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20 I Jayhawks now 8th in Bottom Ten list By STEVE HARVEY The magic number is one for Northwestern. One more hurdle to stumble over (Michigan State) and the Mildcats (0-9-1) will capture their first Bottom Ten title ever. They reached the final plateau with a 59-14 homecoming defeat to Michigan (some fans suggested it should have been their homeleaving). But the game wasn't totally one-sided. The Mildcats held Michigan's punter to zero yards (on zero attempts).

Meanwhile, No. 2 Boston College (0-7) kept its faint hopes alive against Army, 26-29. Colorado State's Eddie Lee (356 yards in 26 carries) destroyed Air Force on the ground. And a shocking 20-17 loss to lowly Syracuse (2-7) left coach George Welsh contemplating his Naval team's downfall. Elsewhere, three field goals by Florida's Berj Yepremian (no relation to Jan Stenerud) were not enough to keep the Seminoles (3-5) from gaining admittance to The Bottom Ten rankings at No.

20. 'CRUMMY GAME OF THE WEEK: Vanderbilt vs. Air Force. ROUT OF THE WEEK: Michigan State vs. Northwestern.

WHAT-DID-THEY-MEAN-BY- A commercial for Black and Decker saws was superimposed over the television screen while the goal posts were falling at the conclusion of the Oklahoma-Nebraska game. SPECIAL CITATION: Though Vanderbilt coach Fred Pancoast accused Kentucky of pouring it on in a 53-2 victory, Kentucky actually played most of the second half with a quarterback (Joe Young) not even listed in its press guide. ATTENTION: Labor Cal's Paul Jones carried the ball 46 times against Washington State. QUOTE OF THE WEEK: Arizona State's Frank Kush, after a 21-14 defeat to Stanford, "It was a true team effort. We were terrible on offense and defense." SCHOOL, 1978 RECORD 1.

Northwestern (0-9-1) 2. Boston College (0-7) 3. UTEP(1-9) 4. Vanderbilt (1-8) 5. Wake Forest (1-9) 6.

Iowa "(1-8) 7. Penn (2-5-1) 8. Kansas (1-9) 9. Princeton (2-4-2) 10. Oregon (1-9) 11.

Rice (1-8); 12. TCU LAST WEEK 14-59, Michigan 26-29, Army 0-38, Utah 2-53, 0-3, Duke 14-35, Indiana 13-17, Harvard 0-48, Missouri 7-23, Yale 3-24 Arizona (2-7); 13. Illinois (1-6-2); NEXT LOSS Michigan State Syracuse Nevada (Las Vegas) Air Force So. Carolina Wisconsin Cornell Kansas St. Dartmouth Idle 14.

Virginia (2-7); 15. Pentagon (Air Units) (3-7); 16. Columbia (3-4-1); 17. Baylor (2-7); 18. Oklahoma State (3-7); 19.

Tennessee (2-5-1); 20. Florida (3-5). Closer than score indicated. 49ers no-shows grow The only issue in doubt at games in San francisco these days is who will number the most: no-shows or the no-stay-at-homes? Sunday, before 33,155 fans (the no- shows numbered 12,886) the No. 1- rated 49ers (1-10) succumbed to St.

Louis (3-8) in a crucial test of weakness. The no-shows missed a game that was lost because of some no-catches. Forty-niners' receiver Freddie Solomon personally dropped four passes that would have netted at least 130 yards. While the stands were half-empty, boos from fans listening to the game on radio at home could be heard within a 10-mile radius of the stadium. The defeat followed an announcement by San Francisco officials that the contract of GM Joe Thomas (6-19 in two years) had been extended by four years, to 1986.

Should the 49ers wind up 1-15 this year, Thomas can expect to be rehired through the year 2000. CRUMMY GAME OF THE WEEK: Tampa Bay vs. Buffalo. REFS' BLOWN CALL OF THE WEEK: On Buffalo's final drive, Joe Ferguson passed to Roland Hooks for an apparent first down. However, Refs ruled Hooks had trapped the ball, though TV cameras showed otherwise.

The call killed the Bills' drive; they lost, 25-24. TEAM, RECORD 1. San Francisco (1-10) 2. Cincinnati (1-10) 3. Chicago (3-8) 4.

Kansas City (2-9) 5. St. Louis (3-8) Def LAST WEEK 10-16, St. Louis 21-34, Oakland 14-17, Minnesota 23-29, San Diego San Francisco, 16-10 6. Buffalo (3-8); 7.

Tampa Bay (4-7); 8. Detroit (4-7) 10. World Team Tennis (season over). NEXT LOSS Los Angeles Pittsburgh Atlanta Seattle Washington 9. Cleveland (5-6); Chris Boskey top newcomer KANSAS CITY, MO.

(UPI) Coach Earle Bruce of Iowa State had originally planned to bring freshman defensive tackle Chris Boskey along slowly. Boskey was the first blue chip prospect the school had ever landed and Bruce did not want to risk overexposing him right off to Big Eight football. The likes of Greg Roberts of Oklahoma and Steve Lindquist of Nebraska across the line of scrimmage has a way of unnerving defensive tackles, much less freshmen defensive tackles. But Bruce had less than three weeks to nurture his prize pupil. Junior Greg Rensink, a returning starter from the Iowa State team that went 8-3 and earned a trip to the Peach Bowl in 1977, suffered a knee injury during the week before the season opener against Rice and was lost for the season.

That moved Boskey, a prep All- America at St. Francis De Sales High (Chicago) just one year before, into the starting lineup. And he has been there ever since, holding his own even better than his coach had anticipated. A leading tackier Through 10 games, Boskey leads all conference interior linemen in tackles with 116, including 44 of the solo variety and six for negative yardage. His performance has earned him the 1978 UPI Big Eight Newcomer of the Year award in scattered balloting in which seven other players received votes.

"Chris has been outstanding," said Bruce. "He's a very active football player with great feet and he really hits. Chris has played well from the beginning after winning a starting assignment in the first game. To sum it up, he's just a very, very talented football player." Boskey was named the Most Valuable Player of the rugged Chicago Catholic League in his senior year and also the captain of the Illinois All-State team. Every school in both the Big Eight and the Big Ten recruited his talents in addition to Alabama, Notre Dame, UCLA, Southern Cal, Tennessee and Pittsburgh.

Joined his brother But Iowa State had an ace in the hole Boskey's brother Tom was already in uniform and featured in a starring role for the Cyclones. Tom was an honorable mention All-Big Eight choice in his junior year as a linebacker. "I think blood is thicker than water," said Tom Boskey. "I think Chris came here because I was here. He could have gone anywhere." "Just through the years, watching Tom play here and watching everyone else build this program," said Chris Boskey, "I knew this was where I wanted to come.

Tom didn't really influence me. The people here are just super." Boskey has played his best games this season against the best teams. Against second-ranked Nebraska, the 64, 240-pound tackle made 23 tackles and broke up a pass. Against No. 4 Oklahoma, he made 12 tackles, caused, ir fumble and recovered another.

And last week at Oklahoma State, with his team a six-point underdog, Bos key made 16 tackles including two for hll losses to help Iowa State post a 28 15 J( jj victory: a win that has projected Cyclones back into the rankings 20) for the first time in six weeks. There are four Boskey brothers ai (to Iowa State but only two of them football. Ironically, it is the first Chris and Tom have ever played on same field together. "The closest we ever came to playing' on the same team was on the said Chris Boskey. "But even then, we" never played on the same teams we always tried to even up the sides." Boskey received 10 votes from the member UPI selection panel, com-', prised of three balloters from each ference city.

The only player close "1 the balloting was Kansas State wide ceiver Eugene Goodlow, who six votes. irt' Cyclones move up in defensive statistics All-league picks Salina South selections on the I- Pam Schneider and Michelle 70 All-League team are (from Jaeger. (Journal Photos) left) Shelly Duran, Betsy Sloan, 5 Salina players on I -70 VB squad KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI) Iowa State used its 28-15 upset victory over Oklahoma State last weekend not only to move back into the rankings for the first time in six weeks but also to move into the lead in two Big Eight defensive categories. The Cyclones, ranked No.

20 this week, are first in the conference in both passing defense with an average yield of 106.1 yards and scoring defense, where they share the lead with No. 4 Oklahoma at 14.4 points per game. Iowa State also ranks third behind No. 2 Nebraska and Oklahoma in total defense with an average yield of 297.6 yards per game. Nebraska is allowing 1 270.1 yards and Oklahoma 293.8 yards'" per game.

In addition to total defense, the Corn- huskers lead in rushing defense, offense and scoring. Nebraska's Blac.kt.jn-.. shirt defense is limiting foes to 136.9 yards on the ground while its offense posting an average of 499.8 yards and rol 38.9 points per game. Oklahoma leads in only one category this week, rushing offense, with an erage of 407.1 yards per game. State leads in the only other team gory passing with an average 187.8 yards per game.

The twelve member 1-70 All-League volleyball team is heavily dominated by Salina high school players. It was the first all-star team chosen for the newly-formed 1-70 League. Named to the first team were Salina South's Shelly Duran, Pam Schneider, and Betsy Sloan. The second six includes South's Michelle Jaeger and Salina Central's Juliet Lopez. Duran and Sloan, both seniors, had outstanding seasons as spikers for the Cougars.

Schneider and Jaeger, also seniors, were named for their setting abilities, while Lopez rotated between a setting and spiking position for the Mustangs. Juliet Lopez KU Jayhawks stop contact work to prevent injuries Salina South, coached by Kathy Burkle, placed third in the Class 5A state volleyball tournament this season and also won the 1-70 championship. The Salina Central squad was coached by Maxine Hays. Mack Green to return MANHATTAN, Kan. (UPI) Kansas State's football squad held a regular practice session Tuesday despite cold weather conditions.

Running back Mack Green, center Dennis Pilkinton and nose guard Monte Bennett will be ready to play in Saturday's game. Coach Jim Dickey said he wasn't sure how to prepare for Kansas. The Jayhawks have been operating from the wishbone and pro set offenses this year. LAWRENCE, Kan. (UPI) Kansas coach Bud Moore ran his Jayhawks through a light workout Tuesday in preparation for Saturday's game at Manhattan against Kansas State.

Moore reduced contact work for the second consecutive day and said the Jayhawks would not do any hitting the remainder of the week. "We've reduced the hitting because of all our injuries," Moore said. "We still made some progress. A great deal can be accomplished with a non-contact practice if the players put some effort into it." Moore said the Jayhawks continued to work on Kansas State's many offensive and defensive formations. He said he was impressed with the Jayhawks' two practices this week.

"We've made some progress, but we still have some things to accomplish," he said. "We're still polishing up our game plan." Barker leads KW in defense points; As has been the case for most of the season, Rick Barker led the Wesleyan football team in defensive points Saturday afternoon in the season finale. Barker piled up 41 points in a 20-7" loss to the Moundbuilders. Following; him were Lee Newell with 21, Paul Aguilar with 20, Virgil Merlau at 19 and- Phil Dieterle with 18. Send your news tip to The Salina Journal, $17 in prizes every week.

String of close losses boosts confidence of Chiefs' players KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI) The Kansas City Chiefs have won less games than all but two teams in the National Football League but a string of close losses has begun to breed confidence in Marv Levy's young club. The Chiefs, with 31 players with less than three years experience in the NFL, lost to Pittsburgh, 27-24, three weeks ago, fell to Oakland 20-10 with the Raiders scoring a touchdown in the final five seconds two weeks ago and then lost to San Diego, 29-23, in overtime last week. The Chiefs also lost a three-point decision to Houston (20-17) and an overtime game to Denver (23-17) this season. "The strong teams win close football games," said Levy.

"Teams that have built up a level of confidence tend to win the close ones. We're still struggling to gain that confidence. "A lot of our players are gaining a belief in themselves. I have never seen a team look for less excuses, do less All to have street named after him LOUISVILLE, Ky. (UPI) The Louisville Board of Aldermen Tuesday night voted 6-5 to rename a major downtown street Muhammad Ali Boulevard in honor of the world heavyweight boxing champion, the former Cassius Clay.

The name change will affect Walnut Street, a major downtown street. The intersection of Fourth Street, now renamed River City Mall, and Walnut, 40 years ago was Louisville's busiest corner. A native of Louisville, Ali grew up in the city's west end. pointing of the finger at other guys in the locker room. This team is not a dispirited one.

(Former President Dwight Eisenhower once said morale is built by winning the battles. That struck me. I don't know if you can win with good morale but I know it can help you continue winning once you start. "We have good leaders, guys like Jack Rudnay and Emmitt Thomas, and we've had some heralded kids come in here who have been workers and not talkers. Our second and third year guys have seen themselves improve and realize their future is still ahead of them." The Chiefs are 2-9 with victories over Cincinnati and Cleveland.

The Bengals are one of the two teams with less wins than the Chiefs this season and San Francisco is the other, both with one. Kansas City will be hurting for Sunday's home game with the Seattle Sea- hawks, however, with defensive backfield starters Gary Green and Tim Gray both nursing bruised shoulders. Gray is a likely starter but Green is "very questionable," according to Levy. Seattle, with Jim Zorn completing better than 50 percent of his passes for the first time in his three-year career, leads the NFL in passing and the absence of either Green or Gray could be critical. KSU Varsity-Alumni cage game is Saturday night MANHATTAN The impressive list keeps growing.

Eighteen former Kansas State Basketball standouts plan to play in KSU's annual Varsity and Alunni basketball games here Saturday night. Familiar names Richard Ewy, Al Peithman, Nick Pino and Gene Williams have been added to the earlier list of 14 ex-Kansas State cagers. "Looking at some of the big names of alums who are coming back, maybe it's, a good thing that we (the varsity) aren't playing them," offers Wildcat coach Jack Hartman. The games are set for Saturday in KSU's Ahearn Fieldhouse. The Alumni tilt begins at 7:30 p.m.

with the Varsity intrasquad contest to follow. Ewy, Peithman, Pino and Williams join previously announced KSU alums Hayden Abbott (1955-58), Gary Balding (1958-59), Carl Gerlach (1972-75), Phil Heitmeyer (1959-62), Dan Hickert (1978), Lon Kruger 1971-74), Ernie Kusnyer (1970-73), Ed Matuszak (1960-63), David Nelson (1960-64), Bobby Noland (1973-76), Al Peithman (1960-63), Kent Poore (1953-55), Dick Stone (1953-56) and Tyrone Thompson (1977). Another sidelight, among the 60 plus former K-Staters who plan to attend the weekend's activities, but not participate in the game, is the nucleus of the 1951 Wildcat team which finished run- nerup to national champion Kentucky. Included in that group will be Ernie Barrett, Lew Hitch, Don Upson, Bob Rousey and Ed Head. In addition to watching the old- timers, it will be K-State fans' first good peek at the varsity, which officially opens its 1978-79 campaign Nov.

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