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October 31,1984 Page.16
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The University Daily
KANSAN
B-ball tickets will go on sale early Monday
By BRENDA STOCKMAN Staff Reporter
The sale of student season basketball tickets begins at 6:30 a.m. Monday in the east lobby of Allen Field House, KU ticket manager Terry Johnson announced yesterday.
Johnson said, 1000 tickets would be available at $25 each.
Students will be able to buy only one ticket each and must have a valid KU identification card, Johnson said. Married students may purchase a spouse ticket for $25 as well as a student ticket, if they have a marriage of marriage, such as a marriage license.
Students are limited to buy only one ticket this week because of the high ticket prices (http://www.ticketmaster.com).
"WE HAVEN'T BEEN in this position for three or four years," he said.
for three or four years. Robyn Nordin, president of the Student Sports Council, said "At first it rubbed me the wrong way, but because it is not assigned seating it really doesn't matter." She said it was more important that
everyone had a chance to. The council suggested the athletic dept. should sell early in the morning, Nordin said, so students would not have to miss classes to buy a ticket.
She said it was more important everyone had a chance to buy a ticket.
JOHNSON SAID students would have to line up, single-file, outside the east doors of Allen Field House. Although the building opens at 6 a.m. for joggers, students who try to enter the east lobby from the inside of the building will not be able to buy tickets.
He said there would be signs telling people that they must line up outside and come through the east doors where there will be tables and several people selling the tickets.
Johnson said the ticket sale would be advertised through flyers distributed by the sports council, word-of-mouth and the KU Information line.
Johnson said there were about 7,000 seats reserved for students this year, the same number as last year. Of the 7,000 seats, some are for band members, house mothers, handicapped seating and first aid personnel. Many have already been reserved through student all-sports tickets.
Nordin said she was concerned that some students might not know that tickets would be on sale and miss out.
OU victory harkens back to Sayers' feats
By TONY COX
Sports Writer
File photo/KANSAM
Some fans attending KU's 28-11 Homecoming victory over Oklahoma Saturday at Memorial Stadium may have remembered the last time the Jayhawks defeated the Sooners at home.
One of the main cogs in that victory, which came in 1964, was a swivel-hipped halfback named Gale Sayers.
In that game, Sayers returned the opening kickoff 83 yards for a touchdown. The Jayhawks hung on for a 15-14 victory by scoring on the last play of the game.
Sayers said the Oklahoma victory was the highlight of an otherwise uneventful senior season for him.
Gale Sayers, "The Kansas Comet" gallops by two Missouri figured prominently in the Jayhawks' last victory over Tiger defenders, SAKU's third-leading career rusher, Oklahoma at home before Saturday's 28-11 hit.
"IT WAS A BIG disappointment," Sayers said of the 1964 season. "It was used mostly as a decoy and only gained about 700 yards." The Jayhawks had 64 that year and finished second in the Big Eight Conference.
Sayers, who retired in 1970 after starring for five years with the National Football League's Chicago Bears and Computer Supplies by Sayers. He doesn't miss football he said.
"I was forced to give it up because of injury, but I knew I would have to give it up sometime," he said. "I enjoy myself now. I don't concern myself with the past and what I could have done. It's been 14 years since I retired."
SAYERS MAY NOT miss football, but many miss watching him play.
"Every time I go into that stadium, I feel like No. 48 is going to come running out there," said John Novotny, Sayers' academic counselor at KU and an executive with Packer Plastics of Lawrence. "It seems like yesterday that he was wearing that blue and playing for KU."
Sayers came to KU from Omaha. Neb., in 1960. By the time he left, he had set several conference records.
He was the first conference player to rush for more than 2,000 yards in his first two seasons. He had the longest run from scrimmage in conference history — 99 yards. He also set conference records for single-handed touchdowns, career rushing yardage, 2,673 yards. His record for the longest run from scrimmage still stands.
a game, searing six against the San Francisco 49ers in his rookie season.
HE CONTINUED his success when he joined the Bears in 1965, when he became known as "The Kansas Comet." Sayers is the youngest man ever to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
He holds the NFL record for touchdowns in
Jack Mitchell, who recruited Sayers and was his head coach during his entire KU career, said. "He not only had great speed, but he could cut and control the speed."
Sayers' ability to cut and run under control allows him from other runners with great speed. Mitchell
Novotny said Sayers was the best running back of his time
"HIS ABILITY TO stop and go was his great skill." he said.
Mitchell said Sayers' natural ability would place him among the elite backs of today. Sayers was admired for his ability and his willingness to work hard, Novotny said.
"He earned his success," he said. "He was early to practice, one of the first in the locker room and one of the last to leave. He never dogged it in practice. He knew what it was to work hard. He knew nothing good happens to you in life unless you work hard."
Mitchell also admired Sayers' work ethic
"THIS INTENSITY AND his desire to excel made him great. He worked hard in practice
Sayers said time had passed by quickly since his playing days at KU.
and had discipline to go along with all that ability," he said.
"I know I'm getting older," he said. "But I've kept in good shape."
'Every time I go into that stadium I feel like No. 48 is going to come running out there. It seems like yesterday that he was wearing that blue and playing for KU.'
- John Novotny
Sayers' KU academic counselor
Noventy not, "Gale looks like he could still go out there and do it today."
Commenting on changes that have come in the game since he played at KU, Sayers noted the adversity his team has become specialized. He also mentioned the differences between the
salaries professional players earned then and now.
"I THINK ITS getting out of hand," he said of the present day salary structure. "If the owners are that foolish to pay that kind of money, I don't blame the players for taking
"They're not worth that kind of money. There has to be a cap some place. It’s falling back on the fans in the form of higher ticket prices."
Mitchell pointed out that Sayers played on both offense and defense, unlike the players of today.
"What many people don't realize about Sayers is that he was a great defensive player," he said.
Mitchell credited Sayers with saving a game against Texas Christian when he caught a ball carrier from 20 yards behind and prevented a touchdown.
Novotny also noted Sayers' versatility. "You don't see Walter Payton running backicks, because in his contract it says he has a lot of time to play and had anything like that in his contract. He did whatever was necessary to help the team win."
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