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Homecoming
ERIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2000
Senior running back David Winbush eludes a Notre Dame defender. Although Kansas lost to Notre Dame at the beginning of the 1999 season, Winbush enjoyed a much better game against Colorado during Kansas' homecoming in 1998. He piled up 268 yards in Kansas' upset of the No. 17 Buffaloes. Kansan file photo
Memories a rush for Winbush
By Jason Franchuk
Kansan sportswriter
David Winbush remembers, and so do those teammates he has bragged to. The big question is whether Colorado still remembers, too.
Winbush has not looked at the tape of the 33-17 clobbering of Colorado during Kansas' homecoming two years ago for awhile. He does not want to think karma has brought him to this point, the final match-up between himself and the Colorado defense, who have tried to ransack each other the past two years.
Is he supposed to avenge his struggles of last year — what he calls the year of the fall of David Winbush — by having another big game at home against Colorado?
If Winbush was a deer against Colorado in 1996, running swiftly past the Buffaloes for 268 yards, then last year he was running through the forest with a fluorescent orange
vest on as the opposition hunted him down.
"I got them that year, and then they beat me up pretty good last year," Winchub said in the locker room after Kansas defeated Missouri last Saturday and improved to 3-3. "Now we'll get one more chance to see each other."
Two years ago, Winbush had a breakout performance. Winbush, then a sophomore, enjoyed his finest game, capping his 268 with three touchdowns as Kansas defeated the No. 17 Buffaloes. Those stats are even more amazing considering that in the 15 previous games of his college career, he didn't hit the century mark in yardage once.
"Hoies, touchdowns," Winibush said of what he remembered from the game two years ago. "The mindset of knowing when I got the ball. I'm going to get positive yards."
Nobody knows this as well as Dylan Smith, the Kansas quarterback who wasn't even a Jayhawk during the game of lore.
"I talk to him all the time, and that's all he's talked about," Smith said. "Two-hundred sixty-eight or whatever, and how he was just running wild."
Kansas vs. Colorado, 11:30 a.m. st
Memorial Stadium
See page 12A
For once, Colorado needs a win more than the Jahwaws.
A statistical breakdown of the matchup.
Sea name SB
But in college football, most defensive players are not only as big as elephants, but they remember as well, too. At Colorado last year, Winbush had 11 rushes for 12 yards. His first attempt was a fumble. Already suffering from degenerative ankles, Winbush was removed with a concussion in Kansas' 51-17 loss.
The question now is whether each side will let the issue rest. Winbush isn't so
"They tried to knock me out," Winbush said. "And they did."
sure Colorado will use two years ago as motivation.
"It's different people, a different game plan, different coaches," Winbush said.
Colorado has changed. Rick Neuheisel was the coach when the Buffaloes lost in Lawrence, which remains Kansas coach Terry Allen's lone win against a ranked opponent. Gary Barnett is the new coach, and this year the Buffaloes are 1-5 overall.
Winbush said he was trying not to turn the 11:30 a.m. meeting tomorrow at Memorial Stadium — Kansas' first game on television this season — into an individual battle. He said he hoped he didn't catch the grief of the Colorado defense. He wants things to be like two years ago, Kansas' finest hour under Allen's watch.
The situation this year is eerily similar. It's October. It's homecoming. It's Colorado. And as far as he can see, Winbush is on target.
- Edited by Shawn Hutchinson
Homecoming game history
First homecoming game; Nov. 23, 1912
Oponent: Missouri
First homecoming game: N
Opponent: Missouri
Result: won, 12-3.
Coach: Arthur Mosse
Captain: Howard Brownlee
Record that year: 4-4
1918 — homecoming game canceled because of an influenza epidemic
1922 homecoming game: Nov. 10
1922 homecoming game: Nov. 10
Opponent: Nebraska
Result: lost, 28-0.
Attendance: 16,000
Other information about that year: 1922
homecoming was the dedication of
Memorial Stadium. Ticket price for everyone was $2.
1947 homecoming game: Nov. 22
Opponent: Missouri
Result: won 20-14
Captains: Otto Schnellbacher, Don Fambrough
Coach: George Sauer — only coached two seasons ('46 and '47); took Kansas to its first bowl game, the Orange Bowl, against Georgia Tech in which the 'Hawks lost 20-14.
Other info about that year: KU beat K-State 55-O in what would be the largest conference victory in school history. 1947 was also the last year of the Big 6 Conference.
1961 homecoming game: Nov. 11
1961 homecoming game: Nov. 11
Opponent: K-State
Result: won, 34-0.
Coach: Jack Mitchell
Captains: Curtis McClinton, John Hadl,
Stan Kirschman
Other info about that year: KU's first bowl
victory. Defeated Rice University 33-7 in
the bluebonnet Bowl.
Record that war: 7-3-1
1983 homecoming game: Nov. 19
1983 homecoming game: Nov. 19
Opponent: No. 19 Missouri.
Result: won, 37-27.
Coach: Mike Gottfried
Other info about that year: Also that season, Kansas beat Southern California,
which was ranked No. 10, 26-20.
1984 homecoming game: Oct, 27
150 Homecoming game, Oct. 21
Opponent: No. 2 Oklahoma.
Result: won, 28-11
Coach: Mike Gottfried
Other info about that game: It drew the lowest attendance that season for Kansas.
1988 homecoming game: Oct. 24
Opponent: No. 17 Colorado
Opponent: No. 17 Colorado Result: won, 33-17.
Result: won, 39-17:
Coach: Terry Allen
Other info about that game: At least one KU student was hospitalized after being injured by a goal post that was torn down by fans.
— Compiled by Amanda Ahlgren, Kansan correspondent
Source: University Archives
Past homecomings present glimpse of history
A Greek house displays its sentiments towards the Missouri Tigers during homecoming festivities. Displays such as this one from the 1930s were common at the University in earlier decades. Photo courtesy of University Archives
Gov. John Anderson Jr. and Chancellor Clarke Wescoe accompany Homecoming Queen Cathy Bergstrom, with Princess Susan Nosh (left) and Donna Miller flanking them. They were part of the 1964 celebration. Photo courtesy of University Archives
By Cassandra Taylor Kansan correspondent
Football, parades, royalty, reunions and house decorations are just a few of the images conjured up when people think of homecoming weekend in years past.
During the years, traditions have come and gone for students attending homecoming games at the University of Kansas.
KU alumna Karen Vice Irey was the homecoming queen of 1963, when homecoming took place in late November
"It was the times that stick out in my mind," Irey said. "The football game, the fall air, the Christmas spirit."
Irey said she was overwhelmed when she was crowned.
"It was the most wonderful thing that ever happened to me," Irey said. "The game had a special meaning at that time. It brought everyone together."
The tradition of electing a homecoming queen began in 1925. In 1970, the homecoming committee voted unanimously to end the reign of queens. The committee felt that electing one queen did not represent a diverse university.
Jerry Nossman will be attending his 40-year class reunion this year,and said he remembered the elaborate house decorations from
homecoming games in his years at the University.
"All living groups on campus would decorate with things in their yard," he said. "Cars would line up."
The movable displays were controlled by ropes that students took
turns pulling.
"They were more elaborate and bigger than the floats." Nossam said.
ger than the floats," Nossaman said. On Friday nights prior to homecoming, traffic jams cloged the streets of Lawrence as local residents, alumni and students viewed
the house decorations.
Roger Stanton, vice president of the class of 1960 and chairman of this year's reunion, remembered many events of past homecoming weekends.
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