Wednesday, November 10, 1976
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Sports Scene Gary Vice Assistant Sports Editor
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For many dayhawk football fans, this was to be a time of preparing travel plans to see the teams. It was also a time of excitement.
But since KU's fast 4-0 start and No. 8 national ranking, the Jayhawks have lost four of their last five and have faded from view of the various bowl committees, contingency from Excelsior Springs, Mo., representing the Mineral Water Bow.
THE BIG Eight, which had four teams in bowls last season, is unlikely to place all six candidates in bowl games because its last game was against a couple after a couple teams have been selected.
And, more important, bowl committee might be hesitant to extend an invitation to a Big Eight team still locked in a battle for the conference championship and a trip to the more prestigious Orange Bowl in Miami New Year's night.
But the season hasn't gone down the tubes for everyone in the Big Eight, the self-proclaimed toughest football conference in the nation. Six teams have reasonable opportunities to be invited to play season games, and evidence teams not from the state of Kansas.
With Nebraska holding a vulnerable one game lead over Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Iowa State, Colorado and Missouri, the conference champion might not be determined until after the Cornhuskers and Sooners face off Nov. 26, in Lincoln, Neb., six days after the completion of the other conference games.
Such Big Eight schools would have to decide whether to accept an invitation to play in a bowl other than the Orange Bowlet to prevent spending the holidays at home. A decision to accept a bid would forfeit the team's chances of going to Miami.
BOWL COMMITTEES are free to offer invitations Nov. 20, and Big Eight schools still in contention after that for the richer Orange Bowl would be in a precarious
And with the conference race such a tossup, it could easily end up in a tie and most schools would like to remain eligible to play in the Sunkist classic at that time when the committee is free to choose its participant.
But in any case, it looks to be a highly profitable firm for the Big Eight as it would for clamshells.
ORANGE BOWL: Nebraska could simplify much of the problem by winning its final two conference games against Iowa State in Ames and against Oklahoma in Lincoln, if the Cornishers fail and the Nebraska falcon's offense falls the most likely team to profit.
The Buffers appear to have the easiest schedule remaining, having to face only 10 minutes of media coverage is unlikely the Orange Board committee would select anyone other than Nebraska in case of a tie. Colorado would be more likely to join the committees of the other major bowls.
To fill out the Orange Bowl drawing card, the committee would no doubt relish attracting the No. 1 ranked Pittsburgh team to play against a Big Eight team if that
team isn't highly ranked, hoping instead to play an opponent worthy of a national championship game. Nebraska, which was ranked No. 1 in preseason polls, is currently ninth, having lost one and tied one. No. 6 Maryland would be a likely replacement should Pitt accept a Sugar or Cotton bowl bid.
ROSE BOW IT. It should be either No. 2 UCLA or No. 3 USC against No. 4 Michigan or No. 8 Ohio State, meaning that the annual Big ten vs. Pacific Eight battle might have the national championship spotlight on it again.
All four contenders have yet to square off against each other in conference play, which will most likely determine who the win will be. The Northern Southern Cal travels to L.A., to face the Bruins while Michigan heads to Columbus, Ohio, to face the Buckeyes. Whoever loses the Buckeyes and the Rose Bowl would be likely candidates for either the Sugar or Cotton bowls.
COTTON BOWL: The Southwest Conference championship should become evident after the Nov. 27 battle between two 5 Texas Tech and No. 13 Arkansas. After that is decided and the Cotton Bowl committee secures one representative, there is to find another to mar with the Sugar Bowl to find another top player. Content presumably would be those teams that were runners-up in the Big Ten, Big Eight or Pac Eight conferences.
SUGAR BOWL: Look for No. 10 Alabama or No. 7 Georgia to be pitted against whoever the Sugar Bowl committee can yank away from other bowls. Alabama would appear to be the most doubtful entrant at this time because they still have to win games remaining against No. 18 Notre Dame and Auburn.
ASTRO-BLOBENONET BOWL: No. 12 Houston would be a welcome participant in this game, which is played in Houston. Look for a Big Eight team to onpose them.
SUN BOWL: The Big Eight has been represented in El Paso in two of the last three years and the Sun Bowl officials are likely to again choose a Big Eight team. However losses out for the Southwest Conference would also be a natural selection.
FIESTA BOWL: The Western Athletic Conference champion, most likely Wyoming, receives an automatic ticket to Tempo, Artez. to play in the FIesta Bowl, Team A. to play in the recent schools in recent years, but night also be considering a Pac Eiigh team this year.
LIBERTY BOWL: Another possibility for the Big Eight is in gaining a berth for the Liberty Bowl in Memphis, Tenn. A Southeastern Conference representative will face Florida in making either Florida, Georgia and Alabama strong contenders for this bowl.
GATOR BOWL: Gator Bowls officials will be seeking the strongest regional team available and they would undoubtedly be thrilled to attract the 59th-ranked Florida Gators No. 28 South Carolina are strong candidates to oppose the hometown favorites.
Ethics leaders to confer
A symposium on ethics in business and the professions, to be Friday and Saturday, will feature key speakers including a former president of the values and a former presidential candidate.
Michael Harrington, a teacher at Queens College of the City University of New York, whose book "The Other America" helped spark the war on poverty, will speak at 1 p.m. Friday in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Harrington is former chairman of the Socialist Party of the United States.
Ivring Kristal, professor of urban values at New York University, will speak at p. 8 p.m. Friday in Woodruff Auditorium. John Hospers, professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California, will speak at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in Woodruff
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When the KU men's swimming team enters the pool Friday in Boulder, Colo., they may feel a little different than they have in the past years.
For the first time in nine years, KU won't be going into the first meet of the season as a member of the conference.
Reason will get a good indication of whether his blinking paid off in the season after all.
"I can speak for myself certainly, and for a number of the team members when I say we were very disappointed to finish third," she said. "I am not thinking about them, are in which I've done a lot of thinking."
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Swimmers begin year in new role
"We can't rely on that," head coach Dick Reasonam said. "That's not our rallying cry for this year. The winning streak is a thing of the past. The future is really what it's all about now. It's nice to have a winning streak, but that isn't going to carry you."
"I think that we should be in midseason form. I sometimes expect more than is really necessary," said Reamon, who is in his 15th year at KU.
THE JAYHAWKS FINISHED third in the Big Eight last year, behind Iowa State and Alabama.
KU HAS a 26-member team and 20 are freshmen and sophomores. In the past two years, Reamon has lost 11 swimmers to graduation.
"Probably 16 of our top 20 kids are freshmen or sophomores and the breakdown on our traveling team will be very close to that."
Construction started on new KU hospital
Among the swimmers lost to graduation have been some great individual leaders such as Gary Kempf and Tom Compton. Reamon said the fact that there were no great stand-outs on this year's squad could be an advantage.
"I think it's obvious that we lack experience. I think we have pretty good talent, but I'm concerned about momentum that we can get from within. I'm more concerned about what we do to ourselves than what the other guy does to us."
"EVERYONE ON the squad can see the importance of not only helping himself but of helping others. This is really the way I'm going to have to have a contribution from everyone."
Construction has begun on the $47-million University of Kansas Memorial Hospital.
Reamon said that there were three events that could cause problems for the squad. He said he was unaware about the depth and width of the 200-meter freestyle and 200-meter backstroke.
"The hospital is the largest project the state of Kansas has ever undertaken," Max Lucas, assistant to the chancellor, said Monday.
When the initial seven-month concrete enclosure phase is complete, 200,000 square feet of precast concrete will form the building's skin. Each floor of the six-story structure will have more than 48,000 square feet of space.
THE HOSPITAL will become the center of all patient services, increasing the number of beds from 338 to 782. Facilities will include clinical support laboratories, diagnostic and treatment areas and a new emergency area with high-speed elevators to provide direct access to surgery, X-ray and intensive care units.
Scheduled for completion in October 1978, the building will add 480,000 square feet to the basement.
Lucas said a staging committee already was planning the complicated move to the state capital.
departments will curtail operations for the move.
The third floor will house major mechanical equipment. Six-foot-hall walk spaces between each floor will contain electrical and air conditioning systems.
LUCAS SAID a final decision on floor space planning would be put off as long as padded
"We have to be flexible so we can adjust to the latest medical technology," he said. According to Russell Miller, vice chairman for Med Center administration, located facilities will be turned into classrooms, faculty offices and research space.
Miller said there would be at least 1,500 new employees when the hospital was fully occupied. He said that within five years, the Med Center probably would employ 6,000 people, making it one of the largest employers in the Kansas City area.
The new hospital is being financed by a $30,164,238 appropriation from the Kansas Legislature; the balance is being met by revenue bonds.
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Ramon gets very excited when he talks about two of his freshmen recruits. Peter Bakker-Arkema, from Okeamas, Mich., was high school state champ in the 200-meter freestyle. Pete Velosco from San Antonio was a standout in the 200-meter butterfly.
SENIORS AND COCAPTAINS Mike Alley and Ben Wagoner are expected to perform well for the Jayhawks. Alley's specialties are the 500- and 1000-meter freestyles and Wagoner's forte is the 200 individual medley and the 200-meter breaststroke.
Reamon also is expecting good seasons from freshmen Griff Docking and Doug Smith. David Estes, who Reamon said was in top condition, won the 200 meter butterfly
Leading the divers are Mark Hill and Tom Anagnos, who finished second and third, respectively, in the Big Eight last year. Another diver, Kurt Anselmi, Shawnee Mission freshman, is the Kansas high school record holder in one-meter diving.
Reamon said he thought the conference race would be between five teams,
"I'm not comfortable be third in the conference," Reamon said. And he probably won't let his swimmers be satisfied with that either.
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