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The University Daily KANSAN
Sooners set torrid pace in 45-14 rout of Jayhawks
October 31, 1983 Page 16
By JEFF CRAVENS Associate Sports Editor
NORMAN, Okla. — It took the Oklahoma Sooners exactly two minutes to establish the tempo of Saturday's game in the Kansas Kavage Hawks.
Earl Johnson broke a 76-year touchdown run on the third play from scrimmage and followed with a 4-yard burst to help OU whip
Eight minutes after Johnson's second score, the Sooners' other tailback, Spencer Tillman, ran through the KU defense for an 80-yard touchdown. The Jayhawks battled back, but could not overcome the early Oklahoma lead.
"They are a very powerful football team," KU coach Mike Gottfried said. "They explode all of a sudden. You know they are."
Gottfried said he didn't know exactly what happened on the two long touchdown runs.
"EITHER IT WAS a breakout or perfect blocking by them because there was no one there." he said.
Although his team jumped out to the early lead, Sooner coach Barry Switzer was worried about his defense.
"I was a little concerned in the game when we made those big plays because we needed to rest our defense," Swiss sard. "When we had the 14 point lead, I was saying we needed to sustain and drive it, and Spencer Tillman runs 80 yards on the first play."
The Kansas offense, under the direction of Frank Seurer, who had practiced sparingly the week before because of an injured knee, began to move the ball on the Oklahoma defense, but could not get closer than a touchdown in the first half.
"It it did really bother me," Searer said about the knee. "We knew we could move the ball."
"We started to make things happen, but we didn't keep the momentum," McGee said. "They have a very aggressive defense."
KU DID MOVE the ball, scoring two straight touchdowns, one on a 43-yard pass from him to Ernie Wright, and the other on a 50-yard pass.
Two plays in the first halt dampened the Jaynaws hopes. The first was when wide receive Bobby Johnson suffered a separated
'Oklahoma put on a good rush. They didn't do anything fancy, but they came right at us. That has to be the most sacks we've given up all season.'
-Mike Gottfried, KU head football coach
shoulder and was out for the rest of the game. The Jayhawks were already playing without flanker Darren Green, who was out with a srained ankle.
"I got hit on my right side and fell on my shoulder and sort of jammed it." Johnson said. "It seems like week in and week out we were getting better."
The other play that went against the Jayhawks came as the half was winding down. With Oklahoma leading 28-14, Seurer completed a 22 yard pass to Sandy McGee to give KU the ball on the Sooner's 7-yard line with 34 seconds left.
AFTER AN INCOMPLETION, Seurer tried to scramble and fumbled the ball after being hit by defensive end Kevin Murphy.
OU defensive back Jackie Shipp fell on the ball to kill the drive.
"That was ridiculous. I never should have tried to run," Seurier said. "We were out of timeouts and the clock was winding down. It
Seurer's knee began to tighten up in the second half and Mike Frederick and Mike Orth each ran two offensive series, but the Jets lost by 58-40.
"It was a little sore at the end, but that's really no excuse." Seurer, who threw two second-half interceptions, said.
Murphy picked off Seurer's first interception and returned it 25 yards for a touchdown early in the third quarter. Free safety Scott Case, who was the Big Eight's defensive player of the week last week, also intercepted a Seurer pass and another by Orth.
"THE DEFENSE PLAYED great today," Switzer said. "Son, Case was just great. He not only made two oksies, but he made a great play in the end zone and broke up several passes."
Gottfried agreed, saying that the Oklahoma pressure didn't give Seurer the time to throw. The Sooners recorded six sacks in the game.
"Oklahoma put on a good rush," he said. "They didn't do anything fancy, but they came right at us. That has to be the most
"You can't stake a team like that 21 points. They knew we were going to throw. You can't disguise anything."
Oklahma's offense rolled up 375 yards rushing. Tillman and Johnson each rushed for over 100 yards for the second consecutive
"Their offensive line did a good job of firing out and chopping people," linebacker Willie Pless said. "I was getting chopped and was banged up in the second half and I couldn't make the plays I usually do."
Iowa State sweeps Big Eight Cross Country Championships
Please was credited for only four tackles, one of the few times this season that the sophomore has had fewer than 10 tackles in a
By JANELLE MARTIN Sports Writer
Sports Writer
The hills were alive with the pounding of runners' feet and spectators' voices at the Big Eight Cross Country Championships Saturday in Nashville. FARM, KU's home course north of Lawrence.
KU junior Greg Leibert leads Iowa State's Tim Wakeland, Nebraska's Tom Hoffman and Oklahoma State's Trever Field-send down one of the many steep hills on the men's
The coaches were right with their predictions of the top teams. A pre-roll poll of all the Big Eight coaches.picked Iowa State to win both the men's and women's divisions. And Iowa State
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The Cyclone men, behind the strong running of its two runners from Kenya, Yobes Ondieki and Joseph Kipsang, easily defeated Nebraska for the Big Eight title, 53-78. Ondieki, who won the title with a time of 29:42.96 was nearly 40 seconds ahead of his teammate Kipsang when he crossed the finish line. Kipsang also was runner up in last year's meet.
The KU men's squad finished four, two places ahead of where the coaches ranked them. The women's team finished in sixth place as predicted.
10,000-meter course during the Big Eight Cross Country Championships. Leibert placed 12th; Fieldsend 14th; Wakeland, 15th; and Hoffman, 16th in the race Saturday at Rim Rock Farm
THE CYCLONE WOMEN overcame a first, second and third finish by Missouri to win the women's crown. 41-53. Missouri's Sabrina Grosso won the 5,000-meter race with a time of 16:28.76
Senior Brent Steiner led KU with his third finish and time of 30:33.62 in 10,000 meters. He was followed by senior Tim Gunby in fifth place with a time of 30:57.82. Senior Greg Leibert was 22 seconds behind Gunby in 12th place with a time of 31:19.39.
"The pace was terribly fast," coach Bob Timmons said after the race. "Brent said he ran a 4:37 first mile — we've never run that fast as a team. Some of our runners were in oxygen debt because of the fast pace. But we were really up for this meet."
Timmons said that he was pleased with the running of Steiner, Gundy and Leibert.
"THEY RAN VERY, very well. Yet, that is where I thought they would run," Timmons said. "All the athletes ran well. Nebraska and Iowa State each had good meet."
The Jayhawk women's team turned in fast individual times and set personal records but placed six behind favorite Iowa State. The champions Kansas State, Nebraska and Colorado.
Junior Paula Berquist's 19th-place time of 17:48:65 tied the cross country school record set by Michelle Brown at the 1978 Big Eight meet in Missouri.
"Colorado ran better than I expected," coach Cliff Rovello said after the race. "I was disappointed that they beat us, but all of our runners ran a good race."
"TIME-WISE, they all ran well," Rovelo said about his team. "By far, this was our best effort of the year. They did a good job. They competed."
Freshman Cindy Blakely was KU's second finisher in 28th place with her time of 18:11:24. Junior Susan Glatter was not far behind in 32nd place and she was freshman by freshman Tracey Keith, 35th, in 18:49:03.
"Susan and Cindy ran fantastic," Roveto said. "And Tracey ran her best race of the day."
He said he was disappointed that KU was beaten by Colorado Saturday, but he and the team did not know much about Colorado going into the race because they had only seen results.
from one race the Buffaloes ran in.
"WE JUST DON'T have the horses to compete with these people. I guess," he said and laughed. "I don't want to be so nervous."
Timmons, the race coordinator, said he was pleased with the meet.
"The officials did a good job," he said. "And the weather held so that was great. I think the athletes really enjoyed running today. The are turning and it is really pretty, out here."
Marcus Dupree a forgotten face in the OU lineup Running back's ghost returns for halftime
By JEFF CRAVENS Associate Sports Editor
NORMAN, Okla. — At halftime of the Oklahoma-Kansas game Saturday, the Sooner marching band dressed in Halloween costumes to entertain the crowd. Witches, mummies and goblins all ran around the field
But one of these costumed figures drew the crowd's jeers and laughter; a French horn player dressed as a Sooner running back. The impostor wore the number 22, his left knee was taped and he carried a travel bag.
The figure limped around the field, holding the bag high above his head to the delight of 75,000 fans. At one point, he tried to jump in and catch the ball, but thrown out by several other band members
THE SPECTACLE SHOWED that former OU running back Marcus Dupree is now a has been in Sooner country — a joke to the raid fans. Dupree left the team two weeks ago and transferred to Southern Mississippi. And the year Olds did their own.
And the way Oklahoma's two mills tailbacks performed against KU, many fans were saying that Oklahoma is doing better without its Heisman candidate.
Freshmen Earl Johnson and Spencer Tillman each rushed for more than 100 yards for the second consecutive week, helping the Sooners gain 375 yards on the ground. Johnson scored twice, once on a run and Tillman raced 89 yards for another score.
"Like I said last week, with Spencer and me switching, we always have an 1-back in there who is 100 percent fresh," said Johnson, who gained 103 yards. "There's nothing better than having a fresh 1-back in there all of the time."
JOHNSON AND TILLMAN put on such a
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show in the first quarter that the OU defensive team was hoping that they would
"After Spencer scored, I was talking to some of the defensive players, and they told us to keep scoring but not so quick. Jason said "They wanted us to drive on them."
OU quarterback Danny Bradley was also being to eat up some time with a sustained diet.
Bradley expected the Sooner offense to dominate, but he wasn't expecting the Titans to do much.
"I wanted to keep the ball for seven or eight minutes," Bradley said. "Later in the game, they started playing good defense and we were able to move the ball."
"THEY WERE SMALL UP front," he said. "I think their biggest guy was 290 and that's the size of one of our fullbacks. We were expected to dominate the football game."
Tillman, who was switched from fullback after Dupree's departure, ran for 114 yards on nine carries. He said that Oklahoma had the things it had practiced during the week.
"Earl's first run was a classic example of what we had worked on." Tillman said. "We were getting one-on-one situations, and most of the time when you get an offensive back one-on-one with a defensive back, the offensive back is going to beat the defensive back."
Through the post-game interviews, neither Tillman nor Johnson mentioned the name of Marcus Dupree. It was clear that they wanted to forget the past and concentrate on the rest of the Big Eight schedule.
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Sundvold, Williams thrust Sonics past Kings, 121-116
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Gus Williams and rookie Jon Sundvold combined for 26 fourth-quarter points yesterday to rally the Seattle SuperSonics to a 121-116 victory over the Kansas City Kings.
The Kings tied the game for the last time at 114-114 before a free throw by Danny Vranes and a layup by Williams on a pass from Sundvold put Seattle ahead 117-114.
Kansas City led by as many as nine points in the final quarter, but Sundevil's goal with 4:28 left pulled the Sonics at 108-168 and
Doubles teams help KU win 3 at ORU
Both the No. 1 and No. 2 KU women's doubles teams went undefeated Friday and Saturday, leading the KU tennis team to three wins out of four at the Orlando Roberts Invitational in Tulsa. Okla.
Williams scored 14 of his 31 points and dealt six assists in the final period, while Sundyveld added 12 of his 18 points and had three assists.
The Jayhawks defeated Tulsa, Texas and Kansas State at the five-team tournament, each by 8-1 margins. Kansas lost to Oral Roberts.
in singles, No. 6 player Debbie Coleman won four matches, while Runnels, at No. 1, Parr, at No. 3, and Bolen, at No. 5, each scored three victories.
Laura Runnels and Janelle Bolen, playing No. 1 doubles, and No. 2 players Barbara Inman and Christine Parr won four matches each for
Jayhawk athletes, former coaches testify; NCAA verdict not anticipated for weeks
By COLLIN HERMRECK Staff Reporter
The University of Kansas is awaiting a National Collegiate Athletic Association committee's decision on alleged recruiting violations by the athletic committee. Meeting Friday's meeting between the committee and University representatives.
The committee's decision is not expected to be announced for several weeks, said Del Brinkman, KU's acting director to the NCAA and Biez High Conference.
Although the committee was supposed to have finished meeting yesterday, Brinkman, the dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, said yesterday that a final decision would be made in a matter of weeks depending on other cases the committee heard this weekend.
Five former KU football coaches and two Jayhawk athletes appeared before the NCAA Committee' on Infractions along with several University officials in response to an investigation that began in 1902, the Kansas City Times reported.
IF THE NCA committee assesses a penalty, NCA will have 15 days to either cancel the flight.
The Times story reported that former assistant coach John Hadl, three other former KU assistant football coaches, former head football coach Don Fambrough, KU running back Kerwin Bell and basketball guard Tad Boyle made appearances Friday in front of the six-member infractions committee.
The three other former KU assistants appearing included Ivy Williams, an assistant coach at Arizona State; Mike Ackerley, an assistant coach at Iowa State; and Don McLeary, a high school coach.
Ackerley and McLeary were fired along with Fambrough in December 1982. Williams and Hadi, who is now offensive coordinator for the Denver Broncos, left the previous spring for other jobs.
HADL HAS BEEN the focus of allegations after newspaper reports said that he had offered two players up to $30,000 to accept athletic scholarships at KU.
Athletic Director Monte Johnson yesterday refused to comment on the meetings or about information reported in Saturday's Kansas City Times.
Thomas reportedly attended Friday's meeting along with Brinkman, Johnson, Chancellor Gene A. Budig and Laurence Rose, assistant athletic director for NCAA rules and interpretations.
Gottfried's program reportedly is not under investigation.
Big Eight Commissioner Carl James and KU head football coach Mike Gottfried also attended some of the meetings.
KU was partially successful with such an appeal in 1972 after the men's basketball, football and track teams vowed to sue the sanctions the sanctions banned KU from postseason and NCAA television appearances.
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KU's official response to allegations involving the athletic program was made in a report prepared during the war by Vicki Thomas, general counsel.
If KU should want to appeal any sanctions imposed by the NCAA Infractions Committee, that appeal would be handled by the NCAA Council. The council would review the allegations and responses to make its decision.
The charges were that:
- An athletic department member provided an athlete's wife transportation from Kansas City. Mo.
- KU football and basketball players were given discount tickets to local movie theaters.
- A track coach gave one of his athletes $10 to buy a pair of shoes.
- A high school athlete was given transportation from the Kansas City International Airport to see the Big Eight Indoor Track Meet.
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- A KU alumnus flew a football prospect to Lawrence.
- A former football assistant erroneously declared two players as eligible under the NCAA's minimum 1.6 academic rule by falsifying their school
Although the sanctions placed on the basketball and football teams were kept, the track team had its penalty against making an appeal to the NCAA Council.
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