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The University Daily KANSAN
November 3, 1983 Page 12
Roster shrinks as Kansas prepares for CU
By JEFF CRAVENS Associate Sports Editor
Jayhawk football coach Mike Gottfried has to wonder when it is going to end.
From the beginning of the season the KU coach has said how low the Jayhawks were as far as the number of players on the squad. Now, halfway through the Big Eight schedule, Gottfried's problems have multiplied.
"I've never been in this serious of a situation as far as numbers and injuries because it's so great."
In an injury report, which has been a daily occurrence, Gottfried said linebacker Darnell Williams probably would not play against Colorado this Saturday. Williams is suffering from an Achilles' tendon injury.
"I THINK HE HURT IT in practice
yesterday," Gottfried said. "I doubt he will play. We'll probably start either Dane Griffin or Eddie Simmons."
The KU defense also had to make another change yesterday to compensate for the loss of cornerback Jeff Burke and his squad Tuesday for personal reasons.
Elvis Patterson, who has played defensive end all season, will be moved to cornerback to replace Brown. Patterson's spot will be filled by Clyde Johnson, who started at safety earlier in the season.
"Clyde hasn't played much safety lately because Derek Berry has done a great job." Gottfried said. "It's altogether different for both of them because Elvis is used to playing on the line and Clyde is used to playing off it."
Patterson, a senior, played cornerback before this season, when he was moved to end to take advantage of his
THE DEFENSE IS NOT the only group that injuries have weakened. Wide receiver Bobby Johnson did not practice yesterday because of a separated shoulder, Gottfried said. Johnson probably not play against Colorado.
strength.
Fullback E.J. Jones also did not practice yesterday.
"I can hardly see him playing," he said. "He can barely move his paw."
"I really don't know about E.J." Gottfried said. "His ankles are the size of balloons."
The Jayhawks' other wide receiver, Darren Green, continued to practice. Green has been out for two weeks with a severely sprained ankle.
"I think we even had one of the trainers go down today and it looks like he won't be ready either," Gottfried
said, trying to find some humor in KU's situation.
IN ALL SERIOUSNESS, the Jayhawks will be batting to stay out of last place in the conference when they take on Colorado. KU is 3-4-1 overall and 1-3 in the Big Eight. The Buffaloes are 2-6 and 0-4 in the conference.
"I think they will come in and try to pass against us." Gottried said "It's hard."
Junior Steve Vogel will lead the Colorado offense. Vogel has thrown for 1,079 yards and eight touchdowns. He often is suffered by sophomore Derek Hall, who has thrown for 644 yards and has completed 56.9 percent of his passes.
Vogel and Marshall will look for split end Loy Alexander and tight end Dave Hestera. Alexander has caught 31 receptions, including five touchdown receptions.
Linebacker Darnell Williams, who is suffering from an Achilles' tendon problem, is the latest addition to the KU injury list.
Coach,family helped Denny win Cy Young
By United Press International
PHILADELPHIA — John Denny, named yesterday as the 1983 winner of the National League Cy Young Award, said he made great strides as a pitcher and as a person during his first full season with the Philadelphia Phillies.
Denny, a right hander, credited the demanding conditioning program of Gus Hoefling and the handling of Philies pitching coach Claude Osteen for his productivity and religious skillets for the changes in his personal life.
“This award should go to all those I’ve mentioned,” said Denny, who posted a 19-6 win-lost record with a 2.37 ERA for the National League champions and received 20 of possible 400 earned points at 103 points in the Cv Yound balloting.
"THIS IS NOT just my award and I will never view it that way," said the smiling, relaxed Denny at a news conference in Veterans Stadium.
That Denny contrasted sharply with the one who came to the Phillies late in the 1982 season following a 6-11 year. He had played in only 2 while refusing to speak to the press.
"My attitude was full of hatred and bitterness," he said. "But I realized during the playoffs (against the Los Angeles Dodgers last month) that that was a wrong attitude and I tried to change. That has been beneficial in my profession. And it will be beneficial in my life."
Denny, who led the NL in wins and finished second in ERA this year, was followed in the Cy Young voting by Cincinnati right-hander Mario Soto, who received two first-place votes and 61 points after leading the NL with 18 complete games while posting a 17-13 record.
NEW YORK METS' reliever Jesse Orosco (13-7, 14-7 ERA) placed third with 19 points and Montreal's Steve Rogers received 15 points for fourth, with each earning one first-place ballot
Denny, who also received a second-place vote, appeared on 21 of the 24 ballots cast by members of the Baseball Writers Association of Amer-
UPT's Comeback Player of the Year. Denny is also the third Philadelphia Phillies pitcher to win the Cy Young in the last four years. Left-hander Steve Carlton claimed the prize in 1980 and 1982. Carlton, the only pitcher to win*
John Denny
award four times, fell to 15-16 in 1983 and was not named on any ballot.
But Denny said Carlton is still the Philips' pitcher.
"UNTIL HE RETIRES, in my mind he's the ace of the staff." Denny said. "He's a great pitcher. No matter what I accommodate, I'm an ever-benver to Steve Carlton."
colpheps,
Deevan said Hoelfring, a strength and flexibility coach, urged him, Carlton and other Phillies pitchers to work out during spring training by saying no one could know which of them would win the 1983 Cy Young Award.
"Most of that went in one ear and out the other," he said. "But when I did hear it, I looked over at Steve Carlton. Never in my wildest dreams did I think that I would win this award."
Striking NBA refs picket outside Boston Garden
BOSTON — While striking NBA referees demonstrated outside Boston Garden last night, the Celtics played against Milwaukee as scheduled. Celtic Kevin McHale, right, attempts to pass to Larry Bird, left, in the second period. Bird's 27 points lifted the Celtics to a 119-105 victory over the Buckets.
United Press International
Union referees, NBA still at an impasse in pay negotiations
By United Press International
BOSTON — At least a dozen striba NBA referees and their chief attorney walked a picket line last night in front of Boston. They were met with the fans' about their impasses with the league.
The officials also distributed 2,000 toy whistles before the game.
"It's just a fun thing with the fans, and it takes away the bored of the picket line," referee Ed Rush said.
The referees have not worked any exhibition games and have been replaced with stuntman.
"The league made a decision to lock us out, and we're trying for fair negotiations." Rush said. "Unfortunately, to quote one of their owners, they want to bring us to our knees. What they're saying is that we’re not worth it, and we can be replaced."
UNION COUNSEL Richie Phillips, who also represents major league baseball umps, told the fans that they would not be involved in the national game because of the referees' walkout.
"We're here to bring the message to the fans they're the ultimate consumer," Philips said. "Once the league recognizes the referrals referrer make, they sit down and talk."
On Tuesday, representatives for the NBA and the referees' union met for 31/2 hours in New York, but no substantial progress was made in the ongoing dispute.
The NBA said that it increased its playoff salary proposal by 50 percent, but that there was little or no movement on the part of the union. In addition, the union continued to counter-proposal to the NBA's wage proposal, which was made nearly two weeks ago.
NBA commissioner Larry O'Brien, members of the Labor Relations Committee, the league's negotiating team and Phillips attended the meeting.
2 KU Olympic-bound athletes to be on television
By JANELLE MARTIN Sports Writer
Both athletes qualified for the 1980 Olympic team in their respective sports but were unable to participate because of United States boycotted the Moscow games.
Woodard, currently an assistant women's basketball coach, won the Wade Trophy Award in March 1981.
Two KU athletes will be featured in a five-part series on Olympic hopefuls in Kansas on the *KSN News 6 O'clock* on KSNT-TV, channel 7 in Topeka.
Lynette Woodard, former KU basketball player, Pan American gold medal winner and Olympian, will be featured along with former KU swimmer Ne Ruenug, also an Olympian. The series titled "California Dreamin'" has
a senior. Woodward was an Academic All-America her junior and senior
thus receiving recognition as the outstanding women's basketball player in the nation. She was also named a member of the NCAA All-Star team and was an NCAA Top Five Award winner
NEUGEN HAS SIX KU swim records and two Big Eight Conference
The article featured Thomas in a full-page photograph, leaning against a poolside ladder in a one-piece, red swimsuit with pink, yellow and white horizontal stripes.
The feature showcased 10 athletes and was titled "Best Bodies - Sportstyle chooses the choice specimen."
Former KU swimmer and Olympie hopeful Tammy Thomas appeared in the November issue of Sportstyle magazine as part of a photo feature on the latest swimwear and workout fashions.
The magazine said, "At 6'1", 150 lbs. Tammy Thomas is an awesome figure poolside. Her sledge状 of the art body was formed by a lifetime of competitive swimming.
Magazine features Thomas as a 'choice specimen'
"This twenty-two-year-old University of Kansas senior was unknown until last March when she broke the 50- and 100-meter freestyle American records at the NCAA championships."
records to his credit. The school records are the 200- 500, 1,000 and 1,650-yard freestyles; the 200-yard butterfly; and the 400-yard individual medley. The conference records are in the 200-yard butterfly and the 400-yard individual medley. He also holds the 300-yard one-meter freestyle in a 25-meter course.
Kim Biehl, producer of the same series at KSNW-TV in Wichita, said the goal was to talk to five athletes from the state of Kansas who had a chance to make it to the Olympics next summer in Los Angeles and to have those athletes represent different areas in the state.
The athletes who will appear in the series are Lisa Neuburger, a wind surfer from Wichita, on Monday; Neugent, on Tuesday; Doug Lytle, a Kansas State University pole vaulter, on Wednesday; Woodard, on Thursday; and Gene Gilsdorf, a 30-year-old weight liftter from Onega, on Friday.
NCAA seeks President's Commission Panel would have less jurisdiction than ACE suggests
By United Press International
MISSION — The NCAA Council has announced that it would propose legislation at the 1984 NCAA convention in Dallas that would establish a President's Commission, but with far less power than one earlier recommended by the American Council on Education.
The council's proposal, which also will be presented at the 78th annual convention, would allow a board of chief executive officers, university president or reserve or relase any position passed by the NCA and to enact its own rules.
But NCAA president John Toner said the recommended President's Commission would just as effectively university presidents in athletic matters.
"THIS IS A MAJOR commitment by the Council to develop a meaningful alternative for more involvement by chief executive officers in the overall governance and control of intercollegiate athletics." Toner said. "The NCAA was founded on democratic principles and always has strived to encourage participation by chief executive officers in NCAA matters."
Backers of the President's Commission plan has charged that the council's proposal takes the control of the NCAA out of the hands of the annual convention and puts it solely into a board of university presidents.
Either proposal would take a two-thirds majority vote of the nearly 800 NCAA member schools to become part of the constitution.
UNDER THE PROPOSED legislation, Division I schools would have 22 members while Division II and III would have 11 each. At least three women chief executive officers would be included in that number.
The NCAA Special Committee on Governance submitted a detailed proposal Tuesday that would incorporate a body of 44 chief executive officers into the NCAA convention, adopted the proposal and elections be made at the NCAA convention.
Each member of the President's Commission would serve a four-year term with the commission being appointed by the clerk who would serve a two-year term.
The commission would be empowered to:
- review any activity of the NCAA.
- place any matter of concern on the agenda for any meeting of the Council on Climate Change.
- commission studies of matters of concern in intercollegiate athletics and urge certain courses of action;
- *propose legislation directly to the convention;
- establish the final sequence of legislative proposals in any convention agenda;
- call for a special meeting of the NCAA on a two-thirds vote.
THE COUNCIL PROPOSAL, however, not only would you give the presidents power to suspend or replace any legislation passed by the NCAA convention but also would be able to enact its own rules apart from the convention. Both types of action would be reversible only by a two-thirds recidence vote by the entire NCAA membership at a subsequent convention.
"The ACE's proposal clearly questions the integrity of the democratic legislative process that has been the basis of the NCAA existence for nearly 80 years," said Arliss Roaden, president of Tennessee Tech and a member of the NCAA Special Committee on Governance Review.
"The individuals most closely associated with the everyday problems of college athletics — faculty representatives, directors of athletics, primary women administrators and adversarial position in regard to those who authorize them as delegates to consider legislation at the NCAA convention."
Comets may be a contender despite loss of two stars
By United Press International
The Comets finished their second Major Indoor Soccer League season with a 26-22 record and a fourth-place standing in the Western Division last year and promptly shed two of the better players on that team, goalkeeper Victor Petromi and forward Yilmaz Orhan.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Comets look a lot better on a soccer field than they do on mana
Petromi finished as the No. 5-rated goalie in the MISL with a 14-10 record and a 4.49 goals-against average, while Orhan led the Comets in scoring with a club-record 43 goals and 26 assists and earned league all-star honors.
Petroni was traded to the Phoenix
during the offseason and Orhan was given his release in training camp because of disciplinary problems. But Kansas City Coach Pat McRide expects his team to be stronger both on offense and defense despite the departure of those two stars.
THAT'S BECAUSE the Comets have added goalkeeper Manny Schwartz, formerly of the Steamers, and also four proven front-lineers in Tasso Koutsoukos and Tim Twellman from the Chicago Stiff, John Stremlau from St. Louis and Gordon Hill from the New York Arrows.
Schwartz signed with Kansas City after leading the Comets to a 6-5 exhibition victory over a touring Russian team (Dynamo Minsk) last summer. Schwartz, playing on loan from the Steamers, made 15 saves and
McBride rotated Petroni and DiPede last season and figures to do the same winter with Schwartz and DiPede, who was the No. 7-rated goalkeeper in the MISL a year ago with a 12-12 record and a 4.38 goals against average.
allowed only one goal after relieving Enzo DpDede in the net in the second half to help the Comets rally from a 2-0 lead and be assisted on the winning game in overtime.
"THESE GUYS REMIND me of the hockey goalies Jacques Plante and Glenn Hall for St. Louis when the Blues first came into the league." McGrieve "Plante was a wild man and Hall played goal in the orthodox, traditional sense."
"Manny is like Plante. He's physically more intimidating than Enzo and likes to roam around out of the net.
"When Stremla was in St. Louis," McBride said, "his job was not to score goals. He was supposed to set up Tony Ackley for the home run. That won't be the case here. We're
Forwards tend to stay away from the front of the net when Manny's out there because there could be a collision. Enzo, on the other hand, is like Hall. He plays the percentages."
Koutsoukos was the No. 3 scorer on the Sting last season, with 36 goals, including a team-high six gamew winners, and Twellman scored 13 times while playing defense a year ago. McBride has since moved him to forward. Hill scored 26 goals in 1982-83 and Stremlau tailed only five — but he'll have a different role with the Comets that he did with the Steamers.
looking for John to carry a good chunk of the scoring load."
THE FRONT-LINE WILL be bolstered by returnees Elson Seale (30 goals a year ago), Zoran Saciv (26 goals) and Stuart Lee (24 goals). Schwartz and DiPede will get plenty of minutes. Alexei Kuznetsov, Makowski and Tim Clark, who were both selected to play in the All-Star Game last season.
"We enjoyed some success last year," McBride said. "We won some games and made the playoffs. Now we've got to prove our accomplishments weren't a fluke. This is going to be our challenge year."
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