University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, Sept. 30. 1970
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Mizzou Faces Tough Test
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI)—Not since 1966 has the University of Missouri football team been so humiliated.
That was the year Nebraska and Colorado administered back-to-back 35-0 and 26-0 shellings. But there was little reason to suspect last Saturday that the Tigers were in for a drubbing.
Air Force administered it, 37-14. And it really was much worse than that. Like 30-0 at halftime. As one radio announcer put it, "The score was 17-0 before the national anthem was over."
Tiger coach Dan Devine admitted Monday, "It was an embarrassing day for me for a number of reasons."
The game was played in St. Louis' Busch Stadium, where water stood on the Astro-Turf.
"I had to ask our band not to go on the field before the game," said Devine. "They said if the band was allowed on the markings would come off. The field should have been dried and marked and the band should have been allowed on."
"None of these things were done. And that's all I want to say about it."
Devine, though he offered no excuses for the loss and even stressed that Air Force played
much better and deserved to win, also said his team had not been able to practice properly since before the first game of the season. Columbia, Mo., has had its share of rain the past two weeks and the Tigers have been forced indoors, where the facilities are less than adequate.
"We were not prepared to play a football game, either physically or mentally," said Devine, "And I said that before the game."
Missouri also lost star defensive tackle Rocky Wallace, who
suffered a pulled groin muscle.
His status for this week's game
with Oklahoma State at
Stillwater is questionable.
Missouri and Kansas State will be in remarkably similar positions this week. Both will be coming off substantial losses against teams that posted upset victories.
Oklahoma State did the job against Houston, 26-17, while K-State's foe, Colorado, smashed Penn State's 31-game unbeaten streak. 41-13.
Devine seemed particularly pessimistic Monday, though.
"We're good for people to get well on," he mused. "Everybody likes some of that Tiger meat."
Kansas State, 35-13 loser to Arizona State, will welcome quarterback Lynn Dickey back into the fold this week. Dickey has been benched with a bruised rib cage while the Wildcats lost to Kentucky and the Sun Devils.
With Dickey back, the game in Manhattan, Kan., shapes up as a pivotal one early in the Big Eight race.
KU Sailors Breeze By K-State In Sunday Dual at Tuttle Creek
In the first competitive collegiate sailing regatta ever held in Kansas, KU swept past Kansas State University, 8-5, after claiming the first five match races Sunday afternoon at Manhattan's Tuttle Creek Reservoir.
The regatta, consisting of 13 match races, pitted one sailboat from each school in five different classes divided by size and design of the boats and the number of sails.
Jim Waters, Junction City junior and president of the KU Sailing Club, led the KU tars with wins in three individual match races.
The regatta, run on a short one mile course in light, shifting wind, sent the boats on a stretch into the wind, back to a mark traveling with the wind, and finally returning to the starting line sailing against the wind
Points in sailing are totaled simply by giving the winning boat
in each match run one point and the losing boat none.
After sweeping the first five races, KU slacked off and allowed the less experienced members of the 15 man squad to fill the crews in the final runs.
Both schools are in their first year of competitive sailing although KU's sailing club was started last year.
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KU Harriers Prepare for Meet
Lecompton, Kans., may be a nice place to visit, but it would be a long run from there to Lawrence. The distance is a mere 14 miles, give or take a few country roads. Coach Bob Timmon's cross country team ran the distance Tuesday as a typical day's workout.
The 14 mile ordeal wasn't really anything new for the distance runners since they ran a timed 10 mile run on Monday.
Timmons said, "We're going to continue getting in mileage. I don't know how long, but just for the time being."
Timmons is not only preparing his team for this week's meet at Oklahoma State, he is also looking ahead to the Big Eight Conference and the NCAA meets.
The runners are putting in many miles of overdistance and working through the early season meets.
"No, I won't be running them this hard later in the season," Timmons said. "I think the team is coming along really fine. They are looking very good."
The team has won the Big Eight conference meet the past two years, but hasn't placed in the top 20 teams in the NCAA nationals for several years.
Timmons said, "We're not going at it as diligently as last year, mainly because the season is longer and we have more time to get ready. We want to do good in nationals so we don't want to taper down at the end."
In the team's first outing of the
The Leader Points The Way
... coach Bob Timmons directs Jeff Wray and Jay Mason
season last Saturday at Iowa State, the distance men outlasted the Iowa State runners over the 6-mile course. Jay Mason, senior team captain from Hobbs, N.M., won the meet in the time of 31 minutes and 52 seconds. Dennis McGuire was the only member of the Iowa State team to finish in the top six positions. McGuire finished third behind Dave Anderson, Mission sophomore. The next three finishers were Rich Elliott, Chicago junior; Jon Callen, Wichita sophomore; and Dennis Peterson, Wichita senior. Jeff Wray, Chicago sophomore, and Doug Smith, Sioux City junior, finished ninth and tenth.
Timmons said, "This is where the conference will be held so it will be good to have the fellas look at it even though the conference meet is six miles."
Timmons was pleased with the way the team performed against Iowa State and especially against McGuire.
Security Topic Of Discussion
He said, "I thought our team did very well considering we hit our first cold day with very damp surfaces and we did very well against McGuire, who was second in the conference last year. He's a real fine runner."
Saturday the team travels to Stillwater, Okla., to run in the Oklahoma State Jamboree.
"It has always been a real fine meet," said Timmons. "There is always a large field, but only two conference teams, Oklahoma State and ourselves, will participate."
Tom Regan, committee chairman, declined comment on the condition of KU campus security. Regan said a full report on the security situation at all the state colleges and universities would be released after his report to the governor.
Last year Texas-ElPaso won the meet. Timmons said he doesn't know if they will be back this year. The race is a 4-mile run over a hilly course.
Campus security was discussed by University administrators in a meeting with the governor's committee on criminal administration Wednesday afternoon.
Regan said the meeting, a discussion of how security could better protect lives and property at KU, was very helpful.
Bill Ebert, student body president, was invited to meet with the group, but was in Manhattan at the time.
Today the committee will visit campuses at Hays and Manhattan to complete a three-day-tour of state schools.
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