gary Green and Gary Barbaro?
Well, the Chiefs apparently have forgotten it because they are playing as a team.
Kansas City's offensive unit, for the first time in a long time, is playoff caliber. In the past two weeks the Chiefs have rolled up 69 points, 55 first downs and 863 yards. Quarterback Bill Kenney has been a particular standout, passing for 648 yards and six touchdowns and rushing for two more scores.
down and rushing for two more scores.
But for all the might of that offensive
explosion, the Chiefs stand 0-2 in their past two games to fall out of playoff contention with a 5-8 record. Take a bow, defense.
THE CHIEFS HAVE allowed 92 points in those two road games at Dallas and Seattle. Kansas City was dented for a 108-yard rushing performance by Tony Dorsett of the Cowboys and a 207-day day by Curt Warner of the Seahawks. Danny White picked the Kansas City secondary apart for 237
passing yards and Seattle's Dave Krieg blitzed that unit for 280 more.
Kansas City lost to Dallas 41-21 and then fell to Seattle 51-48 in overtime.
"Dallas had something to do with our (defense) not playing well against them," Kansas City Coach John Mackovic said. "But in the Seattle game I think both defenses played about the same. Our defensive play wasn't attributable to one thing. It wasn't one person here or one person
there. We broke down everywhere.
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"Players who had been making plays all year long weren't making them. We didn't play our positions collectively or individually. When you get going the wrong way, someone inevitably tries to pick up the slack and instead of doing one job right you put it on top. When you try to pick up the slack and it becomes a domino effect. Rarely does it all get put back together."