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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, October 6, 1967
Hawks chances 'on line' with Ohio
By Don Steffens Kansan Sports Editor
The Jayhawks success will be on the line tomorrow.
KU meets Ohio in its home opener at Memorial Stadium before an anticipated crowd of 33.-000. Kick-off time is 1:30 p.m.
The Hawks meet one of the better offensive front lines they will face all season, Coach Pepper Rodgers said. Though smaller in size, the Bobcats are well-trained and strong blockers.
They are led by All-America candidate Ken Carmon who weighs 230 pounds and anchors down the left tackle spot. The other tackle is 235-pound John Peters.
The pair should make it tough on KU linebackers Mike Sweatman and Mickey Doyle, and middle guard Emery Hicks.
All-America candidate
Those three have been responsible for a lot of KU tackles but they will have a tough time
bursting past such big linemen. And the Cats are expected to stay on the ground most of the way.
Ohio runs from a multiple-I offensive formation with hand-offs usually going to tailback Dick Conley.
LaVeck averages 7.1
Conley has carried 59 times this fall and has averaged 4.5 yards per carry.
Quarterback Cleve Bryant can also expect good results from fullback Dave LaVeck, who has carried 21 times for a 7.1 average. Ohio's strength lies in its ground
attack. They have gained 648 yards rushing and 234 yards passing in three games.
The Hawks, by comparison, have gained 294 yards passing in two games while rushing for only 210.
As punchless as the rushing game has been for KU, coach Pepper Rodgers received a severe blow to his backfield this week. His only remaining fullbacks, Spencer Kissell and Mike Reeves, suffered injuries serious enough to make their availability unknown until Saturday.
Scanning the Big Eight action
By Don Steffens and Chip Rouse
Kansas Sports Editors
Big Eight teams clash tomorrow for the first time this season as the other squads close out their intersectional battles for the 1967 campaign.
Nebraska tangles with K-State, and Iowa State travels to Colorado for the two league encounters. Oklahoma is idle.
We again list our choices and probable scores. Last week was a successful one from our standpoint as we were winners on five of seven games for a 71.4 per cent correct prediction.
KANSAS 17 OHIO 7
such as All-American Wayne Meylan rushing after him.
COLORADO 35 IOWA STATE 7
ankle is apparently healed and he should guide MU to a relatively easy victory over Arizona. The Missouri defense will meet a tough Arizona front wall that averages 230 pounds.
The Jayhawks return home, finally, and despite injuries to several key players, we see them a decisive victor over the Bobcats. Ohio has one of the finest offensive lines KU will face this year but KU's defense has been tightening up.
TEXAS 17 OKLAHOME STATE 7
This is a tough one as Texas has dropped two straight and O-State nipped usually-strong Arkansas, a team that placed second to Texas in the Southwestern Conference in 1966. Texas has the home field advantage and OSU's offense is paltry compared to the Longhorns.
The Buffs are contending for the conference crown and Iowa State—well they're just contending for another win, though they won't find it this weekend. Signal-caller Bob Anderson should be too much for the Cyclones as he causes a whirlwind of his own. Besides, CU is playing at home.
MISSOURI 21 ARIZONA 10
The Tigers were just that last weekend as they nipped Northwestern 13-6. Gary Kombrink's
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The Cornhuskers surely haven't been swayed by Gibson's talk and should have little trouble in taming the Wildcats. Quarterback Bill Nossek may sneak a few passes throughNU's sticky defense but should also find himself on the ground quite often with defenders
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Rodgers named defensive halfback J. C. Hixon to start at fullback.
Hixon starts on offense for the first time in his college career through he played halfback in his high school days at St. Francis.
Kissell and sophomore Steve Lukert, regaining form following a leg injury which has sidelined him this fall, will suit up and may see action. Lukert was listed as first-string fullback during spring drills.
Change at end
Rounding out the KU backfield will be Bob Douglass at quarterback, Junior Riggins at tailback, Don Shanklin at flankerback and a newcomer, Tommy Anderson, at split end. John Mosier is still at tight end.
Anderson, who shared duties with starter John Jackson last weekend, got the starting nod this week following a good day against Indiana.
He caught two passes for 51 yards, one which nearly set up a KU touchdown. He pounced on an Indiana fumble at the two-yard line in the first quarter to set up the Hawk's first score.
The passing game will again be KU's method of attack, according to Rodgers, though sloppy weather conditions could effect play.
The game will be aired over the KU Sports Network with KANU-FM (91.5 mc) and KLWN-AM
(1320 kc) carrying it locally. Pregame show starts at 1:15 p.m.
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The weatherman isn't cooperating with KU's head maintenance-man Glenn Replogle for tomorrow's game with Ohio. Nearly three inches of rain fell on the Memorial Stadium field before he and his men could lay a tarpaulin cover to protect it from further drenching.
"The field will be soggy tomorrow," Replogle said Friday morning.
The prediction is for 90 per cent chance of rain through tonight with the probability dropping to 60 per cent for tomorrow.
Tackle Ken Carmon
Oakie's All-American candidate
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