Cagers open drills this week Frosh tryout set
One of the least experienced Kansas basketball teams in many years will assemble Wednesday (Oct. 15) for the first organized practice session of the 1969-70 campaign.
Coach Ted Owens, going into his season at the Jayhawk helm, will welcome a 12-man varsity squad that includes only five lettermen. None of the other seven has ever played in a collegiate game.
Heading the list of returnees is Dave Robisch, 6-9 junior who made the all-Big Eight team last year as a rookie and also led the Jayhawks in scoring with an 18.1 average.
Other starters back from the 1969 club that finished with 20 victories and 7 losses are 6-1 Roger Brown and 6-3 Pierre Russell, both juniors. Rounding out the experienced group are seniors Chester Lawrence and Tim Natsues, neither of whom has played very much.
With this youthful group Owens plans to change both his basic offense and defense, switching from the double post to the
single post on the attack and from a zone defense to man-forman.
"We will definitely go to a single post offense," Owens said, "and it is my intention to start practice with Robisch and Brown competing for the pivot position."
Owens is hopeful that sophomores will provide improved backcourt play which he felt was inadequate the second semester last year after All-American Jo Jo White finished his collegiate career at mid-term.
Rookies who figure highly in the backcourt picture are 6-0 Aubrey Nash of Hyattsville, Md., and 6-1 Bob Kivisto of Aurora, Ill. They provided last year's 9-1 freshman team with outstanding guard play.
Sophomore forwards expected
to add scoring punch this winter are Bud Stallworth, 6-5, Hart-selle, Ala.; Neal Mask, 6-6, Tulsa, Okla., and Fred Bosilevac, 6-4, Shawnee Mission. Stallworth last year's fresh scorers at 19.3 and Mask was third at 15.9. Bosilevac was held out of competition last year after playing with the 1968 freshman squad.
Rounding out this year's varsity will be John Poindexter, 6-1, Kansas City and Tim Peterson, 6-0, Kanakee, Ill.
Kansas has won 20 or more games during each of the last four years and participated in four straight post-season tournaments.
Also starting drills Wednesday will be the freshman squad that includes seven scholarship players. They are: Randy Canfield, 6-10, Wichita (Southeast); Leonard Gary, 6-8, Kansas City (Sumner); Ken Sumrall, 6-3, Osawatomi; Mark Williams, 5-11, Denver, Colo. (South); Mike Bossard, 6-6, Washington, D.C., (McKinley Tech); Jerry House, 6-6, Fayetteville, Ark., and Paul Turner, 6-1, Junction City.
Big Eight coaches rehash weekend
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI)—Dan Devine would have you believe his Missouri football team is not swift.
Bob Devaney, coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers, believes otherwise. Devaney ought to know. His Cornhuskers were 17-7 victims last Saturday to the sixth-ranked Tigers.
Kansas State coach Vince Gibson called his team's 26-29 victory over arch-rival Kansas "the biggest we've ever had."
"I'd say Missouri has real good overall team speed." Devaney said Monday. "They're quick up in the line and their secondary tackled as well as any we've ever seen."
Gibson said the aspect that pleased him most was the way his Wildcats "kept coming from behind. They hung in there when
the pressure was on 'em. That's been a big thing to overcome at Kansas State. It used to be that when the going got tough, we started hanging our heads."
Iowa State coach Johnny Majors whose team meets the Wildcats this Saturday said the thing he fears most about K-State is "their ability to strike quickly, to score from anywhere on the field. We've got to cut down on their explosiveness and we've got to score when we get the opportunities."
Missouri will host upstart Oklahoma State, a team that has upset two non-conference foes. But coach Floyd Gass said, "With a team like Missouri, we'd have to play well over our heads to win. We'd have to play an almost perfect game."
Rifle team guns down K-State
The KU Rifle Teams compiled a total of 2008 of a possible 2400 points and outshot the K-State teams Saturday morning Oct. 11, on the KU range. K-State shooters fired a 1946 core.
Top shooter for the match was Jim Brooks of K-State with a total score of 274 points of a possible 300. Mike Jenkins, Salina sophomore, was high scorer for KU with a 271.
The five-man KU team scored 1301 points of a possible 1500 to top K-State's score of 1285
The Kansas Women's team shoot
a 707 of a possible 900 points to beat K-State's team. The K-State women fired a 661.
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Each shooter shot a 50-minute match consisting of one target each of prone, kneeling and standing.
Top woman shooter was KU's Carol Waltz, Orange, Tex., junior, who fired a 259.
Meanwhile, a sellout crowd in excess of 65,000 is awaiting injury-riddled Kansas in Nebraska.
KU's next match will be with the University of Nebraska Saturday, Oct. 18, at Lincoln.
"Everyone was quite discouraged after the game Saturday," said the Jayhawks' Pepper Rodgers. "But we're aware that the season is not over. There are many big games coming up. And, while we're in a state of depression, we still have a chance to play the role of a spoiler."
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Freshman basketball coach Gail Catlett has announced that open tryouts for this year's freshman team will be held Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. at Allen Field House.
Catlett notes that seven players will be selected from the session
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