Tuesday, November 7. 1961 University Daily Kansan
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University Daily Kansan
University Daily Kansan SPORTS Unbeaten Texas First; KU 16th
NEW YORK—(UPI)—The powerful Texas Longhorns, who have stamped seven straight opponents by margins of three touchdowns or more, moved into first place in the United Press International college football ratings with Alabama No. 2.
Texas, which has outscored its opponents by 233 points to 46, was the first-place choice this week of 21 of the 35 leading coaches who rate the teams weekly for UPI.
IN AN ODDITY IN THIS week's ratings, Missouri moved up one notch in the No. 10 spot although defeated by Colorado, 7-6. And Colorado dropped back one place to No. 9 despite the important Big Eight Conference victory which ran its record to 6-0.
The upsets which claimed Michigan State and Mississippi, last week's two leading teams, caused a big shakeup in the top 10. Michigan State, ranked No. 1 for two straight weeks, dropped to seventh place and Mississippi fell from second to eighth.
Alabama, also with a 7-0 record, received four first-place votes; Ohio State, ranked No.3, had seven ballots for the top spot; Michigan State had two and Colorado one.
TEXAS, ALABAMA AND OHIO State each advanced two places from last week. Louisiana State, which defeated Mississippi, 10-7, jumped from seventh place to fourth, and Minnesota, 13-0 conquerer of Michigan State, vaulted from 10th to fifth.
Georgia Tech, Michigan State, Mississippi, Colorado and Missouri rounded out the top 10 in that order.
Texas had a substantial lead in points over Alabama, 330 to 281. Ohio State's third-place total was 270. Missouri's total of 14 points was the smallest ever compiled by a team in the top 10 group. (Points are awarded on a 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis for votes from first to 10th place.)
Iowa, rated ninth last week dropped back to a tie for 16th place.
TEXAS PLAYS BAYLOR next while Alabama has a "breather" against Richmond and Ohio State takes on Indiana. Next week's three
Phi Delts Close With 19-7 Victory
Phi Delta Theta closed out its regular intramural football season last night with a 19-7 win over third place Sigma Chi to maintain a second place standing in division II of fraternity A competition.
Phi Gamma Delta finished undefeated in the division to take the title.
Both teams will enter the play-offs against the top two teams in the other fraternity division to determine the fraternity champion who will face the winner of the independent play-offs.
In division A, Delta Tau Delta meets Beta Theta Pi today to determine first place. The Betas are undefeated while the Delts have lost once.
In independent A action, ASCE sneaked past stubborn Stephenson, 6-0.
Fraternity B play saw the Phi Delts crunch Alpha Kappa Lambda, 40-6, while the Phi Gams downed the Beta No. 2 squad, 13-6.
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leading games pit Minnesota against Iowa, LSU vs. North Carolina, and Michigan State vs. 12th-ranked Purdue.
Votes were so concentrated among the first nine teams this week that there was only a smattering of points to be distributed in the second 10 group.
Utah State was ranked 11th with only 13 points, followed in order by Purdue and Maryland. There were two-team ties for 14th place between UCLA and Arkansas, and for 16th place between Iowa and Kansas. Michigan, Northwestern and Rice were deadlocked for the No. 18 rating.
Devine Feels Colorado Will Take Big 8 Title
Coach Sonny Grandelius' Buffs handed Missouri its first loss of the year last week 7-6 and all but sewed up the title. Only Nebraska and Iowa State stand in their path.
Colorado's Buffs are the odds-on favorites to win the Big Eight Conference football championship and nail down an Orange Bowl berth.
United Press International
"They've got the momentum and the team and they're going to be hard to beat," said Missouri Coach Dan Devine. "I thought we played our best game of the year but it wasn't good enough to win."
Kansas, gaining momentum each week, bowled over Nebraska 28-6 for its fourth straight victory. But
the Jayhawks cannot win the championship unless Colorado is beaten. Coach Jack Mitchell's crew had one conference defeat — a 20-19 loss to Colorado.
This week, Kansas State plays at Kansas, Oklahoma at Missouri, Nebraska at Iowa State, and Utah at Colorado.
Nebraska Fans Vociferous In Gripe Against Jennings
CONFERENCE STANDINGS
CONFERENCE
Team W L T Pts. Op.
Colorado 5 0 0 86 39
Kansas 4 1 0 120 41
Missouri 3 1 0 39 14
Iowa State 3 2 0 80 63
Nebraska 1 3 0 36 52
Oklahoma 1 3 0 46 59
Okla. State 1 4 0 29 96
Kansas State 0 4 0 13 85
Although the Nebraska fans had little to cheer about Saturday as their Cornhuskers were completely hamstrung by Kansas, there was considerable crowd reaction late in
For the first time this season the Lawrence senior has moved into the Big Eight scoring lead. He has totaled 30 points to beat Colorado's massive end, Jerry Hillebrand, by one length.
Around the BIG 8
Kansas will again be led against K-State by John Hadl who continued to make a solid bid for a repeat on the All America scrolls as he fainted and flipped his way through Nebraska.
HADL ALSO CONTINUES TO remain among the league's leaders in punting, punt returning, and rushing, ranking fifth, third and ninth respectively.
By Bill Sheldon
In Kansas State, the KU Jayhawkers will meet a team Saturday which pulled two of the bigger surprises in the area early in the season in downing Indiana and the Air Force. The Wildcats have gone slowly back to their accustomed position at the tail end of the Big Eight standings since then with losses to Nebraska, Colorado, Iowa State, Oklahoma, and Kentucky out of the league.
ALTHOUGH THERE DOES NOT appear to be a very good chance for the Wildcats to upset the Jayhawkers, the added spice of the long-time rivalry and the increasing momentum of Coach Jack Mitchell's well-drilled squad should make for a very interesting tussle, regardless of the final outcome.
But, despite this five game slump, the K-Staters have to be considered a pesky bunch which could bother Kansas—at least for awhile.
But, where Hadl is making the biggest advancement has been in passing. Although Hadl has been close to the top all season, it wasn't until the last three games that he really began to make a threatening move to split the Gale Weidner-Dave Hoppmann leadership.
Hadl now has completed 31 of 68 aerials for 451 yards, placing third behind Iowa State's Hopmann who has but 481. Colorado's Weidner leads with 545 yards on 40 for 90—both marks the best in the league.
In adding to his throwing yardage, Hadl has carried KU to fifth place in the conference in this area. This is a great improvement over the previous last place position.
The Kansas team passing percentage is tied for second best in the league, knotted at 46 per cent with Iowa State behind Missouri who has 45.3 per cent completions.
the game to moves made by Coach Bill Jennings.
The Lincoln rooters quickly voiced loud disapproval of Jennings on three occasions.
THE BIGGEST GRIPE was the poor passing of quarterback Dennis Claridge. Claridge hit only six of 18 throwing attempts and with the home team almost hopelessly ineffective without a solid passing threat, the crowd screamed for Jennings to replace the sohomore.
Meade, coming in late in the third period, immediately connected with Jim Huge for the longest Nebraska gain of the afternoon, a 30-yard aerial, to spirit the Husker's only scoring drive.
After considerable vocal prompting from the stands, Jennings, to a considerable wave of approval, finally used senior Ron Meade.
THEN, WHEN JENNINGS complained to the referee on a decision involving possible pass interference, the fans booed his unsportsmanlike conduct. Jennings was charged thusly and his team was penalized 15 yards.
The third time was when Jennings sent Willie Ross back in a single safety to return a punt in the final minutes. Ross fumbled a punt which was instrumental in the Nebraska loss to Oklahoma State and the fans were wary of a repeat performance.
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Kansas Keglers Beaten by Nebraska
The University of Kansas varsity bowling team opened the season Saturday at the University of Nebraska with a loss. The Cornhusker keglers amassed 2865 pins to the Hawks' 2778.
Top honors in the match were snared by Nebraska's Ralph Holmstrom. Holmstrom rolled a 188-170-246-607.
Paul Hammar, Overland Park junior, fired a 183-215-179-577 for the Jayhawk's best effort. The quintet's series scores were:
Yesterday, Coach Bascom Fearing's squad rolled in their first Big Eight postal match. The results will not be known for at least a week.
Hammar, 577; Terrell Hays,
Shawnee junior, 573; Dave Rybelt,
Ottawa junior, 556; John Hember,
Kansas City junior, 554; and Bill
Miller, Mission freshman, 518.
SIN CAPITAL OF THE WEST?
A Vegas headline was: PASTOR HAILS STRIP SHOWS. And nobody blinked. In fact, when Vegas was dubbed a town of "sin, gin and din," local boosters were overjoyed. Is Las Vegas really as wild as they say? Read "How Wicked Is Vegas?" in this week's Post.
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