University Daily Kansan
Friday, November 20. 1970
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KU Senior Pierre Russell
Frosh Play Varsity Monday Night To Open KU Basketball Season
will captain 1970-71 Jaybawks
By DON BAKER
The wraps of the 1970-71 KK basketball will come off in Allen Field House with in Allen Field House with the annual Freshman-Varsity game.
KU basketball coach Ted Owens will have on hand two all-student teams for fans to get a taste of the team, that is come in the rapidly appy season.
Pacing the varsity Jayhawks will be pre-season All American pick Dave Robich. The 6-10 Bison Springfield, illied the big Eight scoring last year as a junior with a 27 point per game average.
Backing him up on the front line will be two more seniors--center Roger Brown and forward Pierre Russell.
Brown, a 6-10 Chicago product, came on strong toward the end of the season. The team will pick up this year where he left off last year. Brown averaged 12 points per game.
Russell was voted by his teammates KU's most valuable player last year while gaining a
Most noted of the newcomers is Tom Rivito, brother of varisty Sharon Browning. He will mark the first public appearance of the two together on Friday as they were teammates three years ago on their father's quintet at the Audrey Hepburn Theater in Aurora, Ill. Bob was a senior that white. While Tom was a sophomore.
Owens noted that Bob and Tom will likely be assigned to guard one another in the contest making her a cast member as well as cast together as commissary roles.
Riggins Leading Rushers
KU running back John Riggins has gone to the head of the class in the Big Eight individual statistics race after having the second best day of his career with a third last week against Oklaemia.
The matchup could be the feature of the game in which the player would have to speed and speed if they hope to offset its decided heights height adversely.
Holding down the starting guard positions will be juniors Bob Kivisto and Anubrey Nash. Those are two players in the positions most of last year.
Good depth will be an asset to Owens and the Jayhawks with most of the punch coming from him, and newcomer Randy Canfield.
Riggs, who before the season started站ed, "I'm not setting any goal in just going to go home," he added, now the conference's leader in both rushing and tandem offense, which is a combination of rushing
By RAY DiTIRRO
Kenyan Sports Writer
Stallworth is a 6-5 junior from Hartsville, Ala. he hit for 13 points a game last year while the team played time. This year will fill him into between the guard and forward positions as Owens has utilized his overall talent to strengthen a problem at the guard position.
outstanding talent that should provide good competition for the varsity in this season warm-up game.
Riggins has a game average of 100.2 yards as of last week, with a 5.4 yards per carry average. In tandem offense he has a 104.6 yards per carry average. His average this week, he will surpass former KU great Gale
Canfield is 6-10 and should offer excellent relief to Brown at the
Riggins seems to have all but one of three individual titles in the NBA, including Nebraska's Jo Oruda, who with four more touchdowns to his credit last week, is only four points behind with a season total of 57. Ruggles and the three rusher in the conference with Oklahoma University's Joe Wylie in second. Wylle would face Nebraska next week to surpass Riggins.
Sayers' season rushing record by one yard.
Kansas    State's   Henry
Hawthorne will also find it hard
to win against a tandem offense next week.
Hawthorne will have to gain 172
more yards than Rikkses does
end to take over the lead in that tournament.
receiver so far this season is Otte Sowe, from Iowa State. Sowe, who caught five passes last week and has earned his career total 119, eight short of the all time Big Eight record. He also formed a K-state Stace Dave Jones.
The Big Eight's leading pass
Although Stowe is the leading receiver with two games left, it wasn't enough. Oklahoma State's Hermann Eben in the yards gained category, the receiver, is the leader in yards gained with 152. For Eben, it will be hard to reach yards to yards to reach K-State's Dav Jones' career yardage mark on
Nebraska has two at the top of the pass interception list, namely Bill Kosch, with seven in-
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center position, The Wichita sophomore has been tabbed by Gwens as a strong frontliner with great potential.
More front line depth will be provided by senior veteran Greg Douglas and junior Neal Mask. The mask returning to action after a year and a half layoff due to unliability. Mask is 6-7 and saw limited action last year but is needed for more playing time this year.
Rounding out the varsity will be senior guard Mark Mathews and sophomore forward Jerry House.
Another newcomer, sophomore Mark Williams, will give KU needed depth in the backcourt. Owens described Williams as a quick and accurate shooting guards the 2aadehawks have had in some time.
Giving Kivisto support will help Gareth Handy Culbertson, the 60-year-old Rockaway Raytown High School, the Missouri state basketball team.
superiority.
The last time a KU freshman was challenged the veteran was in 1985 and only by five points, 61-54. Bruce Sloan led the fresh that year with
varsity verdict with Dave Robisch leading the frosh with 23 points.
At forwards will be Glenn Russell and Dave Tayne. Both are from Kentucky high school credentials to KU. Russell was a member of the team that won the season, Kansas City Wyandotte, while Taylor played his preball haul.
Manning the post position will be Bill Kosick. Standing 6-10, Kosick comes from New Trier, IMM.
Aubrey Nass paced the freshmen as they turned in years' wearings were defeated, 87-59. Last year Kandy Canfield led the team to a victory, as the variety again won easily.
The last four games have been pooled for six years. In 1966 it won three of its five games with Ritch Bradshaw leading the freshman with 13 points. The team also had 13 points.
For those fans who can't wait till Monday night, the varsity game is played on Saturday in the field house in an intra-squad game. The game is
Practice Moved Indoors
With the offense working-out inside Allen Field House and the defense moving over to Robinson Center, Rodgers sent his charges through a light one hour session that was mostly spent reviewing stats.
Rainy weather forced the Kansas Jayhawks indouces Thursday their season finale at the Missouri Tigers just one day away.
KU assistant head coach Don Fambridge remarked the Hawks have looked quick all week and they are still in excellent condition, marked with a "dot of zine."
Rodgers added his pleasure with the KU workouts in preparation for Mizuza and said skis should be quick Saturday.
Kansas will go into the game a seven point underdog while attempting to move its overall record to 6-5 and its conference record which would put the Hawks in the first round of the 'first division in the Big Eight.
But the Tigers will have the same motive as they too will carry a 2-14 league record into the playoffs, and in would do the same for them.
Reamon Confident of KU Swimming Team
By BOB NORDYKE
Kansan Sports Writer
"We think we're good," said Reamon, "we believe in our selves."
With a team that has depth, balance and 14 returning lettermen, KU's swimming coach Dick Reisman doesn't fit the patient overconfidence fine line, speaking only of the "next game."
The former KU All-Big Eight swimmer has much so faith in his 1970 squad that he is audacious and makes in terms of national ratings.
"Our main objective, this season is to make our mark on the world," Reamon. "We were 24th last year and we'd like to break into the top three."
He quickly added that a high national ranking would put Kansas in the spotlight internationally.
first in the 200 and second in the 100 backstroke races.
"When you're talking about national swimming in the United States," he noted, "you're talking about the world. The U.S. owns it."
Reamon's confidence may startle more cautious observers, but he is standing on facts and some impressive talent.
Coming off its third straight conference swimming title, the Jayhawks are deep in talent. The Warriors were lost by graduation while he was born.
KU appears to be strong down in time with top contenders in the field. "Probably our greatest strength is the fact we have no real control."
"We should be better than last year," he noted. "We have more talent than any squid I've ever seen." He said the solid balance in every event.
The 14 include three senior tricaptains Kim Bolton, Bruce Bove, and Steve Trombold.
Oklahoma products.
One thing is certain for the Tigers—1970 will go down as a losing year as a win Saturday. They also have their overall record to only 5-6.
Bolson, who took the two
soloion title in the 50 race,
has also headed up the
Hawks' freestyle contingent.
KU's strongest suit. He leads the
race over BG's hold school and Big Eight records
and holds individual titles in the
French Grand Prix.
Bove, the third place medalist in the Big Eight last season in both the 500 and 1650 freestyle events, is the top distance and should be a top contender for the conference title this year.
The balance and depth is probably most obvious in the freestyle events which Rehamel hubs of the whole program.
The Jayhawks are also strong defenders. The team's Skuttey teaming with leaguer record holder Trombold for a power base, Skuttey set the 200 game win record in preliminaries last year, but Trombold won the finals as well.
Reamon has set an intra-squad meet this Friday in preparation for the Big Eight Relays in Lawrence Dec. 4-5.
Mike Tackett had a good freshman season in the butterfly, but he did not play until March Wagoner and Keith Richey, the event should no doubt be worthwhile.
Steve Rice and Roland Sabates, who both placed in three free-style teams, were the first to meet, are ready to go along with them. We will be freshmen, Tom Kempf and Jim Fowler.
Trombold is the No. 1 man for KU in the backstroke events. In last year's league meet he took
marked improvement according to Reamon.
Bob Wright appears to have claimed the team's win, and conference records in the breaststroke as a freshman, and KU's divers Ray Herman and Mike Gorell.
Reasonam said this intra-squad competition will give the team a chance to go under the gun and provide a competitive factor. The will also give him some information of how far along the team is.
Reason said the intra-squad contest would also give him clues as to how to best use the talent on the squad.
A new NCAA ruling allows a coach to enter three men in each event on a competitive status. A judge can enter a man per event with a third en-tered
tered on an exhibition status
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"It as it be, there was no incentive because you knew you were swimming for exhibition only," noted Reamon. "Now they score to score for the team and shout make our team even stronger."
He's Sort of a Cowboy
Coming Soonll
by Peter Ustinov
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