Gene Phillips
David Miller
Spurring SMU's attack will be All-American candidate Gene Phillips, last year a unanimous All-SWC selection and league sophomore of the year. This year the fiery junior guard is averaging 28.2 points per contest and eight rebounds. A 6-4, 176-pounder, he is known for his overall hustle and play-making.
Backing up Phillips' scoring punch is Dave Miller whose 11.3 average is second highest on the squad. Miller's 9.3 rebounds per game make him the leader for the Mustanges on the boards.
The opening game of the Classic will feature Western Kentucky and the University of Texas at El Paso. The winner will meet the victor of the KU-Southern Methodist contest for the championship Saturday at 9 p.m.
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TULSA, Okla. (UPI) -- Veterans groups expressed the hope Tuesday that either the Oklahoma attorney general or the state legislature would block a scheduled Jan. 10 fight by former heavyweight champion Cassius Clay.
Tulsa County District Attorney S. M. Fallis Jr. told representatives of a group called "TKO Clay" that he would ask Attorney General G. T. Blankenship for an opinion on the legality of the fight.
Fallis said he was in sympathy with the group, but doubted whether the state has the power to stop the fight. A law prohibiting prize fights in Oklahoma was repealed in 1959.
Spokesmen for the group said they were hopeful the legislature might block the fight when it convenes in January, four days before Clay is to meet tenthranked Billy Joiner at an undisclosed location in Tulsa County.
Clay was stripped of the heavyweight title in 1967 when he refused to be inducted for military service.
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CHICAGO (UPI) — U.S. marshals held the line against Dick Butkus, the all-pro middle linebacker of the Chicago Bears, it was revealed Tuesday.
In fact, they corraled the terror of the National Football League and locked him up for a half hour.
It seems Butkus showed up Monday at the Federal Building to get a passport he will need for
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a post-season tour of hospitals in the Pacific.
Seven men are on trial in the Federal Building charged with conspiring to incite riots during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Because of the highly publicized trial, all persons entering the building must state their business and, if the marshals see fit, be searched.
Accordingly, a marshal asked Butkus what he was doing in the building.
"None of your business," Butkus told him.
The marshal told Butkus to get
Accounts differ as to what happened then. Some say Butkus decked a deputy marshal. Others say he tried to and missed.
So the pride of the Bears, who have little to be proud of this year, had to cool in the marshal's lockup until the U.S. attorney's office decided not to press charges.
out and he did so, only to reenter by another door.
U. S. Marshal John C. Meiszner confessed himself chagrined. He confessed he has a season ticket to the Bears but failed to recognize his idol.
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CHICAGO (UPI) — Coach Jim Dooley Tuesday barred Virgil Carter from practicing or playing with the Chicago Bears for their final week of the season in an obvious reprisal for Sunday's post-game tirade against Dooley and other Bear brass.
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It was the second blow of a one-two managerial punch against the outspoken quarterback. Bears owner George Halas Sr, fined him $1,000 for the dressing room blow-up in which he called Dooley a "fiar" and a man who has "no guts."
A Bears' front office spokesman said Dooley's action was "not in any sense a release or a suspension." He said the coach "merely excused him from practicing with the team or playing next Sunday."
The Bears, now 1-12 in their worst season in history, close against the Detroit Lions Sunday.
The move caught the Bears' Loop office by surprise. A spokesman there said it was "ridiculous" to say the Bears had released or suspended Carter.
First word of Dooley's action came from Carter who told reporters and photographers at the team's Wrigley Field practice grounds that the corch "has released me."
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