thursday, September 25, 2003
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FAMBROUGH; Love for Kansas doesn't diminish with age
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the 1974 campaign, Fambrough became Assistant Director of the Williams Fund before his football life took an unexpected turn in 1979.
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Former Kansas football coach Dom Fambrough was carried off the field by his players after a victory. Fambrough coached the Jayhawks from 1971 to 1974 and from 1979 to 1982.
Fambrough was serving as the chairman of the selection committee for the hiring of a new football coach when he gave then-athletics director Bob Marcum a list of potential candidates.
Marcum tore the list up and delivered his decision to Fambrough.
"He said I've visited with the chancellor and we decided we wanted to bring you back as coach," Fambrough said. "I said to Bob Marcum, 'Have you lost your mind totally?'
Marcum had not lost his mind, and Fambrough had not lost the magic touch.
He guided the Jayhawks to the 1981 Hall of Fame Bowl and garnered the Associated Press Big Eight Coach of the Year Award. Fambough went on to coach his final season in 1982.
By the end of his career, Fambrough had participated as a player or coach in five of the eight bowl games in Kansas football history.
Fambrough has kept football a part of his life by attending all of the Jayhawk football prac
tices as a special allowance by coach Mark Mangino. Fambrough said he agreed with Mangino's philosophy of football, but Fambrough would never offer advice or do any coaching from the sideline of the practice fields.
What Fambrough does is remind the players of his hatred for those who don the black and gold of Missouri.
During his years as a coach, Fambrough always tried to instill a mentality in his players that the Missouri game was more than a rivalry.
"They talk about this being the oldest rivalry west of the Mississippi," Fambrough said. "It's not a rivalry, it's war. It's total war. I always told my players you take no prisoners in this game."
In one particular speech to his troops, Fambrough went so far as to tell his players that William Quantrill had ties to the University of Missouri during his massacre of Lawrence in 1863, a story he invented.
"They came over here during the Civil War and some guy named Quantrill came over and killed all the men, raped all the women and burned the damn town down," Fambrough said. "Then, I don't why, but I said then years later we found out he was a Missouri alum."
The speech came back to haunt
Fambrough when one of his players happened to have a test over the Civil War in history class and wrote that Quantrill was a Missouri graduate as an answer.
"Thank goodness I was a good friend of the professor," Fambrough said. "He said 'I'm going to let you coach football, and you leave teaching history to me.'"
Fambrough is not a history teacher, but he does get emotional when he thinks of Missouri.
"It makes me angry." Fambrough said. "Even at 80 years of age I want to put on the shoulder pads. I just want to hit somebody."
DON FAMBROUGH'S ACHIEVEMENTS
Edited by Katie Bean
Played at Kansas from 1946- 1947 as an offensive guard, linebacker and plano-kicker
Earned All-Big Six honors in 1946 and 1947
First choice at guard in a poll conducted by the Lawrence Journal-World of fans to select an all-time Kansas football team
Two head coaching stints at Kansas from 1971 to 1974 and 1979 to 1982
Played or coached in five of Kansas' eight bowl teams
Kansas tennis to play at Tulsa Invitational
tennis
After a week off from competition, the Kansas tennis team wants to display a strong showing this weekend in Tulsa, Okla., for the 2003 Tulsa Invitational.
"The girls are ready to go," said coach Army Hall. "We had a tough week in practice and now we have to take it out on the courts."
The tournament, which will be featured at the Michael D. Case Center, will include fellow Big 12 Conference opponents, such as Oklahoma and Texas Tech. Others schools competing are Illinois State, Southwest Missouri State and Tulsa.
The weekend will feature some of the top singles and doubles competition in the country.
The singles side of the draw will showcase 40th ranked Anda
Perianus of Oklahoma and 30th ranked Lilina Suurvark of Illinois State. Rankings are courtesy of the 2003 ITA preseason rankings.
Doubles competition features 25th-ranked Anda Perianu and Heather Saluri of Oklahoma and the 42nd-ranked pair of Irina Tereschenko and Kendall Brooks of Texas Tech.
Kansas 'Emily Haylock and Brittany Brown, coming off solid outings in Missouri, are looking forward to continuing their high level of play this weekend.
"We have six of our players traveling this week," Hall added. "They all worked hard and did everything they could to get ready."
Senior Courtney Steinbock is still out with an injury and Grisell Granados will not be available for this weekend because of ongoing rehab for an injury she sustained.
Rahul Sharma
K-State regroups team
By Joel Reichenberger
K-State Collegian via U-wire
Kansas State University
Kansas State regroups after loss MANHATTAN — Life resumed for the Kansas State football team on Tuesday. The team took the practice field for the first time since it was upset at the hands of Marshall Saturday.
the Cats will have plenty of time to reflect on their first loss.
Without a game this weekend.
"I'd like to think that they've allowed it to get behind them," coach Bill Snyder said. "That doesn't mean it wasn't painful for our guys. It was painful — at least I hope it was.
"Now it's time to make sure we understand why and get those things corrected and spend some time working on Kansas State."
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