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University Daily Kansan, October 21, 1980
Male booters search for recognition while female counterparts seek players
By JIM SMALL Sports Writer
The financial ax fell on the KU gymnastics team last year, and the grim reaper of athletic budgeting may be searching for another victim among such popular sports as tennis and swimming. It hardly seems an appropriate time to start a new team sport at KU.
But the KU men's and women's soccer clubs are bucking the odds in an attempt to attain success.
"We tried fairly hard last year to have soccer as a varsity sport," said one of the club's coaches, Jay Yoffe. "But the athletic department was not interested. They were more interested in the moneymakers like basketball and football."
"But we'll keep trying. We haven't given up yet."
Obtaining varity status is not the only worry on the mind of the man's guard these days.
The team, which plays throughout the Midwest, has to naval travelenses itself.
"We play Colorado in Colorado this year, and all of that, including the hotel and meals, comes out of the players' pockets," Yofee said. "That is to keep some players from joining the team."
The club, which has jumped out to a 7-3 record
in the Big East championships in the Big E
tract for a Big Eight championship.
"But it was really sort of a farce last year because some of the teams didn't even play each other."
The problems of the men's soccer club may seem trivial when compared to those of the new team.
The team, which has about eight active players, has no games scheduled this fall.
The club's founder, Beth Miller, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, said the biggest problem on the job is getting a new face.
Miller said the team had received much support from the men's club.
"It's really frustrating." Miller said. "We have had a lot of people come out for the team, but once they found out we were really working out here, they quit."
"When I came to the first tryout session expecting to find other girls and found a lot of guys instead, I decided I wanted to start a women's team," Miller said. "Bill Evans, the goalie of the men's team, helped me out a lot with it. I wrote up some pamphlets, and he had them run off."
"We even go to their practices sometimes," she said. "We also get in pickup games with the men on Sundays. They all seem to want to help us."
Miller also said that some of the male players helped coach the woman's team.
Libby Hardin, who practiced with the men's club beefiller Miller formed the women's squad, said that even though there was no resentment she felt that she felt uncomfortable when she practiced with them.
"I was really pretty down, and I told Bill Evans that I was thinking about not coming any more. He talked to me about it and kept me out," Hardin said.
Even though Yoffe and Miller are confident about the future of soccer in the United States, Yoffe says he's concerned with KU's role in that future.
"In a few years, soccer is going to be very popular in America with men and women," he heaped on the criticism to be a part of that, but they seem to be waiting to see what the other universities are going to do.
KU runs 2nd
The KU men's cross country team met disappointment last weekend.
The disappointment came with the Kansas State Wildcats and a 42-21 loss at Lone Star.
"It was disappointing because we know we can beat K-State," said Bruce Mayfield, who finished 11th. "Tim Gundy and I didn't run well, and I think that kind of held the team back."
The runners were in a pack until the final mile,
when the too seven finishers rolled away.
"A couple of hills near the end of the course really broke up the pack," Mayfield said. "Gundy was in the race all the way, but at the end his legs were dead."
The five-mile course was fast-paced and flat. Candy led the Jayhawks, finishing third with a tilt of 24.5 degrees.
"We ran 10 miles on Wednesday at about a 5:30
moment. It was really cold outside, and my legs
really hurt."
KU forfeits 5 games
The Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women ruled last week that the KU women's basketball team must forfeit its first five games from last season, but Coach Marian Washington said yesterday that the ruling had little effect on her team.
The ruling came after the AIAW ethics and eligibility committee found that Shyra Holden, a foot-2-inch center on last year's competition. She played in the five games.
Holden, from Wichita, now is working in Cincinnati. Washington said Holden would try to stay in the district.
Washington took Holden out of the lineup when the eligibility problem arose last week. He was the first to miss.
Holden's problems began during the first semester, when she was not fortunate to receive an University enrollment record.
"It's important that people understand that we didn't try to hide anything," Washington said. "The ruling really doesn't affect us now." He added that they picked up and carried on without Shyra."
KU won the Big Eight and Region Six tournament to the AIAW national tournament last season.
With the five forfeits, KU's final record last season was 24-13.
Bell's show against Cyclones rings in conference plaudits
Kerwin Bell ran for 156 yards and scored two touchdowns Saturday to help KU defeat Iowa State 29-7. Bell also scored with Big Eight of seven shots from the Big Eight of his offensive player of the week.
Bell carried the ball 35 times Saturday, scoring once by rushing and once on a pass from Frank Seurer.
ever coached. We plan on using him 25 to 35 times every game as long as he is "producing."
The game Saturday was the third time this season that Bell has rushed for more than 100 yards. He is second in the conference in rushing with 567 yards.
"Sometimes I'd just like to see him come off the field breathing hard." KU Head Coach Don Farnbrough said. "I believe that young man has more endurance than any football player I've
The 5-foot-9-inch freshman back from Huntington Beach, Calif., was one of the most highly-recruited backs in the country last season. He said his size gave him an advantage in rushing.
"My biggest asset is my size," Hell said. "It’s tough to tackle a small back. A back my size doesn’t matter."
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