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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, October 16, 1990
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Game sparks memories of'69 Orange Bowl
Bv Rob Wheat
Kansan sportswrite
When Ken Wertzberger stepped onto the Orange Bowl field Saturday, he was walking on familiar ground.
His mind often has returned to 1969, when he was an offensive guard playing for Kansas against Pennsylvania University on national television.
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He often thinks about a fourth-
play when running back John
Riggins only had to gain one yard for
a first down, and five yards to give
Wertzberger helped create a huge gap, but Riggins was stopped for no gain after ignoring the hole. But the Jayhawks thought they won the play. They converted up a Nittany Lap two-point conversion pass with 15 seconds remaining.
The officials said Kansas had 12 men on the field, however, and Penn State converted on their second attempt, winning the Orange Bowl.
When the Jayhawks returned to the Orange Bowl on Saturday, the game called up memories of the famous "Twelfth Man Game" for Wertzberger and other former Jayhawks, who have had success since then.
Wertzberger returned Saturday as the team's orthopedic surgeon but said every year he is reminded of that day.
Many players and coaches have gone on to be head coaches at major universities, athletic directors, professional players and doctors.
remember his experience as a special time for him and for Kansas football.
Former assistant coach John Cooper, now coach of Ohio State, said that was what he remembered best now.
"I can't watch any Orange Bowl game without remembering that play." Wortzberg said. "When you're out on the field, you don't really realize what kind of significance a certain game will leave on
"It was a heartbreaker, but I think successful programs go in cycles," Cooper said. "I think good things are on the horizon for Kansas. Glen Watterson is a major source of mine, and I know he will turn Kansas around. He's a big-time coach."
Cooper was one of six assistant coaches to became a major university coach; Terry Donohue, UCLA; Dick Tomey, Arizona; Sandy Buda, Nebraska-Omaha; Dave McClain, former Wisconsin coach for seven years; and Dom Fambrough, a two-time former coach for the Jayhawks.
Donhaue said that in his years of coaching since then, the hurt of losing other close games had overshadowed the one in 1969.
"It at the time of the loss, it was truly heartbreakening because we worked so hard to get there." Donahue said. "However in these past twenty years, there have been many more wounds, too numerous to mention."
Orange Bowl Flashback, 1969
"I think the Orange Bowl is a jinx for Kansas," Fambrough said. "We should have paid it the first time."
Almost twenty-two years after Kansas fell to Penn State in the Orange Bowl, many team members have continued a Kansas tradition of excellence.
Fambridge, however, had the misfortune to endure loss two Orange Bowls. In addition to coaching in the 1948 Orange Bowl team,
| Coaches | Then |
| :--- | :--- |
| Pepper Rodgers | Head Coach |
| John Cooper | Defensive Back |
| Terry Donahue | Interior Lineman |
| Dick Tomey | Head Freshman |
| Dave McClain | Linebacker |
| Don Fambrough | Offensive Tackle / Tight End |
| Doug Weaver | Defensive End |
| Sandy Buda | Graduate Assistant |
| Larry Travis | Off Guards / Centers |
Coaches Then
Wertzberger said he chose to
In the 1948 game, trailing 20-14 to Georgia Tech with minutes remaining, Kansas bleed a chance to upset Oklahoma and fumbled two feet from the end zone.
Now
Then
Players
A few former assistants became athletic directors.
President of Mid-America Football League
Head Coach, Ohio State
Head Coach, UCLA
Head Coach, University of Arizona
Former Head Coach, Wisconsin; deceased
Former Head Coach, KU, twice
Former Athletic Director, Michigan State
Head Coach, University of Nebraska - Omaha
Former Athletic Director, Kansas State
Former offensive guard coach Larry Travis served as Kansas
Former defensive end coach Doug Weaver retired in June after serving as Michigan State's athletic director for 10 years.
John Riggins Freshman running back
Bobby Douglass All-American Quarterback
John Zook All-American Defensive End
Larry Brown Tackle
Donnie Shanklin Running Back; Orange Bowl MVP
Ken Wertzberger Guard
Since then
14 years in NFL. 1983 Superbowl MVP
12 years in NFL
10 years in NFL
13 years in NFL
9 years in NFL
KU Orthopedic Surgeon
Source: Kansan reporter
State's athletic director for three years, and now works at Marshall University in West Virginia.
But the busiest administrator in sports may be former Kansas head coach Pemper Rodgers.
Rodgers is president of Mid-America Football in Memphis, Teen, and is lobbying for the city to gain a professional football team.
Rodgers wants to return a team to the city where he coached the Memphis Showbowl of the United States Football League.
ing career, he said the one against Penn State 22 years ago was one he would remember the most.
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"The Orange Bowl has had some tough games in it, but I can't remember a more historic type of game than ours." Rodgers said. "We went in there with a young staff and the game wasn't won until the final
That bowl game was the last game of the college careers of two Kansas All Americans. Quarterback Bobby Zook end John Zook left for the NFL.
Of all the games in Rodger's coach-
Douglass and Zook were two of nine players from that team who played in the NFL. Riggins played professional football for 14 years, and was the Most Vauable Player in Superbowl XVII.
Rodgers said he enjoyed hearing when his former players and coaches became successful.
"After you leave the other coaches you work with, you kind of lose touch," Rodgers said. "But it’s good to hear so many of the men I worked with are doing so well. I’m proud of all of them."
Underdog Reds set for tough Series
The Associated Press
It can turn ugly quick.
CINCINNATI — Lou Piniella knows what it's like to be a first-time playoff team going against the best in the World Series.
Final count: Cincinnati 4, New York 0.
It will unfairly urge
Yankees owner the 1976 New
York Yankees to win their first
American League pennant in 12
years and earned the honor of facing
Cincinnati's "Big Red Machine" in
the World Series.
Now he's trying to guide the inexperienced Reds through their first World Series in 14 years, and he has won two titles and is eliminating the Oakland Athletics.
What he sees around him leads him to think it could be different this time around, even though the Reds are listed as 3-1 underdogs to win.
thought of facing Oakland.
Piminaella figures his healthy and restarted rotation giving him a huge advantage over the 76 Yankees team who mushed its rotation against the Serra.
Pinella named his rotate of Jose Rijo, Danny Jackson and Tom Browning for the first three games of the Series, which opens tonight in Cincinnati. The A's will pitch Dave Stewart, Bob Welch and Mike Moore.
"Cincinnati had the best team by far, but we were stretched out the full gamut against Kansas City and didn't have our rotation set for that series." Piniella said Sunday. "Here we have that opportunity."
The Reds seem unfazed by the
Piniella isn't surprised.
"n'tainly intimidated by Oakland," outfielder Eric Davis said. "We know they re world champs. But we don't fear anybody."
"I felt all along that once we won our division, this club would stick its chest out a little bit. I thought we confident about itself. I thought we were the dominant team in the playoffs."
Second baseman Ron Oester said the Reds found a sense of confidence during the last few weeks by holding off San Francisco and Los Angeles to complete a wire-to-wire victory in the NL West.
"We won some games we had to win," Oester said. "We proved something to ourselves. I think there was some doubt, some doubt in ourselves. We've proved to ourselves that we can win it."
"It was the fact that they hadn't won before." Piniella said. "Once they got that monkey off their backs, I felt this team would perform well. And they did. The toughest thing is to win it the first time."
The Reds had earned the label of underachievers by finishing second for four straight years in the 1980s, then falling to fifth last season. Pinelli said winning the NL West title had made his team bolder.
"They've been there before," Piniella said of the A's.
That goes for World Series titles, too
First game
First game
8:32 p.m. EDT Tuesday,
Oct. 16, Cincinnati
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8:32 p.m. EDT Tuesday,
Oct. 16, Cincinnati
**Gone 2**
8:29 p.m. EDT Wednesday,
Oct. 17, Cincinnati
**Gone 3**
8:32 p.m. EDT Friday,
Oct. 19, Oakland
**Gone 4**
8:29 p.m. EDT Saturday,
Oct. 20, Oakland
**Gome 5**
(if necessary)
8:29 p.m. EDT Sunday,
Oct. 21, Oakland
**Gome 6**
(if necessary)
8:29 p.m. EDT Tuesday,
Oct. 23, Cincinnati
**Gome 7**
(if necessary)
8:29 p.m. EDT Wednesday,
Oct. 24, Cincinnati
**TV**
All games on CBS
Knight-Ridder Tribune News
Coliseum's beer ban not big hit with fans
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Fans held their breath Sunday as the Los Angeles Raiders survived against the tenacious Seattle Seahawks, and stadium security forces tried to make sure fans held their luxury someplace else.
The results after a one-game ban on beer sales imposed at the NPL game at the Los Angeles Coliseum:
Attendance: 50,624, beer sales: 0.
Police citations outside stadium:
attendance: 30,624;ider slids: 8.
Police cites outside stadium.
People caught with alcohol at
gate: 24, tickets confiscated: 24, tie.
we want beer!" chanted thousands in the crowd to protest the one-time ban on alcohol, imposed in an effort to halt spectator violence. The mayor insisted that he included those reading "I'll Mom, Send Beer," and "Bo Knows Beer."
Alpire Brock, 35, of Tucson, Ariz., was hospitalized for more than a week after the attack. Shane Ginger, 19, of Aguerville, Calif., arrested for investigation of the beating, was expected to appear in court late yesterday.
The alcohol ban was approved by the Coliseum Commission after a Pittsburgh Steelers' fan received a near-fatal beating during a Sept. 23 game between the Raiders and Steelers.
and 34 fan ejections from within the stadium Sunday after fans were searched upon entry and any beer or alcohol found was confiscated. Authorities said two of the arrests in 124 of the ejections were alcohol related.
Police said there were six arrests
The numbers were well below the 31 arrests and 88 ejections at the previous home game, Sept. 30 when the Bears beat the Bears in Boston. 24,10 and beer was sold
Los Angeles City Council member Zev Lavrosylak, one of the prime supporters of the alcohole bar in the stadium, said during the game "The team has been involved with a couple (are) incidents. Basically, this is becoming a detoxification facility."
Although 14 people were ticketed outside the Coliseum on Sunday for violating the alcohol ban, Los Angeles Lakers LaLoche said there were no fights.
The police spokesperson said officers roaming nearby parking lots and sidewalks gave citations to 84 people for possessing open containers of alcohol and for drinking in public.
mourn games at the Coliseum,
beginning with a University of Southern
Arizona on Saturday, beer sales will
become more sociable content
will drop as will the size of cups
from 20 to 16 ounces.
Late Night scores with fun for all
Ann Sommerlath
Associate sports editor
You know when you walk into Allen Field House that you will get what you paid for in terms of action and excitement.
One of the words that frequently enters my head every basketball season is "showtime." We came to expect it during the Danny Manning era — go to a game, and you couldn't help going home feeling satisfied that what you had just seen was easily satisfying. But not even ticket. It was known like that ever since.
Sunday night the basketball program proved it again. They gave the fans a taste of the atmosphere they loved playing in and brought the basketball season — for free.
Sunday's "Late Night with Roy Williams," was in, my opinion, the most successful of the four "Late Night" shows been to. There have only been five
A team that can pull off that kind of production deserves a pat on the back. So do the 13,000 screaming fans for Grays (who made it to the show despite a delay in St. Louis), David Naster (who was able to keep the crowd entertained before the Grays arrived) and everyone involved in the event.
Williams has called Jayhawk basketball fans the best in the country. We proved it by nearly filling the stands for school night in the middle of midterms.
Not to sound “cheesy”, but it’s true. Newcomers to the KU basketball ball game were given a treat, as were the recruits who attended Sunday
A nationally-known comic and KU alumnus entertained us while we waited for one of Lawrence's most popular bands to arrive.
How often do you get to watch mild—mannered Roy Williams‘ "bust a groove" on center court or ever, for that matter? Not often.
Do you think it's standard procedure for coaches to entertain recruits in front of 13,000 screaming fans, with coaches said coach's dance ability? It's not.
Now I'm on the subject, we also learned who can and cannot dance. Mark Randall can, (he must ve taken some lessons since last year), and David Johanning and Patrick Richey cannot.
We found out some other things, too. For example, Kirk Wagner can sing (if the microphone will work) and Alonzo Jamison won't be replacing Arsenio Hall anytime soo (sorry, 'Zo).
We saw that regardless of Richey's relative inexperience, he can keep up with senior Mark Randall. For that matter, considering the youth of this group, he can all hold them despite own, never practice "officially" together.
Most of all, the basketball team showed us that they are real people who like to have fun, even on the court. "That's what basketball is all about."
Ann Sommerlath is a St. Louis senior majoring in journalism.
Keith ThorpeKANSAN
Reaching for No.1
Kansas' Eveline Rinker reaches for a low return from K-State's Rinker 7-5, 6-2 in a singles match in the Kansas-Kansas State dual last weekend. Michele Rinker, Hamers, a two-time All-American, defeated
Sports briefs
Swimmers and divers honored for academics
Kansas' swimming and diving teams have received national academic team honors for the second consecutive year.
The honors are awarded by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America.
The men's team was the only队 from the Big Eight Conference to receive the honor. Kansas posited that the team ranked sixth out of 13 teams honored.
The women's 3.00 cumulative GPA placed them 15th among 30 schools recognized. Nebraska was the only other Big Eight team honored.
Nebraska, Oklahoma have players of week
To qualify for the award, the entire swimming and diving team must maintain a GPA of at least 2.80.
Nebraska quarterback Mickey Joseph and Oklahoma linebacker Joe Bowden were chosen offensive and defensive in the Big Eight conference this week.
Joseph was a unanimous choice. It was the second time this year that he has been selected. During Nebraska's 69-21 victory against Missouri,
he rushed for four touchdowns and passed for another. He directed the Cornbushers to a season-high 622 total yards, including 504 yards rush
Bowden had 14 tackles, including eight unassisted, in Oklahoma's 14-13 loss to Texas. He was chosen in a split vote over Kansas State defense back Danny Needham, who had five tackles, an interception and a tumble recovery against Oklahoma State.
NFL owners set to meet to discuss media policies
National Football League owners will open two days of meetings in Chicago today to discuss media relations and other issues reports on a variety of subjects.
Commissioner Paul Taglabiu will preside at the meetings, which are expected to end tomorrow.
The most publicized issue will be the one concern locker room access, especially by women reporters.
The owners also are expected to hear committee reports on realignment and expansion, tampering rules, and the situation concerning international games involving the World League of American Football.
From staff and wire reports