August 31, 1984 Page 14
SPORTS
The University Daily KANSAN
KU football scrimmage scheduled for weekend
With its season opener against Wichita State just a week away, the KU football team will wind up its preseason preparation with a scrimmage today or tomorrow.
KU head coach Mike Gottfried hadn't decided yesterday what day the scrimmage would be.
Wide receiver Johnny Holloway suffered an Achilles tendon injury in yesterday's practice. Place-kicker Dodge Schwartzburg and defensive guard Jay Hager missed practice because of classwork.
The Jayhawks went through a three-hour scrimmage Wednesday. Gottfried said that he was unsure of how well his offense looked in the scrimmage.
"It's hard to tell when you're playing
games," said Terry. "We're not
ready to play a game. We are."
Tailback Robert Mimbs rushed for 100 yards on nine carries in the scrimmage, including a 44-yard touchdown run, which Gottfried called "one of the best runs I've ever seen." Fullback Henderson added 95 yards and 16 carries. Tailback Mike Norsech completed 17 of 32 passes for 218 yards and one touchdown, and was intercepted once.
Gofftried said the scrimage was "as close to a real game as you can get."
Royals lose to Rangers 4-3
KANSAS CITY. Mo. — Buddy Bell singled in one run and scored another on Pete O'Brien's triple in the first innest last night to back Charlie Hough's seven-hit pitching and give the Texas Rangers a 4-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals.
The loss dropped the Royals to 66-67, but they stayed within three games of the American League West-leading Minnesota Twins, who lost to Boston.
Hough improved his record to 14-12.
Dave Smith came on in the ninth to pick up his 11th save.
his try save.
The Rangers jumped in front 2-0 in the first inning against Mark Gubicza, 9-11. Billy Sample walked, stole second and scored on Bell's single. Bell then scored on O'Brien's triple.
O Briers triple.
Kansas City scored twice in the eighth.
Pat Sheridan was safe on catcher's interference by Donnie Scott and scored on Jorge Orta's triple. Orta then scored on a wild pitch by Hough.
Kansas City's first run came in the third on a walk and Willie Wilson's triple. Wilson had two triples and a single but was stranded on third all three times.
Rugby club holds tournament
Sixteen teams from five area states will compete, including two teams from the KU club. Doug Gunn, a member of the KU club, said the competition will consist of a mixture of collegiate teams and club teams, which are made up mainly of college graduates.
For the second year in a row, "sevens" rugby will be played at the tournament. The sevenversions of rugby uses 7 players to a side instead of the regular 11. A match consists of two seven-minute halves instead of the regular 40-minute halves. The rules and the length of the field stay the same.
"You don't think that a seven-minute half can wear you out that much, but it does." he said.
Gunn said sevens rugby is a much faster game than the regular version, placing a premium on players with speed and agility.
Basketball meeting is today
Women interested in trying out for this year's KU women's basketball team are invited to attend an informational meeting at 1:30 this afternoon in Room 156 of Robinson Gymnasium.
This will be the 11th year that KU head coach Marian Washington has held walk on tryouts. Marilyn Jenkins, a five-foot-10 forward on this year's team, made the KU team as a walk-on last year. Cindy Pitta, a senior on last year's team and a two-year starter, walked on the year before and earned a schairship.
Pre-season conditioning for the women's team starts Sept. 4. The regular season begins Nov. 23 at the Oral Roberts Tournament in Tulsa, Okla.
Fourth in the women's team also is looking for a manager. Anyone interested can attend the meeting or contact Washington at the women's basketball office in Room 101 of Allen Field House.
NEW YORK – Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert Lloyd continued their march yesterday toward another expected showdown in the U.S. Open, winning their second-round matches with consummate ease.
Navratriiowa, with only two losses since January 1983, ran her current winning streak to 50 matches by beating Andrea Leand, 6-4, 2-6, and Event Lloyd was even more convincing with a 6-1, 6-1 victory over Terry Holladay.
Tennis teams need managers
The KU men's and women's tennis teams are both looking for a team manager. KU assistant tennis coach Brett Perelman said the job would entail helping the teams for about two hours each day in the late afternoon. The manager would also travel with the team on road matches.
Anyone interested should contact Perelman at the tennis office in Room 217 Allen Field House, or call 864-4979.
Low ticket sales cause for concern
Let's take a trip down memory lane for a visit with the Jawhays of old.
It's Saturday, Sept. 19, 1959. You are in 35,000-seat Memorial Stadium on the campus of the University of Kansas — enrollment 9,260 — for the Kansas football team's season opener against Texas Christian University.
the Jayhawks take the field, and the student section stands to give the team a rousing ovation. In all, 8,814 students — 83 percent of all students — have season tickets.
If you were on campus the night before, they attended a pop rally, company with bonfire, and spent the
entire week before the game making plans for what was sure to be a weekend-long event
For the most part, if you attended KU in 1959 you attended KU football games.
Somewhere along the way, college football at KU changed. It might not be noticeable on the surface, which is clouded by tailgate parties, cup fights and Rock Chalk Jayhawk. But a look under the surface reveals that the traditional support the KU football team received in the past is slipping a little every year.
1959, you attended KU. Now let's travel from 1959 all the way to Saturday, Sept. 3, 1983. Again, you are in Memorial Stadium, but this time it seats more than 51,000 people, and the enrollment at KU stands at 24,219.
year.
Student expectations for the 1959 and 1983 teams were, in all likelihood, about the same.
The 1982 KU football team had a record of 4-5-1, and the 1959队 finished with a 5-1 record. The 1982 KU football team had a record of 2-7-2, and the 1983 team had a 4-6-1 record.
The KU football team takes the field for the season opponent against Northern Illinois, and 5,492 student season ticket-holders, or 22 percent of the students, are there to cheer on the Jawhaws.
It is a KU football game, but after experiencing a 1959 KU football game, it's obvious that this part of the "college experience" is just not the same.
for season 7.
The most likely reason is a change in student lifestyles. Students did not stop buying season tickets because the team stopped winning. KU has always been an average football school.
Students stopped buying season tickets because slowly but surely alternate forms of entertainment became available Cable television, video games and plush apartments entered the scene, and cars, motorcycles and professional sports, to name just a few, became much more easily accessible.
Yes, a lifestyle change has altered college football, and it probably will never be the same. But a look at the student season ticket sales at other Big Eight Conference schools reveals that maybe a little apathy is mixed in with the change in lifestyle.
That gradual lifestyle change is reflected in KU football seasons through the years that had ticket demands similar to the 1959 and 1983 seasons.
In 1968, 69 percent of KU students bought season football tickets. In 1975, 48 percent bought season tickets, and in 1981, 29 percent bought season tickets.
In analyzing the rest of the Big Eight, it's
necessary to throw out the two perennial powers, Oklahoma and Nebraska, because they are traditionally strong in football, and never have enough season tickets to go around.
but there are not the remaining six schools can be called a football powerhouse, yet KU ranks last among those schools in student season ticket sales.
The percentages of students who buy season tickets at those six schools are:
Oklahoma State, 55 percent; Iowa State, 46 percent; Missouri, 43 percent; Kansas State, 43 percent; Colorado, 23 percent; Kansas, 22 percent
percent. Surely Kansas football games have not been distasteful to KU students to the point of being half as worthy of attendance as students at conference schools such as Iowa State and Kansas State deem their games to be. But the numbers above seem to make that point.
My point, however, is not that KU students have an obligation to support their football team because students at other conference schools do.
It is simply that KU students do not support their football team, and that lack of support could cost them dearly in the future. And
students of the new lifestyle, you are now warned.
You see, there is another sport at KU that brings in quite a bit of money. The one founded by the fellow who has a street running through campus named after him. The one played in Allen Field House during the winter. That's right, a-b-a-k-e-b-a-l-1.
As you know, the Jayhawks are on the way back in basketball, and are expected to make another run at the Big Eight title. Student demand for tickets will be high.
The catch is, if the athletic department fails to make enough money from football, which is the only other revenue sport besides basketball, a large number of basketball student tickets might have to be sold to the general public to make up the difference.
It would be a simple decision by the athletic department, and a necessary one in order to make ends meet, but it would also mean that there will be fewer student seats available for the basketball season.
So if you miss out on a chance to see Larry Brown and his gang running roughhod over their basketball opponents, don't blame the athletic department or the KU football team.
Blame the college lifestyle of 1959, for leaving us much too soon.
Jayhawk tennis teams preparing for openers
By PHIL ELLENBECKER Associate Sports Editor
The KU men's and women's tennis teams were originally scheduled to begin their seasons this weekend at the Kansas State Closed Tournament in Salina, but that tournament was canceled.
That leaves both teams with three weeks to prepare for their first matches. The men's team opens here Sept. 21-22 with the Jayhawk Men's Invitational. The women's team travels that weekend to Wichita to face Arkansas, Iowa and Wichita State.
KU head tennis coach Scott Perelman said he would be conducting challenge matches this weekend to determine who will make up the 10-player varsity teams for the men and women. He said the challenge matches would not necessarily determine what lineups he will use when the teams open their season.
Perleman said that his teams were off to the best start he's seen in his three years here.
"I feel like everybody's approaching the season with a lot more intensity this year," he said. "They've come close enough to taste it." He added a lot of love and desire to get to the top.
pom the men's and women's teams finished third in the Big Eight Conference this spring.
The men's team received the bulk of the attention last season, mainly because of the play of sophomore Mike Wolf, who had an 18-4 spring record and qualified for both the NCAA tournament and the Olympic Trials. Perelman said the women's team deserved a lot of credit for their spring play as well.
"When you look at what they accomplished, it was phenomenal for what they had and the situation they were in." Perelman said. "I don't feel like they're walking in the men's team's shadow."
Perelman said having two assistant coaches this year, both new to the program, has allowed the Jayhawks to accomplish a lot more in practice this year. Perelman had one assistant last year.
Perelman lost only one senior off last year's men's varsity team and none off the women's team. He has added depth to this year's squads with a number of recruits.
year's squads will be a matchup. He said Wolf, Michael Center and Charles Stearns pretty much had spots locked up on the men's varsity. Freshmen should be able to challenge for the other three spots in the starting lineup, he said.
"On the women's side, things are pretty much wide open," he said. "Christine Parr is a good example. She played No 1 for us two years before and No 4 for our last year. She could be anywhere from 1 to 5 this year."
Parr had a 15-3 record last year and finished second in the conference.
Study questions wisdom of NCAA eligibility plan
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The NCAA should severely modify its proposed eligibility standards for first-year athletes, a study released yesterday said.
The report also pointed out that athletes and non-athletes graduate at about the same rate from NCAA Division I-A (large) schools. About 50 percent of the athletes who enrolled at those schools in 1977 graduated as compared to 55 percent of the total student body.
The analysis of freshman scholarship athletes who enrolled in the fall of 1977 and 1982 evaluated the impact NCAA Bylaw 5-1(j), due to take effect in 1986, would have on future student-athletes.
According to the study by Advancecs Technology, Inc., of Reston, Va., the application of standardized test materials was used in 70% of black students who eventually graduate.
To be eligible for athletics as a freshman, the bylaw requires a 2.0 high school grade-point average and either a 700 score, of a possible 1,600, on the
Scholastic Aptitude Test or 15, of a possible 36, on the American College Test. The athlete's high school transcript must include three years of English and two years each of mathematics, social sciences and either natural or physical sciences, including a year of laboratory work, if offered.
- Permitting freshman eligibility through meeting either the grade-point average or test criteria. Such a plan, however, would permit an individual to gain eligibility outside the core curriculum;
- The study proposes three alternatives to the current wording of 5-1-0:
- Requiring all students to pass the core curriculum, and allow those below 2.0 to earn freshman eligibility by scoring the test minimum; or;
test curriculum separately before adding them together to achieve a minimum qualifying standard for eligibility.
The alternatives will be considered by the NCAA Council and the Division I Steering Committee for recommendations in October.
Jackie Kelly/KANSAh
Barbara Inman, Norman, Obla., sophomore, lofts a two-fisted backhand over the net. Inman played yesterday in a practice session for the KU women's tennis team.
Kuhn lets Cubs go without lights
NEW YORK - Day baseball will be played at Wrigley Field if the Chicago Cubs make the playoffs, Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn announced yesterday.
By United Press International
The Cubs, who are in first place in the National League East, are the only team in the major leagues who do not have lights in their stadium.
their stadium.
There had been speculation that the Cubs would be asked to have artificial lights installed in Wrigley Field so post-season games could be played at night to accommodate network television.
Another possibility would have been to move the games to Comiskey Park, home of the Chicago White Sox, or Milwaukee's County Stadium.
An Illinois state law forbidding the installation of lights at Wrigley Field was put into effect this year.
The National League is supposed to have the home field advantage for this year's World Series, but if the Cubs are playing, they will forfeit it so they can play the fourth, fifth and sixth games at home during the day. The World Series is scheduled to start Oct. 9.
Cubs President Jim Finks said Kuhn's decision was expected
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