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Thursday, October 24, 1974
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SPORTS
Future of JV football in doubt, coaches say
Big Eight junior varsity football games appear to be on the wav out.
Last month Oklahoma and Oklahoma State cancelled their JV schedules. The state canceled its junior varsity game at Wisconsin. Missouri said it had too few players to play the JV games on either Fridays or Mondays and still have even a few games on Saturday.
Missouri cancelled its second JV game with the University of Kansas, which was to have been played Oct. 25 in Lawrence. KU has only one game left, against Haskell Indian Junior College at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 31 in Haskell Stadium.
KU, K-State and Nebraska are the only schools in the conference that still have JV schedules. Colorado and Iowa State cancelled their earlier.
Nebraska coach Tom Osborne recently said, "I really feel that the cancellation of these games is a step in the wrong direction."
K-State coach Vince Gibson said, "If you do away with the JV program, you are going to lose the motivation for a lot of your players and their morale when they don't get to play."
KU head football coach Don Fambrough agreed. He said he believed strongly in the JV program and would keep it if at all possible, even if KU had to play K-State five years.
"Actually, I wish that we still had the old freshman program," Fambridge said.
"There are so many players that this program would benefit in terms of getting some game experience without a lot of reressure. But the JV program is adequate."
KU CVJ coach Dick Foster favors some kind of program for nonvaristy players, but doesn't care whether it is a junior varsity program or a freshman program.
Both Fambrough and Foster favor abolishing the 30 freshman-a-year limitation in year limit. That would mean a school could have any number of freshmen on athletic scholarships to fill out the overall limitation. Beginning in 1977, the total number of players that a school may have on scholarship is 105, according to
Both KU coaches anticipate a vote on the issue at the next meeting of the conference coaches and athletic directors, which will be in December. Foster and Fambrigh agree that JV football might be dropped in the Bier Eight Conference.
Foster said the other schools in the conference had dropped their JV schedules according to their individual interests. Some don't want to spend the time, some don't want to play, and simply don't want to be embarrassed by losing JV games. Foster said.
Since they already have promised many players that they can suit up for varsity games, they would be without many good players that they would need to win, Foster said.
Cyclone coach says team healthy
From the Associated Press
AMES, Iowa—Iowa State coach Earle Bruce said the Cyclones should be in full strength Saturday when they face Big Eight rival Kansas at Lawrence.
"Mike Stracan ran well today and start at tailback." Bruce said. "We'll win here, but we have to Jim Wiegender and Mike Williams for the two starting run back positions."
He said defensive rover Sy Bassett, injured in last week's game, was improving his marking.
Basketball trvouts
Bruce said offensive drills yesterday consisted of on working two dimensions of power.
Tryouts for the University of Kansas women's basketball team will be tomorrow and Oct. 28-31 at 4:30 p.m. in Allen Field House.
Iowa State, picked for near the bottom of the league in pre-season forcasts, is 3-3 for the season and 1-1 in the Big Eight. The team will win 28-18 last week over Kansas State.
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Foster said that dropping the JV football program wouldn't affect his job much.
This problem could be solved if the teams played on Fridays, but the coaches moved the games from Fridays to avoid using the same roster. The coaches having a reserve at certain positions in case
of injury in the varsity game on Saturday. A player may only play in one game from Tuesday of one week to Tuesday of the following week.
But Fambrough said KU didn't have a shortage of men, nor did any other con-
"Two years ago Coach Fambrough made me the head recruiter and that is where I concentrate most of my efforts now," he said. "Dropping the VJ team would mean we lose our coach, and we lose our coach these games. In all other aspects, my job would be the same as it is now."
Foster sees the dropping of the games as hurting the quality of the conference in the league.
KU is having problems similar to the ones the other conference schools are having. At KU there aren't enough players for practice on days when the JV have a game.
"If the JV teams are dropped, the conference will lose its edge on the other conferences, because it helps to get back in the game, or some potential some game experience," he said.
"We only spend about $3,000 on the total JV program for traveling expenses and all other expenses directly related to the JV team."
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Fambrough said the University of Kansas football team had a good practice yesterday.
The Jayhawks are coming off a disastrous 56-10 loss to Nebraska to face the Iowa State Cyclones, who defeated K-State last week 23-18.
defensive end if Barnes is unable to.
"we sacrifice a little power with Miller out of the lineup, but both Campfield and Smith are good, strong inside runners," Farnbrough said.
"Campfire has picked up the fullback position well," he said. "There is not that much difference between halfback, the position he has been playing, and fullback."
2 injured starters questionable for homecoming game with ISU
Miller suffered strained ligaments in his knee during the Nebraska game. Barnes is still slowed by a knee injury he suffered in the game with Kansas State University.
Head coach Don Fambrough listed two players, fulback Robert Miller and defensive end Les Barnes, as questionable for Saturday's game against Iowa State.
Freshman BILL Campfield has moved into the fullback position to join Laverne Smith.
"iowa State has a good football team," Fambrigh said. "They run out of the power-I offense, and I anticipate that they will be able to take down opponents against K-Site. They will probably pass more too, after looking at the films of our players." "We can see how good in our pass defense against them."
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"Their defense is, however, the place that they have made the most improvement. Iowa State has a very aggressive second, and it will be difficult to pass against them."
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