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The University Daily KANSAN
November 22,1983 Page 10
Two Jayhawks named UPI All-Big Eight; Nebraska places five
By United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Nebraska's All-America tailback Mike Rozier and five of his teammates on the most prolific offense in college football history were named yesterday to the Big Eight football team.
Rozier was joined on the first team by fellow Cornhuskers Turner Gill at quarterback, Irving Fryar at wingback, Scott Rardon at offensive tackle, Dean Stinkuhker at guard and Mark Traynor at center. A significant reached a league-high seven players as linebacker Mike Knox was named to the defensive unit.
Two Jayhawks were named to the first team: place kicker Bruce Kallmeyer, who set a Big Eight scoring record for kickers, and sophomore linebacker Wille Pliss, who led the Big Eight with 190 tackles. Receiver Bobby Johnson and offensive tackle Renwick were KU choices on the second team.
QUARTERBACK FRANK Seurer, who set the Big Eight single season and
career passing records during the Missouri game Saturday, earned honorable mention honors behind Gill and Iowa State's David Archer. Offensive guard Paul Fairchild and linebacker also were named honorable mention.
Joining Rozier, Gill and Fryar in the backfield of Iowa State fullback Jason Jacobs. The other offensive skill position was also filled by a Cyclone, wide receiver Tracy Henderson. A third Iowa Stater, guard Bruce Reimers, was named to the first team offensive line along with Missouri tackle Conrad Goode and Colorado tight end Dave Hester.
Also named to the defensive unit were ends Kevin Murphy of Oklahoma and Bobby Bell of Missouri, tackles Rick Bryan of Oklahoma and Leslie O'Neal of Oklahoma State, nose tackle Reggie Singgle of Kansas State and defensives backs Victor Scott of Colorado, Terry Maticchak of Missouri, Scott Case of Oklahoma and Chris Rockins of Oklahoma State.
JOHN CONWAY of Oklahoma State was named All-Big Eight punter.
After recording 22 tackles against Missouri, KU's Willie Pless was named Big Eight Player of the Week by United Press International yesterday.
Pless, Seurer named players of week
Pless had 17 unassisted shots, recovered a fumble and intercepted a pass in helping the Jayhawks upset the Holiday bowl-bound Tigers 37-42. Saturday it was their third victory since November 9.
On the season, Pless recorded 190 tackles, easily the highest total in the season, whose sophomore Ann Amnion. Alaqua Butler the season as a defensive end before her junior season.
UPI is expected to announce this morning that Frank Sourer will be named as the conference's Offensive Player of the Week for his performance against the Tigers.
The senior quarterback, who received honorable mention on the UPI all-Big Eight squad, completed 20 of 35 passes for 354 yards and two touchdowns. In the process, Seurer became the Big Eight's all-time leader for passing yards in both a season and a career.
It will be the second time Sueur has earned the award. He won earlier in the season for his performance in KU's upset victory over Southern Cal.
Rozier, Gill and Fryar are the primary cogs in a Nebraska offensive unit that has scored an NCAA-record 596 points this season, breaking the previous mark of 560 set by Brigham Young in 1980. The No. 1-rated and unbeaten Cornhuskers are averaging 54.2 points per game, having scored 50
or more points in seven of their 11 games thus far.
Rozier is the nation's leading rusher and scorer with 1,943 yards and 28 touchdowns. Gill is the Big Eight's top-rated passer with a 57 percent completion rate in 154 passes for 1,458 vards and 14 touchdowns and Fryhar has
caught 36 passes for eight touchdowns with a conference-leading 20.9-yard average
"They're all tremendous athletes and they're the three best players at their positions in the Big Eight." Oklahoma Coach Bairy Switzer said of Rozier, Gill and Fryar. "They're far superior to anyone else in the league and anyone else in the country. They make Nebraska what they are."
HENDERSON BECAME the first Big Eight receiver ever to top 1,000 yards (1,051) in a season and also set a league record with 81 catches. Jacobs ranked second in the league in receiving with 64 catches for 584 yards and also rushed 99 times for 490 yards. Hestera caught 29 passes for 366 yards to move into the No. 2 spot on Colorado's all-time receiving list.
Murphy led all Big Eight linemen in tackles with 128 and Bryan chipped in 94 for the 6- rated defense in the 94 game O'Neal had a league-leading eight passes broken plus nine sacks. eight passes broken recovery and a blocked punt, Bell, the
son of Pro Football Hall of Famer Bobby Bell, had 13 tackles for losses and Singletary 99 total tackles and three tumble recoveries.
PLESS LED the Big Eight in tackles with 190, including 22 Saturday against Missouri, and Knox has 113 tackles and four interceptions heading into Nebraska's regular season finale Saturday at Oklahoma. Case has six interceptions, Scott four, Rockins three, Matischak two. Rockins also had 90 tackles, broke up a league-leading 12 passes and recovered three fumbles.
Kallmyer set a Big Eight record with 24 field goals and also set a school scoring record with 98 points. Conway yards in 62 pts to lead the Big Eight
Singleton and Rozier are three-time All-Big Eight picks with Gill, Murphy, Bryan and Scott repeat selections from a year ago. There were 17 seniors named to the team, four juniors (Traynowicz, Knox, Murphy, Matichak) and three sophomores (Henderson, O'Neal, Pless).
Complete listing on page 9.
Strawberry honored as top rookie
By United Press International
NEW YORK — Darryl Strawberry, a shugging outfielder who recovered from a poor start to provide a bright spot in an otherwise dismal season for the New York Metts, was named the National League's Rookie of the Year yesterday by the Baseball Writers Association of America.
The 21-year-old Strawberry was named the league's top rookie in 18 ballons cast by 24 members of the Baseball Writers Association and had 106 points to beat out Atlanta Braves pitcher Craig McMurtry for the award.
McMurtry received the remaining six first-place votes and 49 points and was followed by Chicago Cubs outfielder Mel Hall, Cincinnati Reds outfielder Gary Redus, Houston Astros second baseman Jared Houston, Boston Red Sox DIPino, San Diego Dodgers first baseman Greg Brock, San Diego Padres pitchers Lee DeLuce and Mark Thurmond and Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Lee Tunnel.
Strawberry is the third Mets' player to win Rookie of the Year honors, joining previous winners Tom Seaver (1967) and Jon Matlock (1972). Strawberry's selection ends a four-year extension of the award by the Dodgers.
"IM EXCITED, thrilled, you name the," Strawberry said. "I thought it would be much closer. I was really worried about McMurtry. Any time a rookie pitcher wins 15 games you have to think he had a great year. I was fortunate about my late start but I was fortunate enough to make some good lasting impressions."
A lanky 6-foot-190-pound left-handed hitter who has been compared to Ted Williams, Strawberry hit more home runs (26) and drove in more runs (74) than any rookie in the league to open the season in the minor leagues.
Strawberry was the Mets' leading hitter in spring training but was sent to Tidewater of the International League to start the season in order to get more experience. Calcled on May 4, he started out slowly and was batting only 179 after seven weeks and striking out once every three times at bat.
IT WAS THEN that batting coach Jim Frey took him aside and worked diligently at improving his natural skills. Strawberry slowly began to develop confidence in himself and went on a batting tear during the second half of the season that lifted his final average to a respectable 257. Forty-eight of his 108 hits went for extra bases.
In addition to his prowess with the bat, Strawberry also proved to be an excellent baserunner and possessed one of the league's best throwing arms.
McMurtry was the favorite for rookie honors when he was 12-3 at mid-season. The 23-year-old right-hander slumped to a 15-9 finish, however, and went winless for a month at one stretch late in the season.
Hall, a 23-year-old who bats and
halls left-handed, hit .283 with 17
bases in 40 pitches.
Dean Nesmith:
By GREG DAMMAN
Sports Writer
The equipment managers led the trainers 24-0 at halftime Sunday during the annual "Dealer Cup" flag football game at Memorial Stadium. The team's Dealer Dean Nesmith wasn't about to give up.
"How come they always get the wind?" Nesmith yelled from his familiar pickup truck parked along the sidelines as the equipment managers kicked off to start the second half.
"We need Frank Seurer in there at quarterback," said NeSmith, affectionately nicknamed "Dean."
The Deaner Cup is played every year in his honor after the last game of the season. But this game was special. It was the last for Nesmith, and during this year after 46 years as KU's head trainer
Nesmith, 69, has been Mr. Dependable as KU's trainer, with a string of 475 consecutive football games.
"The LAST GAME I missed was the Arizona game down there in 1937." Nesmith said.
He said that he enjoyed working with athletes and that, like most people who grew up during his childhood, he was an avid golfer.
A typical day for Nesmith begins at 6 a.m. He arrives at Parrott Athletic Center by 6:40. At 7:30 he teaches a class in the prevention and care of athletic injuries. The rest of his day is devoted to preparing players for practice and to treating them after workouts.
Annual 'Deaner Cup' is the finale for KU's long-time athletic trainer
"All in all, it makes for about a 12-hour day." Nesmith said.
Spare time is a luxury for Nesmith, but he said his enjoyment of athletics justified the time.
"I really don't have any spare time," Nesmith said. "Everybody here that is matriarch are allowed to be only baby."
NESMITH CONSIDER'S his association with current and former players to be one of the most successful.
Nesmith likes to reminisce about former patterns and how things have changed since his 1960s days.
"I really enjoy talking to football players after they've been out." Nesmith said. "They appreciate you more than they did when they were around here."
Nesmith graduated from Belleville High School in 1932 and came to Lawrence that summer to work. Although he had not planned to play football in the fall and played on the football team.
"ALL THE TIME I was in high school I worked for the telephone company. I always thought I'd make a career out of it, but the Depression came along. I saw the handwriting
"I called my brother, who was playing football at KU, and told him that I'd go to school at Nebraska because they offered me a job. I worked at the stadium, so I ended up here." working at the stadium, so I ended up here."
Proud of his KU football days. Nesmith has three pictures of KU teams on which he played hanging in his office. Nesmith played football during the days of leather helmets and no face masks, and he is the first to acknowledge the advantages of modern football equipment.
"In a good afternoon scrimmage, it wasn't anything to have six or eight bloody noses. Today it's rare to have a bloody nose because of face masks," he said.
NESMITH LEFT KU in 1936, but returned a later year to work as assistant trainer and coach
the freshman football team. The head trainer later resigned and Nesmith was hired to take his
"It was 1938 and good jobs weren't exactly what I expected," Smith said. "No I took the job and I been busy."
Having been associated with KU athletics for more than 50 years, Nesmith is uniquely qualified to name KU's greatest athlete. However, he declines to do so. His respect for former athletes causes him to say that there must be too many to single out one person
CHAMBERLIN ATTENDED KU with Bill Nieder, 1946 Olympic gold medalist in the shot put, and Al Oerter, four/time Olympic gold medallist in the discus. Both men were extremely strong.
A trace of favoritism shines through though when Nesmith tells a favorite story about the American Civil War.
"The three of them lifted weights together all the time," Nesmith said. "They'd come in the training room and have arm-wrestling matches, and Wilt would hold his own with them."
During his years as an athletic trainer, Nesmith has been a part of a number of "big events" in KU athletic history. But perhaps his most memorable moment came not in Lawrence, but in Rome.
"One of the biggest thrills I've had was training the U.S. Olympic basketball team in 1960 in Rome," he said. "It's a big thrill that comes up once in a lifetime."
*THE TRAFIC WILL be terrible. The best you can do is stay home and watch it on (you) TV.*
Dean Nesmith through the years: left, after 45 years as trainer in 1982; above, in 1974 with injured quarterback Scott McMichael; and right, in the late 1920s after becoming trainer.
Washington optimistic as KU awaits tournament
By JANELLE MARTIN
Head coach Marian Washington and her basketball team have a couple of days over Thanksgiving break to Friday and Saturday in Minneapolis.
Sports Writer
"The freshmen will gain confidence as the season goes on," she said, referring to four freshmen who played in the tournament.
In their first two games, the Jayhawks had difficulty inside Oklahoma City had the advantage in rebounds in Friday night's game 56 to 42 and in western State grabbed 49 compared with KU's 40 in Saturday night's game.
"WE ARE HAVING to work very hard to recruit size," she said. "That is an area that has hurt us the last two years.
Washington said yesterday that after seeing her team in the Dial Lady Jayhawk Classic last weekend, she was optimistic about the season.
Washington also said that the pressure defense by her team in the second game was an improvement over its first outing.
"We were out of position in the first game and several times it hurt our 'total defense', she said "As the team goes on we will become more effective."
"With our lack of size we must concentrate on blocking out."
Allen Field House will be the site of this season's Kansas 6A state basketball championships, and Lawrence High School basketball coach Ted Junueau wants his defending state championship team to be there.
Washington has stressed the conditionning of her players since the beginning of the season.
"As I have said before, we have been doing a lot of running on the track for conditioning," she said. "We must get used to running the floor row in order to take advantage of our team quickness. Each game we will see improvement."
LHS considers playing games in Allen Field House
healthy. Adkins strained a hamstring a couple of weeks ago and re-injured it during warmups Friday night.
SOME IMPROVEMENT will be seen in the following cases: said, with sopromore Vickie Adkins is
Junior Barbara Adkins and senior Angie Snider worked both ends of the court well, she said, along with sophomore Valerie Quieres, who came to participate in several minutes of Saturday's game to spark the Jay-hawks with four steals.
She also said that she was pleased with the newcomers because the team showed potential at times during the tournament.
By JOHN UNREIN
KU will fight Arkansas Friday night in Minnesota in the first round of the MIAA.
Sports Writer
But before the team even reaches the title game, Juneau said, he hopes
"Personally, I don't want to because I like to play our home games where we practice." Jumeau said. "If we played the game, we'd lose our home court advantage.
tentative plans to play some regular season Lawrence High home games at the league.
But the possible lack of seating in the Lawrence High gym, which holds about 2,400, may force Lawrence High to do otherwise, a Lawrence High official
said vesterdav.
Darrell Falen, Lawrence High athletic director, said that because of expected large crowds this season at Lawrence High basketball games the possibility of playing home games at Allen Field House, with a seating capacity of about 14,000 players. He also said a decision would not be made for about two weeks — until after several Lawrence High home games had been played.
"THE ONLY WAY we're considering it is if our crowds are so huge that we can't accommodate everyone," Falen said. "We'll see after a few games."
Lawrence High is expecting larger crowds this year because of the transfer of Danny Manning to the school. Manning is rated as one of the top five pre basketball players in the country by several basketball publications and has signed a letter of intent to play at KU next year.
Falen said that he had spoken last week with Floyd Temple, KU assistant athletic director, about the proposal.
"LAWRENCE HIGH would have to pay for basic operational support services — such as security, electricians, set up and clean up — but there were no charge for them." "Territory?" they would also have to sell their own tickets and supply ticket takers, because we would have nothing to do with that.
KU prepares for TV game at Houston Jayhawks to open against Olajuwon, NCAA runner-up
By JEFF CRAVENS Associate Sports Editor
Larry brown will have history on his side when the Kansas Jayhawks begin their season Saturday against the Houston Cougars.
The game will be Brown's official debut as KU's head coach, and all but one of the Jayhawks' first five coaches won their first regular-season game.
In 1898, the Jayhawks, coached by James Naismith, lost their inaugural game against the Kansas City YMCA. 16-5
The game against the Cougars will be KU's first regular-season game. The Jayhawks won 74-10 in an exhibition game against the Netherlands national team.
Houston will be playing its second consecutive nationally televised game. The Cougars lost 76-64 Saturday to the Browns, who held the last year's NCAA championship game.
“WE’RE LEARNING, and its going to take some time.” Brown said. “I think we’ve learned a few things since I’ve been teaching. We just proved how far we still have to go.”
The Wolfpack defeated Houston in the championship game by one point, but were unranked going into the contest.
Houston returns Akeem Olajuwan,
one of the nation's premiere centers.
The 7-foot Olajuwan, who averaged 13.9
points and 11.4 rebounds a game,
scored 25 goals last year, is the
teammate Clyde Drexler in the Nat-
ional Basketball Association.
Forward Michael Young, who played guard last season for the Cougars, is Houston's leading returning scorer. He averaged 17.3 points a game last season.
"HOUSTON IS A GREAT team with great players." Brown said. "They have tremendous overall speed and a tremendous center in Olaijuwon, Olajuwon and Young are two great players."
Guy Lewis is beginning his 28th season as head coach of the Cougars. He has a career record of 530-246. Lewis has lost Drexler and Larry Micheaux to the NBA. Micheaux is playing for the Kansas City Kings, and he also played former KU standout Darnell Valentine on the Portland Trailblazers.
Transfer Braxton Clark and freshman Rickie Winslow are battling for the starting forward spot opposite Young. Last year's substitutes Reid Getty and Benny Anders are competing for Youngs's big guard position.
Houston's other returning starter is point guard Alvin Franklin.
Brown said he was not sure who would start against Houston. His starters against the Netherlands were Carl Henry and Kelly Knight at forwards, Greg Dreiling at center and Thompson and Tad Boyle at guards.
KERRY BOAGNI came off the KU bench against the Netherlands and scored 12 points in the second half in leading the KU comeback. Henry and Thompson each scored 16 points against the Netherlands, and Knight added 15. Dreiling scored eight points and pulled down seven rebounds.
JAYHAWK NOTES — CBS will televise the game nationally, but Channel 5 in Kansas City has announced that it will not show the game. The station has decided to televise the football championship instead.
Houston was ranked No. 4 in the pre-season United Press International rankings, and was ranked No. 1 in the NBC Worldwide poll.