SPORTS
November 13, 1984 Page 14
The University Daily KANSAN
Smith to miss MU game;
Mattox becomes a starter
Freshman defensive lineman David Smith, who injured his hip during Saturday's game against Nebrasa, will be able to play St. Louis Kansas goes on to the College.
Coach Mike Gottried said that starting defensive end Guy Gamble would be moved into Smith's position and that that position is the next Gamble's position in the starting lineup.
Gottried said tailback Lymn Williams would play against the Tigers despite missing the second half of the Nebraska game when he reinjured his shoulder. Wide receiver C.J. Eanes practiced yesterday, but is questionable for the MU game. Eanes suffered abdominal contusions during the Nebraska game.
Also, junior college transfer Rob Dickerson will start in place of Tom Beckner at Penn State.
At Missouri, junior nosegurk Steve Leshe underwent surgery Sunday for torn ligaments in his right knee and will miss the game. The trainer Fred Wappel said yesterday
Missouri senior safety Jerome Caveer also might miss the Kansas game Saturday. Powers said Caveer is wearing a cap during the 4-9 try at Oklahoma Nov. 3.
Leshe, who had 43 tackles in 10 games this season, injured his knee in Missouri's 31-13 loss to Oklahoma State Saturday. Leshe started in nine games.
If Caver cannot play Saturday, sophomore Cameron Riley will take his place.
SUN CITY, South Africa — World Boxing Association heavyweight champion Gerrick Coeatre of South Africa will be on hand to stop him from an injury, to his accident, prone right hand.
Coetzee reinjures right hand
Coatzee injured his right thumb while sparring with Marty Monroe three weeks ago in preparation for his title defense against American Greg Page. He reinjured it yesterday while sparring with James Dixon.
Trainers Willie Lock and Jackie McCoy gently removed Coetzee's glove, revealing a thumb badly swollen on the knuckle and also lower down under the bandages.
He consulted two specialists in Johannesburg yesterday and was assured the thumb was badly bruised but not sprained as well, a spokesman for the fight promoter said.
Cootie has been advised to keep up his training and have a break of a few days.
Cocteue has broken his right hand at most three times and has undergone two fractures.
Cromwell out for the season
ANAHEM, Calif. — The Los Angeles Rams have lost four time All-Pro safety Nolan Cromwell for the rest of the season and starting linebacker George Andrews will be out four to six weeks after both sustained knee injuries in Sunday's victory over the Chicago Bears, the team announced yesterday.
Cromwell, in his eight National Football League season out of Kansas, injured his right knee in the first series against the Bears. He underwent arthroscopic surgery yesterday at Centinea Hospital Medical Center in Inglewood, Calif., where Dr. Clarence Shields discovered ligament damage.
Cromwell was selected to the Pro Bowl three times as a free safety before switching to strong safety last season. He received the J.P. Pro team again at that position.
Andrews, in his sixth season out of Nebraska, injured his left knee in last week's game against St. Louis. He didn't practice during the week but started Sunday against the Bears. After one defensive series he said he was unable to play on the knee and was removed from the game.
Bird paces Celtics to victory
INDIANAPOLIS — Larry Bird scored 29 points and led a third period surge that gave the Boston Celtics a 132-115 victory over the Indiana Pacers last night.
The victory put Boston at 6-1 and in first place by a halfgame in the Atlantic Division of the National Basketball Association. Indiana fell to 1-7.
The Celtics pulled ahead 37-21 late in the first period behind the scoring of Bird and Dennis Johnson. But Vern Fleming scored 14 of his 17 points in the first half, including 10 straight Facer points, and pulled the hosts to within two at 65-63 at halftime.
The Pacers, who never led in the game, tied the game at 69 early in the third period, but the Celtics then scored 11 right points Indiana never closed the gate.
Bird led all scorers. Johnson added 24 points and Robert Parish and Danny Ainge each had 18. Herb Williams paced Indiana with 20 points.
Carr is player of the week
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Oklahoma fullback Lydell Carr was named the Big Eight's Offensive Player of the Week today on the strength of his 143 rushing yards and one touchdown in a 42-17 victory over Colorado.
Carr, a 6-foot 2, 195 pound freshman from Endi Oka, carried the ball 15 times, sparking an Oklahoma rushing attack that generated 266 yards against Colorado. Carr scored the first touchdown on the game at 64-vard run.
Compiled from Kanon staff and United Press International staff.
Chiefs give Jones a second chance
By CHRIS LAZZARINO
Sports Writer
E. J. Jones, KU's second-leading rusher last year as a fullback, has signed a contract with the Kansas City Chiefs for the 1983 season, taking his first crack at making the team.
Jones signed his second contract with the Chiefs about a month ago.
Jones first signed with the Chefs last year and participated in training camp and two pre-season games before being cut from the team.
After being cut, Jones came back to KU to finish his degree in communication studies.
"I don't really know why they wanted to re-sign me, but obviously they thought that I did pretty well in pre-season," Jones said. "I will graduate from KU next semester and I report to the Chiefs' camp in May. A few USFL teams contacted me after I left the Chiefs, but I decided to stay in school and get it out of the way."
Bob Sprenger, director of public relations for the Chefs, said the contract the Chefs signed with Jones is a futures contract. The contract makes the player the property of the team in the training camp, but the player is still held to a sign with a team for the current season.
Springer said teams are not allowed to sign players to futures contracts until about
"NFL teams do it a lot." Sprenger said yesterday. "But, we rarely announce the signings until the roster comes out after the season is over."
Sprenger said the coaches and scouts must have been impressed enough with Jones' play in pre-season to think that he could help the team next year.
Jones said he would be able to play special teams as well as fullback for the Chefs, but Sprenger said Jones must make the team as a fullback first
"He is a fullback." Sprenger said, "so that is where he has to make the team. He may be able to play special teams, but the coaches don't look at him along those lines. That is a
Making that position won't be easy, Jones said. because veterans Billy Jackson and John Cahill have been at it.
"I am not sure what I am going to have to do to make the team next year," Jones said. They only keep five backs, total, so somehow they have to have to happen for me to make the team
actor, sure, but we just signed him for his position."
Because this will be his second training camp, Jones said he would probably have an advantage over the players that will be there for the first time.
"They know what kind of a player I am and they know what I am capable of doing."
"I am not sure what I am going to have to do to make the team next year. They only keep five backs, total, so something is going to have to happen for me to make the team."
—Former KU fullback F. L. Jones
Jones said. "Also, I am more familiar with them this time around."
L. 4. Jones
Before he left for camp the first time, Jones said he talked with Kyle M Norton, a former KU limebacker who had been with the team when he was forced out of football with knee injuries.
Helping Jones prepare for his next tryout is Frank Seurer, a former teammate of Jones who is now a backup quarterback on the Los Angeles Clippers of the United States Football League.
"He tried to give me pointers," Jones said, "but it is just something you have to go through yourself. You can really be prepared for it by what anyone else tells you."
Jones said he and Seurer, who also returned to KU this semester, played basketball together every day at Robinson Gymnasium, but they hadn't nelected
"We have been throwing the ball and running a lot of pass routes." Jones said. "It is important that I be able to catch the ball because the Chiefs throw the ball a lot."
The fact that Jones is a local player helps the situation somewhat. Sprenger said it but he didn't. "It's hard to say."
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"It was based on his performance in the last training camp." Sprenger said. "The local aspect is nice, but it really doesn't have a bearing for a team in the NFL."
The current Jayhawk football team has a lot to be proud of. Jones said, and a base for future success is probably being formed this season.
"This year's team is young in certain positions," Jones said. "They lost a lot of players, but they still beat OU, which my class was supposed to do but couldn't. That was probably one of the biggest wins I have ever seen."
"The new sports complex should help recruiting, but it will all come down to the players. The OU game should also be a great help Now they are just a young team. Next they will be more experienced. They will have a lot of players with Big Eight experience."
As a junior, Jones gained 259 yards on 60 carries and caught 12 passes for 56 vards. His best day as a junior came when he rushed 150 for 112 yards.
Last season, he rushed for 417 yards on 98 carries, an average of 43 yards a carry. He was third on the team in receptions, catching 26 passes for 106 yards. His best game came against Missouri when he rushed for 83 yards of 15 carries.
Although he has his sights set on the Chiefs for 1985, Jones doesn't have his entire future in sight.
"If something happens and I don't make the Chiefs this year, I will go ahead and start working," Jones said. "For some players, all they want to do is play pro ball. They have it in their hearts to keep trying until they make it with a team.
"I can take the same energy and put it toward something else. If I don't make it with me, I'm going to have to work over it."
KANSAN FILE PHOTO
Former Kansas fullback E.J. Jones, shown in action here last City Chiefs for the 1985 season. Jones is currently enrolled at year against Missouri, has signed a contract with the Kansas KU working toward a degree.
Casillas named player to build a team around
By United Press International
His L's may be silent but Tony Casillas certainly isn't.
Casillas has 69 tackles this season, including 10 for 51 yards in losses. His eight sacks give him a share of the conference lead and he has been the most defensive Alabama defense that ranks first nationally against the rush and second in total defense.
The Oklahoma nose tackle has been one of the best defensive players in the Big Eight Conference this season but his name was tast a familiar one. That's because the junior lineman from Tulsa pronounced the L's in his name when he first enrolled at UCF, but this year decided to go back to the Spanish pronunciation with the silent L's.
When the Big Eight coaches were asked in their weekly conference call yesterday to choose one player from the conference, other than someone from their own team, to start a college football team, Casillas won the poll with 3½ votes. Two of the coaches who voted for him — Warren Powers of Missouri and Mike Gottried of Kansas — pronounced his name with the hard L's.
Casillas also got a vote from Bill McCartney of Colorado with Tom Ostrumie of Nebraska splitting his vote between Casillas and Oklahoma quarterback Danny Brayden. Pat Jones of Oklahoma State also voted for Bradley with Jim Riley of Oklahoma. Schnitzer of Oklahoma voting for Oklahoma State defensive tackle Leslie O Neal.
Kansas State Coach Jim Dickey was unavailable for the session.
But the pronunciation of Casillas' name was immaterial. Three of the coaches talked of him as "the big nose tackle from Oklahoma." Big, indeed. Casillas goes 63, 285 pounds That's where Powers gave him the edge over O'Neal.
"O Neal is a great player," Powers said.
"But he isn't as big as Casillas and he depends more on his speed. If you have a choice between the two, you'd take the faster one." He said and that's Casilla. He's the most dominating nose guard I've seen in a long time.
"Casillas has been a factor in all of the films I've watched of Oklahoma." Gottfried said. "He makes so many things happen."
Casillas had perhaps his best game of the season against Missouri when he made 13 tackles and caused a fumble to trigger an 49-7 Oklahoma victory. Missouri entered the game as the No 4 offensive team in the N.C.A.A. tournament, and the game, but the Tigers were held to 108 yards by the Sooners on that day. That's what swung McCarthy's vote to Casillas.
"Okahlaam was the only team to shut Missouri down (offensively), this year." McCarthy said, "and I give Casillas a lot of credit for that."
Casillas and O'Neal are both finalists along with Nebraska center Mark Traynowicz for the Lombardi Award as the nation's top lineman.
"O'Neal is the single most dominant player in the conference." Crier said. "When you look at all the things he can do, plus the big plays he makes on the special teams, you just know he's going to be a top pro draft pick."
The Big Eight has three of the Top 10 defenses in the country, with Nebraska rated No. 1 and Oklahoma State No. 10. That's why Switzer, who couldn't vote for his own player, gave the nod to O'Neal. He felt compelled to take a defensive player at the 6.4, 250-pound O'Neal was the likely candidate
"If you don't have a great running back or a quarterback — and I don't see any"
"halfs on the floor," she said.
— O'Neal would be the guy I take,' Switzer said.
KU to join Louisville as 'computer' team
By BRENDA STOCKMAN
Staff Reporter
This season, the basketball team will be one of two in the country to have its play-by-play information recorded and its statistics tallied with the help of a computer.
Terminals for the system will arrive next month, and the department plans to have the system in use by Christmas, said Richard McNair, assistant director of the Williams Fund.
The other school aired using the system is the University of Louisville.
The $2,000 software package for the new system was produced by Epoch Inc., of Lousville, Ky.
"That's the best $2,000 we've spent in a long time." Konzem said.
During basketball games, four people will follow the action on the court and enter
"For instance," Konzner said, "if number 32 shot and made it, all that would have to be typed in would be the number 32 and 'made some other signal that the shot was good
One of the tour will call out the number of the player who shoots a basket or makes a play; another person will type into the computer a few key words.
The third person, he said, will record on the screen of another terminal the significant
aspects of plays The operator, using a special light pen, will touch the player's number, listed below the diagram, and then touch the place on the court representing where the player was at the time of the play. Konzem said.
The computer automatically will print out both reports — the diagram and the play-by-play. Konzem said. Successful shots will be indicated on the diagram printout by brackets around the number of the player who made the basket.
A fourth person will keep the computer's clock synchronized with the game clock, he said. The computer will be able to record the times when plays are made or points scored.
The play-by-play printout, based on information from the other terminal, will include such details as "shot taken from the left wing."
In addition to recording the action on the court, he said, the computer continually will tally game statistics, such as shooting attempts, team and team, both for the game and the season.
A complete chart of the players' statistics can be printed out at halftime. Konzem was
The new system, for all of its advances,
will not change how the game is coached.
1 "get the stats at halftime now anyway,
not yet." It is a help for them, then!
I repeat.
By next fall, Konzem said, a similar
play-by-play software package may ready for use by football teams
Another important aspect of the personal computers is that they can serve as terminals for the athletic department's larger computer, Konzem said. The department installed a new IBM 36 computer in June, he said.
Besides increasing contributions, the computer has served as a valuable recruiter.
"Because this is a pledge system," Konzem said, "you have to be able to remind donors. With a $2 million budget next year, you can't let a dime slim through the cracks."
The Williams Fund, which solicits donations for the athletic department, has increased the frequency of reminder letters to people who have pledged donations.
If a KU coach is making a recruiting trip to look at an athlete, he said, the computer can generate a list of athletes in that part of the country. The computer will be in the. The discussion among coaches creates a
The computer keeps track of potential recruits' grade point averages, athletic data, addresses and names of parents and of high school coaches, he said.
spirit of cooperation and prevents duplication in travel. Konzem said
Also, recruiting letters are more personalized, he said, because now the computer can write all the potential recruits the same letter and insert names in the salutation instead of addressing all letters, "Dear Athlete."
Doug Vance, sports information director, said he thought the new system had put his office ahead of similar offices at other schools in terms of speed and accuracy.
"It comes across first-class." Konzem said.
The time required to compile and tabulate statistics after a game already has been reduced from two hours to a half hour as the IBM system comes into use, he said.
Konzem said that the department soon would be able to compile files on athletes to help track their academic progress. The ticket office soon will be able to assign scans with the computer, keep track of ticket sales more closely and improve billing, he said.
Because the ticket manager never knows how many tickets will be sold, one ticket for every seat in the stadium must be printed, Konzem said. The stadium is very rarely sold out, he said, so the ticket office staff often spends weeks counting left over tickets
"If tickets are lost," he said, "no one will know until the end of the year when the audit
That will no longer be the case with the computer system, he said.
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