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Final farewell?
Head coach Don Fambrough bids farewell to senior Tim Friess following the Jayhawks' loss to the Missouri Tigers Saturday in Columbia. A decision is expected soon on whether Fambrough will return to coach the Jayhawks next season.
Another athletic season is finished at Kansas and once again the cry for the head coach's job has been heard loud from the alumni to the students.
Will Don return as coach? Action on Fam expected
Four years ago, it was Bud Moore's job the fans wanted.
Two years ago, it was head basket-ball coach Ted Owens whose job was on the line.
He's still here.
And now it is Don Fambrouch, who led the 1981 Kansas football team to the Hall of Fame Bowel and was named both United Press International and Association of Football Coaches, who is being asked to step down as head coach of the KU football squad.
FAMBROUGH WAS expected to have one of the top teams in the Big Eight and a lot of people thought the Jayhawks would return to a bowl game. But something happened along the way.
The Jayhawks were tripped in their opponent across cross-state rival Wichita State and never really recovered from that loss. They went on to a miserable 2-7-2 season, the worst by a Fambridge-coached team in either of his two, four-year stints as the head man at Kansas.
The cries have been heard ever since the loss to WSU. Kansas was supposed to have an explosive offense and it never nanned out.
Under Fambrough, Kansas always had bad close knit teams.
Fambrough has taken a lot of heat for the present situation of th KU football team, but it is not all his fault. There are a lot of reasons for the collapse of
This one wasn't.
the program since last year's 19-11 victory over the Missouri Tigers, which propelled Kansas into its first bowl game since 1975.
IT STARTED with Chris Emerson, the player who was to add "thunder" to Kerwin Bell's "lightning." Emerson died just after KU's loss to Mississippi State in Birmingham, Ala. Then two KU players pleaded no contest to felony theft charges, but were later reinstated to the team.
GINO
STRIPPOLI
Sports Editor
Then the Kerwin Bell fiasco started.
first with the irregularities in his high school transcript that cost him the first three games of this season, and then the injuries that forced him to miss many more. In all, Bell played in just a handful of games for the Jayhawks.
The worst situation of all, though, was the "injury" situation that riddled the Hawks. Many players were injured during the early going, and the injuries seemed to get worse as the KU record did. Granted, some of the players were hurt, but a lot of them could have played.
Fambrough finally tired of this and played the players who wanted to play, a tough decision for a coach whose job was to run a bunch of 18-to-22-years-olds.
Now, a decision must be made on whether Fambridge will be kept on as host.
MANY OBSERVERS have looked to Chancellor Gene A. Budg make to the next move. But Budg, as he has said all along, will not act. He said that his job was not to hire and fire football coaches because he noo is qualified to make such a decision.
By then it may be too late.
The process of picking an athletic director is underway and although as soon as possible as quickly as possible, no announcement is expected until mid-December.
Everyone at Kansas has argued over the past few years that if the Kansas football program is to establish any type of base, it must have some continuity in its football staff. A change in coaching would once again hurt that continuity and, even more so, ruin the KU recruiting year.
IF A NEW coach is named, he would have only a short time to choose his staff and by that time, a little more than a month would be left to recruit — not nearly enough time in this day and age.
Recruiting is the life blood of a football program and Fambrough has proven that there aren't too many people in these parts that can do a better job than he. If Fambrough and his coaches can come up with another idea, they should add to the veteran talent, Kansas should have a good team next year.
Don Fambrough, a man who has given over 30 years to the KU athletic department and loves this University unlike anyone else, deserves another chance.
It is time for a lot of thinking about the KC football team, but a coaching change would be necessary.
Scribner selected to All-Big Eight squad
By United Press International
KANSAS CITY. Mo.-Five members of the Nebraska's national pace-setting offensive unit, including two-time Outland Trophy winner Dave Rimington and record-setting halfback Mike Rozier, were named yesterday to the 182 United Press All-Big Eight Football team
Another Cornhusker — defensive end Tony Felicit — was also named to the first team to give Nebraska a league-high six selections. Rounding out the Nebraska first-time contingent were tackle Randy Theiss, guard Mike Mandelko and quarterback Turner Gill.
The nation's leading rusher, Ernest Anderson of Oklahoma State with his
1,731 yards, joined Gill and Rozier in the backfield and the other offensive skill positions were manned by wide receivers Mike Wallace of Kansas State and James Caver of Missouri and tight end Andrew Gibber of Missouri.
Joining the Nebraska trio on the offensive line were guard Steve Williams of Oklahoma and tackle Karl Nelson of Iowa State. The specialists named to the first team were place-kicker Larry Roach of Oklahoma State and punter Bucky Scribner of Kansas.
SCRIBNER SET the all-Time Big Eight career mark with a 43.3 yard career average on 217 points.
Defensively, Oklahoma led the way with three selections: defensive end Kevin Murphy, defensive tackle Rick Bryan and linebacker Jackie Shipp.
Okiahoma State was represented on the defensive unit by two players, linebacker Mike Green and nose tackle Gary Lewis, as was Kansas State with tackle Reggie Singletary and cornerback Greg Best.
the remainder of the first-team defense consisted of backs Victor Scott of Colorado, Ronnie Osborne of Oklahoma and Demetrious Johnson of Missouri.
Rimington and Wallace were the only unanimous picks on the team with Rimington, Nelson, Rozier, Roach, Singletary, Lewis and Scribner all repeat selections from a year ago. Scribner became a three-time all-conference pick, having also earned the 1980 team.
"Nebraska's offensive line, running backs and quarterback are probably
the best combination I've ever seen in this league," Kansas State Coach Jim Dickey said.
THE CORNIHKERS also had three second-season defensive selections in nose tackle Jeff Merrell, linebacker Steve Damroger and defensive back Allen Lyday. Oklahoma had six second-season picks: running backs Stanley Wilson and Mackenzie Pilgrim and defensive end Darryl Goodow, defensive back Keith Stanberry and punter Michael Keeling.
No other Kansas players except for Scribner were selected to the All-Big Eight first or second team. Wide receiver Tim Friesen and safety Gary Coleman all were tabbed as honorable mention selections.
Georgia holds grip on No.1
By United Press International
NEW VORK-Georgia, the nation's only unbeaten and untied major college football team at 10-0, strengthened its grip on the No. 1 rating yesterday, while its Sugar Bowl opponent, Penn State, replaced Southern Methodist in the No. 2 spot following balloting by the UPI Board of Coaches.
Cotton Bowl-bound Southern Methodist, 10-0-1 after securing a 17-17 tie against Arkansas in its regular-season final fell two places to No. 4 with 816 points.
Penn State, 9-1, received two first-place votes and 558 points, while Nebraska also moved one position to third place. Iowa maintained first-place votes and 543 points.
Pittsburgh, headed for the Cotton
Bowl, moved up to No. 8. Orange
Bush won by 12 points.
Raiders edge Chargers
LOS ANGELES -Marcus Allen scored two touchdowns in a triumph return to the Coliseum and the unbeaten Los Angeles Raiders made their regular-season debut in their new home a memorable one last night, rallying from a 24-0 deficit to a 28-24 triumph from the San Diego Chargers.
By United Press International
Returning to the field where he starred for four years as the Southern Cal tailback en route to winning the 1981 Heisman Trophy. Allen rushed for 25 yards and caught five passes for 37 more yards to spark the Raiders' ground attack.
After Allen's second touchdown pulled the Raiders within 24-21, Los Angeles, 3-0, began its winning scoring drive after San Diego's Rold Beniischem missed a 33-yard field goal attempt.
Jim Plinket completed three passes for 50 yards and with 5:54 left in the game, running back Frank Hawkins crashed into the end zone from two yards outs. The winning TD capped an 80-march, highlighted by Plum-
San Diego came right back, with Dan Fouts directing a drive to the Los Angeles 18 with two minutes remaining. But on second down, his errant pass under a heavy rush was intercepted by Vann McElroy in the end zone. The Chargers got the ball back and would move to the Raiders' 30), but Fouts drowned down pass into the end zone was batted down as time expired.
kett's 25-yard pass to Todd Christiansen
to the Chargers' '15.
Only 42,162 fans attended the game, with 12,898 no-shows in the 90,000-seat Coliseum. The attendance figure was the fourth-flowest in the 14 games played since the two-month players' strike ended.
Plunkett hit 18-of-25 passes for 163 yards while Fouts completed 25-of-42 for 357 yards as the Chargers fell to 1-2. It was the 15th time Fouts had passed tightening his yards in a game; tying Johnny Unitas on the all-time list in that category.
Alen scored on runs of 3 and 6 yards while the Chargers scored on Ben-Hur field goal, a 29-yard pass from Foley to Evan Bouchard and runs and of 1 and 2 yards by Muncie.
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West Virginia, 9-2 and headed to the Gator Bowl, improved three positions to No. 11, followed by No. 12 Washington, which dipped seven places after losing to Washington State 24-20. No. 13 Florida State and No. 15 Maryland.
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