6A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2004
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It also gave fans plenty of time to file out of the stands and plan their surge onto the field.
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FLOCK: Students sink uprights for second time in two years
Jimmy Gallan, Dallas sophomore, said he was in a group that was on the field with two minutes left on the clock.
"I was on the field before the game even ended," Gallivan said.
At least 10,000 fans sat on the hill to watch the game. More stood along the fence on the south end of the field. When the clock ran out, there was no stopping those fans from getting into the action on the field.
As the students flooded out of the student section, more fans came from the stands on west side of the stadium. Fans who were sitting on the hill pushed their way through the gates and onto the track. The ones who couldn't get through the crowds climbed the over the 12-foot fence surrounding the stadium. After one fan got hurt, they released the fence from the ground and climbed under it onto the field.
After the goal posts came down, students carried them up the hill to Potter Lake to join the posts from last year's victory over Missouri.
Some students said they didn't help carry the goal post down, but went to Potter Lake to celebrate.
Tyler Kye helped carry the south goal post out of the stadium.
"It it awesome, it just fell down and we grabbed a part of it and carried it." Kye said.
"I went last year after the Mizzou game," Mary Ann Mohr said. "It is crazy up there. People are pushing their way through and everyone is jumping into the lake."
Saturday's attendance marked the first sell-out crowd of the season at Memorial Stadium. It was the largest attendance in two years. The crowd had a huge impact on the game because there were several times that the K-State players couldn't hear the quarterback.
"All of our fans did a great job.
It made them call a lot of time-outs and that was pretty much clutch at the end."
Banks Floodman Junior linebacker
"All of our fans did a great job," Banks Floodman, junior linebacker, said. "It made them call a lot of time-outs and that was pretty much clutch at the end.
Coach Mark Mangino also acknowledged the crowd's impact.
hipster.
"How about that student section," Mangino said. "The fans helped us tonight, they really did."
Saturday's come-from-behind victory was just the spark that Kansas fans needed.
"Every game should be like this," Brenden Moretz, Chicago freshman, said. "If we have another winning season, football games will be this much fun all of the time."
Mangino said he hoped the Jayhawks' victory would make the series between the Jayhawks and the Wildcats more interesting.
"Maybe now this can be a game that people in the state of Kansas can be proud of," Mangino said.
Kansas fans were proud on Saturday night. Fans of all ages hung around to talk to the players after their victory.
Children jumped on junior linebacker Kevin Kane's shoulders. Players threw their wristbands into the crowd. Hyped-up students ran up to the lake.
Some of those students must have been barefoot. Long after the stadium had cleared out, at least 20 shoes remained in the pile in the south end zone.
Edited by Ashley Bechard
TICKETS:
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He said research showed that not all students go to the games, even when they buy student tickets.
tickets.
"Everyone who purchased and picked up their tickets will have a seat" Marchiony told the Kansas on August 28.
Karlson on August 15 He said they think that will still be the case, but they are alerting students as a precautionary measure.
"So many more students bought them than ever before," Marchiony said.
"For most games we know this will not be an issue, but we are just making sure that we let people know that for maybe one or two games it will be something we have to deal with." he said.
Marchiony said this was more of an FYI for students.
"We have allocated 4,000 student seats in Allen Fieldhouse," he said. "Only once in the last decade has student attendance surpassed that number."
In the past two years, the maximum student attendance at a home game was 3,850, but average student attendance was about 2,000, according to the agreement issued by the athletics department and Student Senate.
The athletics department is offering students the opportunity to request their money back for the basketball portion of their all-sports combo. Marchiony said that comes out to about $95. All requests must be submitted to the KU Athletic Ticket Office by Oct. 29.
He said that if they have to use the lottery, it would most likely be for the Jan. 24-25 pick-up period. That's when tickets for the Missouri and Texas games are scheduled for distribution.
The lotteries will be held at the end of the pick-up period. The winning students will be contacted by e-mail. They can pick up their tickets until 5 p.m. on the Thursday after distribution.
Edited by Ryan Greene
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