Monday, December 4, 1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Both nationally ranked
Cardinals return to KU
KU's Jayhawks and Louisville, both ranked among the nation's top five teams in pre-season wire service polls, square off Wednesday night at Allen Field House in a rematch of last spring's NCAA regional battle won by Kansas, 70-68.
In the pre-season ratings, Kansas was picked third by United Press International and Louisville fourth. The Cardinals were 23-5 last season, and Kansas finished with a 23-4 mark.
The game will mark the second contest of the young season for each team. Louisville, the defending Missouri Valley champions, romped over Georgetown in its first outing, 118-86, and the Crimson and Blue downed Utah State 84-55.
The Cardinals are led by 6-8
center Westley Unseld, brother of former KU star George Unseld, and 6-3 guard Butch Beard. Beard was the team's leading scorer last season splitting the chords at a 20.5 point-per-game average. Unseld was next at an 18.7 clip.
However, Unseld, a consensus All American, was the nation's third rebounder last year with an average of 19.
Unseld broke the Louisville individual scoring record Friday with a 45 point performance against Georgetown. In addition, the 6-8 senior came within one of establishing a new individual rebound mark when he pulled down 29.
Other returning regulars for the Kentuckians are 6-5 Jerry King and 6-3 Fred Holden, who scored
at 10.9 and 13.6 clips respectively last season. The fifth spot is up for grabs between 6-3 holdover Denis Deeken and 6-4 sophomore Marvin Selvy, brother of Furman's one-time scoring ace Frank Selvy, who set the all-time one-season NCAA scoring record at 41.7 in 1954.
Louisville enters the 1967-68 roundball campaign with a new basketball coach for the first time in 23 years. John Dromo took over the spot vacated by Peck Hickman, who stepped down to devote full time to his duties as athletic director.
Ted Owens' Jayhawks also retain four of the five players who started against the Cardinals last spring. Jo Jo White, who was high point man for both teams with 22 points, returns along with Forwards Rodger Bohnenstihl and Bruce Sloan and center Vernon Vanoy.
Junior Phil Harmon, who led all scorers Saturday with a 24- point performance, is also slated to see a lot of action against the Cardinals.
There is "no chance" that KU defensive back Ward Coleman can play another year of football, KU Athletic Director Wade Stinson said Friday.
During those five years a player is eligible for one year of freshman competition and three years on the varsity. In addition he may be redshirted—help out—for a year or, in special cases, may apply for a hardship ruling to gain an extra year.
Sooners capture Big Eight crown
Coleman said he decided to look into the eligibility question after having heard about Mike Shinn, who gained an extra year of play after being injured. Shinn, who played end and tackle for KU, saw varsity competition in 1962 and 1963. Injured in 1964 while playing in only one game, Shinn won a hardship ruling and played his senior year of eligibility in 1965. Shinn first enrolled in 1961.
Coleman, the "hawk" on the Jayhawk defensive unit had indicated his intention to look into the possibility of playing an additional year. He was injured during the 1966 season and felt he might gain a hardship ruling from the Big Eight.
Hardship case gets thumbs down ruling
Stinson explained that both the Big Eight and the NCAA have a rule that a student must complete his athletic eligibility within five years of the time he enters the university. Coleman first enrolled at KU in 1963.
By United Press International Oklahoma's No. 3 ranked and Orange Bowl-bound Sooners capped a near-perfect season with a smashing 38-14 victory over Oklahoma State that shattered a two-year jinx.
The Cowboys had staged one point upsets over the Sooners in each of the two previous seasons.
Coleman, who started in all ten games as a defensive back his sophomore year tore a heel ligament the following season. That year he only played in the Colorado game and then was only in for four kickoffs. He estimated he probably played "about twenty seconds" that year.
The Oklahoma victory also enabled the Sooners to finish a perfect 7-0 in the Big Eight and 9-1 overall.
By United Press International
Tailback Steve Owens and Ron Shotts and quarterback Bob Warmack led the Sooner assault on Oklahoma State. Owens scored twice on short runs and rushed for 136 yards to capture the Big Eight rushing title with a season net of 808.
Shotts ran for 108 yards, finishing second in the conference in rushing with 739. Warmack added to the Cowboy injury with scoring passes of 41 and 37 yards.
The loss finished Oklahoma State at 4-5-1 for the year and the Cowboys tied Nebraska for fifth in the conference, each at 3-4.
For the Sooners, who meet second-ranked Tennessee 9-1 in the Orange Bowl New Year's night at Miami, it was their finest season since 1958 when Oklahoma was 9-1 before handing Syracuse a 9-1 loss in the Orange Bowl.
With five clubs playing .500 or better this season, the Big Fight also posted a 14-9-1 mark against non-conference opposition with Colorado. Missouri and Nebraska each going 3-0.
"He's a real fine boy," Stinson said of Coleman. "We're sorry not to have him back again."
STUDENT UNION ACTIVITIES
Tuesday, December 5, 1967—3:30 P.M.—Current Events Forum Kansas Union.
Topic: PEACE CORPS IN THE THIRD WORLD Panel made up of Peace Corps members and foreign students
Wednesday, December 6, 1967—9:00 A.M.—Ticket sales begin for the 5th Dimension Concert Information Booth and in the Union, $2.00, $1.50, $1.00 7:00 P.M. & 9:00 P.M.-Classical Film Series, Dyche Aud., 60c Man of Aran 1944, England, Flaherty
Friday, Saturday, Sunday—December 8, 9, 10—7:00 P.M. and 9:30 P.M.-Popular Film Series, Admission 40, Dyche Aud. Seven Days in May with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas
Saturday, December 9, 1967-8:00 P.M.-Special Film Series,
Hoch Auditorium, Admission $1.00
William Shakespeare's WINTER TALES with
Laurence Harvey
Sunday, December 10, 1967-7:00 P.M.-Special Film Series, Ballroom, Kansas Union, Admission 75c
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
"Find a 'Friend' in Europe"—The Flights to Europe committees will have a program of travelogs to be presented at the coffee hour for ANYONE interested in traveling in Europe this summer. The meeting will be held December 12th at 7:00 P.M. in the Big 8 Room of the Union.
The 5th Dimension in Concert—December 13th at 7:30 P.M. in Hoch Auditorium. Tickets: $2.00,$1.50,$1.00