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Wednesday. February 4, 1976
University Daily Kansan
KU hopes to add to Husker jinx
Clint Johnson chases loose ball
By ALLEN QUAKENBUSH
Sixth Edition
What does Nebraska coach Joe Cipriano
unit it will take for his team to beat KU
to win.
"If they (the Jayhawks) don't play," Cioriana said.
Actually, Cipriano was just joking. But he does have a right to feel jinxed. The Cornhuskers have lost the last seven times they have faced Kansas.
"I don't know what it is," Cipriano said. "When they get up against us, they get stars in their eyes and just think they have to show up to beat us."
KU coach Ted Owens, though, knows a win won't come that easily when the Jayhawks meet Nebraska at 7:35 tonight in Lincoln.
AT 4-1, NEBRASKA is second place in the Big Eight standings, one game ahead of Kansas. Missouri is on top with a 5-p record. The state will be knocked out from the conference ranks.
Nebraska has already lost one league game at home, 62-57, to Missouri last Saturday night. Another loss at home could be disasterous.
KU simply can't afford to fall another name behind the Tigers, who host Kansas City.
Last year, KU took sole possession of first place in the league with a win at Nebraska and went on to win its second straight conference title.
CPRIAPAN IS PROBABLY still having nightmares about that game. Nebraka led, 67-62, with 50 seconds left and seemingly had the game wrapped up.
But KU came back and tied the score, 67-67, to send the game into overtime. KU finally won, 79-77, on a jump shot by Danny Hunt with five seconds to go in the second overtime.
"We're still feeling bad about that loss last year," said Cipriano, whose team led
by 18 points in the first half. "That's pretty hard for us to forget."
"Actually, though, all we're trying to think about is playing well ourselves. I think it's been shown that any team can beat any team in the conference on a given night."
Against the Jayhawks, Fort has always been tough. He needs only 26 points in his next two games against KU to become all-time leading score against the Jayhawks.
NEBRASKA SHOWED THAT fact itself,
beating K-State in Manhattan. Jerry Fort
and Bentley went on to win.
"It's a big concern, that's for sure."
"We bring our concentration isn't going to take."
Nebraska's biggest threats up front are forward Bobi Siegel, who scored 17 points against Missouri, and center Larry Cox, who led teams in field-goal shooting percentage.
"They've both been doing a good job," Cipriano said. "But they aren't very big. They are going to have to play awfully well to hold their own."
KU'S SIZE HAS Cipriani concerned his Division of 7-6 F1, 6-4 Cox and 6-3 Allen Holder doesn't match up very well with the Balkers, glove, 6-10 K仁 Koenigs and 7-Paul Mokeki.
"They've always been big." Cipriano said of KU. "They've always been able to get on the offensive boards and get the shot back in. We can't let them do that."
Owens, on the other hand, is concerned about Nebraska's quickness, especially the defense.
"We have to be able to handle their pressure defense," Owens said. "They are smaller and quicker than we are. We've had problems with them the last two years."
BOTH KU AND Nebraska have had problems with their offenses this season. But both play sound, fundamental defense. They don't want to be surprised to see a low-sowing game.
"Who knows," he laughed, "it could be 40-30."
Injury interrupts Guinn's career
Associate Sports Editor
By KEN STONE
Every passing minute is a minor frustration for Keith Guinn because he can't do what he loves—jump over a bar set nearly a foot over his head.
Guinn, the University of Kansas indoor and outdoor record holder in the high jump, is recuperating from an operation on his left knee, his takeoff leg.
Surgery over semester break, which removed from his knee a piece of tendon the size of a finger tip, appears to have put an end to Guinn's long history of knee injuries.
That old pain first plagued him his senior year in high school. But it was in his right hand.
"AS LONG AS I bring it along slowly enough, we'll bring it back to full strength," Guinm said recently. "I haven't had any of the old pain that I had before."
It didn't really bother him much during track season. In the spring of 1973 he set a Kansas Relays high school record of 6-10 — his best leap of the year.
HE WAS JUST ANOTHER outstanding prep jumper when he was recruited by KU, one of almost two dozen high schoolers who had missed two years but in January 1974 he leapt against them all.
While battling for a rebound during a basketball game as a starter for Shawnee Mission North's varsity team, Gunn was bumped. When he came down, his leg was forced into an awkward position, and his knee tendons were twisted.
Competing in Oklahoma City, at the United States Track and Field Federation indoor championships, Guinn took his characteristically smooth, curved run-up, gathered speed, arched his back and scaled 7-2, a KU indoor record.
It was just the start of the indoor season.
Guinn is a freshman. He was looking strong in practice. And the field house there is filled with people.
GUINN ATTRACTED the attention of the meet directors of the Olympic Invitational indoor track meet. He left for New York as one of the best hummers in the country.
He returned to Lawrence hobbled. As he was warming up—just taking some relaxed and easy pop-ups—his knee went out again. But this time the injury was more serious. He began walking on crutches and couldn't turn for months.
Yet he returned to competition later in the spring. And the results, according to Guim's jump coach, track assistant Gary Penin, were all but miraculous.
"HE MADE SOME jumps that year off that leg that weren't humanly possible," Pepin said. "Some doctors thought he wouldn't be able to tump again."
But jump again he did. He finished his freshman year with a 6-11 outlook best. And although his right knee still was bothering him, he looked forward to his sophomore year.
The year started slowly. Guinn made jumps in the 6- to 10-gallon in the winter. He had an indoor best of 10- for fourth in the 10-gallon in the winter and stayed at a 10-gallon plateau about a month.
BUT THE DRAKE RELAYS marked a turning point last year. There, he won with a 2-1 jump. And a few weeks later he matched that height at the Big Eight outdoor meet in Norman, Oka. But then his knee, his left one this time, started acting up.
"I was so scared that the right would go out, that I put too much strain on the left, and then I came back," she said.
He had been putting more than the proper share of pressure on his left knee while practicing, while lifting weights and while jumping. Tendonitis developed there.
Guinn made the AAU annual summer touring team by getting 7-2 again. He left for Europe. While in Russia, he had a recurrence of tendonitis. Guinn made only 6-4 at that meet in Klev. But the team doctors gave him aspirin, his knee felt
GUNN WOULD FELT a weakness in his left knee off and on for the rest of the year. In spite of the knee, he went 7-1 in qualifying for the NCAA championship and 6-10 in the finals, where most of the jumps were hammered by wet and windy conditions.
Keith Guinn
better and a week later he went over 7 feet in Prague.
GUNN COMPLETED his summer tour with a 7-1 jump at Durum, N.C. Three weeks later, after a rest at his family's summer home in the Ozarks, he blasted over 7-4 at the Pan American Games trials in Eugene, Ore.
Unfortunately, Guinn was again prevented from competing. This time it was a muscle pull in his right leg. And he returned to Lawrence for consultations with the KU team physician, Dr. John Wertzberger.
The diagnosis and decision to operate on his left knee came in quick order, and now he's looking to the future, which means only one thing right now: the U.S. men's Olympic Trials in June and the Games in July.
"YOU GET INTO this injury prone situation where people ask, 'What happened to you this time?' and it takes a lot of mental toughness to get this out of your mind." Guimu said. "I can't afford another setback. I'm so optimistic this time."
While Guinn is anxious to get back into competition, he said he's not taking any chances. Neither are the KU coaches. They say Guinn won't jump until Wertzberger does, he doesn't, Guinna must be to red-shirted this and compete independently.
Head coach Bob Timmons said yesterday, "We'll make no decision until very, very late. We're not going to take any chances at all. If it gets into the season, and if it looks like touch-and-go as to whether we should or shouldn't (let him jump), we won't."
Guinn who was ranked sixth in the nation last, year, sounds confident, however. Yesterday he had one of the best practices in months.
"Hey" Gunn exclaimed, "I was running today, and it feels really good!"
Football games changed
The Washington State game, which was scheduled to be played here on Sept. 11, has been moved to Seattle where the Jayhawks will open a new domed stadium, Jerry Waugh, assistant athletic director, said yesterday.
KU football fans are going to have to travel to Seattle if they want to see the Jayhawks play Washington State next season.
Therefore, KU will play only five home games next season. The change was necessitated. Waugh said, because of contractual problems.
Waugh said KU football coach Bud Moore had okayed the changes. But because the season will start a week earlier, Moore will have to make the decision to practice earlier than usual. Waugh said.
Late rally lifts East to all-star win
Changing the site of the Washington State game prompted KU to move its game with Oregon State from Sept. 25 to Sept. 4. The Jayhawks will now open the season a week
PHILADLPHIA (AP)—Bob M. McAdoo, the Buffalo Braves' scoring machine, and Washington's Dave Bing led a final-period rally that carried the East to a 123-109 victory over the West in the 38th annual All-Star Association All-Star Game last night.
The KU players will miss four days of classes, Sept. 7-11, because of the change. There is no class on Sept. 6 because of Labor Day.
The East trailed 88-87 when McAdoo and Bing ignited a rally that outscored the West 18-6 in a 3-minute, 34-second span and gave the winners a 105-94 lead they never lost.
"Air travel out there is $15,000 round trip." Waugh said. "We'll save money by staying out there rather than making two trips to the airport, but we did this to try to save some money."
earlier than planned and will have an open date on Sept. 25.
KU won't return to Lawrence after the West Coast State team prepare for Washington State.
McAdoo, who has won the scoring title each of the past two seasons and was the NBA's Most Valuable Player in 1974-75, scored 28 points. East's 15-point score sporing, while Blake, who was voted the game's MVP, had six and Buffalo's Randy Smith had four.
The victory increased the East's margin in the annual All-Star game to 17-9 and marked the first time a team has won the championship. The West took charge in 1971, 1974, 1972
average, scored 22 points. Bing totaled 16,
all in the second half.
U.S. hockey team pounds Slavs
INNSBRUCK (AP)—The U.S. basketball team battled its way into the Olympic championship division yesterday, and American speed skaters Sheila Young and Leah Poulus were come out to compete with Winter Olympic games, which onewear amid pasty today.
Officials pronounced these Games free of eligibility scandals as they prepared to officially open the 12-day festival of international competition.
Sub-freezing temperatures and sunny skies were predicted for the opening ceremony, when the Olympic torch will be brought into a stadium at the foot of Bergisl Mountain, where 1,400 athletes from 37 nations will march.
American medal chances got a boost yesterday when the hockey team convincingly slammed Yugoslavia 84 in the preliminary tournament that decides which six national teams will compete for Olympic medals.
Meanwhile, Young and Poulus, carrying the strongest American hopes for gold medals, worked on on the Olympic speed-skating rink.
"The world record last week gave me real confidence," she said. Miss Young, 25, the new principal at the college,
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