Joe Moore
Terry McMillan
Missouri's reasons why
Tigers approach Big Eight bests
KANSAS CITY (UPI) — Missouri's Orange Bowl-bound Tigers are the third-best offensive team in the history of the Big Eight Conference.
Missouri, 8-1 with its traditional game with Kansas remaining, is averaging 427.7 yards per game, both running and passing. That figure ranks third behind Oklahoma's national champions of 1956 and last year's Kansas team.
Oklahoma averaged 481.7 yards per game in '56 and Kansas had 442 yards per outing in 1968.
The Tigers, accumulating yardage on Terry McMillan's passing and Joe Moore's running, rank second in rushing and third pass
sing in the explosive Big Eight.
What makes Missouri so potent, however, is its combination of offense and defense. While the Tigers are leading the league in scoring 293 points for a 32.6 average, they are the No. 1 team in rushing defense 108.7 yards per game and rank second in scoring defense 17.8 points per game.
Other team statistical leaders remain the same.
Nebraska's Sun Bowl team dominates the defensive side of the ledger. The Cornhuskers are first in passing defense 119.1 yards, total defense 250.5 and scoring defense 11.0.
Harriers go Monday
Kansas' cross-country team, winner of the Big Eight and Central Collegiate meets the past two weeks, will shoot for the NCAA championship in New York Monday.
The squad will be led by Jay Mason, a junior from Hobbs, N.M., who was the top Jayhawk finisher at both the Big Eight and Central Collegiate meets. Mason was ninth in the Big Eight, covering the four-mile course in
Coach Bob Timmons will take a seven-man squad to New York, leaving immediately following Saturday's Kansas-Missouri football game.
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An additional mile will be tacked on Monday since the NCAA championship is run at six miles.
19:53. In the five-mile CCC meet at Carbondale, III., last weekend he was fourth in 24:34.
Rounding out the Kansas squad will be Glenn Cunningham, Leon senior; Dennis Petterson, Wichita junior; Rich Eliott, Hillside, Ill., sophomore; Doug Smith, Sioux City, Iowa; junior; Dave Anderson, Kansas City freshman, and Jon Callen, Wichita freshman.
Here's the way those six finished at Carbondale: Anderson, 10th in 24:50; Callen 13th in 24:56; Smith, 14th in 24:57; Elliott, 21st in 25:14; Petterson, 50th in 26:19, and Cunningham, 64th in 26:48.
Kansas coach Pepper Rodgers said Wednesday there is a chance center Dale Evans may be able to play Saturday against Missouri.
Pepper, Devine size up opposition
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (UPI) — Orville Moody, a virtual nobody on the professional golf tour only a year ago, reached the apex of his career Tuesday night when he was named Golfer of the Year by the Professional Golfers Association of America.
Evans, a senior who's started every game since his sophomore year, suffered a knee injury two weeks ago. He started last week against Oklahoma in order to preserve his streak, but quickly retired to the sidelines.
Moody named top swinger
The Jayhawks worked out for about an hour in sweat suits.
Moody, a native of Chickasha, Okla., won two of pro golf's biggest events this year—the U.S. Open and the World Series of Golf—and has earned $78,323.7 on the tour, in addition to the $50,000 he earned for winning the World Series. Last year, his first full season on the circuit, the 35-year-old Moody won just $12,950
Paul Hahn, world famous trick shot artist, received the Horton Smith Award for outstanding contributions to the game.
Demos win out
American political parties have found yet another means of deciiding political controversy — the gridiron
In a game that almost went scoreless, the Collegiate Young Democrats (CYD) defeated the Collegiate Young Republicans 6-0 in a Sunday afternoon game of touch football.
"We decided this would be a good way to release natural hostilities so we can work together on matters more vital to our common interests," said Mike Dickeson, Atchison senior and CYD president.
Rodgers said Missouri is a better team than it was a year ago, "mainly because Terry McMillan and Mel Gray are better, plus they have all those returnees back. The main difference in this game is that we have only five guys starting who started a year ago."
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COLUMBIA, Mo. — Missouri skipped through a 1 1/2 hour practice Wednesday, while coach Dan Devine tried to find why his sixth-ranked Tigers might lose to Kansas.
"Pepper Rodgers is in a position that every coach would like to find himself in," said Devine.
Rodgers, whose team is 1-8, might have reason to dispute that, but Devine reasons that Kansas has "everything to gain, nothing to lose" in Saturday's mismatch.
"In my opinion, Kansas has better personnel on defense than Colorado or Michigan had," said Devine. "I just hope we can play
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Devine also said reserve tailback James Harrison, out with a leg injury most of the season, would not make the trip to Lawrence. He said a decision on whether defensive end Mike Bennett could play would be withheld until Friday. Bennett has been practicing all week, but had been out with a foot injury.
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