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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Sept. 23, 1985
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News Briefs
KU baseball, softball struck by rainouts
The Kansas baseball and softball teams were rained out over the weekend. The softball team was scheduled to play Barton County Community College on Saturday. The baseball team was to play Johnson County Community College yesterday.
The softball team is scheduled to play Kansas State at 3 p.m. Wednesday at the Kansas softball field, which is behind Anschutz Sports Pavilion. The baseball team will have its regular intra-squad games tomorrow and Thursday and will play Iowa Western at 1 p.m. Saturday at Quigley Field.
IV football starts at 3
The junior varsity football team will play Bathy College at 3 p.m. today at Memorial Stadium. Admission is free. Today's game is the first of five scheduled games for the junior varsity team.
Royals fall to second in AL West
United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Mark Funderburk is taking better care of the Cadillac this time around.
Funderburk, a 28-year-old rookie who flubbed his previous shots in the majors, knocked in three runs with three singles Sunday to lead the Minnesota Twins to a 7-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals.
the Kansas City Royals The loss dropped Kansas City to one game in back of the California Angels in the American League West. California beat the Cleveland Indians 10-9 in 12 innings.
"If you give a 20-year-old a Cadillac, he might tear it up," said Minnesota manager Ray Miller. "A 28-year-old girl won't."
Fundbury originally was drafted by the Twins in 1976 but was released seven seasons later after having appeared in only eight major-league games. He signed with the Royals in 1983 but was released from their Triple-A affiliate after playing only 17 games.
Funderburk wound up playing in Mexico that summer and then played in Italy in 1848 before re-signing with the Twins as a free agent last winter. He spent the 1885 season at Minnesota's Double-A affiliate at Orlando and was recalled in September after collecting 34 homers and 116 RBI in the minors.
"I liked the way he walked into my office when we called him up and said, 'My name is Mark Funderburk'" recalled Miller. "I said, 'I hear you've done some pretty good things.' And he said, 'I'd like the chance to do them up here.'"
"And thus far he has. Everyone has a better perspective the second time around."
Funderburk has hit .395 for the Twins this month with two homers and 13 RBL
Frank Viola scattered eight Kansas City hits, walked one and struck out four to improve his record to 16-14 for the Twins with his seventh complete game of the season.
Kansas City jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the second on a single by Frank White, a walk to Steve Balboni, a double-play ball and an RBI single by Jim Sundberg. But Minnesota opened the fourth with four consecutive hits of Royals' starter Danny Jackson to surge into a 3-1 lead.
"Not many guys get a second chance, much less a third chance," Funderburk said. "I don't plan on letting it pass me by again."
Kent Hrkeb doubled, took third on a single by Tom Brunansky and scored on a single by Funderburk. Dave Engle then doubled home both Brunansky and Funderburk to put Minnesota in front for good.
Jayhawks throttle Indiana State, 37-10
By Frank Hansel Of the Kansan sports staff
Kansas quarterback Mike Noreseh added to his collection of Big Eight offensive records and the Jayhawks remained undefeated with their 37-10 victory over Indiana State Saturday at Memorial Stadium.
Kansas improved its record to 3-0,
while ISU fell to 1-2.
Jayhawks thre Norseth continues to set Big 8 marks
Norseth set his third Big Eight record in two games by breaking a record set by former Jayhawk David Jaynes in most pass attempts without an interception. On Sept. 14 against Vanderbilt, Norseth set Big Eight records in passing yardage and total offense for one game.
Norseth's 30 pass attempts improved his streak to 153 consecutive passes without an interception. Jaynes set his record of 142 in 1973.
Norseth now has the third longest streak in National Collegiate Athletic Association history. He trails Jerry Rhome of Tulsa, who threw 196 passes without interception in 1964, and Edd Hargett of Texas A&M, who threw 177 consecutive passes without an interception in 1968.
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"The key to him is the help he's gotten from Bob Valesente, who came from the NFL." head coach Mike Gottfried said. "He (Norseth) does a good job of reading defenses. He never throws a lame-duck pass." Valesente is the quarterback
Norseth also moved up on the total offense list at Kansas, Saturday he passed John Riggins and Gale Sayers, and moved into sixth place with 2,950 total yards. Norseth passed for 278 yards with 29 completions in 31 attempts. He rushed for 19 yards on seven carries.
Twins 7. Royals 3
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Fullback Mark Henderson scored on the next play, and place kicker Jeff Johnson, who earlier kicked a 53-yard field goal, converted the extra point for a 10-0 lead.
Indiana State defensive back Steve Bidwell pounded Kansas tailback Mike Rogers to the ground after Rogers ran for 9 yards to the Sycamore 24-yard line late in the third quarter of Saturday's game. Kansas tumbled and loot the ball two plays later.
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Norseth broke Riggins' record in the first quarter when he completed a 61-yard pass to wide receiver Richard Estell.
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"Our offense just wasn't clicking at all," Miller said. "We got in a hole early and I would either miss a receiver or a pass would be dropped."
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The drive was halted when strong safety Jamey Steinhauser intercepted a pass from ISU quarterback Jeff Miller in the end zone.
Estell, who caught seven passes for 187 yards, gave Kansas a 17-0 lead in the second quarter with a 62-yard
By Chris Lazzarino Sports editor
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That didn't come true Saturday night in the Holmes-Michael Spinks fight, but it is still a good thought for challengers to live by. Because once a challenger is given a shot at the champ, he may never get the same chance again.
It is said that if a challenger wants to wear the title belt, he should plan to knock out the champ. If the decision is left up to judges — well, that's why the champ is the champ.
One challenger who is thinking about his shot at the big time is a Kansas place kicker who tried to unseat the champ.
touchdown reception. On the play, the Sycamore pass rush forced Norseth to scramble to his left, where Estell had broken behind the ISU defenders and was open for the touchdown pass.
"We just couldn't match up our cornerbacks with their receivers." Indiana State head coach Dennis Raetz said after the game. "They just overpowered us and Norsed had a good iof of getting then the ball."
With the 62-yard pass reception Estell moved into fifth place on the Kansas all-time receiving list. He passed Wayne Capers and John Mosier. Estell now has 67 catches for 1,293 yards in his KU career.
Rain fell during most of the game, but it didn't seem to slow the Jayhawk offense, which its lead increase to 27-0 at halftime.
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Raetz said his defense couldn't get a pass rush on Norseth because Kansas was a quicker team, and the KU offense kept the Sycamore defense scattered over the field.
Johnson had been struggling during the early part of the season, missing two of five field goal attempts in Kansas' first two games. Against Vanderbilt, Johnson missed field goals of 44 and 46 yards, both wide left.
"It was difficult to put a lot of zip on the ball," Norseth said. "The ball was wet the entire game, no matter how much the officials tried to dry it off."
Norseth and back-up quarterback Tom Quick threw to nine different receivers for 279 yards and two touchdowns. The second touchdown pass, a 12-yarder, from Norseth to tight end Sylvester Bird in the third quarter gave the Jayhawks a 34-0 lead.
Kansas had built a 37-0 lead before Indiana State crossed into Kansas territory. The Sycamores crossed the 50-yard line with 11 minutes, 3 seconds left in the game, when running back Linus Schepers gained eight yards to the Kansas 42-yard line.
Last week, head football coach Mike Gottfried put the place kicking job up for grabs — or at least he offered two challengers a shot at the champ. Jeff Johnson.
His name is Mike Goldman
His name is He knows he's a good kicker. But he also knows he may never again have a shot at the title.
But Johnson is also a junior and Goldman has enough hours to graduate in May.
After Johnson went 0-2 against Vanderbilt, Gottfried put the kicking duties on the auction block.
Because he is a junior, it would seem that Goldman would be looking toward next season now that Johnson appears to have a lock on the kicking job for this season.
"I was in the thick of things this week, but the most important thing is that we won." Goldman said. "But it is still in the back of my mind, that's for sure."
"I don't know what I am going to do next season. I have a chance to graduate in May, so I may do that. We'll just have to see."
Johson was being pushed by Goldman, a junior, and freshman Chase Van Dyne. After the first day
of the challenge, it was obvious that Johnson would have to kick well to keen his job.
As the week grew older and the challenge tighter, Gottfried said he wouldn't decide who would kick against Indiana State until game time. The job would go to the kicker who looked the best in pre-game warm-ups.
And going into pre-game warm-ups, Goldman thought he had beaten the champ.
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"I really thought I had won it — I thought I was going to kick today," Goldman said after the game. "Then five minutes before game time, I found out Jeff was going to kick.
Once he found out he wasn't going to be starting, Goldman knew there was still a chance he would get in the game. If the champ ever falters, there is always a challenger ready to replace him.
"You almost have to knock out the champ if you want to win. Maybe I came out on top in the competition, but I didn't completely knock him out. You've got to give him credit."
After the game, Goldman sat in the kickers' corner of the locker room, thinking about what might have been while Johnson commanded the attention of throngs of reporters wherever he went.
"I didn't start," but I was told to stay loose," Goldman said. "If he missed a couple, I might have been given a shot.
"When he hit that 53-yarder, I knew that he was on."
"When I went into warm-ups, I thought I would be the kicker. I may not get another shot at it, but nothing is etched in stone around here."
Johnson hit field goals of 53, 52 and 34 yards without a miss.
But Goldman certainly wasn't bitter. He was thinking about his future, knowing he could get another shot at Johnson, and at the same time realizing he may not get another chance to kick for Kansas.
But most of all, he was happy for Johnson and for the victory over Indiana State.
"I am really happy for him," Goldman said. "He's a good friend and we like to compete against each other. I'd like to know what I would have done if I had played, but we're all still friends.
Dolphins shut down Chiefs
MIAMI — The Miami Dolphins knew they had a fine offense. What they discovered during Sunday's 31-0 victory over Kansas City was that they also have a tough defense.
United Press International
The Dolphins were led by Dan Marine's two touchdown passes and rookie Ron Davenport's two touchdown runs, but the big story was the defense, which recorded its first shutout since 1983 — against a Chiefs team that entered the game as the NFL's highest scoring team.
Other NFL results p. 14.
"There were more great plays out there defensively than I've been around in a long time," said Miami
coach Don Shula, whose Dolphins improve to 2-1. "I had been hoping and praying we could come up with a big effort on defense and we did."
"On offense, we didn't play as good as we had hoped, but I can't take anything away from Miami," said Kansas City Coach John Mackovic, whose Chiefs fell to 2-1. "Their offense made two touchdowns early in the second half which gave them great momentum."
Following a scoreless first half, the Dolphins set the tone for the second half when Mike Kozlowski, on a reverse from Lorenzo Hampton, returned the second-half kickoff to the Miami 47-yard-line.
Five plays later. Marino hit Bruce Hardy with a 9-yard scoring pass to give Miami a 7-0 lead.
Marino completed 23-of-35 passes for 258 yards, two touchdowns and one interception.
Following a Kansas City punt, the Dolphins drove 80 yards in 13 plays with the touchdown coming on a 27-yard pass from Marino to a wide open Woody Bennett to give Miami a 14-0 lead after three quarters.
Davenport scored on a 3-yard run on Miami's next possession to give Miami a 28-0 lead.
The other Miami interception was by Jay Brophy.
Miami scored again after Glenn Blackwood, playing in his first game since ending his holdout, intercepted Bill Keney. The interception set up a 1-yard run by Davenport, his first regular-season touchdown.
Alan Hauman/KANSAN
Alan Hagmann/KANSAN Kansas placekicker Jeff Johnsen got a lift after kicking a 53-yard field goal in the first quarter of Saturday's game against Indiana State
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