Friday, November 3. 1972
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KU Runners to Battle Big 8 Foes
By DON PFANNENSTIEL
Kansan Sports Writer
Saturday will be the most important day
the season for the University of Kansas can
continue.
This is how Bob Timmons, KU cross-country coach, described the day the Hawks travel to Columbia, Mo., to compete in Conference cross-country championships.
This season KU has a 1-2 record in dual
leagues, with 4-2 finish in the Oklahoma
Stags. Stats jumped.
However, the two defeats in dual meets came at the hands of two of the top squads in the country. The Hawks fell to Oklahoma state, 23-31, to Southern Illinois, also 22-31.
TIMMONS, WHO considers Oklahoma State the favorite in the meet, said that up to this point he had been pleased with his team's attitude.
we are always disappointed when we
lose, but right now we are higher than ever
before, and we are anticipating the meet," he said.
Timmons said that to win the meet the KU squad must run in a tight pack as it did in the Oklahoma State Jamboree but only closer to the front and faster.
The Jayhawks will send seven men to the meet in hopes of improving on last year's fourplace play. They are Jon Callen, Tom Koppez, Mike Martinez, Kent MacDonald, Bob Pelkan, Tucker Schaeffer and Terry McKeon.
Oklahoma State, the pre-season Big Eight favorite, is the team to beat at Columbia. The Cowboys, according to OSU coach Brad Terry, are going with anyone in the country on a given day.
OKLAHOMA STATE, which placed seventh last year in the meet, features Charles Boatright, who was 13th in the NCAA championships last season.
Two South Africans, Peter Kaal and John Howerton, add essential depth to the Cowen survey.
Defending champion Kansas State, which lost Big Eight individual champion Jerome Howe, has faced a major rebuilding process this season.
The lone Wildcash returne is John Fetner, the 15th finisher in the conference meet last season. The Wildcash hopes also hinge on his coaching skills and sophomore Eddie Grampole, and sophomore Karen, Akin.
10,000-meter champion, and Kaai who was redshirted in 2015. He won mono-player honors in a half-in-time four.
"We're very young, but there is good talent available." K-State coach DeLoss Dodd said at the beginning of the season. "Award factor this year is how fast our kids develop."
NEBRASKA, which finished third last year, returned six lettermen this season. Heading the list of lettermen is junior Bob Browne and Howe last year in the conference meet.
Oklaham is counting on sophomores Don Franklin and Ron Fick, the fourth and fifth in class.
Randy Heierding, who finished fourth in the Big Eight meet despite being bothered by injuries and sickness, heads Oklahoma's chance for a cross-country title.
MISSUORI enters the meet Saturday with one of the most inexperienced squads. Besides letterman Brian Walsh, the Tiger hopes rest on junior college standouts Charles McMullen, a junior college cross-country All-American, and Ron Declue, who placed 12th last year in the national junior college meet.
Iowa state Coach Jerry Barland said the Cycles possessed the most talent in years. The team's first-round meet with one only junior and no seniors. Ryan Eicher, who finished 36th in the NCAA meet last season, leads the Iowa State team to a victory Niels Nygaard Jensen of Denmark.
TIMMONS, WHO said the five-mile course at Columbia was tough and hilly, categorized the conference squads in three different grounds.
He said Oklahoma State, Missouri and Kansas State were the teams to beat, allowed by Nebraska, KU and Colorado. He said they should not cause much trouble, he said.
2 Basketball Players Quit Jayhawk Squad
Randy Canfield, recruited three years ago as one of the University of Kansas' most promising basketball prospects, quit the team Thursday for personal reasons.
Senior Jerry House, 6-4, Fayetteville,
Senior also announced he was quitting for
personal reasons.
It was apparently a joint decision.
It was apparently a joint decision. Carfield was the second center to leave the team.
Last Wednesday the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) ruled 6-10 sophomore Danny Knight undigible for a spot in the national team, however, is still practicing with the team.
Another sophomore, 6-10 Rick Suttle, is expected to start at the pivot spot until Knight returns. Then he will be moved to forward.
The problem prevented him from playing until late in the year as KU amassed a 27-3 record, went unbeaten in 14 Big Eight finals and finished fourth in the NCAA finals.
Last year it was thought Canfield's health had been restored, but his right lung collapsed four weeks prior to the opening of the season. He was able to regain his health and played in all 26 games in the 1971-72 season.
Canfield began practice with the Jayhawk Oct, 15 this year and was reported to be looking good in the workouts. Canfield had missed practice the last two practices but KU coach Ted Owens refused to give a reason for his absence at that time.
Last year Canfield was the club's third leading scoring, averaging 6.6 points a game. He was four leading rebounder with a 4.7 average. His personal high was 27 points against Oklahoma State in the Big Eight tournament last year.
House played in only four games last year and did not score.
KU's Miller Enjoying Success as Rusher
"Robert Miller has been our best runner. Farnham said she have get him up and gone," she said.
The move is an effort by coach Don Fambrough to bolster a stuttering Jayhawk ground game that has been ineffective in the last several games.
Robert Miller, the University of Kansas' top roster and leading scoreer, will not start at his familiar fullback slot Saturday against Oklahoma State. Instead, he will be moved to tailback for KU for the first time this season.
Miller, a sophomore, is enjoying profound success in his first year of varsity competition. Miller, a Houston native who played all 14 games led KU in rushing with 298 yards on 53 carries, an average of 5.6 yards per carry. His seven touchdowns top the team in scoring. A reliable receiver, he has caught two passes, second only to flanker Bruce Adams.
PHYSICALLY, Miller has little going for him. He is neither big, at 20 pounds, nor extremely fast. Surprisingly mature beyond his 19 years, Miller attributes his success to his desire to play. Moreover, he exhibits an air of self-confidence.
"I try to go out to practice each day and be a better athlete than I was the day before," Miller said Tuesday. "I don't have great speed, but I try to get the job done." I am ready, knowing your plays. An average back has a whole lot to think about."
Miller alternated at the fullback and tailback positions Saturday against Iowa State and performed especially well at tailback. He gained 114 yards rushing, 47 in passceptions and was named the defensive player of the week. Vince O'Nell took over Miller's vacated fullback post and will start in that position Saturday.
Gary Lower, the Oklahoma coach, said that Hetherding would be the team leader if he had been selected.
THE BASIC differences between playing fullback and tailback are that the fullback has more blocking responsibility and does not running than the tailback, Miller said. He believes the preference for either position, although he previously is excited about playing tailback.
"It's not hard at all to play two positions.
It makes you tickle you're blocky. When you play tickle, you're tickled."
"Sure, I like to run," he said. "That's what being a back is all about."
ARLINGTON, Tex. (AP)-Dorrel "Whitey" Herzog, 42, director of the New York Mets' farm system, signed a two-year contract Thursday to manage the Texas Rangers of the American League, the hitless wonders of baseball.
Mets' Farm Coach Signs with Rangers
"I know the needs of the Rangers . . . I know they need to know how to hit . . . They are even worse than the Mets," said Herzinger, using pasting major league outfielder.
Terms of the contract were not announced, but Herzog's salary was estimated in 2013, with the Rangers, who compiled a 53-100 record last season, in the majors.
are in a pattern. The tailback is a breakaway-type runner. He needs good vision to see downfield for his holes. A fullback is like a player in standing a wall. You budge it or it budges you.
When he is not running with the ball, Miller's chief duty as a backfill is to block, either clearing a path for the tailback or staying back to protect quarterback David Jaynes when he is passing, which is quite often in KU's air-oriented offense.
"IVE BECOME very acquainted with a whole bunch of linebackers," Miller said. "I get my licks in and don't let them get theirs in first."
"I try to get out there before the linebackers are adjusted to what's going on," he said. "I try to get to the man quickly when I'm in action with the elements. When I miss a block, it really hurts me."
Anticipation and surprise are allies of Miller in facing linebackers who often are 20 to 30 yards away.
"I pass blocking, you can catch a blitting linebacker when he's not expecting it and send him to the showers. But you have to go through that high, high, he'll just knock you off to the side."
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