This time tie won't do as gamble doesn't pay
By GENE MYERS
Sports Editor
The second-guessed start as soon as Bucky Scribner's left foot struck the football. It peaked when the ball rolled dead on the Oklahoma 43-yard line, untouched by Sooner hands.
The last-ditch gamble, punting when most teams would have been passing, failed for the Kansas Jayhawks and failed KU's hopes of a title. And even with Sooners held off a second-half rally to win 21-9.
With 1:37 to play and fourth and 10 from the KU 21-yard line, Head Coach Darnambrough called for a punt. The offensive unit was stunned as it came off the field.
THE PLAN WAS for a high punt, good coverage and a few sandwiching hits. The hope was that Oklahoma's fumble-prone Jay Jimmerson did his thing. But Jimson didn't fumble. He didn't even touch the ball. He didn't have to.
"I thought they would go for it," Oklahoma coach Barry Sitter said. "I was surprised that they would punk with only one timeout left."
The same team that played it safe and went for a tie in the season opener was taking every precaution to avoid picking up its third tie of the season. There was no way KU would go 3-3-1.
Also surprised were the 40,150 people in Memorial Stadium. The final punt seemed a bit too conservative for a team that played a liberal game.
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By JIM SMALI Sports Writer
Sports Writer
For some it is a tradition that stretches back as far as they can remember. For others it is a good reason to get in a little party on a Saturday and simply find it a cheap way to see a football game.
The people who sat on the hill overlooking Memorial Stadium at Saturday's Kansas-Oklahoma football game represent a social dimension with his or her own reason for sitting on the hill.
There was the businessman and his family from Olathe who enjoyed the wide-open space the hill provides. There were the alumni from Overland Park who decided that $5.00 was too steep a price to pay to see a football game. And there were the Walmurs, a group of KU students who have come close to making hill-sitting a fall ritual.
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Late TD drive gets KC victory
SEATTLE—Kansas City's Steve Fuller, who was nearly hounded to death by the Baltimore Colts last week, showed the Seattle team he could do with just a little time to throw.
By United Press International
Fuller, a second-year quarterback from Clemson, directed the Chiefs on two long drives in the fourth quarter yesterday, including a game-winning 91-yard march, to lead Kansas City to a 31-30 victory over the Seahawks.
Fuller, who was for sacked a club record of 10 times by the Colts a week ago, hit 6-47 passes for 93 yards on the game-winning drive. Arnold Morgado's 1-yard plunge with the ball was one of the Seahawks had taken a 30-24 advantage on Jim Jodain's had run with 4:10 left.
Fuller made two key plays on the final drive while he scrambled to avoid the pass rush. The big plays were a 33-yard completion to Stan Rome from the end zone and a 26-yard completion to Ted McKnight that took the Chiefs to the Seattle 6.
Frank Seurier, scored on a naked reverse from the 5-yard line. That made the score 21-12. KU needed a touchdown, a two-point conversion and an extra point to tie.
By winning the error-filled game, Kansas City, 55, stayed alive in the playoff chase.
PLACE-KICKER Bruce Kallmeyer was out on the field and had his kicking tee in place, but the coaching staff called him back. After a decision making time, KU went for two and failed.
After the season-opening 7-7 tie with Oregon, there were cries that KU was not only afraid of losing, but also of winning. Those crises should have been silenced Saturday, except for the final
"It would have just been a giveaway," Farnambuck said. "The guy had gumbled the last three times we'd kicked. We felt our chances were better to get him to fumble.
"We felt our chances were better of recovering a fumble on the punt or getting the ball jarred loose than for us to make the fourth and 10. If we had a touchdown, it would have just given them a touchdown."
"The offense has also been known to fumble a few times even though I don't think they did but once.
The only problem was that Oklahoma's returner didn't have to field the punt. Fambrough was open to second guessing.
SWITZER ALSO should have been fair game
"Sure, we were a little disappointed on fourth down," Smith said. "But it's not for me to decide what we do.
No one was back for the return when Oklahoma punted. Eleven men charged so determined that the punter was roughed long after the kick was off.
"The coaches thought that we would probably get the ball back."
The Jahayhaws scored with 8:40 left in the game on a 12-yard run by Garfield Taylor, who replaced the injured Kerwin Bell. Kallmeyer's kick made it 21-19.
"I DON'T KNOW what it was," Smith said, "I know I can throw better than that. It was tough to pass because they had five defensive backs in there and were rushing a lot of tall guys.
KU would have the ball two more times. Smith, who went 1-for-8 passing, would throw five more passes and all will miss badly.
"And I don't know why the wind decided to shift in the fourth quarter. We had that strong wind against us the entire second half."
the Jayhawks lost, their slim hope for a bowl bid probably slipped away. The team is 14-2 with road games at 1-8 Colorado and 7-2 Missouri on the schedule.
But the close game shouldn't be a wasted effort. Fambrough expects the long-term benefits.
JAYHAWK NOTES: The hitting was hard the entire Kansas-Oklahoma game Saturday and in almost every series at least one player went down. Jayhawks, the injuries were to the skill positions.
Fullback Harry Sydney sprained an ankle in the second quarter, just as he did last year. Quarterback Frank Seser bruised a knee in the third quarter. Flanker David Verser suffered a chest bruise in the second quarter. Tight end Mike Kennaw was also shaken up.
"I just hope that we are not completely beat up after this football game and can come back and play well in our last two," Head Coach Don Fambrough said. "If we are not too beat up and our injuries are not too serious, we've got a chance to win our last two football games."
With those injuries and the disabling toe injury to Kerwin Bell from last week, KU played most of the game with wide receiver Lester Mickens on an offensive line as the only regulars in the game.
The decision to keep Bell out of the game was finalized early Saturday morning. He wore his 0.4 jersey, pants and tennis shoes to watch from the sidelines. Bell's mother, Momi, had come from Huntington Beach, Calif., with Frank Seurer's family to see the game.
"It's a big joke between Coach John Hadi1 and I that maybe these Californians can make
senior superstar running back on the Edison High School team, which is No.1 in the California Interscholastic Federation.
Dino is undecided where he will play his collegiate ball.
Bell's replacement Saturday, redshirt freshman Gary Feldt Taylor, gained 100 yards on 19 carries. He had 89 yards on 15 carries at the half. His backup, Walt Mack, had 52 yards on seven
KU's cause was hurt by two interceptions by the anonymous Orlando Flanagan, a defensive end. Flanagan worn No. $3, but his name was not on his uniform, just as it wasn't when Oklahoma played North Carolina last week.
"They sent it in and the printer misprinted my name," Flanagan said. "It came back Flangan."
Big Eight Standings
CONFERENCE
| | W | L | OL | Pts. Op. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Nebraska | 5 | 0 | 240 | 36 | 117 |
| Oklahoma | 4 | 0 | 188 | 65 | 373 |
| Oklahoma | 4 | 0 | 188 | 65 | 373 |
| Kansas | 2 | 1 | 185 | 65 | 263 |
| Kansas | 2 | 1 | 185 | 65 | 263 |
| Iowa State | 2 | 1 | 70 | 99 | 142 |
| Iowa State | 1 | 4 | 72 | 108 | 42 |
| Colorado | 1 | 4 | 72 | 108 | 42 |
| Colorado | 1 | 4 | 72 | 108 | 42 |
| Kentucky | 1 | 4 | 64 | 141 | 178 |
Kentucky State
Last Saturday's Games Oklahoma 21, Kansas 19
Ampersand
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Queen
QUEEN
THE CHECKERDOME. ST. LOUIS
A singer Freddy Mercury goes so Queen in concert, and happily Mercury was at his peak in bringing off what must be the best rock ex
Queen took off like *War Wars*- literally. Recurts of honeycombed spotlights suggested a flying saucer as they lifted to the hum of some un known instrument from a stage in the attic. The shrieks belches of smoke, thus revealing to a dazzle appalochite four Mercury poised on stage the left speaker bank, and on the boards guitar Brian May, bassist John Dea con, and drummer Roger Meadows Taylor who has solved the problem o cymbals and his smirks intials with an etching of his visage on the bass drum)
Freddy, looking brash and butch, if bit like a Village Person, in black leather jacket (soon doffered to bereadenedness), sung red leather pants pinched with blue protective coverings, slung over the black mustache, set the tone of the evening as he leapt down belting out the Elvis Proper showpiece, "Jailhouse Rock" Queen have always been faith ful followers of fashion, cansely rejoice by her dress, "we would get sleek Las Vegas Hollywood hoop laujapped us
root-of rock reality, polished off with classical haurtage. It might have made a comy mess in the hands of a lesser semble, but for Queen, who seemed as fresh energetic as when they were young, in 1974, it would all work absolutely.
Following the Presley omen came a heavy-metal, New Wavetend rendition of "Weil Rock You," adding another layer to their sound. The initial settings. The most impressive variation was, I felt, their fascinating treatment of "Crazy Little Thing Called Me." This was the second May opening on acoustic guitar and Freddy's rounded vocal bouncing over jazz city intermingled with which finalized in May's electric metal.
but unlike his confident debut on piano in "Save Me," May's efforts guitarmed unnipresSED. He re-turned to the traditional knobbed solo that introduces Bright Rock'Thought tedious and overly long, the workout seemed to resolve his difficulties, for his riffs were in characteristically fine form.
November,1980
As usual, Roger Meadows-Taylor's powerful, self-sylded percussion—expanded to tympani in "Keep Your Self Alive"—proved that he is the band's strongest musician. It was an idea Desmond to complete the rhythmic system.
But Queen's artiste was undeniably Freddy Mercury. His sheer exaltation in performing the audience will be unforgettable, and the final encore had everyone clamored.
"We Will Rock You" and cheering deliberiously as the hand finished "We Are the Champions of the World."
Patti Dewing
Peking Opera
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY MUSIC
FESTIVAL, AMBEL, PENNA
This is the first opportunity most Americans have had to observe one of the many developed art forms. The experience turns out to be both spectacular and educational.
This is not opera in the Western sense, but the term still applies because the conventions of the form are so theatrical. The only backdrop on the stage is a plain curtain. The stage is made up of drapes. The costumes, by contrast, are specacular, brilliantly colored and painstakingly embroidered. A mind numbing combination of skills is required of the performers who wear costumes, ballet, acrobatics, painting, music, and some knowledge of martial arts. The music is played by an orchestra of Chinese instruments in the wings and at first sounds as strange and forbiding as Schenberg does to Dehakwah some of the singing sounds rather like schenbong gain speech-singing).
With pragmatism typical of the current Peking regime, the programs have
Spectacular Peking Oteem
been chosen to make this introduction for spectators unschelled in the subtilies of Peking opera as painless as possible. Most of the pieces being done on this tour are single scenes from longer works, and three of the pieces were recently performed on one kind or another. The effects in these scenes become progressively more elaborate, including choreographed swordfights and spears tugged between performers (often with bare hands) climaxing in the final Yen Tang Mountain in a colosal and transient dental display of group acrobatics.
Yet, to me, the most impressive number was the scene from *The Jake Hideout* where the son of a courtship, but I also have two complaints/suggestions; some equivalent of the current Chinese prairie scene; and another alongside the stage should have been
utilized for the benefit of those who couldn't understand the dialogue; and the entire opera should have been performed.
It is a racist clutch that the Chinese are supposed to be inscrutable and paradoxical, but the Poking Opera performance here does represent a full value for the skirt ticket, yet it is the shortest evening imaginable.
Sol Louis Siegel
Monty Python
HOLLYWOOD BOWL
I'm a Python fanatic, make no mis-
take. I memorized their albums studied their films, scrutinized their TV
films, studied their music, recorded and filmed-recorded at the Bowl,
I was not alone. Dozen of Hollywood
denizens entered their searing singing
scenes, and knotted Gumby hankies on their
heads, and several of the later raised our voices in the Philosopher's
Sing 'Emmanuel Kant was a real pixie.'
Like any good rock band, the Pythagoras (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eldie Larry Terry), has been called in with familiar stuff to the Argument Clinic, the Pet Shop (received with a rear of recognition and ap proof, their Greatest Hit as it were), and four Yorkshiremen, all of them done
spouse must be in team number of games the coach expected his team to lose.
IN THE SERIOUS moments, the coaches agreed that Missouri was the favorite to win the Big Eight championship and Kansas State also should be in the race.
Enough about basketball. The show was a comedy and let's talk about comedians. The Big Eight had one of its best recruiting years last season, when it beat Michigan in Michigan's head coach for 12 years. With a style
Kansas always rated mention, but always a disclaimer was issued: If they play as a team, if they mash, they'll be good. Nebraska and Iowa are the top five, according to most of the coaches.
On 6-foot, 155 pound Terrance Allen, a freshman: "He's a skinny, short kid. He stands about 5-foot-11, but we say that he's 6-foot so that he won't get an inferiority complex."
"He seems to get hurt all the time. Last week he got a dislocated jaw. I guess it wasn't that funny to him but it is sure starting to be funny to me."
ORR HAS LONG been known for giving his teams the ball and telling them to run. That won't change at Iowa State, but he will have to make some adjustments.
"If we get a chance, we will fast break," he said. "We have tried it in practice, but it looks bad. It looks slow to me. We'll throw the ball around and maybe even catch it.
Tubbs has a junior college transfer, 6-foot-10
250-pound Charles "Big Time" Jones. Big Time
obviously has been a let-down.
"Big Time Jones looks like Little Time to me," Tubbs said. "I don't know where he got that name. He has the size and height but not the offense we need."
BOTH TUBES AND Orr can laugh. They won a bunch of games last season, Bill Blair of
"We were picked to make it happen in understand," he said. "I didn't see it. I didn't make it past the centerfold. I understand that they picked us to finish last without the knowledge that Raymond Whitley was out for the season. That's bad."
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would rely on center Anare Simai.
"At this point, none of our big men are ready to help us," Isa said. "If Andre gets in foul trouble, I'm going to run a five-man passing game with 5-foot-9 Jack Moore at post. We'll give him the ball and run it in and hope that they back him.
"I'm serious."
was most of the other coaches. The big three, Ted Owens of KU, Jack Hartman of K-State and Norm Stewart of Missouri, wore the serious look of winners. Paul Hansen of Michigan went to Alaska to reserve the leave with hepatitis and didn't attend, instead sending Wayne Ballard, his assistant coach.