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October 26,1984 Page 16
The University Daily KANSAN
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KU faces tough homecoming foe
By GREG DAMMAN Sports Editor
When Kansas meets Oklahoma in tomorrow's Homecoming game in Memorial Stadium, football fans will have a chance to find out which coach is most accurate in his description of the opponent.
After his team defeated Iowa State 12-10 Saturday, Sooner coach Barry Switzer said, "Kansas beat Iowa State 33-14. That makes them two touchdowns better than we are. They better athletes than Iowa State."
And earlier this week, KU coach Mike Gottfried said, "I think ( Iowa State coach) Jim Criner underdrated Oklahoma when he said they might lose half their games in the NFL. I think they could go undefeated."
THE WORDS OF BOTH coaches were pure speculation. In actuality, Oklahoma, 5-0-1, is ranked No. 3 in the nation by United Press International and has the country's top-ranked defense. The Sooners are No. 1 in rushing defense, giving up 27 points to scoring defenders with an average of 10.5 points a game allowed by the defense.
Kansas, on the other hand, is 2-5 and is coming off a 47-19 pounding at the hands of the nation's ninth-ranked defensive team. Oklahoma State.
Kickoff for the game, which is the oldest interrupted rivalry in the nation, will be at 1:30 p.m. The Sooners and Jayhawks have played each other every year for the past 81 years. OU leads the series, 52-2-6
Gottried said yesterday that to beat Oklahoma, "we'd have to play at our maximum possible effort — error-free and with a lot of emotion. What we have to do is keep the ball.
KU (2-5)
Offense
SE - Jeff Long, 5-11, 180, jr.
LG - Paul Swenson, 64, 245, jr.
C — Bennie Simecka, 6-5, 265, ir
CG — Doug Coutain, 64- 265, ir
RT — Bob Pieper, 6-5, 265, so.
TEF — Jeff Anderson, 6-2, 275, ir
FL - Skip Feeet, 6-0, 185, jr.
OR - Mike Norseth, 6-3, 205, jr.
Defense
TE — Jeff Anderson, 6-3, 225, jr.
FL — Skip Pete, 6-0, 185, jr.
QB - Mike Norseen, 6-3, 203, jr.
FB - Harvey Fields, 6-0, 200, sr.
RE — Davenport, 6, 30, 198.
RT — Robert Tucker, 6-3, 240, jr.
NG — Phil Forte, 6-3, 220, so.
LT — Jon Stewart, 6-4, 210, fr.
LE — Guy Gamble, 6-4, 295, jr.
LB — Wille Pless.
LR — Rick Bredese.
LC — Alvin Walton, 6-0, 185, jr.
SS — Arnold Fields, 6-1, 190, jr.
FS — Wayne Ziegler, 6-2, 190, jr.
RC — Milt Garner, 5-10, 175, fr.
OU (5-0-1)
Defense
LE — Darrell Reed, 6-2, 218, fr.
LT — Jeff Tuppet, 6-5, 265, fr.
NG — Tony Casillas, 6-3, 272, fr.
RT — Steve Bryan, 6-3, 200, fr.
RE — Troy Johnson, 6-2, 215, fr.
LP — Paul Migliazzo, 6-1, 226, fr.
LB — Brian Bosworth, 6-2, 228, fr.
LC — Andre Johnson, 6-1, 187, fr.
SS — Keith Stanberry, 6-1, 192, fr.
SO — Sue Blandford, 6-1, 192, fr.
Offense
KICKOFF: 1:30 p.m. at Memorial Stadium.
SERIES: STANDING. Oklahoma 53-21-4. Oklahoma defeated Kansas to last year.
TE — Keith Jackson, 6-3, 235, fr.
LT — Burren Brurs, 6-7, 211, sv.
LG — Eric Pope, 6-2, 275, jr.
C — Chuck Thomas, 6-3, 273, sv.
RG — Jeff Pickett, 6-1, 275, so.
RT — David Dillingham, 6-5, 270,
sr.
SE — Berry Rhymes, 6-4, 218, sv.
QB — Bannery Bradley, 5-10, 187, sv.
LH — Spencer Tillman, 5-11, 209,
sr.
RH — Steve Sewell, 6-4, 204, sv.
FB — Lydell Carr, 6-2, 195, fr.
We're going to have to do that against an awful tough defense."
After Saturday's narrow victory over Iowa State, Switzerland said that his team was lucky to escape the "trap" it had fallen into after tying with then-No. 1 Texas in an emotion-draining game the week before.
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"I HOPE WE have learned our lesson," he said. "We had better be ready to play every week regardless of the opponent, or we could lose. There just isn't that much difference in college football teams."
Gottfried said, "I think that was a good week for Iowa State to play
them. That should have been their game and it wasn't."
Gottfried said that he thought his team would face a much more intense Oklahoma team this week.
"I think they'll play harder," he said. "Good teams find ways to win. But the kids can't."
THE SOONERS MIGHT BE WITHOUT starting quarterback Danny Bradley, who injured his ankle and throwing hand against Iowa State. The team would practice, but he didn't know whether Bradley would play.
"I think it will hurt them if he can't
play," Gottfried said. "Anytime you lose your trigger man it hurts. You have to have your second man come in and play well, and at Oklahoma the second man is usually pretty good."
The second man at quarterback for the Sooners this week will actually be the third man. Oklahoma's No. 2 quarterback, Mike Clopton, was found to be ineligible earlier this week. That means that freshman Troy Aikman, a 6-2, 190 pounder, will take over if Bradley can't play.
Switzer said, "He's an unknown foe (to me), but he's quick and throws a ball well."
In all, seven freshmen and eight sophomores are listed on the Sonner's two-deep defensive depth chart. Fourth is the deep and three sophomores are starters.
"OUR DEFENSE HAS A few sophomores on it, and six freshman who play quite a bit." Switzer said. "They call them freshmen, but they're mostly redshift freshmen. We have some very talented players. I always say that talent overrides inexperience."
One player that Switzer is impressed with on the Kansas team is quarterback Mike Norseth.
"I think their quarterback is talented," he said. "Offensively is where they concern me the most. Kansas has probably suffered as many setbacks as any team in the nation, but I guarantee you they will be ready to play us. It is rare that we have an easy day in Lawrence."
KANSAS' INJURY SITUATION has stabilized, but tailback Robert Mimbs and receiver Richard Estell, suspended for curve violations, still might not play, although they will suit up for the game.
"It's up to their position coaches now." Gottfried said.
New sports arena may lure athletes
Sometimes this year — and every year — Biff Rockbody, Mr. High School all-everything athlete, will visit college campuses across the country looking for the school that can best put his talents to work.
Typically, Biff is met at the airport by a smiling representative from the school, Joe Fastalker, who recites every touchdown or slam dunk in Bif's career in the car on the way to the campus.
GREG DAMMAN
Biff is looking for several things: national television exposure, bowl game or national tournament coach, coachable coach and friendly teammates.
Sports Editor
Joe Fastalker has an answer to every question Biff asks.
what about the weather?" Biff asks, "It's cold here. I run the 40 in 4.4, and I could pull a muscle in cold weather like this."
Joe Fastalker is left speechless. The alumni can't change the weather. But then Joe regains his composure.
"We have a brand new indoor practice building." Joe brags. "It has a 90 yard artificial turf with a dynamic track and a weight room.
Boe's answer does the trick. Biff
signs a national letter of intent and tells the press, "I really like their coaches and the atmosphere here, and I really did it was the facilities."
With the completion of the Fred B. Anschutz Sports Pavilion, it's easy to imagine that Biff Rockbody was visiting the University of Kansas. The Anschutz Pavilion should play a big part in drawing athletes like Biff Rockbody to the University.
Exceptional athletes have the option of accepting a scholarship to almost any school in the country. In many cases, if a recruit must choose between two schools of equal academic quality and football tradition, the deciding factor is the climate.
Why spend four years practicing in the cold and snow in Minnesota when five years in sunny Miami, then can be obtained just as easily.
Kansas was not the first school to recognize the advantage of having an indoor practice building. Minnesota has an indoor practice building, and now plays in the state championship. Robert H. Humphrey Metrodome.
In the Big Eight Conference, Kansas State, Nebraska and Missouri have indoor football practice fields. But according to assistant athletic director Fledy Temple, Kansas is the first school in the conference to have a building for football and track.
Temple said that he didn't know how whether the building itself could convince a recruit to come to KU, but that it "will open his eyes up."
Snowy course awaits runners at Big Eight championships
Sports Writer
By CHRIS LAZZARINO
Sports Writer
Those things won't stop the teams from competing, but they will make the tasks at hand a little more difficult.
Neither snow nor mud nor lack of oxygen will keep the men's and women's cross country teams from making their appointed rounds to tomorrow at the Big Eight Conference championships in Boulder, Colo.
Boulder is 5,360 feet above sea level, which will make the runners' lungs burn for lack of oxygen.
Adding to the list of potential difficulties, women's head coach Cliff Rovelo said he was told that the temperature in Boulder was expected to be in the 60's tomorrow. That could make for a lot of mud.
Men's head coach Bob Timmons said there was snow on the course. So much snow in fact, that the Colorado state high school cross country meet also scheduled for Boulder has been postponed.
"If you are going to try to climatize, you need to spend three or
four weeks out there or it won't do any good." Timmons said. "We are going in Friday at noon. We just have to be in good condition."
Having the meet in Boulder does have its bright side for the women, however. They competed on the same course against Colorado on Oct. 6.
Rovello said the altitude put his team, which finished sixth in the meet last year and is picked to finish sixth again this year, in a tough spot. He would like his runners to go into the meet rested, but they have to keep their mileage up to compete in the altitude.
"We will have a tremendous advantage have run on the course already this year," Rovello said. "We'll better on better on a course the second time."
"I am not sure what the weather will be tomorrow." Steiner said. "It doesn't really matter what it is,
The leading runner on the men's team, Brent Steiner, Leawood, KS., senior, has been suffering from a cold this week, but doesn't expect his cold, or the weather, to affect his performance tomorrow.
anyway. I have run in the snow and the rain, every kind of weather. Everyone there will have to run in the same conditions."
Steiner, who finished third at last year's conference meet and is undefeated this fall, will be a strong contender at the meet. Timmons said Iowa State has two runners, ranked first and third in the nation, that Steiner said would be tough to beat.
"I am not going to concede anything." Steiner said. "I am going to race the best race I can. If I am in the lead and they aren't anywhere near, I am not going to stop and wait for them."
Also competing in the meet for the Jayhawks will be seniors Greg Leibert and John Des Rosier, junior Maurice Smith; and sophomores Joe Manual, Gordon Way and Kyle Roste.
Making the trip for the women's team will be seniors Paula Berquist, Susan Glatter, and Heather Sterbanz, sophomores Caryne Finlay and Tracey Keith; and freshmen Trisha Mangan and Kellie Audley.
Wiley sets sights on other goals
By PHIL ELLENBECKER Associate Sports Editor
Cliff Wiley is what you might call a thinking-man's athlete. He sets his goals, plans how to achieve them, does what he can to achieve them, then moves on to his next goal.
Until this summer, Wiley, a spinner at the University of Kansas from 1975 to 1978 and now a candidate for a master's degree in public administration, had his sight set on an Olympic gold medal. Wiley qualified for the 1980 U.S. Olympic team in the 200 meters, but was denied a chance to compete because of President Carter's boycott.
And he has achieved goals beyond the field of athletics. He and other former KU athletes talked about life beyond athletics in a panel discussion at Expo 84's career fair for minority students, yesterday at the Kansas
He then switched to the 400 meters and became one of the world's best in the event, winning two national championships, a World Cup title, and a Pan American Games gold medal Going into the finals, Trials, he flipped into as good a bodybody of qualifying for the games and winning a gold.
But then Wiley, who's had a remarkably durable career, pulled a hamstring two months before the trials were to begin in Los Angeles. Running at less than full strength, she was eliminated in the trials of the trials in a time of 46.41 seconds, slower than his personal best of 44.70
Wilev said, "I was ready to run at
the trials, but I wasn't sharp because I had missed out on too much training, high-quality intensity training. But as a competitor, I felt that I could not let it go without going to trials and making that final effort."
Wiley considers himself in semi-retirement now. He received his law degree from KU two years ago, and will take his bar exam in February which he had postponed to train for the Olympics.
"I cried and I'm not a crying person," Wiley said. "It was, a big disappointment because it was the only thing in my career that I did not have an opportunity to do (compete in an Olympic Games). at the same time, you have to say, when a goal is unattainable, you should let it go. At this time, I don't feel it's a realistic goal to strive for."
Although not unexpected, the setback hurt.
He wants to go back to his native Baltimore after he completes his public administration degree and get a job with some position in city government.
school, but the problem was, when I came to the University of Kansas campus I was probably not prepared for the level of academics here," he said. "I was probably two years older than most of me and other athletes is that I understood that, so I took certain steps."
Wiley said he wanted to become a lawyer when he came to KU, but wasn't so sure he still wanted to the law school he stayed as an undergraduate.
His first step was taking only classes that counted toward his degree. Also, because he had to train for track, Wiley said he limited himself to a "comfort zone" of 13 miles per hour. He didn't feel he would have washed his scholarship if he didn't get his degree.
"After four years of getting knocked around the university and not making the grades and struggling to attain the ability to attain that goal," he said.
"The university says, 'Here's a trade — here's the university and all its resources for you to in return for your ability in track and field for the university to use,'" he said. "I feel the university would come out far ahead if I did not get my degree. We are going to take it like going to the grocery store and giving the grocer your money and not taking any groceries with you."
Wiley said he was at a disadvantage academically the minute he set foot on campus in 1974.
"I had very good grades in high
"With all the resources available, I believe every athlete that comes here can find out what level he's on," he said. "We have a School of Education which formulates procedures for evaluating students. How much are we able to evaluate the athletes? I feel it's possible when an athlete comes in for a program to be specifically developed for that athlete's needs."
Although he set his own course, he feels KU should take responsibility for guiding an athlete in the right direction academically.
Rick Renfro, a member of the KU Rugby Football Club, coaches varsity rugby players at the playing fields at 23rd and Iowa streets. The team plays at home this weekend against the Tulsa club.
Players criticize U.S. rugby play
By TONY COX
Sports Writer
Because rugby is an infant sport in America, the skill level is far below that in countries where it has been played for many years, foreign members of KU's rugby club said.
"I itacks the finesse of the rugby "I used to use," said Adrian Ford, a London, England junior who began playing in the league when he came to Lawrence in August.
"I was surprised how good it was when I got here," he said. "What is lacking in technique is made up in enthusiasm and physical commit."
Tony Ballance. Burton-on-Trent.
England junior, also a member of KU club, agreed that rugby in America lisses the fines of the British game.
"It's a lot more controlled aggression there," he said.
Both Ford and Ballance said they saw American football techniques when the Americans play rugby. Ballance called those techniques a hindrance to the success and development of the American players.
Another shortcoming both saw was the low skill level of the referees.
"the refereeing is much lower than what I'm used to," said Ford. "The standard of refereeing goes up with the standard of rugby."
Ballance said that bringing coaches over from countries where the game was more established
would help the game advance in America.
Ford said that the size of this country was a hindrance in getting the best national team together.
"The difficult thing is this country is so big," he said. "It's very difficult to get the best 15 players together because of travel problems."
Though still behind the most powerful countries, America has made great advances in rugby recently. KU players said.
Louie Riederer, secretary of the club, said. "It has advanced an unbelievable amount in the last nine years." He said he was pleased with the increasing number of people getting involved in the sport.
NBA opens tonight
By United Press International
The Detroit Pistons won't have to wait long to prove to the league they are indeed contenders for the NBA championship.
The Fistons meet the defending National Basketball Association champion Boston Celtics tonight at 7:05 p.m. in front of what is expected to be a freezer opening night crowd at the Silverdome.
In addition, millions will be watching at home on WTBS, which begins its first season as the NBA's exclusive national cable outlet.
excuse them.
In other NBA openers tonight,
Chicago hosts Washington, Atlanta
visits New Jersey, Cleveland is at
Philadelphia, Phoenix travels to
Golden State and Utah is at Seattle.
The Pistons, already blessed with Isaiah Thomas, Kelly Tripucka and Bill Laimbeer, remedied their most prominent weakness — power forward — by picking up Dan Roundtree, an off season trade with Atlanta.
"I think I can help the Pistons."
Roundfield said, "I know being out there with Lambeer and Isaiah is gonna help me."
Coach Chuck Daly has moved the 6-foot-6 Tripukka from forward to guard. The club will be stronger with a new defensive line of Ohio State coming off the bench
The Celtics are baping the 1984-85 season is a Sweet 16 for them. If they collect their 18th NBA crown, they will be honored to successfully defend their title
Boston, which many felt was weak in the backcourt last year, traded guard Gerald Henderson to Seattle last week. But the club said the development of Carlos Clark and rookie Rickey McCaw helped Henderson. The Celtics have yet to sign free-agent forward Cedric Maxwell
"In my mind it's no mystery, no jinx as to why teams haven't repeated," said Boston coach K.C. Jones. "Other teams improve through the draft and through trades, and everybody guns for the Buckeye in the East alone, Washington, Detroit, Philadelphia and New Jersey have improved."
Swimming teams begin 1984 season
The men's and women's swimming teams will have their annual Crimson and Blue intra-squad meet at 7 tonight at Robinson Natatorium.
The swimmers have been swimming between 35,000 and 50,000 yards per week in preparation for the season, which will start with the intra-squad meet. That will be followed by the Big Eight Invitational Nov 2 and 3 at Robinson Natatorium.
Kempf said the intra-squad meet would show him what progress the swimmers have made and would give the freshmen their first collegiate competition.
The women's captains are seniors Celine Cerny and Kelly Burke and junior Cathy Coulfer. The men's captains are seniors Cameron Gayle and Kelly Burke.
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