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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, January 11, 1968
Douglas ignores hecklers
By Carla Rupp Kansan Staff Reporter
Greg Douglas, Keokuk, Iowa sophomore, really didn't mind
1.6 rule amended by NCAA
NEW YORK — (UPI)— The NCAA amended the 1.6 C-minus rule which was established two years ago. It provides that no student may participate in NCAA sanctioned sports unless his academic standard is 1.6 or better when he enters college and that he continues normal progress toward graduation.
The new amendment enables schools with higher than average admission requirements to be free of applying the 1.6 requirement for continuing eligibility while those with less demanding admission requirements would have to continue using 1.6.
Asa Bushnell, commissioner of the Eastern College Athletic Association, said he believed his group "could live with the changes." The ECAC has 165 members who belong to the NCAA.
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the heckling from his Iowa friends when the Jayhawks played at Iowa State Monday night.
"It's only natural." Douglas said, "that the idea of someone leaving there and playing for another state would upset some of the Iowa folks."
He said he knew several fans from his home state and had played against some of the Cyclone team members, when he was in high school.
"The Iowa fans wanted their team to win and so the Cyclones played hot," Douglas said. "It was a tough game, but exciting."
KU won in the last seconds, 68-67, with Douglas scoring seven points.
Having recently emerged from the bench, Douglas says he appreciates playing more. As the no. 6 man in the Jayhawks' line-up, he saw his most action to date in the Iowa State game. He feels that his confidence mounts after each such varsity game.
This is Douglas' first year in college basketball. Although he was one of the outstanding big men in high school basketball two years ago, he came to Kansas without an athletic scholarship because he could not meet the NCAA 1.6 scholastic predictability rule.
The rangy 6-8 Iowa worked hard last year as a freshman in the classroom and at various jobs to pay his way through school. As a result, he qualified for a scholarship this year.
Douglas proved his determination in another way last summer. He pared off 50 pounds, dropping from 270 to 220.
Although he was not allowed to
Sets scoring record
Wilt Chamberlain set the Big Eight single game scoring record in his first varsity game. Chamberlain set the record with a 52 point performance against Northwestern in 1957.
participate in freshman basketball last winter. Douglas played with an independent team in Topeka to keep his shooting and timing sharp.
When asked what his goal is, Douglas responded: "To be able to start.
"Yes, I'd like that—to start," he said smiling. "That would be something for me to work for."
Douglas said that if KU continues to play better as a unit, the Jayhawks have a good chance of winning the Big Eight championship.
American League meets to choose new KC owner
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — (UPI)—American League club owners and officials met today to name the owner of the new baseball franchise for Kansas City.
Announcement of the new owner was expected at a news conference following a meeting at the Hotel Muehlebach.
"Selection of the new Kansas City owner will be the first order of business," said league president Joseph Cronin. "We'll make the announcement as soon as we reach a decision."
The owners and representatives, before making the announcement, will hear recommendations prepared by a special four-man screening committee on expansion, headed by Arthur Allyn, president of the Chicago White Sox.
Of the four applicants interviewed by Allyn's committee last month, Ewing Kauffman, founder of a drug laboratory that made him a multimillionaire, appeared to have the inside track.
Price of the franchise, including players, was set at approximately $5.3 million.
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Packers unanimous Super Bowl favorite
MIAMI—(UPI)Never in the history of sports have so many been so sure of one thing. Green Bay is going to wallop Oakland in the Super Bowl Sunday.
It's unanimous. Not a single soul has been discovered, particularly in these parts, who likes the Raiders over the Packers well enough to back his opinion with some of that hard coin of the realm.
This situation irks a few people.
One of them is Al Davis. He used to be head coach and general manager of the Raiders and has done for them what Vince Lombardi has done for the Packers.
Al Davis goes by the title of managing general partner with the Raiders now and actually is the guiding genius behind the
club. So it's understandable why he's irked by everybody burying his Raiders even before they're dead.
"Have you heard of anybody picking you to win," somebody asked Davis.
"Nobody in America picks us," he said.
"No one at all?"
"I take it back. My 12-year-old son, Mark, picks us."
"What does he say?"
"He says we're in deep with the Packers, but he still picks us."
"I won't answer that question."
"Why not?"
"How about you, Al? Do you think the Raiders can beat the Packers?"
"Because I resent it. Wadd'ya think we came down here for? To play marbles?"
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