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Thursdav. August 24, 1972
University Daily Kansan
Kansan Staff Photo by JOE COLEMA!
Quarterback Jaynes Confers with Troops
... Jayhawks hope experience pays off . . .
KU Passes with Spencer
You've got the ingredients. You're ready to bake. What do you do? You bring in a cook.
And that's what the University of Kansas Jayhawks did last spring when they hired offensive line coach Joe Spencer.
The 'Hawks had the ingredients. In David Jaynes, they had one of the potentially biggest advantages in nation. In tight end John Schroll, they had an all-Big Eight receiver and a dependable blocker. And they had an often healthy, was at least adenunate.
They were ready to pass. So they brought in Snencer.
And no wonder. The 49-year-old Oklahoma certainly has the credentials.
After coaching for seven years at Austin College in Sherman, Texas, Spencer joined the pro football team in 1967, the season they won the American Football League championship. In 1986 he joined the St. Louis Cardinals and structured the offensive line that so well protected Joe Namath as he passed the Jets to the Super Bowl title. Last season he was the St. Louis Cardinals before returning to the college ranks.
In joining the Jayahawk in joining the Jayahawk, a line that was plucked with injuries in 1971. Total offense that season was off 700 yards from the field.
Putting was not bleak, however. All was in considerable time for the team to win the title up linemen Mike McDaniel, John Bryant and Ryan Bernardh.
McDaniel (6-2, 12-5) lettered behind Mike McCoy at center last year and was used extensively in the game. When McCoy was injured. Bernhardt (6-4, 239) after being switched from tight end, saw action at guard and guard (8-5.4) played a few games at tackle.
Joining this trio as probable starters this season are guard Justin Hooper and his earned his second letter last year, and tackle Don Perkins (6-1, 243), a former defensive end. Joining the hawk offensive captain this year.
Joe Spencer
WHEN SPENCER joined Don Fambrough and the Jayhawks last spring, he was optimistic.
"We knew they had two good quarterbacks in Jaynes and Bennett, but we didn't know we were didn't have the big rumors we needed a teammate at least."
"We knew we were going to throw the ball we so worked all last spring on our pass protection and also this fall so far.
Spencer said the Jayhawks would not be a physically overpowering team on offense this season.
"Against our own people we're doing a pretty good job. Our seniors are coming through and we're getting better. We're getting better all the time."
"We just aren't a physical team," he said. "We've got small backs and we really don't think they are so many teams with brute force."
He said the experience of the offensive line would play a big role in the team's future.
"Some of our back-up men this year are bigger than the starters," he said. "Fedron Dillon (6-3, 24) is bigger than Perkins and Jeron Hodges (6-3, 24) is bigger just don't have the experience."
Spencer said a big part of his job was making the players believe in themselves and the offensive system.
He said this was true in the case of David Jaynes, who until now had been unsure of his offensive line.
"You have to sell them on a way to play." he said.
Spencer said he was also impressed with the team's overall attitude.
"I've never seen any team work harder," he said. "As far as I'm concerned, they've got a great attitude."
Students are giving University
support this year than they did
last year, so season ticket pur-
porters can see to see
football and basketball.
"The extra $1.50 (from football teams) will go straight to the league," the athletic department, Wade Stinson, Director of Athletics, said.
The $a$-game price for the general admission tickets will remain the same. The Big Eight Conference sets minimum ticket
Football season ticket prices will be increased $1.50 from $ to $6.50 for six home games. The increase in prices will increase $ from $ to $1.50.
KU Board Ups Season Tickets
Until this year, receipts from football and basketball student tickets have gone to the KU football team. They also attended stadium and field house debts.
The Student Senate, however,
trimmed the Athletic Corporation's share of student accruals to $156,000 this year. The corporation's net operating budget for 1972-73 is $521,312.
"This is one good way to let our graduating seniors get season tickets," Novtay said. "It's hard for them to get tickets, and we'd
For 1972 graduates, season tickets will sell for $24 instead of the usual $36. John Novotny, assistant director of athletics, said that $12 reduction was the biggest for this year by the Big Eight.
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like to sell out some vacant areas of our stadium."
The idea, Novotny said, is to cultivate supporters for the athletic program among recent graduates will pay $28 per season.
Beginning with a dual meet
amid the Ames, the University of Kansas
country team will run in seven
Birmingham, Timmons,
BUT track coach leads.
Student football tickets will be punch cards again this year. Season tickets were issued as coupon books last year.
Home game tickets for students will go on sale Aug. 30. No games have been sold out, but ticket officials expect an early release of the Oct. 21 game with defending national champion Nebraska.
Kansas Track Schedule
The Jayhawks' only home test will be against Oklahoma State Oct. 21.
The Jayhawk schedule:
Sept. 23 -江owa State at Ames.
Sept. 24 -Ames State at Jamboree at Sillwater; Oct. 14 -Southern Illinois at Carboneville;
Oklahoma State at Lawrence.
Nov. 4- BigEight championship at Columbia; Nov. 11- NCAA meet at Wichita; Nov. 20- NCAA championship at Houston.
Tickets for most read games are still available. But because home teams are required to reserve no percentage of stadium seats, basketball players have encouraged students to make early reservations.
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