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Injury forces player to find new career
By Deb Gruver
Kansan staff writer
"You know that I'm not playing football anymore, don't you, and you want to do a story on me!"
It was hard for former Kansas running back Daryl Terrell to understand why a story was being written about him since he could no longer play football. This month marks the first time in 10 years that Terrell hasn't played the game.
Tailback Darryl Terrell's football career ended last season with an injury to his Achilles tendon.
he played in Kansas.
He turned 23 this week, and in the last year, his goals had changed dramatically. He was brought forward to a career in the juvenile courts and will graduate from the University of Kansas in May with a degree in sociology and criminal justice.
degree in solemnity.
He once thought he had a future in professional baseball, but an injury in the final game of the 1967 season changed that. He suffered a torn ankle tendon in the Missouri game. After five operations, his Achilles tendon is still not strong enough to support the pounding it would take as a tailback.
It is no wonder that he still vies to play. He began playing at the Boys Club in his hometown of Dallas, Texas, when he was 12 or 13. His brother played football and him to Dallas Cowboys games. In playing the game he金光 to find his own
Torrell said he has accepted the injury. "I still have the urge to play." Torrell said, "but you know what is best for you, don't dribble on it."
talent
He played during junior high, and continued at Warren Travis White High School. At White, he was an all-district pick for three years and won a scholarship. He has this high career he rushed for 2,000 yards and scored 27 touchdowns.
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He was good at what he did as a tailback.
"The tailback is the glamour position."
ferrell said. "He gets all the courage,
laws and awards, along with the quarter-
back."
back. He graduating from high school in 1941, earning a tailcap to get Terrell a full scholarship to Southern Utah High School, where he tutored Southwestern University as his first year as most freshmen are at SMU.
It takes about a year to really understand major college football. "Terrall said, During his first season of play in the College championship and went to the Altoba
Bowl in Hawaii. In the next two years at SMU, the Mustangs went 6-5 each year. NCAAC.
But, in 1987, the NCAA imposed the so-called "Death Penalty" on the SMU football program for alleged misconduct. The NCAA required the Mustang football program completely.
program complete.
The rucked马 Terrell without a team, teammate with his full scholarship to SMU. Terrice chose to transfer to Kansas where he could continue his football career.
Going to Kansas was difficult for Terrell. He went from a program that regularly challenged for conference to a team that finished with a 1-9 record in seven games. "I said, 'OK, I will,'" he said.
"I was an adjustment," Terrell said. "I was my first time ever on a losing team. In Texas, football is everything. In Kansas, it's more basketball."
more basketball.
He played under Bob Valesente, then Kansas coach Terrell he could not pit the Jayhawks' loss season on Valesente and basse, the numbe-
"M' KU, we didn't have the number of guys it took to have a competitive team, and there wasn't enough talent." Terrell said.
And, he was injured. In the Missouri game, Terrell's career as a football player ended.
"My Achilles had been bothering me all season, but we didn't know it was that serious." Terrell said.
serious". "Terrell sat to"
"watch the terrain in Laverence after
the game by him physician, Dr. Ken
Harding." He was given a general an-
thesis and had an allergic reaction to it. His lungs filled with fluid and he was in critical
condition for about three days.
Two days later, he was on his way home to Dallas for Thanksgiving. He wanted to be home with his mom, two brothers and two sisters. He told his mom, "I'll all be ill."
shelter. He took as much care of Bossi that he did, not blame Daryll and I. He said he was in a position Dr. Wertberger. When an athlete has surgery like that, he needs to stay put. He doesn't do too much too fast."
He began a long healing process. Bott said Ferrer had on antibiotics and then go in for IV's to make sure the Achilles tendon was not infected again. He was on antibiotics during Christmas break. Terrell called Bott over the break and said
stay put. He doesn't home. After he was home, Terrell's Achilles injury was inflicted. After the initial surgery, Terrell had to undergo four plastic surgery operations. He went to a specialist at Topkae's Stormtown-Vail Regional Medical Center.
he thought it was infected again.
he thought it was infected again. "I took the dressing off, and to
"I took the ureasing off, and took one look at it, and sent him to the doctor." Bott said. The specialist released skin on each side of the Achilles tendon of the skin could adjust to the blistered skin. Then he could release it over the tendon and nurtured it. The initial incisions on the sides of the tendon were later filled in with a skin graft.
graft
after that, he was under close observation and had no weight-bearing. Bott said Terrell was on and off crucifixion. Nathaniel Newman held rehabilitation with Bott three days a week.
he said his tenure still hurt sometimes, he said his tenure still hurt sometimes, he still is eligible to play, but Terrell knows that he is not eligible because of the Achilles tendon.
He is focused more on his studies Although he missed about three weeks of
school last semester because of his injury,
he still managed to achieve a 3.0 grade
average.
"I will have more time to study now," Terrell said. "I detainly want to get out of here in May."
He wants to return to Dallas after graduation from Kansas. He has an internship with the juvenile courts in Lawrence next semester and hopes to find a suitable job in Dallas.
"I wouldn't want to live in Kansas the rest of my life," he said.
of my life, he'll be. Whether in Indiana or Kansas, football will have no impact on his life. That should if he had a family, he would not push football on his kids, but would hope that they would play. He said he would not be overly concerned about accidents.
"You can't predict injury." Terrell said.
"You just have to play, and if you get injured, it's just part of the game."
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