University Daily Kansan
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KU End Patterns Action After Junior High Hero
A lean junior high school football player from Topeka sits in Memorial Stadium watching KU and Kansas State trv to break a 7-7 tie.
With 18 seconds left in the game, Homer Floyd intercepts a pass for the Jayhawkers at the 15, gets past two would-be tacklers and scores to give KU a 13-7 victory.
The date was Nov. 9, 1957. The junior high school football hopeful watching the game with his father was Mike Shinn.
"IT WAS SUCH a great play, I knew right then I wanted to come to KU and try to play like Homer." Shinn, Ku's No. 1 left end, said. "We came down every chance we could just to see Homer play.
"He really played hard. I admired him a lot for that."
HE AND TACKLE Brian Schweda team to clear the path through which Gale Sayers gains most of his yardage. Defensively, Shinn seldom is blocked out of the way, despite his 6-5. 205 pound build.
Shinn could hardly have picked a better model. Floyd is regarded as one of the greatest football players in KU history. Now, after a few seasons playing pro ball in Canada, Floyd works for the Kansas Civil Rights Commission.
Some observers would tell you Shinn is doing a good job following Flovd.
The Topeka High School all-stater is so strong in the arms and hands he usually holds off blockers without even using his shoulder. He often tackles the same way, fastening his hands on the runner like a set of grappling hooks, then spinning him down with a modified body-slam.
MIKE SHINN
"The hardest play for me is covering punts and kickoffs because of the responsibility you have." Shinn said. "You can't let the runner around you. I did last year against Oklahoma and they ran a punt back about 50 vards.
"Actually, the hardest part of football for me is two-a-days.
There's a lot of mental as well as physical strain. Of course, I get nervous before a game.
"IT ISN'T THAT you're scared. You just worry about mistakes that will hurt the team.
"Even though I wasn't starting last year, I was more nervous than I am starting this year with more responsibility. I feel better now because I'm more used to playing. You get more confidence when you move up to the first club."
At Topeka High, Shinn was the Trojans' leading scorer in basketball as a senior. He was the school's top hurdler. He played freshman basketball at KU but passed up the indoor sport last year so he could concentrate on football—and grades.
SHINN MAKES good grades, too. He's majoring in aerospace engineering.
"Sure, I'd like to build rockets"
he smiled. "At least, work on 'em."
In high school, Shinn was most valuable as a defensive player. Most of the passing was from quarterback John Atkinson (now a KU junior) to Larry Woolridge (who now plays halfback for Washburn University).
Shinn only caught one touchdown pass in high school. He matched that total this year in the Wyoming game when he was on the receiving end of a 51-yard pass play started by Steve Renko.
Against Oklahoma Saturday, Shinn will be depended on more than ever with his alternate, George Worley, sidelined with a fractured hand.
Sooners' Spirit Concerns Mitchell Thinks Recent Events Will Help
By Roy Miller (Sports Editor)
He hadn't played at halfback since high school. But, last year here in a game with KU, Joe Don Looney started at halfback in place of an ailing Oklahoma teammate and many said it was his running that won the game for the Sooners.
From that game on, Looney stayed at halfback. He killed KU—as well as many other teams—with his hardrunning and his long punting. Monday, Looney was dismissed from the Sooner squad.
HIS ABSENCE may be considered a deciding factor if Oklahoma defeats KU this year.
"We'll have to face the most fired up Oklahoma team ever because of their loss Saturday to Texas and the shakeup in their team," Coach Jack Mitchell said. "They'll be so desperate, they'll scatter out so much we won't be able to move the ball."
The two teams meet at Norman in a game beginning at 1:30 p.m. A
sellout crowd is predicted. The game will be broadcast in the Lawrence area on radio stations KANU, KLWN and KMBC.
The game will be the first Big Eight Conference game for the Sooners. They won the conference championship last year and gained a No.1 national ranking early this season.
OU LOST THAT national ranking Saturday when they were defeated at Texas, 28-7.
Mitchell said after practice last night he's received several sympathy calls and letters this week from his friends in Oklahoma.
In view of Looney's dismissal and the loss to Texas, some folks are saying Mitchell, a former OU all-America quarterback, won't be needing the sympathy.
The Jayhawks worked on their kicking game yesterday. Tony Leiker and Steve Renko did the punting.
Renko's talent as a punter was revealed Wednesday when one of his
KU STARTING GUARD TANDEM—Ron Marsh (left) and John Garber will hold down the starting guard positions for KU Saturday. Marsh, a Golden Gloves champion and KU's No. 1 swimming diver, will be making his first appearance in the starting lineup this year at right guard. Garber will be at the left guard spot.
efforts spiraled for about 50 yards.
"Boy, did he ever kick that ball." Mitchell said after practice. "He's been kicking a little before, but never like that."
The KU coach indicated Renko could be used if necessary as a substitute for Leiker, who does most of KU's punting.
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KU's Easton Must Face Former Pupil's Runners
KU will meet Drake in a cross country dual meet here Saturday, bringing together Bill Easton, coach of the Jayhawks, and Bob Karnes, Drake's coach who was the first in the line of outstanding runners coached by Easton.
The meet will be at 10:30 a.m. on the three-mile course at Lawrence Country Club.
KU runners will be seeking their 20th consecutive dual victory after defeating the Chicago Track Club last Saturday.
Drake runners finished 1-2-3 within 35 seconds in a triangular meet
with Iowa State and Nebraska. The Bulldogs won that meet, 18-56-62, and lost an earlier meet with Minnesota, 27-28.
Frosh Gets Honor
Phil Manuel, Kansas City, Mo. freshman, has been named to the 1963 all-America high school track and field team by Scholastic Coach magazine.
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