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Thursday, October 10, 1974
University Daily Kansan
SPORTS
injuries threaten KSU's hopes
By YAEL ABOUHALKAH Sports Reporter
"Remember last year!!" seems to have become the battle cry of Kansas State fans this week as their team teams to face the team of Kansas at KSU Stadium Saturday.
It was just a short year ago that the Wacobas put a good scare into the favored Macintosh.
The situation this season parallels last year enough to spur talk of another close game. Both KU and K-State are 3-, as they were last season, and KU is once again the favorite, maybe even more so after last week's 28-10 whipping of Texas &M.
The 'Hawks were favored in 1973 before the K-State game, mostly because of their previous week's 28-27 loss to nationally ranked Tennessee.
"I don't think there's any way of knowing how the game's going to come out," he said in a telephone interview yesterday. "For instance, you don't know how momentum is going to affect the way the teams play. Momentum is a crazy thing."
But head Wildcat coach Vince Gibson downplays talk of a repeat this year stressing instead the effect of other factors involved in the two teams' rivalry.
Gibson knows about momentum after the last Saturday, the Wildcats suffered a last Saturday.
"We had it," Gibson said, "and let it get away."
Maybe more of a worry to Gibson this week. Eleanor Meyer, McKenna Michael, Robert Miller, Laverne Smith, Emnett Edwards, Bruce Adams, Steve Towe, Mike Lemon, Dean Zook and Jake Doyle.
"We're beat up bad," he said. "We're hurting."
Three players, A. J. Smith (broken thumb), Alonzo Wade (pulling hammer) and Gordon Chambliss (strained knee), are all definitely out of Saturday's contest.
"I think we have good morale coming into the game, though," Gibson said of his players. "Playing at home is going to help us for sure."
Both offensively and defensively, K-State's goal is to "not make as many mistakes as we have been," Gibson said. "KU's got an outstanding defense. Of course, they're going to move the football for us. We've just got to stop the big plays."
Two K-State players, Steve Grogan and Gordon Chambill, said that they knew what the Wildcats would be up against Saturday and that the team should be ready to meet the challenge of facing the nation's 19th-ranked team.
A little thing like a stiff neck isn't going to keep him out of Saturday's game, said Sandra Gleason.
"I'll be ready to play," he said. "My neck and shoulders are still a little sore. I've been doing it for months."
ready and I hope to get to play a lot."
Grogan, who suffered a pinched nerve in K-State state with Wichita State, was eliminated entirely from the Pacific game, and placed on pain in the Wildcats' Mississippi State.
Grogan said the Wildcat offense Saturday was going against one of the best defenses in the league.
"We've got to have patience and move the ball against them," he said. "It's going to be tough."
Although Grogan had he supported the football adage of a balanced offense—equal parts running and passing—he said K-State would have to rely on strong point Saturday, the running game.
"I think we're basically a running team," he said, "I think for us to be effective we are going to have to run well against KU Saturday."
Because of his strained knee, Chambliss will be watching the game from the sidelines. But Chambliss, one of the K-State captains and the acknowledged Wildcat will be attempting to push down the throats of the K-State defenders Saturday.
But Chambblas wasn't forgetting Mckinne, who has made the KU defense tick the week.
"Their strong points are at their skilled positions," he said. "We've got to stop both running backs (Smith and Miller) and their pass receivers (Edwards and Adams). To stop KU, you've got to stop those four guys."
"We know they've got a great offensive team," he said. "They've got great overall team balance. It's hard to concentrate on one part of their offense. We've got to try to control the game and keep them from making the big plays."
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