Friday, December 15: 1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Favored as Big 8 champs
Coaches side with KU
By Mike Jones Kansan Staff Reporter
With two weeks of the 1967-68 basketball season gone, records of some of the Big Eight teams indicate that the championship race could be a tight one.
KU, the pre-season favorite, has the worst record in the conference with a 1-2 mark. Oklahoma State, the seventh place finisher last year, is now 4-1 and Missouri, the cellar dweller last season, stands 2-2.
Last of a series
Many of the Big Eight coaches are still counting on KU to be the team to beat.
"December losses don't really mean much," Tex Winter, head coach at Kansas State said. "Most of us just try to get settled down for the conference race."
Norm Stewart, in his first year at Missouri, said that KU looked like the favorite.
"This is my first year in the conference, and I really hate to pick," Stewart said. "KU has faced some good basketball schools in Louisville and Loyola. They will still be tough."
Coach Ted Owens said KU faces the toughest non - conference schedule since he started coaching here in 1960.
"We want to do the best we can in the non-conference games in preparation for the conference games which really count.
"Most of the good players in the conference are back. I feel certain that every team in the conference will be improved, including our own," Owens said. "Last year we won the title by three games, but we actually had more of a struggle than we did the previous year when we won by one game. It should be a tight race."
Hank Iba, who has been coaching at Oklahoma State for 34 years, said he also favors KU in the conference race.
Colorado's head coach Sox Walseth said that it could be a wide open race.
"You'd have to go along with KU on the strength of all the material it has returning," Iba said. "But there are several other teams with exceptional potential. Nebraska, Colorado, Oklahoma, Iowa State, and Kansas State are all in an excellent position to be tough."
"I'd say that five teams—Kansas, Kansas State, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Iowa State—look to be contenders."
Kansan sports staff prediction for KU: first.
--backer, and Mitch Botota and John Meyer of Missouri at halfback.
Three KU football players have been selected for the 1967 Big Eight All-Academic defensive football team.
Jayhawk gridders receiving a first team berth are Willie McDaniel, majoring in pre-medicine, at middle guard; Mike Sweatman, majoring in physical education, at a linebacker position; and Dave Morgan, majoring in education, at a halfback post.
Honorable mention was awarded to end Tom Anderson, quarterback Dave Bouda, halfback Bob Druten, tackle Charles Elmer and guard Jack Medford.
Filling out the remainder of the first team are Doug Cathey of Oklahoma State and Jim Files of Oklahoma at end, Bill Young of Oklahoma State and Mike Goyne of Kansas State at tackle, Danny Lankas of Kansas State and Bruce Stensrud of Oklahoma at linebacker, and Mitch Botota and John Meyer of Missouri at halfback.
Listed on the No. 1 offensive unit are Zabel of Oklahoma and Jarry Philpott of Oklahoma State at end, Bruce Pieratt of Oklahoma State and Dennis Storey of Iowa State at tackle, Kirk Tracy of Colorado and Jim Willsey of Missouri at guard, Bruce Heath of Colorado at center, Missouri's Gary Kombrink at quarterback, Ron Shotts of Oklahoma and Chuck Weber of Missouri at halfback, and Dick Davis of Nebraska at fullback.
Coach lauds Bearcats for offensive attack
KU freshman basketball coach Gale Cateltts says Cincinnati will be the strongest team the Jayhawks have faced this season.
KU squares off with the Bear-cats in the second half of the Sunflower doubleheader tonight in Allen Field House. Kansas State plays Texas A&M in the first game.
Catlett, who scouted Cincinnati against Miami of Ohio last Saturday, said the Bearcats were a fine offensive team that likes to fast break and does it well.
Other returning starters from last year's 17-9 club are forwards Gordon Smith and John Howard and guard Dean Foster.
Ard stands 6-8 and was selected as one of the top ten sophomores in the country by Sports Illustrated magazine. Catlett said Ard was strong and quick and could hurt KU on the boards.
"I feel that to beat Cincinnati we will have to do two things," Catlett said. "First we will have to out-rebound them, and second we will have to play an outstanding game on defense. We have to rebound on the offensive board and not let them get the fast break started."
Howard averaged 13 points a game last year, but he is currently the sixth man on the Bearcat squad. Forward Jim Ard and guard Don Ogletree, a pair of sophomores, have broken into the starting line-up.
The Bearcats are led by 6-9 Rick Roberson. Roberson was the squad's leading rebounder and scorer last season, averaging 14 points per game.
"I think that Ogletree is playing because of his defensive ability," Catlett said. "He is averaging only five points a game, but he is playing ahead of a man (Howard) who averaged 13 points last year. You know he must play tough defense."
Catlett said that Cincinnati was a well disciplined team and that Tay Baker does an excellent job coaching them.
KU's veteran forward Rodger Bohnenstiehl will not start tonight's game. Bohnenstiehl has been sick with the flu this past week. Coach Ted Owens hasn't announced who will start in Bohnenstiehl's position. Vernon Vanoy, Greg Douglas and Phil Harmon have all been working out at the spot this week.
AL club owners will meet in KC
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — (UPI)—The American League said Thursday through its screening committee that club owners will meet here Jan. 11, instead of Chicago as originally planned, to announce the new franchise owner of Kansas City's 1969 expansion baseball team.
Arthur Allyn, owner of the Chicago White Sox and chairman of the five-man screening committee, made the announcement.
He said the change was made because of the interest and convenience to Kansas Citians. It has the approval of American League president Joe Cronin.
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