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Thursday, December 7, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Ortman aims at all-around record
Sports Writer
By STEVE SELL
Ron Ottman is used to being the best when it comes to gymnastics and being the best at the Olympics.
The all-around is a composite scoring of six gymnastic events.
Once Ortman conquers the pommel horse event, he will be probably the best gymnast at KU. He is a good bet to surpass KU's gymnasts all-around record of $23.00.
Ortman, a sophomore, already rates from very good to excellent with his best scores in the all-around's other five events: still rings, 8.8, long-horse vaillant, 8.8; floor exercise, 8.85; horizontal bars, 8.55; and parallel bars, 8.3.
But the pommel horse, the most difficult event in gymnastics, has thus far kept him from setting the all-around marsh. His best performance was held down his best all-around total to 49.88.
"I have had some trouble on the pennel horse, but I have been working on it very hard in practice and I think I am coming around." Ortman said recently.
ORTMAN TEAMS up with another sophomore, Brad Boechr, to give Ku a solid one-two punch in the all-around event, according to coach Bob Lockwood.
Lockwood agrees that Ortman needs polish in the pommel horse event to become one of the better all-around performers in the Big Eight.
"Both Ron and Brad are sophomores and with a little more time will probably surpass the school record," Lockwood said. "They give us a solid foundation to build on."
"The pommel horse requires a lot of work, but Ron is very dedicated," Lockwood said. "He does very well in the other events and I think in time he will do well in the pommel
THE ALL-AROUND队 was associated with Orthman in high school. At Addison, III., Trail High School, he was captain. In 1965, he led the Illinois state team. He was also the all-around state team.
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Ortman came to KU on the recommendation of another Addison High graduate, Bill Harms, now the captain of the KU team.
champion and was selected as Addison Trail 't rall the athlete his senior year.
"Bill showed me around the campus and I was impressed right away," Ortman said. "And when I talked to Coach Lockwood, he told me the kind of program he wanted to build at KU and it was the kind I wanted to be a part of."
KU's young team probably will not be a contender for top honors in the Big Eight this year against such powerhouses as national champions Oklahoma, Nebraska and Iowa State, but fourth place is very much a possibility for the Jayhawks.
"OKLAHOMA, NEBRASKA and Iowa State are all very good." Ortmann said. "Our goal is to beat Colorado, because they are probably our closest rival."
The season, though early, has not gone the way Ortman wanted it to.
"I WASN'T really prepared for the Big Eight Invitational," he said. "It wasn't a very good meet for me, but there were a few bright moments."
Kansas finished fifth in that tournament.
Kansas finished fifth in that tournament. The Midwest Open Invitation, held in Chicago over the Thanksgiving holiday, through no one from KU advanced to the finals.
And Ron Ortman's finish in the all-around probably will depend on his performance in the second round.
"It will be like the Midwest Open," he
added. "There should be a lot of good compa-
nies."
"I had a really good horizontal bar routine going until I felt off "Ottman said. "But it was very difficult." Ottman is looking forward to the Rocky Mountain Open in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Rugby tour highlights best season
By MICHELLE BROWN
Sports Writer
Fifteen years have passed since KU's Rugby Club was formed, and the top is finally in sight. At the close of its fall season, the club could account for a nearly perfect season record of 17-3, the best record ever by a KU team.
On KU's list of wins are the Kaw Valley Cup Tournament title and the First Lady's Cup. The cup was presented to KU by the governor's wife, Olivia Bennett, for being this year's winners of the annual KU-K State rugby game last month.
The KU ruggers lost to only two teams this season in Kansas City Blues, and the St. Louis Raptors.
THE HIGHLIGHT of the season for team members David Hay and Kay Roger Walter was their second playoff team, in the tournament, in the tournament, the most prestigious in the Midwest, KU downed four teams, including favorited Desmond Browning, before losing to the Blues in the finals.
"No one expects a college team to do that well in this tournament," said Walter. "Des Moines is a top power and favored to play it. I don't think why we were so excited to get that far."
Hay said, "That was definitely the height of our stairs. We went on to win most of our other stars."
KU did uo on, losing only one more game—to the Ramblers. The semifinal game was decided on a dropletk after nine time and two overtimes had ended in ties.
THE FALL SEASON is over and the spring season won't begin until late March.
but the club isn't taking a break yet. On Dec.
30, the team leaves for a tour in Scotland
and Ireland, where it will play teams from
each country.
The tours were arranged by former KU architecture professor Allen Chapman, now at K-State, but still a "member" of the KU team and one of its biggest promoters.
Chapman, originally from Cornwall, helped organize the club by drawing up its constitution. He then planned the tour to England, making arrangements for the team while on his honeymoon the summer before the trip.
The team has asked several members from other teams in their region to fill in at KU's weaker positions and for KU players who could not make the trip.
The tour is the second of its kind for the k-队 team. Two years ago, it traveled to the United States.
"The quality of rugby is improving here. We're trying to keep up our club by constantly recruiting. We even have a table in the field house during enrollment."
"The tour will help develop and promote rugby," said Hay, the tour's team captain.
"In England, it's a different kind of game," he said. "Rugby is their most important sport. It's patronized by the people; it has an appeal to them. They have clubbues and everything."
WALTER WAS ANSI good for team members to see and experience rugby in England.
Rugby is a social sport and the tour will have its share of socializing in addition to the games. After each game, both teams get together for beer and talk in the clubhouse.
"That's the neat aspect about this sport," Walter said. "We'll all know and sing the same songs because they're traditional. We'll have some late nights, too, because the whole town shows up and buys you a drink."
THE TEAM WILL begin its tour in Scotland, where it will participate in Hogmanay, a four-day celebration of Scotland's most important holiday. The team will stay in Scotland a week and play 8 to 10 games.
KU will play a game in Scotland's national pitch, Murray Field, against a 19-year-old club, the Edinburgh Wanderers. The field is 80 yards wide and its arena seats 80,000 to 100,000 people.
KU will also play games against Haddinton and Howe of Fife.
The team will then spend a week in
Collegians, Old Believers or Old Wesley.
Old Believers old Wesley.
Hay said that although no team here compares to those in Scotland and Ireland, he expected KU to have a chance of winning some games.
"We have some good players going," he said. "Last time, we only lost one game here."
Walter said, "The tour is also one of good will. People are going to hear 'Kansas' and recognize it as a state. State Sen. Wint Winter, R-Ottawa, is president of our club and the spokesman for our tour. He'll take a message from the governor. We'll speak to dignitaries from Scotland and Ireland. Last week we met a member of parliament from Cornwall."
The team will return to Kansas January 15 after playing 16 to 20 games on the tour.
Staff photo by TRISH LEWIS
Ron Ortman stands beside on the parallel bars during a workout. The KU gymnasium has the best mark this season for the Jayhawk in all-around competition and has set his record for most consecutive jumps in one game.
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In a tense announcement, the Public Affairs Office of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., disclosed that the contract of the 47-year-old Smith would not be renewed. Smith compiled a 21-33-1 record as Army's 27th head coach.
Raymond P. Murphy, Army's athletic director, said that for a new coach he should immediately
THE WEST Point announcement said Smith had informed academy officials that he did not expect to continue as coach. There was no explanation of that statement.
Smith, whose original four-year contract expired last season, was given a one-year extension after army posted a 7-4 record in 1977 and defeated Navy 17-4, capping the Cadets' first winning campaign in five years and their best record since 1980. Following his retirement from the Coach of the Year by the Football Writers Association of New York.
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