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Thursday, August 31, 1978
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Frosh wingback bent on avoiding obscurity
With his curly red hair, freckles and socky buns, Dam Wagon looks like a star.
But when he speaks, it's obvious he's from points South.
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The High Point, N.C., freshman wingback doesn't mind the guff he takes from his fellow KU football players about his soft-spoken personality. A way of making himself more noticeable.
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...more is no ordinary freshman when it comes to playing football either. The "811" 170-lb. former wide receiver hardly needs his voice to stick on the football field.
"Yeah, they kid me about it a lot," he said. "But it kinda helps me because people pick it up. It's a way of distinguishing myself."
though he's been at KU just two weeks, he's already worked his way into the starting line. He's not overwhelmed by training. He's an excellent high school prospect to college starter.
In fact, he expected it.
"It was my goal when I came up here," he said. "I never really thought about how long it would take."
There's no denying Wagner has a firm hold on his life. He sets high goals—and耐药性。
He decided a long time ago, for example, that it was Big Light football or bust. Always eager for a challenge, he knew, at the age when most children are thinking of being firemen, that he wanted to take on the best college football players in the nation.
"Ever since I was little I knew I wanted to go to a college out of state," he recalled. "I always wanted to be a teacher."
Three colleges in Wagoner's home state—University of North Carolina, North Carolina State and Wake Forest—along with Alabama made him offers.
conference. They play the best football of anybody in the nation."
Though many miles from home, Wagner says he many miles忘掉 Mom's southern accent. He still has a home. He's plenty happy in Lawrence, except when he's finding his way around town, finding his way around the city.
But the Americans aren't feeling sorry for the ton-seeded Swede.
It's a little exasperating, he admits, when he gets lost not only on the first day of school but everywhere.
NEW YORK (AP) - Bjorn Borg says the fast surface at the new National Tennis Center gives an unfair advantage to American players competing in the U.S.
Borg blasts fast courts
"He was good enough to win on grass at Wimbledon—he should certainly be good enough to win here," reasoned fourth-half Geraldus of nearby Kings Point, N.Y.
"I can't seem to find my way around," he said with a sigh. "It might help your day or the night."
The Open, being held for the first time at this newly-built $10 million complex in Flushing Mendon, is being played on a fast paced called Deceo Turtl II, an asphalt base.
"This surface is as fast as grass, maybe faster," he said. "Many of the foreign players are unhappy, but it suits the American players perfectly. I'm sure they want to get American players into the last eight, and this should help."
Wagner will be the first to mention that his open field running ability is as important as his ability to run long distances.
"The returner is the main attraction in a pint, kinda like a quarterback is." he said.
A running back for his high school's state-tittle winning team as a junior, Wagoner is a punt return specialist. In Saturday's game, he returned, he captured a punt about 80 yards.
"He's an excellent punt returner," backfield coach Ken Martin said. "He's demonstrated he has good running instincts, particularly in the scrimmage."
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It was Wagoner's ball-carrying ability that persuaded the coaches to move him from the sidelines.
Wagoner's attitude will undoubtedly be a requisite if the Jayhawks hope to win the season opener against Texas A&M, M rated 18th in the Associated Press' pre-season poll. For his part, Wagoner is humgly anticipating his college opener.
"As a windback, I have a responsibility for outside blocking," he explained. "Instead of trying to take the guy out, I have to try to get under his pads and stay with him."
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But he's had little trouble finding the right way around the football field. Except for a few adjustments in blocking and more rigorous training, he says, the switch from high school to college ball has been a smooth one.
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KANAS CITY, Mo. (AP)—Darrell Porter drove in four runs and Pete Lauck cooked in three to back Larry Gura's five-bit pitching last night as the Kansas City Royals romped to a 12-0 victory over the Chicago White Sox.
and his 14th home run of the season, a two-run shot of reliever Palre Torresalba in the fifth inning. LaCock slammed a double and three singles.
The triumph, Kansas City's third in four games, increased the Royals' margin to two games over Idaho California in the American League West.
The Royals got all the runs they needed in the second when they scored on six of seven hits off starter Francisco Barrinos. The Rays were able to drive in during another in the barrage.
Porter paced the Kansas City onslaught with three singles, a sacrifice fly
Gura was never in serious trouble, surrendering just five singles, striking out five and walking none.
NFL pondering time-out for pope
NEW YORK (AP)—The National Football League plays its games regardless of rain or snow, but the installation of a pope may delay the start of the new season.
nine will be televised, some only regionally,
by CBS or NBC.
Because at least one of the television networks that carry NFL games will cover Saturday's game, Sunday, the NFL is moving back the starting time of as many as nine
A CBS spokesman said last Thursday the network plans to carry Pope John Paul's installation. "It's almost certain some pro football will be ope-empted," he said.
The new pontifix is to be installed in ceremonies that reportedly will start at 1 p.m. Sunday. The NFL has nine games scheduled to start one hour later, and all
An NBC publicist said the network had not decided whether it would cover the incident.
Val Pinchback, NFL director of broadcasting, said that, based on information that the papal ceremony would last about one hour, the league had no plans to change kickoff times.
But, he said, the NFL was continuing to evaluate the situation. If it appears the ceremony will has more than one hour, the staff would kick off times for those nine games, he said.
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Danny Wagoner, a freshman running back and punt returer, finds no end to his enthusiasm about being a starter in his first college game. Wagoner will start at fullback
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But Moore was like a detective searching for clues after the KU football team's scrimmage at Memorial Stadium yesterday.
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Puzzled by the team's lack of sharpness, Moore was eager to review the film of the scrimmage, the Jayhawks' last before the season ended. The problems were ACM, to see where the problems were.
"I can't wait to look at the films," he said.
We just seemed to be standing around and wearing our shirts.
While conceding that the offense had improved after a ragged start, Moore criticized the defense for being lackadaisical. The Jayhawks were slack in their performance of fundamental tackling and blocking, he said.
"The OFFENSE picked up as the scrimmage went along," he said. "I may have emphasized perfecting game-type blocking instead of plain old blocking and tackling."
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