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News Briefs Game will be crucial for KU to go to bowl
Tailback Lynn Williams did not practice yesterday and is still questionable for Saturday's game against Colorado. Williams has been plagued with neck and shoulder problems, and he injured his knee against Oklahoma last Saturday.
Saturday's game against the Buffaloes, which will begin at 1:30 p.m. in Memorial Stadium, is this year's homecoming game for the Jayhawks. The game could be crucial in determining possible bowl bids. Kansas and Colorado are both considered to be candidates for the Independence Bowl.
Head coach Mike Gottfried sae
Jon Stewart would start at defensive end in place of Amonte Hollowan.
The Jayhawks went through a full-contact practice in Memorial Stadium yesterday, emphasizing game situations.
"We are executing better as the week goes on," Gottfried said.
Pellock may sit out
Kansas basketball coach Larry Brown said earlier in the week that he may redshirt forward Mark Pellock, who underwent surgery to repair cartilage damage in his right ankle.
Brown said no official decision would be made for a couple of weeks.
Pellock first injured his ankle in last season's exhibition game against China, and he reinjured it in preseason practice.
Kansas will open its season with an exhibition game against the Czechoslovakian National Team at 7:30 p.m. Friday in Allen Field House. The student season ticket includes the Czech game, sports information director Doug Vance said.
Warriors ink Mullin
OAKLAND, Calif. — Chris Mullin, the Golden State Warriors' top draft pick, has signed a four-year agreement with the struggling National Basketball Association team for an evening, a team spokewoman said
Mullin and his agent, Bill Pollack, traveled to Oakland from New York City Tuesday night.
The final pact that Mullin signed yesterday morning reportedly was for around $2 million.
From Kansan wire reports.
Silhouetted by the windows behind the diving board in the Robinson Natatorium, a KU diver leaps into the air.
NEW YORK — Bobby Cox, who led the Toronto Blue Jays to the American League East Division title and the first pennant in the club's history, yesterday was named AL Manager of the Year by the Baseball Writers Association of America.
Cox was the only manager named on all the ballots cast by the 26 voting members. Two writers from each AL city voted.
Howser's Royals defeated Cox's team in the American League Championship Series and went on to win the World Series over the St. Louis Cardinals in seven games. However, all votes were cast before the start of the playoffs. Cox resigned after the playoffs to become general manager of the Atlanta Braves.
Each writer was asked to name three managers in order of preference. Points were awarded on a 5-3-1 basis.
Cox, 44, received 16 first-place votes and 104 points to beat Kansas City's Dick Howser for the award. Howser finished second for the second straight year; he received four first-place votes and 63 points.
Gene Mauch of the California Angels, in the finished behind the Royals in the AL West division, finished third in the voting with eight first-place votes and 57 points. Billy Martin of the New York Yankees was fifth with 19 points and Jackie Moore of the Oakland A's was sixth with four points.
Cox named AL manager of the year
Tony LaRussa of the Chicago White Sox and John McMara of the Boston Red Sox each received one point.
United Press International
KU swimmers set for second lap of season
The SMU women's team placed 10th and Texas A&M finished 11th in the National Collegiate Athletic Association meet last season. Kansas finished 14th. On the men's side, the
Coach Gary Kempt said yesterday that it was an important meet for both Jayhawk teams because they were ranked last in the teams that were ranked high last year.
By Frank Hansel Of the Kansan sports staff
The Kansas swim team will begin the second lap of its season Saturday in Dallas when the men and women's softball teams from southern Methodist and Texas A&M.
Kempt said Texas A&M would be just as good as it was last year, but Southern Methodist was a mystery to him, because the coaches hadn't released much information about the Mustang swimmers.
If the SMU tradition holds up, the Mustangs will have a strong team again this year. Kempf said, but the KU teams are making progress. The
"So it is important for us to swim well," he said.
Mustangs finished seventh and the Aggies placed 23rd, but the Jayhawks didn't qualify for the meet.
Kempf said that booking KU into meets against top teams put the KU teams into the limelight.
"We have certain areas that we need to improve on, but we knew that coming in." Kempf said. "Right now we're headed in the right direction, but in swimming those things can change in a hurry."
The women's team will be led by Tammy Pease and Marcy Herrold. Between them, they have won five individual races in the Big Eight Invitational.
Kempt said the Texas A&M team was small in quantity, but big in quality, and it would be necessary for Kansas to swim well as a team to win the meet.
Jayhawks, on paper, match up better against Texas A&M.
But Kempf said Kansas also had to swim well in the backstroke, butterfly and 200 freestyle.
In the Big Eight Invitational,
Taryn Gaulien won the 100 butterfly
for Kansas, and Blanca Castillo of
Kansas won the 200 butterfly. Liz
Duncan won the 100 backstroke and
Sheryl Jakobsen, Becky Heil and
Tana Bowen finished second, third
and fourth respectively in the 200
backstroke. Susan Spry won the 200
freestyle for the Jayhawks.
The women's strength in the Big Eight Invitational was their relay teams, where they won five of six races, but Kempf said that gave Kansas no advantage over the Mustangs and Aggies.
"I don't see an advantage, but I wouldn't hesitate to put any of our relay teams up against anyone." Kempf said.
Kempt said the men had to swim well in the butterfly and breaststroke to compete with Southern Methodist and Texas &M.
Grant Seavall was the Jayhawks' top finisher in the 100 butterfly at the Big Eight Invitational, with a second-place finish. In the 200 butterfly Kevin Walker's ninth-place finish was tops for Kansas.
KU tennis players strive to change image, gain respect
By Heather Fritz
Of the Kansan sports staff
Tennis players from Kansas are a little like Rodney Dangerfield — they don't get a whole lot of respect. But two KU athletes, Mike Wolf and Michael Center, are doing their best to change all that.
Wolf and Center were in Los Angeles last week competing in the Volvo All-American tournament against players from around the
country, including tennis powers such as Stanford, UCLA and Pepperdine. And Wolf and Center held their own.
Wolf took the No. 1 seed player in the tournament, Jim Grabb of Stanford, to three sets before losing in the first round of the singles competition. Then in the consolation matches, he beat two All-Americans before losing to a third All-American.
In doubles, Wolf and Center beat the No. 1 seeded doubles team, Brandon Walters and Richard Matuszewski of Clemson, to put Kansas tennis on the map, as KU coach Scott Perealman said. In the second round, they lost to the eventual tournament winners, Jorge Lozano and Luke Jenes of USC.
"When you go to UCLA and they see you're from Kansas, you don't get a whole lot of respect." Center said yesterday. "But we don't deserve it. We haven't done anything. This tournament showed
me that we can compete with anyone. We could be one of the best teams in the country."
Tennis rankings come out in January, and Center shrugged and said "maybe top 20" when asked for a prediction of where the And Wolf would stand. But they may have come back from Los Angeles with something more important than a boost in rank — confidence.
"We're not quite as salient as some of the teams," Wolf said, "but I
think Center believes we can beat them now, and I've always believed it."
Perelman thinks that Wolf and Center now have the confidence to win a big tournament. Their next opportunity will be in February, at the Intercollegiate Tennis Coaches Association Indoor tournament in Houston.
Wolf will also compete in singles in Houston, and the Los Angeles trip raised his expectations.
"In L.A. I had nothing at all to lose," he said. "From now on, I will expect to beat most of those guys."
Center, meanwhile, has not had a good fall season. He lost in the first round of the qualifying tournament in Los Angeles, and he said the two doubles matches were the first con-
"I'm playing in spurs right now," he said. "I would get two points here, two points there."
Frat accuses opposition of cheating
By Harlen Makemson Of the Kansan sports staff
Charges that Delta Upsilon fraternity has used an ineligible player in the Greek Trophy football tournament have fallen on deaf ears at Recreation Services, who say the tournament will continue as scheduled.
The defense of the Wild Watkins Wenches put the pressure on the Golden Oldies on their way to a 14-0 victory. The two teams played yesterday for the intramural women's Independent Championship on the football fields at 23rd and Iowa Streets.
John Johnson, graduate assistant in charge of team sports for Recreation Services, said yesterday that the only eligibility requirements necessary to participate in their activities are students, faculty or staff, and that they were not on two teams in the same sport.
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"As far as we're concerned, the DU's haven't broken any rules," Johnson said yesterday.
Some fraternities involved in the tournament; however, think Delta Upsidon has violated Intrafraternity Council rules and should not be playing in the men's Greek Trophy final today.
The controversy surrounds sophomore William "Pack" St. Clair, who according to Delta Upson president Jay Wagnon, went through rush at the house two years ago, wasn't inducted in the house last year, but is a pledge at the house this semester. Wagnon said yesterday that other traternities were contending that St. Clair in effect "depledded" from the house by not being active last year, a view that Wagnon says has no basis.
Drew Hiss, president of Delta Chi, said he had information "from a reliable source" that St. Clair was a social affiliate, which according to Hiss would make him ineligible for trophy play.
Hiss said his house unintentionally forfeited yesterday's semi-final game with Delta Upsilon, saying that the Infrafraternity Council told them
"They have yet to show us anything in writing," Wazon said.
they did not need to play the game.
Johnson said the dispute was out of the hands of Recreation Services because Delta Upsilon had met all of their rules.
"We were told by the IFC that the game would be a forced disqualification," Hiss said. "Recreation Services has doubled back on what the IFC said."
"The dispute won't come to Recreation Services: the IFC will
handle it," Johnson said
Grant Tennison, president of the Intrafaternity Council, was unavailable for comment last night.
Phi Delta Theta 1 earned the right yesterday to meet the Delta Upsilon squad. Ducks 1, in today's 4:30 p.m. men's Greek Trophy championship by shutting out AKL 27-0.
KU to face Panthers
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By Heather Fritz Of the Kansan sports staff
The Kansas volleyball team, holding its next two matches in Robinson Gymnasium, will take on Eastern Illinois tonight in a non-conference match and Oklahoma tomorrow in a Big Eight conference match.
The meeting with Oklahoma will be a re-match of Kansas' four-game loss last week in Norman, Okla. The Sooners are 5-1 in the Big Eight and are second to Nebraska. Kansas is fifth out of the six conference teams.
The Jayhawks, 14-10 overall and 2-5 in the conference, will play the Eastern Illinois Panthers today at 8 p.m. and Oklahoma tomorrow at 7:30 p.m.
Eastern Illinois is 14-14 for the
season and 1-4 in the Gateway Conference.
KU coach Frankie Albiz said yesterday that she had never coached against Eastern Illinois but that it shouldn't hurt the team.
Despite the attempts of hitter Catalina Suarez, who is second in the Big Eight in kills with 170 for a 3.9 a game average, blocking and hitting are what have hurt the Jayhawks in their last few matches. Kansas is last in the Big Eight with 141 percent in hitting efficiency. First-place Nebraska has 135 percent.
"We'll just have to be sure to watch them at the start of the game," she said. "The thing that takes longer to pick up is the weak hitters and the weak spots."
NIU to leave conference
United Press International
DE KALB, III. — Northern Illinois President Clyde Wingfield announced yesterday that NIU is dropping out of the Mid-American Athletic Conference, effective July 31.
NIU Men's Athletic Director Robert Brigham had recommended the move, calling the MAC conservative and unimaginative.
Brigham was particularly critical of the conference's limit of 65 football scholarships a year. In addition, the athletic director said NIU has had trouble getting publicity in the face of attacks because of the MAC's Ohio orientation.
According to Brigham's recommendation, Northern's Division 14
football program will go independent. Brigham hopes to eventually place the NIU football team in the Big Eight or Big 10 Conference.
Brigham said the Division I basketball program may attempt to join the Midwestern City or Metro Conferences.
NIU's women's sports program will also leave the Mid-American, he said.
MAC Commissioner James Lesgiss issued a statement defending the conference, and said a replacement for MIU would not be actively pursued.
"The Mid-American Conference has enjoyed its affiliation with Northern Illinois," Lessig said.