Page 10 University Daily Kansan, November 6, 1981
McNorton should break KU all-time tackle total
By TRACEE HAMILTON Sports Editor
It's been a season of heroes.
Never mind that those have been meteoric - here today and gone tomorrow.
ROGER FOOTE, Brad Butts, Garfield Taylor—some of the Jayhawks whose stars rose and fell in record time. But tomorrow in Ames, Iowa, against the Cyclones, a quiet defensive standout will be heard from, and chances are the Cyclones and others will remember.
Senior lineback Kyle McNorton needs just four tackles to replace Leroy Irvin as all-time leading KU tackler. Irvin, now with the Los Angeles Rams, heads the list with 347. McNorton edged out his coach, Mike Sweatman, and moved into second place last week.
But McNorton says the honor isn't really on his mind.
"It's just something that happened," he says,
"it just go out and try to play my best. This is just
fun."
Defensive coordinate Tom Batta says McNorton's strength lies in his ability to find the
"KYLE IS NOT the fastest, the biggest or even the strongest linebacker in the Big Eight, but he is as good and maybe the best at finding the ball and bringing down the ball carrier," Batta says.
McNorton says that that ability is instinctive.
"I guess it's mostly instinct," McNorton says.
"You can work on it by watching films and with
the help of a computer."
"Sometimes you can pick things up by the way they (the opposition) stand. A lot of that comes from the film, Little helps help. But it's easy to say you're snapped. It's hard to rely on the other things."
Whatever McNorton has relied on, it's been successful. The Topeka nation is fifth in the Big Eight conference with 95 stops, 46 of them unassisted, despite missing some playing time.
McNorton missed the second half of the Oklahoma game and part of the Oklahoma State game.
"THE INJURY is from an operation two years ago," McNorton says. "The scar tissue and adhesions got torn up and irritated. It was stiff and sore.
"I got hit in the same place it got hurt in the first place."
McNorton is used to playing hurt, but tomorrow he'll play sick too. He is suffering from a
"I'm a lot better," he said after Wednesday's practice. "Dean (Nesmith) gave me a shot at it."
McNorton's other enemy may very well be Dwaine Crutchfield and the Iowa State offense, which kept the Cyclones in the Top 20 despite a 10-7 loss to K-State last weekend.
"He's a good running back." McNorton said of
him, the biggest (245 pounds) we'll
hear. He runs right up the middle.
"If we can stop him running, we can worry about their passing game."
MECNORTON IS optimistic about the 5-3
won over ATLANTA against Iowa State and
for the rest of the season.
"It's the first time we've ever had the chance to go along the hump, he said." If we can win $1 million on the lottery, that's good.
"We've got a realistic chance of doing it.
Everyone sees we can do it, and that's never been so easy."
Predictions
McNorton said that the winning season was a testament to his more concerned about it than any personal one.
"It just warring, you get too caught up in it," McNeart wav of the record. "You've got to be careful."
| | Hamilton | Haggatrom | Schaad | Lelibengood | Richardson | Parker |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Kansas at Iowa State | Kansas 18-15 | Kansas 20-17 | Kansas 21-17 | Iowa State 21-16 | Kansas 17-10 | Kansas 13-10 |
| Missouri at Colorado | Missouri 21-3 | Missouri 31-10 | Missouri 38-6 | Missouri 35-13 | Colorado 12-10 | Missouri 15-14 |
| Nebraska at Oklahoma State | Nebraska 28-10 | Nebraska 28-14 | Nebraska 28-10 | Nebraska 24-17 | Nebraska 31-15 | Nebraska 17-10 |
| Oklahoma at Kansas State | Oklahoma 35-7 | Oklahoma 42-7 | Oklahoma 35-7 | Oklahoma 31-10 | Oklahoma 21-17 | Oklahoma 28-7 |
| Baylor at Arkansas | Arkansas 24-21 | Baylor 24-21 | Baylor 17-10 | Arkansas 28-17 | Arkansas 21-7 | Arkansas 28-21 |
| Miami (Fla.) at Florida State | Florida State 28-24 | Florida State 17-14 | Florida State 28-21 | Florida State 20-17 | Miami 10-7 | Florida State 21-20 |
| Ohio State at Minnesota | Minnesota 10-9 | Minnesota 28-24 | Ohio State 31-16 | Ohio State 28-21 | Minnesota 8-7 | Ohio State 21-10 |
| Clemson at North Carolina | Clemson 35-28 | Clemson 31-27 | Clemson 25-13 | Clemson 31-28 | Clemson 82-10 | North Carolina 24-21 |
| Washington at UCLA | UCLA 21-14 | UCLA 27-20 | Washington 21-18 | UCLA 24-21 | Washington 21-19 | UCLA 14-7 |
| Texas at Houston | Texas 20-18 | Texas 14-10 | Texas 27-13 | Texas 17-13 | Texas 42-35 | Texas 24-17 |
| Season Totals | 49-29-2 | 55-23-2 | 48-30-2 | 45-33-2 | 46-32-2 | 52-26-2 |
The predictors are Tracee Hamilton, sports editor; Ron Haggstrom, associate sports editor; Bob Schaad, managing editor; Larry Leibengood, business manager; Earl Richardson, photographer; and Tim Parker, sports writer.
"There's no excuse. We've just got to go up there and play."
Fambrough's Cyclone counterpart, Coach Donnie Duncan, was given a three-year contract extension Wednesday by the Iowa State athletic council.
In Duncan's first season as coach, Iowa State was 3-8. Last year, the Cyclones were 6-4. This season, they were 5-1.
'If you start worrying, you get too caught up in it. You've got to put stuff like that out of your mind. The record is made to be broken. If I set this one somebody else will break it.'
—Kvle McNorton
"The record is made to be broken. If I set this one somebody else will break it."
YJHAWK NOTES: Fullback Bradd Butts will make the trip to Ames after missing several weeks of work.
Butts will be third string fullback behind E. J.
Jones and freshman Harvey Vebes
"Physically we're sound," Head Coach Don
Fambridge said after yesterday's workout.
Former Jayhawk offensive lineman Bobby Whitten was released by the Cincinnati Bengals Wednesday to make room in the lineup for tackle Brad Oates.
And there's Big Red news from Huskerland. The Nebraska fans apparently pressured ABC TV and the NCAA into putting the Cornhuserk-Oklahoma State game on the air tomorrow.
After getting more than 300 calls, ABC and the
Also from up north: A Nebraska salesman and ardent Cornbush fan who played the Nebraska band during his white passing an Iowa state trooper, has been finned $28.50 for unauthorized use of a car horn.
NCA, which jointly select the game to be telecast, decided to feed the Nebraska-OSU game to a Denver station, as well as stations in western Nebraska and South Dakota.
The fan said he played the song "as a goodwill gesture to say hello to the trooper. All of a sudden this police car's coming. He pulled me over and I asked him, 'Why are you standing for me?' I said 'Sure,' and the horn it happened.
Iowa upset Nebraska. 10-7, this season. The Huskers haven't played the Cyclones.
Former KU running back John Riggins is fourth in the NFC in touchdowns, scoring seven for the Washington Redskins. Former Jayhawk Leroy Irivin now with Los Angeles, leads the conference in punt returns with 32 for a 15.9-yard average.
Former KU wide receive David Verdis loads the PC in kick returns, averages 21.6 yards and 3.5 touchdowns.
etc.
Basketball
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
**TESTERDAY'S RESULTS**
National Backpack Association
Detroit 108. New Jersey
Milwaukee 98. Washington 90
Uah 11. Golden State 101
IH 11. IH 111
TODAY'S GAMES
Indiana at Boston
Albany at Philadelphia
San Diego at Chicago
New York at Los Angeles
Phoenix at Los Angeles
Phoenix at Los Angeles
Ulah at Fortland
Ulah at Fortland
Hockey
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
National Hockey League
Boston 2. Vancouver 1
Montreal 1. St. Louis 1
Louisiana 1. Philadelphia 2
Detroit 10. Los Angeles 2
TODAY'S GAMES
Toronto at Colorado
Chicago at Winnipeg
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