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Page 16 University Daily Kansan, October 2, 1980
Syracuse's adverse mate may return Saturday
"A wretched soul, bruised with adversity."
"They seemed like old companions in ad-
arity."
-William Cullen Bryant
By GEOFF HOBSON
Syracuse Daily Orange Sports Editor
Syracuse, N.Y.—The Syracuse football team appears to be wedded to a woman dressed in black called Adversity.
It courteed her and fell madly in love with her during the 1978 Bill Hurley-less season, and it consumed the vows through a wild 1979 marriage. The next week, she seemed in bed with her every day and night.
On Saturday afternoon in the Dome, the Orange, 21, has another rendezvous with the wicked woman when it hosts the winless Kansas Jayhawks—probably without the services of its star and leading rusher, running back Joe Morris.
MORRIS, SECOND in the nation in rushing and just 69 yards away from one of the most hallowed records in sports, the Syracuse all-time rushing leader, has the game with a play at right shoulder.
Morris sustained the injury in the first half of Syracuse's 42-21 victory over Northwestern last
week. After catching a pass, he ran diagonally into concrete knocked out of bounds and ran into concrete
For Morris, the injury comes at a time that is about as convenient as student parking on Dome days. The 5-foot-7 speedster was named Sports Illustrated's offensive player-of-the-week two weeks ago and is the subject of a feature in the same publication this week. He has been called the best back in America by several coaches, on the heels of his heroics in September.
"This is really hard to take, not being able to take part in it." Mort is said to 'but' I'll be there. "I don't want to be there," he says.
IN THE PAST, Morris has been the lawyer in the rocky marriage between this football team and adversity, and has pulled the Orangemen out of several scrapes. Now he is not there and there are visions of 1978 and Bill Hurley's three broken ribs.
"It is kind of like '78 with Bill," said Morris, who was a frenzy that year. "We have to do this week what we did against North Carolina State then. We have to get that great effort."
Against NC State that year, the week after Hurley was injured, Syracuse almost pulled off a hit. The N.C. State team lost to
"These guys are now going to have to realize they're going to have to do it without me." Morris said. "Actually, it might be a blessing in disguise. We may be a better team after it."
SYRACUSE HEAD coach Frank Maloney said as severe as 1978, but admitted it was more dangerous.
It may be a better team after the KU game, but whether the Orangemen will be a 3-1 team is
"Joe will be back," Malfoney said. "It's just a question of when. But anytime you lose the best back in the country, which I think Joe is, it has to hurt you."
Another thing that has to hurt is that Morris is not the only offensive player down. Starting wide receiver Paul Zambuito will be out for the second straight week with a banged-up knee and second string tailback Jack Covington will be out with a broken fibula. Offensive guard John Lally is extremely doubtful with an injured ankle and shoulder.
Despite the offense looking like an emergency room on a Saturday night, Maloney said he was able to get him home.
"THIS DOES NOT mean we are shut down by any means," he said. "Jon Pruitt and Glenn Moore are capable runners. Glenn has to learn there is more to running the ball. Pruitt is a very steady and intelligent player, and out of 70 snacks a game. Jon will be in the right place 70 times."
Joe Nett probably will replace Lally on the line, joining Tony Sidor, Drew Gessinger, Tony Hazzan, Gerry Feehery and John McColliom. Maloney has been mildly surprised with the
excellent play of the line during the first three games.
"I was getting on them in preseason, but they have played extremely well," Maloney said. "I don't care who is carrying the ball, if they block like they have been, we'll move the ball."
But the biggest reason Maloney is not pushing the panic button is one Dawn Warner. The junior quarterback has been brilliant in directing a complicated offense that has humbled the ball once in three games. He has rushed for 223 yards and fourth touchdowns and was named co-EAC assistant player of the week for his yard rushing performance against Northwestern.
"TVE BEEN AROUND some great qur-
ter-backs," Maloney said. "Dennis Franklin at
Michigan and Bill Hurley here, but never have I
been able to do what Dennis do what he has done
in his first three starts."
Warner and company will have to ready because the KU defense is not the same one that Morris shredded for a school-record 252 yards last October in Lawrence.
It has been the strongest part of the Jayhawk team, as KU has given up an average of only 14 points a game. Last week's 17-9 loss to Louisville was a typical of what Kansas has gone through this season. The Cardinals' touchdowns came after a fumble recovery and an interception. The offense had turned the ball over seven times—five on interceptions and twice on fumbles.
"They are a very good defensive team," Maloney said. "They are a very typical Big Eight team, which is probably the best football conference in the country. After playing Kansas last year, our kids have a lot of respect for them. It was one of the hardest-hitting games we were
SYRACUSE WON THAT game 45-27, but not before KU gave the Orange a score by taking a 21-7 first quarter lead. The explosive offense for the Jahayhaws, however, is missing this season. In three games, Morris is just 12 yards short of Kansas' 'total offensive output of 504 yards.
"I just can't figure Kansas out, they're an ingram," Maloney said. "They have an great performers on offense but they just can't seem to get it together. They're playing a lot of fresh material, and they're putting巩固 classes in the country, and one of these lies—hope not one—they are going to tell."
If KU is going to break out, Saturday afternoon may be the perfect time. The Jayhawks will play against a defense that has given up 1,210 yards and 65 points in three games.
"I'm concerned, but not panicking about our defense," Maloney said. "In the past few seasons it has had a tendency to get better as the season progresses." "I was very worried with what we were doing on defense last season."
Joe Morris is little back, 5-foot-7, 175 pounds, but he is big in the Syracuse record books. Morris, 69 yards short of breaking Larry Csonka's school record, ran for 252 yards in Syracuse's 45-27 victory over KU last year. Morris is hurt and not supposed to play in Saturday's game in Syracuse, N.Y., but KU head coach Don Fambrouche saves that Morris will definitively play.
Smith goes ahead on KU depth chart
The quarterback job for Saturday's game with Syracuse is up for grabs, but junior Steve Smith seems to have the edge over freshman Frank Seurer.
"Right now, Smith is No. 1 and Seurer is No. 2," Head Coach Dam Fonbamrock said after yesterday's practice. "But we haven't made a difference. We want to see one more day of each of them."
Seurer is still nursing a leg injury he received during Kansas' 17-9 loss to Louisville last week. Smith, the starter in KU's season opener, saw two saves and three assists against Pitbullsburgh and none against Louisville.
Smith, who is from Emporia, became the No. 1 quarterback this summer when Kevin Clinton quit the team to play baseball. He held that position into the first game. But he was knocked woesy in the quarter of the opener and Seurer has been No. 1 since.
Back from the injured list for KU are Dave Harris and Roger Foote
The Jayhawk defense will have to be at full strength if it wants to stop Syracuse's senior sensation, Joe Morris. Morris, a runnaway who ran rampant against Kansas last year for 256 yards, should become the Orangeman's all-time leading ground gainer if he plays.
Kyle McNorton, an inside linebacker, also will return to the starting lineup. McNorton was hospitalized after he collapsed during the Pitt team's game against Northwestern in exhaustion. He was forced to sit out last week.
However, Morris, 69 yards shy of Larry
Sconka's Syracuse record, is listed as doubtful
Steve Smith
for the game as a result of an injury he suffered in Syracuse a win over Westernlast last week. The team was 3-2 in three games.
"I don't believe his injury for one second. Last year we thought he was out of the game and he came back," Fambrigh said. "On films of last week's game, they took him off the field on a basketball though he was dead. Then he comes back after missing a series of downs. I expect him to play."
Jim Ryun is running the roads again
By KEVIN BERTELS Sports Writer
Sports Writer
So it happened that Jim Ryun, world recordsetter in the mile and half-mile while a KU student during the late 1960s, has worked out with the KU track team this week.
The thought of taking a trip from Texas to Nebraska without stopping over in Kansas to see old friends just doesn't appeal to Jim Ryun. And the thought of Jim Ryun stopping in Kansas without working out with the KU track team just doesn't appear to KU track coach B仔 Tommons.
THE WORKOUTS have been tough for Ryun, who just recently began running again. He has been competing in road races and was on his way to win the race after competing last week in Midland, Texas.
"I haven't done real well," Ryun said yesterday. "I have won a few races, but nothing of significance. I've been doing a lot of training lately, and making some progress."
Ryun retired in 1976 at the age of 28 after
"I knew it was time to stop running, that He had something else for me to do." Ryan said. "I could see that there was a direction, somewhere for me to go."
establishing himself as one of the world's most successful teams had not competed since until the recent road race.
"I really don't know what the Lord has in mind for me, I feel that if the Lord wants me to run again, I will. You can get the same answer that I can. Just ask the Lord."
He has devoted most of his time to running clinics, his wife, their four children and spreading the good news of Christianity as a born-again Christian.
"OVERALL, I KEEP occupied doing running clinics and talking about Christianity," he said. "My overall purpose is to talk with those who are Christians and find ways to improve them and to try to make those who are not Christians consider where they are."
Since the pro track league folded, several of the athletes have asked to have their amateur status restored. Rynn would like to see the time when amateur status is no longer important. He would favor an open Olympics, featuring the best athletes in the world and not. That would solve the problem of judging what did and what did not constitute a professional athlete.
"I WOULD LIKE to see the Olympics open."
Ryuun said. "It should be open competition
SINCE RYUN's retirement from amateur competition, the world of amateur track has seen some sad times. First was the emergence of professional track with the International Track Association. Ryan was a charter member. The idea was good, Ryan said, but the finances weren't there.
Ryan, who lives in Santa Barbara, Calif., has the ability to compete successfully in many aspects of life, including eating gickets in mind.
"Pro track had a lot to offer and started out with the right idea, but as time went on and the money got tight, they started looking for new things," he said. "In the last part, they were doing things that made it a side show, like a skateboard competition."
because that's the only way to judge every person fairly. We are getting close to that now."
The Olympics are special to Ryun, who won the hearts of Americans with his struggles to win a gold medal, a goal he never achieved. In his final attempt at the 1972 Munich Games, he fell early in the race and was hopelessly behind, but the race. Afterwards, he said, he was crushed.
"I was so involved in getting the gold that nothing else would do," he said. "If I had found somewhere to jump from in Munich, I would have found I had a found gun, I would have shot myself."
"The media thought that, at the age of 28, my life was over," he said. "As we were leaving, coach Timmons said that it was hard for them to get the perspective on that.
HIDEN "TIND" FIND a gun, but he did continue running until 1976, when, in a conference press at Allen Field House, he announced his retirement. He said that he was going to serve for the Lord. He also started playing for plum.
"At 28, you still have most of your life to live."
Jim Ryun
Muhammad Ali
Boxers throw final out-of-ring punches
LAS VEGAS, Nev.—The psychological dual that lasted right through yesterday's official weigh-in has ended and Muhammad All finally must show the world whether he is truly "the miracle man of the ages." "Tongue he fighters in battle against unrestrained氯象 Jerry Holmes.
By United Press International
All, who will be 39 in January, is trying to become the oldest fighter ever to win the heavyweight title and the first four-time champion. He is also fighting for the first time in an Olympic qualifying bout a 18-second victory over Leon Spinks in New Orleans to again the title for the third time.
BUT ALL, who calls himself 'the miracle man of the ages', still feels he is the best heavyweight of all. He's a man who thinks.
Holmes time and again in the weeks leading up to tonight's fight.
He laughs at suggestions that Holmes, who is eight years younger and has won all seven of his trophies, is playing it like a joke.
"I show you one miracle already," Ali said. "I suckered Don King and Larry Holmes into taking this fight. They would never have agreed to fight me if I looked the way I look now.
"I was 244 pounds and they figured they had an easy flight in taking on a fat old man. But I've
"I look at how trim and pretty I am. I am the same as I was 15 years ago. I've turned back the clock and I'm going to knock out Larry Holmes. We'll be there in one round. Bernie so early—wafflefully."
HOLMES, WHO WAS a 13-10 favorite 24 hours before fight time, apparently has remained calm during All's verbal barrage. He hasn't gone through the histrionics normally associated with
All's fights and even weighed in early to avoid the usual show put on during such ceremonies.
"He's an old man, a has-been," said Holmes, who weighted in at 211 lbs yesterday and will spot all six pounds. "I'm going to knock him out and preserve as the greatest heavyweight in the world.
"He hasn't fought in two years but he goes around telling people how great he is. I'm going to knock All out. The fight won't go eight rounds. He's in trouble. I'm going to knock the sucker out.
"I'm going to end the saga of Muhammad All once and for all. I'm going to end it by eight rounds and it could be over as early as the third round if he stands and fights. If he meets me in the middle of the ring and fights like a man, I'll have him out of there in the third round."
ALI, WILL GET $8 million—nearly twice as much as Holmes—has his own prediction.
"I'm not going to say what round," Ali said. "But I will tell you this. His behind will be mine by nine. I'm too fast and too good for Larry Holmes. He's never found anyone as fast or as good as me. I'm so quick now I can dance all night like I did when I beat Leon Sninks.
"The old man will dance and dance. I will turn back the clock. The world will see the Muhammad All of 15 years ago and Larry Holmes is no match for me."
All is expected to open quickly, then settle down and you will be able to see the possibility of probably try to put them away in the later periods.
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Holmes will try to pressure Ali and make him work, knowing he has not fought in two years and not has really been a gruelling fight since the Earnie Shavers bout in 1977. He has worked on countering Ali's "rope-a-dope"—the tactic he used to frustrate George Foreman in Zaire—by firing hooks to the body and following with uppercuts.