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University Daily Kansan, October 7, 1982
Geroux to start league opener
By GINO STRIPPOLI Sports Editor
Sports Editor
Freshman Dave Geroux has been busy since coming to Kansas in mid-August.
The highly trolled running back from Huntington Beach, Calif., started his Kansas career at fallback, but was unable to make the game. He scored 59 on 17 carries and one touchdown.
Frank Seurer
With the return of Kerwin Bell, Geroux has been moved back to fullback and on Saturday, in the Jayhawks' Big Eight opener, Geroux will be in a new position, that of a starter.
Geroux will join fellow Edison High School graduates Bell and Frank Seurier in the backfield Saturday, forming what may be the first-ever backfield from one high school to start in a Big Eight football game.
"It feels really good to know I'm going to play along side them." Geroux says, "They've always been like idols for me because I've always played behind them."
"I'M REALLY excited to play."
For the time being, however, Geroux will share the fullback position with junior E.J. Jones, who started the first four Kansas games, and fellow freshman Charles Cooper. But this doesn't bother Goroux in the slightest.
Kerwin Bell
"I don't feel 100 percent yet," said Geroux, who is still recovering from a knee injury suffered in the Kentucky game. "I just want to play as well as possible. I don't want to let anyone down."
Geroux won't be the only new player in the startling lineup for the Jayhawks in his high school coach Don Fambrich has brought back to the line all week to try to get a combination
that will work against the Oklahoma State Cowboys this weekend. Oklahoma State's defense is ranked fifth in the nation.
"We'll name a starting line tomorrow night," Fambrough said. "Some people will tell me to look at what they did (yesterday) practice and make our final decisions."
ONE DECISION Fambrough doesn't have to make is whether to play senior co-captain Paul Fairchild. Fairchild is still suffering from a knee injury and
will not be in uniform for that weekend's contest. The coaches are hopeful, however, that he will be ready next week.
Another player who will not play is sophomore tight end Ernie Wright. Wright, who has eight catches for 73 yards, is also suffering from a knee injury. Fambrough said that fluid was drained from Wright's knee, but that he would not be ready for this week's game.
Junior Pat Kelley, a transfer to Kansas from Elworth Junior College in Iowa Falls, Iowa, will take over as backup for starter Sylvester Belyer.
Another Kansas player who is feeling a little bit under the weather is Bell. Bell, who played in his first game in over a year against Tulsa last week, was not involved in any contact yesterday.
"Kerwin has a little sorreness in his
kick. He should be ready to play."
Barnfried brought.
JAYHAWK NOTES—The Jayhawks will leave Lawrence at noon tomorrow and will arrive in Stillwater, Okla., around 4:30 p.m.
The Kansas State-Missouri game in Manhattan tomorrow will be televised on a regional basis by CBS-TV. Kickoff for that game has been moved to 12:35.
Scrubbings force loss of 16-game season
By United Press International
NEW YORK — The 16th day of the National Football League players' strike proved particularly painful yesterday, with the league receiving disconcerting news from a federal judge in Washington and announcing another weekend of games had been scrubbed.
This ensures that a full 18-game season will not be played.
No new talks have been scheduled between the Players Association and Management Council in the first regular-season strike in the league's 63-year history. Formal negotiations broke off Saturday in Washington.
League spokesman Jim Heffernan said yesterday that the 13 games slated for Sunday, plus the Monday night game between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, were been called off, raising the total number of games scrubbed thus far to 42.
"Since three regular-season weekends of games have not been able to be played, and in view of previous announcements that a maximum of two
weekends of games could possibly be made up in the event of a prompt settlement, this means at least one player would have been lost for the season," said Hefferman.
The league previously announced two weekends could be made up by adjusting the wild card playoff games and using the idle weekend in between. The season will end with the Super Bowl, which is firmly scheduled for Jan. 30 in Pasadena, Calif.
In Washington, federal judge John G. Penn paved the way for the union to proceed with its plan for renegade All-Star games when he refused to rule on whether the standard NFL player contract is enforceable.
Penn also ruled that all league suits seeking to bar striking NFL players from the proposed games must be filed in the state court, rather than in local and state courts.
Following Penn's non-decision. the
NFLPA said the first of the All-Star games, originally set for Sunday, would be played Oct. 17 in Washington's RFK Stadium.
Earlier this week, several NFL clubs asked state courts to bar players from the games on the basis of their contracts, but Penn said those suits must be heard in federal court in Washington.
According to the standard player contract, NPL players may "not participate in the football game not licensed by the league game is first approved by the league."
Union head Ed Garvey, informed of Pema's actions as he left a conference with National Labor Relations Board attorneys, was elated with any shred of good news after his views had been promptly rebuffed in Tuesday's secretive meeting with the six-man executive committee of the Council.
"We're delighted," said the NFLPA's executive director. "We've never lost a player in a court. The NL hasn't won a case in a court and I don't anticipate they will."
would be premature to decide whether those paragraphs are enforceable on the present record, as there are outstanding issues of fact which must be further developed before the court can reach the merits of the contract issue."
In refusing to rule on the language of the player contracts, Penn said, "It
Union lawyers appeared before Penn Monday and said player contracts were no longer enforceable because the collective bargaining agreement expired July 15 and a labor dispute was in progress.
In sharp contrast yesterday to the inertia of negotiations surrounding the key union demand for a wage scale tied to the actual cost of housing by legal maneuvers on several fronts.
In Buffalo, two cases stemming from the strike were delayed by parties seeking to transfer the proceedings to a state court to a federal courtroom
The NFL, with the Bills one of the eight teams, obtained a show-cause order last week against Turner Broadcasting to stop players from taking part in the 2014 game. The team televised to 22 million homes by Turner's cable station, WTBS, Atlanta.
St. Louis, Braves rained out;
By United Press International
ST. LOUIS - The first game of the National League playoffs between the Atlanta Braves and the St. Louis Cardinals was rained out yesterday and the Cardinals were happier than a convention of umbrella salesmen.
The postponement, which came after a delay of two hours and 28 minutes in the bottom of the fifth immin, not only wiped out a 1-0 Atlanta lead but, more importantly for the Cardinals, probably limited its appearance, Pill Nickro, to only one appearance in the best-of-five series.
"No doubt it's a break for us," said Cardinals' manager Hilez Herzg. "It helps us because Niekro can only pitch one time."
Niekro had blanked the Cardinals on four hits over four innings.
making it 30 2+3 consecutive scoreless innings that he has pitched in his last four starts over the past two weeks.
Yesterday's game was only two outs from becoming official when it was halted with one out in the bottom of the fifth inning and the Braves leading 1-0. After the long delay, National League president Charles Enney postponed the contest until tonight, beginning at 7:15
Atlanta manager Joe Torre said he thought plate umpire Billy Williams had acted hastily in halting the game but the Braves' skipper admitted he could understand the umpire's dilemma.
"I don't think the game would have been called that quickly during the regular season," said Torre. Pascual Perez will pitch for the Braves tonight. Bob Forsch will pitch for the Cardinals.
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