Section Five
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
83rd Year, No.1
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Jayhawk Practice
Thursday, August 24.1972
See Page 4.
KU football has come a long way since that first Jayawk and he was the first starter in history. His contacts to Baker, 22-9, and the Kansu
The Javhawks of 1890
City MYCA, 18, 10, before they defeated Baker, 14, 12, in
That victory was the first in history proved to be
successful by a player with 82 years.
of play, the Jayhawks have won 388 games, lost 311 and tied 49 (see Story page eleven).
Fambrough Sees Tough Grid Year
By RANDY ATTWOOD Kansan Sports Writer
"The Big Eight conference, we talk about. Know, is the toughest football league in America at this time," he said. "I've never seen it this strong. Most of the talk is about the top three teams, which are Alabama, Tennessee and now, but there are other good football teams in this conference. This might be a year of surprises. It's going to be an interesting year and I look for the entire team, to be stronger than it was a year ago."
As if the University of Kansas head football coach, Don Fambrigh, didn't have enough to worry about just competing in the Big Eight, recent NCAA restrictions have put an additional burr under the Jayhawks' saddle.
"And we still have a depth problem."
But that offensive line will only have one player, John Schroll, who was a starter last season and, like other segments of the KU team, lacks experience.
"It was mostly done for actions four years ago," Bambrough said. "The Big Eight already penalized us and I don't know of any other phase of society where we can be held accountable for same crime. There isn't anything we can do about it and let's talk about football."
KU'S STRENGTH offensively should be in its passing game, Fambrough said. "If we can come up with a good offensive line that can give us the pass protection, I think that our passing game will be our main threat."
This year there's plenty to talk about.
Big Eight Again Features Big Three
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By PHIL BRADY
Kansan Sports Writer
The 1-2-3 super powers of 1971, Nebraska, Colorado and Oklahoma, are favored once again to romp across the 1972 collegiate football scene.
Many coaches believe the toughest competition for the super powers will be within the conference. Since that glorious 24-hour span covering New Year's Eve and New Year's night, when Nebraska won the Orange Bowl, Oklahoma the Sugar Bowl, Kansas the Big Ten, the second division teams in the Big Eight lessened the gap the super three have created. The principal reason is the quarterback.
Four of the five second division teamboast a proven signal-caller. Iowa State has George Amundson, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, Blackman, and Kansas, Davis Jaynes. Missouri recently found junior Ed Johnbrowd scholarly ineligible, so the quarterback there will fall to Iowa State. Johnbrowd has since enrolled at K-State.
A CLOSEER look at the "Big Three"
shows Colorado with the only experienced
hockey players in the league on the offense last season and ran it with the poise of a pro. His completion percentage of 39 per cent was outstanding, outstanding, totaling 1,126 yards and eight touchouts.
As far as quarterbacks are concerned, Nebraska and Oklahoma are in the same boat. Both have to replace star signal-callers with inexperienced hands.
Nebraska has sophomore David Hum, a redshirt希 with a bookof records of his freshman year. The left-handed, 6-foot-2, Nick Bostic had a better prospect than Jerry Tedesco.
Oklahoma isn't quite as fortunate. For user-free-wheeling wishbone offense, the Sooners could only contain quarterback, the Move Dave Robertson. Robertson is a 'man'
Jayhawk Football Schedule
runner, but clinched the starting job on know-how. He made quick correct decisions on the triple option in the spring and avoided mistakes.
IOWA STATE, the tentative winner of the second division, has its own proven quarterback in converted tailback George Amundson (6-3, 220). Amundson was quarterback two years ago but was thrown to season when the original tailback broke out. He did do was a new school mark by rushing for 1,310 yards and 15 touchdowns.
Oklahoma State has junior Brent Blackman. At 5-11, 160 pounds, Blackman resembles more Twiggy to a football player but he is considered to have excellent ability. He has good hands and quickness.
With Dennis Morrison back, K-State could put a lot of pressure on Iowa State. Operating as a dropbock pass, the rangy 6-3 Morrison connected on 105 of 205 aerial attempts for 1,194 yards and six touchdowns in the first performance last year convinced Coach Vince Gibson that he had the mankind of an even more potent attack this season.
Missouri must pick between two inexperienced quarterbacks. John Cherry, a 6-foot, 22-year-old junior college transfer, 22-year-old Milkill will fight it out for the ton position.
KU HAS David Jaynes. Jaynes' 71 statistics aren't terribly impressive, but he feels he has finally reached the maturity to guide the Jayhaws to victory.
September 9. Washington State at Lawrence
September 10. Florida State at Lawrence
September 11. Alabama State at Lawrence
October 1. Kansas State at Manhattan
October 2. Iowa State at Lawrence
October 3. Illinois State at Lawrence
November 1. Florida State at Boulder
November 2. Colorado State at Boulder
November 3. California State at Columbia
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At wingback, Johnny Rodgers of Nebraska has done everything but sell programs. The elusive 5-10, 10-pounder dances each time he handled the ball in 1971.
The popularity of Big Eight quarrebacks may not equal that of three other
With their punishing running attack, the Colorado Buffaloes have kept with tradition and with junior running surprise Charlie Davis. At 5-10, 200 pounds, Davis gained 1,386 yards and 10 touchdowns last season. He also broke the Big Eight single game rushing record with 342 yards against Oklahoma State.
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Sept. 29 Missouri at Columbia (2 p.m.)
Oct. 13 Mississippi at Manhattan (1:30 p.m.)
Oct. 17 Oklahoma State at LSU
Nov. 6 Oklahoma State at Lawrence (2 a.m.)
OKLAHOMA'S Greg Pruitt, who has a great chance of winning the Heisman Trophy, will spearhead what was the conference's most potent offense last year. Pruitt rushed for 1,665 yards and 17 touchdowns last season.
As if it were an in-state tradition, the state also can boast a strong offensive line.
Prutti will be fortunate enough to run behind the best offensive line in the conference. The Sooner line is led by all-American Tom Brahney. He'll be flanked by seniors Ken Jones and Dean Unrhl. Both are predicted to be All-Big Eight.
"The offensive line, from the standpoint of learning, showed the greatest improvement in the spring," Coach Dave Smith said recently.
Nebraska has room to improve its interior line, Senior center Doug Dumler and junior tackle Daryl Daryl are the only returnees. This inexperience doesn't include tight and Jerrick List.
The 6-1, 218-pound List is only one of a potential All-America tight ends in the league.
OAKLHÖMÄ HAS senior Albert Chandler, and Kansas, John Schroll. Kansas State will go with Henry Childs. Kansas will go with Eight can look to Nebraska, the best.
The Cornhuskers held 10 of 13 opponents to a touchdown or less last year and figure it was the best performance.
All-Americans Rich Glover and Willie
Oklahoma's defense appears to have improved. Though the team returns only four starters, three of them, linemen Raymond Hamilton, Derland Moore and Justin Wilson standouts. The seven replacements are improved, although experienced, talent.
Harper return to bolster a defensive line that averages -04.7 in the 40-dard vass
Glover, who on occasion last year made defense a one-man game, will play the middle guard position. Harper will man the end position.
Bill Jansen and John Dutton will hold down the tackle spots. Both have the quickness and strength to receive post-season honors.
Joe Blahak, an All-Big Eight corser and an inexperienced Nebraska secondary
THE ONLY队 that can come close to Nebraska's defense is Iowa State. That team was the first to win the game.
returning, a sound nucleus when you
open the door. Only to only to
Nebraska on defense last season.
Experimentation is the key word for the Colorado defense. Their original widetackle six will be converted to a 44-Standouts on the Colorado defense will include Jerry Williams, Bubba Bridges, Bill Donnell or mar- Marine Bag Magnum.
Jim Ryun to Face Ultimate Test When Olympics Begin in Munich
Before leaving for Munich and the 1972 Olympics, Jim Ryn returned last week to his old stomping grounds in Lawrence for one last race. Some 4,000 expectant homeowners showed up at Memorial Stadium, perhaps anticipating the ex-Jayhawk to make one last, fabulous dash for glory before departing.
It didn't happen.
Running in probably his last race in the United States this year, the 25-year-old Ryun stumbled to one of his worst performances in recent weeks, turning in a run at 9:13.4 mark in the two-mile run. It was only worth for third place in the four-man race.
Grant McLaren and George Young, who will meet each in the 5,000 meter run in Munich, finished one-two in the match ahead of Ryan McLaren. McLaren finished with a lead while Young came in at 8:43. Young took an American record-holder, with an 9:22 mark
RYUAN, WHOSE showing was his worst ever in Lawrence, made no excuses for his performance. But it wasn't because he lacked any.
The other entrant in the race, Ken Sparks, failed to finish.
1500 meter run and that he has earned his right to be there.
Coach Bob Timmons quickly explained to writers after the race that Ryan had been busy moving all day before the run. He also said Ryan had gone to the airport in Kansas City that day to pick up McLaren.
That puts him ahead of several other former or current University of Kansas athletes who strove for a berth on the U.S. Olympic team.
Ryun wasn't as kind. He admitted disgust with himself, declaring he should have known better and rested before he ran.
Nevertheless, Ryun, who three weeks later raced the world's third fastest mileer with a time of 1.068 seconds.
JAVELIN THROWER Sam Colson, high
And the Kansas speedster has good reason not to be. No matter how good or bad he did here, Ryun knows that the final test will come Sept. 7 in Munich with the
jumper Barry Schur, spinner Mark Latz and hurdler Delario Robinson all saw their Olympic hopes vanish on the U.S. trials in Eurea. Ore.
Rated the top left-handed javelin
trower in the nation, with a best of 272-8
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Fambrough admitted, "but I really feel that with experience, by about the middle of the season, we will have more depth of play than we had a counting on many of our young sophomores as the team as a whole has more quality football players at this time than we had a year ago. I felt that last year we got about 50 minutes and they were available. The football team this year should improve from week to week—the talent's there. I've seen a lot of years in the past where, with a football team like we've done so, we mainly be competing for the championship.
FAMBROUGH WAS an assistant coach at KU for 19 years under J. V. Sikes, Jack Mitchell and Pepper Rodgers before he was given the head coaching job. He knows just how important those assistant coaches are.
Fambrough pointed out that KU will be playing five teams that went to bowl games last year: four from the Big Eight plus Florida State. Four of those games had them beat the team, "we're going to have to work harder, get in better condition and have great team morale and spirit. This is another thing that's very pleasing about this football team. When I told them about the coach's disappointment, the coaches were disappointed. The coaches were disappointed because we feel this time in the Big Eight conference there are four teams who will have a chance to go to some bowl game. And I know a lot of people will say that, but our football team doesn't feel that way and our coaches don't feel that way.
"I extremely happy with our coaching staff," he said of the present staff. "I was very fortunate in working under coaches who gave me a lot of responsibility and I thought that they did a better job. Feeling that I had that responsibility, I worked harder and I've tried to continue that type of philosophy. I give my assistants a lot of responsibility and I think that they apply it well and certainly a big part of this coaching staff."
"WE FELT like we had an excellent chance to compete in one of those bowl games. But that's out the window now and I'm not sure we can win. Our seniors. Our kids were feeling sorry for themselves for a little while, but by the time they walked out onto the practice field, it was all over. And had the best practice that afternoon that I'd had and it's continued through today."
Fambrough said of the first week of practice, "We feel like we've accomplished just as much as we could these days. We've got more competent condition. We've got more competition, and I know that that's another big difference that we've noticed from a year ago at this time: that we've got more competition for positions. That's what makes football. When you look at a team like Nebraska, or any of the great football teams, is actually the thing that made them compete, intrasquad competition."
Coach Fambrough thinks the NCAA restrictions have served to make the team "a closer group." And he was very serious when he said, "We can still compete for it." Fambrough also took it, we're going to play eleven basketball games this fall starting Sept. 9th.
Kansas Staff Photo by JOE COLEMAN
Jim Ryun and Coach Timmons After the Race
. No excuses from the ex-Jayhawk .