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Tuesday, August 29, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Field hockey squad to try to pay own way this year
By NANCY DRESSLER
Associate Sports Editor
Field hockey is on at the University of Kansas—at least for the moment—despite the fact that it won't get any monetary prize. The women's athletic department this year.
A tack of funding is not new to the team, which held an organizational meeting yesterday afternoon outside Allen Field House. It has faced many threats of banishment from the women's program in the past three years.
What is new is the effort by the team to support itself.
"We're going on just however we can go." Diana Reeley. field coach hockey, coach
That could mean that the approximately 20 women interested in playing field hockey for KU would have to raise the $4,000 necessary to maintain the team.
Beebe said proceeds from fund raising events as well as from contributions probably would go into a fund set up with the Association Earmarked for field hockey.
AND THE THOUGHT of going out after their own funds did not seem to discourage those women who showed up for yesterday's hour-long meeting and workout.
"We can do it," one player said between
and air after the squad had completed its
sorting.
Beebe called the enthusiasm an intense desire on the part of the team members to
"We'll either go out and work for the money ourselves or maybe get student interest generated in field hockey by selling tickets to our games," she said.
All money raised would go into the endowment fund and would be used to promote field hockey at KU and maintain the team, according to Beebe.
"We want to play and we feel like we have had good enough response but we keep getting shouted out because the athletic team doesn't get the money they want," she said.
FUNDING REQUESTED for women's athletics this year originally totaled $420,000 for the 10-sport program, which included field hocKEY.
However, that request was reduced to $285,000 by the Kansas Legislature in May. Shortly thereafter, Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, informed Beebe that field hockey had been dropped from the list of games that would get a portion of those funds.
Beebe said Shankel had not given any specific reasons why field hockey, instead of another sport, had been cut. Shankel was not available for comment yesterday.
"It was a hit and miss statement —We've copied field hockey—and then he went on to win," she said.
Marian Washington, women's athletic
director, said the department had had to
rebuild its basketball court.
"We had to explore dropping a sport and hit the hockey was the sport the ad-hoc team needed."
THE NINE women's sports approved to receive funds were cross country, track, swimming, volleyball, basketball, softball, tennis, golf and gymnastics.
But field hockey will not go entirely unsupported.
'We felt that if we could help them by letting them use our equipment to let them
keep playing, that was the least we could do." Washington said.
"I guess that is a demonstration of our support."
Beebe said the team's efforts to support itself were not intended to undermine the women's department. But the fund raising was the work that could get operating money for this year.
"SHAKENEL INDICATED in June that he would sign it," Beebe said.
The endorsement of the administration probably is the team's easiest task. It also secure a field on which to practice and hold games.
The team will ask to keep its affiliations with the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women and with the University. That will require Shankel's signature on a form that will be available to him in mid-September.
KU's intramural fields, which the team has used in the past, are in the midst of repair. Only three of them are expected to be ready for fall sports.
Beebe said the team had considered trying to set up a field goal for hockey but hecked it out.
And if the problem of a field should be resolved, the upcoming season also could pose a problem in the area of transportation for away games. Beebe said team members would rather not use individual cars, especially because two of the trips were so far away that the team would have to stay overnight.
"THESE'S NO question there will be problems," Beebe said. "We want to be as positive as possible. We feel we have an important part to play."
The team will get a chance to prove itself when it opens its season Sept. 16 in Lincoln
"We may fail and we may not," Beebe said.
"We want to play and if we have to go out raise money to do it, we will. We'll make
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Annabel Beeche, field hockey coach, and about 20 women agreed yesterday to try to raise $4,000 to support a hockey team this fall.
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Wathan opened the inning against loser Ken Kraveau (10-12) with a double and moved to third on an infield single by Frank Cox, who drove a deep飞 to center, scoring Wathan.
Al Hrabacko, who relieved Paul Spillert and pitched to 0 for an innning, earned his sixth inning.
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GARR'S FOURTH error in his last nine games enabled the Royals to tie the game in the sixth. Garr had dropped a fly ball by Hall McRae to allow Al Cowens to score the play. After George Brett scored Kansas City's first run on a sacrifice fly by Amos Olsa.
In New York, Ed Figueroa pitched hitches ball for six innings and combined with Rich Gossage on a three-hitter as the Yankees defeated the California Angels 4-1.
Figueroa (13-9) hit one batter and walked one over the first six innings before Jim Anderson singled up the middle to start the seventh.
The Yankees scored twice against Frank Tumana (16-6) in the first inning and once in the third.
Figureu lost his shutout bid when Jobeu homered in the eighth. Gossage was a first-round pick.
IM football season nears
Registration for touch football, the first intramural sport of the fall, begins a week after.
Teams can enter in one of the competitive, recreational or co-rec (men and women) leagues. The competitive league will have a team with six or skilled players, and "B," for the others.
A representative from each team must attend an organizational meeting and pay a $25 fee.
The recreational league is scheduled to meet at 5:15 p.m. September 5, followed by the "A" "division of the competitive league settings will be in the south gym of Robinson.
The competitive "B" division is meet at 5:15 p.m. Sept, 6 also in the south gym.
The co-rec league meeting will be at 5 a.m. sept. 14 in 20S Robinson.
THE TEAMS will begin play Sept. 10 on the six fields near Watkins Hospital and Robinson and on three fields at 23rd and Iowa.
Tennis bumps will have two drop-in mixed doubles tournaments. Contestants should show up, ready to play, at the rebound boards at Robinson by 8 a.m. Sept. 18 and
Ladder schedules will be set up for men's women's and coed play. Entries open Sept. 10.Tournament play for singles begins Oct. 1, doubles Oct. 8, and mixed doubles Nov. 19.
Richard Marcks, instructor in physical education, said yesterday that the ladder used to climb up the stairs is now broken.
However, he didn't know whether enough fields would be available to allow intransitive verbs.
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