Friday, January 12, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Pilots will fly at Jayhawks Saturday
Portland, a team which lost its first 11 outings this season, moves into the Midwest Saturday night to do battle with the Kansas Jayhawks.
Last Saturday, the Pilots upset the eighth-ranked team in the nation, Oklahoma City, 74-63. It was their first victory this season.
"Their overall record is not good, but by beating Oklahoma City, they've shown they have the capability of beating anyone on a given night," Sam Miranda, KU assistant basketball coach, said.
Jesse Perry, 6-7 center, and 6-8 forward Charles Stroughter are Portland's biggest players. Rounding out the front line is 6-4 forward Don Lawson. The guards are Rick Earl and Paul Gloden, both 6-0.
"We haven't seusted Portland directly but we have seen films," he said. "They have fair size and good quickness at the guards."
"We'll play our basic defense and try to beat them with basic sound, fundamental basketball," Miranda said.
KU gets back into the thick of the Big Eight race Monday when the Jayhawks host the Missouri Tigers at Allen Field House.
The Tigers who, in head coach Norm Stewart's first year, have already won more games than in either of the last two seasons, beat Colorado last Saturday. 86-66.
KU beat Missouri, 63-47. Dec. 30 for fifth place in the Big Eight Tournament at Kansas City.
"They're a little better than before," Miranda said. "They have some size in the front line and Gene Pinkney is quick at guard."
Gene Jones, the Tigers' 6-7 senior center, is second in the Big Eight scoring race with a 23.5 points-per-game average.
Tom Johnson and Don Tomlinson, who ranks 9th in scoring with 17.5 points per game, both 6-4, start at the forward spots for MU. Six-foot guard Pete Helmbock completes the starting five.
Missouri leads the conference in field goal percentage with 53.5 per cent, hitting 61 of 114 shots.
"Missouri has been down in recent years and we hope to keep them down," said Miranda. "We'll have to be ready."
Tipoff time for both games is 8:05 p.m.
After the Jayhawks play Portland and Missouri, they face K-State in what should be one of the toughest tests of the Big Eight campaign.
KU goes against the Wildcats in Manhattan on Saturday, Jan. 20.
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Varsity play doubtful
Freshmen athletes at KU probably should forget about participating in spring sports at the varsity level.
Frosh await Big 8 ruling
Although the NCAA passed a rule Wednesday which permitted freshman eligibility, the Big Eight faculty representatives still have to approve the rule. It appears that representatives won't approve it.
The representatives' next meeting is Feb.29. It will take a unanimous vote to change the present rule.
At least one representative, Merk Hobson of Nebraska, indicated that he would vote against freshman eligibility.
"Besides, right now the Big Eight has another rule which bars a student from participating more than three years. I would rather see a boy play his senior year than his freshman year."
"Many of us have acted negatively to the idea in the past," Hobson said. "I, for one, have not changed my mind. We have worked hard so that boys could participate on the freshman level and I hate to see freshman competition disrupted.
C. Clyde Jones, Kansas State's faculty representative, was more optimistic about the new rule.
"I don't really know how the vote will go," Jones said, "But I
do know we are certainly going to have a look at it. If the other conferences adopt it (the Southeastern and the Western conferences already have adopted it), we will have to."
Other representatives are waiting before they make a final decision, but none of them appear to be pushing the rule.
"Of course we have definitely been against freshman eligibility in the past," said Colorado's William Baughn. "Now—well—I will just have to wait and see. The rule has both advantages and disadvantages."
"Freshman eligibility would be economic, because schools would not have to give as many scholarships. However, many of us feel that a freshman needs a year to feel his way around."
KU's faculty representative, Laurence Woodruff, said he thought there was a good chance the rule would not pass.
Oklahoma State's Randall Jones said he had not decided how he would vote.
I don't know, Jones said. "I think a primary disadvantage would be adjustment. The big advantage would be in the minor sports like tennis and golf. Here, at O-State, the coaches are limited on the number of scholarships they can give and many times
there is a boy on the freshman squad who could help the varsity."
Most of the coaches and athletic directors around the conference are in favor of freshman eligibility. All of KU's spring sport coaches, including track coach Bob Timmons, baseball coach Floyd Temple and swimming coach Dick Reamon, think freshman eligibility would be a great thing for KU.
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