University Daily Kansan
Friday, September 5, 1975
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Staff Photo by GEORGE MILLENBERG
KU cross country runners shed shirts for workout in muggy weather
Cross country hopes high
By KEN STONE
Sports Writer
Although few have noticed it yet, 1975 has become the "Year of the Comeback" for University of Kansas track and cross country athletes.
The comebacks began last March, when KU's indoor track team, embarrassed by its fifth place finish the previous year, clobbered defending champion Kansas State University and won the Big Eight indoor meet.
The comebacks continued through the spring as KU's sprinters came back again and again to rewrite the school record in the mile relay, eventually taking second in the NCAA championships at Provo, Utah, with a time of 3:05.6.
SO IT'S NOT SURPRISED that Bob Timmons, KU cross country coach, thinks his team can continue the trend and come back to winning. "We have finished in the Bie Eight cross country meet.
"I've got a great personal feeling about our chances," Timmons said. "At this point, we're running better as a group than in the past." But even though we've been going only a couple of weeks."
The last time KU won a conference cross country title was in 1969. But Timmons' optimism for this year is based, in great measure, on a fairly good reason- experience.
"We're facing the situation with a lot of seniors," he said.
Although last year's team was depleted by ackle and injury, it wasn't hurt byGB. The ball is less likely to hit
AND IF THAT WAIN'T enough, there's another Jawwah on the comebreak line. Jawwah
McDonald, who placed third in the Big Eight cross country meet two years ago, missed last season because of a foot injury. He made a strong recovery by track season, though it also校外参加了 the AUU tour and used school record 28.8 in the steeplechase, at an AUU meet.
"I think he's one of the strongest prospects for a berth on the Olympic team," Timmons said. He said McDonald considers himself at KU, important in terms of preparation.
"he knows he needs to have a good foundation to have a chance," Timmons says.
IF THE LURE OF A trip to Montreal doesn't provide sufficient motivation, two athletes running on McDonald's heels should. To win the conference title, McDonalds have to beat teammates Billund and John Roscoe, both good steelchoppers.
Deeply tanned from a summer of hard training, Landberg was, according to Timmons, "our most consistent cross country runner last season."
Lundberg, a senior, finished seventh in the conference last year and eventually qualified for the NCAA championships with teammate Tom Konones.
Rocsee's first big splash on the cross country scene came in 1973, when he won the national junior college cross country championship. Southwestern Michigan Junior College.
IN 1974 HE TOOK SEVENTH in the same meet, but rebounded to qualify for the AAU's tour to Morocco for the international team cross country championships.
Roscoe recorded the best six mile time in the junior college ranks last year, 24:6.2.
Timmons called Rosceo, "a beautiful,
splish runner," and said, "on our team,
they're like me."
Timmons said he hoped two additional seniors would propel the team to a win at the Big Eight meet on Nov. 7 at Boulder, Color.
FIELD HOCKEY ALUMNI GAME—Former members of the women's field hockey team will play this year's squad at 10 a.m. Friday, Sep. 12 on the playing fields at the corner of 23rd and Iowa streets. The team's first regular season game is Sept. 16 against the Kansas City Field Hockey Club at Kansas City.
The seniors, Kopps and Tim Tobin, both suffered from injury or sickness last year, and never had chances to run their best races.
FOOTBALL, PEF RALLY—a pep rally to stimulate KU football fever is planned for 10 a.m. Saturday at the intersection of 10th and Massachusetts streets. Coach Bud Moore, several football players, the KU Pep Band, several football leaders and pom pon girls are scheduled to dribble football rebels will be awarded through a drawing at the rally.
KOPPES HAD TONSILITIS and Tobin was spiked in his first race last year. Tobin also had a nagging heel problem. Both runners are recovered.
Sports Shorts
OKLAHOMA TABBED AGAIN—The Oklahoma Sooners have been picked to repeat as Big Eight football champions by sports writers and sportscasters after the Big Eight Skywriters tour. KU was picked to finish seventh.
Timmons said he was hopeful underclassmen wouldn't become discouraged if they didn't make the team, and that they would continue to work for a spot on a future team to "carry on the achievements of what we think this team will make."
In other words, he wants to see them come back.
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After almost three weeks, KU football coach Bud Moore has finally made the decision Jayhawk fans have been waiting for.
QB spot still up for grabs
LAWRENCE, RUTHENE
Nolan Cromwell will remain at quarterback.
But last year's starting quarterback, Scott McMichael, hasn't necessarily lost his job. Moore said he was now considering having two startings quarterbacks.
Both Cromwell and McMichael have done well in moving the team during scrimmages this fall. And yesterday, in the final scrimmage before the opening game Sept. 12, Mr. Cromwell convinced, neither of them did anything to convince Moore that he couldn't do the job.
"I THOUGHT BOTH DID an excellent job," Moore said. "It was pretty much a quarterback-type scrimmage as far as people carrying the ball."
McMichael, who has passed all well all fall,
was on target again yesterday. He completed three of five passes for $3 yards and
carried the ball three times for 12 words
Cromwell was the leading ball carrier with 81 yards in only six attempts. He added 34 yards through the air with one completion in three attempts.
The Blue squad, led by Cromwell and McMichael, demolished the Whites, 38-3. The Blues consisted of the top two teams. The Whites were the remainder of the squad.
The kicking game, already one of Moore's worries, was hurt Wednesday when Mike Love left the team. Love cited personal reasons for his denaturement.
MOORE, HOWEVER, HAS BEEN pleased with the work of walk-on kicker Dennis Kerkal, of Pocatello, Idaho. Kerkal kicked five of five extra points yesterday and scored a 9-2 victory, scoring the only points for the White team when he booted a 93-ward field goal.
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Again, Moore played the starting back-field only sparingly in an effort to avoid injuries. Still, he was pleased with the play of his offense.
"I thought the offense moved the ball fairly well," Moore said. "The thing, didn't like was that we made so many mistakes in clutch situations."
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Governor's Room 7 p.m. Kansas Union
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