University Daily Kansan, August 22, 1984
SPORTS
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Former Jayhawk McCormack inducted into Hall of Fame
McMearnack, a tackle on the KU football team from 1948 to 1950, was one of four former greats inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame during ceremonies July 28 in Canton, Ohio.
McCormack, a native of Kansas City, Mo., played under J.V. Sykes at KU and made All-Big Seven in 1950. He went on to play professionally for the New York Yankhs and the Cleveland Cavaliers. He helped open holes for Jim Brown, the National Football League's all-time leading rusher.
A bust of McCormack, signifying his induction into the Hall, was presented at the ceremonies by Paul Brown, his coach on the Browns and one of the most successful coaches in the Cincinnati Redlegs, president of the Cincinnati Redlegs.
'McCormack now is president and general manager of the Seattle Seahawks, which was one of the most improved teams in pre football last
Inducted into the Hall along with McCormack were Charley Taylor, aide receiver with the Washington Fedskins in the 1960s and early '70s; Willie Brown, a defensive back with the Denver Broncos and Oakland Raiders from 1963 to 1978; and Armie Weinmaster, a defensive lineman with the New York Yankees of the All-American Football Conference and the New York Giants in the late '40s and early '50s.
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KU's Rob Thomson, whose 443 batting average this spring set a Jayhawk single-season record, was a member of the Canadian national baseball team that played in the Los Angeles Olympics.
Baseball was included this year as a demonstration sport.
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Thomson, a catcher, played in each of Canada's three preliminary games. The Canadian team was 12 in preliminary competition and was
United States in the title game 6-3.
The Canadians lost to Nicaragua 4-3 and to South Korea 3-1 before upsetting Japan 6-4. But Japan won the gold medal after it defeated the
United States in the title game 6-3
Thompson, a Sarnia, Canada,
senior, will return this fall to KU.
If you're planning to bet on the Kansas football team this fall, the author of The College Football Bible has some advice.
Before 1982 Kansas was the "finest team in college football against the spread," says the author, Chuck Bauer, who also teaches mathematics and computing at a high school in Hacienda Heights, Calif.
But Bauer advises “investors” to bet against Kansas in 1984 because of a weak defense and “lots of early penalties and turnovers in its attempt to build a new offensive unit.”
Bauer also says that team challenge of Gorch Mays-Gottrie's career.
"Why?" Because it is the most difficult situation for any coach to take over a heavily veteran squad in his first year, win two very big games (USC and Missouri) plus others, then start the second year with very little." he writes.
Bauer calls Kansas "weak"
against the spread and says, "WARNING ALL KANSAS FANS: 84 could be a disaster. If so, I hope he (Gottfried) does not have to change his name to 'Gottfied.' It is not his fault.
He needs a lot more time to achieve success."
success:
Bauer's book, submitted "The Win-
ner's Guide to Bigger Profits and
Lesser Losses," analyzes 67 NCAA
Division 1 teams and identifies teams
like Alabama and Tennessee as
"very overrated" and Iowa as
"outstanding." Missouri and Kansas
State, he writes, are "good at home
— bad away."
Tom Hedrick, the "Voice of the Jayhawks" for 16 years, announced his resignation this summer as the announcer for KU football and basketball radio broadcasts.
basketball coach. Hedrick will be succeeded by Bob Davis, a three-time winner of the Kansas Sportscaster of the Year
award. Davis has done broadcasts of Fort Hays State games and has also done some Big Eight Conference broadcasts.
broadcasts.
In announcing his resignation, Hirsch said he was "burned out" with his broadcasting duties at Kansas. He has continued to do daily sports show on local radio stations KLWN and KANU, and will assume added duties this fall in the radio-television department of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications.
Hedrick also said he would seek free lance opportunities. He worked as a baseball announcer for a series of college games broadcast this spring on the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network.
Hedrick said his decision to resign wasn't affected by the University's decision to turn over control of broadcasts from the KU Sports Network, of which Hedrick was the director, to Leaffield Communications of Jefferson City. Mo. He said he wasn't forced to resign.
"I think the timing came hand inhand," he said of the Learfield agreement and his decision. "I feel very good about Learfield Communications."
Walk-on tryouts for the KU baseball team begin Monday with an informational meeting at 4 p.m. in the southwest bleachers of Allen Field House.
Field House.
The tryouts will be Tuesday through Thursday at Quigley Field.
KU baseball coach Marty Pattin said that the number of walk-ons kept on the team would depend upon the needs of the team.
"It's hard to say right now how many we'll keep," he said. "Some years we keep two or three and other years we'll keep four or five."
KU baseball players John Heeney,
Hugh Stanfield and Steve Meyer
were walk-ons last season. Stanfield
hit 364 last season, and Meyer hit
202. Heeney was a pitcher and had a
3-0 record in 1983.
"We've had several kids walk on in the past and make the team," Pattin said. "You just never know when you're going to find a good player."
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