University Daily Kansan, October 26, 1981
Sports
Kansas, back to usual script, beats KSU, 17-14
Kansas, Secondary rises to the occasion
Senior linebacker Kyle McNorton celebrates KU's 17:14 victory Saturday over rival Kansas State. McNorton led the Kansas defense with 8 tackles.
By RON HAGGSTROM Associate Sports Editor
One aspect of the strong Kansas defense has gone unnoticed; the secondary.
Last Saturday's game against Kansas State was no exception.
KU's secondary, ranked second in the nation in pass defense by allowing 82.3 yards a game, has come up with the big play time and time again.
WITH THE SCORE tied at 14 in the third quarter, the Wildcats faced a fourth-1 at 10. They were down by 25 points.
The Wildcats, after calling a timeout, elected to run an option right. K-State quarterback Darrell Riley Dickey, after faking a handoff to safety, caught a pass from strong safety Gary Coleman for a 1-yard loss.
"It was just a good call (defensive goal line stunt) for me to get to the quarterback," Coleman said. "I'm supposed to follow the ball and when Dickey turned my way I nailed him."
Head Coach Don Fambrough said the play was a turning point in the game.
"That was the biggest play of the game," Fambrough said. "Gary did an excellent job on the ball."
Coleman's stop might have been the biggest play of the game, but it was cornerback Elvis Patterson's first collegiate interception that proved to be the difference in the game.
WITH THE SCORE still tied in the fourth quarter, Bruce Kallmerhey had just narrowly missed a 33-yard field goal that was wide to the left of Kallmerhey's right. The situation at the Kansas 27 when Patterson stepped in front of receiver Rich Manning, who was running a crossing pattern. Patterson returned the ball to the Wildcat 19, setting up Kallmerhey's 28-yard field goal, his third field
It was open.
"In the secondary, we react to the ball."
"Dickey was looking at him all the way," Patterson said. "He must have thought the man's eyes were wide."
"In the secondary, we react to the ball." Which is exactly what left cornerback Rod Demerrite did a few moments after Paterson's interception, when he picked off another Dickey pass with a minute and a half remaining. It was his first interception also.
The secondary has reacted well to the ball at kev times throughout the season.
"My first interception, and it came at a time when we needed it," Demerita said. "I'm hard to believe I'm the man."
In the inaper at Tulsa, free safety Roger Foote intercepted a pass and returned it 48 yards for the winning touchdown against the Golden Hurricane.
Foote also had an interception at Oklahoma
the Sooners had moved the ball to the
upfield.
THE DEPTH OF the Jayhawk secondary showed when Poole went out with a knee strain
Gentry came up with game-ending inceptions against Kentucky and Arkansas teams.
"Our secondary will react to the ball better."
Fambrich said at the beginning of the season
Six Jayhawks have reacted well enough this season to nab interceptions. Besides Patterson, Foote, Gentry and Demerite, Jeff Colter and Marcus Ridley off opposing quarterback's errant throws.
Coler picked off Oklahoma State quarterback John Doeimer's first-quarters pass and returned it 26 yards to the Cowboy 18-yard line. Wagner's interception came against Tulsa, when the senior grabbed Hurricane quarterback Kenny Jackson's pass in the Tulsa end zone. It was Wagner's first interception as a Javhawk.
"We have more speed, depth and experience in the region," Iambrough said at the conference. "It's bespoke."
Linebacker Chris Toburen summed up the play of the secondary at Saturday's 17-14 game.
"The secondary has played great all year," he said. "They deserve some credit."
Chiefs take AFC West lead with victory over Oakland
OAKLAND, Calif.—Rookie Billy Jackson scored three touchdowns and Gary Spani returned a fumble 91 yards for another score yesterday to help Kansas City erase a 17-4d逸 en route to a 28-17 triumph over the reeling Steelers on Friday. The sole possession of first place in the AFC West.
BILLY JACKSON, playing for the injured Joe Delaney, came in during the second half to score on runs of 29 yards and a pair of 3-yard plunges. Kansas City's injury wins increased when Delaney was knocked out of action at the beginning of the second half. The Chiefs opened the game already missing 10 players due to injuries.
Spani's fumble returned enda a Raider's surge in the dying seconds of the game with the Chiefs ahead, 2421. Linebacker Jackson forced Marc Wilson at the Kansas City 10.
Reserve quarterback Steve Fuller, last year's starter, came off the bench late in the second half to replace Bill Kenney and immediately picked up the Chiefs' dormant offense—which runs out of yards in the first half. Fuller connected on three passes, setting up Jackson's 9yard touchdown run.
Kansas City improved to 6-2 while the Raiders fell to 3-5.
WITH TIME RUNNING out in the first half,
Christie kicked a 30-yard field goal to give the
Lakers a 7-6 victory.
Oakland broke out quickly, scoring on its first possession as Wilson hit the streaking Morris
The Raiders' first-half surge was aided by the punting of Ray Gay, who continuously pinned the Chiefs within their own 20. Although his average was only 32.2 in the first half, he played a major role in the early moment of the game by keeping the Chiefs out of good field position.
beats KSU, 17-14 Power-I surprises defense; Kallmeyer's kick wins game
Kansas City Oakland 21, Oakland 19,
New York Giants 27, Atlanta 24, OT
Detroit 30, Buffalo 28, Philadelphia 20, Tampa Bay 10
San Francisco 19, San Diego 15,
New Orleans 17, Cincinnati 17
Chicago 20, San Diego 17, OT
Seattle 19, New York Jets 3
Denver 16, Denver 17, Detroit 17
Detroit 31, Green Bay 27
St. Louis 10, Minnesota 17
Iowa State 10, Iowa State
Oakland fullback Mark Van Eeghen and wide receiver Bob Chandler saw action for the first time since suffering serious injuries early in the season. Chandler's presence opened up the Raiders' passing attack, allowing Wilson more freedom to find open receivers.
TONIGHT'S GAME
TONIGHT'S GAME
Houston at Pittsburgh
By TRACEE HAMILTON Sports Editor
"That was a helluva game, wasn't it?" Head Coach Don Fambrough demanded of the steamy press room.
SURRENDER "Wasn't it?" he insisted
Murmurus, grunts and laughs. No one denied it. No one could.
The Jayhawks had just knocked off cross-state rival Kansas State, 17-14, in the kind of hard-fought, closely played, tightly won game that stands out in people's minds years later, and the kind of game that has come to be expected from KU.
You know the scenario. Score tied, minutes (or seconds) remaining. The opposition is intercepted (or fumbles). The Jahywah march downfield (or a few yards) and score in adverse conditions and in a notable way. Very Hollywood-like.
KU place kicker Bruce Kallmeyer added a new dimension to the same old story. He missed a field goal try with the score locked at 14 and 4:28 remaining.
(Here the script reads, 'Fans sad, begin to leave stadium, when suddenly...')
What suddenly happened was Elvis Patterson's interception of Darrell Riley Dickey's pass to Justin Hill during the ball to the K-State 19. The Jahyhs failed to score a touchdown on three plays, and Kallmerw was given a second chance. With a 1:33 remaining, he kicked a 28-yard field goal.
(JUBILATION, hugging, high fives, oranges from the stands.)
Safety Rod Demeriteir insured KU of the victory by picking off another Dickey pass on the ground.
"The first one didn't miss by much, maybe an inch or two," Kallmyer said. "I'd rather miss by 10 feet but I just had to concentrate on the second one and make it."
"I could sit here a long time and praise the Kansas State football team," Fambrough said. "They played exactly like I said they would all week.
(Camera fades from modest hero to beaming coach).
"OUR FOOTBALL team came back in the second half like I expected they would. It was an exciting football game. I feel for those players hard as they played, it's hard to be a loser."
It's especially hard when your team comes in with a new offense, runs all over the opposition's defense for three quarters and nearly comes up with what might have proven to have been the Wildcats' second and final victory of the season.
"In the first half they took it to us," Fambrough admitted. "They did things we weren't expecting. They lined up with three backs, a power attack, and were successful.
"We got ourselves in trouble with the roughing the punter call. That was a costly mistake."
The penalty-prone Jayhawks committed the first roughness call in the first quarter, but the Wildcats failed to score on the mistake. But the tougher the passer call came in the second quarter, on third down and 9 at the Kansas 17, 20 at the Minnesota 22, and Mark Hardyld scored from the 1-yard line.
BUT IT WAS the new K-State offense that surprised the usually steady Javahk defense.
"We worked on it all week," Head Coach Jim Dibey said. "We never used it (the power set) on it."
"The formation utilizes Eric Mack for blocking. He's the work horse. We moved people over there (to the right) because we had one person running there than they had defending."
Kansas linebacker Chris Toburen said the KU defense had never seen the formation after last season.
"they came out of the power-I," Toburon said. "we just weren't going after it."
"We just played with more emotion in the second half," defensive lineman Broderick Thompson said. "We just got after them more."
K-State took advantage of the defense's early confusion on its first possession, marching into position before Glenview.
THE JAYHAWK turned around at the start of the second period, also going 80 yards in 10 plays for a score. But K-State came right back with a tally, and led at the half, 14-7.
But the offense was sparked in the second half by the running performance of tailback Dino Boll who came into the game in the fourth quarter. Kansas touchdown, running the ball 4 yards.
But his second run of the game was far more spectacular. Bell, the younger brother of injured tailback Kerwin Bell, took the ball around left end for a 37-yard touchdown run, the longest run from scrimmage this season for the Jayhawks and the longest touchdown
Bell finished the day with 87 yards on 16 carries.
"You're going to see more and more of Dino Bell," Fambrough said of the freshman, "He played a good game. But I can hardly wait for them when we have Dinko and Kerwin together."
Bell turned tailback several weeks ago when Gartfield Taylor was injured. He first played against Oklahoma last week, carrying the ball six times for 23 yards against the Sooners. Bell moved to the backfield from defensive back, and his presence, plus the rebirth of Frank Seurer's arm, has turned around the sluggish Kansas offense.
"At the beginning of the season we weren't executing that well, but luckily in the past couple of games the offense has begun to pick up," Bell said.
The pick is up in large part due to Seurer's second team, which has memorandum of馨子 is 12 of 16 for 100 yards Saturday.
"I felt like he had a lot more poise and confidence," Fambrough said of Seurer. "He got it the last two weeks. I really felt he was turning loose."
Seurer, too, felt the change in his performance.
"A LOT of things started clicking," Seurer said. "I felt we threw the ball easily against them. We made a backside wall and it gave me time to throw."
Fambrough credited part of Seurer's success to the receivers. Wayne Capres caught 4 passes for 49 yards, and Russ Bastin and Bob Johnson each caught 3 for 54 vards.
"Russ played a great game today," Fambridge said. "I think he caught more balls."
Fambour refused, however, to speculate on this
muskegs game against Nebraska at Lincoln.
"Why'd you have to bring that up?" he said, laughing.
JAYHAWK NOTES: Former Kansas linebacker Kirby Criswell, now a defensive end with the St. Louis Cardinals, has been on the injured reserve with a broken forearm. Criswal recently suffered blockage of the lower finger he was poked in the eye during practice.
Bob Whiten, a former KU offensive tackle, has been resigned as a free agent at UCLA.
Ron Jessie, a former wide receiver for Kansas, had 1 reception for 24 yards for the Buffalo Bills in their 9-7 victory over the Denver Broncos.
Former Kansas running back John Riggins,
now with the Washington Redskins, rushed
15 times for 40 yards as Washington downed New
England, 24-22.
Dodgers rally to defeat New York, 2-1
By United Press International
LOS ANGELES—Pedro Guerrero and Steve Yeager finally solved the mystery of Ron Gudway with back-to-back seventh-inning homers yesterday and moved the Los Angeles Dodgers to within one victory of their first World Series game. They added a 21-triumph over the New York Yankees.
AFTER A TRAVEL day today, the Series resumes in New York tomorrow night, and the Dodgers will try to nail down the championship by sending right-hander Burt Hooton to the mound against ex-teammate Tommy John. John beat Hooton in Game 2 of the Series.
Jerry Rexus, surviving a record-tiring three errors by his iron-gloved second baseman, Davey Lopes, tossed a five-hitter to help the Giants win a sweep of the three games at Dodger Stadium.
For Guerrero, who entered the game batting just .231 in the Series, it was his first home run while Yeager, only a .268 hitter during the season, also played in the World Series, hit his second off Gudrya.
Gudry was beaten the Dodgers three straight times in World Series play without a loss, including two games.
REUSS, the first-game loser, struggled in the early innings mainly because of Lopez's shoddy defensive play. The lanky left-hander struck out three in winning his first World Series game.
But Reuss, who failed to survive the third inning of Game 1, got out of the jam by getting Rick Cerone to hit into a double play and retiring Alejandro Rodriguez on a grounder to short. The Yankees also put two runners on base in the third with one out, but Reuss retired Dave Winfield on a fielder's choice and struck out Jackson to stifle the threat.
Given a pre-game pep talk by owner George Steinbrunner, the Yankees grabbed a 1- lead in the second on a run-scoring single by Lou Piniella, but they had chances for big innings in the second, third and fourth and were unable to come through with a clutch hit.
Lopes tried hard to give the game away in the early innings. In the second, Reggie Jackson led off with a double and moved to third when Lopes booted Bob Watson's grounder in the hole for his first error. When Finaela smiled to left to drive the ball looked as if it would be a big inning for the Vankees.
THE YANKEES' best chance to break the game open came in the fourth, when they loaded up and made it 5-1.
Lopes. Watson drew a headoff walk, and Pinieia then hit a soft grounder to Lopes' left that the second baseman bobbed. In his haste to get Pinieia at first, Lopes threw the ball into the Yankee dugout, and New York ended up with runners on second and third.
The runners had to hold, however, as Cerone bounced out to short, and Rodriguez then was walked intentionally to load the bases. Gudryn then tried a squeeze bunge, but he pushed the ball too hard, and Reuss was able to field it and throw home for a forceout. Reuss then retired Willie Randolph on a hard grounder to first for the final out.
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Hockey
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
VESTERDAYS RESULTS
Chicago 4, St. Louis 4
Minnesota 6, Buffalo 3
Oklahoma City 5, Montreal 4, New York Rangers 2
Wilmington 9, Los Angeles 4
Tampa Bay 7, Philadelphia 1
KU's Fijis win cross-state intramural football contest
It wasn't the usual KU-K-State matchup
KU's intramural champions, the Fijis,
dual K-State's champion, the TKES, 14-
3.El-Arida.
The game colors didn't match a traditional KU-KState game. The Flijs wore white shirts with purple lettering, and the TKEs wore red shirts with gold letters.
THIS WAS THE second year of the cross-
state championship sponsored by Coors.
He earned a national title.
disthouleur, came up with the idea last year. It’s always at the place where the KU-Karabah is located.
With people visiting Leland on the KU-KR with many of the players saw Friends from the show.
Other players didn't expect to see people they knew.
"I was surprised to see them," Jeff Stanton, FIJ, said of his high school friends. "We were shocked when we met."
"There's a lot from my home town," Fiji coach Matt Stinson of Salina, Kalau, said.
The TKEs had gone 9-0 in the K-State intramural league and had returned all of last week's games.
Jon Gillan, a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at K-State, was up for the preside-
"The KEKS beat us, and I want to see them beat someone else," he said.
The TKES played at a disadvantage, using KICKS more than one forward pass on each play.
The TKEs adjusted and moved down the field to take an early lead, 6-4. The Flijs blocked the extra point attempt, and it turned out to be the difference in the game.
The Flijs struck back with an 80-yard drive to take the lead at the half, 7-6.
The TKEs got the lead back in the second half after a punt backed them to their own 5-yard line. Two short passes got them to the 14-yard line. The first was a dive for the Filii front for an 86-word touchdown.
THE FLIJS CAME right back, driving down the field for the winning score. 14-13.
The Fijis captured their second trophy of the year, and they said this victory was the best.
"This one is a little special," Rock Jackson of the F I s s s a t h e o n s isn't any pressure at all."