University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, September 1, 1976
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Tom Dinkel shows his versatility
--of you. I just hope it don’t embarrass myself and get blocked out of a play I should
--of you. I just hope it don’t embarrass myself and get blocked out of a play I should
By GARY VICE
Assistant Sports Editor
Assistant Sports Editor
If Kansas coach Bud Moore ever needs to strengthen his lineup, no matter what position, he might turn to junior Tom Sterling, who needed to be very versatile on the football field.
Dinkel, who started as defensive end last season, has the experience to play virtually any position KU's coaches might want. And he is a 49-38-38 Pound-Jayhawk is needed at linebacker.
Mike Butler, who played alongside Dinkel last year at defensive tackle, said he had confidence in Dinkel's ability to make the switch to weak line backer successfully.
'He's an all-round addule. Butler said,
he can't handle anything, and about any position. He should do all right.
He might have trouble with the swifer
(running) backs at first, but he'll need to
DINKEL PLAYING REPETOIRE includes tailback, quarterback, receiver, place kicker and being in the trenches on both sides of the line.
Most of his experience comes from high school, where he played for the Shawnee Heights T-Birds in Topeka. As a sophomore, he played for the Topeka Junior and senior seasons he earned all-state honors at running back while handling place-kicking chores and anchoring the defense at middle linebacker. In those three seasons he rushed for 2,430 yards and 28 touchdowns.
Now, in moving to linebacker along with senior Terry Beeson, Dinkel believes he's a strong candidate.
"A linebacker has one of the main roles," the blonde athlete said. "He's kind of like the quarterback on defense, the focal point." The defensive back is a linebacker, a good play is always expected
DINKEL SAID HE had a goal this season to do just what he believed a good linebacker should do, which he said was "find the ball and go to it."
"Now I have a chance to get in almost every play," he said. "There should be no doubt that we can win."
Dinkel does have some mixed feelings about making the switch to linebacker, and not being alongside defensive tackle Butler prompted that concern.
"Last year," he said, "I could rely a lot on Mike when things got confusing. He always covered for me. Now, without him, there'll be more pressure."
But, playing alongside Butler did have its disadvantages, too.
"It was kind of bad in a way," he said,
"because teams wouldn't run our end.
Teams found out they could run away from
our strength.
"I THINK THERE was one whole half against Nebraska where they ran our side only two times. That's just the way teams started it."
As he talked, Dinkel's enthusiasm for playing linebacker, rather than on the defensive line, grew. With a large grin across his face, he said, "Shoot, at him. You're going to get somebody down. Get mean. At end you can't get a running start at tackling anyone.
"What I'm looking forward to is catching a back coming out for a flair and smoking the cigar."
And, Dinkel would like to oppose KU's backfield someday for the challenge, and because he believes the Big Blue's defense could do the job.
"I'd like to lineup against them." Dinkel
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Tom Dinkel snares a Kansas State back
Callahan seeks answers for scoreless year
By STEVE CLARK
Sports Writer
The goalie. He was all that stood between Pat Calahan and the ice-breaking goal that would be a national title.
Callahan dribbled to the goal, pulled up 15 yards away and fired. He hit the ball solid and straight, but it sailed harmlessly over the net.
Callanah threw his arms into the air and moaned, "I couldn't buy a goal."
That wasn't an understatement. He couldn't. In fact, for the first time in a 12-year career he had managed to play an entire season and not score a single goal.
FIRST, it was his first semester on the school campus, with the styles and moves of his teammates.
It wasn't that he was playing poorly—quite the opposite—but there were several factors that contributed to his 23-game drought.
But now he was an outside forward with a different role.
"I started out kind of slow," he admitted yesterday, "because I didn't know what to expect. I was trying to blend into the team and set back in shape."
HE HAD a tendency to dribble the ball too much rather than looking for the pass.
Also, he was playing a new position. At Chaminade High School in St. Louis, he'd been an inside forward with a primary responsibility to score. And as a senior, his squad finished second in the state and he scored almost one goal a game.
"On the outside you don't get as many shots," he explained, "You're more of a play 'setter-upper.' You always try to feed him. You draw the defense out so you can chin it up."
"Yeah," the 5-11, 160-pound sophomore conceded. "It was a matter of thinking. I always wanted to slow things down, because I hated to rush into mistakes. But now if I see a chance to make a good pass, I'm getting to where I'll grab it."
"He's looking much better," he said. "He's very confident and man his confidence is improved."
Mullin said that some of Callahan's
problems last spring were the result of triving too hard.
"PAT'S VERY RECEPTIVE to coaching and strikes me as the kind of kid that wants to learn," he said. "In the spring he was consciously thinking about the things I wanted to do with him, golf or tennis, in that, you have to get worse when you better, you either did."
Fortunately for KU, he started his rapid improvement at the right time—the big Jets.
There the Jayhawks rumped to the conference crown and, according to Mullin, "Callahan played his best sport of the season" in his artistic design major takes it one step further.
"I think I was playing the best soccer of my life," he said. "It was a thrill. The neatest thing that's happened to me in my life was winning that championship."
WHEN KU DEFEATED MISSOURI for the title it magnified the impact for Callahan. It wasn't just that Missouri had beaten KU twice during the spring that made it so satisfying. All of the Missouri players were from St. Louis, too.
"I know for a fact that soccer players from St. Louis are pretty sbllow about it when they play," she said, "the greatest, and I think that to an extent, too. But when a bunch of them get together
KU won't defend it. It's Big Eight championship until the spring, so Callahan has the fall to work on some other priorities, namely coordination and shooting with his
"IN PRACTICE I won't even touch the ball with my left foot, but that's not easy," he said. "After you've been playing for this long, it's tough, it's hard to do."
But that's what he must do to improve his performance.
"And my left foot won't suffer, because you never forget what you already know," he said, adding, "it'll always come back to you."
Although it's good that his feet may never forget, it's also the reason Callahan's shots weren't finding the back of the net. Just as he saw it, Callahan was hitting if he were a place kicker, which he was.
"It had gotten to be a reflex," he said.
"It's the same kick but a different balan-
IN SCOCCER A player tries to be over the ball to get a low, hard shot, whereas in football a kicker leans back to gain added height.
"Sometimes I'll catch myself," Callahan said. "I'll be racing downfield and I'll lean back into a shot and it just will, but when I concentrate I can get a good shot off."
His football career began during his last two years of high school. Despite a potent offense that limited his action, he kicked five field goals his senior year, including a
SO IS MULLIN. Mohsen Miri, the Jayhawk scoring machine last spring, has transferred to a Washington school. His departure leaves KU's front line with a noticeable gap, one which an improved Callahan can help fill.
"I walked on the KU football team last fall, and this fall I tried out again," he said. "But I wasn't enjoying myself, so I came out for soccer, and I'm glad I did."
"In a way the loss of Mohsen is going to bring the team together more," he said. "It wasn't that we were disunified, but we completely revolved around him. That was good, but now I think we'll have a much more balanced attack."
Mulin is depending on him to carry an additional load this fall, which is fine with
"I came so close so many times," he recalled wistfully. "It was just that kind of excitement."
That includes some scoring from Callahan, who seemed anxious to help the team.
I've seen here in my three years, "Mullin said. 'He's really improved and right now he's an all-star."
He gave the impression that things would be different from now on.
But it's obvious that he's miffed about his ack of punching in the spring.
—NQTICE—
TO: All organizations allocated funds by the Student Senate from the Student Activity Fee
FROM: Tom Mitchell, Student Senate Business Mar.
All officers who are to be responsible for the expenditure of allocated funds, MUST:
"I last year it didn't really bother me that I didn't score because the team did well, but the team didn't do that."
No funds will be made available until these requirements have been met.
1. Attend a TRAINING SESION conducted by the Student Senate Treasurer. See the schedule listed below.
"Pat's one of the best American players
Treasurer's Training Sessions have been scheduled for the following time:
2. Sign a CAPITAL DISPOSITION CONTRACT with the Student Senate.
THURSDAY, September 2, 3:00 p.m.
International Room Level 5 Kansas Union
No other sessions will be held this fall
You must contact the Student Senate Treasurer's Office at 864-
3746 to sign up for this session, or for additional information.
"This year," he grinned, "I'm gonna score some goals."
4. Account for All Inventory.
funded from the Student Senate activity fee
3. Obtain ADVANCE WRITTEN AUTHORIZATION for each expenditure from funds allocated to the organization.
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