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Wednesday, August 24, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Summer leaves residue of trivia
Notebook leftovers from a hot and dry summer;
A surveys by KU sports information director Don Baker shows that KU teams have won more Big Eight championships in the past 10 years than any other conference team. KU squads have won 30 titles in the past 10 years, compared to Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, tied for second with 21. Colorado is last with four.
In pro football notes involving former Jayhawks, cornerback Sharp Skip was released by the Philadelphia Eagles but was picked up by the Washington Redskins. Sharp, who led the Big Eight in interceptions last year with six, had been the Eagles' most dominant player not chosen until the fifth round. The Eagles traded away their first four picks.
ALSO CUT during preseason drills was former KU quarterback David Jaynes, who was released by Tampa Bay. The third-round pick of the Kansas City Chiefs a couple of years back, Jaynes apparently hasn't recovered from a shoulder injury.
Former KU wide receiver Emett Edwards also was let go, first by Buffalo and then by Detroit. Edwards had been selected in the 2016 NFL draft and was traded to Buffalo before the 1976 season.
Nolan Cromwell, the Big Eight's athlete of the year last year, apparently has recovered completely from knee surgery. Cromwell, in camp with the Los Angeles Rams, is drawing rave reviews from the Rams coaching staff and many fans. He also has taken on the job of holding the ball on extra point and field goal attempts.
BACK AT the KU football camp, three freshmen gained an extra game's experience this summer when they played in the NCAA Tournament Lions Club All-Star game in Missouri.
Selected to play for the West squad were KU recruits Ed Bruce, a 63, 230-pound guard from Lee's Summit; Mike Lombardo, 6-2, 255 fullback-linebacker from Kansas City Rockhurst, and Tom Morrison, a 84, 228 defensive end from Kansas City Winnipesaukee.
Named to the West squad but unable to play because of an injury was John Calovich, out of Kansas City St. Plus, the younger brother of KU defensive end Jerry
TWO RECORDS signed by KU coaches to letters-of-intent last spring won't be playing for the Jayhawks this fall. Running back Kevin Houston, out of Liberty, Mo., was named first-round pick in two baseball draft by the Houston Astros and signed with the club. He's a pitcher.
John McCray, a 64-, 268-pound, who was expected to have a shot on the KU defensive line, apparently didn't earn the grades at an undergraduate junior College that he needed to transfer.
when the Jayhawks take the field this fall, they will be wearing new helmets. The new ones are white with a red stripe on top. They will be in the middle and a Jayhawk emblem on the side. The reason for the switch? Head coach Bud Moore thought it would be better to show off a jayhawks' blue ember better.
FROM THE KU basketball office comes
word that guard John Douglas, KU's leading scorer last year, suffered a broken bone in his left hand this summer. Douglas isn't exasperated miss any action because of the injury.
Two sad notes involving KU performers of the past came across the desk this summer. Danny Knight, former basketball star at the Jayhawks, died after he fell down a flight of stairs in his California home and went into a coma. Knight noted consciousness and died about three weeks the fall of an apparent cerebral hemorrhage.
Knight, 23, led the Kansas队 in scoring and rebounding in 1974, when the Jayhawks finished fourth in the nation. He is survived by his wife Arlene and a four-year-old
WAYNE REPLOGLE, a long-time Kansas assistant football coach, died after suffering an apparent heart attack. He was 73. He was also coached in coaching staff in 1940 and retired in 1974.
A twice-passed along trivia item: Who is
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the only basketball player ever to play for NCAA, NBA and ABA championship teams? A hint, he played at Kansas, but not for the Jayhawks. The answer can be found at the
The coach of the Miami, Fla., University football team, Lou Saban, underwent open-heart surgery at the end of June, but is expected to be fully recovered when the Miami team begins fall practice. The Jayhawks play Miami on Oct. 8.
SPEAKING OF football schedules, for those who like to plan ahead, KU athletic director Clyde Walker has made changes in KU's 1981 and 1982 schedules. Dropped are two games against Wake Forest, one here and one there. Replacing the Deacons on the schedule will be Arkansas State, which will come to KU both years.
Former KU basketball aide Sam Miranda is still in Lawrence but has a new job. He's now the Lawrence area manager for the Maupintour Travel Service. Miranda, 45, resigned from the KU staff last season after being named coach for the Jayhawks for 13 years.
Walker, Moore, basketball coach Teed Owens and track coach Bob Timmons have all received pay increases for the 1977-78 fiscal year.
WALKER'S SALARY was raised from $38,000 to $39,900; Moore's salary went from $33,000 to $38,000; Owens was given a raise from $29,000 to $31,500 and Tinnummons from $29,000 to $21,150.
The KU athletic department salary structure will increase by about $300,000 this year, to slightly more than $2.7 million. All but about $29,000 of that comes from revenue generated by the athletic department. The $29,000 is funded by the state.
Season ticket sales for the 1977 football season are breaking records throughout the Big Eight conference. By early August, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Missouri had sold
Two KU athletes who earned undergraduate degrees have been awarded graduate scholarships from the NCAA. Jay Wagner, a standout coach at Florida State, received a $50,000 award to attend law school at the University of Virginia. Bill Clarke, captain of KU's tennis team and KU's first tennis All-American, will use his grant as a law school student at the University of
out their supply of season tickets for the coming campaign.
The NCAA presents the scholarships each year to 32 student athletes who have excelled in sports other than football and basketball. KU was the only school to receive more than one of the awards this year.
IN 1976, conference stadiums, including
the public and public ticket purchases,
purchased by the University of Texas.
BANNERS DEPICING all of KU's appearances in the NCAA basketball tournament have been hung from the Allen Field House ceiling. They were supposed to be there earlier, but the original banners had the wrong dates on them.
Mike Fisher, a former KU football player, has been named the academic counselor for the athletic department. Fisher, 41, is completing work on his doctorate in higher education at Rutgers University, where he gave up the job to become a full-time assistant football coach.
**AMONG THE inductees will be Jim Rynan, the former KMI miler who still holds the American and national collegiate mark in that event; Ralph Houp, the manager of baseball's Detroit Tigers, who was born Lawrence to Hopf and Lawrence. High football and basketball teams; and Louie "Rabbit" Weller, a Haskell Institute football star in the 1920s.**
Scheduled to be inducted into the Kansas All-Sports Hall of Fame in late October in Ottawa are three men with strong Lawrence ties.
Also inducted be Dick Peters, former head football coach at Ottawa University, and Bob McMahon, former
in Big Eight coaching changes over the summer, K-State basketball aide Jerry Holmes, who resigned his position when coach Jack Hartman accepted the top job at Oklahoma State, has accepted an association deal with Arizona job even when Hartman later decided to stay at K-State. Holmes was on the Arizona staff from 1972 to 1975.
KU BASEBALL coach Floyd Temple is now the dean of the conference's baseball coaches following the resignation of Tony Sharpe of Nebraska. Sharpe had been head coach at the Lincoln school for 31 years. Temple's been at KU for 25.
Other Big. Eight baseball changes saw Gary Ward named coach at Oklahoma State, replace Chet Bryan, who resigned; and Dave Baker, the head baseball coach at Creighton for the last six years, named to the toon spot at K-State.
MOURSIU IS planning to add more than 10,000 seats at Faurot Field, and is also planning extensive renovation for parts of the stadium that have gone virtually untouched since the stadium was constructed in 1920. Total cost is close to $1 million.
In conference construction notes, Colorado has begun building a new fieldhouse, with completion scheduled for December, 1978. CU's Pach Fieldhouse is the oldest in the conference and has a seating capacity of only 4,000.
Gary Garner, former head basketball coach at Missouri Southern, has been named an assistant to Norm Stewart at Missouri.
has long been active in sponsoring youth sports.
And Iowa State has begun installing a $300,000 outdoor track, which will feature nine-lanes instead of the conventional eight. The track also will have facilities for field events and about 2,000 seats will be installed.
Now, for the mysterious basketball player, the answer is Torn Thacker of the Cincinnati Bearcats, who played in the 1960s was one of the rare 6-2 forwards in post-1960 college basketball.
"We were after one kid," recalls Miller, "who the Washington Redskins happened to fly in on the second day of the draft. He hadn't been taken and when the draft ended, we called him up but couldn't reach him. So he had his girlfriend call the Redskins' offices, left a message telling him it was an emergency and gave him our number.
"He called us back from the Washington offices and told us he wasn't going to sign with the Redskins and was flying home. We said we'd have one of our coaches meet him there. The kid later changed his mind, signed with the Redskins and never flew back. Our coach was already in the air and we finally reached him at the rental car
"WE HAD attempted to consolidate responsibilities but had not been entirely pleased with the results," Walker said. "We're extremely pleased that John has insisted on returning and feel that our administrative efficiency will be enhanced by these changes."
With Waugh back in charge of operations, the athletic department filled a gap that had been left by the 1970s.
A native of Clifton and a 1961 KU graduate, Novotny joined the Kansas athletic department in 1967 as an academic counselor. He became business manager in 1970 and in 1974 was named to head the Williams Fund.
"THIS IS a move that is satisfactory to everyone involved." Clyde Walker, KU athletic director said. "Jerry had indicated an interest in returning to his previous position, and John has since indicated an interest in returning to KU."
"ITREALLY gets competitive."
Novotny's return coincides with Jerry Waugh's reappointment as assistant athletic director, in charge of operations. Waugh began his service at KU in August 1974 in that position, but replaced Novotny last august as head of the Williams Fund when Novotny resigned to go to Southern Illinois.
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THE CHIEFS signed 11 free agents after the college draft. Three of them still are on the 60-man roster—ight-and Ede Beckman of Florida State, wide receiver Travis McCord of Drake and defensive back Ricky Wesson of Southern Methodist.
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"Each of them has a preliminary list. When the draft ends, we tell them what players to go after on that list. Ortmayer might fly to Tahallassea to see a kid, Joe Spencer to Syracuse and Christiansen to Raleigh-Durham. That's when the free agent market gets to you, where you need to your organization, like college recruiting. Some teams might offer more money but you've got to sell the kid on the idea he can make your team."
rrayer contract negotiations have intensified into a game of dollars and cents. The college draft has always been a game of chance. Now, with the reduction in the number of each year from 448 to 328, the signing of free agents has evolved into a game, too.
"The game starts the second the college draft ends. We had our coaching staff and scouts dispatched all over the country. Tom Pratt (defensive line coach) was in Atlanta, Steve Ortmayr (special teams coach) was in Daytona Beach, Jack Christiansen (official lines coach) was in Philadelphia. We had others in Chicago, Denver, Dallas, Houston.
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And the Kansas City Chiefs believe they have the winning odds of the winners in the 1977 free agent lottery.
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