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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Dec. 15, 1961
University Daily Kansan SPORTS KU, Rice Meet At Bluebonnet
The Kansas Jayhawkers have another chance to end their season on a winning note when they meet the Rice Institute Owls in the Bluebonnet Bowl at Houston, Texas tomorrow.
In the Jayhawkers' regular season finale they lost to Missouri 10-7. A major factor in the KU players' decision to play in the Bluebonnet Bowl was "So we could have another chance to finish the season right."
In the United Press International final poll the Jayhawkers and the Owls tied for 16th. Rice will carry a 7-3 record into the game, Kansas, a 6-3-1.
RICE OPENED its season with a 16-3 win over Louisiana State. The LSU Bengals then swept through the rest of their schedule and received an invitation to the Orange Bowl.
The three losses were to bowl-
bound teams. Rice lost to Georgia
Tech 24-0, Texas 34-7 and Arkansas
10-0. It defeated Florida 19-10,
Southern Methodist 10-0, Texas
Tech 42-7, Texas A&M 21-7 and
Baylor 26-16.
The Owls and the Jayhawkers have one common opponent, that being Texas Christian. The Jayhawkers met the Horned Frogs at Fort Worth in the season opener. The high-riding Jayhawkers atop national pre-season rankings were upended 17-16 by a second-half TCU rally.
RICE MET Texas Christian in its next to last game of the season. The Owls, with a Bluebonnet Bowl bid in prospect, played the role of a bowl-bound team perfectly and trounced the Horned Frogs 35-16.
After their TCU win, Rice was given a provisionary bid to play. It was officially invited to play after the Baylor victory.
The Owls boast the Southwest Conference's leading scorer in half-back Les (Butch) Blume, 5-9, 17-pound senior, who scored 70 points
Backfield coach Bill Pace said that Blume does not only have good speed at halfback but is a fine field goal kicker. "If they get inside your thirty, they are to get at least a field goal," he said.
THE OWLS also have a fine quarterback to match KU's John Hadl. He is Randy Kerbow who rushed to 249 net yards and completed 37 of 79 passes for 505 yards and three
touchdowns. His total offense yardage was 754.
At fullback Rice has an all-conference selection in Roland Jackson. Pace describes the Owl backfield as "fine, overall balance," and Jackson as "a big, strong, hard-running full-back."
The Jayhawkers are not at full strength for the contest. Benny Boydston, starting right end, has an injured ankle and Pack St. Clair, second team left end, has a separated shoulder. St. Clair is almost certain to be unable to play, so Mike Deer will move into his spot.
Sophomore end Jay Roberts will replace Boydston at the right end if the senior is unable to start.
THE JAYHAWKERS have been hampered by a lack of contact work. While the Rice Owls have enjoyed warm sunshine in Houston, known as a winter resort, Coach Jack Mitchell's crew has fought, what seems to Kansans, as near-blizzard conditions.
Kansas has not had contact in more than a week. Groundskeepers cleared the practice field of its white blanket, but nevertheless only very light contact was permitted.
Several new offensive maneuvers have been abandoned because of lack of practice space. The team has been working out in Allen Field House, which is excellent for basketball but leaves much to be desired for football practice.
Coach Mitchell has been displeased with his Jayhawkers' performance the past two weeks. After a week layout the squad resumed practices and since then have appeared sluggish in their play.
Mitchell on several occasions has referred to their play as 'listless'.
Slow Milk
COLLEGE STATION, Tex. - (UPI) - Despite transportation's progress, it takes milk two to three times as long now to get from the cow to the refrigerator as it did only a few years ago, according to Texas A&M College dairy specialist A. M. Meekma.
Meekma said this is because milk must now pass through several higher sanitary procedures before it can be marketed. Because of the time-consuming process, Meekma said, milk must be of exceptional quality when it leaves the farm.
Doubleheader Here Tonight As KU Faces St. John's
KU's fast-learning basketball team hosts not only opponent St. John's but the Kansas State Wildcats and Marquette tonight as the first night of the annual Sunflower doubleheader gets underway.
The Wildcats and Marquette will open the action at 7:30 p.m. in Allen Field House with KU and St. John's concluding the action. The teams will travel to Manhattan tomorrow night with the Kansas squads switching opponents and playing times.
THE JAYHAWKERS ARE LOOKING for their second win of the season against St. John's, the class of the Eastern independent teams.
KU opened with a win over Arkansas but has since lost to St. Louis, USC, UCLA and Arizona State.
The Redmen lashed George Washington, 79-65, in their opener and routed Oklahoma, 68-49 Tuesday night.
THE FABULOUS TONY JACKSON is gone for the visitors, but four other starters from last year's team (20-5) return.
One of the finest big men in the country, 6-10 LeRoy Ellis, is the St. John's leader along with 6-4 forward Willie Hall, 6-4 guard Kevin Loughery and 5-10 guard Ivan Kovac.
The fifth starter will be Donnie Burks (5-11).
This will be the fourth meeting of all time between the two teams. Kansas won, 52-51, in 1951 and 80-63 in the NCAA finals in 1952 before losing 66-54 last year in New York.
BACKCOURT DUO Jerry Gardner and Nolen Ellison are the leading KU scorers as the Jayhawkers make their final competitive preparation for the Big Eight Tournament in Kansas City after Christmas.
They have both tallied 97 points for a 19.4 point per game average. Ellison has played every minute of every game and Gardner has been on the bench only five minutes.
Forward Jim Dumas is the only other Hawker to have scored in double figures for an average, having an 11.4 mean.
MARQUETTE, OWNING DECISIVE wins over Aquinas, 79-50, and Northern Michigan, 98-60, sand-wiched around a narrow, 72-68 loss to Iowa State, probably will start an all-junior line-up.
Included for Coach Eddie Hickey will be forwards Bob Hornak, 6-4, and Bill Johnson, 6-5; center Dave Erickson, 6-7; and guards Ron Glaser, 6-3, and Dick Nixon, 5-10. Johnson is a new-corner with the
Ohio State Leads Nation
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Ohio State led the nation in college football attendance for the 10th time in the last 11 years amidst a 1.34 per cent overall rise for 1961, it was announced today.
Fans turned out in a record high of 20.6 million, with the Ohio State Buckeyes on top with an average crowd of 82,941 for their five home games, according to a survey of 616 colleges, conducted by the National Collegiate Athletic Bureau.
Michigan, the only team to interrupt the Buckeyes' string, in 1957, ranked second in the nation with an average of 73,561, although drawing the highest total — 514,924 for seven games. Seven other teams attracted more than 50,000 fans per game this year.
It marked the eighth straight year college attendance has increased.
They were: Louisiana State (63, 651); Minnesota (61,822); Iowa (58, 050); Michigan State (56,274); Notre Dame (53,813); Texas (53,650), and Washington (52,691).
For party fare, the pigtail set will be wearing frocks loaded with trimming tricks — eyelet, ruffling, runching, hem flounces, tucks, pleats, laces and hand embroidery. For the best skirt forward, there are flounced petticoats. Topside extras include bibs, aprons and pinafores.
other four starting as sophomores last season. A transfer from Parsons (Kan.) Junior College, Johnson starred on the Parsons team which won the national juco tournament in 1960 and was named juco All America in 1561.
A SPEED-CONSCIOUS team with balanced scoring, Marquette stresses fast break on offense, a trademark of Hickey coached teams. The Warriors averaged 78 points per game last season with a peak at 107
This will be only the second Wildcat-Warrior meeting in history, and interestingly, the other meeting was when Tex Winter, current K-State coach, was guiding Marquette in 1953 during his two-year span as coach there. K-State won that game, 88-72.
When the Wildcats face the Redmen Saturday night it will be the first time the two teams will have faced each other.
COACH WINTER'S OUTFIT is expected to be the class of the Big Eight this season with height and experience galore. The Wildecat front line will have Pat McKenzie (6-5), Phil Heitmeyer (6-5) and Mike Wroblewski (6-8) in action. The guards will be Dick Ewy (6-0) and Al Peithman (6-1).
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The University of Oklahoma lost an average of 5,000 fans per game from last year to head the 25,-000 to 50,000 group.
With five teams averaging more than 50,000 fans per game, the Big Ten again led all conferences with crowds totaling 2,765,910 in 51 games for an average of 54,234. Although the Big Ten showed a slight drop (1.88), the average attendance per game was approximately 45 per cent better than any other conference or section in the nation.
Oklahoma's drop helped account for the Big Eight's 10.69 per cent loss from a record average in 1960. The Big Eight was the only major conference to run sharply against the rise in the gridiron sport.
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Wroblewski is leading the 'Cats in scoring with a 20 point per game output. Peithman is close behind with a 17 point per game average. Kansas State will be trying to maintain an unbeaten skein in the annual classic, having posted two wins each of the four previous years.
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