Sports
Tuesday, Dec. 3, 1985
University Daily Kansan
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News Briefs
Texas Tech names head football coach
LUBBOCK, Texas — David McWilliams, who helped produce some of the nation's finest defensive players in college football as an assistant coach at Texas, was named yesterday to succeed Jerry Moore as head coach of Texas Tech.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Royals announced yesterday the signing of reserve outfielder Lynn Jones to a one-year contract.
Jones, 32, who has been a reserve outfielder for the Royals the past two years, became a free agent at the end of last season. Terms of the contract were not disclosed.
McWilliams signed a five-year contract at $75,000 a year. He said at an afternoon news conference that he hoped to have the downrodden Raiders in the Cotton Bowl before that contract expires.
The right-handed hitter played in 110 games last year, hitting .211, but was used primarily in a late-inning defensive role — especially in left field for Lonnie Smith.
Tech has never appeared in the Cotton Bowl since joining the Southwest Conference in 1960. Its only SWC title was a share of the 1976 crown with Houston.
Royals sign reserve
Jones played five years for the Detroit Tigers before signing with the Royals two years ago.
Football coach fired
SAN DIEGO — Doug Scovil was fired as head football coach at San Diego State upon arrival from Hawaii last night, according to the San Diego Union.
The newspaper said sources inside the athletic department confirmed that Scovil would be let go by university president Thomas pay.
The Union also reported over the weekend that Fred Miller would be named athletic director this week. Miller is a former athletic director at Arizona State.
Scott told the newspaper Sunday that he had heard nothing from Day. The Aztecs were in Honolulu where they were resting after tying with Hawaii 10-10 Saturday.
Blackout scheduled
NEW YORK — TV screens will go black for one minute during the Super Bowl's pre-game show to allow football fans to make a run for the refrigerator or bathroom without missing any of the program, NBC Sports said yesterday. Although the blackout — perhaps the first intentional blackout in television history — will not reduce the number of commercials during the telecast Jan. 26, the giveaway could cost NBC Sports $600,000.
NBC planned the one-minute blackout for about 4 p.m. during the Super Bowl pre-game show to allow fans to go for food or the bathroom without missing any of the two-hour program.
The screen will darken except for the NBC Sports logo and a syncapped clock will tick off the seconds, with music in the background.
From Kansan wire reports.
Team recalls swimmer's faith, high spirits
By Frank Hansel and Diane Filipowski Of the Kansan sports staff
By Frank Hansel
An ever-present smile and strong religious convictions were the trademarks of Tammy Pease, and that has made her loss a little less painful, members of the Kansas swim team said yesterday.
Miss Pease, 21, Bartlesville, Okla., was killed Saturday when a car driven by teammate Karen Dione slid out of control on an ice U.S. 75 and collided with a 1983 Buck about five miles southwest of, Independence, Kan.
Dionne, last year's Big Eight champion in the 100-yard breaststroke, is in a coma in critical condition at Hillcrest Hospital in Tulsa, Okla., with severe head and chest injuries, Clayton Cagle, assistant swim coach, said last night.
"Right now the team is very much concerned for Karen's welfare."
Cagle said. "As for Tammy, we are all deeply saddened, but everybody knows that with her strong faith, she is all right now. We just hope she didn't have to suffer much."
Services for Miss Papee will be conducted 10 a.m. tomorrow at the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Bartlesville.
Senior swimmer Chris Wright said that Miss Pease never had a bad outlook on life, and that you would never catch her in a bad mood.
"She always had something good to say," Wright said. "And this will make us a lot closer team."
The swim team held a meeting Sunday evening and elected to continue training as usual because Miss Pease would have wanted it that way, said senior swimmer Chris McCool.
Both the men's and women's team are preparing for the Nebraska Invitational this weekend in Lincoln, Neb.
"There's no way we're going to replace Tammy, but we've got a job to do," senior swimmer Cathy Coulter said. "Tammy would have wanted it this way."
Miss Pease's sister, Jacqueline,
planned to return to the team after
the funeral tomorrow and compete
this weekend.
It was that type of drive and determination that made Miss Pease one of the best swimmers in the nation, senior diver Mike Prangle said.
"Her presence will really boost the team's morale," Cagle said. "Right now they're in a state of shock, but we will get through this and be OK in the long run."
"Just by talking to her you wouldn't know how good she was," Prangle said. "But after looking at the statistics you realize just how good she really was."
sas school records in the 100 and 202-year breaststroke events. She also swam on five school record-holding relay teams.
Miss Pease was an 11-time All America swimmer with nine Big Eight conference titles. She has Kan-
"She was one of the most talented athletes in the country," head swim coach Gary Kempf said last month. "Her accomplishments speak for themselves."
In a recent interview, Miss Pease said swimming had a great influence on her life.
"Swimming has shaped my life, and it has taught me discipline," she said. "I have always associated myself with swimming because it is the only place that I have felt comfortable. To be honest, it is the only place I feel I can speak out, and people will listen."
A soft-spoken Miss Pease rarely spoke out, but people did listen. Coulter said.
"She was always a leader in her own way," Coulter said. "People always respected and looked up to
her She didn't have to say anything. Everybody got psyched up by just watching what she did."
Miss Pease said recently that the pool provided her with a positive atmosphere, and that she never felt like missing out on practice because she had so much fun at her workouts.
Kempf said she was one of the hardest working athletes that he had been associated with, and that her attitude and spirit would be with the team for a long time.
"She was your typical girl next door," Kempf said. "I probably knew Tammy as well as any other swimmer I've had, and she was a real leader for our program.
Senior swimmer Karl Stumpf said Pease was really competitive no matter what she was doing.
"It didn't matter whether she was swimming against a man or woman in practice, she always made the best of it." Stumpf said. "In fact she actually pushed me."
KU meets Cougars in opener tonight
By Chris Lazzarino Sports editor
The Kansas basketball team opens regular season play at 7:30 tonight in Allen Field House against the Southern Illinois-Edwardville Cougars. Tomorrow, the Jayhawks play Western Carolina at 7:30 p.m. in the field house.
All season tickets have been sold out.
The Jayhawks are coming off a 92-88 loss Sunday to Duke in the finals of the Big Apple NIT in New York City. Forward Danny Manning went on a scoring spree in the second half of Sunday's game, scoring 20 of 24 points after intermission and finished as the Jayhawks high scorer.
The Jayhawks are ncw 3-1 for the season, and are shooting 53.5 percent from the field as a team. Kansas' opponents are shooting 47.2 percent from the field.
David Henderson of Duke led all
scorers with 30 points.
For Kansas, guard Calvin Thompson had 22 points and forward Ron Kellogg scored 20 points.
Thompson is the leading Kansas scorer with 74 total points, which is an average of 18.5 points per game. Kellogg is averaging 17.5 points, Manning is averaging 12.5, center Greg Dreiling is averaging 10.8 and guard Cedric Hunter is averaging 10 points per game.
Kansas has averaged 35.5 rebounds
per game, and opponents have averaged 31.5 per game. Dreiling is leading Kansas with an average of seven rebounds per game.
The Cougars of Southern Illinois-Edwardsville, which has an enrollment of 10,200, finished last season 7-21. They have eight lettermen returning, with no significant losses.
Their top returners are 6-foot-2 junior Kenny Stanley, 6-3 senior Dwight Newsome, and 6-4 senior Mike Dillon. Stanley averaged 17.3 points per game last season.
This is the first meeting between the two schools.
Western Carolina, which has an enrollment of 6,700, finished last season 14-14. The Catamounts were 8-8 in the Southern Conference, which was good for fourth out of nine teams. They only lost one starter from last season's team, guard Quinton Lyle, who averaged 17.5 points per game.
Returning starters are 6-8 forward Andre Gault, 6-7 forward Richard Rogers, 6-5 guard Clifford Waddy and 6-1 guard Vincent Walker.
Three time changes have been made in the Kansas basketball schedule since it was published in the Nov. 20 Kansan. The Jan-11 game against Southern Methodist in Lawrence will begin at 1 p.m.; the Feb. 1 game with K-State in Manhattan will begin at 1 p.m.; and the Feb. 22 game with K-State in Lawrence will begin at 3:05 p.m.
Nittany Lions No.1 in poll for 5th week
United Press International
NEW YORK — Penn State earned college football's No. 1 ranking for the fifth straight week yesterday, leading a contingent of the top five schools that remained unchanged from the last vote of the United Press International Board of Coaches.
The Nittany Lions grabbed 37 of 39 first-place votes while accumulating 581 points. No. 2 Oklahoma, Penn State's opponent in the Orange Bowl, garnered two top votes and 517 points.
bably remain No. 2 in next week's final regular-season ratings and produce the first bowl showdown between the top two teams since the Sugar Bowl at the end of the 1982 season when second-ranked Penn State defeated No. 1 Georgia.
Oklahoma State, Texas and Georgia vanished from the ratings. It marked Oklahoma State's first absence this season from the Top 20. If the Sooners defeat Southern Methodist Saturday they would pro-
No. 3 Iowa, fourth-ranked Miami (Fla.) and No. 5 Michigan held their positions for a second straight week. The top five teams appeared on all 39 ballots.
Nebraska jumped two places into the No. 6 slot vacated by Auburn. The Tigers were beaten in the last seconds Saturday by Alabama and tumbled to No. 15. Seventh-ranked Tennessee, which claimed its first Southeastern Conference title since 1969, also leaped two positions.
Three coaches did not vote.
New Wildcat head coach aims high
The Associated Press
MANHATTAN, Kan. — Stan Parash, who coached Marshall to its first winning season in 20 years and is known for his passing game, was introduced yesterday as head football coach at Kansas State, which has had the most losing seasons in major college history.
"I took a job nobody else wanted, but when we win some games others will wish they were the coach," Parrish said at a news conference.
Describing his philosophy as "pass, pass, pass and then punt," the 28-year-old Parrish said he did not expect a lengthy rebuilding process. The Wildcats, which have had just four winning seasons in 51 years, finished 1-10 this year and tied for first place in the Big Eight Conference.
"With a strong passing game, we don't ever feel we'll be out of a ball game," Parrish said. "We don't want to win in three or five years. We want to win next fall. We will show a very exciting product next fall."
Parrish replaces Lee Moon, who was installed as interim head coach in September following the dismissal of Jim Dickey, K-State's head coach since 1978.
Everybody was telling me you
"I wanted somebody with head coaching experience with a good, solid philosophy," said Travis. "I wanted a coach who was offensive-minded and who could compete in the Big Eight. We wanted somebody who is a winner and has been a winner. He's one of the brightest coaches in America. I am very excited to receive a man of Stan Parrish's qualities."
can't win at Kansas State," Parrish said. "But I think that any program can be a successful program. At Kansas State, everybody is pushing in the same direction."
"First of all, I want to improve the self-image of the players, to have them walk through campus proudly." he said. "This is very, very important. Secondly, I want to throw the football a lot. At Marshall, we threw the ball over 800 times.
Athletic director Larry Travis said Parrish met every qualification he set for the job and accepted a four-year contract at $65,000 per year.
Parrish, who is married and has two children, promised to be aggressive about recruiting nationwide.
"Thirdly, I wish to recruit on a national basis. Kansas State has a lot of things to sell, such as academics, facilities, etc. You won't see much of
A native of Parma, Ohio, Parrish graduated from Heidelberg College in Ohio in 1968 and began his coaching career at Windham, Ohio, High School in 1970. In 1975-76 he coached quarterbacks and running backs at Purdue. In 1979 he became head coach at Wabash, Ind, where he compiled a 42-3-1 record.
Referring to complaints by past Wildcat coaches about a lack of administrative support, Travis said, "The administration is backing him to help make our football program No. 1."
me during the holiday season,
because I will be recruiting. I won't
get it done sitting in the office, so I
will go nationwide."
His first Marshall squad in 1984 posted a record of 6-5 — the first time the school had been above .500 in 20 years. Marshall was 7-3-1 this season, and Parrish was named West Virginia Collegiate Coach of the Year.
"What a beautiful place," Parrish said yesterday of his new surroundings. "Larry (Travis) called me Friday and told me I had the position. This guy could sell the Brooklyn Bridge to anyone. The main driving force in my decision to come to Kansas State was Larry. He was a salesman for K-State."
Up for grabs
Suzy Mast/KANSAN
Delta Chi's John Spitz, center, battles for the rebound as his teammates, Brian Richey, left, and Kevin Ackles, right, look on. Delta Chi defeated Sigma Nu, 50-26, in a first round game of the intramural basketball tournament last night at Robinson Center.
Dolphins hand Bears first loss
United Press International
MIAMI — The Miami Dolphins, behind Dan Marino's three touchdown passes and two short scoring runs by Ron Davenport, ended Chicago's bid for a dream season Monday night by beating the Bears 38-24 for their first defeat this year.
Nat Moore caught two touchdown passes for the Dolphins, who ripped through the vaulted Bears' defense as no team team had done this
season. The Bears dropped to 12-1, leaving the 1972 Dolphins as the only NFL team to go through an entire season without a loss.
The victory moves the Dolphins, 9-4, into a first-place tie with New England and the New York Jets in the AFC East. The Dolphins raised their home record in Monday night games to 16-3 while the Bears are 0-9 on the road on Mondays.
The Bears entered the game having surrendered only 127 points. The
38 points were the 38-24 loss to St. Louis on Oct. 14 last year.
Chicago running back Walter Payton set an NFL record by rushing for 121 yards, the eighth consecutive game he has rushed for over 100 yards.
Miami scored on its first five possessions to take a 31-10 lead at halftime. Marino threw scoring passes of 33 and 6 yards to Moore. Davenport scored on two 1-yard runs.
North Carolina tops coaches' poll
United Press International
NEW YORK — North Carolina turned a trip to Alaska into a golden bonanza yesterday and was named the No.1 college basketball team in the nation in the first weekly ratings by the United Press International's Board of Coaches.
The Tar Heels, winners of the Great Alaska Shootout, blew out four opponents and squeezed by highly rated Nevada-Las Vegas, 65-60, to start the season at 5-0 and usurp the No.1 position from preseason No.1 Michigan.
North Carolina received 26 first place votes and 511 points from the 35 members of the coaches' board who participated in this week's ratings.
UPI Top 20
Georgia Tech, which lost to Michigan on national television last Saturday, fell two places to No. 4 while Syracuse, which waltzed to victory over its first- three opponents, advanced one spot to No. 5.
Duke, an Atlantic Coast Conference rival of North Carolina and winner of the NIT tournament, moved up two spots from its placing in the preseason ratings to the No.3 spot with one first-place vote and 423 points.
Kansas, a loser to Duke in the final of the NIT, fell two places to No. 6, and Georgetown, which opened its season minus Patrick Ewing with a pair of impressive victories in Hawaii, advanced on spot to No. 7.
First-place votes and last year's records in parishioners. Chip points out 15 points for the first place.
1. North Carolina (26) (50-1)
   311
2. Michigan (8) (3-0)
   491
3. Duke (1) (5-0)
   436
4. Georgia Tech (1-1)
   354
5. Georgia State (2-4)
   344
6. Kansas (3-1)
   317
7. Georgetown (2-0)
   256
8. Kentucky (3-0)
   202
9. Newode-Las Vegas (4-1)
   177
10. Oklahoma St. (2-0)
   156
11. Louisiana St. (2-0)
   144
12. Illinois (2-1)
   144
13. Notre Dame (2-0)
   117
14. St. Joseph (2-1)
15. Louisville (2-2)
16. Memphis State (2-0)
   48
17. Alabama Birmingham (2-1)
   41
18. Auburn (1-1)
   39
19. Iowa (4-2)
   32
20. Indiana (1-4)
   23