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Monday, October 14, 1974
University Daily Kansan
SPORTS
'Champions of Kansas' look to Nebraska
Sports Editor
Bv MARK ZELIGMAN
An exhausted Don Fambrrough stood in the University of Kansas locker room after his team had held on to defeat Kansas State. "They were calling for the vice player was boarse as he spoke to his players."
"There's only one thing I've got to say," he said. "We're champions of Kansas and we're gonna be champions of the Big Fight."
The Jayhawks got off to a good start for reaching that goal on Saturday, but they
still have six tough conference teams yet to play. Next week one of the toughest—Nebraska--visits Lawrence to play the Javahaws.
Fambrough said K-State was the best team KU had played this year. However, he might change his mind next week after the Jaywhacks take on Nebraska. The Cornhuskers were upset by Missouri on Nov. 10, which can't help the Jaywhacks.
"No doubt they'll be madder than hell all week," Fambridge said.
The 'Hawks have reached emotional highs for two weeks in a row against Texas A&M and K-State, but they'll have to do it again if they hope to beat Nebraska.
Totally exhausted
By Kansan Photographer DAVE PETERSON
Senior co-captain and linebacker Steve Towle was so physically and emotionally drained at the end of Saturday's KU-KState game that he had to be helped to his feet by a fan, KU Assistant Coach Dick Foster and K-State quarterback Steve Grogan.
Teammate Dean Baird (51) and former KU star Gale Sayers
looked on in the background. The Hawks beat the Tigers
for a 3-0 victory, playing all five games.
'56 draw' ends Smith's nightmare
By JIM SHELDON
Associate Sports Editor
A play called the "56 draw" turned sophomore tailback Laverne Smith's potential nightmare into a dream when he dashed 51 yards for a touchdown that gave Kansas of Kansas a 20-13 victory over Kansas State University Saturday in Manhattan.
Until then nothing had gone right for Smith. He humbled on the second play of the game, and he did not advantage the turnover to their first touchdown. Midway in the fourth quarter, with K-State leading 13-12, Smith dropped a touchdown pass and KU appeared dead.
But then with just more than four minutes remaining in the game and KU on its own 49-yard line, Smith broke the big play. Not only did his 51-yard run put KU in the lead, but it also put Smith over the 100-yard mark for the fifth straight time this season.
"It was out of our straight Vee offense on a play we call the 56 draw," Smith said after the game about his big run. "I went right up the middle. Usually we go to the outside of the play, but I saw the daylight up the middle and got hit about 13, but I just kept running."
The 56 draw has been in the KU playbooks all year, but, according to quarterback Scott McMichale, Saturday was the first that the Jaybawks had run the play this week.
"We thought it be a good play, but we were just running it—we didn't know we'd McMichael said. 'Sometimes you can catch it,' he said. 'And that's what happened. Probably either their
defensive end or tackle was slanting in and Laverne just had to read it."
Juniors Tom Koopes and Bill Lundberg continue to be the pace-setters for the KU cross-country team as they turned in first and second place performances Saturday to lead the Jayhawks to victory over Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Ill.
The play was called on the bench by KU's offensive coordinator Bobby Baldwin, and it was brought into McMichael by tight end Jim Michaels, who also threw a key block on the run. However, according to Baldwin, the play wasn't necessarily designed to be a warm-up.
Jayhawks take 1 and 2 in meet
Koppes, who has been KU's leading runner in every meet but one this season, toured the rolling five-mile course in 24 minutes, 59.8 seconds to take individual honors. Lundberg was close behind him with a time of 25:03.
"We set the formation wide to have a little better blocking angle for our line," Badwin said. "But it's basically a percentage play. We thought we had the blockin for it."
"Over the years, the draw has been one of
The next KU runner to finish was Tim Tobin, who was fifth with it at 25:20. After a sixth place finish by a Southern Illinois runner, KU swept the next four places with Joe Womack, Joel Cambron, George Mason and Barrie Williams.
"You can be up so tight that you're trying to prevent losing a game rather than going out and winning it. That's the way it was in the second half. But, that's 'football.'
"Certainly we didn't play as well as we are capable of playing, that was what we were." He smiled with his emotional weight.
KU entered the game as the heavy favorite because of its record so far this year. But as is always the case, the game was a bit off from what it would be decided until near the end of the game.
our best play and one of the safest, McMichael did a good job handling the ball, the line blocked well and Laverne did a fine job once he got by the line of scrimmage."
After his earlier fumble and dropping the touchdown pass in the fourth quarter, Smith he said he wanted a chance to redeem himself, and he got it on the 56 draw.
"Everybody was up high," Fambrough said. "The coaches, the players, the fans—but that's the way it was last year, the last two years and the last 50 years."
Baldwin also said the Wildcat's defensive formation was partly responsible for the formation.
"A lot of reporters get tired of me and Vivien Gibson, K-State coach) talking of this--that records don't mean anything. But how else can you explain it?"
After taking a 4-10 lead in the first half, the KU Soccer Club had to hold on to defeat Kansas State University 4-3 Saturday in Manhattan.
"They were playing to the tight end side, and their tackle was playing more to the inside than most do, so we just ran between him and the defensive end." he said.
KU scored in the first half on goals by Juan Damasio, German Gomez and by Rafael Santos. Throughout the first half, he played May and the Wildcats solemnly threatened.
"We'd been working on the play," Baldwin said. "It was a chance to isolate Laverne on a linebacker and utilize his speed."
In the second half, however, K-State came back with three goals, two of them by Ron Cook, and threatened several times to tie the game. But the Wildcats couldn't penetrate a tough KU defense led by goylie Phillipe Santos and back半贝里 Mullin.
"He (K-State defender Ron Solt, who was called for interference) pushed me out of bounds and I didn't think the ball was going to be there, but it was and I just dropped it. It could have broken open the game," Smith said.
KU holds on, wins in soccer
The play developed perfectly, but Smith just couldn't find the handle.
But Smith got his chance to break open the game a few minutes later, and KU stopped a last ditch K-State drive on the KU two-yard line to win the game.
The KU Rugby Club won its fifth of six games this season by shutting out the Kansas City Bulls 22-0 yesterday in Lawrence.
Craig Oliphant and Rick Whitson scored in the first half to give KU a 40 halftime lead. In the second half, George Dalke, Roger Walters and C. C. Buck scored, and Bill McGillworm kicked a conversion to wrap up the scoring.
Ruggers win 5th
The B team won its sixth straight game this season as it defeated the Bulls' B team, 10-9.
Next weekend KU will be one of 40 teams that will enter the Hart of America Tournament.
The emotional impact of the game was evident in the post-game locker room. There was little celebrating; most of the players slumped on their stools in front of their lockers, just happy the Jayhawks had won.
"I'm just drained and exhausted," linea says. "I'm never sure what the game is never easy, it's always know by the end."
Guard Gordon Stockmeyer shook his head,
and stared off into space, for words.
"We knew we had to do it," he said. "We just knew we had to."
The 'Hawks did it by pulling off two ke
plays, one offensive and one defensive.
Laverne Smith's 51-yard touchdown run and a two-point conversion gave the Jayhawks a 20-13 lead with little more than four minutes left on the clock.
K-State came right back, however. Mixing in short runs with passes against KU's prevent defense, the Wildcats slowly marched downfield while the clock was
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| | Kansas | Kansas State |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| First downs | 17 | 19 |
| Yards rushing | 45-242 | 55-141 |
| Passing yardage | 90 | 148 |
| Turnover yardage | 31 | 13 |
| Passes | 6-12.2 | 10-25.2 |
| Punts | 6-24 | 7-33 |
| Fumbles-lost | 5-2 | 1-0 |
| Penalties-yards | 6-36 | 6-76 |
Kansas   6    6    6    8    -20
Kansas State  6    6    10    14
Forwards 15, pass 15, from McMahon
KU-Edwards 15 pass from McMichael (kvk failed).
KU-McMichael 5 run (pass failed)
KST-Stainer 1 run (Cheves kick)
KState-Winchell 39 pass from Grogan (kick failed)
KU-Smith 51 run (Edwards pass from MeMichael)
KU-L. Smith 17-139, Miller 15-57, McMullen 10-28, Schoolfield 1-15, Prince 23-8, Kostae-Specht 6-56, Steiner 18-48, Krane 27-46, Whiffield 2-1, Tutte 2-18
Passing
KU-Michael 6-12-90, 2 interceptions.
Grogan 10-25-48, 2 interceptions.
UK—Hosack 2-23, Adams 2-20, L. Smith 1-28,
Edwards 1-15.
K-State-Tuttle 4-54, Stiner 3-28, Winchell 2-55. D. Mackham 1-11.
Punting
K-State—Spare 6-36, Grogan 1-18.
running out. The scoreboard clock malfunctioned, leaving the crowd and many of the players guessing as to the amount of time left.
With only a few seconds remaining and the ball on the KU seven, K-State quarterback Grogan rolled to his left to pass, tucked the ball under his arm and ran with it. He watched as to see a wave of Jayhawks tackle him on the two-yard line as the clock ran out.
"we looked bad on that drive," Weidman
"but on the last play we looked awfully
good."
in the confusion that followed, nobody seemed to know who had made the last tackle. Probably nobody will know for sure until the films are shown. The consensus at Levi's is defensive backs Eddie Lewi, Nolan Cronfield and Kurt Knuff the main packers.
"I know I wasn't in on it, but somebody
"I knew you were," nosegger Mike Lemon said.
Although the defense came up with the big play when it had to, it broke down during kicks.
"It was just one of those days," Knoff said. "We did not play very well, the secondary didn't play well. I know, myself, I didn't play well."
Offensively, the Jayhawks were stymied by the Wildcats much of the day. Par-ently ineffective was the KU ground game through the middle, until Smith broke his run.
"You've just got to give the other team some credit," Fambrough said. "Their defensive scheme for us worked. They gambled a lot—stunting and blizzing—which paid off at times. A couple of plays before for us when they gambled and blizzed.
Defensive tackle Fedro Dillon summed up the game best.
"We could have played better," Dillon said, "but we play against better team than we do."
"You've got to consider this—we played a team in the Big Eight. There is no league in the nation like the Big Eight. This isn't the only conference in the Southeast that west Conference—this is the Big Eight."
Big 8 standings
| | W | L | T | W | L | T | Pts | Opp. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Kansas | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Missouri | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 100 |
| Oklahoma | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 100 |
| Oklahoma State | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 118 | 69 |
| Oklahoma State | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 118 | 69 |
| Kansas State | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 118 | 69 |
| Kansas State | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 118 | 69 | 100 |
Tigers whip fifth-ranked Cornhuskers
From Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—The Missouri Tigers, breaking loose with a 21-point fourth quarter, whipped fifth-ranked Nebraska 21-10 Saturday in Bie Eight action.
Missouri trailed 10-0 with 11 minutes, 22 seconds left, and Steve Piskariewicz had scored two goals in the third quarter on Saturday's game. Piskariewicz scored on a two-yard run, passed nine yards to Mark Miller for another touchdown, and Tony Galheath scored three.
The Huskers had taken a 10-0 lead in the
fourth period on a 10-yard pass thrown by sophomore Terry Luck, Humm's replacement, to Don Westbrook. Missouri and Nebraska are both 3-2
Colorado also got off to a winning start in the Big Eight Conference football race. The Buffs, paced by the dazzling running of Billy Waddy, routed Iowa State 34-7.
Waddy, who gained 145 yards on 22 carries, put Colorado, 3-2, ahead on a five-yard touchdown. He eventually made touchdowns on a 31-yard punt return by Dave Logan and a 65-yard
scamper by quarterback Clyde Crutchmer.
Second-ranked Oklahoma concluded its nonconferection action by nudging No. 17 Texas 16-30 on 13月 DriRenzo 37-yard field goal in the second quarter. Oklahoma State didn't play.
A fourth-down gamble by Texas backfired, giving the Sooners, 40, their late field goal opportunity. Texas Coach Darrell Royal ordered the Longhorns to try for a first down on a four-and-one situation at midfield. Earl Campbell smashed into the line and fumbled, and the Sooners got the ball. DiRienzo did the rest.
By Kansan Photographer DAVE PETERSON
Looking for daylight
Running back Laverne Smith is off and on his way on his 51-yard game=winning touchdown run against Kansas State. Carl McGee was 34 yards from the end zone.
in on the tackle. Smith's touchdown run came only minutes after he dropped a pass that would have led to an easy touchdown.
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