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University Daily Kansan, November 7, 1980
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Final home game important for Bell-less KU Javhawks
By GENE MYERS Sports Editor
A time warp of sorts will fall on Memorial Stadium tomorrow afternoon. The wishbone will be back, Oklahoma will be back, and the big game will be back.
For the first time in four years, the Kansas Jayhawks will play a really important game. Not since the 6-5 season of 1976 has KU had the chance to do so much in one game.
The Jayhawks, 3-2-3, are at .500 for the first time since 1976 and have a shot this season at a winning record and a bowl game. But they need to beat a 19-point favorite, Oklahoma.
The Sun Bowl and the Fiesta Bowl are sending representatives to watch Oklahoma. They want to know why the Sooners are really the No. 11 team in the sport. The team that fumbled 43 times in its first four games.
But if KU can play well, the bowl reps may sneak a glance at the Jahyhars, especially since KU's final two opponents of the season, Colorado and Missouri, are not unbeatable.
Those incentives, plus KU's 3-1-1 record since the third game of the season, has Oklahoma committed to a run.
"Kansas has never been an easy opponent and I see no reason for this season to be any different," he said. "They have improved enor- himself over the last few years and may have the best young talent in the league.
"They have demonstrated an ability to score from any place on the field in a hurry. If we are in a valley between North Carolina and Missouri, we will be in serious trouble."
Oklahoma was in trouble after the fourth game of the season, a 20-13 loss to Texas that made its record 2-2. Switzer, in his eight years as head coach, led Oklahoma to two consecutive season games. Since the Texas loss, the Sooners
are 3-4, including a 41-7 victory over former sixth-ranked North Carolina.
"If Oklahoma has been anywhere, they're back now." KU Head Coach Dam弗 brought said. "That's obvious by the way they handled North Carolina—a football team in the top 10 with a defense that was supposed to be one of the best in the country.
"Just look what Oklahoma did to them. When they don't fumble, they're awesome."
KU, however, has often looked awesome against Oklahoma. The Jayhawks only have won one of the last 15 games with Oklahoma, but the Sooners often played toughly against the Sooners.
The Jayhawks, at worst, have played the Nebraska Cornhoppers closer than the Nebraska Cornhoppers.
Fambrough, however, doesn't understand how anyone could say that KU played Oklahoma well.
"I don't consider last year's 38-0 playing
"it's not worth it," he said. "That's the point I want to make."
Last year, Oklahoma used three fourth-quarter touchdowns to break up an otherwise tight game. The Jayhawks had little to cheer about on offense, piling up just 184 yards in total offense to Oklahoma's 381 yards. Five Jayhawks suffered season-end injuries in the game.
In 1978, the final season of former Head Coach Bud Moore, KU lost 17-16 to No. 1 ranked Oklahoma when a last-second two-point conversion attempt failed.
The last time KU won was in 1975, Moore's first season, when quarterback Nolan Cromwell ran赢 the game.
The 1978 game, Oklahoma introduced the football country to quarterback J.C. Watt, who was filling in for injured Thomas Lott. Watts had troubleies and never started another game that season.
But the last two seasons he has run the Sooner
wishbone well. He had his finest game last week with 139 rushes and three touchdowns. He has 12 touchdowns this season and needs 62 yards for eighth or eighth on Oklahoma's all-time charts.
Breaking the wishbone has been the main task for KU in practice this week. It won't be easy because Oklahoma is the only wishbone team KU will face all season.
"I know that we're prepared against our scout squad," Fambridge said. "I don't know if we're ready."
Oklahoma's defense will have a break because Kuwait's offensive defense, fresh tailman Kawerin Bell, has tarf tux. Fambrough said yesterday he had not decided whether Belle would suit up.
Replacing Bell will be Gartfeld Taylor, a
week. He will be backed by junior Walter Mack.
He will be backed by junior Walter Mack.
Even with Bell on the sidelines, Switzer said that KU could not be taken lightly.
"I always thought Kansas had good athletes," he said. "They've had better players than Kansas State and Iowa State. They're the best players, they've better players when you're the University of."
Switzer's players, after routing North Carolina last week, think that they should be higher than 11th in the ranking. Watts said the team should be in the top three.
"What you're seeing now is the real Okalahoma," Watts said. "I feel confident about our turnover situation. We have eliminated that problem. Hopefully, it won't bug us again this year."
"I think we can play with Alabama, Notre Dame, Southern Cal, any of them. Maybe we couldn't at the start of the season, but we can hold our own now. I think, this year especially, anybody in the top 15 could play with any of the top three."
BEN BIGLER/Kansen staff
| | Arnold | Bertols | Lewis | Myers | Seeley |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Oklahoma at Kansas | Oklahoma 31-14 | Oklahoma 35-14 | Oklahoma 45-14 | Kansas 18-17 | Oklahoma 35-17 |
| Kansas State at Nebraska | Nebraska 62-7 | Nebraska 50-0 | Nebraska 52-0 | Nebraska 67-0 | Nebraska 43-7 |
| Colorado at Oklahoma St. | Oklahoma State 14-13 | Oklahoma State 21-10 | Oklahoma State 17-10 | Colorado 2-0 | Oklahoma State 23-21 |
| Iowa State at Missouri | Missouri 42-21 | Missouri 28-10 | Missouri 31-10 | Missouri 14-13 | Missouri 17-16 |
| USC at Stanford | USC 13-12 | USC 22-17 | USC 24-21 | USC 22-21 | USC 21-5 |
| Houston at Texas | Texas 21-17 | Houston 28-10 | Texas 21-17 | Houston 24-13 | Texas 9-7 |
| Arkansas at Baylor | Baylor 21-12 | Baylor 14-10 | Baylor 18-14 | Baylor 21-7 | Baylor 23-21 |
| William & Mary at Harvard | Harvard 17-3 | William & Mary 3-0 | Harvard 14-10 | William & Mary 10-7 | Harvard 17-16 |
| Arkansas at Washington | Washington 14-3 | Washington 28-10 | Washington 30-14 | Washington 24-12 | Washington 24-21 |
| Air Force at Army | Army 27-10 | Air Force 14-10 | Army 13-17 | Army hellno! | Army go Marines! |
| Season Totals | 54-24-2 | 47-31-2 | 52-26-2 | 53-25-2 | 55-23-2 |
Kansan Predictions
The predictors are Patti Arnold, Kansan associate sports editor; Kevin Bertels, sports writer; David Lewis, editorial editor; Gene Myers, sports editor; and Matt Seelye, sports writer.
Eastern All-Americans could hold key for KU
Associate Sports Editor
By PATTI ARNOLD
About seven years ago, two little girls who lived in the East wanted to play basketball. One was told by her father that she had chosen a team, the other invited to play on an all-age team.
Last season, both of these girls were selected as two of the top 40 high school basketball players in America. This season, they will wear the crimson and blue of the Kansas Jayhawks.
Tracy Clayton and Mary Myers, two freshman All-America players, were the top recruits for Marian Washington, the head coach of the KU women's basketball team.
Actually, Claxton was a four-year All-State team, she was her father who didn't want to teach the girls how to swim.
"I was in the sixth grade and my Dad was always in the back yard teaching my brother to play basketball," Claxton said. "I said 'Dam, teach me, but he said 'No, Tracy, it's not for girls,' so I took it on myself and taught myself to play."
When Claxton, a 6-foot center-forward, graduated from Wilbur Cross High School in New Haven, Conn., she was contacted by 400 colleges that wanted her court services. All of the top teams in the nation wanted her, including two-time national champion Old Dominion men's and Oklahoma State University Tech. But the chase KU because she thought she could contribute to the team.
"At the Jayhawk Classic last year, I looked at the team and thought I could help with rebounding because that's what they needed," she said.
Myers, a 5-foot-6 guard from Pittsburgh, Penn., was not only an All-America player, but she was named athlete of the year and was on the Press's Fabulous Five basketball team.
She began playing on the seventh grade boys' team, and ended up becoming one of the best players in the league.
"We'd go out on the court and the other team would say, 'Hey, they've got a girl.' They didn't think we know how to play well in good food in this city," she noted. "You score a couple of baskets, they'd say, 'Shoot, she plays just like a boy.'
"Their coach would say, 'You all had better play her right.'"
Two high school All-Americans, Mary Myers and Tracy Claxton, could hold the key to a successful season for the KU women's basketball team this year.
The two agreed that being named All-America was better, but Claxton said, "There's bigger and better stuff."
Maybe one of those bigger and better things
play in Madison Square Garden, home of the
Yankees.
Knicks, the first Muhammad All-Jose Frazier fight and one of the biggest names in sports
"I'm going to be nervous," Claxton said, "but I handle it."
Myers has played in big arenas before, she
is the founder of the Center, and said the
tournament would be fun.
"I'll be different," she said. "It's a big place and a lot of people, but it'll be fun."
State championships and state champions have a lot to do with those memories. Claxton fondly remembers winning the Connecticut state championship, a 53-game win streak and five playoff games he finished in 2,000 rebounds. By the time she was finished, her high school retired her jersey.
and how people. It's not all
High school isn't that far removed from these two, and they remember their big games and big moments well.
A specific game sticks out in Myers' mind.
"Beating Franklin Regional," she said. "They won the state in 1978-79, my junior year. We played them in a Thanksgiving tournament, the Green Classic, and then we played the classic Green Classic. We played them in the first game."
"I wanted to beat those girls so bad. They had two six-footers, one 5-11. We were really underrated going into the game, and I felt so good after beating them."
Playing on the boys' team helped Myers acquire her ball-hall-handling skills. A slick passer, she will be looked upon to feed the ball to Lynette Woodard, KU's star forward.
Both players are used to success, and neither intends on that changing this season.
"My high school coach said we were supposed to think positive, never negative," Claxton said. "I have ever since. We've got the team, we're gonnie win it all.
"I want to contribute to this team. I want to do whatever I can to make us a winner."
Intersquad tonight
For the first time, the KU men's and women's swim team will combine their efforts in the annual intersquared meet tonight in Robinson Center.
The women, six-time defending Big Eight champions, won their first meet of the season last weekend in Ames, Iowa. Tonight's will meet for the men's squad. The meet begins at 7 p.m.
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