Thursday, October 28, 1978
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Photo by PAUL ROSE
Working out
Halfback Mike Higgins, KU's second most prolific rusher this season, runs on a pitchout play during this practice week. Higgins, a junior from Greta, LA, has gained 146 yards and has a 5.0-yard per carry average, despite having played in only three games this season. His speed around the outside is one reason the Jayhawks brought back the pitching machine.
Verser, Little return to homecoming lineup
Sports Writer
Bv BILL BUZBEE
KU wingerbacks Jimmy Little and David Verser, who had been out with injuries since the Oklahoma game, are expected to play in Saturday's football homecoming game with
Three other players, however, will definitely not be able to play.
Little, who bruised his shoulder, and Verser, who pulled a humming muscle, were listed as doubtful starters earlier in the week by head coach Bud Moore.
Wingback Batch Wagoner, a one-time opponent with a back, back linebacker Buford Drummond will win game because of an ankle injury, and linebacker Kyle McNorton is out with a back.
Another, linebacker, starter Seacellas Young, attended practice yesterday after being called up.
Senior John Algee or freshman Chris Tooburn will start in Young's place.
"There's a chance he'll play," Moore said yesterday, "but not that he'll start."
Moore also listed cornerback Delvin
Moorhead as starter. Miller
injured his left T question in the
game.
But Moore said that yesterday's practice was a good one.
"We had 15 minutes of contact Tuesday," Moore said, "and 'injured three people.'"
Soccer team wins
KU's soccer team moved its season
from 8-12 to 12-2 Tuesday with a win over Mid-
west. KU lost the game in the final.
Despite high winds and a poor playing field, the team scored twice in the second half to win. 21. Alfredo Diegue scored KU's first goal.
Johnt Layman tipped a shot by Robert Altamore to score the second KU goal.
Last Saturday, Kansas played Emporia State to a 2-2 tie. Since a playoff in case of a tie was not agreed to beforehand, none was given. In the two Emporia State goals on corner kicks.
The soccer team returns home for a Nov. 5 game against Nebraska in Memorial Stadium.
"We got some things done," he said.
KU has been stressing its defensive and kicking games throughout the week in addition to training.
Both teams are tied for last place in the Big Eight with 0-4 records. Kansas is 1-6 overall and the Cyclones have defeated Texas twice. The St. Louis and Drake to earn their 4-3 overall record
Women swimmers seek 5th title
By BRETT CONLEY
Sports Writer
Despite having 14 freshmen and only nine returning members, the women's swim team this year should capture its fifth title, according to a title, referred to KU coach Gary Kempt.
lere is no doubt that we are a much stronger team this year than last year," Kempf said. "We graduated or lost from our team approximately 150 points, which is one-third, but with the incoming girls I expect us to replace and then some."
"During the last two weeks they have shown a great deal of improvement, and a teammate is also very important. We started out slow and didn't look what I thought we could have the first couple of weeks. If they progress the way they do in the weeks, we will be a team to reckon with."
The team is young and much of the season's fortunes will depend on how much water they get. Of the nine swimming swimmers, six are sophomores and three are juniors. The
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"The girls look real good, and have been working real hard," Kempa said. "We have been doing two-o-days at 6:30 in the morning and again at 8:15 in the morning they are at who are still working hard."
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Kempi said the team would be strong in such areas as freestyle, backstroke and individual medley. The only areas that Kempi said are the breaststroke and butterfly, he said.
"We lost some key persons in the breaststroke, but the talent is there. I just need to see it, and the girls need to assert their dominance," said long run they will, "it's just a matter of time."
While all the returning swimmers are looking better than they did last year, Kemp said, Janet Lindstrom, Maureen Gilligan and Jill Bardell all will be important members this season.
"Lindstrom, Sheehan and Savidge are our captains for the year," Kemp said. "Lindstrom is probably one of the best all-around players." The Lani Schaffer is going to be very, very good.
Kempf named three new recruits he felt would contribute a lot to the team's success. They are Diane Ellis, who will compete in the backstroke and individual medley;
Lemon top AL manager
He still hasn't.
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP)—The New York Yankees champion was one of baseball's most spectacular comebacks, but even that paul in comparison to Manager Bob Lemon's win over the Cleveland Indians.
Lemon said following the Yankees' sixgame victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series that it would take a while for him to fully realize what's happened.
"I'm trying to get some rest, but nothing's hit me," he said. "I don't know how to distress it."
A only a few months ago, Lemon was managing the Chicago White Sox, a team that seemed destined to go nowhere. Things had been bleak for him when he was fired on June 30.
Lynette Lunge in the sprints, and Gladney Nohlenk in the sprint freestyle and in figure skating.
That was when his luck bottomed out.
Three weeks later, the Yankees hired Lemon to replace Billy Martin.
When Lemon took over the Yankees, they trailed Boston by 10% games in the
"I was let go by Chicago and really down in the dumps. Then all of a sudden I find myself managing in the World Series," said Lemon, named American League Manager of the Year yesterday by The Associated Press.
"I FEEL, like a man who's come from the lowest desert to the highest mountaintop. I just can't imagine all this happening to me."
Kempf said he expected improved competition in the Big Eight this year.
American League East. Under his guidance, they caught the Red Sox, then finally won the harrowing one-game season when the two clubs finished the season tied.
"I's going to be a four team race this season. Missouri, Oklahoma and Nebraska will all be strong." Kempf said. "I think that every team will be improved this year."
main goal is a better performance in the national championships. Last year nine swimmers went to nationals and the 2008 U.S. relay team was named as all-American.
THE YANKEES went on to beat Kansas City in the AL playoffs. Then, achieving a feat unprecedented in the 75-year history of the World Series, they bounced back to win four straight games after losing the first two.
Lemon, a quiet, soft-spoken man in marked contrast to the fiery Martin, seemed just the balm needed by the frequently bickering and troubled Yankees.
"We have established ourselves as the top team in the Midwest, and we are going to start working for a higher level with the girls we have this year." Kemp said.
"The ony things that concern me is what the players do between the white lines," said Lemon, a Hall of Fame pitcher who won 13 games in the 13-year career with the Cleveland Indians.
"This club will take advice. The players what it is taken to help the team win ball games."
"SEE MEMS that players today in general express themselves in different ways, too," Lemon continued. "I guess it has a lot to do with your personality, so you’re a sort of quiet person or whether you talk a lot. I do know you can’t force your personality on somebody else, whether you’re a player or a manager. Nothing bad happens if we are in that regard so far, knock on wood."
Kempt will get his first look at the team in competition tomorrow night during the intraquae meet. The meet will begin at 7 in Robinson Natatorium.
"I don't expect to see really fast times the whole way, but I do expect to see some things I haven't seen before."
"I need to see the freshmen swim competitor so I can see what they look like in my team."
Besides winning the Big Eight, Kempf's
Sims could be best ever to run for OU Sooners
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Coach Barry Switzer of the top-ranked Oklahoma Sooners has waited a long time for his chance to play.
And now he has both the right and the reason to glant.
"Billy Sims is as good as any running back we've ever had at Oklahoma," says Switzer, who in his 12 years at Norman has witnessed Joe Washington, Greg Pruitt, Steve Owens, Horace Ivory and Elvis Peacock carry the football for the Sooners.
"I scouted Earl Campbell in high school and I felt he could make a pro team as a freshman in college. Billy Sims is the same caliber. He probably has more talent than any back we've ever had at Oklahoma."
SIMS CAME to Oklahoma out of Hooks, Texas, as the most recruited high school running back in the country. Switzer used to fly down to see Sims play in high school games on Friday nights and then fly back to Norman to coach the Sooners on Saturday. He he used to telephone Sims during the buffle internships of the Oklahoma hams.
Switzer smiled unabashedly when Sims signed the national letter of intent to attend Oklahoma. But during his first two collegiate falls, Sims spent more time on the injured list than he did in uniform. Ankle injuries were the principal culprit.
But 1978 has been the year both Switzer and Billy Sims have long awaited. Sims has remained healthy through the entire seven game schedule so far, the only member of the Oklahoma backfield who can make such a claim, and he has the statistics to show for
SIMS RANKS 5th in the nation in rushing with an average of 139.1 yards a game and has scored 11 touchdowns to rank fifth amongst NCAA Division 1 players in that category. He is averaging a national leading 7.9 yards a carry and that figure is just under 8.0 yards touchdown run called back against Missouri because of a holding penalty.
Sims rushed for a career high 231 yards against Iowa State last week and also had bad games of 192 yards against Kansas, 168 yards against Texas and 144 against West Virginia.
"BARRY WOULD know better than I would," said Iowa State Coach Earley Bruce. "But I would think if they put Joe Washington at the 14k position and let him do the things they are letting Sims do, set a record that never would be broken."
Sims himself counters that argument.
"I prefer the I-formation myself," said sai-
sa who has operated out of the winobishe
for a year.
"I gained 7,000 yards in three years in high school running out of the '1.'"
"But I don't think you can classify me the greatest that has ever played here. Everybody has his own running style. Washington had his, Prütt had his and I have mine. There have been a lot of good runners here."
"Sims is certainly one of the best backs I've ever seen," said Kansas Coach Jim Dickey, whose chore it is to find some way to contain the Oklahoma dynamo this season. Pratt and Washington—he can go all the way any time he touches the football."
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