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FULLBACK SENIORS—KU will miss its one-two fullback punch next year. Seniors Armand Baughman (left) and Ken Coleman have been so nearly equal at the position in their three years as Jayhawkers, Coach Jack Mitchell (cen-
ter) has thought of flipping a coin to determine who should start. Baughman and Coleman will be playing their last game for KU against Missouri Saturday in Memorial Stadium.
Tigers, Jayhawks Must Like Close Games
The championship aura is off, but that 72nd renewal of the traditional Kansas-Missouri battle may go a long way in settling the Big Eight Conference major individual statistical leaders.
It matches Kansas' Gale Sayers, the Conference and nation's individual rushing leader, against Missouri sophomore quarterback Gary Lane, who this past week against Oklahoma added the Conference's passing leadership to his total offense lead.
Sayers gained 71 yards rushing against Colorado to run his 1963 league-leading total to 849 and his two-year skein to 1,964. With the remaining game against Missouri, he eyes his second straight Big Eight rushing title, a shot at the national lead he achieved for the second time last week and a chance to become the first conference runner in history to hit the 2,000-yard mark in his junior season.
NEAREST COMPETITOR to the fleet Jayhawk is Iowa State's Tom Vaughn, who picked up 106 against Kansas State for an overall 795 mark. That trimmed Sayers' margin from 89 to 54 yards and places the Cyclone runner in a challenging position for the title as he steps outside the Conference this week against Drake.
Jim Grisham of Oklahoma (with two games remaining) stands third with 627, and his running foe this week in the Oklahoma-Nebraska title showdown, Rudy Johnson, fourth with 523.
Lane's 160-yard effort against. Oklahoma put him over the 1,000 total offense mark at 1,012—710 bv passing and 302 on the ground with the 710 figure netting the Conference passing lead for the first time this season. All told, Lane has hit 51 of 109 passes, including three touchdown tosses.
BEHIND LANE in total offense is Sayers with 884, Larry Corrigan of Kansas State with 849, Vaughn with 795 and Steve Renko of Kansas with 769. In passing, Corrigan (last week's leader) dropped to second with 634, while Oklahoma State's Mike Miller, the Conference's leading passer a year ago, hit 165 against Nebraska, to jump from fifth to third with 599. Colorado's Frank Cesarek stands fourth with 566 and Renko fifth with 496.
Corrigan and Miller go at each other as Oklahoma State and Kansas State tangle at Stillwater while Cesarek matches his passing against Air Force's Terry Isaacson.
Wednesday, Nov. 20, 1963
All other individual leaders remain the same: Pass Receiving: Dick Limerick, Iowa State, 24 for 339 yards; punting: Doug Dusenbury, Kansas State, 53 for a 40.8 average; scoring: Dick Limerick, Iowa State, 59 points.
The Classical Film Series
presents
"Citizen Kane"
written and directed by Orson Welles a classic of the American film
★★★
Wednesday,Nov.20,1963
Fraser Theater - 7:00 p.m. - Admission 60c
Tiger Halfback Enjoys Football
COLUMBIA, MO. — "The things you remember are not really the victories. Sure, you enjoy the winning, and hate the losing, but the friendships you make in football count the most. You meet a high-class guy at Missouri."
the speaker was Vince Turner, a pleasant, chatty halfback for Missouri who got a home-town salute from Chillicothe, Mo., fans here Saturday in his home finale against the Oklahoma Sooners.
Chugging down the home stretch of a three-year varsity football career, the chunky, crew-cut senior expresses a football-has-been-fun philosophy.
"IT'S BEEN great," he says. "Maybe the guy who hasn't played much can't feel the same way, but I've been lucky. All I hoped for was just to stick it out and maybe play as a senior at MU."
Turner, it developed, under-rated himself. As a sophomore, he subbed for an injured Norm Beal against Nebraska and led Bengal ground-gainers that day. More important, Tiger coaches realized they'd found a spunky, hard-trying halfback.
THIS YEAR, Turner took a bad bounce in a pre-season scrimmaphy, twisted an ankle, and missed the early games. The injury canceled Coach Dan Devine's plan to use his 190-pound-pre-Med veteran on of-
In his junior season, Vince yielded the ball-carrying heroics to a rookie sensation, Johnny Roland but was a fixture in the defensive secondary that swiped 17 enemy passes.
fense—and he's back with the defensive specialists again. His ankle is "about 95 per cent sound".
Almost healed physically, Vince still is mentally tortured by his inability to fair-catch a short Nebraska punt two weeks ago. His muff on the Husker 31 cost MU a close-in scoring chance with Nebraska leading, 7-6. The Cornhuskers used that break to mount their winning touchdown drive in a tight 13-12 victory.
Inconsolable afterwards, Turner had no alibis.
"That's the lowest I've ever been," he said this week. "No, I'm not reluctant to talk about it. No matter what anybody says, I'll always figure I lost that game.
"It KINDA floated down like a knuckle ball, but I should've had it. After that goof, I kept thinking maybe I'll intercept a pass in the flat and redeem myself. I wasn't feeling sorry for myself, as much as I hated to think how I blew it for Ollie (Oliver), Lurie, Gill and everyone who'd played so hard."
His home-town produced two clutch players at Mizzou within recent memory, Chuck Moser, center on Don Faurio's 1939 championship club and Larry Plumb, an end on Faurio's last Missouri team.
Both were scrapy bantams, Moser at 170 — Plum about 165.
Moser blocked a punt, caught in the end-zone by another Tiger, that gave Missouri a 7-6 win over OU in Columbia, assuring Faurot his first conference title and bowl bid.
One inch stacked heels for that dressy, casual look.