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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Oct. 8, 1962
Kansas Scores Upset Over Southern Illinois
TOP FINISHER—George Cabrera, Kansas City, Mo., junior, led the Kansas cross country team in its upset victory over Southern Illinois at Carbondale Saturday. KU's next action will be against the Chicago Track Club this weekend.
By Steve Clark
Nebraska appears the team to beat in the 1962 Big Eight Conference race.
The Cornhuskers remained the only league team yet to suffer defeat as they clobbered Iowa State 36-22 at Lincoln.
THE CORNHUSKERS two other wins came at the expense of South Dakota, 53-0, and Michigan, 25-13, which soundly defeated Army 17-7 Saturday.
Nebraska whipped Iowa State in every aspect of the game Saturday. At one time, the Cornhuskers lead 28-0 before Coach Bob Devaney started substituting extensively.
Iowa State which was a pre-season powerhouse pick, has not fared up to expectations thus far. The Cyclones barely defeated Drake 14-7 and lost to Oregon State 39-35.
THE BIG EIGHT, however, remains a four team race with Missouri, Oklahoma and Kansas all having excellent chances for a league crown.
It is doubtful that the league champion will go undefeated with the conference so strongly balanced. Kansas has the best schedule as far as the big four are concerned.
The Jayhawkers meet Oklahoma in two weeks and then have supposed breathers in Oklahoma State and Kansas State before meeting Nebraska in the homecoming game, which should certainly get the Jayhawkers up for this one. They then have a non-league affair with California before meeting Missouri in the season finale.
THE CORNHUSKERS meet OU, MU and KU in three of their last four games. They host Mizzou at Lincoln, Nov. 3, then play the Jayhawkers here Nov. 10 and finish with Oklahoma on Nov. 24 at Norman.
The Tigers also meet the other three contenders in three of their last four games. The Tigers travel to Lincoln for Nebraska, take a breather against Colorado and then meet Oklahoma at Norman, and end at home against Kansas.
Oklahoma meets Kansas here in two weeks but its next to last two games are against Missouri and Nebraska both at Norman which gives them a home field edge. Oklahoma is the last of the contenders to complete its Big Eight schedule finishing at Oklahoma State on Dec. 1.
IF OKLAHOMA should be on top after Nov. 24th games, it would be interesting as the other three's fate would not be determined until the following week.
The title is far away. There are still three teams that have yet to play a conference game. The team that wins, however, is the team that will concentrate on one game at a time and not look ahead.
For the Jayhawkers it is Iowa State which will be in a revengeful mood after being humiliated at the hands of Nebraska Saturday. The Cyclones are tough, and they might prove it this weekend.
Led by George Cabrera, KU's cross country team opened its 1962 season with an upset victory at Southern Illinois Saturday.
First Place To Cabrera
For Cabrera, who covered the three-mile distance in 15.25, it was the first major victory and best time of his career.
SIX KU RUNNERS placed among the first 10 finishers in the meet.
Although the Jayhawkers defeated Southern Illinois in a dual here last year, KU went into the meet Saturday as an underdog. SI placed fourth in the NCAA cross country meet last year, a notch ahead of KU. And, too, Southern Illinois did not lose a sub-four-minute miler, as did KU. Instead, the team gained a near-sub-four-minute-miler.
Cabrera placed ahead of Bill Cornell, Southern Illinois' top distance runner, Cornell, an English product, has a 4:01.6 mile, posted this summer in England, to his credit. In a dual track meet last year between Kansas and Southern Illinois, Cornell beat Bill Dotson, the first sub-four-minute-miler in Kansas history, in 4:02.5.
In Saturday's meet, Cornell finished in 15:32. Another SI English ace, Brian Turner, placed third in 15:40. Turner is a miler and half-miler during track season.
"THEY'RE BOTH excellent competitors." KU Coach Bill Easton said of the pair. "We thought we could win if we could break up their monopoly."
Herald Hadley, a sophomore, placed third in 15:41 and Charlie Hayward finished fourth in 15:46. Paul Acevedo finished in 15:46 with Hayward, and Mike Fulghum placed eighth in 15:58.
SI's Jim DuPree, NCAA champion in the half-mile last year, covered the distance in 15:58, as did KU's Chick Fero. Cottle, KU sophomore, placed 10th in 16:31.
Last year, in the dual with Southern Illinois here, Cabrera placed 10th in 15:58. Hayward's time in the meet last year was 15:17, 10 seconds behind first place Dotson.
In that meet a year ago, Dotson had a 15:07.8 clocking. Dupree of Southern Illinois placed third in 15:30.
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