Sports
University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, October 13, 1987
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Kansas forward Chris Piper and Kansas center Danny Manning introduce other team members at the Lawrence Cosmopolitan Club charity dinner for the American Diabetes Foundation in the Kansas Union Ballroom. Larry Brown was the guest speaker, and invited Piper and Manning to introduce the other players.
Young declared ineligible
By a Kansan reporter
Kansas basketball coach Larry Brown announced yesterday that Joe Young, a 6-foot-7 transfer from Dodge City Community College, will be ineligible to play this season.
Some of Young's classes didn't transfer from junior college to the University, leaving him short of the required 48 hours to compete. Young, a forward, will stay in school and will have two years of eligibility if he is
eligible next year, Brown said.
"That's a helluva time to find out," he told a crowd of 200 as he filled for in Indiana basketball coach Bob Knight at the Lawrence Cosmopolitan Club's "A Knight in Lawrence." "Because he's ineligible, he can't practice, and that's a high price to pay."
After the event, Brown said he and Young were trying to keep a positive attitude about the situation.
"I told Joe it's best to look at it as a 'positive thing,' he said. "It's going to give him time to graduate and give him the experience with two years of eligibility left."
Young, a native of Chicago, Ill., averaged 16 points and nine rebounds last year for Dodge City Community College.
Staff writer
Each August, Kansas recruiting coordinator Jim Cochran faces the task of compiling and sending out more than 2,000 questionnaires to prospective football players.
Twins win AL pennant
By CRAIG ANDERSON
Cochran and the other Kansas coaches try to bring in as many
The Associated Press
DETROIT — The Minnesota Twins beat the odds yesterday — partly because of the odds. And they are in their first World Series in 22 years.
“There were a lot of things against us on paper,” said Twins third baseman Gary Gaetti, MVP of the American League playoffs. “A lot of their pitches were on winning streaks. We had them all on the front. There was a lot stacked against us.
"I didn't think I would enjoy the job at first, but it's really worked out well for me," said Cochran, who was the head coach at Independence, Kan. Community College from 1983 to 1985. "It's great to be able to help build the program towards what it has the potential to be."
the players will never play for Kansas. Cochran finds his reward.
the best-of-seven playoffs in five games.
The names of the high school and junior college players come from a variety of sources — coaches, fathers, alumni and friends of the football program. Although most of
"But I must say, now that it's all over, it helped drive us."
out in the ninth, when the Twins scored their final three runs, giving him six extra-base hits in the series, including a pair of homers.
The Minnesota Twins got contributions from pitcher Bert Blyleen, Dan Gladden and Tom Brunansky and were inspired by the all-around play of Gaetti yesterday when they beat the Detroit Tigers 9-5 and won
With the worst record of any World Series team since the 1973 New York Mets and the worst road record of any pennant winner, the Twins took two of three in Detroit on their way to winning the series.
"This club came in here with more get-up and go than any club I’ve ever seen in the playoffs," said Tigers coach Josh Moyer. "and that comes from Tom Kelly."
Kelly, the Twins rookie manager,
called Gaetti "the catalyst on our
ball club. When he's swinging the
bat, things happen."
Brunansky drove in two runs with a double in Minnesota's four-run second inning, then homered with one
Gladden had three hits and two doubles, drove in two runs and scored three as Minnesota's leadoff hitter.
The Twins will open the World Series at home Saturday against either San Francisco or St. Louis. Game one will be the first Series game played in a domed stadium.
"They told us we can't win on the road. They told us that all year long," the Twins' Al Newman said. "But when big games came, we won on the road."
The Twins beat not only the Tigers, but also the odds to win the pennant.
By DARRIN STINEMAN
Indiana coach's absence creates opportunity for a night in Larryville
Staff writer
Kansas basketball coach Larry Brown seldom had to be a substitute in his illustrious career as a basketball player, but last night he seemed comfortable in a fill-in role for his coaching colleague. Indiana basketball coach Bob Knight.
Knight was originally billed as the speaker of the Lawrence Cosmopolitan Club's "A Knight in Lawrence" charity dinner for the American Diabetes Foundation at the Kansas Union Ballroom. A last-minute mix-up with the marketing group hired to bring Knight to Kansas cancelled his appearance.
Fortunately for the Cosmopolitan Club, Brown agreed on three days' notice to replace Knight as the speaker. It went from "A Knight in Lawrence" to "A Night in Larryville".
Bob Davis, the radio voice of the Jayhawks and the master of ceremonies for the evening, was applauded by the receptive crowd of 200 when he introduced the former North Carolina All-America point guard.
"Just between you and me," Davis asked the crowd, "who would you rather have, the guy who won last year's national championship, or the guy who's going to win the one this year?"
Brown opened his address with the first of many one-liners he delivered at the $30-a-plate charity dinner.
"I'm glad to be here, because since I'm speaking I don't have to pay." Brown said.
The Kansas freshman football
Brown spent most of the evening talking about the players of this year's team, and he had two of the four seniors, Danny Manning and Chris Piper, come to the podium and introduce each player that attended.
The Kansas coaches were discouraged by the lack of interest shown by several top recruits during the
recruiting period that ended last Wednesday, and Brown expressed his frustration.
"The kids don't understand the great tradition out here," he said. "The sad thing is that we haven't turned up a Division I prospect in this state in years — someone that other colleges from all over the country come in to recruit.
"Anybody that's been in Allen Field House and has seen the fans we have and the way the fans act, would really be interested in the program. It's the best basketball program, and it bothers me to go into a home and not get that respect back."
"I apologize for Bob," he said in closing. "I know he really wanted to be here. He's one of the great coaches, and I would have liked to hear him speak."
Brown said he didn't blame Knight for not being able to keep the engagement.
recruits from the original list as they can on both official and unofficial visits. Official visits are paid for by the Kansas Athletic Department. In unofficial visits, the recruits have to pay all their expenses.
Broncos crush Raiders, 30-14
Jayhawk football recruiter faces a unique challenge
The Associated Press
Colleges are limited to having 85 official visits by recruiters in a year. Recruiters can ask for additional visits last year. Last year, Kansai used all of its official visits.
DENVER — Small-college star Joe Dudek ran for two first-quarter touchdowns last night and led the Denver Broncos to a 30-14 victory over the Los Angeles Raiders. The nationally televised NFL strike game was held before 61,230 people, the largest crowd at a replacement game by more than 20,000.
The Broncos — in their first replacement game last week, a 40-10
loss to Houston — rebounded with a spirited, if occasionally ragged, performance as Denver led the NFL in attendance for the second straight week.
Last week Denver drew 38,404 and Dallas' crowd of 40,622 Sunday was the largest Week 2 crownd until this game.
The victory kept Denver in contention with the AFC West at 2-1-1, while the Raiders suffered their first loss,
falling to 3-1.
Dudek, finally realizing his dream of playing in the NFL after spending Denver's Super Bowl season last year on injured reserve and being cut on Sept. 7 this year, slashed his way to 128 yards on the ground.
Dudek, who set small-college rushing records at tiny Plymouth State (N.H.), capped first-quarter drives with touchdown runs of seven and three yards.
recruiting class of this year may be highly regarded by its coaches, but only time will tell whether that potential produces victories on the field.
"You can't really judge the success of a recruiting class until two or three years down the road," Cochran said. "We can't just have one good year of recruiting, we need to have solid experience and successful recruiting builds on itself."
Freshman offensive tackle David
Dunne was part of the successful recruiting class Kansas signed last year Dunne made his official visit last January. He said he was impressed with the straightforward attitude of the Jayhawk coaches
"Coach Quarless (Kansas offensive line coach) sat about five of us down in a room and said we were the ones that they really wanted to sign," he said. "The recruiting trip was a new experience for me. I got to see
the facilities and some of the campus. We ate dinner at a country club, and then afterward, I went to a couple of parties with my host (defensive tackle Mark Koncz.)$^{17}$
Cochran said the official visits also included introducing prospects to professors and discussing academics with them. He said the emphasis was on showing the recruits that Kansas
See RECRUITS, p. 8, col. 1
KU women's frisbee team aims to win another national title
By ROBERT WHITMAN
Staff writer
Excellence in its sport is what Betty, the Kansas women's ultimate frisbee team, achieved in May when it won the sport's first national collegiate championship.
Striving for sportsmanship is just as big a part of ultimate frisbee as the striving for excellence.
Ultimate frisbee is a team sport that has elements of both football and soccer. Each team on the field has seven players. The object is to advance the disk on a field the length of a football field and into the opponents' end zone by throwing it to a teammate. The teammate must catch the disk in the air. Play is constant, as in soccer, and doesn't stop until a team scores.
When a team fails to catch a passed disk or if the disk is intercepted by an opponent, its opponents immediately take possession and try to advance it. A player who catches a disk has 10 seconds to pass it to another teammate, or the other team takes possession.
"We try our hardest to keep it happy. Most of us play to release the physical and emotional stress we feel when we're in school," said Yvonne Lathrop, captain of Betty. "And it gets you in shape faster than anything."
She said teams would converse on the field during games, do cheers for each other after games
Although the rules are fairly simple, the game has no referees to enforce them, even in a game for the national championship.
and celebrate at the same parties.
"You get to know them. We'll make friends that we'll see at other tournaments," team member Patty Wicker said.
Wicker, who started playing 14 months ago, is now one of the five players with the most experience.
Through the years, the women's team has been known by other names — Grass Carp, Prairie Tarts and Ultraviolets.
"There are a lot of famous Betty's. Lathrop said, "Betty Rubble, Betty and Veronica, Betty Boop, Betty Ford, Betty White, Betty Crocker. We're in agreement on this name for the first time ever. It's totally wonderful."
The University has had an ultimate women's team for five years, Lathrop said. Betty is a part of the women's team, which also has two men's teams.
Betty competes in both fail and spring. In the spring, Betty will play collegiate competition. The team is playing in open tournaments. She is made up of older players who have more experience. Lathron said
But last year, Lathrop said, the team settled on the name Betty, a slang term used on the west coast for a female.
"It's a fun-loving sport," she said, " like the fact that we don't have coaches or officials. We don't have the sportsmanship of the game."
Betty was one of three teams that played in the Ultimate Players Association sectional tournament in Kansas City, Mo., on Oct. 3-4. Although it lost both of its games, Betty qualified for the regional tournament on Oct. 24-25 in Columbus, Ohio, because three spots were available to teams in Betty's section.
Betty lost to the Swing Sisters of St. Louis 13-2 and to R.U.E.Z. of Kansas City, Mo., 13-1.
"We were not really that disappointed," Lathrop said. "I had some of our new players come up to me afterwards and say, 'Wow, I learned so much today.'"
Tanthrop said the main purpose of the fall season was to get ready for the spring season. Only five of the 15 players at the sectional tournament had been out for the team before this fall.
Experience in the game is at least as important as the skill to throw the disk and be in shape to do all the running required.
"It takes a long time to become good. We have some girls who came out last fall who are really good now," she said.
"You can sit back and watch and know when to use your energy," team member Molly Brooks said. "Otherwise, you're just running around like a chicken with your head cut off."
Brooks said she started playing with Betty in August after hearing about the team from a friend already on the team.
"You get into shape an you don't realize it because it's so fun," she said. "And I don't like exercising just for the sake of exercising."
Deb Martin, Springfield, Mo., junior, gets the toss past a block attempt by Patty Wicker, Overland Park senior, during ultimate practice at Shenk Field. Both players are members of Betty, the KU women's ultimate frisbee team, which won the sport's first national collegiate championship last May.