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Tuesday, December 11, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Morningstar Brightens Jayhawks
Kansan Photo
Morningstar on defense against Kentucky
By MARK ZELIGMAN
Kennan Ripora Writer
Kansan Sports Writer
Ever since Pierre Russell graduated from the 1971 Big Eight championship squad, the University of Kansas basketball team has lost to the Nebraska Knicks' *Knugl-* a role that Russell performed well.
The search ended this year when KU saddened Roger Morningstar, a 6-foot-6, 210 pounds athlete.
The hustling Morningstar is a perpetual motion machine on the court. KU coach Ted Owens uses two of our favorite words to describe Morningstar: active and alert.
"Roger's brought a number of things to our program," Owens says. "He's brought versatility to the forward position. He has been able to shoot from shooting ability and ball-handling skills."
A look at Morningstar's statistics after four games offers proof of what Owens means. Morningstar leads the team in scoring with an average of 15.5 points a game. He has shot 61 per cent from the field, an excellent figure considering that many of his shots have been in the 15- to 28-foot range.
Owens says Morningstar has the potential to give that same kind of performance in a job that is not available.
Morrstarnger won the sportsmanship award at the 1973 National Junior College Tournament while leading Oleney (II). He played to a third place finish in the tournament.
Because few schools recruited him out of high school, Morningstar enrolled at a junior college where he said he could accumulate playing time.
"We finished 4-20 my senior year in high school," he says. "I wasn't very big at 6 foot
"I was still growing and felt my best days were after high school so I wanted to go to college."
While at Olney, Morningstar says he grew a few inches and gained valuable experience by playing about 70 games in two years.
He says his coach at Olney stressed defense, a commodity that is essential in the war.
"Anybody can score points," Morningstar
says, "but not everybody can play good defense."
Morningstar can. He held high scoring Kevin Grevey to 24 points in the Kentucky game. Grevy scored only seven points in a half when the game was closely contested.
The adjustment to major college bachelor's was relatively easy. Morning navy,
"I stayed in Lawrence all summer, and played every night with Jo JO White. Roger Brown and other former KU players. Coach Ewen was around. That experience helped."
Morningstar's performance thus far at KU indicates that he has made the addition.
A major difference between junior college and KU are the fans, he says.
Win at the major college level, Mor-
torian asks why a university student's
battles, but are very clear.
"There is no comparison to the fans at KU. When you run out on the court, the school song and the fans cheering, you can't help but get sky high."
"We're one big family," he says.
JV's Defeat Colby
The University of Kansas junior varsity squad came on strong in the second half to defeat Colby Community College, 69-46, in Allen Field House Saturday night.
KU, riding the hot shoot of Tommy Smith, Kewance, III, junior, and 6-foot-5 center Bob Emery from Lyndon, broke a 24-24 halftime tie and pulled away.
Smith was the game's top scorer with 21 points, and Emery added 18. At halftime, Smith had only two points and Emery had six.
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Oakland took the fumble at the Kansas City 46 and scored in nine plays. At that point the game was unofficially over. The Clippers have traditionally been unable to come from behind against Oakland, and their game made no break with tradition.
It turned out to be a ho-hum game as Oakland blasted the Chiefs, 37-7. The Raiders gained 353 yards to 160 for the team and had 16 more first downs than the Chiefs.
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older and the team becomes more suspect, I wonder whether the Chiefs will ever make it to the Super Bowl again. This year, this year, I tell myself before each season. By the time the first exhibition game rolls in, I'm usually in a fit of fatious optimism.
scores (17-7 in 198, 16-3 earlier this year)
and lose to Oakland by not-so-colored scores
(41-6 in 198, 6-7 Saturday). Next year I just
won't care.
The game so closely resembled other pastings the Chiefs have taken at the Coliseum that one must wonder whether the Chiefs and the Raiders have a secret agreement that each team wins its home games. That was Oakland in Kansas City Sept. 30, 16-3.
Next year, next year. One can imagine the 1974 Chiefs running onto the field, chanting, "I grow old, I grow old, I shall grow my trousers called. Do I dare to eat a梨."
All of the Chiefs went through their usual Coliseum routines Saturday. Hank Stram looked disgusted. Let Den Lauw, who didn't play, looked digested. Mike Livingston looked disgusted. The team looked disgusting. The fans were simply disgusted.
Next year I won't have to wonder why the Chiefs beat Oakland occasionally by close
But no more. Next year I'm going to switch loyalties to some team that can be put in front of me, possibly posed to win like win, the Miami Dolphins. That way I won't have to listen any more to Stram's glib excuses for throwing away a ball and having crowds or for losing to the Denver Bronc.
Each year, as many of the Chiefs get
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