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Monday, October 30, 1978
Javhawks sputter again
By LEON UNRUH
Snorts Editor
KU's homecoming looked like a game desperately in search of a winner. Or perhaps a sleep-off in search of an alarm clock.
When the tedious battle was over, Iowa State had been beaten early and early in the season. The foul play winning game
The Jayhawks, since 1969, were bumped to 0-4 in the conference and 1-7 overall. Iowa broke a three-game losing string and rose to No. 2.
Iowa State scored twice in the first half as it ran up 140 yards to KU's 93.
"Their offense was very consistent," KU head coach Bud Moore said. "They didn't hurt themselves all day. It's the sign of a well-coached football team."
KU QUARTERBACK Harry Sydney scored the Jayhawks' lone TD late in the fourth quarter. Then the Cyclones burned them with a drive of 18 consecutive running plays.
Fishing play.
Numerous factors added to the dullness of the game. With the exception of Sydney's 27-yard run on KU's first play, there was no run by either team of more than 14 yards. KU went about 27 minutes in one streak with only one first down.
In fact, the ball changed hands 23 times with just three scores.
A few fans were momentarily stirred by the return of the Baby Jayhawk.
But even the biggest possibility of the day—a rumor that Moore would either resign or be fired after the game—went nowhere.
KU'S running attack also spent a good bit of time going nowhere. It accumulated 138 yards, while ISU got 304 running. Subtitled tailback Victor Mack gutted 111 of them.
SYDNEY SUGGESTED that a half-speed attitude had done in the Hawks early.
"It seemed like six were going hard and
five weren't t," he said. "Just at the end we start reeling it all together.
"If we had gotten the ball back, we would have scored. Everything was shifting our face."
KU's demise began with about 9:50 left in the first quarter. Sydney was sacked and fumled the ball, which was recovered on the KU128.
Starting tailback Dexter Green led the way to the end zone, gaining 18 yards and scoring a touchdown.
GREEN LEFT the game when a knock on the head resulted in momentary blindness. The touchdown run also hurt some shoulder muscles.
KU ended a 16-play ISU drive in the second quarter with a strong defensive stand on a fourth-and-one at the KU 6. But the Jayhawks couldn't move the ball, either.
The Cyclones were almost in check minutes later with a four-band start at the top, but they came up first down. Two plays later Mack ran 14 yards to make it 13-0. The PAT attempt was
"Coach gave a little talk and told us if he had any guts to go out there and do it, he
According to split end Kevin Murphy,
Moore sprinted the team with a halftime
It took until the end of the third quarter and the beginning of the fourth for them to get started. Then, reserve backmax Ediger, who had sat out injured most of the season, piece together 28 yards of running and Sydney completed three passes to move
Starting fullback Bobby Barrow took the bandoff from Dwayne and coughed it up. ISU
SYDNEY HIT four passes and handed off
four times before running four yards for the
touchdown with 6:06 to play in the game.
With Mike Hubach's PAT, it was 13:57.
ISU methodically ran down the clock, getting to the KU 13.
Yards granted
Staff photo by RANDY OLSON
Walter Grant, Iowa State's quarterback, stumbles over he as he charges through the Kansas defensive line during KU's homecoming Saturday. Grant ran for 37 yards and passed for 25 more as the Cyclones slipped out of the Big Eight basement with a 13-7 victory.
KC rally falls short
PITTSBURGH (UPI)- Safety Donnie Shell returned a recovered fumble 17 yards for his first pre touchdown and Jack Ham fell on a Kansas City outside kick yesterday to enable the Steelers to return a second-half Calls rally for a 24-24 victory.
Shell's recovery of a Horace Belton fumble with 27 seconds left in the third quarter came after the Chiefs had rallied for 48 minutes of the second half to close with 20-17.
THE CHEIFS, trailing 20-3 at the intermission, came back in the third quarter and marched 68 yards in six plays after a scoring on a 14-yard run by Ted McKnight.
Two plays after the Chiefs' kickoff, Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw fumilled and Kansas City's Sylvester Hicks recovered on the Pittsburgh 25. Tony Reed ran 16 yards for a touchdown three plays later.
The Chiefs came up with another big play later in the period when Gary Green picked off a Bradshaw Pass on the Kansas City 44, but Steelers rookie Ron Johnson ended that threat by intercepting a Mike Livingston pass on the Pittsburgh 34.
Grid teams advance for Hill title
Phi Delta Theta fraternity and the Souts, an independent team, will play Sunday for the Hills Championship of men's 'A League games yesterday. Bede team was playoff games yesterday.
In the faternity A League championship, the Phi Deltis beat Beta Theta 1-9. 3The Scouts took the independent A League title by beating Class Action II, 9-6. The championship game is scheduled for 3:15 p.m.
Sunday in Memorial Stadium.
In the Women's A leagues, the Alpiha Pim
Bears and On The Loose will vie for the Hill
Women's Championship. The Loose defeated Naimish Tundra Ends 84 for the Women's Independent title. The Bears advanced by beating Delta Gamma
during time to take the Sorority championship.
"If we had stopped them at all, we could have gotten a chance," Moore said, perhaps remembering the 17-18 comeback near-victory against Oklahoma.
"We had a chance to lift all of them," he said. "But it's hard for a defense to get out."
Free safety Leary Irvin bemoaned the Jayhawks' fifth consecutive defeat, the longest string since Moore arrived in Lawrence in 1975.
"That's what happens when the offense can't score: You get a lot of close ones."
Moore said the offense had begun to work better as the game progressed.
"If there's anything positive as far as this game is concerned," he said, "it's that the offense did come back in the second half and did play better, although we didn't win."
On the field
"We were just executing better. We were trying to do something."
Statewide 1 Iowa State 1 Kansas
First downs 12 14
Rushing-yards 73-204 61-155
Rushing returns 41-135 11-135
Total offense 329 307
Passes 128 142
Penalties - yds. 0.0 0.0
Penalties - yards 0.0 0.0
Hibiscus, Iowa State; Mack 28-11; Cruise 34-19; Gillie
26-20; Marrion 27-23; Riese 25-20; Mullan 24-
14; Eder 18-40; Norway 7-23; Hagans 18-11; Lilje 7-20.
Playing: Iowa State; Grant 3-4-05, Kansas; Sydney
12-17-92
Receiving. Iowa State, Micki 26, Prestin 10- Kraus
444, 444, Little 3-19, Kishigawa 8, K Murphy 18,
Kurpach 7, Mitsui 5.
End run
Staff photo by RANDY OLSON
KU quartermaster Harry Syndre evades Iowa State linebacker Mike leaker on a 2-yard run on KU's first play from scribner. The lineman then broke up the play.
d dwindled, however, and the Cycles took home incoming away from the Jayhawks 14-13, Sydney was KU' leading with, 44 with
Cyclones' Mack emerges from Green shadow
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Victor Mack is not going to win any name recognition contests.
But give him time.
"I wouldn't say I was happy when Dexter got hurt," musk, "but I had a pretty good spring and have worked hard all season for the opportunity to play. I did not know that when I played but when it came today, I tried to prove I could do the job."
Mack, a sophomore tailback for Iowa State, has sparked as the secondary's lecroning runner this season despite playing in the shadow of Dexter Green. He picked up the first rusher in the game and held his injury in the first quarter of the game against Kansas.
Mack would have no problem getting the Jayhawks to agree with that sentiment. The S-11, 182-pound speedster ripped through the Kansas line for 111 yards and one touchdown. He also scored a to a 137 victory, its first in the BLAE Eight this season.
KANSAN-
KANSAN Sports
THE VICTORY snapped a three-game losing streak for
the Cyclones, 3-I in the league and 3- overall. Kansan lost for the fifth straight week and saw its records fall to 4 and 4.
"We need a win," said Iowa State quarterback Walter
Hawks. "We don't have game. We had one this—there
was no doubt about it."
Mack echoed his sentiments—"As far as motivation is concerned, if we would have lost it, would have been hard to make."
Iowa State jumped to a 7-10 midway through the first quarter when Green, the Cyclones' career leading rusher, was down by 3 points.
Mike Leaders recovered a fumble by KU quarterback Harry Sydney.
THE EVENTUAL WINNING touchdown came in the second quarter when Mack went over from 14 yards. The drive, which began on the Kansas 43, was helped along when Kansas freshman linebacker Cherry Toburens was called offsides on a fourth-and-two at the Kansas 35, giving the Cyclones a first down.
Taburen said, "I was taken in by the motion and by lack of experience. I thought he jumped."
Bul Moore, KU head coach, said, "That allowed them to maintain momentum and take it in for their second score.
"We jumped offside, for whatever the reason. It was a critical play."
iowa State ate up the last 6:20 of the game to deny Kansas an opportunity to win after KU had narrowed the gait to 13-8.
Earle Bruce, Cyclone coach, said, "I never put any extra emphasis on any one Big Eight game. You go out and play."
Nebraska takes volleyball title; Kansas. Wildcats tie for third
By BRETT CONLEY Sports Writer
For the third year in a row, Nebraska won
the Big Eight Volleyball Championship,
held Friday and Saturday in Robinson
Gymnasium.
The round-robin tournament had a dramatic finish as Nebraska met Missouri, both undefeated in the journey. Kansas state tied Kansas for third place.
It looked as if Missouri might upset the Cornshucks when the Tigers took the first game of the match, 15-13. However, the Tigers beat the Cornshucks games and the championship, 15-11 and 15-8.
"We showed a lot of character and intensity in the final match," Tom Pettit, Nebraska coach, said. "This may sound cliche, but it was really a solid team effort. Our bench strength really helped us against Missouri."
K-STATE WENT into the final match with a chance to beat KU and tie the Jayhawks for third place. The Jayhawks had losses only to Nebraska and Missouri.
K-State won the first game, 1S-12, and jumped out to a 9-14 lead in the second. However, KU came back and tld the score. Game seawsed and was tld four more times.
With the score tied at 14, April Beaver
assessed two straight points and KU won
the game.
In the final game, KU grabbed a 3-0 lead, the largest lead of the game. K-State tied the game at 5-5, but KU managed to hold a one-or-two point lead until K-State ited at it. The game ended with the first lead of the game, 14,13, and won the game and the match on the next play, 15-13.
KANSAS ALSO came close to defeating both Nebraska and Missouri. In matches against both teams, KU split the first two games against Nebraska and against Nebraska and 29-18 against Missouri.
"I expected it to be a close tournament, and the scores indicated it was," Bob Stancill, KU coach said. "I was not disappointed in our play. We have just lost 14 in nine of close matches. I think it is more of a confidence problem with our young team."
Overall, this year's tournament was more balanced than the previous two.
"This year we faced much stronger competition," Pettit said. "There were five or six strong teams this year, and we pushed to three games in four matches."
Stanclift echoed Pettit's sentiments.
"There were four very, very close teams. There were lots of three game matches," he said. "The talent was more spread out this year."
KU HAD TWO players, Laura Frost and June Koleber, named to the all-tournament team. Other players named were Nancy Grant and Kim Hermes, Nebraska;sisters to the Southland, Missouri; Karl Bensend, Oklahoma; and Kathy Teahen, K-State.
Stancliff said Diane Schroeder and Karen Georgeson also played well. Georgeson, who began the season on the junior varsity in basketball in the tournament than she had all year.
Victory answers Mallory critics
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Corporate Coach Bill
Mallory; may be next year.
The Buffaloes pulled off perhaps the most dramatic victory in the five-year Colorado coaching tenure of Mallory when they rallied from a 20-point deficit in the final 23 of season to stun 18th-ranked Missouri, 28-27, and keep alive their own bowl hopes.
The anti-Mallory faction was up in arms last week after the Buffaloes had been destroyed at home by Nebraksa, 52-14. There were calls for the coach to resign. It was time to have a real discussion start. With Missouri at 14-point favorite, the Buffalo appeared headed down the drain.
"AS LONG AS I'm coach around here," said Mallory, "we're not going to surrender."
And surrender the Buffs didn't. Quarterback Bill Solomon wouldn't let them.
Solomon, who had completed 3-of-8 passes for 24 yards in the first half, completed 9-of-14 for 153 yards in the second and scored on a 12-yard run. Third-trail fullback Eddie Benton also other touchdowns on runs of 7 and 16 yards to End Missouri's three-game winning streak.
"We've got some diehands and some people that were really with us when we needed them," said Mallory. "You know, we kinda got the reputation that everybody's against us. But I really want to make it clear that we've had some very loyal people. And they didn't always have some say I ought to impress, but I got a lot of letters telling me to hang in there.
"SOME PEOPLE came around practice and some saw us off. We've got some good,
CONFERENCE ALL GAMES
W L  L  PTS OP  G  W  L  TPS  OP
Oklahoma 4  0  14  64  0  1  130
Oklahoma 4  0  14  64  0  1  130
Colorado 2  2  29  71  10  2  107
Missouri 2  2  29  71  10  2  107
Kansas ST 2  2  66  67  2  6  118
Iowa St. 1  3  32  197  2  6  145
Kansas ST 1  3  32  197  2  6  145
Kansas ST 1  3  32  197  2  6  145
Okakunawa 36, Kansas State 19, Wyoming 22, Okakunawa 14, Colorado 28, Missouri 27, Iowa State 13, Kansas
Okahama at Colorado; Kamala State at Iowa State;
Nebraska at Kansas; Missouri at Okahama State.
supportive people, and I want to acknowledge them. the rest of them can go
It was Colorado's first win in Columbia, a 7-0 victory to up to 14 points, record to 6-2. Missouri fell to 8-5.
In other games, top-ranked Oklahoma ripped Kansas State 61-19, No. 4 Nebraska defeated Oklahoma State 22-14 and Iowa state beat Kansas 13-7.
Oklahoma's Billy Sims, emerging as a prime Heisman Trophy candidate, rushed for 202 yards and two touchdowns to keep the Sooners unbeaten through eight games. He averaged 8.1 yards in 25 carries to boost his season rushing total to 1,176.
"I FELT LIKE a marked man," he said. "I got speared in the side once when I was drown and got my ankle twisted another time when I was lying on the ground. I'm sore all over, but I'll be able to play as long as those wheels keep going. If they start keying on me, we've got three other guys in the backfield who will eat 'em up."
Nebraska's Tom Sorley ran one yard for a touchdown, passed 20 yards to Rick Berms for another and Billy Todd ticked three field goals to help the 24-point favorite "Huskers"
remain unbaten, matching Oklahoma in conference games with 4-10 records.
Defensive end Derrie Nielson saved the game for Nebraska with a tackle of Worley Taylor at the Cornshaker 20 after he had carried a screen hit by a drive in the game. Nebraska was able to hold from there for its seventh straight victory.
"I thought Taylor was going to score." Nebraska Coach Tom Osborne said. "I thought he was going too fast for Derrie to catch, even though Derrie has good speed and is probably the fastest of our defensive ends."
Nelson said, "our season could have been up in the air if I hadn't caught him."
Crew ends fall workouts
The KU crew ended organized fall workouts Saturday with a scrimmage at Lone Star Lake south of Lawrence against the Kansas State and Washburn universities.
KU coach Don Rose said the teams raced over a marked distance but no times were
Kansas won the varsity eight-man race, edging out Washburn by three quarters of a length. KU's women's freshman eight also defeated Washburn by more than a length.
Washburn won the men's freshman-four competition by three quarters of a length
Kansas State won the only race it entered, her men's varsity four. Washburn was second.
Rose said four fowlers and a coxswain returned to this year's team from last year.
"We've had very fine fall practices and I think our crews are much better than they were when we were young."
Ten men and nine women have been working out since classes begin in August. The team will take up weight training and running to keep in shape until rowing practice resumes at the beginning of next semester.
Russian tickets go on sale Nov.1
Tickets for the basketball game between the University of Kansas and the Russian national team will go on sale Wednesday in the east lobby of Allen Field House.
The game, scheduled for Nov. 20, is part of the Russian 1958 world championship. The Russians will contest the place in the tournament.
of KU's annual Crimson and Blue intrasquid game.
Students will be able to buy tickets for $1 with their KUID. Students' spouses with proof of marriage may also buy the $1 tickets. Tickets for non-students will cost $5.