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Friday, October 8, 1971
Section 3 University Daily Kansan
Kansan Photo by GREG SORBER
The Lawrence Chamber of Commerce's Big Blue promotion campaign is evident all around towns, even at the Lawrence turnpike entrance.
Rebuilding Front Line Biggest Task for Cagers
The 1970-71 University of Kansas basketball season will long be remembered as one of the most successful ina long line of players. The team that the Jayhawks can rebuild last year's team that was undefeated in the Big Eight and fourth in the nation is the big question facing the KU coaching staff as they prepare for the opening of practice Oct. 15.
Last season, with a 27- record,
winning team in WC record,
being surpassed only by the 1823
national champions that finished
Their 21 game winning streak, the UCLA's third-string UCLA in the nation semifinals at Houston, was KU's third longest in history and the longest string in the league.
THE 'HAWKS' RUSHED through their Big Eight schedule, including the pre-season tournament, the second loss. It took the second time in 25 years that a member of the league accomplished that.
Despite the fact that the Jayhawks entire front line must be rebutt, Coach Ted Owens and his team will appear at KU with an air of optimism.
"I am quite optimistic about our chances of repeating as Big Eight champions even though our conference will be very strong this year and I realize our losses by graduation were heavy," he
GONE FROM THE Big Eight championship club are Dave Cunningham and Todd Russell, the big front-liners who played together for three seasons, 40.4 points and 26.8 rebounds a game, accounting for more than half of KU's scoring and nearly two-thirds of its winning points.
But **Owens** possesses outstanding backcourt talent and he has said he thinks the material to offence is an easy office to offuse the losses up front.
Bud Stallworth, a two-year regular who at 6-5 can play either guard or forward, figures to have
a great senior campaign after averaging 12.7 and 16.9 points a game the last two seasons.
ALSO BACK ARE Aubrey
Wilson, with Stallwell at guard last year, and Kob Vitio, another 6,
guard who played as the sixth
Randy Canfield, a 6-8 junior, will take over the pivot chores and other strong front line possibilities are pair of junior players in the Nike Filton Barrow of Cisco, Texas, and Dale Hasse of Moberly, Mo.
Perhaps the most promising of the new faces is 6-3. Kvitov, brother of Bob who led the KU freshman with a 22.4 scoring average last season. During the 7th round, he won the Pan American trials and was chosen for the Olympic development squad that toured
the Caribbean
OTHERS UP FROM the freshmen squad who appear most likely to help are Davie Taynor, a 6-3 guard who averaged 22 points a game last winter, and Bill Forsyth, who averaged 14.6 points and 13.2 rebounds.
Besides the rebuilding task, the Jayhawks this season will face probably the toughest schedule ever lined up for a KU quintet.
In the Jayhawk Classic Dec. 17 is Southern California, Californias Cincinnati and three traditionally successful baskets all teams, will travel to
In addition to those three, the KU home schedule includes non-conference games with Kentucky, Notre Dame, Georgia Tech, Xavier and Georgetown. On the road the Jayhawks will play Indiana in hawks.
The transformation of Lawrence to Big Blue country is part of a promotional campaign started in part by the newly-formed sports committee of the Chamber of Commerce.
C of C Brings City 'Big Blue Country'
By MATT BEGERT Assistant Sports Editor
Al Hack, co-chairman of the committee, said in a recent interview that the campaign was well underway. He and other schools around the country.
The sports committee composed of 10 or 12 members, worked all summer planning for the promotional campaign. Hack
The initial action of the committee was to place 30-foot Big Blue banners over the ticket booth. The committee is made up of local businessmen and faculty members who are interested in university athletics and whose role is to promote the athletic scene at KU.
Several interested persons and members of the Sports Committee recently attended a luncheon sponsoring the Big Blue Campaign. John Novotty, who attended the luncheon, said various ways of enlarging the campaign were discussed.
In an effort to promote more com spirit in the name of the Big Boss Ramada Inn will give away to interested groups a group
THE COMMITTEE is also the sponsor of the Quarterfinals and the Men's Basketball following each game in the film. A new addition to Allen Gold Field
Other activities include the selling of various parapendula indicating loyalty to Big Blue country.
Automobile tags with a Big Blue slogan may be purchased for $1.50. The tags are manufactured by the patients of the Bess Stone Activity Center, an institution for retarded adults. Items from each tag sold goes to the center to fund its activities.
Streamers 45 by 19 inches are available for purchase at the Chamber of Commerce office, 901 King Street as well as Big Blue place mats.
RUBBER STAMPS with the slogan "Coming to you from Big
Hack said the committee was
hacking businesses, with
their systems, on them
on them on game days. He said
response to their suggestion had
been positive.
Blue country" are available for $2.50 each.
along with the Big Blue
campaign, football coach Don
Famke helped lead an athletic director John Novotny have been trying to promote a
Coach Ted Owens said last spring he felt "very good" about the Jahyhaws' recruiting year.
"We have been able to improve our team for next year with the help of our new players and we have a group of fine young men to help us in the
The six prep signes are: Rick Suttle, 6. East East, Louis; Harold Tyson, 6. Paterton, N.; Mike Kernick, 7. Duffy, Tommy Smith, 6. Kearney, III. Dale Greenle, 6.2. Rockford Ill., and Marshall Rogers, 6.2. St
Two junior college basketball standouts and six high school graduates with glittering cage credentials, who have signed scholarship agreements with KU, Florida State and the Javahays in the future.
"I believe that with the two
men in charge, incoming freshman group we are coming closer to the kind of pressing and moving teams that I
The two junior college recruits, Ben and Troy, compete this year, are Wilson Barrow, 6-6, from Cisco, Tex. Michael Hassel, 6-5, from Moberly, Mo.
Barro led the Texas junior college conference in scores as well as points. Hase and Haase were Mobberly's 17-point average and 12 rebounds.
The Twelfth Man idea or origin was when KU in the 1988 Orange Basket game State, had an extra player on the field in the last few plays of the game.
"The young men coming in on our freshman team are all good players," he said, showing ability. They will fit perfectly into my plan for Sports basketball
future." he said
Both Suttle and Rogers were named to the five-man St. Louis Al-MiToro team last season. Rogers, considered one of the greatest defensive players at St. Louis area since Jo Jo White, averaged 25.4 as a senior
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Transfers, Prep Stars Basis for Cage Hopes
FAMBROUGH, AFTER being named head coach for the 1971 season, made an appeal to the University to become the twelfth man in order to generate more interest in the football team.
"I don't know how many times in the last two years I've felt as if we were alone out there," he said. "You'd be surprised at the outcomes of the players on the Bills' team campaign. They really appreciate it."
Suttle, a two-time All-Illinois pre-star, averaged 26.6 points per game and was a senior white leading Assumption High to a 20-7 record. In four years he scored 2,045 points to his school's career scoring mark.
Fambrough said he got the game over in the AAM University, where caselets aren't permitted to sit during games. They display unusual footwear.
"It's really something to see," Fambrough said.
Smith, a three-sport standout at Kawanee, drew a flattering endorsement from his high school coach, Em Lindbeck, who said, "We're the finest all-around athlete ever to come out of the state of Illinois."
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Both Novotny and Fambrough agree that there can be no formalized initiation of the Twelfth Man theme.
"I GUESS I don't know how to get it started," Fambrough said. "It's not something you can sit down and talk the students into."
The frush Hawks have ordered jerseys with the number "12" written on them, Novtay said. He also wrote a Twelfth Man campaign Novtay said, "It is simply a means of indicating loyalty to the University team. A way of being proud of yourself, are here."
Novotny said that ultimately, it is "up to the students how much its worth."
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