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Wednesday, February 9, 1977
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Instant replays testing officials
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Three weeks before the Oakland Raiders won the 1977 Super Bowl game, they were almost knocked out of the playoffs by New England. Quite possibly, the Patriots would have upset the Raiders that day if the officials had made the right calls on a crucial play or two in the fourth quarter—according to instaplay.
The Los Angeles Rams and Minnesota
Vikings were also fortunate to advance
in the same tournament when the officials
made three or four wrong calls in Dallas
and Minnesota—according to instant
replay.
Most professional football games are remarkably well officiated—according to instant replay—but a handful are decided incorrectly on mistakes by the officials.
N sport whose officials have been empaired in the game, adopted an officiating tool. But so does an officialting tool. But so does an officia
the impact of repeatedly featuring bad calls on TV that sport executives can't long
THE AVERAGE spectator puts more faith in the technique known as instant replay than in the judgment of humans on the field.
Has TV change the nature of football, providing a nationwide court of appeals? Is the National Football League concerned? What can or should it do?
Increasingly, those questions have been raised in NPL cities. Three proposals has been made.
Full-field closed-circuit television. The systems now under discussion would use many cameras and technicians to monitor every play from a variety of angles and settle virtually every dispute for the officials.
Partial dependence on television. A
Bad weather hampers soccer club practices
By DENNIS MINICH
Snorts Writer
The KU Soccer Club, whose practices have been hampered because of the cold weather, begins with coach Berrin Mullin a pretty adventurous schedule" this weekend.
The Jayhawks, last spring's Big Eight champions, open against the Wichita Wheathawks Sunday. Their season includes games with such national powers as the University of Houston, Rockhurst College and Benedictine College.
Houston is ranked in the NAIA's top 15
Sports
teams and Rockhurst lost in last year's NAIA championship game.
Mullin said yesterday that many people had tried out for the team in recent weeks.
The team now has much more talent, which has greatly added to its depth, Mullin in 2015.
BUT WITH the new depth, cold weather and snow have forced indoor practices and Mulin said he believed the team wasn't as ready for its first game as he'd like it to be.
"We've been able to work outside a couple of times, but it wasn't really soccer, it was more or less just guys kicking the ball around on the jac." he said.
Mullin explained that the team had been oriented on the structure of play he employed, but the players hadn't been able to practice what they had learned.
Several players from last fall's ball, which finished 8-3, return to help the 'Hawks
this season, Freshman Mohammed Alt-Ameur and junior Monsour Taherzadeh, termed by Mullin last fall as his one-two striking punch,回回. Taherzadeh will miss the first couple of weeks, however, because of his class load.
Joining the club is German Paz, a Hon-duras freshman, who Mullin said was a small, but solid, player who plays very aggressively.
FRESHMAN ROEL Vanderven and graduate student Steve Jones are backbacks that Mullin said improved greatly during the fall.
"David was the best goalkeeper in the Big Eight championships last year and looks real good now. With a little work he can be back in last year's form." Mullin said.
Two players in contention for the squad are Kees Bouter, forward, and Roel Andriessen, fullback, both from the Netherlands. Mullin said that they would acc to the size of the club. Boater is 6-1, 10-8, and Andriessen is 6-4, and over 200 pounds.
Besides its regular schedule, KU will be sponsoring the Big Eight championships in April. Mulin said that negotiations were underway for the Pizza Hut Corp., to sponsor the event.
AFTER MISSING last semester because of personal reasons, David Boyles, a sophomore goalkeeper from Wichita, will return to the nets for the Jawhakes.
"If they could, it would save each team $350 to $400, and it could bring the championships to Lawrence or Kansas City every year," Mullin said.
Instead of television, the NFL could rely on other technological aids and better-trained officials.
"There is probably more interest in soccer here than anywhere else in the Big League."
closed-circuit system could be combined with comment pictures settle some dispute.
DALLAS COWBIES president Tex Schramm noted that it would be possible to install electric eyes on goal lines (plus a tipping tip on footballs) to certify touchdowns.
And, there are numerous ways to improve recruiting and training of ficials.
Anything less than all-out closed-circuit television wouldn't, however, end all the arguments. A football fan's faith in instant replay is rooted in what he believes he sees. And if decisions are left to officials, there is no room for them. Others are human, and to er is human.
NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle, said, "For the present there isn't a great deal more we can do beyond what we've been doing—the Dallas experiment (with closed-circuit television) and so forth. We can improve the officiating, we work on it all the time, but bringing in TV is a lot more complicated than it sounds."
SCHRAMM, WHO often leads (and sometimes reflects) the sentiment of the NFL's majority doubts if the football public wants mistake-proof electronic officials.
"Fans go to football games to see people, not robots," he says. "It would be possible to have not only computerized officiating but also mechanical men playing football at the direction of a computer center, but I don't see that as a great improvement."
One potential improvement for both football and baseball can be reduced to a question: Should sports leagues equip their fields with TV equipment to aid officials?
Most executives in both sports oppose the idea. Peter O'Malley, president of the Los Angeles Dodgers, said, "When you think of all the cameras you need to do a perfect deal with them, the delays you'd have when the umpires consulted their TV sets probably outweighs the problems caused by an umpire's occasional mistake. Baseball's answer is to pay the players well and train them well. I believe the integrity of the game is safe in hands."
JIM KENILS, the NFL's executive director, tends to agree with that assessment. But to get more evidence, he ran a secret experiment at the Dallas-Buffalo game in Dallas last fall with four Sony cameras operated by two coordinators, including art McNally, the league's supervisor of officials.
Kensil, said, "We're still analyzing the tapes of that game, but we know already we'd need more than four cameras to do the job right."
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Schramm, added, "... there would have to be two cameras on each sideline plus two cameras shooting up and down each goal line and on two on each end line. That's 12 camers ... if the field is divided into quadrants, that's four more cameras."
The TV equipment bill for each NFL stadium would cost about $2,658,000. If installed in all 28 parks the total would come to $74,388,000.
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BECAUSE ONLY half the stadiums are used in any one weekend, only half of this equipment might be necessary, at a cost of only $71,840.00 (the weekly costs of removing, transporting and re-installing it,Officiating experts believe, however, that the more be more efficiency if the equipment were permanently placed in the 28 stadiums.
Kensil used the time lag in Dallas was up to 90 seconds a play. It sometimes took that long to run back a disputed play on the recorders and analyze it.
Schramm, said, "... where the justice in correcting what seems to be a big mistake while ignoring others you don't see immediately but could prove decisive." And to check every play for every official's game would destroy the pace of the game."
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Tasheff . . .
sessions for new senators to counsel them and help fight their disillusionment, and Senate meetings saw the success of his advising...
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"The fact that they are making significant contributions to debate is something."
HIS ROLE AS a lobbyist is now just PLEASON, he said, because the legislature is last beginning and during Christmas break he waged a private campaign to encourage senators to talk to their legislators and contacted legislators and Gov. Robert
About the Association of Students of Kansas, an official lobbying group of Kansas colleges, Owens said, "We gave it its first rational evaluation of what it would do for us. The conclusion was it wasn't worth the money it would involve.
longnying has to be done tacfully and low key so it doesn't look like the administration is forcing students on the legislators."
The Senate also operated under the misconception that the University could use a recycling program to help feed the proposed trash-burner facility, Steve said, thinking that KU would be paying for trash instead of being given trash.
BOTH TASHEFF and Owens are disappointed about what hasn't been accomplished. Both had wanted to put a question before the students about their subsidy, and both had wanted to extend library hours for students.
Steve also mourns his pet project, the
OWENS ISN'T running for a Senate seat because he doesn't want to influence the election, but he will run for a holdover seat and will serve for 21 hours of classes next fall allow it.
Tashef is undecided about law school or any other plans except for an intensive language program in Chinese or Japanese this summer.
As KU's first woman Student Senate president, she said, "I've never felt inhibited or advantaged because of my sex."
IT BEGAN Sept. 9 as a collection service to students with the ideal of incorporating it into the University energysaving camp. The new paperboard bags, December the Senate couldn't afford to transport the newspapers to sell and turned the project over to the Lawrence Boy's
Senate reclamation service, which he described at the last Senate meeting as "a big accomplishment."
Owens laughed and said, "Tedde is a very persuasive young lady but I don't know if that has to do with her sex. She doesn't even cry when things don't go her way."
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