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Wednesday, August 24, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Staff Photo by GEORGE MILLENEP
Punt power
Sophomore kicker Mike Hubach drop kicks a punt in practice last week. Coach Bud Moore is counting on Hubach to handle both扑打 and placekicking chords again this season for the Jayhawks. Hubach converted seven of 14 field goal attempts last year and kicked a 49-yard field goal against Missouri, the longest ever by a KU kicker.
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enough to rank him tenth in the Big Eight among leading scorers.
Despite the additional pressure of being both punter and placekicker, Hubach was be glad to do both because it made him more a part of the team.
"There is pressure doing both," he said.
"I know what you'll have to do at any time."
As KU's leading returning kicker, Hubach will get plenty of time to work on consistency both in games and in practices. As in game situations when the kicker is probably the loneliest man on the field, the same goes for practices.
While the rest of the team is scrimmaging or running sprints, Hubach is on the other end of the field, quietly practicing kick-offs and putting his arm into action center and ball holder to work on field goals.
Practice, practice, practice. That's the name of the game.
"IM TRYING to become one of the top achievers," he said. "There is no use being too ambitious."
A soccer style kicker out of Cleveland, Hubach's real love in high school was soccer. He was selected to the all-state soccer team. The team that year he was nominated for All-America honors.
Despite his devotion to soccer, Hubach managed to squeeze in one practice a week of training at the academy, averaged 43.4 yards a punt on 37 kicks and booted nine field goals, the longest coming from 42 yards out. He also converted 16 of 17 extra point attempts to lead his team in
This year, Hubach understandably would like to pick up where he left last season.
"It took a while to get over the nervousness," he said. "I found myself on the same side."
CINNANITA (UP1) - College football teams are breaking out the gear again just as a new and elaborate shrine to collegiate football begins taking shape.
College Football Hall of Fame to compete with pro grid shrine
After many years of wishing they had a museum to rival the prestigious Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, officials of the National Football Foundation have finally gotten their act—and money together.
As a result, construction has just started on a College Football Hall of Fame which designers hope will ultimately outdo and outdraw the pro version. It is going up adaptionally. The college is now at 28 rules north of Cincinnati, and is scheduled for completion sometime next year.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL, officials want the shrine to be more "exciting" than the pro museum. They figure attendance will hit 300,000 the first year and continue climbing.
"We want to capture the excitement of a college homecoming game and the romantism of a campus weekend," says John Wyant, the energetic, 31-year-old general manager of the College Football Hall of Fame.
Wyant spent a lot of his early days on the job visiting most of the 30 other sports halls of fame around the country. He came back feeling many were drab and lifeless.
But he also came back bursting with ideas to liven up his museum.
The two-level, 38,000-square foot Georgian-Colonial building will be jammed with as many and as many seating areas in a wayward-style" musical stage shows featuring college fight songs will be presented daily. Drinks and food will be served in an old-fashioned campus malt
OUTSIDE, A regulation football field is built for demonstrations and seminars.
"College football is very much alive and we want to keep it alive in our ball of fame,"
Still, there will be some static display cases just because of the nature of memorabilia. The memorabilia the Collector has to choose from is almost limitless.
How about the infamous halfback "bell" (now illegal, of course) which once enabled linemen to pick up the ball carrier and toss it into the air? How did football-shaped footballs in Jim Thiebe's time?
AND JERSEY numbers? Red Grange's
NO. 77, Bronk Nagurog's No. 3, and on an
on.
Besides numerous film clip highlights in exciting games, even some full length game films will be available for purists. Games to be shown in full include Notre Dame's famous 7-0 win over Bud Wilkinson's Oklahoma Sooners in 1934 and Arroyo's Army in 1913 when the advantages of the forward pass were first being realized.
An electronic game room is planned to let the visitor match his strategy against crucial decisions and controversial plays in past games.
The hall's centerpiece will be called "The Time Tunnel."
"We're constructing an 8,000 square foot tunnel for visitors to walk through," ex-
collegiate football—the first game was on
Nov 6, 1899. Princeton at Rutgers.
"I all, we trac the sport from its earliest beginnings to today. And we're trying to do that," she said.
RODNEY OLSON, (5-11, 16), senior) turned some heads on the KU staff when he made the team as a walk on. Olson played three years at William Penn College in Iowa before transferring to KU. Backing Olson up was Joel Schroeder, from Coleville Junior College.
The wishbone offense has been good to KU
Alabama, and a good thing is not to be changed.
plained Wyant. "There are a lot of turns and a lot of surprises around corners."
"It's been successful for us," Moore said, "and we'll go with the same offense until things dictate we change. We have no plans to change our offense."
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"WE TRACE the start of football all the way back to similar games in Sparta more than any other team," he said.
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also listed on the depth chart are Rod Ligon, Tom O'Dohery, Jeyred Sileacke and
Offense...
season and showed promise in the spring. A candidate to play alongside Mason at right guard is 6-5, 280-pound sophomore Mike Gay.
ALSO TRYING to win spots on the offensive line will be sophomore Tom Dum (6-1, 230) junior Greg Woods (6-2, 240) and sophomore Bill Griffith Jr. (6-2, 230).
Several unproven sophomores are competing for tight end. Greg Jones (6:3, 220) and Kyle Wheeler (6:3, 220-pound Kirby Cruswell, who was shifted from defensive end, and Lloyd Sobek (6:3,
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