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Spring Practices Indicate Big Year
with spring football practice either underway or completed at all the Big Eight schools, it appears that the conference race will be as exciting if not more so than last season.
COLORADO: The Buffs finished strong last year with a young team and will have 20 lettermen returning, including their brilliant passer, Gale Weidner. With a little luck, Colorado could take it all next fall.
OKLAHOMA STATE: This is Oklahoma State's first year of eligibility for the Big Eight conference title and the Cowboys uncovered two fine halfback prospects in spring workouts, which already have concluded at the Stillwater, Okla., campus. The two new ball-carriers who flashed signs of brilliance are Chester Pittman and Lonnie Buchner. Full-back Jim Dillard, the leading ball-carrier last year with a 5.2-yard average in 111 carries, bolsters Cowboy hopes.
KANSAS: The Jayhawkers may have the best backfield in the conference, with the top three fullbacks and all-conference halfback Curtis McClinton returning. A lot depends on how star halfback John Hadl does at quarterback. Kansas needs help in the line.
Oklahoma, the perennial champion, has been set down by the NCAA for a violation of rules and will be ineligible for any post reason games. This will allow the other teams a shot at the Orange Bowl trip provided the Orange Bowl committee decides to continue its agreement with the Big Eight.
IOWA STATE: Fullback Tom Watkins returns and should be an outstanding performer for the Cyclones again next year after leading the nation in rushing in '59. John Cooper,
A United Press International survey of the teams and their strong points and weaknesses is as follows.
Tidwell Earned 4 World Rankings
KU sprinter-hurdler Charlie Tidwell earned spots in four different events in the 1959 world track and field rankings compiled by Track & Field News.
The Independence whippet tied for second in the 100 at :09.4; tied for fourth in the 200 and 220 at :20.9 and :20.7 and was billed second in the 220 lows around a turn at :22.7.
Graduated high hurdler Bill Tillman earned a share of fifth with his :14.0 third-place NCAA finish. Broad-jumper Ernie Shelby drew tenth-ranking with his winning NCAA leap of 25-5. Clif Cushman was 8th in the 400 intermediates in 51.3; Bill Alley fourth in the javelin at $270-1_{1/2}$, with which he set new American (since broken) and Intercollegiate records at the Texas Relays.
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who understudied Nichols at tailback, is the leading candidate for that job and could be a surprise. Five tuards and three centers who earned letters last year will return, giving the Cyclones the strongest interior line in the conference.
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NEBRASKA: Halfback Pat Fischer will be switched to quarterback, where Jennings believes he can work the option play and the running pass to good effect. Another major switch will find fullback Don Fricke back at center, where he starred two years ago as a sophomore. Two outstanding freshman graduates who should help他 Cornhuskers are fullback "Thunder" Thornton and quarterback Dennis Claridge.
KANSAS STATE: New coach Doug Weaver has 21 lettermen returning, including the top three quarterbacks, first and second string full-backs, and three of the club's best halfbacks from '59.
MISSOURI: All-conference half-back Mel West, the team's leading ground-gainer for the past two years, heads a veteran backfield that is questionable at only one position — quarterback, where both first and second-stringers will be graduated. There are several holes in the line, with the biggest loss there being All America tackle Mike Magac.
Track Roster
high hurdles; Phil Miller, Wathena junior, discus.
Billy Mills, Denver, Cloo., junior,
mile and two mile; Ken Olson, Van
Nuys, Calif., sophomore, pole vault;
Clarence Peterson, Great Bend soph-
omeh, high hurdles and low hurdles;
Kelly Rankin, Clay Center sophom-
eh, 440 and 220.
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Paul Rearick, Wichita junior, 100,
220 and 440; Arlie Siebert, Wichita
sophomore, 440 and 220; Charles
Smith, Junction City sophomore, 440,
low hurdles and high hurdles; Bob
Tague, Kansas City senior, 880.
Charlie Tidwell, Independence senior, 100, 220 and low hurdles; Brian Travis, Des Moines, Iowa, senior, two mile; Paul Williams, Cleveland, Ohio, junior, 100, 220 and broad jump.
Bowling Champ
ROME, Italy- (UPI)-Officials of the Italian Olympic committee estimate that the 1960 Olympic games will draw 240,000 spectators - half of them from overseas.
DETROIT—(UPI)—Lee Jougland of Detroit won the singles championship in the American Bowling Congress tournament in 1951 with a record 755 pinfall.
Olympics Expect 240,000
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — (UPI)— Harvard's football team set the all-time single season scoring record by totalling 765 points during a 14-game schedule in 1886.
Tod Scorers
Friday, April 22. 1960
Tower Fourth Rookie To Bag Scoring Title
KU's 6-812 sophomore forward, Wayne Hightower, became the fourth rookie in conference basketball history to bag the Big Eight individual scoring flag when he pushed his 14-game total to 303 in the final game of the league season.
Hightower gained wide attention in the regional playoffs and has bee labeled one of the top young ba players in the country.
Picked For Olympics
He has been picked as an alternate for the Olympic squad which will compete in the summer games in Rome this August.
Many have rated him as having more talent than Wilt Chamberlain, former All America center and this year's National Basketball Assn. scoring leader. It is actually very hard to compare the two but most of Tower's points come from farther away than six inches above the basket.
The elongated Philadelphiaphian, agile as a pick-pocket frisking a herd of kangaroos, gained two points on his nearest pursuer, Missouri center Charles Henke, by contributing 23 in the 79-74 conquest of the Cornhuskers, which earned Kansas half-interest in the 1960 league title. Henke, meanwhile, was catching 21 in the
He's Agile
closing 59-57 Bengal victory over Iowa State.
Hightower thus joined an elite all-Kansas cast of sophomore point champions, originated by Ray Ebling in 1934. He was followed by Clyde Lovellette in 1950 and Wilt Chamberlain in 1957. Ebling earned varsity All America as a senior in 1936, Lovellette and Chamberlain were two-time selections.
Hightower's 21.6 average far out-distanced Ebling's then record-tying 12.4, although trailing Lovellette's rookie mean of 23.0 and Chamberlain's 25.4 figure, both logged over the 12-game route of the old Big Seven.
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