6 UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN Thursday, October 5, 1967 Jayhawks vs Ohio U. Bobcats Home grid season opens Saturday's home opener against Ohio not only will be the first contest between the two schools, but the first one KU has ever played against a team from Ohio, and the first ever for the Bobcats against a school from Kansas. Cleve Bryant The Jayhawks enter the game with an 0-2 record following narrow losses to Stanford and Indiana. Ohio, led by coach Bill Hess, will enter the contest with a 2-1 mark. The Bobcats compiled a 5-5 record last season after going 0-10 the year before. Fullbacks scarce KU fullbacks are becoming somewhat of a scarce commodity lately. Mike Reeves, who just Monday had been moved up to the No. 1 fullback position, in place of Spencer Kissell, suffered a sprained ankle Tuesday, and is listed as a doubtful starter Saturday. Kissell, the sophomore fullback from Bartlesville, Okla., is recovering from a bruised thigh muscle sustained in the Jayhawks 18-15 loss to Indiana. However, Coach Pepper Rodgers hopes Kissell will be able to see action this weekend. Steve Lukert, the team's No. 1 Dick Conley fullback at the start of fall drills, suffered a severe knee strain during the first week of practice, and had the knee placed in a cast for nearly a week. He is still being brought around slowly, and it is hoped the sophomore back from Sabetha will be able to help the Jayhawks in another week or two. Meanwhile, J. C. Hixon, a defensive halfback, has been moved into the depleted fullback position. Douglass leads offense The KU offensive attack will be led again Saturday by junior quarterback Bob Douglass. Last Saturday against Indiana, the Jayhawk signal caller broke a school record for the most individual offensive plays in one game. Douglass led 42 offensive plays to break the previous mark set by All-American Ray Evans in 1942. Evans spearheaded 40 offensive plays in a contest with Texas Christian. Tight end John Mosier is KU's leading receiver going into Saturday's contest. The Wichita sophomore has hauled in seven passes for 87 yards, through the first two games. Overall, Douglass has been on target 17 times in 45 attempts for a total of 294 yards passing. Rodgers said the Jayhawks will continue to throw the ball Saturday against Ohio. "We won't throw any more," he said, "but we won't throw any less either." The Bobacts will employ a multiple I offense and a monster defense against the Jayhawks. Offensively, Ohio is led by junior tailback Dick Conley, sophomore fullback Dave LeVeck, and sophomore signal caller Cleve Brvant. Conley has gained 279 yards on 59 carries from scrimmage, LeVeck has carried 21 times for 152 yards, and Bryant has completed 15 of 42 passing attempts for 234 yards. Defensively, the Bob cats are led by senior linebacker Bob Jackson. Assistant coach Floyd Temple scouted Ohio in each of its first three football outings. "They are a well-conditioned team and are pretty comparable to us in size," he said. Kick-off time Saturday is 1:30 p.m. at Memorial Stadium. New carpet rolled out as Hawks return home In other Fraternity "A" League action, Tau Kappa Epsilon beat Lambda Chi, 6-0. The Delts nipped a perennial football champion yesterday that has tasted defeat only one other time in nine years. In Independent "B" League competition, Templin 17 beat Chem Tech, 6-0; Naismith downed the Hawks on total yardage; Green won by a forfeit over Templin 27 and McCollum defeated the Petroleum Engineers 5-0. Beta upset Beta Theta F1, 7-0. The contest was tied nothing to nothing with 15 seconds left when Delt quarterback Dale Hurt hit John Martin with a 50-yard touchdown pass. Time ran out before the Beta's got a chance to run another play. They upset Beta Theta Pi. 7-0 In years past the team would scrimmage several times on it," Replogle said. "Then the band would go through its drills, and a couple times a week the cross country boys would practice on the grass. Late Delt TD upsets Betas The results will be obvious Saturday as an expected crowd of over 32,000 files into the stands as the Hawks battle with Ohio's Bobcats. "But this year they decided they wanted a nice field and kept the traffic off it," he said. "No traffic, nice field" "It's kind of eerie at first," flankerback Ben Olison said, "but it shouldn't be too hard to get used to the quiet." Keeping the field of battle in prime shape has been a struggle for head maintenance-man Glenn "Skinny" Replogle. Probable starting lineups Not every football team in the nation can lose two straight games and still come home with a welcome carpet waiting. The carpeting and furnishings should boost up the players' morale should it be dragging slightly following two narrow defeats on the road. Coach Pepper Rodgers thinks so. Once the players leave the inery of the dressing rooms, they step onto expertly manicured, several-inch-deep carpeting of thick Zoysia grass. "Nice, beautiful, clean" KU Defense Ohio Vernon Vanoy LE Conroy Gedeon Orville Turgeon T Joe Allen Emery Hicks G Elmer Wankie Mary Jones T Bob Bech John Zook RE Bob Bech Mickey Doley LB Mike Christian Mike Sweatman LB Steve Robinson Lynch HB Bob Jackson Bill Hull HB Bob Hull Pat Hutchens HB Craig Rader Tommy Balsamo If you see news happening call UN 4-3646 The KU Jayhawks did. Should benefit players All this will be absent this fall, and it should help the players concentrate more on their plays and responsibilities during the game. Even the standard metal lockers have been replaced by modern, low-built wood compartments that offer the dual function of a bench to relax on, and equipment storage. As the Hawks suit up for Saturday's game with Ohio, they will scrunch their toes in a thick, deep blue carpet covering the dressing room floors at Memorial Stadium. And it definitely is nice and clean and etc. In fact, the regular cleaning tools—broom, dustpan and mop—have been replaced by an electric vaccuum cleaner. Just once over lightly. "The player morale is still high," Rodgers said, "and the carpeting should give us a psychological lift because we all like to go into some place nice and beautiful and clean." It will be quite a contrast to the normally noisy atmosphere of football cleats tromping across a cement floor, plastic helmets and shoulder pads clapping against metal lockers, and other equipment being dropped on the floor. KU Offense Ohio John Jackson SE Todd Snyder H. Montgomery T Frank Peters H. Evanee G Crawl Spohrick D. Dale Evene G Dray Davis Ken Wertzberg J John Smith K Christensen T K Carmson John Mosler TE Phil Swindell Bob Hosier G Claver Dickey Bob Riggins TB David Cayton Spencer Kissell FB Dave LeVeck Don Shanklin FL Jay Maupin Ann Margaret Steve McQueen Tuesday Weld Edward G. Robinson in THE CINCINNATI KID presented by SUA POPULAR FILM SERIES DYCHE AUDITORIUM Friday, Saturday and Sunday Nights at 7:00 and 9:30 p.m. ONLY 40c