Page 12 University Daily Kansan, November 3, 1980
Unlikely hero helps Jayhawks outlast Wildcats
RvGENEMYERS
Sports Editor
MANHATTAN—The hero of the game wasn't Kerwin Bell, despite his 126 yards rushing. It wasn't David Verser, despite his three superhuman reception. It wasn't Joe Tumpich, despite his two interceptions and a fumble recovery.
The hero touched the ball only five times. The final time he didn't even run, pass or kick the ball. He just laid on it to preserve Kansas' 20-18 victory over Kansas State Saturday.
Quotes from Kansas-Kansas State contest
Reserve fallback Larry Kemp became the hero when he slipped out of a pile-up with 2:11 left in the game. As he kicked his feet, he showed the 43,278 people packed into KSU Stadium that had been filled to capacity by K-State's one on one kick, the Wildcats' final attempt to sneak a victory out of a KU dominated game.
THE WILDCATS were outplayed and outstung from the opening kickoff, but a bizzare final four minutes made Saturday's game another in the series of KU-KState heart stoppers. It also gave the seldom-used Kemp a chance to shine.
With 3:23 left in the game, Tumpik intercepted a Darrell Deyle pass with a one-handed grab in the end zone. But four plays and 68 seconds later, K-State's Monte Bennett hurt himself in front of a punt by Bucky Scriber. Three seconds later K-State's L.J. Brown scored from the 1-yard line and Dickie hit John Liebe for a two-point conversion to make the score 20-18.
- Head Coach Dawn Fambrough on Kerwin Bell's 32 yards rushing and 30 carries: "Over 200, inf!ub. He's still not breathing hard. I know he can run better." And a rapt that opposes for the next three years."
An onside kick was coming and KU had its surest hands manning the line. The Jayhawks
- Bell on his 923 running team this season, second among the country's fleshmen: "I'm trying to accomplish for the team, but my yardage I'm going to get. I think we'll have a battle for the next four years. That's going to be a goal for me. He's going to be my pepper."
- Quarterback Frank Seurier on whether he saw stars when he was knocked unconscious in the third quarter: "I saw everything, including everything, everything except what was really out there."
- Darrell Dickey, Kansas State's quarterback, on passing for 118 yards Saturday when he had 506 last year: "I was bad."
- Seurer on K-State's passing defense, which was ranked first in the country: "they might have been, but they weren't today. I had a lot of them that didn't get into the game, so pretty well, so that opened the passing game."
- Flanker David Verseer on the K-State defense: "No way are they No. 1. No way. They're not good at all. I was running right by them. They're ranked that high against the pass because everybody can run on them. I got open every play."
- renter on his spectacular first-half catch:
  "I used one hand and pulled it in. I will have to
look at the films and see for myself how I did it."
*Defensive back Jae Tumpich on his Verserian one-handed interception with 3:23 left in the game: "I always said that Dave Verser was my idol."
*Bell on KU using the option often against K-State.* "We saw the films, and LSU worked it well against them. We figured we could do it, too. I sort of prefer running inside because the players have the angle on you when you run outdoors. When I run inside, I can hurt them."
- Larry Kemp, KU's reserve backfall, on recovering K-State's outside kick: "I guess I am the hero. It's a word way to be one, but I'll take it anyway I can get it."
were in three lines, five players on the 45 and four on the 35 and two on the 20. Kemp was in the second group.
THE BALL WAS WICKED perfectly, tricking 8 yards before bouncing straight up. One KU player missed the ball, then one of his teammates and two K-State players went for the ball. It hit the ground and Kemp instinctively dropped on it, cradling it between his chest and chin.
"Nobody knew where the ball was." Kemp said. "I saw it bouncing around and I thought, 'Oh, God somebody fall on it.' Then it was right there at my feet and I fell on it. It was simple."
Even when Kemp had the ball tucked away,
the Jayhawks and Wildcats continued to fight for it. Player after player jumped on one pile, while a few yards to the left Kemp had only a few players on his back.
"I COULD HEAR one ref ask another where the ball was and neither knew," Kemp said. "That's why I came running out of the pile with the ball under the height it was in the pile-up a few yards to my right.
"I was crading the ball in my arms like a little baby or something and I tried to squish it. Then people were poking me in the stomach and jabbing me."
KU ran out the final 2:11, but barely. Bell
On third down, Bell hit the line for a race no gain. The punting team came out and was ready to snap the ball until frantic calls from the KU team to wait and take a delay of game penalty.
gained 2 yards on first down and 3 on second. On third, quarterback Frank Seurer missed bell with a pitch, but Bell caught it, turned the ball back, and knocked it back in back, however, because of a clipping penalty.
The clock stopped with two seconds left. The ball was moved back 5 yards, the punting team left the field and Seurer fell on the ball to end the game.
"THOUGHT WE HAD it in the bag all along." Head Coach Don Fambrough said. "No, I'll tell you, two years back to back like this, I don't know what we'll do for an encore."
Last year, KU held off another K-State rally for a.3628 victory in Lawrence.
This year, however, the celebration was a little different. The players still jumped, shouted and cheered, but there wasn't much room in the crowded visitors locker room.
At first, no one could get in the locker room, including Gov. John Carlin, who was supposed to deliver the Governor's Trophy. Then everyone was inside, sports writers, broadcasters, cameramen, recruits, alumni, field workers, athletic officials and an assortment of children.
JAYHAWK NOTES: There is a trend being set in the Kansas locker room after games. The last two players to finish with interviews and leave the court are David Patterson and so super freshman from Huntington Beach, Calif.
Bell earned his 216 yards Saturday and cost the team about 72. That's how much the nine tear-away jerseys that he destroyed during the game cost. The Jersey destruction is a record. His 216 yards the fifth best by a Jayhawk. He also used Jerome Bell for the school record with 38 carries.
Seurer had a good game despite missing two plays after he was knocked out late in the third quarter. In his first start since the third game of the season, the 17-9 loss to Louisville, Seurer off-diag. 6-10 passes for 135 yards and an interception. He had to pass only once in the second half.
For a change, state championship doesn't mean the end of KU season
By GENE MYERS
Sports Editor
MANHATTAN—The winner of the Kansas-Kansas State game gets the Governor's Trophy, a congratulatory handshake and state bragging rights, for what they're worth.
Take away personal and school pride and there usually is nothing at stake. The KU-KState game usually pits a lowly KU team against an even worse K-State team.
Not this time.
The Jayhawks are a lowly team. They are not great, either, but they have a chance in their final three games to make this year an extra special one.
But this season, with Oklahoma, Colorado and Missouri left on the schedule, KU has a chance for, in order of probability, its most victories in 1978, a winning record and a game bowl益吧.
WITH SATURDAYS' 20-18 victory over K-State, the Jayhawks are 2-3 and at 500 for the first time since the end of the 1976 season. Ever since Nolan Cromwell and Lavene Smith left in 2014, the team has leaned through league recruiting years, a coaching change and 3-7-1, 1-10 and 3-8 seasons.
Usually the biggest game of the season is against K-State, but this season the biggest game is Saturday's final home game against Oklahoma. A victory then, and the biggest game would be at Colorado Nov. 15, the first day bowl invitations can be made.
No one is noticing KU now,but Saturday a lot
of bowel representatives will be watching 5-2 and 10. Nk Oklahoma. A good showing is critical.
OKLAHOMA HAS WON three straight since a loss to Texas, including a stunning 41-7 victory over No. 6 North Carolina Saturday in Norman, OKla. But KU has gone 3-1-1 since an embarrassing 17-9 loss to Louisville in the third game of the season. On the road, KU is 2-0-2.
KU also traditionally has played the Sooners tougher than any other Big Eight team. Last year, the Sooners won 38—but didn’t pull away until the fourth quarter. The year before, KU’s 1–0 victory was a head beat as the Jayhawks lost 17—16 when a last-second two-point conversion attempt failed.
In 1975, Cromwell was the star as KU won 23-3 in a game Moore called the unset of the century.
IT WONT TAKE the upset of the century for KU to win Saturday in Memorial Stadium. It will take two consistent halves of football, something that would have been bearer. But one good half usually has been smooth.
KU'G's good half against K-State was the first. It made fewer fumbles and penalties kept the Javayleys from scoring.
The previous week against winfield Oklahoma
went 4-1,umbellin first half forced KU
to rally for 14-1.
The game before, a 28-17 victory over Iowa
was rallied late in the third and fourth
quarter of 2006.
"I FELT IN THE first half we played as good as we're capable of playing." Coach Don Fambrough said after the K-State game. "We
came back in the second half and kept encouraging K-State.
"You can look back and say that if we didn't fumble or if we didn't get a holding penalty or if we didn't stop ourselves, but ifs didn't win football games, and its are part of the game. We did we have the holdings, the fumbles and we did we have the holding penalties. We did stop ourselves in the second half."
Those inconsistencies, Fambrough said, would be corrected in time. How soon, he isn't certain.
"We just turned things around this week," Fambraugh said. "Last week we did it to ourselves in the first half. This week we did it in the second half. One of these days we're going to cut some of that stuff out and we're going to have a football team."
Big Eight Standings
CONFERENCE
GUEST LEVEL
| | W | T | Pts. App. | W | T | Pts. App. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Nebraska | 4 | 0 | 156 | 39 | 7 | 0 | 318 |
| Alabama | 4 | 0 | 155 | 39 | 7 | 0 | 314 |
| Missouri | 3 | 1 | 104 | 55 | 6 | 269 | 132 |
| Kansas | 3 | 1 | 104 | 55 | 6 | 269 | 132 |
| Kentucky | 3 | 1 | 104 | 55 | 6 | 269 | 132 |
| Colorado | 1 | 3 | 73 | 181 | 1 | 136 | 350 |
| Oklahoma State | 1 | 3 | 73 | 181 | 1 | 136 | 350 |
| Utah | 4 | 0 | 46 | 92 | 6 | 108 | 129 |
Kansas 20, Kansas State 18
Nebraska 18, Missouri State 16
Oklahoma 14, Arkansas State 16
Okahanna 14, North Carolina 7
Okahanna State 15, San Diego State 6
BEN BIGLER/Kansan staff
Oklahoma at Kansas
Kansas State at Nebraska
Iowa State at Missouri
Colorado at Oklahoma State
Kerwin Bell sidesteps and David Lawrence jumps over Kansas State linebacker Tim Cole as Bell racks up a few of his 218 yards Saturday. Bell scored one touchdown in the game, his ninth of the season, to lead Kansas to a 20-18 victory over Kansas State.
Women's season over
Iowa took the team title, while Iowa State's Debbie Vetter took individual honors, winning the 5,000-meter race in her was her third regional title in four years.
The season ended Friday for the KU women's cross country team with a seventh place finish in the Region Six tournament in Ames, Iowa.
Even though KU finished seventh, the
corner was very well, KU coach Carla
Gorman
Olney said.
Tanya Heard led KU, finishing 24th
with a time of 18:34. It was Heard's second-best time of the season. She knocked more than a minute off her last week's Big Eight championships.
Debbie Hertzog finished second for KU, and ran her best race of the season, breaking 19 minutes for the first time this year.
The fourth and fifth KU finishers,
Denise Homa and Louise Murphy, also
ran well. Homa broke her previous best
by 40 seconds.
Men pull off surprise
The KU men's cross country team saved its best effort for an opportune time, the Big Eight Championships in Columbia on Saturday.
Picked to finish sixth in the coaches' only game, in fourth in the fourth, only pigeon point from third.
"We really surprised a lot of people," said Bob Timmons, KU track coach. "The race was a big plus for us."
and Steve Wright finishing 14th in 32:28. The University of Colorado won the tournament for the fifth consecutive year.
"I was very pleased with their efforts," Timmons said. "We hadn't beaten Oklahoma or Kansas State until this meet.
KU placed two runners in the top 15,
with Tim Gundy coming in 10th at 32:06
"At the same time, I know a lot of the guys are a little disappointed, because if there was just one position change we would have tied for third."
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