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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, November 14, 1967
Jayhawk jabber
By Richard Lundquist Kansan Sports Editor
The Jayhawk is no longer a mythical bird, at least not on the football field. It's for real.
Coaches scoff, players sneer, and alumni close their wallets when you mention "moral victories"—but if it is possible to gain prestige by losing, KU did it Saturday.
Defensive line coach Dave McClain said, "We played as well as we could, except for the dropped passes and our punting game." That "except" was the difference in the game.
KU, through the first four conference games this season, has had more midnight warnings than Cinderella. But despite the "just wait" attitude of skeptics, the Jayhawks keep turning back the clock.
Yet most of the people who saw the game would agree that KU is as good a football team as Colorado—if not better.
True, the Jayhawks lost a football game on the scoreboard Saturday, but to most observers, they proved themselves an outstanding football team, not just a lucky one.
The Buffaloes, at full strength for the first time since early in the season, played what Colorado Head Coach Eddie Crowder called a "much better" game against KU than they did against Oklahoma. Fullback Wilmer Cooks, running more like a water buffalo than a golden buffalo, carried the ball 30 times for 72 yards and gave Colorado the inside threat it missed in losses to Oklahoma and Oklahoma State. His presence in the line-up, as McClain said, "keeps you honest in the middle."
Playing a larger, stronger, and
more experienced Colorado team, the Jayhawks were not physically whipped. And it is not likely that they will be against Oklahoma, for the Sooners prefer finesse to power.
Playing behind a lightning-quick line, Sooner quarterback Bob Warmack will float down the line of scrimmage and as often as not stick the ball in the stomach of tailbacks Steve Owens or Ron Shotts, running off-tackle slants. McClain said that the Sooners ran the same off-tackle play 48 times against Iowa State.
KU, however, will not be running scared. It's been a "come from behind" football team all year and will have the chance to be that once again.
The Jayhawks are still the best bet to derail the Sooner express during Oklahoma's three remaining games. Such a derailment could carry with it a conference championship and possibly a bowl bid.
If that thought seems ridiculous in view of preseason predictions, no one has told Pepper Rodgers.
The football historian can refute the miracle doubter by citing the 1965-66 UCLA football team. It was there that Rodgers and Head Coach Tommy Proth inherited a losing team and defied preseason predictions by turning it into a Pacific Coast champion. And if that wasn't enough, the Bruins again ignored the prognosticators by knocking off the nation's top ranked team, Michigan State, in the Rose Bowl.
UCLA won the Rose Bowl by using such surprise weapons as the onsides kick and tackle-elible pass. And oh yeah . . . they had a couple of back names named Gary Beban and Mel Farr.
Warmach named best back
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — (UPI)— Oklahoma's Bob Warmack, a frail-looking 170-pounder who strikes like lightning, was voted Big Eight Back of the Week today after quarterbacking the Sooners' 52-14 stampede over Iowa State last Saturday.
Warmack played one half the game against Iowa State but totaled 218 yards, running 25 yards for one touchdown and throwing 76 yards for another.
"Bob just turned in another of his fine quarterbacking jobs for us," praised Coach Chuck Fairbanks.
The spindly 6-footer finished with 47 yards rushing on nine carries and hit seven of 13 passes for 171 yards before going to the bench with Oklahoma leading 40-0.
Nebraska halfback Ben Gregory, who carried 20 times in the Cornhuskers' 9-0 win over Oklahoma State and netted 120 yards, finished second in the balloting of the panel of Big Eight sportswriters.
"This was probably Ben's best day ever—almost all his yards came on second-effort running." said assistant coach Mike Cori-gan. "He also was almost 100 per cent effective on blocking."
Other backs nominated were Kansas quarterback Bobby Douglass, who totaled 200 yards for the sixth time in eight games—hitting eight of 23 passes for 181 yards and rushing for 45 more in a 12-8 loss to Colorado; halfback Jon Staggers of Missouri, whose dazzling 5-yard touchdown run put the Tigers ahead to stay in a 28-6 win over Kansas State; Colorado slotback John Farler, 46 yards rushing against Kansas; halfback Les Webster of Iowa State, 19
yards rushing and effective blocking against Oklahoma; Kansas State punter Bob Coble, with a 43-yard average on 11 kicks against Missouri, and defensive back Benny Goodwin of Oklahoma State, with eight tackles and one pass interception at Nebraska.
Bruins move up
NEW YORK — (UPI) — The United Press International top 20 major football teams with first place votes and won-lost-tied record.
Team Points
1. UCLA 18 7-0-1 327
2. Tennessee 5 6-1 280
3. Southern Calif. 5 8-1 251
4. Purdue 5 7-1 231
5. Indiana 1 8-0 189
6. Wyoming 9-0 146
7. Oklahoma 1 6-1 130
8. Oregon State 6-2-1 93
9. Notre Dame 6-2 88
10. North Carolina State 8-1 66
Second 10—11, Alabama 33; 12,
Penn State 21; 13, Miami 20; 14,
Texas 15; 15, Houston 14; 16, Minnesota 8; 17, University of Texas at El Paso, 6; 18, Florida 5; 19,
Auburn 4; 20, Georgia 3.
Gold hid in undies
TOKYO —(UPI)— Customs officials observing the walk of Catherine Anne Bromley became suspicious of her baggy skirts and unsteady steps. The English woman was searched and police said they found 25 gold bars weighing 60 pounds and worth $41.6 million tucked away in her underwear.
KU makes offensive changes
The KU football squad Monday worked out without pads for the first time this season.
After the hour and fifteen minute workout Coach Pepper Rodgers announced three changes in the offensive line-up. Senior Ben Olison was moved ahead of Tom Anderson as split end. Sophomore Mike Reeves was placed at number one fullback in front of senior J. C. Hixon and flanker Don Shanklin lost his first team spot to John Jackson.
SAEs, Phi Delts win intramural 'A' games
Rodgers said he was not sure if the changes would be permanent.
Rodgers indicated he felt it was time the KU squad was allowed to let up on its demanding practice sessions.
"We have worked hard all year," Rodgers said. "It is a little late to try to improve now. We are through with the majority of teaching. Now it is just what we can do against Oklahoma and what Oklahoma can do against us."
There were no serious injuries resulting from the Colorado game. Defensive tackle Orville Turgeon was nursing a sprained shoulder Monday but he should be ready for the Oklahoma game.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon rolled to a 13-6 quarterfinal victory over Phi Kappa Psi Monday as Gary Dickerson scored two touchdowns in the Fraternity "A" playoff.
The Sig Alphas led most of the game as the Phi Psis scored first in the first quarter on a 20-yard pass to Robbie Allen but failed to make the conversion. The Sig Alphas came right back with a drive culminating in a one-yard touchdown pass from Larry Ferrete to Dickerson. The Sig Alphas faked the kick and Rick Galles hit Al Hack for the extra point to give them a 7-6 lead.
The Sig Alphs were in control the rest of the game with Galles hitting Dickerson on a 40-yard touchdown aerial on a double pass from Ferree in the last quarter for the final score.
Phi Delts win
Phi Delta Wish
Phi Delta Theta used two second quarter touchdown passes from Joe Jeter to Roy Holliday, one of 35 and the other 40 yards to handle Alpha Tau Omega 14-0 Friday. Bill Daniels kicked both extra points as the ATO's did not mount a serious threat in their quarter-final game.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon plays Phi
Gamma Delta, who drew a first round bye, and Phi Delta Theta faces Delta Upsilon, who also drew a bye, in semi-final games today.
Fraternity B playoffs continued as Phi Delta Theta No. 1 beat Delta Upsilon No. 2 12-6, and Beta No. 1 routed Phi Kappa Sigma 31-7. It was Phi Gamma Delta over Delta Upsilon No. 1 6-0 and Phi Kappa Theta defeated Triangle 6-0.
Independent playoffs
In Independent B playoff action, MBA ran over McCollum 32-0 before losing to the Greens 21-0 in a semi-final game. Templin B-17 whipped Radio Biophysics 24-0 and then fell to the Laws 19-12 in their semi-final game. The Greens and Laws both had first round byes.
The Greens and Laws will meet in the Independent B championship game Wednesday.
Independent A playoff action has not started yet.
Lie and Chunnamond were named Hill Champions in badminton today after their final round victory over Win and Chankhunthod in the intramural badminton tournament.
Bowl committee denies inviting Sooners
MIAMI—(UPI)—Miami's Orange Bowl Committee denies that invitations already have been extended to Tennessee and Oklahoma to play in the New Year's Day classic, but the OBC chairman is hinting at the probability.
"We won't have time to meet again after Saturday's games," said C. Jackson Baldwin, chairman of the Orange Bowl Committee, following a committee meeting Monday. "Our people will be scattered all over, watching ball games Saturday. We'll have to do everything by phone."
Baldwin denied, however, that invitations already had been extended to Tennessee and Oklahoma.
"No sir," he said. "No invitations will be extended until Monday. That's the NCAA rule." The National Collegiate Athletic Association last year ruled that colleges couldn't be handed invitations to post-season games until the Monday following the third playing Saturday of November. Monday, Nov. 20, is the earliest possible date this year.
Asked if Tennessee and Oklahoma are in the running, Baldwin said:
"Yes sir, they're strongly in consideration.
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