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Wednesday, October 1, 1975
University Daily Kansan
'Nolan wasn't a boisterous kid'
Back in Ransom, Kan., this Saturday afternoon, most activity will grind to a halt. Mowers will be turned off and approns will be out wav for a few hours.
Then the radios will be turned on in this town of 416 persons (1970 census) and they be tuned to the football game in Wisconsin, Wis., between Wisconsin and Kansas.
The town's citizens will be closely
Inside Sports
by Yael Abouhalkah
Sports Editor
Staff Photo by DAVID CRENSHAW
following the exploits of their hero,
Jayhawk quarterback Nolan Cromwell.
IT'S LIKELY THAT Ralph Kenworthy
will be by the radio. He's principal at
Ransom High, where Nolan attended high school.
Mr. and Mrs, W. E. Cromwell probably will be stationed by a radio, listening to an announcer refer to their son as "a product of tiny Ransom, Kansas."
And Cromwell's two brothers and five
men more than like will be stationed
within them.
Quarterback Nolan Cromwell evades would-be tackler
Such is the attention the Ransom junior weeks at guardback for the jawhaws.
National attention has been focused on Nolan this week because of his heralded rushing total of 294 yards in last week's 20-0 win over Oregon State. Nolan has been tabbed as "Back of the Week" by the AP, UPI and Sports Illustrated.
Maybe that's true. And it's typical Nolan
talks about it. At least what's that
Kenneth
SO WHAT'S NEW with the 62, 190-pound? Not much. He's still as assuancing as always, trying to share credit for the great day with his offensive teammates. He talks about how Oregon lost to the Laughlin, Laverne Smith, allowing him to run wild.
"He was the type of individual who was very unselfish," Kenworthy recalled in a phone conversation yesterday from Ransom.
Kenworth still is principal at Ranson High, just as he was four years ago when
Nolan moved from Logan and started attending Ransom High. He spoke highly on
"STUDENTS LOOKED TO him for leadership," he said. "He was an outstanding athlete but he was never too talk to any other kid. It didn't matter if that kid was coming in last (in a race). And then out there on the curve, cheering him in."
"He was pretty quiet usually. Nolan wasn't a boisterous kid."
In fact, Kenworthy said, Nolan was no quiet his junior year that he didn't participate much in school dances. But by his seventh grade, she said, any girl that Nolan wouldn't dance with,"
Mrs. Cromwell, in another phone conversation yesterday, focused on some of the more important people and events in the life of her 20-year-old son.
"HE JUST LOVES sports," she said.
"He played baseball when he was a kid and just started picking up the other sports."
Those "other sports" turned out to be football, basketball and track. AndACK. They also played them. So much so that he was named an all-state performer in both football and basketball his senior year. In track, he set an AAU decathlon record in the Junior High division.
Mrs. Cromwell tried to pin down what had sourced Nolan's interest in sports.
"He had two brothers ahead of him," she said. "They really liked sports. I couldn't say if Nolan is the best of them. Maybe he could, maybe he's just been able to develop it.
"IT JT SEEEMED like everything he did, he did the best he could. I never heard him complain much about coaches or his teammates."
When sports is mentioned around the Cornwell household, the whole family gets in.
The two previously mentioned older brothers—Wayne and Jim—and Nolan's five sisters-Sharon Marsh, Mary Ann Helms, Koren Triplet, Darlene and Vae Jean—all take an active interest in each of their sports careers, Mrs. Cromwell said.
"Are we sports nuts?" she asked,
repeating the question. "It seems like it," she replied with a laugh. "The kids have always been interested in track and field." She was enthusiastic about sports a long time."
OF COURSE, THE BEST known Cromwell to date is Nolan. And the recognition he's brought to the town during his high school and college career is easily measurable.
"Everybody here is really enthusked about Nolan," Mrs. Cromwell pointed out. "It was like that when he was in high school and I didn't think I shouted to their radios on game days."
Those famous recruiting wins hit home for the Cromwells, Mrs. Cromwell said.
"I GUESS THE WAY he played football and the way he won in troc--that's when people started noticing him," she said. When he got the all-state honors and some All-America mentions, the bidding war was on from the colleges.
"We never knew it could be such an experience," she said. "It really kept us hopping. We were happy when he decided on KU."
There weren't any parental or sibling pressures for that choice, she said.
"No, he just made his mind up that that was where he was going" she said.
Even though she now comes to huge Memorial Stadium to watch her son play—instead of the slightly smaller stands in the locker room, she is in her viewing of a football game, she said.
"I'TS TRUE THAT I can't sit still during a game," she admitted. "I never could, even back when he was in high school. I just have to stand up."
All of the family's interest in Nolan is, of course, natural. But there's one question even Mrs. Cromwell begged off answering:
What is Nolan's favorite sport?
"That," she asserted, "is a good question. I have wondered that too, sometimes. I can only tell you what he's told me before.
"He says that when football is in season, he loves basketball. When that's over, he starts basketball. When that's over, he starts running.
"I guess he just loves them all."
Wisconsin licks wounds; prepares for KU's attack
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Wisconsin football coach John Jardine, describing the Badgers' game with Missouri last Saturday as the hardest hitting contest he has ever seen, shortened yesterday's practice by 15 minutes.
Wisconsin will be host to the University of Kansas at 1:30 p.m. here Saturday.
He ordered extra running to enable his players to stretch out sore muscles, but there was no contact work. No one was involved in Saturday's 72-21 loss to Missouri, however.
Jardine said he was pleasantly surprised to see Bob Czechewski, who suffered a hip pointer, running. He said the defensive tackle might play against KU.
Sophonore Dick Mileager punched so well in drills that the one ordered him from the firm was on the way.
"I couldn't find a guy who punted lousey so we could so get a return, so I punted myself," Jardine said. "Millerage can hang out here with his team, which is as good as I ever seen."
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Ali whips Frazier
By ED SCHUYLER JR.
Associated Press Sports Writer
It was a war and Ali fired the most accurate and telling shots as he pounded and pounded right and left to Friker's head in response. "He was so powerful," the challenger's eyes and had him reeling.
After Frazier groped to his corner after the 14th, trainer Eddie Fink sensuled to rereference Eddie Padilla Jr. that Frazier couldn't continue. The fight was stopped.
MANILA-Muhammad Ali stopped challenger Joe Frazier's strength-sapping body attack, pounding Frazier's head lopsided with powerful blows that stopped the challenger after the 14th round here and his world heavyweight championship.
At the end, Frazier's face was a mask of lumps. His eyes looked like glass and they were nearly swollen shut. The 31-year-old man simply was finished.
But for a time it looked as if Frazer might be the third man in history to regain the role he was playing.
Ali desperately tried to find a solution to
From the fifth to the 10th rounds, Frazier had the best of it, jolting Alion with lefts and rights to the body and occasional bombs to the head.
In the 14th round, it was all Ali.
The champion fired a one-two to Frazier's head and another hard right to the head, then came back with a series of five straight head punches. After a brief pause, All buckled Frazier's knees with a left-right to the head.
It seemed as if Franzi was about to go down. The bell ending the 14th, saved him from further punishment and at the same time, the former champion into retirement.
the relentless pursuit of the man he lost to it, who was involved in three fights. But Frazier kept charging.
In the 13th round, Frazier opened with a body attack, but by then his punches were lacking their earlier steam. All seemed to sense it.
Then, with his title seemingly slipping away, Al, who has risen so many times in his spectacular and controversial career, went for Frazier's head. It worked.
At the opening of the 12th round, the 33-year-old champion drilled six shots to Frazier's head. Then, after Frazier drove him into the ropes, Ali ripped eight more clean shots to Frazier's head and Frazier was on the way to his last hurrah.
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