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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Oct. 15, 1963
THIS EVENING...
=By Roy Miller
Not that anyone asked me for my considered opinion or anything, but I still think the KU football team will have to consider itself lucky if it wins five of its ten games this season . . . especially after Saturday's loss to Iowa.State.
With defeats to date from Texas Christian and the Cyclones, you ask where will the other four come from.
Well, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Missouri must still be rated over the Jayhawks. If KU lost to those three teams, the season's record would be .500.
So where's the sixth defeat?
So, where's the siskir defeat?
AT THE RISK of being banned from drinking the newsroom coffee (such as it is), I honestly think Kansas State could upset KU when the two teams meet here in a homecoming game Nov. 2.
Even as poor as the Wildcats must be, you can never predict the outcome of a KU-K-State game. There's just too much rivalry between the boys from Silo Tech and those from the school with the Singing Silo.
Atter all, the Wildcats held Missouri to a 21-11 victory. And, before Saturday's game, the Tigers had beaten Arkansas and Idaho.
COLORADO might even surprise the Jayhawks in a game at Boulder Nov. 16. It may just be that the Cowboys are extra weak, but the Buffaloes beat Oklahoma State. 25-0 Saturday.
injuries don't help the KU outlook any as Coach Jack Mitchell prepares for its game Saturday at Norman. KU may have to play Oklahoma without four or five players of its first two lines.
Larry Ledford, after missing the Iowa State game with a sprained ankle, may be back in action. But, in practice yesterday Ledford was still limping and remained a question mark for Saturday.
Dick Pratt and George Worley are sidelined indefinitely. Pratt fractured a wrist two weeks ago at Wyoming. Worley broke his hand Saturday.
Jim Becker and Buddy Walker are also out indefinitely. A calcium deposit (whatever that is) was discovered in Becker's thigh yesterday and Walker re-injured
a knee Saturday.
MITCHELL just shook his head after yesterday's practice and said his team would work hard on defense this week.
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Tom Hedrick, KU soccer coach and director of the KU sports network, has pushed the panic button again.
A week ago, Hedrick was frantically trying to recruit 22 players (enough for two teams). Well, Hedrick's recruiting efforts were successful, but that didn't signal the ends of his problems.
It seems a while back he phoned his opponents and alerted them of his player shortage in hopes they could schedule a match with another school.
So they did. And so all the remains of Hedrick's eight-match intercollegiate schedule is one opponent—Park College in a homecoming game there.
Knowing Hedrick, the only broadcaster in Big Eight history who tried to cover an intra-squad scrimmage from a Stouffer Place balcony, KU will have a great soccer schedule—to say nothing of its season.
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KU hasn't had a varsity wrestling team since the spring semester of the 1936-36 school year.
F. C. (Phog( Allen, former director of athletics and basketball coach, discontinued the sport in 1936 because of inteligibilities and a lack of interest the previous spring.
Efforts to revive the team in 1937 were unsuccessful and KU hadn't competed in wrestling against other schools since last year when the sport was revived on a club basis.
P. J. (Pete) MEHRINGER was one of KU's best wrestlers in the 1930s. He was an all-America tackle in football for KU and a Olympic light-heavyweight wrestler.
"Lacy took the first fall with an armlock and body smother after $32_{1/2}$ minutes of work. Mehringer came back with a toehole attack, 14 minutes of which was sufficient for Lacy to concede the fall.
Can the KU basketball team return to the first division of the Big Eight basketball race? Can the Jayhawks win the title?
Those are the questions being asked not just to distract attention from the football team's loss, but they have real pertinence since basketball drills start today.
Coach Dick Harp will have eight returning lettermen this season. The returners will be pushed hard by newcomers at almost every position.
THREE SOPHOMORE forward prospects have tremendous physique. They are Riney Lochman, 6-5, 210 pounds; Fred Chana, 6-6, 220 and Steve Renko, 6-4, 210. Those three will provide tough competition for veterans Harry Gibson and David Brill.
At center, KU could have a one-two punch with 6-7 junior George Unseld, team scoring and rebounding leader last year, and 6-11 rookie Walt Wesley, who was the leading scorer among the freshmen last year with a 16.7 average.
While Nolen Ellison will be hard to replace at guard, Allen Correll, who played some as a forward last season, could move back to the spot for which he has shown great potential. Corrill will be eligible for games in the first semester only.
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At the start of the third fall, Lacy launched a flying tackle, but had nothing on Pete who had the same idea in mind all the time. The result was a 'head-on-head' collision which terminated the match a minute later.
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Dave Schichtle and Kerry Bolton were used as guard reserves last year, but they'll have to battle rookies Del Lewis and Wayne Loving. Lewis was regarded as one of the best freshman players last year. And, Loving, a red-shirt last year, is a tough defensive player and a good ball-handler.
"WE WILL BE AN improved team," Coach Dick Harp says. "Our sophomores will give us the physical strength to compete on the backboards."
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"This factor, along with improvement in our returning squad members, should let us compete with every team on our schedule."
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