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September 12. 1983 Page 12
Kallmeyer's kicking in vain as KU gains 16-16 tie with TCU
By JEFF CRAVENS
Associate Sports Editor
FORT WORTH, Texas — For a few fleeting moments, KU place kicker Bruce Kallmyer looked as if he were going to be the hero in Saturday night's game against Texas Christian University.
Kallmeyer set the KU career scoring record in the second quarter with a 44-yard field goal, and in the fourth quarter, he put the Jayhawks ahead 16-13 with a 35-yarder that crossed the uprights with 1;10 remaining.
But Kallmeier's victory celebration ended when TCU's Ken Oezey squibbed a 35-yard field goal with five seconds remaining to give the Horned Frogs a 16-16 tie. Oezey's kick was tipped at the goal line, but Oezey dashed the crossbar by less than a foot.
"IT'S FRUSTRATING because we played well enough to win," said KU coach Mike Gottfried. "I'd rather have a win. It's a disappointing feeling."
Ozee almost didn't get a chance to kick the final field goal.
"My first reaction was to go for it," said TCU head coach Jim Wacker. "Then my offensive coordinator, Bill Thornton, came over and said, 'Okay, I'm going down field and it would be a shame if we didn't come up with any points.'
"Right then, we decided to go for the field goal."
Kallmeed say of Ozze's field goal, he blooper. As long as they go the ball upright, Ozzie
TCU opened the game by driving 64 yards against a patchwork KU defense. Ozee kicked a 31-yard field goal to give the Frosa a 3-0 lead.
After a fumble recovery by defensive lineman Eldridge Avery, the Jayhawks drove down to the 17-yard line. But a procedure penalty and a sack pushed the ball back to the TCU 32-yard line. Kallmyer kicked a 49-yard field goal.
On the first play of the second quarter, cornerback Rodney De-
merrite recovered a fumble on the TCU 35. KU marched down to the TCU 14 before Kallmyer came in to kick the record-breaking field goal.
KALLEYMER BROKE Laverne Smith's career mark of 150 points.
Later in the quarter, the Jayhawk offense showed some razzle-dazzle when Seurer handed off to Robert Mimbs, who flipped the ball back to Seurer, who then tossed a 37-yard pass to Kyle Warner. The team was tackled at the TC1U.) ward line.
Garteld师 Taylor dove over the line,
giving KU a 13-lead with 4:58 left in
the bottom of the pocket.
TCU was stopped by KU's defense on its own 49-yard line, where it was forced to punt with 2:23 left in the half. The punt rolled into the endzone for an apparent touchback, but KU had 12 to secure, and a first down was awarded to TCU.
Three plays latter, halfback Ken Davis scored on a 15-yard touchdown run to close the gap to 13-10 at the half.
TCU marched down to the 4-yard line early in the fourth quarter. Ocee came on to kick a 21-yard field goal to tie the game at 13.
KU drove into TCU territory, with Seurer hitting Bobby Johnson on two third-down passes to keep the drive going. Three straight E.J. Jones moves the ball to the 18, where Kallmeier kicked his field goal.
Quarterback Anthony Sciarrafa then marched TCU down the field for Ozee's
LINEBACKER DARNELL WILLIAMS, playing his first game as a Jayhawk, registered 14 tackles to lead the KU defense.
Seurer said, "We just made some bad plays and I made some bad reads. I got a little frustrated.
"I learned an awful lot from this game, more than any other game I've played in."
Jeff Davis/Special to the Kansan
FORT WORTH, Texas — Defensive lineman Rod Timmons and Eldridge Avery try to catch Texas Christian quarterback Anthony Gulley during the first half of the KU-TCU game. The Horned Frogs earned a 16-16 tie with the Jawhays Saturday night on Ken Ozee's 35-yard field goal with one second left in the game.
Defense almost out of the dog house
By JEFF CRAVENS
Associate Sports Editor
Before Saturday's game, the TCU sports information department had to give out a full page of changes for the KU defensive team. The depth chart had been shuffled more times than a deck of cards at an all night poker
With all of these changes in the "Nasty Dog" defense, the TCU offense expected to roll up the points on the Jayhawks.
After all, KU had fullback Charles Cooper as a second-string defensive lineman. Linebacker Phil Forte manned another backup spot and offensive lineman Quinlin Schonewise was at another backup position on the back.
Freshman Eldridge Avery was starting at one defensive guard. Freshman redshirt Darnell Williams, freshman left shorthanded Illinois games start at linebacker
EXPECTELEVL, the TCU offense
including 230 yards on the ground,
290 yards on the ground,
Willie Pless moved from defensive end to linebacker, freshman Derrick Currie.
But the Horned Frogs managed only 16 points, with their first touchdown set up because the KU punt return team had too many men on the field after the defense had held at the end of the first half.
"The improvement over last week was 100-fold," said defensive coordinator Ran Zook. "Right now I say we play Ryan against a lot better positive line."
With many players learning new position in three days, Zook said he was confident.
"We stayed simple, but we also did quite a few things," Zook said. "We've got to keep improving."
Williams led the defense with 14 tackles. Pless added 11 and Avery had 9.
defenders who started for the second week in a row, said KU changed their defensive philosophy in addition to players.
"OUR DEFENSE played well tonight, and we got some bad breaks." Williams said. "But we improved a lot over last week."
"We did more attacking." Nave said. "Last week we did a lot of reading where we'd stand up and look. Tonight we fired out and attacked."
Steve Nave, one of the few Jayhawk
Cooper, who made the change from offense to defense, was in on two tackles and saw plenty of action at defensive guard, especially down the
"Our kids were flying around and going to the ball. We looked a lot quicker than we did last week," Zook said.
The defensive players weren't the only people who noticed the improvement.
Although happy with KU's performance, Zook knows that KU must continue to improve, with the likes of Alabama and Nebraska on its schedule.
"We'll look at the films and see what we need to work on," Zook said. "We've got to keep improving, but we need to take things one step at a time."
Soviet team still to play at field house
Two colleges protest attack, cancel games
By COLLIN HERMRECK Staff Reporter
Maryland and Vanderbilt canceled their exhibition matches with the Soviets in condemnation of last week's bombings in Syria. The airliner that left 269 passengers dead
The scheduled meeting between the Soviet National Basketball Team and the Jayhawks has not been canceled, despite the decisions of two other universities to scrap games with the Boston Celtics, KU athletic director, said yesterday.
The Jayhawks are scheduled to play the Soviet 16 in Allen Field Hockey.
"We JUST PLAN to stay with the
nation. We will not impose
powers wide sanctions." Johnson
"I just hope it just doesn't turn into a political football. I think needs to be looked at in a positive way," Johnson said.
An isolated sanction by KU, he said,
would probably not have much of an ef-
fronter to the threat.
Johnson said that the Amateur Basketball Association-United States of America had said earlier that it hoped that the scheduled games would still be played. KU is one of several schools that signed a contract to play the Soviets.
Bob Swan, founder of the Lawrence Athletes United for Peace, said that he thought it would be a big mistake for KU to cancel its game with the Soviets.
He said that the AUP, which was responsible for bringing Soviets track athletes to Lawrence last year, as well as similar organizations, was always interested in improving relations, not jeopardizing them.
KU resists temptation to discard athletics for politics
Maryland and Vanderbilt announced their cancellations of the exhibition games last week.
In a misdirected act of vengeance for the shooting down of a South Korean airliner that killed 269 people last week, at least two men were killed in a separate attack the Soviet National Basketball Team.
However, the University of Kansas seems to have resisted the temptation to bring politics into campus discussions.
Athletic Director Monte Johnson said yesterday that plans to play the team had not been changed. KU still will play the Soviets, unless the entire tour of the team is canceled.
KU is scheduled to play the Soviet National team on Nov. 16 in Allen Field House.
WHAT STATEMENT do the schools refusing to play the Slovene think they are making? Their reasoning probably goes something like that: "If you don't know how badly Russians on our campuses. If we let them 15
Soviets play our red-blooded American boys we're condoning the slaying of innocent people
we're continuing the staying in force. Just three years ago, the United States discovered that the mix of athletics and politics could be used as leverage against the Soviet Union. The United States Olympic Committee, handcuffed by President Carter, voted to boycott the 1980 Olympics in Moscow as punishment for the invasion of Afghanistan.
Carter's boycott may have been well-founded, based on the seriousness of the Soviet aggressions. By pulling out of the Olympics, the Soviets were denied the medium for television propaganda that could have prevented the rest of the world into thinking their own political and economic system was not the slowbear Bear that it had been made out to be.
The modern Olympics have taken on nationalistic flavor that, in the case of the 1980 Olympics, may have been pungent political weaponry.
ANDREW HARTLEY
Sports Editor
REGARDLESS of whether the boycott of the Moscow games was the correct move, it must be made clear that it was based on circumstances vastly different from those confronting schools scheduled to play the Soviet basketball team.
Johnson seems to have examined the situation in the proper perspective. A couple of small voices crying and screaming would be little effect on the world superpower.
But the integrity of the University and futures of the Jayhawk basketball squad are on the line as well. KU would have nothing to gain from a loss, but the team allowed the lead of Maryland and Vanderbilt.
Although it is only an exhibition game, the Soviets and their host of 7-footers represent the first match for new head coach Larry Brown and a promising Jiahawk team. Every game before the beginning of the season helps the Soviets like dogs of Houston, Kentucky and Nebraska.
As in past meetings with teams from abroad, international rules will be in effect. KU has a chance to place forward Kerry Boagm and center Greg Drilling on the 1984 Olympic team, and it would be to their benefit to have some knowledge of international rules before the Games.
THE UNIVERSITY is in a more vulnerable position. It would not be a wise move for the university to remain in isolation.
to compete in the Kansas Rolays and
the Soviet athletes to the scheduled
basketball game.
The arena of international athletics should be as free from political influence as possible. Not to say that athletics will always be free from interference, but it SHOULD.
We must resist the temptation to let the 1980 Olympic boycott stand as a precedent every time.
Oklahoma head basketball coach Billy Tubbs had the right idea in mind Thursday when he said that members of the Soviet basketball team probably had nothing to do with the downing of a commercial jetliner. Wouldn't Universities that canceled their games be reacting to that very act that they had condemned: punishment innocent people?
Athletic competition is a healthy way for nations to open the door to understanding. Let's hope more universities choose to keep that door open.
Connors wins Open for fifth time
By United Press International
NEW YORK — Jimmy Connors, taking advantage of some unusually erratic play by Ivan Lendl, won the last 10 games yesterday to capture the U.S. Open championship for the fifth time.
Although limping along at times on an aching toe, Connors for the second consecutive year defeated Lendl in the final. It marked his 10th tournament singles win, and he became a contender for Connors to become the first man to go over $5 million in career earnings.
Connors ran away with the match, a 6-3, 6-7, 7-5, 6-0 victory over Lendl, who has yet to win a Grand Slam tournament.
"TO HAVE A CHANCE to do it once again is a thrill." Connors said immediately following the victory. "After winning last year and playing so well, I thought I'd come back this year another time."
The turning point for Lendl came in the third set. He had broken Conner's serve in the first and third games, sandwiched around a break by Connors, and nursed that advantage for the next set. Conner took it in the 10th game, he committed his only double-fault of the
Connors, 31, then broke serve with a crosscourt backhand to draw even at 5-5, held his serve at 30, getting his only ace of the set for the final point, then break again at 30 when Lendi was long with a forehand shot. Connors had it all his way in the
United Press International
NEW YORK — Jimmy Connors celebrates a winner during the second set of the U.S. Open championship match. Connors defeated Ivan Lendl yesterday 6-3, 6-7, 7-5, 6-0 to win his second consecutive Open title.
KU volleyball squad wins at K-State
By the Kansan Staff
The KU volleyball squad defeated Wichita State for the loser's bracket championship Saturday at Manhattan in the Kansas State University tournament.
The Jayhawks played central Missouri State Friday to start the tournament, KU coming off two long matches with the Missouri-Kansas City and St. Louis University the might before, could help defense coordinate in its first game on 8-15 and 8-15.
Missouri-Columbia, last year's tournament champion,
successfully defended its title against the Wyoming.
KU, 62, defeated Wichita State in two games for the chapmangosh, 15-13 and 15-9.
IN KU'S SECOND match, the Jayhawks defeated
KU started the second day of the tournament against last year's runner up, Oral Roberts University, losing 6-15 and 9-15.
After this defeat, the Jayhawks entered the loser's bracket.
Emporia State in the first game 15-4. Emporia State was bird silhouette by KU's defense in the second game, 15-0.
KU met UMKC in semi-final action. The two went three games before KU was victorious, 15-12, 13-15 and 15-1
KU will open big Eight Conference play tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Allen Field House against Nebraska.
Tulsa University was KU's first foe in single elimination play. The Jahawhays won 15-7, 15-10 over Tulsa.
Lockwood said NU had all its starters back from last year's Big Eight conference championship team.
KU men's cross country team loses first meet
By the Kansan Staff
Kansas' men's cross country team opened its season Saturday morning, losing to Southern Illinois University-Carbonale. 24-31.
The two teams competed on a newly designed, five-mile course on the SIU campus.
Senior Brent Stoner, the top finisher for the Jayhawks in the meet, placed second with a time of 25 minutes, ten seconds.
Second round
Senior Tim Gundy finished fifth in 25:48.
KU had three runners finish back-to-back in the top ten. Junior Daniel Owens placed seventh in 26:16. He was followed by senior David Cole and freshman Joe Manual. The two finished with only one second separating them Cole's time was 26:31 and Man ran the course in 26:32.
The rest of the Jayhawk squad competing Saturday was freshman Chris Courter, senior Greg Leibert and sophomore Kyle Rose, who finished 12th, 13th and 15th respectively.
Coach Bob Timmons said, "I was pleased. The guys ran well against a much-improved Southern Illinois team."
Jayhawks split with Barton County College
By the Kansan Staff
KU agent five hours on Quigley Field yesterday, splitting a double-bearer with Barrion County Community College. The Jayhawks won the second game 4-0, but lost the Winnipeg first game. 6-3.
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"It's been a long day," head coach Marty Pattin said.
"We didn't execute very good in certain situations, but it was a good opportunity for me to see a lot of ballplayers"
Freshman John Hart's six-inch single brought home two runs and leftfielder Todd Schwiegert followed with a
Three KU pitchers combined for a three-hit shutout in the victory. Starter Charlie Buzard struck out five in five innings.