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Page 14 University Daily Kansan, October 23, 1981
Kansas-K-State contest more than just a game
More six-packs will be won and lost on this week's game than on any other this season.
the Kansas-Kansas State rivalry is one of the oldest and bitterest in the country. Much more than just Big Eight football is involved. It's pride, it's bragging rights, it's the saving face, it's hundreds—and thousands—of dollars and dime-bits across the state. It's a big deal.
THE TWO SCHOOLS will meet for the 79th time at 1:30 p.m. in Memorial Stadium.
The Jahawk-Wildcat faceoff may cause brails in big-city bars, but the outcome never weighs so heavily as on the shoulders of small-clubs. The needle feeding either red and blue or purple and white.
The was the only kid on the block—the only one in town, for that matter, or in the world for all I know—to have my room re-done in Jayhawk and Lodge. "We'd go to Kansas," he said. As one of a handful of Kansas fans in the Purple Pride村 of Lincoln, Kan, I grew up crowing in the halls about KU victories and hiding under stairways after defeats. And there were a few days when I experienced that kind of annoyance.
Six pairs of high school teammates will line up staring each other in the eye instead of playing side-by-side this season, some for the Nassau and others for number 27 Kansas natives: KU's has 17.
"THERE ARE a bunch of guys from my high school team that play for them, you know. I don't know." Fitzs
TRACEE HAMILTON
says. "My hometown (Lyons) is pretty much all K-State so if we lose, I kind of have to sneak back into town, but when we win, I hold my head high."
And from the other side of the fence . . .
"Tim Friess and I are friends, but we didn't play together in high school because I broke his arm years ago, which was his senior year," Wilidut Mark Humbert said going to be real excited to play KU and it will be a big challenge."
One of the furthest worries from Head Coach Don Famibaugh's mind this week was getting his first start.
"It doesn't make any difference." Fambrough said of K-State's 1-5 record. "They'll play like gangbusters. It's the big game of the year for both teams.
"We're not being fooled. Darrell Ray Dickey is a fine quarterback. I can vouch for 35 years
as a player and coach. It's amazing how that team can perform on one Saturday every day.
FAMBROUGH, however, has been known to be overzealous in his enthusiasm for the Governor's cup game. Offensive guard and captain David Lawrence, also a native of Kansas, said that several years ago, in an effort to fire up the Jayhawks before a K-State game, Fambrough told them a story about his days as a player.
“‘When I was a player here as a freshman,’” Lawrence quotes Farnbaugh, “‘I was thinking, ‘Who’s K-State?’ and they came in by and the grace of God we won, 6-0.’”
"Well, Ray Evans looked it up later, and KU won that year, 47-0." Lawrence says, shaking hands with the other team.
Riled may be what the Jayhawks need, however. The two Kansas schools have the most dismal offences in the Big Eight conference.
They are comparable in other ways. K-State gained wide notoriety when Coach Jim Dickey shredded seven of his starting players this season in an effort to build for the future. Fambrough certainly didn't follow suit, but injuries to several key players at different times, plus the serious injury to Kerwin Bell, accomplished much the same thing.
BOTH TEAMS are coming off disastrous defeats at the hands of perennial powers Nebraska and Oklahoma. The Jayhawks fell in a tie with Iowa, searching for their first conference victory.
Both, too, are looking for an offensive punch. The younger Dickey has been injured much of the season, but he has been called, by some, the best quarterback in the Rie Eight
But those who didn't pick Dickey for that honor usually named KU's Frank Seurier, who after struggling earlier in the season, may have gained some confidence on the first-half offensive last Saturday in Norman. His 1,232 career yards already put him in 10th place on the KU all-time passing list. He needs 93 yards to take over seventh place. Ironically, offensive coordinator John Hadl is the ninth-ranked passer that Seurier will soon overcome
SENIOR linebacker Kyle McNorton is also moving in on a record. The Topean needs 29 tackles to assume the top spot on the list of KU all-time leading tacklers, the place now held by Leroy Irwin. Ironically, too McNorton will need to step up to tackle Coach Micheal Swain, who is second on the list.
McNorton was the only Jayhawk to suffer a serious injury in last Saturday's loss to the Sooners. Adhesions from an old knee injury would be hard for McNorton would be ready to go tomorrow.
"I'd decide Friday night or Saturday if he'll
have it," Farnham said. "But he'll plan it.
He would."
| | Hamilton | Haggetrom | Schaad | Leibengood | Richardson | Parker |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Kansas State at Kansas | Kansas 24-7 | Oklahoma 26-14 | Kansas 20-7 | Kansas 17-14 | Kansas 24-10 | Kansas 22-21 |
| Oregon State at Oklahoma | Oklahoma 35-6 | Oklahoma 45-10 | Oklahoma 33-14 | Oklahoma 35-21 | Oklahoma 35-10 | Oklahoma 56-7 |
| Louisville at Oklahoma State | Oklahoma State 15-9 | Oklahoma State 31-14 | Oklahoma State 14-10 | Louisville 14-10 | Oklahoma State 20-7 | Oklahoma State 16-14 |
| Colorado at Iowa State | Iowa State 35-10 | Iowa State 35-17 | Iowa State 21-6 | Iowa State 31-10 | Iowa State 42-10 | Iowa State 35-10 |
| Nebraska at Missouri | Nebraska 21-20 | Nebraska 24-20 | Nebraska 14-13 | Nebraska 24-14 | Nebraska 24-7 | Nebraska 20-17 |
| Southern Cal at Notre Dame | Notre Dame 24-23 | Southern Cal 24-14 | Southern Cal 35-17 | Southern Cal 28-7 | Southern Cal 19-10 | Southern Cal 24-17 |
| North Carolina State at Clemson | Clemson 28-3 | Clemson 31-17 | Clemson 35-3 | Clemson 35-7 | Clemson 14-10 | Clemson 21-14 |
| Wisconsin at Illinois | Illinois 10-9 | Wisconsin 24-21 | Wisconsin 20-9 | Wisconsin 24-20 | Wisconsin 41-7 | Illinois 28-24 |
| Michigan State at Purdue | Purdue 21-14 | Purdue 28-17 | Purdue 27-10 | Purdue 42-14 | Michigan State 17-3 | Purdue 27-10 |
| Penn at Yale | Yale 19-9 | Yale 35-10 | Yale 28-17 | Yale 35-14 | Yale 17-10 | Yale 28-14 |
| Season Totals | 34-25-1 | 40-19-1 | 35-24-1 | 32-27-1 | 33-28-1 | 36-23-1 |
Predictions
The predictors are Tracee Hamilton, sports editor; Ron Haggagstrom, associate sports editor; Bob Schaad, managing editor; Larry Leibengood, business manager; Earl Richardson, photographer, and Tim Parker, sports writer.
Intrasquad meet will open swimming season
By GINOSTRIPPOLI
Sports Writer
The men's and women's swimming teams will inaugurate their 1981-82 seasons with a combined intersquared meet at 7 p.m. tomorrow in Robinson Natatorium.
For Coach Gary Kemp, it will be a chance to see both their teams in competition against each other.
"THIS WILL be a great chance for us to check our conditioning and versatility going into the season," Kempt, who is entering his sixth year of his coach's and his first as the men's coach, said.
The meet will consist of six events, the 100-meter intermediate medley, the 100-meter flystroke, the 100-meter backstroke, the 100-meter breaststroke, the 100-meter freestyle and the 200-meter freestyle. Each team member will perform in each event. In addition, the divers will compete from both the 1- and 3-meter diving boards.
The meet winner will be decided by adding up all the times of the swimmers in each event. Kemp said that this was a good way to make every score important to the team.
"THIS IS A chance for us to get everyone involved in some actual competition." Kemp said
the team that will compete tomorrow have the potential to continue the long line of championship Kansas swimming teams.
The women's team will be led by returning All-American Jenny Wagstaff, Wagstaff, a sophomore, won Big Eight championships in the 100- and 200-meter individual medleys, the 200- and 200-meter meter butterfly. She also placed in three events at the ALAW National Championships last year.
"Jenny was one of the premier freshman
enviruem in the country last week."
summers in the country last year, "Kemp said. Other top returnees for the women will be Tammy Thomas, Mary Kay Fitzgerald and Susan Schafer.
THE MEN'S team will be led by Ron Nutgent, who made the 1980 United States Olympic team. He will be joined by Big Eight champions Bob Vince and Gardner Wright.
"We'll look to Ron for big scoring at the NCAA championship. We'll also have to help some of the other players."
Kempf said that his main goals for the two teams this year would be for the men's team to regain the Big Eight Championship, which it has lost for the past two seasons, and for the women's team to win its eight straight Big Eight Championship. He said he also hoped the women would finish in the top 10 at the NCAA national meet.
"We have the nucleus to have the strongest team that we've ever had," Kempf said. "The team is working harder than ever, and in my coach, he has become a women's coach, I see us taking a positive step."
Hockey YESTERDAY'S RESULTS
TODAY'S GAMES
National Hockey League
Boston 2, Detroit 1
St. Louis 3, Minnesota
St. Louis 4, Pittsburgh
Toronto at Buffalo
New York Islanders at Washington
Pittsburgh at Wisconsin
Philadelphia at Hartford
Harrison at Hardcover
Soccer
The KU women's soccer club will lake on the Kansas State women's team 9 a.m. tomorrow at 2:20 and Iowa streets.
Rugby
The KU Ragley Club will play the K-State Ragley Club 1:30 p.m. Sunday at 2:14 and Iowa.
Intramurals Football
The RU BII Hill Championship football team, the Pitpip, will play in a game at Lawrence High School on April 6, 2014, tomorrow at the Lawrence High School
Rugby's scrumming, mauling reputation grows
Sports Writer
By DAVE McQUEEN
In 1946, George Bunting, a KU law student who had transferred from Dartmouth, placed an ad in the Kansan looking for anybody interested in scrimmaging, rucking and mauling. His ad received 20 responses, so he borrowed some jerseys and set up a match against a team that was just getting started in Kansas City.
This match, the first game of rugby played between the Mississippi and the Rockies, in a 0-4 tie.
FROM THESE humble beginnings, the KUruguy Football Club has grown in size and reputation to become one of the best clubs in the world.
of a grade school game of "tackle the man with the bail."
Last weekend, it placed second out of 27 teams from 13
countries. It was also a match-up to rugby Tournament,
held annually in Kansas City, Mo.
For those who have never seen the game before, rugby might seem like barbary, uncontrolled mayhem. The action never stops, even if the ball is knocked loose by a bone-jarring tackle or is intercepted by an opponent. The poor unfortunate player carrying the ball usually finds himself buried under a pile of bodies, much like the results
Rugby does have some rules. The game is played on the ball, 10 yards long and 75 yards wide, known as the pitch. Each team, called a side, has 15 players—eight forwards and seven backs. The ball, which looks like an over-inflated football, can be moved either by running with it, throwing it back or laterally, or by kicking it forward. Forward passes are not allowed. Blocking isn't allowed either, and any person who can be tackled is the one carrying the ball.
SCORING IN rugby is similar to scoring in American football. Running the ball across the goal line is called a "try" and is worth four points. The scoring team also gets a conversion attempt by kicking the ball between the goalposts. However, unlike American football, this is worth two points. The ball may also be kicked between the goalposts for three points. For certain infractions, a penalty kick wood for three points is allowed.
The thing that sets rugby apart from any other sport is the scrum. A cross between the football scrimmage and the hockey face-off, the scrum is formed to bring the ball back into play after a penalty.
To form the scrum, the eight forwards on each team line up in three rows with three in the front, four in the middle
Bill Boyle (captain) waits for a pass from Kenny Dunn in the Heart of America Tour nament against the Kansas City Blues “B” side. KU won, 13-0.
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and one in the back. The players, with their arms bound tightly around each other's shoulders, act like a huge battering ram, each side shoving mighty into each other while they trv to maniulate the ball with their feet.
ONCE ONE side has succeeded in moving the ball to the
scrum, it comes back into play and the scrum is disbanded.
Why would anybody in his right mind subject himself to this kind of torture?
"You get to go out and drink and sing songs and meet a lot of people." BILLE Rule, KUBU Team合同, contain a.
You get to go out and drink and sing songs and meet a lot of people," Bill Boyle, KU Rugby team captain, said. Boyle said he started playing rugby five years ago, after an unsuccessful attempt at KU varsity football
boy said he started paying rugby five years ago, after an unsuccessful attack at KU varsity football.
Boyle said the club presently had 35 members and fielded
three more. More of the club members areLawrence
members or pkKU members.
"The club is open to anyone interested in learning about rugby," Boyle said.
"We greet everyone with open arms. We don't cut anyone, and we base the teams on experience."
ALTHOUGH MANY people think the typical rugby player is a bruiser with big hulking muscles, Boyle said size had little to do with ability. What is more important is speed, stamina and agility.
"The Europeans aren't big, but they'll take the Americans in play and thrash them."
"Because the game is played in two 40-minute halves with no timeouts, stamina is important." Bowl said.
game, the team's practices include a grunting 25-minute "death run" devised by Clive Emmanuel, the team's assistant coach. The death run includes sprinting, jogging, hopping on one foot, or running backwards around the field.
Emmanuel, who is also a visiting faculty member from Wales, said that despite the sport's brutal action, in serious need of training.
"BY AND LARGE, I don't think the injuries are any greater than those in American football," Emuelman said.
Unlike other sports, which will usually have one standout player, ruby is a total team effort.
"Rugby is a game which builds camaraderie. Each man that knows his relation to his teammates. All 15 have to play."
This camaraederie has drawn many people to the game, including Martin Gray, Salina sophomore.
"It's the most social game I've been associated with," Graetze said. "And you still go out and drink beer together after the match."
Doug McCauley, a KU graduate who has been on the team more than five years, agreed.
IT'S THE only sport where you can play hard for 80 minutes and still come out friends. McCauley said.
Jim Bartle, Champaign. Ill. law student, said he liked rugby because it was a "gentleman's game."
Everyone understands that the her can not see everything," Bartle said. "A lot of stuff could happen. So it's almost like a gentlemen's agreement that you play by the rules."
Because the game requires a total team effort, Bardle told that the game would never become as popular as felt.
"There will never be an O.J. Simpson or a Joe Namath.
but there will be a lot of people who are good at their positions," he said.
Over the years the KU rugby team has started a lot of traditions. These range from the "dead dog" chant, an obscene variation of the KU "Rock Chalk" chant, which features the word "chomp." The KU rugby team during a game in 1968, to the "third half," the inevitable celebration after the game is over when the two sides get together to sing songs and drink lots of beer.
IN LAWRENCE, the place where most third-half activity takes place is Johnny's Tavern. 401 N. 2nd St.
Rik Reinford and Doug Hassag, the taverns' co-owners,
both play for the team. According to Renfo, the upstarts of
the taverns have a great reputation.
In addition to being used for post-game activities, Renfo the room would also be used to display the team's award.
The club also receives support from private businesses. This year, the team is being sponsored by Lapea Inc., local distributors of Coors Beer. Despite all these sources, the players still had to pay for most of their expenses.
To keep the team going, Bartle said it had to raise money in a variety of ways. In addition to getting an allocation from the University Sports Club Program, the team holds fund-raisers and receives donations from the community.
The team plans eventually to buy land and build a clubhouse of their own, he said.
In addition to the second-plain finish Saturday, the team has had some other successes this year. The team's overall record is 6-3, including a 24-19 victory over the powerful Kansas City Blues. That victory, Bartle said, gave KU an excellent chance to represent the Heart of America Rugby Union in the national club championships later this year.
BESIDES PLAYING all over the Midwest, the team has also toured overseas. Bartle said every other year since 1977, the club had gone to Europe to play other amateur teams and learn more about the game. These tours, he have taken them to England, Scotland, Wales, and France. In 1883, the team plans on touring New Zealand.
"We've cleared the biggest hurdle by beating the Blues," Bartle said.
IN THE HEART of America Union, the teams are placed in three divisions according to their ability and record. The winner of the first division, of which KU is a member, will get to go to the national tournament.
Another important match is scheduled for Sunday, when the KU club will take on the Kansas State University rugby club in a contest for the First Lady of Kansas Cup, presented annually to the winner by the governor's wife. Both Gov. and Mrs. John Carlin are expected to be at the game.
Although KU has lost the cup only once in the eight years the two teams have been playing for it, Barrie said that KState was no pushover. Last year, he said, they advanced to the final round of the National Collegiate Championships, representing the entire Western United States. The Collegiate championships are different from the Club championships in that all players on a team must be enrolled in college, he said.
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"They've got a good rugby tradition and it makes for a very exciting game," he said.