SPORTS
November 2,1984 Page 16
The University Daily KANSAN
Jayhawks to face upstart Colorado squad
By PHIL ELLENBECKER Associate Sports Editor
The KU football team will undergo a test of will when it faces Colorado tomorrow at 2 p.m. at Folsom Field in Boulder.
The Jayhawks, 3-5 this season and 2-2 in the Big Eight conference, will be out to prove that last week's 28-11 upset of then.No.2 ranked Oklahoma wasn't a fluke. As far as they are concerned, that victory is a thing of the past.
"You can only live the win so long," offensive tackle Bob Pieper said. "Monday came around and coach said 'OK, it was a nice win, but it's something you have to forget right now.' We have to keep the CU game. We can't get the CU game. We can't get fat on one win."
strong safety Trachy Hardy said, "You can't throw all your things in one basket and after that's over with say 'Well, that's fine.' You've gotta keep going."
THERE ARE A number of reasons for the Jayhawks to take tomorrow's game seriously beginning with the fact that the Buffaloes, 1-7 this season and 1-3 in the conference, have defeated the Jayhawks the past two years, including a 34-23 victory last year in Lawrence.
Tight end Jeff Anderson said, "It takes on added significance because we've lost the last two years. Two years ago we went to Los Angeles and washed, so this game is very important to me."
Piper said head coach Mike Gottfried had made sure the Jayhawks haven't forgotten the
"He keeps reminding us," he said. "Even through spring ball, that was one thing we talked about, but how poorly we came out to play against them last year in Lawrence. That's one thing that keeps you running, so I think it will be an interesting game."
Adding to the game's importance for Anderson, Piecer, Hardy and freshman
KANSAS (3-5)
Offense
SE~Jeff Long, 5-11, 180 jr.
LT~Jim Davis, 6, 245 jr.
LG~Paul Swenson, 6, 4-245 jr.
C~Benne Simecka, 6, 5-258 jr.
RD~Doug Certain, 6, 2-65 jr.
RT~Bope Piper, 6, 255 so.
TE~Jeff Anderson, 6, 3-225 jr.
QB~Mike Norseth, 6, 2-65 jr.
HB~Harvey Fields, 6, 0-200 jr.
LT~Lyn Williams, 6, 2-200 jr.
SK~Skip Petee, 6, 0-185 jr.
K~Dodge Schwartzburg, 5-8, 165 ss
Defense
LE—David Smith, 6, 13; 25 br.
LB—Rober Tucker, 6, 24 br.*
NG—Phil Pforte, 6, 32; 20 so.
NG—Jon Stewart, 6, 42 br.
RE—Guy Gamble, 6, 32; 25 br.
LL—Wille Pless, 6, 21 br.*
LCB—Avin Walton, 6, 185 br.
SC—Arnold Fields, 6, 190 br.
BCB—Milt Garner, 5, 10; 17 br.
P—Tom Becker, 6, 263 br.
COLORADO (1-7)
Defense
OLB—Dan McMillen, 64, 222 jr.
LT—Curt Koch, 67, 247 sr.
NG—Don Munice, 62, 223 sr.
RT—George Smith, 63, 240 sr.
OLB—Darin Schuehck, 61, 202 sr.
IBL—Barry Remington, 64, 221 sr.
ILB—Alan Chrite, 61, 223 sr.
LCB—Lyle Pickens, 51, 175 jr.
SS—John Bennett, 51, 180 jr.
FS—Kent Davis, 61, 196 rp.
RCB—Alvin Rubabcaa, 5, 190 rp.
P—Alan Baun, 62, 190 rp.
guard Steve Isham is the fact that they each went to high school in Colorado and were recruited by the Buffalooes. Pieper met the man he'll be lining up against tomorrow, Carl Koch, on a recruiting trip to Boulder.
Offense
SE—Loy Alexander, 5-11, 175 jr.
LT—Pat Ryan, 6, 226 cm.
LG—Junior II, 6, 273 rs.
C—Eric Coyle, 6, 232 cm.
SG—Shaun Beard, 6, 251 rs.
ST—Tim Harper, 6, 258 cm.
TB—Jon Embree, 6, 224 rs.
FB—Erie McCarty, 6, 210 rd.
WH—Ron Brown, 5, 109 jr.
K—Dave DeLine, 5, 172 cm.
"ITLL MAKE THE game that much more interesting," Pieper said. "It's really between who has the better team and the better coaches."
The Jayhawks will probably be facing a very hungry Colorado team. The Buffalooes, who are slightly favored to win, have played nationally-ranked Nebraska and Oklahoma State close the past two weeks, losing 24-7 to the Cornshurows after leading 7-3 at the end of the third quarter, and losing 20-14 to the Cowboys last week.
Colorado has the second-best passing team in the conference. Leading the offense will be quarterback Craig Keenan who started his first game last week in place of Steve Vogel. Keenan provides more mobility than Vogel, and he is repeatedly in Colorado's first seven games.
"They've got a pretty good football team," head coach Mike Gottfred said. "I don't care if people know it or not, but our team realizes we are being played well the past three weeks."
He'll be throwing to three capable receivers in Jon Embree, Loy Alexander and Ron Brown. Embree has caught 32 passes, the second-best total in the league. Alexander has 21 receptions. Brown has averaged 25.2
yards, the best average in the conference, on 21 catches. He had an 90-yard touchdown on 58 catches.
"THEY'VE GOT SOME speed at the wide receivers, and they've got a good coach," Hardy said. "It's a good offense. They present some problems."
Anderson said he thought the Jayhawks could present some problems themselves on offense, after struggling against two of the nation's top defenses the past two weeks. Colorado is ranked seventh in the conference defensively.
"If the offense executes, there's no telling what we could do." he said. "We could punch holes in any defense, especially because CU is susceptible to a lot of our game plan. I expect some very good things from our offense Saturday."
Anderson said the makeup of this year's tow would help prevent a letdown from the OKlahoma.
"BEING SO YOUNG and inexperienced, each week we're going out to prove we're a good team, not a cellar team like people were. We can't believe we got it wrong, that's what good about having a young team."
The Jayhawks can almost assure themselves of escaping the conference cellar with a victory tomorrow. KU currently stands fifth in the conference, one game in front of Colorado and Kansas State. Iowa state up the rear with a 0-3-1 conference record
GAME NOTES: Offensive tackle Jim Davis has missed the past two practices with the flu. Quint Schonewise will earn his first start of the year if Davis isn't healthy enough to play tomorrow, Gottfried said. Gottfried said he's leaving it up to their position coaches how much tailback Robert Mimbs and wide receiver Richard Estell play for Iowa. In one of the games, the two saw action late in the Oklahoma game. Both have been practicing more this week, but they haven't been running with the first team.
Swim teams start season at Robinson
By CHRIS LAZZARINO Sports Writer
The swimming teams will begin their
tournament, they host the Big Eight
Invitations. Robbins is the captain.
The women's team has been the Big Eight conference champion the past ten years.
Nebraska should give KU the best com
'This is the best, most well-rounded team we have ever had. We are solid in every event.'
Gary Kempf, head swimming coach
Kent Griswold, Rockford, Ill., sophomore, performs a dive off the one-meter springboard. He was practicing his dives for day and tomorrow at Robinson Natatorium.
petition in the women's division, swimming coach Gary Kempf said.
THE DIVING WILL begin at 2 p.m. today and the swimming will begin at 6 p.m. the competition will continue tomorrow, with swimming at noon and swimming again at 3 p.m.
Competing in the women's division will be KU, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Missouri. In the men's division, KU, Missouri, Nebraska, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Missouri. State and Missouri/Rolla will be
Head coach Gary Kempf said the women would begin their quest for an 11th straight conference championship behind the swimming of senior co-captain Celine Cerny, junior Tammy Pease and sophomore Marcie Herrold.
Cerny qualified for the NCA4 championships in the butterfly and backstroke at all distances last year. Please led the nation for much of last season in the 50-meter freestyle, Kempf said. He said she would be one of the better backstrokers in the country this year.
Kempf said Herrold would be one of the best intermediate and distance freestylers in the conference this year.
"THIS IS THE BEST, most well-rounded team we have ever had." Kempf said. "We are solid in every event."
Kempf said a good class of freshmen has given the team great depth.
Some of the better freshmen in the breaststroke will be Patti Craue, Karen
The top freshman in the butterfly will be Jacqueline Pease. Freshmen who will help in the freestyle are Karen Becker, Wendy Dickinson, Anne Blofield and Crane.
THE TOP SWIMMERS on the men's team will be co-captain Ken Grey, a senior returning after taking a year off from the team, and the other co-captain, senior Brad Kempt and sophomore Todd Neugent would of the top backstrokeers in the conference.
The top newcomers for the men are: Chris Cook and Grant Seavail in the freestyle; David Nesmith in the butterfly and breaststroke; Steve Rush in the kick and Chuck Jones in the distance freestyle.
Kempf said the men's diving team would have four good divers in junior Mike Pramble, sophomore Kent Griswold and freshmen Pat Clark and Dennis Puckett.
Nebraska has been the men's conference champion since 1980 and is the faverite again this year. Kempt said He said Iowa State was better off being a team than its recruiting and should contend for second.
in the conference, but still had improvement to make. Missouri and KU should be about on the same level. Kempf said, and there should be some competitive races between the two schools this year.
KEMPF SAID THE KU team had improved over last year, when it finished fourth
This weekend's meet will be used by Kempt to gauge the progress of his teams.
"This is an early season invitational." Kempf said. "Most of the teams in it have been training very hard. We are going to use it to see where we are at and what we need to work on.
we have worked hard on distances in practice. We will see what our endurance and speed development is at this point."
Committee hears appeal of ex-KU quarterback
By BRENDA STOCKMAN
Frederick's appeal came in a 90-minute hearing in Strong Hall, at which Frederick, his lawyer, athletic department officials and the student affairs Grievance Committee.
Mike Frederick, former KU quarterback,
yesterday appealed the athletic
department's decision this spring not to renew
his scholarship for the 1984-85 school year.
Staff Reporter
The committee, composed of members from various offices within the division of student affairs, will decide whether Frederick sufficiently proved that the athletic department had taken away his scholarship unfairly, said Lonny Rose, assistant athletic director.
FREDERICK SAID THE athletic department had informed him in a formal letter in June that his scholarship would not be renewed for this school year because he was ill during time still on the clock during the KU-Nebraska game last November in Lincoln, Neb.
monetary settlement with Frederick, Miami senior.
Frederick, then a second-string quarterback, said yesterday that he had left because he was upset that Coach Mike Gottfried had overlooked him and put in a third-string quarterback late in the game, which Nebraska won. 67.13 Frederick also said he had left because he had to go to the bathroom
Marilyn Yarbrough, chairman of the Student Affairs Greenvance Committee and professor of law, said yesterday that she could not talk about the case. She referred all questions to David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs.
Rose said that Gottfred had told Frederick this spring that he would not be playing this season and had offered to help Frederick find another school. Frederick has one year of eligibility left and two years in which to use it, Rose said.
Gottfried said yesterday that he had no comment on the case.
AMBLER SAID YESTERDAY that he had not received a report from the committee and did not know when the decision would be made.
Scott Britan, Frederick's attorney, said National Collegiate Athletic Association rules didn't say how much time the committee had to decide on the appeal.
the student Affairs Grievance Committee heard Frederick's complaints because this was a case of a student disputing University action on financial aid. Ambler said. This is the first time the committee has been drawn together for a formal hearing, he said.
department had acted improperly by not renewing the scholarship.
Rose said he thought Frederick and his attorney had failed to prove that the athletic
Rose said Frederick's actions at the Nebraska game weren't the first time the quarterback had behaved in an unsportsmanlike manner. He said Frederick had tried to leave the field early at other games and had used foul language in talking to coaches and the Rev. Homer "Butch" Henderson, team pastor.
Britan said KU might have violated NCAA rules because Frederick had been removed from the meal plan and asked to move out of Jayhawk Tower Towers, where the football team lives, before his 1983-84 scholarship was fulfilled.
"ANYTIME A PLAYER has left the playing area more than once, had to be restrained by coaches, used profanity against coaches and Pastor Henderson in front of a crowd of people." Rose said, "that's grounds for removing him from the squad and not renewing his scholarship."
Seurer readies himself for second season
By GREG DAMMAN Sports Editor
If you wanted to watch former KU quarterback Frank Seurer in action last fall, the only thing you needed was a ticket to a KU football game and the desire to watch footballs flying through the air at Memorial Stadium.
Sports Editor
This fall, you can watch Searer in action free of charge. But instead of Big Eight Conference football, you'll be watching basketball game at Robinson Gymnasium.
"THE BEEN GOING down to Robinson about everyday." Seurer said. "I'm not the type of person who can go out and run three or four miles a day. I'd rather play racquetball or basketball. I get bored easily."
Not that Seurer's football career is over. He played for the Los Angeles Express of the United States Football League last spring and has been playing basketball this fall to get in shape for the Express's training camp, which begins in January.
"It's kind of fun," he said. "I've never done it before and I feel kind of awkward for it."
Although Suerer's relationship with this year's KU team has been limited to a couple of days on the practice field playing catch, he has followed the team closely. In fact, he has worked as a color commentator for KJHK FM 91.
"For me personally, the USC game was better. The situation I was in and all of the people out there I knew made it special for me."
Seurier was a commentator for the Iowa State and Oklahoma games. He called the Jayhawks' 28-11 upset of the Sooners "incredible" and said it was similar to last year's 26-20 upset of USC.
"WHEN STEVE SIGNED I was starting and it was kind of demoralizing," he said. "Now I realize that it's a business and not just a sport."
He started two games for the Express before being replaced by Steve Young, who signed a multimillion dollar contract with the team. Seuer was a four year starter at KU and said that moving to the bench was difficult at first.
Seurer was recruited from Edison High School in Huntington Beach, Calif., by former KU offensive coordinator John Hadi, who is now the head coach of the Express. Seurer was a fifth-round draft choice of the Express last spring.
Recently, the USFL let the football world know it means business by announcing that is was filing an anti-trust suit against the National Football League. Seurer said he was not too concerned with the suit.
"I haven't read that much about it," he said. "I just try to play football and let them worry about the business part of it." In another move, the USFL is moving from a spring to a fall schedule in 1966 in an effort to increase attendance.
"I THINK RIGHT now they're just looking for a change," he said. "We had a really poor show in LA. They have the Dodgers and the Lakers to contend with. I don't think most people are concerned with football at the time of year we played. Most people are geared toward football in the fall."
"Everybody wants to start," he said. "But I think it's a good situation for me now. I get to play in LA under Coach Hadil and I have some other good coaches, like Sid Gillman. I feel that I'm getting better, and if I had to play now I'm more prepared for it. I think playing at Kansas in the Big Eight against teams like Nebraska, Oklahoma and Missouri every year helped me."
Although he isn't a starter, Seurer said that he was happy with his situation with the Express.
Rockets send Kings to third straight loss
KANSAS CITY. Mo. — Rodney McCray hit a 20-foot jump shot with 31 seconds left in the game to lift the Houston Rockets to a 109-106 victory last night over the winless Kansas City Kings.
By United Press International
The unbeaten Rockets picked up their third win and dropped the Kings to 1-3.
Lewis Lloyd's two free throws with nine seconds left clinched the victory after Eddie Johnson missed a 17-foot jump shot that would have put the Kings back in front with 17 seconds to go. Johnson had given the Kings a 106-105 lead with two free throws and a basket with 42 seconds left.
Akeem Olaijawan led the Rockets with 25 points. Lloyd and Robert Reid added 18 each. Ralph Sampson contributed 15, but fouled out with $2\frac{1}{2}$ minutes left. Johnson had 26 points, rookie Otis Torhe had 18 and Larry Drew had 16 for the Kings.
Houston led by as many as 14 points, 77-63,
midway through the third quarter, only to
have Kansas City go ahead with a 25-7 rally,
88-84, early in the final quarter