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Injuries haunt foes
Kansas
KU will go into its battle with Oklahoma at Norman Saturday in less than top physical shape.
Coach Pepper Rodgers said it is very doubtful that veteran center Dale Evans, suffering from a bruised knee, will see action.
Three other Jayhawks are expected to be slowed because of current bouts with the flu. They are fullback John Riggins, kicker Bill Bell and offensive guard Dave Aikins.
Dale Holt will replace Dick Hertel at left halfback in the starting line up.
Oklahoma
NORMAN—Two Oklahoma mainstays, out with injuries in last week's game against Missouri, were recovering slowly Tuesday.
"In fact," coach Chuck Fairbanks said, "It's doubtful either will be able to play against Kansas."
The crippled players are defensive halfback Joe Pearce, out with a bruised shoulder, and wingback Geoffrey Nordgren, side-lined with bruised ribs.
The Sooners pleased their head coach during a long noncontact workout.
"We practiced real well, with lots of spirit and hard work," Fairbanks said. "We could use the same kind of practices the remainder of the week."
Oklahoma hosts Kansas Saturday in a Dad's Day game. More than sixty-thousand.
Knees, Part 2
Dale Evans, KU's all-Big Eight center candidate, has started 29 straight games for Kansas but a knee injury suffered last week against Colorado makes him a doubtful participant in the Oklahoma game this Saturday in Norman.
HOUSTON (UPI) — The National Collegiate Athletic Association forbids bowl game invitations before noon Nov. 17, but that doesn't prevent selection committees from naming teams they want to see in their bowl boundaries.
Bowls eye prospects
Lou Hassell, head of the AstroBluebonnet Bowl committee, said Tuesday he would like to have the Southwest Conference runner-up for the New Year's Eve classic in the Astrodome.
"Ever since the game was started, we have attempted to get the runner-up team in the Southwest Conference, and we'll try again this year," Hassell said.
Texas or Arkansas are the likely SWC winner, who is duty bound to go to the Cotton Bowl.
The list of eligible teams is the same for every bowl: Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Penn State, Louisiana State, Florida, Nebraska, Kansas State, Auburn, Georgia, South Carolina, West Virginia, Mississippi, Arizona State and Syracuse.
"With eight major bowls, there has to be 16 teams to fill them and it isn't easy to do," Hassell said.
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Knee ailments plague gridders
NCAA has strictly warned bowls this year to observe regulations on invitation extension dates or face loss of certification.
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Behind a curtain is a passageway; on one side are seven examination cubicles and on the other are the x-ray and therapy rooms. In one corner is O'Donghue's wood-panelled office with its "Big Red" plaques, attesting to the specialists' OU alumni activities, and a perculating coffee maker. An x-ray projector and pictures adorn his desk.
O'Donoghue often recommends surgery when other doctors don't. This is well-kown among coaches such as Hank Stram of the Kansas City Chiefs. When O'Donoghue recommended surgery for Dawson, Stram called 1; a St. Louis Specialist for consultation.
The St. Louis doctor said that with proper care the knee would recover without surgery. Because the Chief's needed Dawson and because of O'Donoghue's tendency to recommend surgery (O'Donoghue initially thought Dawson would not need an operation), Stram and Dawson decided to forego surgery.
The post-operative period of a knee operation is made bearable only by drugs and O'Donoghue's unwritten rule that his patients get together. He makes sure that each patient has the room numbers of at least two other of his wards. A patient is expected to tell the good-humored doctor not only how he feels but how the other two feel.
On release, O'Donoghue gives his patients a daily schedule of weight exercises. He expects the leg and knee to be built up to certain levels by subsequent visits.
The Oklahoma specialist doesn't recommend operations because he needs monetary relief. Rather, he believes "minor" injuries need to be corrected in a region as sensitive as the knee. Without such correction, the knee becomes susceptible to further and more serious injury.
O'Donoghue has one minor obsession and it concerns soap. For a month prior to entering the hospital, the knee must be scrubbed daily with soap. Not any soap, mind you; it has to be Dial. When he explains why, you'd swear he's straight out of a commercial . . . "it kills bacteria like no other soap can."
Orthopedic surgeons like O'Donoghue play an unheralded, but very important part, in the game of football. It is through their efforts that injured super-stars, such as Namath and Sayers, can return to the gridiron.
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