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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Oct. 3, 1962
By Steve Clark
The Big Eight conference fared well against non-conference opposition this past weekend winning two, tying one and losing one.
In the Big Eight's first league game Colorado managed a 6-0 win over Kansas State, even though the Wildcats about won the game several times.
THIS WEEK four teams are in conference action, one is idle and three meet non-conference foes.
All Big Eight teams will be in league action on Oct. 13.
Last week, this prognosticator broke even with two wins, two losses and one tie, bringing our season's average to a dismal .583.
We won't quit, here's another round.
KANSAS OVER COLORADO: CU coach Bud Davis picked up his first Big Eight win Saturday against Kansas State. He's prime to pick up his first Big Eight loss against the Jayhawkers. Colorado could be tough. The Jayhawkers remember last year's fourth quarter uprising by the Buffalooes that sent KU to a 20-19 defeat. Hope the turf is dry for this one. Kansas by two touchdowns.
NEBRASKA OVER IOWA STATE:
This game's being played at Lincoln which gives the Cornhuskers a home field edge. Nebraska looked great against Michigan. They are leading the conference in rushing and total offense. Iowa State did not play last weekend so will be rested. However, they have not looked good thus far this year. Another selling point for NU: Thunder Thornton will be in the lineup. The Cornhuskers by three touchdowns.
MISSOURI OVER ARIZONA: The Tigers take on an easier foe this week. They were lucky to come out of their Minnesota encounter with a tie. We don't think Mizzou has lived up to its potential so far. They should get by Arizona, however. This one by three touchdowns.
WASHINGTON OVER KANSAS STATE: The Wildcats are still looking for their first victory. They won't find it this week. The Huskies are strong. This one is being played at Washington. While we do believe the 'Cats will furnish some surprises this year, they won't surprise anyone this week unless they hold the Huskies under three touchdowns.
OKLAHOMA STATE OVER TULSA: This is going to be a close one. Coach Cliff Speedle's crew got upended at the hands of Arkansas in their season opener. Last week, they were idle. Tulsa is supposed to be strong this year too. We like the Big Eight team. Oklahoma State by three points.
Oklahoma is idle.
Giants, Dodgers To Decide Pennant
LOS ANGELES — (UPI) — Was it Wills or was it Walls? Walt Alston claims it was both.
Alston couldn't tell you if shortstop Maury Wills or pinch hitter Lee Walls was the hero of yesterday's Los Angeles Dodger victory over San Francisco that tied their pennant playoff at one game each.
AND WHAT'S MORE, Walt didn't care who it was. He praised both Dodger players — and several others.
Walls came through with a pinch double in the sixth inning that drove in three runs as Los Angeles—held scoreless for 35 consecutive innings—exploded for seven. The instant the bat hit the ball the frustrated Dodgers turned the dugout into a riot scene.
Later in the dressing room they mobbed Walls, just as they did Wills after the little speedster flew home on Ron Fairly's sacrifice fly with the run that gave Los Angeles an 8-7 win.
"HE'S DONE it before so many times," said Alston about Walls. "Sometimes he even comes over to me and volunteers to pinch hit. That's the kind of pinch hitters you like to have."
Walls also is the kind of pinch hitter Alston likes to have because the 29-year-old player has successfully hit in 13 of 26 pinch appearances.
Walls, third consecutive pinch hitter employed by Alston in the Dodger's sixth, said he hit a high fast ball. Lee went to third on the throw to the plate. He took off for home on Wills' high bouncer and appeared out — but Giant catcher Tom Haller was spiked on the play and dropped the ball.
"AFTER HE DROPPED the ball, I kicked it into the open so the umpire would be sure to see it," Walls said
Wills also came sliding home — three innings later. He had to race a throw by Willie Mays to the plate. "I had no doubts at all," Wills said about his chances of beating Mays' throw from center. However, Fairly held a different opinion.
"I DIDN'T HAVE a good cut at the ball," the flame-haired onetime University of Southern California star said. "When I hit it, though, I felt it was hit well enough, but I wasn't at all sure. As I ran down the first base line, I kept yelling for Maury to score."
Wills, naturally, was caught in the middle of his ecstatic teammates. They literally carried him down the runway leading to the locker room and the shortstop was so terrified he broke away and ran for the trainer's room.
"Those guys are crazy," he laughed, "they're liable to kill me."
WILLS CALMED down a bit and said he knew it would take a "perfect throw" from Mays to catch him at home.
Intramurals in Full Swing; Sigma Chis, Delts Romp
Intramural football is in full swing as 13 games have been played thus far.
SIGMA CHI and Delta Tau Delta "A" teams registered the most lopsided wins in opening play. Sigma Chi defeated Lambda Chi Alpha 46-0 while Delta Tau Delta handled Tau Kappa Epsilon 45-6.
The season opened last Thursday.
Four to five games are held daily at
4 p.m. Forfeits are levied after 4:15
p.m.
Beta Theta Pi opened the defense of their hill championship with a meager 20-7 win over Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Phi Gamma Delta, a team prophesied to be a strong contender this year, opened with a convincing win over Alpha Tau Omega 32-0.
Other scores in Fraternity A play are: Delta Upsilon 27, Delta Chi 0- Theta Chi 14, Sigma Ph Epsilon 12.
In Fraternity B action, Sigma Phi Epsilon eked by Acacia 6-0, Beta Theta Pi No. 1 managed a 21-0 win over a crappy Chi Sigma Chi 2 team, Sigma Alpha Epsilon defeated Tau Kappa Epsilon 13-0 and Phi Gamma Delta won by forfeit from Pi Kappa Alpha.
IN INDEPENDENT A action,
Jim Beam handled Joliffe 25-0 and
the Hot Dogs defeated C & O 21-0.
Fraternity B: Triangle vs. Delta Upsilon; Kappa Sigma vs. Delta Tau Delta; Phi Kappa Sigma vs. Beta Theta Pi No. 2.
Today
Independent A: Foster vs. C & O;
Jim Beam vs. Hot Dogs.
Fraternity A; Beta Theta Pi vs.
Lambda Chi Alpha; Sigma Alpha
Epsilon vs. Tau Kappa Epsilon; Sigma
Chi vs. Delta Tau Delta.
Thursday
"Mays knows I can run, so he had to hurry his throw," explained Wills. "I had counted on that and I thought I could beat his throw to the plate."
Independent B: Navy vs. Newman; Liahona vs. Stephenson.
Another Dodger hero was winning pitcher Stan Williams—who came in with one out in the eighth inning. Williams said he was nervous when he came on the mound "but I was the happiest person in the ball park when Wills came home."
Norm Majors, 1962 Rockhurst College graduate, will be graduate assistant for the basketball coaching staff during the coming season.
Maiors New Basketball Aide
At Rockhurst Majors led the Hawks in scoring through 1960 and 1961. He was the Hawks top rebounder for three years.
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Most writers tossed off this prediction by pointing out that Nebraska "had" to be that tough for Iowa State since the Cyclones opened with them on Oct. 6 in the Big Eight race. One of these days the writers are going to learn that Clay Stapleton rarely means anything but what he says.
Nebraska certainly demonstrated that last Saturday when it walloped Michigan at Ann Arbor. Coach Arch Steel, who scouted the game,
is normally a semi-optimist in his reports, a fact that makes his gloomy forecast all the worse for the Cyclones.
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