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Friday, September 23, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Ticket sales sluggish for football
By LEON UNRUH
STAFF Writer
Sportswriters pounded plenty of typewriter ribbons in the last year worrying about the effects of Nolan Cromwell's absence from the KU Jayhawks.
When Cromwell, a quarterback with a shot at the Heisman Trophy, college football's highest award, was injured midway through the season, the Jayhawks lost most of their momentum and stumbled into seventh place in the Big 8.
Cromwell is now gone for good, as all conference halfBack Laverne Smith. And their absences are going to be missed beyond the trophy case.
"When you have well-known and great athletes, the anticipation of a good team helps sell tickets," Douge Messier, assistant coach of the athletic department, said yesterday.
Anticipation just isn't what it was before.
KU STUDENT ticket sales are off about
12 per cent this year — dropping to 8,250
last year's total of slightly more
10,000.
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Other Big 8 schools, however, don't seem to have such problems. Two universities, Iowa State and Missouri, boosted their sales by 1,200 and 200 respectively. Most of the other schools' sales remained about the same as in 1976.
Kansas State University figures could not
be assumed yesterday, according to the
University of Kansas.
Stadiums at Oklahoma and Nebraska, where trying to get a season ticket is as sporting as watching those championship games but not again this season as they have for years.
Each of the other Big 8 schools had at least one game that was sold out. All, that is,
"K-STATE I is pretty close, but it lacks a couple thousand from selling out," Messer said. "Missouri would be the next closest, and then them to close with another week."
KState and Missouri home games traditionally sell out by mid-September.
Several factors, including a $50 increase in student enrollment fees, might have lowered student interest in Jayhawk football, he said.
"The fact that we played the first two games away and it will be almost a month after school started before we play at home might have had something to do with it," Messer said. "That has a little effect on student enthusiasism."
Also, he said, the fact that KU has lost its first two games might dampen sales.
KU dropped to nationally ranked Texas A &
M. 28,14 and UCLA. 17-7.
Despite the present star void, Messier said, regular season ticket sales have already broken the all-time high set last year when 14,200 were sold.
A WEEK before the home owner, which is tomorrow, faculty, alumni and other fans had purchased 14,400 season tickets at $1.25 each. The price of a ticket dropped $8.25.
KU student season tickets, at $20, are considerably cheaper than the Nebraska tickets, which cost $29. Student tickets at Missouri are $27 and at Colorado
from last year because one less game was scheduled at Memorial Stadium this year
Oklahoma State and Iowa State, co-champions of the Big 8 with Colorado, sell their tickets for $15 and $1.56 respectively. The seminal national power, charries only $16.
At Oklahoma's 71,300 seat stadium, 17,500 students have bought tickets; at Nebraska, 16,000; Missouri, 14,100; Oklahoma State, 14,000; Iowa State, 11,000; and Colorado, 7,500.
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Kroeger said the walk to the Union was too long for some people, while others would not come to it because they felt uneasy on campus.
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People will be encouraged to use the association's services, and Kroger plans to offer similar programs.
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LEADBELT
Dir. Gordon Parks
Fri.-Sat., Sept. 23, 24
3:30, 7:00 & 9:30 p.m.
$1.25
PLUS
(short film)-
"Count Basies Boogie"
MIDNIGHT MOVIES
THE T.A.M.I. SHOW
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DON'T KNOCK
THE ROCK
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Sept. 23, 24 - Fri.-Sat.
12:00 midnight $1.25
IT'S SHOWTIME
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THE CHICAGO MATERNITY CENTER STORY
Kartemquin/Haymarket Documentary (1977)
Tues., Sept. 27, 7:30 p.m.
FORUM ROOM
$1.00
Roger Cormans
LITTLE SHOP
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