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KANSAN
October 24, 1983 Page 14
Anderson, defense team up to give OSU a 27-10 win Losing Seurer, temper rare for Gottfried
By JEFF CRAVENS Associate Sports Editor
About everything that could happen to the Kansas Jayhawks this season has happened, and Saturday's 27-10 loss to the Oklahoma State team added another chapter to KU's up and down season.
The Jayhawks once again failed to put together two consecutive strong outings.
Oklahoma State rolled up 406 yards in total offense, driving new against the defensive playback wkyw defends.
What was new was that head coach Mike Gottfried lost both his temper and quarterback Frank Seurer.
Kansas had trouble punting, averaging but 36.6 yards a kick compared with 45.8 yards for the Cowboys, but that has also been a common occurrence during the first seven games.
SEURER WENT DOWN early in the second quarter with a hyperextended left knee and did not return to action. He was listed as doubtful for the injury, but his role is not taken to determine the extent of the injury.
"That's part of the game, but I hope I'm back next week," Seurer said. "On the play, I had to look to my secondary receiver and someone else to see if I tried to stiff arm him and he fell on my knees."
Gottfried lost his composure in the third quarter with Oklahoma leading 17-3. Backup quarterback Mike Frederick threw a pass across the middle to tight end Jeff Anderson. The ball apparently bounced on the turf and into the 'hands of OKU defensive back Mark Moore at the half.
After a discussion, the officials ruled that the pass had been intercepted, and the usually low-key Gottfried was livid. He stormed onto the field once, and was restrained before the officials could throw a flag. But he went out a second time and earned an unsponsored conduct penalty.
"I OWE THEM an apology," Gottfried said
about the officials. "That's not a coach's job. It's inexcusable.
nexcuse.
"I thought it was pass interference. It was obvious to me that he had guys all over his back. I didn't even see the interception."
After the 15-yard penalty moved the ball to the Jayhawk 17, Rusty Hilger hit flanker Jamie Harris on the right sideline for a touchdown to give OSU a 24-3 lead.
Frederick, who threw for 205 yards as Seurer's replacement, tried to lead the Jayhawks back, completing a 3-yard touchdown pass to Sylvester Byrd in the fourth quarter to go up to 24-10.
The Jayhawk defense held and when Fred-
The fact is we just couldn't score. We moved the ball on them, but we just couldn't get it in the end zone. Give them credit. They have a very solid football team.'
—Mike Gottfried
KU head football coach
orick completed a 25-yard pass to Sandy McGee to the OSU 44, the remainder of the crowd of 31,300 were on their feet. However the offense lost by 9 yards to Calgary, Gallmeyer, replacing Coliburn, had to punt.
ON THE NEXT PLAY from scrimmage,
Ernest Anderson broke around left end for 61 yards to set up a Larry Roach field goal.
Anderson, an early-season contender for the Heisman Trophy, was hospitalized for a bleeding week, but he gained 131 yards on 16 carries.
"The way it looked Monday, I didn't think I'd play." Anderson said. "They gave me three pints of blood and it made me feel a lot better. I pants 100 percent, but I felt all right."
Anderson also scored a touchdown on a 29-yard run in the third quarter.
While it was Anderson doing the damage in the second half, Hilger led the Cowboys to a 10-3 lead in the first half. He threw for 106 yards in the game and scored a 48-yard touchdown strike in Malcolm Lewis.
WITHOUT SEURER and flanker Darren Green, the KU offense still gained 336 yards in total offence, including 280 through the air. However, Frederick and freshman Mike Orth each three interceptions and the Jayhawks were penalized nine times for 89 yards.
Ortht was to be redshirted this season, but Oottern would call on him after it was over. Scurer would put them in a tie.
"My feeling was that with Frank out, we needed to put him in now for experience." Gottfried said. "We might have to go the next week without him and without we need to have two quarterbacks."
The Cowboy defense, ranked 16th in the country in points allowed, also slowed down the
"THE FACT IS WE just couldn't score." Gottfried said. "We moved the ball on them, but we just couldn't get it in the end zone. Give them credit. They have a very solid football team."
Offensive coordinator Mike Sheppard now faces the task of nooseing Noklahoma State's offense of his playmaking.
"The thing about our offense is that you need repetition." Sheppard said. "During the week, your number one quarterback gets 90 percent of the repetitions, so we were limited on what we could do after Frank went down. You probably did that we didn't go into as many formations.
"It's really hard to say just how much it will affect us. I'm just excited about playing Oklahoma. We just have to go back to the basics offensively."
JAYHAWK NOTES — Bruce Kallmeyer set a KU record by kicking his 51st consecutive extra point, breaking Mike Hubach's record. The record did not come easy for Kallmeyer. His first attempt was blocked, but the Cowboys were offside.
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OSU running back Ernest Anderson eludes KU linebacker Mike Arbanus during a 29-yard touchdown run in the third quarter. Anderson recovered from a bleeding ulcer to gain 131 yards Saturday as the Cowboys whipped the javahaws 27-10.
SPORTS BRIEFS From Staff and Wire Reports Talks stalled between NBA and union for striking refs
NEW YORK - With the NBA's regular season just five days away, little progress was reported yesterday by the league in a 75-minute negotiating session with the union representing striking referees.
"Negotiators for the NBA and the referee's union met for 75 minutes in Princeton, N.J. Sunday after the union refused to make a counterproposal to the NBA's last offer, which called for a 27 percent increase in fees, said spokesman Alex Sachet. "No rules were scheduled."
The NBA's 38th season opens Friday night and the league has been using a temporary staff of substitute officials during the exhibition season.
Crimson defeats blue in swim meet
The crimson squad defeated the blue squad Friday night in the KU swimming team's intrasquad meet in Robinson Natatorium.
Head coach Gary Kempf said that the times were not fast but that speed was one thing that was usually lacking at this point in the season. He said junior Brad Coens swam well in the meet, along with sophomore Tim Amnous and freshman Todd Neugent.
On the women's team, Kempf said that senior Jenny Wagtail, sophomore Tammy Pease and freshman Darcy Gregor did all an
The swim teams and coaches have a couple of weeks to work on weak points that were found before the official start of the 1983-84 season. The men's squad will swim on Nov. 4 in Springfield, Mo., and the women's squad will compete on Nov. 5 in Robinson Natatorium.
Crew finishes 28th in Boston regatta
A Kansas Jayhawk crew team finished 28th out of 40 international teams at the Head of the Charles Race yesterday on the Charles River near Boston.
The race said to be one of the most prestigious in the world.
Nine members of the Jayhawk crew team rowed on KU's boat, eight oarsman and one cosswain.
The KU men's heavyweight eight-man team was selected to compete in the Head of the Charles Race two weeks ago. It was the first time a KU crew had competed in the race.
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NEW YORK — Runners fill the ramps of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge at the start of the New York Marathon. Rod Dixon of New Zealand won the men's title yesterday and Grete Waitz of Norway took the women's title for the fifth time in six years.
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Injuries riddle KU's starting lineup
Freshman Orth sheds red shirt for a blue jersey
By JEFF CRAVENS Associate Sports Editor
Early in the season, KU head coach Mike Gottfred said that injuries were something the Jayhawks could not afford. He canceled the junior varsity schedule because he barely had enough bodies for varsity practice.
Through the first four games, KU suffered the normal bumps and bruises. Dino Boll who broke his wrist during a Stats game, was the only player seriously injured.
Then, in the Iowa State game, defensive players began dropping at an alarming rate, and Gotttried went to a freshman for the conference schedule.
Wide receiver Sandy McGee is helped to the sidelines by assistant trainer Lynn Bott and trainer Mark Cairns. McGee was one of the many Jayhawks carried off the field Saturday. KU also lost quarterback Frank Searer
Saturday, the injury plague hit again, with many players being carried off the field.
THE MOST SIGNIFICANT injury to hit the Jayhawks was to quarterback Frank Seurer. He suffered a hyper-extended knee in the second quarter and will probably not play against No. 17 Oklahoma next Saturday.
Gottfried called on junior Mike Frederick, then on freshman Mike Orth, a player the Jayhawk coaches had hoped to redshirt this season. Both threw two interceptions in Seurer's place. Frederick entered the game with no time to warm up, but threw for 205 vards.
Orth, from Liberal, said he was a waw in his first appearance as a Jayhawk. Orth reportedly introduced himself as a redshirt to a group of recruits Saturday morning, but Gottfried sailed he needed backpacks ready if Seurau could not play.
"YE GIVE SO MUCH to learn," Ort said. "Mike's had three years of experience and 'm still working on my project." He says he might think things on the films, but it looks a lot
different on the film
"You can't spend a lot of time on your third string quarterback in practice. I just hope Frank's back next week."
tidesless Seers, offensive linemen K.C. Brown, Bennie Simeke, and Chip Schuler all were helped off the field at the game when Seers were injured on the same play.
On defense, Rod Timmons and Elvis Patterson were injured and taken from the field. All of the injuries will be diagnosed and the status for the Oklahoma game will be determined
today or tomorrow.
WHILE KU ADDED people to the injury list, Oklahoma State took tailback Ernest Anderson off it. He punished the Jayhawks for 131 yards on carries and forced an Anderson also set up an OSU field goal with a 61 yard dash
Anderson injured his groin in the Cowbys' first game of the season before returning to action last week against Oklahoma. He was hospitalized and given three pints of blood Monday for a bleeding ulcer.
Nick Lowery gets second chance to be a hero in Chiefs' 13-10 victory over the lowly Oilers
HOUSTON — The revitalized Kansas City Chiefs climbed back into their division race yesterday at the expense of the woefully downtradent Houston Oilers, who finally found a game they could win but booted it.
By United Press International
Chiefs placekicker Nick Lowery, who had missed a long go-ahead field goal try with 4:22 left to play, came back in overtime at the Astrodome to kick a 41-yard field goal that provided a 13-10 victory.
The kick evened the Chiefs' record at 4-4 midway through the season and gave them their third victory in four games.
THE OILERS, LOSERS of 15 straight games now, had a chance to snap their losing streak with a 41-yard field goal attempt with four seconds to play in
regulation. But Florian Kempf, a normally reliable soccer-style place-kicker, sliced the kick to the right of the goal posts.
Lowy said that after he missed the field goal in the fourth quarter he did not get down.
"For some reason I thought I would get another chance," he said. "I wasn't down at all. The offense did its job and gave me a nice easy chip up."
Chiefs head coach John Mackovic said the victory was an important step for him.
"I had thought even before Nick kicked the field goal that if we were to become a great team we had to win games like today's. The fact that we won puts us on the road to that goal. We're a long way from being a championship team, but I think we're on the right track."
MACKOVIC SAID A FLOOD of
mental mistakes "almost killed us. We just didn't execute."
The Chiefs won the coin flip to start the overtime, took the opening kickoff and drove 60 yards to the winning field goal.
Kempf took the responsibility for the loss.
"I feel bad. I let the team down. I feel responsible, helpless. I don't get another shot." he said.
The Oilers played most of the game without running back Earl Campbell, who went out at the 6-32 mark in the first half with a pulpit call to their offense, and to their offense, the Oilers had a solid chance to win a game for the first time this season.
Quarterback Bill Kenney's 20-yard pass to wide receiver Stephen Paige on third down and 10 at the Houston 48 yard line kept the winning drive alive.
Big 8 to keep KU athletics in the black
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By COLLIN HERMRECK Staff Reporter
An anticipated $140,000 loss in football revenue this season could be made up with additional money from the cobbled baseball season and the Eight Conference, the league business manager said Friday.
Because of low football ticket sales this season, revenue for the 1983-84 football season is expected to fall $140,000 short of the budgeted $1,775,000. Susan Wachter, the business manager, said during a meeting of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation board.
wacenter said that shortfalls in estimated income from the first three home football games was the cause of expected decrease in all revenue.
The September financial report showed the department had collected $1,043,738 for football and basketball, $591,622 for the end of the season.
Wachter told the board that KU would receive some extra money from delayed broadcasts of KU football games.
DESPITE THE DECREASE in anticipated football revenue, Wachter said, an increase in basketball season ticket sales and extra money from the conference should make up the anticipated deficit.
The Feb. 5 home game with Wichita State University, which had not been scheduled when the $5.1 million KUAC annual budget was completed last year, should make up part of an additional $40,000 expected from the basketball season, Wachter said after the meeting.
Terry Johnson, interim KU ticket manager, said that the response so far had been positive for season tickets because of the addition of head coach Larry Brown and the number of talented players this season.
"WE'RE CURRENTLY at what we sold last year and we're still processing orders." Johnson said
He said that about 8,100 season tickets had been sold. 4,300 of which were bought by students. Allen Field House has a capacity of 16,000.
More money is also expected from basketball away-game guarantees, Wachter said, which was not accounted for in the 1983-84 budget. Larger shares are expected from away games with Oklahoma, Kansas State, Iowa State and Nebraska. The Big Eight also expects an increase in television and bowl revenue that may give the conference nearly $2.9 million by the end of the year. The conference paid out more than $7 million last year to its member schools.
KU budgeted $800,000 for this fiscal year for conference revenue but expects to receive nearly $900,000, which would make up the remaining $100,000 difference for football revenue losses.
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