SPORTS
October 29,1984 Page 14
The University Daily KANSAN
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Oklahoma running back Steve Sewell tries to break into the KU secondary but is brought down by Kansas defender Travis Hardy as Oklahoma tight end Keith Jackson looks on. Sewoll rushed for 65 yards.
KU springs upset
By PHIL ELLENBECKER Associate Sports Editor
Two weeks ago, after his team had absorbed a locker 24 licking at the hands of Kansas State, head football coach Mike Gottfried told his Jayhawks that they would need to win a game on offense and down the line to make up for the loss.
The Jayhawks made up for that loss and then some with a 28-11 victory over Oklahoma Saturday before the game. The Jayhawks played 29,560 in Memorial Stadium.
The victory ranks with Syracuse's defeat of Nebraska as the upset of the year in college football. Oklahoma came into the game ranked third in the nation with a 5-0 record. The Jayhawks, 3-5 this season and 2-2 in the Big Eight conference, hadn't defeated Oklahoma at home since 1964 and hadn't defeated them anywhere since 1975.
THE JAYHAWKS NOT ONLY beat the Sooners Saturday, they beat them in convincing style. Oklahoma head coach Barry Switzer had no alibis for his team's play after the game.
After KU played its worst game of the season in a 47-10 loss to Oklahoma State last week, Gottfried vowed to team ready against Oklahoma.
During the week, Gottfried got the Jayhawks' blood boiling by circulating a newspaper article in which Oklahoma quarterback Danny Bradley heavily criticized KU's offense; then he had Jayhawks warm up at their new indoor practice facility as a way of making them relax.
"I THOUGHT MIKE GOTTRIED used his nugget on the whole day's plan and the whole week for that mutant frog. We had a tough job, Hoch said. "We practiced to win."
Gottfried said, "I felt all week long that we were going to play well. We prepared well and played with a lot of enthusiasm. I think we kind of wore out our last two games, but I could tell last Sunday when I met with the players that we were going to play well."
Tailback Lynn Williams, who ran like a runaway bull all afternoon, said. "We played exceptionally high today. We were at our peak."
Nobody was more fired up than the KU defense. Ranked 90th in the nation coming into the game, the defense held Oklahoma to 115 yards rushing and 48 yards passing and caused five turnovers.
KU STOPPED THE SOONERS by plugging up the middle. Because Bradley was out with an injury and because the field was wet, Oklahoma cut down on its triple-option attack. The KU's defensive line, the Sooners figured they could run right at the Jayhawks.
The strategy worked on Oklahoma's first series, when the Sooners marched down the field to the KU five-yard line before settling for a field goal. Thereafter, KU's defense didn't budge.
Hoeh said the Jayhawks didn't do anything special to stop Oklahoma's
"We had to do some different things with our ends, but it's all nice to say you're going to say you're going to do some things with your hands." "But it's another thing to have the young kids do it, which they did."
The play of the defensive line was a welcome respite for Pless, who was averaging 18 tackles a game before Saturday. He didn't get that many Saturday because a defensive lineman met usually the Sooner ballcarrier before he did. Tackle Robert Tucker had eight tackles, and nose guard Phil Forte and tackle Jon Stewart had five apiece.
LINEBACKER WILLIE PLESS, who once again led the defense with 10 tackles, said. "We just played hard every single down. Our defense line did a super job of controlling the line and getting rid of the blocks and making the tackles."
"I can't say enough about our defensive line," safety Wayne Ziegler said. "People have been picking on them all year, saying they're too small. But the defensive line really did its job today."
Once KU proved it could shut down Oklahoma's running attack, the Sooners went to the air with disastrous results. Freshman quarterback Todd Almahan and three defensemen by KU returned one of those 63 yards for a touchdown, giving KU a 21-13 lead midway through the fourth quarter.
Cornerback Alvin Walton had the other two interceptions, which was especially gratifying for Hoch to see.
"I'm HAPPY FOR ALVIN Walton, because earlier in the year he was being molested back there, he really was, and to see him being interviewed in the locker room after a win against Oklahoma, to me that's the epitome of being a coach," he said.
While KU's offense only scored one touchdown, it was able keep the ball away from Oklahoma's offense behind Williams, who ran for 78 yards in 25 carries. His one-yard touchdown dive early in the second quarter gave the Jayhawks a 7-3 lead. It was the first rushing touchdown Oklahoma had given up this year.
Wide receiver Tom Quick set up Williams' touchdown when he sneaked behind an Oklahoma defender for a 54-yard pass from quarterback Mike Norseth to the Oklahoma one. Basking in the glory of victory in a rambunctious KU locker room after the game, Williams reflected on what the game meant to him.
"THIS IS PROBABLY the best I ever felt in my life as far as football is concerned," he said. "Beating Oklahoma, a team you see all the time on t.v as a kid growing up, and to beat this team."
But Hoch pointed out that the victory was something to build on and have done.
"We made giant strides today, but we're a long way from home," he said. "One win doesn't make a program. Now I've got to get ready to tell our kids tomorrow about how Syracuse bakes Nebraska earlier this year and hasn't a won a game since. When you don't know success, boy, that's hard. You get to thinking you're pretty dogone good."
Bradley's words ignite Jayhawks
Sports Editor
By GREG DAMMAN
Freshman linebacker Rick Bredesen stood in the corner of the Kansas 'tackler room, away from his teammates' victory celebration, and gave one reason for his team's intense play against the Sooners after the Jayhawks' stunning 28-11 upset of Oklahoma Saturday.
"The thing is, we were fired up for Danny Bradley," he said. "We wanted Bradley because of some things he said in the paper I'll show you exactly what he said."
Bredesen reached into a gym bag and outlined a piece of paper with a picture of
OU quarterback Danny Bradley
Oklahoma quarterback Danny Bradley and two paragraphs of copy on it.
"Don't get me wrong. I try hard in the Kansas game, but the Texas game is very easy to get fired up for and the Kansas game is very easy to not get fired up for."
100 ppm Above Bradley's head were the letters OU. Defensive Scouting Report was hand printed beneath the picture.
'THE BIGGER THE GAME,' the better Danny Bradley plays. Give him the eyes of Texas and he'll gouge 'em. Give him the Cornushkers of Nebraska and he'll shuck 'em. Give him the Kansas Jayhawks and he's liable to darned near fall asleep.
The conv read:
"I'm more aware of what's happening in a Texas game than I am in a Kansas game," said the Oklahoma Sooners' starting quarterback "It's just the type of game, the differences in the games. Don't get me wrong I try to be careful because it is very easy to get fired up for and the Kansas game is very easy to not get fired up for."
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The article on Bradley appeared in the Oklahoma City Daily Oklahoma & Times football preview issue on Aug. 24.
Bredesen didn't find the article by accident. In the days before the game, Kansas coaches made their players knew of Bradley's words.
"THOSE THINGS WERE everywhere," wide receiver Skip Peete said of the article on Bradley "the training table, the locker room, the training room. Everywhere, they said that when he starts to fail he starts to call me. Coach read what he said right before the game."
Couch Mike Gottfried downplayed the effect of the article, saying, "I think the guys were going to play well no matter what. I talked a little bit about it before the game. It seems like every week somebody says something like that when you're down."
Excusive tackle David Smith said, "That's what clicked it all. We had little pictures of Bradley and what he was saying all over. Everywhere we went, even the toilet. That picture was everywhere. We got a picture everyday."
Bradley, who was suffering from a sprained ankle and sore throwing hand, didn't play in the game. He was probably safer on the sidelines.
"THAT HURT OUR PRIDE quite a bit for him to say something like that," said safety Wayne Ziegler, who returned an interception 63 yards for a touchdown. "We wanted to
come out and play physical. We didn't care who was playing. We just wanted to come out and play physical."
Cornerback Milt Garner, who blocked an Oklahoma punt through the end zone for a safety and a 15-3 lead in the fourth quarter, said. "Bradley was saying all of this stuff about falling asleep in the game. We came out looking for him to play so we could take it out on him. The quarterback that was out there took what Bradley deserved."
Bradley's replacement, freshman Troy Aikman, was of 2-14 passing for eight yards and gained two yards rushing on six attempts. He also threw three interceptions.
"He's a young kid. Ziegler said, "You've got to give him credit. He hasn't ever played."
"We had little pictures of Bradley and what he was saying all over. Everywhere we went, even the toilet. That picture was everywhere. We got a picture everyday."
— KU defensive lineman David Smith
I feel bad for him a little bit, but I'd rather win than have him feeling better."
Freshman defensive lineman John Stewart said that Bradley's absence was not important.
"HE FELT LIKE Kansas wasn't going to be much of a game." Stewart said. "He was saying how he had a hard time getting fired up for us. Him being out didn't make much of a difference, because we were going to be ready anyway. We treated the whole team like they were a bunch of Danny Bradleys."
A delighted Mike Norseth, KU quarterback, shows his jubilation during the Jayhawks' victory over Oklahoma. Norseth completed 12 of 17 passes for 152 yards Saturday in Kansas' 28 11 upset of the Sooners.
Wide receiver Trom Quck, who set up Kansas' first touchdown with a 54-yard reception to the Oklahoma one-yard line, said, "Anytime another team says they don't get fired up to play us it we have to get more fired up to play them. They obviously thought that they were so much better than us that we had to do that."
Kansas will play Colorado Nov. 3 at Boulder The Buffalos tied Missouri Saturday,14-14.
"SINCE FVE BEEN HERE Colorado has played us tough." Quick said. "We haven't been ready to play them. We have to stay on this emotional high the rest of the season."
Steiner places third at Big Eight cross country meet
By CHRIS LAZZARINO
Sports Writer
The expected had weather and treacherous conditions didn't materialize Saturday at the men's and women's Big Eight Cross Country Championships in Boulder, Colo., but a third place finish by senior Brent Steiner did
Steiner finished the race in 32 minutes, one second. His time was less than a minute behind the winning time of 31:20 posted by Iowa State's Yobes Ondieki. Ondieki's teammate, Joseph Kipsang, finished second with a time of 31:23.
who I was a cold going into the race, but that is "I had a cold going into the race, but that is no excuse." Steiner said, "I am just not sure if it was the altitude, my cold or both, but I had trouble getting air in my lungs. I felt like I was struggling all of the time.
"But I think even if I had ran well, I would have still finished in third the way those guys (Ondieki and Kipsang) ran."
at the national championships on Nov. 19 at University Park, Pa.
Steiner said Ondieki and Kipsang are expected to finish first and third respectively
IOWA STATE TOOK the men's team title with 32 points. The rest of the team placements were: 2-Oklahoma State, 87; 3-Nebraska, 104; 4-Kansas, 106; 5-Colorado, 114; 6-Kansas State, 121; 7-Oklahoma, 145 and 8-Missouri, 155
Sophomore Joe Manuel was 25th with a time of 34.04, sophomore Kyle Rose finished in 34.15 for 35th and senior John Desrosiers finished in 34th. Rose in 36th place with a time of 34.17
Sophomore Gordon Way Finished 37th with a time of 35.01 and junior Maurice Smith was 34th.
KU's top finisher in the women's division was senior Susan Glatter. Glatter finished 17th with a time of 19:22. Senior Caryne Finlay finished 30th with a time of 20:18 and freshman Trisha Mangan was 38th with a time of 20:49.
Senior Greg Leibert also finished in the top to individually, with a time of 32.55, good for
SENIOR PAULA BERQUIST was expected to be one of KU's top finishers, but she was forced to drop out of the race because of breathing problems and shin splints.
Sophomore Tracey Keith was 39th with a time of 20:51, senior Heather Sterbenz finished 41st with a time of 21:11 and freshman Kelle Audley finished in 22:17, good for 47th place.
The team standings for the women were
1-Missouri, 57; 2-Kansas State, 77;
3-Colorado, 79; 4-Iowa State, 81;
Nebraska, 97; 6-Oklahoma State, 155;
7-Kansas, 165 and 8-Oklahoma, 169.
Men's head coach Bob Timmons said the weather was dry and there was no snow on the course, but the altitude did take a toll on the KU runners.
"The altitude had the effect of putting the athletes in an oxygen debt sooner than usual." Timmons said. "The only way you could prepare for that was through drills that could create an oxygen debt and through solid conditioning.
"otherwise, you would have to go out there and train for six months, and that's impossible."
The men finished in fourth place, just two points out of third place, which was a stronger finish than many people expected from the Jayhawks. The finish wasn't achieved only through ability. Timmons gave his runners a strategy to use and it seemed to work.
The big surprise for the women was Bernstein's inability to finish the race.
"We WENT OUT at an easy pace and tried to make our move at certain times." Timmons said "We did everything as planned. The pace at which we ran paid off. We went out slow and under control, and I think psychologically that was the best pace for our team."
Women's head coach Cliff Rovello said before the meet that he expected Bergert to be KU's top finisher, based on her improving performances in meets and practices
"Paula had problems with her shins," Rovello said. "They were bothering her, and she started worrying about that and wasn't relaxed. That affected her breathing. She said that at about the mile and a half mark
she couldn't breath, so she dropped out of the race
"But Paula is not a quitter. She said she couldn't go on so I believe she couldn't go on. It was just a bad meet to have it happen in."
Rovello said that Glatter probably had her best meet of the year, beating runners who had beaten her earlier in the season.
Finlay has been KU's most consistent runner this season, Roveto said, because she has finished either first, second or third for KU in every meet this season.
GLATTER SAID SHE felt good about her placing, but she was especially pleased with her time because it was a 19 second improvement over her performance on the same course on Oct. 6.
"It was a tough race, probably the toughest I've run in," Glatter said. "I maintained a good pace and still had something left at the end I was up for the race, yet I was relaxed."
The next meet for both teams is the NCAA District Five Meet. Nov 10 at Springfield, Mo. The top two teams plus the top three teams will come from each district will qualify for national
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