Page 12 University Daily Kansan, September 30, 1982
This week's foe
Hurricane looking to get even
By TOM COOK
Associate Sports Editor
John Cooper remembers last year's Tula-Kansas game like a nightmare, but he is doing his best to keep the misery inside.
"I haven't mentioned it," said Cooper, the sixth-year Golden Hurricane head football coach. "In fact, I say anything and anybody else say anything about it."
Even though the Hurricane are keeping silent about the 1981 contest, they must still be smarting after giving them the season opener to the Jayhawks.
Roger Foote's 48-yard interception for a touchdown with 12:15 left in the fourth quarter gave Kansas a 15-11 victory. It was to the first of four straight triumphs.
Now the Hurricane have a chance to even the score as they visit Memorial Stadium at 2:45 p.m. Saturday. The game will be telecast by CBS-TV.
"WE DON'T have any magical game plan," Cooper said. "We just believe in fundamental football, and if we don't play it (KU) could they (KU) just blow us off the field."
Tulsa, 2-1, which includes 35-17 and 25-15 victories over Air Force and Oklahoma State, will bring a young player to the N.C. game and the kicking game are credibly
sound, but the defense has been suspect, especially after having to replace the entire defensive front.
The Golden Hurricane lost all five starters from the trenches and the results have been indicative — 711 yards and 685 yards passing against them.
And, since the secondary already has picked off six passes in three games, the frontline has been blamed for throwing quarterbacks too much time to throw.
"We're very young up front on defense," Cooper said. "It's hard to replace all five guys on the line. But they're playing hard."
LAST YEAR'S game with Kansas was particularly frustrating for Tulsa quarterback Kenny Jackson, who saw two end-zone passes dropped. Jackson, however, is gone this year, and Skip Ask has taken over as the top signal caller.
Ast, a 6-1, 192-pound senior, has completed 16 of 38 passes for 1218 yards, one touchdown and one interception. Joining him in the backfield are Jake Clemens, 10 yards senior, and running back Michael Gunter, 5-11, 201 pounds, junior.
Stu Crum, Tulsa's 5-7, 157-pound place kicker, gives the Golden Hurricane strength in the specialty department. He has converted four of eight field goals and made all six of his extra point attempts.
from 30, 30, 35 and 50 yards, was inconsistent against Air Force, brilliant against Oklahoma State and bored stiff against Arkansas.
He missed all three of his field goal attempts in the Air Force game, hit four of five versus the Cowboys and spent the entire game on the sidelines against the Razorbacks, except for one kickoff, as Arkansas rolled, 38-0.
Defensively, Cliff Abbott, 6-0,
215-pound linebacker, and Bob Babich,
6-0, 205-pound linebacker, lead the
Hurricane in tackles with 34 and 26.
Crum, who has kicked three-pointers
COOPER'S SON, John Jr., a 61-177-pound sophomore, starts at strong safety and has recorded 16 tackles,升上 two passes and intercepted one.
Cooper, who coached at Kansas from 1967 to 1972, four years under Pepper Rodgers and two years under Don Matthews. He led his quarterback and running backs.
"Our running backs have been good players for us and Skip Ast has done everything we have asked of him," Cooper said. "But we don't have a lot of super athletes. We don't have a quarterback that can throw like Frank Seurer or a back that can run like Kerwin Bell. We're just a close-knit team and the guys have a good attitude."
Cooper said he thought the Jayhawks
would be fired up, especially with the return of Kerwin Bell to the lineup
"Kansas is going to line up with good football players." Cooper said. "I coached up there so I know they'll be good.
"And everyone knows that Kerwin can run the ball. He's a great player if the time is right. That should give them a big emotional lift."
THE GOLDEN HURRICANE, you have had two weeks to prepare for this game, probably will be thinking about last year's game, according to Fam-
"They are probably feeling they could have won the game," Fambrigh said. "We know they'll be going all out, so we just need to be prepared for it."
Fambrough said he wasn't sure whether the Jayhawks would run or play.
"That just depends on what defense they use against us," he said. "We've been working hard on our running game and we we've got to get more out of it."
Following a disheartening loss to Wichita State, 13-10, a victory over Texas Christian, 30-19, and a tie with Kentucky, 13-13, Kansas will face its toughest opponent so far, said Fambrough.
"We feel that Tulsa will be the best football team we've met this year," he said.
Randall likes coaching as much as golf
By BILL HORNER Sports Writer
Ross Randall once said that when he sees a golf coach tee a ball up and it down the middle of the fairway, he's probably been playing as much as coaching.
As the men's and women's golf coach at Kansas and the director of golf at Alvamar Hills Golf Club, Randall does a lot more coaching and teaching than he does for his players. He saw him tee it up, his shot would split the middle of the short grass, too.
Randall, who is entering his fourth year as coach at Kansas, is a former touring pro on the Professional Golf Association's touring circuit. For seven years, from 1969 until 1976, Randall earned his living banging heads with the likes of Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino and J.D. Palmer.
Although out of the touring groove for quite a white, Randall's play has
remained consistently good enough to land him a spot in the field of the PGA Championship last August, the annual event atop the circuit of the "motor" event on the circuit.
IRONICALLY ENOUGH, it was Randall's first appearance at the PGA Championship, an event he qualified for by placing 15th in the National Club Pro Championships last February. He played well on four, but always skipped it.
Playing on the demanding Southern Hills Golf Club in Tulsa, Okla., Handall fired rounds of 77-77, missing the cut for his teammates, and ending his Cinderella story.
"It itt'd take me long to realize that I'm glad I'm not doing it anymore," he said. "For one event, it was fun. It was fun to play on such a well-maintained field, but I wasn't perfectly Southern Hills is a very difficult course. But that's the way it should be, for a national championship."
Randall wasn't too disappointed that he missed the final cut for the tournament. He said he went to Southern Hills on the premise of having fun, taking a vacation with his wife, Linda, and seeing some old friends. The golf part of the trip was certainly important, but secondary.
"I enjoyed the trip," he said. "It was great playing in front of a lot of people again, but I'm glad I don't do it anymore.
"IT WAS fun seeing a lot of old friends. I spent a lot of time with Hale Irwin, Hube Green and guys like that, people I used to play a lot of golf with."
Randall, in fact, was runner-up to Irwin in the NCAA championships during his senior year, and his San Jose State golf team finished second in the NCAA team championships a year earlier.
After college, he joined the tour. Randall never won a tournament event, but played well enough to make a living.
"I didn't play spectacularly well," he said, "but well enough to stay out there. I had enough high finishes to make enough money to stay on tour.
"When I stopped playing, I was having a pretty good year financially, through tournaments and endorsements. But I thought, 'Well, I'm not playing that much better, and the quality of players is so much better every year. And I'm not having fun anymore, so . . ."
"I look back on those seven years and remember an awful lot of rough times, and an awful lot of sad times when you miss a putt here or there that costs you a lot of money, or that costs you getting into a tournament or making a cut. But as a whole, it was a real positive experience. There's nothing more exciting than playing good golf in front of fifteen or twenty thousand people.
"I just got tired of the travel and playing so much golf. If I was making a lot of money; well, a lot of big checks make you forget about the bad things."
Sox' Stratton dies
By United Press International
GREENVILLE Texas — Monty Stratton, whose desire to play the game he overcame the tragic ending of his major league baseball career, died early yesterday less than 15 miles from the tiny northeast corner of the city.
He died of cancer at age 70.
Straton's comeback from the amputation of his right leg inspired baseball fans across the country more than a generation age and his story was relayed to the nation in "The Monty Straton Story," a film starring Jimmy Stewart in the title role.
"He was a very brave man," Stewart said when notified of Stratton's death. "We have exchanged Christmas cards ever since I did the picture. He was a vital part of the movie from the beginning.
"He was a very nice man, who loved the sport of baseball and was a great credit to it."
Stratton, at age 22, was playing sandball ball on the back roads of Texas in 1924 when he was spotted running down a street. Sox. A year later, he was pitching
for the White Sox' farm team in St. Paul, Minn.
After only one season in the minor leagues, Stratton was called up to the White Sox and in three full years with that club, the 6-foot-8 right-fielder. Stratton's 36-23 record and struck out an average of 3.5 batters per game.
In 1937, he became recognized as one of the American League's top pitcher, posting a 15-5 record. He went 15-9 in 1938 and was named to the American League's All-Star team.
Just as he was reaching the peak c' his career, Stratton's life was altered by a hunting accident that took place on his mother's farm on Nov. 27, 1938. Stratton accidentally shot himself in the leg, severing an artery. The leg was amputated the next day.
The year after his surgery, Stratton came back to the White Sox as a coach, but soon returned to his native Texas. He continued to keep his throwing arm in shape, however, and after World War II signed to the Minnesota Twins in the now defunct East Texas League. Stratton was 18-8 for the Twins in 1946 and played in the league through 1950.
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