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KU's Foe in 1984?
In an effort to scout future opponents of the KU football team, we've written a few schools for a report on their team's prospects.
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Here's one of the replies, courtesy of Charles Brady, a former reporter for the Kansas City Star and a former television script writer in Berlin.
UNIVERSITY OF EAST BERLIN
DEPARTMENT OF ATHLETICS
School Colors: Red and Pink
School Motto: We Will Bury You
Roy Miller
Commissar of Sports
Liber Herr Komrad Miller.
Thank you very much for your letter. We are most happy here that you are interested in our football team and its possibilities for the '63 season. Following is the information you requested. If I have omitted any information, please contact immediately our public relations director, Joseph Goebbels, Jr.
The line candidates were attached the past summer to the Russian United Nations delegation in New York. The men spent weekday morning and evening rush hours riding the subway. Further toughening was acquired weekends and holidays when they were sent to the Polo Grounds to boo the Mets (a local so-called baseball team).
Take, for example, the end positions. Six ends were sent to Checkpoint Charlie last spring to spend the summer retrieving smoke grenades lobbed over the border by capitalist West Berlin police. Of course, the two who mistook hand grenades for smoke grenades will not be with the team this year. We have scheduled a benefit game for them.
At halfbacks, we have four fleet, hard hitting candidates. They are survivors of the six we sent to the Austria-Hungary border to practice broken-field running through the minefields there.
Twenty-three returning lettermen, including six backs and 18 linemen, have given us cause to believe that our '63 season will be the greatest in our school's history.
You may be assured, Herr Miller, that our coaches, too, have spent a busy summer. In years past, U.E.B. football teams have suffered greatly by their failure to diagnose opponents' offensive patterns. We have solved that problem.
Despite these efforts to improve our scouting system, our Moscow alumni association raised the necessary fund to purchase and donate to us a renovated U-2 airplane.
Guns Gunter, our line coach, worked the summer in Moscow as an NKVD agent, and Heinz Suppa, our backfield coach, just returned from a year's leave of absence in the United States where he coached at the University of Alabama.
Do not think for an instant that the school spirit here in East Berlin is less than that at American colleges. Due to a lack of consumer goods production we cannot have panty raids, but we have what we call laughingly, the moral counterpart of the panty raid. That is, our boys and girls rid themselves of excess energy by participating in such organized deviltry as "Burn down the consulate" or "Blow up the USIA center."
Sauerbruch, however, made the acquaintance of three lovely, young girls, friends of the osteopath, who, wanting to further their education, consented to enroll here. They will be our cheerleaders. I have never seen them perform, but Sauerbruch says they are talented beyond imagination.
Something new at EB this year, are cheerleaders. Dr. Sauerbruch, our trainer, brought the girls back from London where he spent the summer working with an osteopath. Incidentally, the osteopath became involved in some legal mess or another and the whole thing ended on a tragic note.
I hope, Komrad Sportsman, that my letter will help you in your evaluation of the upcoming football season. Hope to see you around Red Square soon.
Very truly yours,
Joseph Von Banannen
Joseph von Banahmen Head coach, University of East Berlin
P. S. I have enclosed the date and score of each game we will play.
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PAUL ACEVEDO... Top distance runner.
Forced Rest Helps
Needle Disabled Ace, But He's Top Runner
By Russ Corbitt
Two months ago, Paul Acevedo could not walk.
today, he is the No. 1 man on the KU cross country team.
He placed third in the Kansas City Federation meet last spring in the same race, finishing behind Cal Elmore of Wichita and Pat McNeal of Kansas State.
Sometime during the first week in July, only two weeks after he placed sixth in the three-mile run at the NCAA meet. Acevedo ran a needle through his left foot.
He placed fifth in the Big Eight conference cross country meet at Ames, Iowa, and took third in the conference indoor meet in the two-mile run.
A PAINFUL infection forced "Ace" to keep his weight off the foot for two weeks.
But, last Saturday the little senior from Scottsbluff, Neb., won the two-mile time trials with a time 9:51.7. That qualified him as the top distance man, at least for the present time.
ACEVEDO ended last season with a sixth-place finish in the NCAA meet at Albuquerque, N.M.
"I ran up through June on my own." Acevedo said, "but then I had to lay off when I had my accident."
"Paul has come on real well." Coach Bill Easton said. "He has shown great improvement in his performances, and should have a real fine year."
Perhaps, Acevedo's effort last year was his first place finish in the three-mile.
AS A MATTER of fact, Acevedo didn't have a bad year for 1962-63.
Ace doesn't feel the layoff hurt
him any. In fact, he thinks it helped by offering him a little rest.
In addition to running several miles a day during the summer, Acevedo also worked out with weights and did some road construction work.
Ace runs three to five miles daily during the early morning hours, when the runners have their individual workouts.
"SINCE I HAVE come back to school," he said, "I have been working out twice a day. The workouts are helping me regain the form I had at the NCAA meet."
The team workouts in the afternoon bring the total distance to about ten miles he runs daily.
Looking forward to the cross country season, Acevedo predicts another Big Eight championship for Coach Easton's squad.
IN ADDITION to Acevedo, returning from last year's squad are captain George Cabrera, Chick Fero and Herald Hadley.
"The strong team competition keeps me on my toes," Ace said. "I can't let up a bit or I will surely be beaten."
Coach Easton feels the same way about his team strength.
"We have a much better balance this year," Easton said. "We are going to have to be a top outfit in balance if we are going to win."
Easton expects the most competition for the Big Eight title to come from the defending champion Colorado, and from Missouri and Oklahoma State.
The first meet for the KU team will be here Oct. 5. The Jayhawks will play host to Southern Illinois University in a morning meet at the Lawrence Country Club golf course.
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