6 Monday, October 8, 1979 University Dally Kansan Jayhawks blow upset bid By TONY FITTS Sports Editor For a while Saturday, it looked as if KU were going to pull off another upset. At the end of the first quarter in their game with St. Louis, KU's led 21-7 and Syracuse looked sloppy. But the final score was 45-27 Syracuse. Joe sophomore, running backs gained, 623 yards and 15 touchdowns on school record, and Bill Hurley passed for 168 yards to lead Syracuse to 38 points before "At one time, we led them by 14 points, KU coach Don Fambrough said after the game. "But the thing just flip-flopped. They took chance when we relied on it." KU DID LOOK good in the first quarter, after a fumble during a fumble, and the passing game was working—the two drives each were scored. The defense also was providing some yards. KU scored its first touchdown, after recovering a fumble at the Syracuse 35, entirely on the ball. "I think we are a better team than we should today," Brian Bethell BKU quarterback proved so much and this week we came out and worked so hard in practice we should "It's just disappointing when you know you can claw a lot better than you did." Fambrough said, "It was disappointing to me when I had to play that part of sports. When you win, you can only rejoice for a short while. When you lose, you can only be disappointed for a long time." One reason for Syracuse's scoring explosion was the alignment of the KU defense, Fambridge said. "We knew they ran the option a lot, and we set up the defense to try to stop the enemy from getting a little thin in the middle. They are a team with so many weapons--they can get out of that very easily, but we that we were spread a little thin. You don't really play that many teams who have that ability." IN ADDITION, KU didn't have a lot going for it on defense. "I know we can play defense better than that," Fambrough said. "We didn't play well on defense. We didn't tackle well and we didn't pass the defense very well." "Morris made a lot of that yardage when he should have been tackled for only a two- or three-yard gain." Defensive coordinator Tom Batta also said that missed tackles were important to Syracuse's victory. "We've been doing pretty well against the run," he said, "but we had 22 missed tackles through the course of the ball game. I don't think we play as well as we have in the last two games, but many on the same play North Texas ran and it was the same play MIchigan ran. "I THINK WE might have put a little too much embouchure on the quarterback." KU had a better day off,自愿ly. Brian Bettek started at quarterback in place of Kevin Clinton, who was sideted for most of the game. Clinton teamed in running with 67 yards, and passed for 124 yards on 11 completion out of 18 attempts. Clinton came in the fourth quarter and three one for four of 13 yards and one interception. David Verster was the leading receiver. "For a quarter and a half." Fambrough said, "our offense worked just the way we蹈 on the blackboard. We had 467 yards total offense, which is usually enough to win a football game." Syracuse had 521 yards total offense. "BUT THE GREATEST disappointment had in the offense," he added, "was the fourth chance we had to put something on the ball." The next time, then, it could have made a bife difference. Next week, KU plays Nebraska. r oumbroad said that of the one things KU must do to have a chance is to take advantage of all its opportunities to score. In the second quarter, KU drove from its own 15 to the Syracuse 17, where Mike Hobac missed a 25-yard field goal. UU didn't score again until the fourth quarter, thirdstring quarterback Bill Lilis passed, yards to 19 to Tim Davis for a touchdown. "First of all," he said, "we have to play an ererless football game we have to force two teams against each other and defense. Offensively we have to play a ball-control game and take advantage of all our "But then, we've had a challenge every week," he said. The big thing we have to do is to keep our defense in line with our base defense and eliminate the past. We have to get the defense back to where it was before. Batta said the Nebraska game was going to be a challenge for the defense. Nebraska defeated New Mexico State 57-4 Saturday. Cornish coach Tom Osborne said after the game that he expected KU to win, but he did last year when Nebraska won 63-21. "They seem to move the ball very well at times and they had a good lead against Saracne." (Oshere said) Nebraska leads the series with KU 61-21-3 Suracuse scrambler Syracuse tailsack Joe Morris followed wide receivers Paul Zambunite back around KC defensive back Delvin Millen on a three-down run. Merris proved him play with the big boys as he etched his name into the record books with his effort in Syracuse's 48-27 victory. Point maker KU falconback Harry Sydney pointed a spiked finger at Syracuse defensive back Kole Beogan who was the goon line on his 14-yard run. He then scored a touchdown. quarter points against the Orangen, and were shut out until late in the fourth quarter. KU's record dropped to 1-4 with the Clinton experiment fuels collapse BvGENEMYERS Sports Writer Early in the final quarter, KU was ready to gamble. The gamble lasted only four weeks but was long enough to compete. KU's wins and Syracuse's 8-27 victory Saturday. With the Orangemen ahead 31-21 and the KU rushing attack grounded to a half, head coach DumFambrock inserted Kevin Clinton, the No. 1 quarterback with the strong arm and battered ruses. Those rushes on the bench until 14:42 were left to lay Four minutes and two Jim Collins interceptions later, Clinton was back on the bench with Svacuase leading 45-21. THE CLINTON experiment nearly but off. On second down and seven from the front, Clinton was hit with a double coverage and started up field. Clinton saw him slamting across the front, but stopped at the opposite side of the field, leaped and snared the pass seven yards in front of "I was wide open," Verser, who had five receptions for 100 yards and a touchdown, said. "If I had gotten the ball, it would have been six." Clinton knew it, too. "If I had read it right, Verser was open," he said. "I didn't ever see Collins across the field. It's my fault. I didn't read the coverage right." FOUR PLAYS LATER, Ken Mandeville scored for the Orangemen. The Clinton interception was hardly the turning point of the game. That happened two quarters earlier when Mule Huhak missed a 85-yard hit, and intercepted No. 1 Interception KO to defeat KU. "It was just constant pain." Clinton said. "My ribs felt better Thursday, but the pain was back when I got done warming up. "I was conscious of my injury and that hurt my throwing quite a bit." After the Orangemen scored to open the fourth quarter, Fambrigh occurred it would have been in for Benthe Brik, who had a productive game with 124 yards passing and 5 touchdowns. "SYRACUCE HAD shut down the running game and was starting to take away the SYBRACUSE KANSAUS Pallet floors 14 28 Rubber-ies 296-352 168 Passing walls 188 253 Return yards 100 48 Return yards 99 20 Rubber-ies 819-840 116 Passes 440-8 440-4 Founders-last -5 6.1 Passes-under 6-24 6.1 Rushing - Snyder, Murray 23-22, Hatcher 18-56, Manderle 10-27, Hartman 14-21, Matchak 3-24, Bekhke 6-47, Mack 19-44, Sydney 11-38, Davie 7-21, Kemp 3-24 Receiving - Syracuse, Mount 467, Soil 320, Islanta 246, Kansas, Vassar 50, Murray 349, McGraw 343, Sydney 349, Capens 243 Purinton - Syracuse, 4-163-40-8, Kansas, Hawthorne Passing - Syracuse, Hurley *18-16* BUR, 10-14 KAN, Pascal - Syracuse, Hurley *18-16* BUR, 10-14 KAN, Clinton *12-13*, intercepted, Clinton *12-13*, intercepted, Interception *12-13*, intercepted writing - Syracuse, White 4-163-40.8. Kansas, Hulbach 2-022-40.4. **Tackling - Syracuse** Column 10.18 University 9. Bogoslaw 6. Con- ferencing 7. Sullivan 8. Fowler 9. Watchet 10. Wattchet J. Krauss 4. McNeil 2. Torme 1. Fox pass", Fambrough said. "When you're not going, you've got to look for someone to be the spark and get something going. I was honoring Clinton could use the big spiel." Bethek, who continually moved the Hawks in the first half, didn't know how to call for a second shot. Examining his protective flack jacket after the game, he sat by his locker shaking his hand. "I just don't know," he finally said. BUTPERSON had no answer. "We just let down," he said. "The missed field goal took a lot out of us, and Syracuse picked up the momentum and never stopped." Fambridge didn't have the answer but knew the embarrassing final results. "At one time, we had complete control. Then we lost it and lost it completely," he said, "I wish I knew what happened." SCORE BY QUARTERS SYRACUSE 10 7 21-42 KANAS 23 10 9 6-27 SYBASEC 7 10 7 10 21-42 KU-Mack 1 run (Hahack bork) SL-Mack 1 run (Hahack bork) SL-Mack 1 run (An Anderson bork) SL-Morter 2 run (Betteh bork) SL-Morter 2 run (An Anderson bork) SL-FG Anderson 45 SL-Morter 1 run (An Anderson bork) SL-Morter 1 run (An Anderson bork) Mandrelve 1 run (An Anderson bork) Mandrelve 1 run (An Anderson bork) KU-Earns 1 pass (Lilis pass failed) BIG EIGHT SCORES Syracuse 14, Kansas 27 Tulsa 18, Kansas State 18 Michigan 15, Nebraska 57, New Mexico 0 South Carolina 14, Oklahoma State 16 Littlest man on field sets rushing record By MIKE EARLE Associate Sports Editor Associate Sports Edito At 5-4feet and 175 pounds, Syracuse tailback Joe Morris, doesn't stack up to Orangmen alum, Larry Cuska, a big tulunk in the twilight of his career. But after his performance in Syracuse's 45-27 victory over KU Saturday, Morris ran right past Csanoka and into the Syracuse record books. MORRIS ALSO earned a spot in KU's record book. His 525 yards is the highest of any player for KU since 1941 when Missouri's Harry Ice ran for 218. Fifteen years ago, little, who finished his pro career at Denver, set the league high with 67 points and most touchdowns (5) against KU. Morris, who rushed for 252 yards on 23 carries, broke the single game rushing record Csonka set in 1965 with 216 yards on 26 arrests against West Virginia. Syracuse, which came into the season ranked 140 of the 20 winning college football teams, has had a number of outstanding running backs, including Jim Brown, Floyd Little and Jamie Nance. Upon learning of his record breaking performance in the Syracuse locker room after the game, Morris put on a few more moves to dodge tables, benches, and writers to give each of his offensive lineman a chance to quickly start to downlay his achievements. "I HMAPP, but I'm a little down about the first half," Morris, who fumbled the ball twice said. "Pumples hit me. I up but I am not going to play." I have laingamed this many yards. "he makes me buy a lot easier," Harur said. "I haven't seen billy Sims and Charles White play except in highlight films, but I'm confident Joe can play with anybody." Syracuse quarterback Bill Hurley, who was rated 19th in the nation in total offense coming into Saturday's game, said he could live with Morris' two fumbles. "He has confidence, tremendous speed, balance and a lot of intensity. You package all that and you have a great running back." The current Heisman Trophy holder, Sims of Oklahoma, and White of USC are considered the premier running backs in the league. Morris doesn't compare himself to them. "If I compared myself with them it would take away from my game," Morris said. "Our schedule is a lot different than OU's and UCS, and until the day they play against teams like them, I won't know how I can." I don't have that skill, I'm Joe Morris." KU's defense found that out. Lining up in formation, Hurley simply handed the ball to Rizzo and hit him with the speedster pick his hole. The play resulted in Morris averaging 10.9 yards a drill. "Joe doesn't usually fumble pitchouts," he said. "He's the best in formance. This week he was rated 48th or 11th in the nation in rushing, and he'll surely move up. You can't beat him. He doesn't go up." And Orangement Coach Frank Maloney is more than satisfied with Morris' style. "THEY JUST CAME at us with a simple football ball and killed us with it," he said. "I was not alone. Single-handedly he just about beat us. Once he got the ball, we were in the secondary." Only a sophomore, Morris is already mentioned in the same breath as Heisman Trophy by his teammates. Saturday's giveaway gave Morris 68 yards after five games. ALTHOUGH SYRACUSE'S schedule doesn't compare with KU's in difficulty, Morris said the Orangen deserve national recognition. "This is our greatest win," Morris said. "All of us were tired, and we came back to win. It was an emotional football game." "I feel we can score with anybody," Morris said. "If we correct our errors we're going to win a lot of ball games." "He was just hard to bring down. I never got him down." Chiefs win third in row, move into first-place tie The Bengals' scoring was limited to Ken Anderson's three-yard touchdown run in the third period on a drive that ended with a 29-10 loss recovered a fumble by Ted McKnight. CINCINNATI (AP)—Kansas City lost to North Carolina 10-7, not beaten the Chiefs did well enough defeat the Cincinnati Bengals 10-7 in their National Football League game "We sputtered quite a bit offensively, but we came up with enough to win," Kansas City Coach Marv Levy said. "We made it all the way and we got the 10 and they beat the seven." Rookie running back Mike Williams dove one mile into the Bengal end zone for a Kansas City touchdown, and Jan Stenerluck kicked a 49-field goal. Williams' tochown capped a 48-yard drive late in the first half and Stenner gave the Chiefs a 10-1 lead with five seconds left in the half. It was the third straight victory for the Chiefs, 4-2, and the sixth consecutive loss for Cincinnati. Kansas City got the ball back when the NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE AMERICAN CONFERENCE Foot It's tough losing week after week, but "it you've have to keep going," Cincinnati Coach Honner Rice said. "I told the team. You're never defended unless you W | T | W | P | Pct. | PF | PA Miami | 1 | 0 | 0 | .687 | 24 | 14 New England | 1 | 0 | 0 | .687 | 24 | 14 Buffalo | 1 | 0 | 0 | .500 | 154 | 114 Washington | 1 | 0 | 0 | .533 | 154 | 114 Baltimore | 1 | 0 | 0 | .533 | 154 | 114 Cleveland Pittsburgh Cleveland Houston Cincinnati Denver 4 2 0 667 86 61 Kansas City 4 2 0 667 113 87 San Diego 4 2 0 667 142 88 Oakland 4 2 0 667 188 89 Seattle 4 2 0 333 182 147 Bengals were unable to move, and started a scoring drive on the Bengals' 48-yard line. The key play in that series was a 31-yard pass from Steve Feller to T.J. Smith. Two plays later, Williams dove in from the 1-yard line for the touchdown. The Bengals still could not move the ball on the ensuing kickoff and Kansas City City's 14-3 victory in cinnamon 28-yard line, where the ball was snapped. Stoneerbourn's field goal goal flew 150 yards. The Bengals finally scored on their third possession in the third quarter, after RIGHT Browner recovered tightly's tumble at the Chelfs' 39-yard line. Anderson capped the eight-play drive with a quarterback draw for the final three yards. NATIONAL CONFERENCE Dallary 0 1 0 833 149 113 Philadelphia 2 1 0 833 121 109 Washington 2 1 0 663 121 109 N.J. Ganda 2 1 0 663 121 109 N.J. Ganda 2 1 0 167 75 122 Tampa Bay 3 1 0 833 133 82 Chicago 3 1 0 500 48 60 Minnesota 3 1 0 300 107 102 Green Bay 3 1 0 868 86 12 San Francisco 3 1 0 182 182 Los Angeles 4 2 0 667 119 111 Atlanta 3 2 0 567 119 111 New Orleans 2 2 0 333 118 114 San Francisco 2 0 0 600 117 172 Chicago | Buffalo Minneapolis | Orlando 17 Alabama City | 15 Green Bay 27 Atlanta | St. Louis 14 New York Giants | 17 Tampa Bay 14 Louisville | 14 Louisville 14 Kansas City | Chicago 18 Kanada City | Cleveland 16 Detroit | Dallas 10 Miami Dade | Miami 16 Baltimore | 15 New York Jets 18 Baltimore | 15 Detroit 18 San Francisco | San Francisco 14 Miami at Oakland. n UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Weekend Roundup Men harriers repeat finish In a repeat of last year's meet, the KU men's cross-country team finished in fifth place at Arkansas at the Okahoma State Jamboree Saturday in Oklahoma, OK. Field Hockey club loses to KC Arkansas won the meet with 23 points and KU followed with 65, while Oklahoma was a distant third with 104 points. The KU football hockey team started off fast, but it was the Kansas City Field Hockey Club that off to the race yesterday. Kansas City beat KU 4-1 in the final game. Hardy five minutes had elapsed before Ellen Jaskot, with assists by Janice and Karen Lauen, scored for KU. With the exception of a few scramblers in front of the Kansas City goal, the rest of the game was controlled by the Kansas team and they needed two goals in the first half and two more in the second to drop KU's record to 1-7. "We started off great," KU coach Dianna Beebe said. "We did just what we'd been practicing and then disaster struck." "We had a very bad tendency to set up and whack the ball as hard as we can, and then nobody's sun there to get it." Jauvees lose to Missouri 16-7 The KU junior varsity football team had just as much trouble over the weekend as the parent club. Missouri triumphed the 'Hawks 16-7 Friday in Canton. Early in the fourth quarter, KU made its run at the Tigers. Brad Bulls rammed five yards for a touchdown and Dusen Munger connected on the extra kick. But Marvin Johnson ran three yards for a Tiger touchdown with 6:41 left to play, clinching the Missouri victory. The Tigers are 2-4 in junior varsity action Mossi snared a 3-4 lead in the second quarter on Terry Harris' 22-yard field goal. The Tigers' next score came on KU's first possession of the second half. Defensive back Jay Wilson picked off quarterback Mike Philips' pass and ran 18 yards for a touchdown. 'Hawks split with Creighton The KU football team split a doubleheader Saturday with Crighton University at Holcom Sports Complex. at the center openers on offense: The 'Hawks won the opener 4-3 in 10 innings. Darla Johnson, 1-1, picked up the victory. In the second game, the Blue Jays rebounded for a 4-2 victory, Jill Larson, 0-1. Bob Stancifl said, "Game experience is so important, and with a young team, you have to look ahead. With the split, KU's recoil of 24. Becky Ancio, a freshman from Sunny Valley, Ca., is the team's leading hitter with a 388 average.