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September 2,1983 Page 12
Jayhawks are wary of Northern Illinois in season's opener
By JEFF CRAVENS Associate Sports Editor
Northern Illinois is not a national football power, but KU head coach Mike Gottfried and the Jayhawks are well ahead of the opponent of the 1983 football season.
Kickoff time in Memorial Stadium is 1:30 p.m. Officials anticipate a crowd of 25,000 to 28,000 for Gottfried's debut as the Jawhaws' coach.
Northern Illinois, located in Dekah, won four of its last five games last year. The team is coached by Hall Mullory, a former Kansas team who has never lost to a Kansas team.
The Jayhawks, unlike NIU, are trying to forget last season, when they finished 2-7 and tied for last in the Big Eight. It was last season's home opener, a 13-10 loss to Wichita State, that the tone for the rest of the season.
"No one game is your season," Gottfried said when asked about the importance of the first game. "Of course, I never I never set my temp on one game."
Explosive offense
Mallory will have to cortend with what may be an explosive KU offense led by senior quarterback Frank Squirer.
"We'll come at them with blitzes and put pressure on the quarterback," Mallory said about Seurier. "We just let him run up a block, and let him have all day to do his thing."
Starting with Seurer in the KU backfield will be fullback E. J. Jones and taiback Kerwin Bell. Bell edged Taylor out for the starting position.
Darren Green and Bobby Johnson, both seniors, return as the wide receivers. Johnson is a two-year starter, and Green beat out Wayne Capens, a second-round Pittsburgh starter, for a starting position last season.
Sylvester Byrd and Ernie Wright,
both juniors, alternate at tight end,
with 15th in the back.
Starting on the veteran offensive line will be Renwick ATkins at left tackle, Paul Fairchild at left guard, Bennie Cameron at right guard and Reggie Smith at right tackle.
Bruce Kallmeyer will again be KU's place kicker. Kallmeyer has hit 30 consecutive extra points and has set many of the KU place-kicking records.
Junior college transfer Clint Colburn will be the starting punter. Colburn has a quick release on his kicks, Gottfried cannot beat out Kallmeyer for the position.
The "Nasty Dog" defense will line up in the wide-tackle six alignment, a defensive set that is supposed to be tough against the rush. KU expects to use more blitzes and stunts with the wide-tackle six.
Sophomore Steve Nave and junior college transfers Ken Davis, Rod Timmons and Joe Masanias will start on the defensive line for KU. They will be flanked by defensive ends Elvis Patterson and Willie Pless.
Gottfried again said he planned to substitute many players in defense,
Eddie Simmons and Mike Arbanas return as linebackers for the Jayhawks. Junior college transfer Len Gant will also see some playing time.
The defensive backfield will probably start with Jeff Colter, back after sitting out his junior year, and junior Jeff Brown at the corners. Clyde Johnson, another junior college transfer, will start at safety.
Gottified said that the Jayhawks were in good physical shape.
"All of my teams have been close," he said. "This team has really tried to work at it. The first game will be the measuring stick.
"With this team, we made them feel they had invested something in this season. Now when we get out there, we hope they'll fight like mad."
The Huskers, who tied for fifth in the Mid-America conference, are led by quarterback Tayrrell. The senior took over at quarterback after an injury early last season. He was ninth in passing offense and tenth in total offense in the Mid-America conference.
The NIU offense
"I feel with Tyrell's ability to run the option and sprint out will provide our strength and help open up the inside." Mallory said.
NIU's top roster last season, Pete Roth, is out for the season with an injury. Sophomore Darryl Richardson will take his place in the backfield.
Another offensive weapon for Northern Illinois is 5-foot-5 Jeff Sanders, who finished 12th in the nation in punt returns last season. Sanders, from High School in Kansas City, Kan., plus cornerbacks for the Huskers.
Place kicker Vince Scott is the premier kicker in the Mid-American Conference. He has hit 40 straight extra points and 13 of 18 field goals last season, including 6 for Stuart. Steve Van Kelp averaged 41.3 yards per punt last season to finish second in the conference.
Seurer controls destiny of Jayhawk offense
His freshman year, he didn't live up to high school press clippings that claimed he was one the best counterbacks in the nation.
His sophomore year, he led KU to an 8-4 record and a Hall of Fame Bowl appearance. However, he was injured in the final regular-season game against Missouri and couldn't
Frank Seurer,
Jayhawk Quarterback
Last year, as a junior, he led the Big Eight in passing yardage, but he also threw 15 interceptions and KU tied for last in the conference with a 2-7 overall record.
Cephants are free from harm just before practice began this season, his senior year, his father was murdered in
Lawrence. No one would blame Frank Seurer for wondering why a dark cloud has been hanging over his head. But the senior from Huntington Beach, Calif., likes to think he controls his own life.
"I believe that you set your own destiny," Seurer said. "You're in control of most of what happens around you."
"It's hard to say what kind of year I can have, since I've never played with a system like this before," he said. "I don't know for sure, but the possibilities
Seurer is ready to control the Jayhawks new offensive system, which takes the field tomorrow afternoon against Northern Illinois. The system, which Head Coach Mike Gottfried brought from Cincinnati, has made a believer out of Seurer.
From day one, Gottfred has said that the ball will be in the air 20 to 50 times a game. That suits Seurat, a classic drop-back quarterback, just fine.
gain.
"Any quarterback would be nuts not to want to throw the ball more," he said.
"My arm is stronger than it ever has been. I'm just anxious to see how well the system will work."
Four of three people think Seurer is anxious to improve on last year's performance, even though he was considered one of the best quarterbacks in the Big Eight. He said he was disappointed in his own performance.
"I think I had as much to do with us losing as anybody," he said. "I threw for a lot of yards, but I had a lot of interceptions and my completion percentage was very low. Seurer is one of those athletes who puts pressure on himself to perform. He has had to deal with outside pressure from his freshman year to this season, when his father
"My freshman year, people expected a lot out of me and I tried to live up to their expectations." Searar said. "I do feel that I'm my own worst critic. People will say 'mice play Frank,' but I look at the same play and say I was lucky; because I did something wrong."
The death of his father has added a different kind of pressure on Seurer. Everyone has been asking him about how it affects him.
I has seen asking him to talk about it now," he said. "I know what dad didn't bother me to talk about it now, wanted me to do, and I might try too hard to do it, but he wouldn't want me to do that.
her has some personal goals, like completing 55 to 60 per cent of his passes and cutting down on interceptions, but he also has some lofty team goals.
seamistically, I'd say we have a shot to win the Big Eight championship. We have the talent and the skill.
system. It will take a degree of luck. We can like to go to some type of bow game."
If Seurier's destiny is indeed in his own hands, his final year in a Jayhawk uniform promises to be exciting. With a strong, healthy physique, he defense to showcase his talents, he can hardly wait to take the field.
"the possibilities are unlimited."
Chicago White Sox beat KC Royals, 12-0
By United Press International
Kansas City Royals.
CHICAGO — Tom Paciorek's three-run homer highlighted the first of two five-run innings last night, and Lakers beat Chicago White Sox at a 12-0 rout of the Chicago White Sox to a 12-0 rout of the
Hoyt, 18-10, pitched his first shutout of the year and ninth complete game in 30 starts. He struck out six and walked none in his seventh straight victory, tying Detroit's Jack Morris as the major leagues' leading winner.
White Sox season attendance record of 1.671.149.
A crowd of 30,852 helped set a new
Chicago took a 1-0 lead in the first inning on Carlton Fisk's 22nd homer of the year, which tied a club record for most home runs catcher held by Shriller Lormly in 1959.
Julio Cruz opened the fifth with an
infield single and was followed by Rudy Law's infield hit. The runners advanced on pitcher Bud Black's errant pickoff throw. One out later, Paciorek followed with his seventh homer of the year, which knocked out Black, 8-5. Mark Huisman relieved and gave up a two-run double to Baldan Baines.
Lynette Woodard is one of the University of Kansas' finest athletic products.
She closed out her career with the women's basketball team in 1981 with 3,649 points, more than any other woman in NCAA Division I history. In March 1981 she won the Wade Trophy, which recognized her as the nation's most outstanding woman basketball player. During her junior and senior years at KU, Woodard was an Academic All-American. After graduation, she played professional basketball in Italy for a year before returning to KU as assistant women's basketball coach.
Woodard, 24, returned this week from Caracas, Venezuela, where she competed on the women's basketball team in the Pan American Games. The team won the gold medal with a 5-10 record. Earlier in the summer, the same team competed in the World Championships in San Carlos, Brazil, losing only to the Soviet Union by two points. She averaged nearly 20 points a game with the team.
She talked candidly about her trip, the Pan Am drug scandal and the 1984 Olympics.
Lynette Woodard
By ANDREW HARTLEY Sports Editor
Q: Why does it seem that the U.S. is so advanced and such a world power in women's basketball?
A: Well, we're just now coming into our own. The rules in international play are different, so you have to adjust to another style of play that is
much faster and much more physical. In order to compete with these teams, we had to go over so we'd know what to do. And through those programs we just start to take over — once we
Q: Does your experience in these two tournaments震 your interest in playing professional tennis?
A; If the situation were right, I'd probably go
again. At the time I went I was on my own and a
free woman. Now I'm involved with someone.
I can't take off and do what I want.
A: We really didn't even know about the drug scandal when we were there. We were living in the village where everyone who was tested was living, but we moved out the day before that all happened. So we were isolated and never got any news.
Q: Were there any outside influences such as political pressures or the drug scandal that affected your team's play on the court at the Pan am games.
Somebody just happened to say to me after that, "Are you disappointed that you didn't get much publicity because of the drug scandal?" I told her. "So scandal?" So that was the first I had heard of it.
— its mainly track and weightlifting — they are told that they are going to be tested and that the test has changed and would really pick up if they'd been taking something. It was like the boy that cried Wolf. And finally the test is better now.
Q2: What was the talk among U.S. athletes in
A1. The conversation was, "Oh, some athletes got sent home or either took off." It wasn't like, "Guess what! Did you here what happened?" It was like, "Okay, yes, I got a ticket today for speeding."
Q: From what you know of the alleged drug abuse, do you think U.S. athletes were singled out in the testing?
out in the crazing:
A: Well, from talking to people, I don't think so. They were warned, and they just didn't take heave. Everytime they go to a meet of this caliber
Q2: Were any of the women's basketball players tested?
A1: There's just one player picked out each game to be tested for something or another. But if I understand correctly, the muscles that these players are building, you don't want in basketball.
Q: Were you personally tested?
A: No. I was never tested.
Q: Have you ever used drugs for training hugoses?
A: No. It isn't contradictory. I want to build my body to the best as it can be. Would why I would
a drug in it? It's just like training all week and then going partying, or smoking a cigarette. I mean, what are you training for? It means too much to me.
Q. The United Olympic Committee decided Tuesday that all members of the women's and men's basketball teams would be tested for drug use next year. Is that necessary, and could you speculate on what they might find?
A: I think it would be great. But I don't think they'd find anything. You see, basketball players are different. They just don't have to train year-round as others do. It's easy to forget it for a while and still be able to come back and play.
They're not really as into their body as others. They've got talent and height and those kinds of things going for them. They just don't need the body-building.
**Q:** The Olympics are next year and the tryouts in May. Do you think you like to represent the team?
A: Absolutely.
A: Answerkey.
Q: Are your feelings at all affected by the 1980 boycott that caused you to miss the Moscow games?
As no See, my Olympics are right here today.
Every time I train or go to the weight room.
That's the Olympics to me. The summer of 1984
was one of my trophy case. This is what I
have done; here it is.
Q: Do you think you'll find the competition in tryouts tougher than for the Pan Am Games and World Championship teams?
A. Yes Everyone will be there. People will really come out and train even harder. It'll be
Q: Some critics have said that the Pan Am games weren't a good barometer of the talent the U.S. has to offer for the Olympics. Does that hold true for women's basketball?
At: Not really. The Soviets are the No. 1 team in the world. We beat them in Kansas City in an exhibition game in June. We lost to them in the World Championship by two points. We really should have won the game. We feel we can beat them. That's the only team we really have to beat. I think being in L.A. with a home court advantage — and wanting it — we'll beat them. Adrenalin will take you a long way. There's a real good chance for us to take the gold.
Jabbar expected to sign Laker contract
LOS ANGELES — The spokesperson for free-agent center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar yesterday predicted his client will sign a $1.5 contract with the Los Angeles lakers next week.
By United Press International
Tom Collins, who recently negotiated a contract with the Houston Rockets for All-America center Ralph Sampson, said the two-year deal for Abdul-Jabbar was close to completion.
"Basically, all the terms are agreed upon," Collins said. "Right now, I'm dickering for
perks. I don't think anything will happen over this long weekend. We'll probably sign by the end of it.
Abul-Jabbar entered the negotiations seeking $2 million a season, with all the cash up front. The Lakers reportedly had offered $1.4 million, with much of the money deferred.
"The contract is for $1.5 million, but with incentives, we hope to get it to where Kareem wants it," Collins said."
The contract will make him the third highest-paid player in the league, following Moses Malone of the Philadelphia 76ers and Eric Baston of the Sampson now ranks third, Collins said.
KU volleyball team sweeps alumnae
Abdul-Jabbar, a six-time NBA Most Valuable Player, played out his option with the Lakers last season. A handful of teams, including the Chicago Bulls and Atlanta Hawks, sought his services, but apparently stepped out of the bidding when Laker owner Jerry Buss insisted he would match any offer for his 36-year-old center.
A published report said yesterday that the Lakers had turned down, at least for now, a trade offer for Abdul-Jabbar from the Golden State Warriors.
The report said the Lakers would have made the deal if the Warriors would have given up defensive specialist Lester Conner, a 6-4 guard, instead of Lamar.
KU's varsity won all three games in the match, 16-14, 15-8 and 16-14.
An alumnae squad challenged the KU volleyball team to three games last night in Robinson Gymnasium before a crowd of about 60 people.
By the Kansan Staff
The alumnae squad led 9-2 early in the first game of the match before junior Beth Vivian's serving spurred the varsity to win the game, 16-14.
The varsity had little trouble in its second victory. A second squad of varsity players started slowly in the final game of the evening before fighting back for its win.
Lockwood said the varis-alumnae contest gave his team a chance to work on its offense-to-defense interchange, something it hadn't been able to do in practice.
"This particular alumna squad was a group of excellent defensive players, and they keep the ball in play," he said.
Lockwood said no serious injuries were suffered in the match, although sophomore Susan Rupef pulled a stomach muscle while warming up.
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newcomers learning a different style of volleyball dominate KU's volleyball squad this season. Lockwood said he would get a chance to work on position problems this afternoon when KU played Johnson County in an unofficial scrimmage during practice hours.