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Wednesday, November 14, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Wheelchair Players Stand Tall
Bv.JIMSHELDON
Basketball without legs.
Think about it. Better yet, watch the Topkape Chairman of the Board play a game of chess with himself.
Wheelchair basketball has all the elements of normal basketball: regular practices, road trips, zone defenses, fast breaks and post game films.
Even the more subtle points of basketball can be found in the wheelchair game. For example, the importance and the domination of the big man is just as evident in a wheelchair as it is standing up, accustomed to Fisher, a starting guard for the Chairman.
"Height is important, because you can hold the ball over your head, and since your opponent can't leave his chair, the big man bags a real advantage," Fisher said.
There are a few differences in the wheelchair game. Fisher said that the major rule changes concerned travel and maneuvering, the player could stay inside the two large wheels.
Instead of the usual three seconds, the wheelchair player is allowed six seconds in the lane. He must also dribble the ball at the same time. When the chair's wheels to avoid a travel call.
Otherwise, the game is played by standard association rules. Collegiate Athletic association rules.
"People don't realize the competitiveness of the wheelchair game," Royce Miller, the Chairman's player-coach, said. "It is a challenge. You don't take legs to compete and excel."
Competition and excellence mean as much to the Chairmen as to any athlete. And, like everyone, winning is the Chairmen's goal.
Joe Greve, a starting forward, said the team's greatest satisfaction was competing with the Nets.
"At first, our orientation was therapeutic, but we have changed to a competitive thing. I think needs some competition in their lives." Greve said. "It means a lot to me, because I have seen what competition can do for some of these guys."
Greve's teammate, Jack Malone, said athletic competition was a new experience.
"It is kind of like eating hambur all your life and then eating a steak." Malone said. "It is when you taste that steak the first time that you are hooked.
"It is the same with basketball. You get on that court for the first time and you realize what you've been missing in life." Greve said the team also was trying to change the public's conception of disabled people.
He said that the player's ability on the
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"i know they can play this game, they can do anything one else can do." Miller
Fisher's wife, Kaye, the team's business manager, summed up the team's
"Three words say it all: ability not disability," she said.
This attitude has made the Chairmen a strong squad in only their second year of league play, the Fishers said, and it is the same team that looks like to let the same team base-leased team.
Randy Fisher said that if enough handicapped people in Lawrence contacted him about playing for the Chairmen, a Lawrence team could eventually be formed.
Conference of the National Wheelchair Basketball Association (NWBA), which also has teams in Emporia, Kansas City, Kan. Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Southern Illinois University in Carbondale,
Meanwhile, the Charmer remains our team nearest to Lawrence in the Midwest
The NWBA is now in its 20th year and is an offshoot of a team that organized at a Kansas City cityan's hospital after World War II. From that beginning the NWBA eventually organized 13 conferences across the nation Fisher said.
According to Fisher the Chairman is one of the best organized teams in the NWBA. Topica business have donated special chairs, lodging, food and cars that allow the Chairmen to compete in the conference, and have provided charity games for muscular dystrophy.
Organization and team spirit make the Chairman a basketball team that is well known in the community.
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Big Eight Names Mike Lemon Defensive Player of the Week
Mike Lemon, University of Kansas nae
guard was named the Big Eight's defensive
player of the week yesterday and the
first in history to play for their
Saturday game with Oklahoma.
The 5-foot-4, 205-pound Lemon made 11 tackles six of them unassisted in KU's 17-15 win over Colorado Saturday. The junior beat Oklahoma State behind the line and recovered a fumble.
Head coach Don Fambrough said the Jayhawks had no major injuries in the win.
Bruce Adams junior wide receiver who fractured his hand in the Oklahoma State game, will be used sparingly against Oklahoma Saturday Farnbrough said. He also said that Do Gode, senior defensive end from Houston who played the Colorado State Bengals, will have a shoulder separation, will continue to play with a special shoulder harness.
Fambrough said he was aware of the great wishbone running attack of the Sooners. He pointed out that Oklahoma had a great pass receiver Tinker Owens.
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Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you so that he does not hear. (Isaiah 59:1-2)
If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. (11 Chronicles 7:14)
First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all men, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life, godly and respectful in every way. This is good, and it is acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. (I Timothy 2:1-4)
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"I think they can throw the ball better this year than last, especially with Owens' runs."
The 'Hawks used a six-man front on some short yardage situations in the Colorado game in an effort to stop the Buffs' running game.
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