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Rough Break Costly To KU at Indoor Meet
By Jim Gardiner
It took a great Oklahoma track squad and a freak accident to stop the Kansas Jayhawkers bid for their ninth straight Big Eight Indoor title.
The Sooners in a tremendous display of strength and depth in both the track and field events piled up $61_{1/2}$ points to edge the Jays total of 58. Kansas's strength in the running events was not enough to overcome the balanced attack of the Sooners
Needing only a second place in the mile relay to win the meet, the Jay-hawkers became the victims of a freak accident. With a lap and a half to go Clif Cushman, anchoring for the Kansas quartet, started to pass theOU anchor man Bob Wilcox, when the baton hit Wilcox's hand
J. D. Martin was easily the meet's outstanding performer as he shattered the pole vault record with a jump of $15 - 7^{1/2}$. After winning the event at $15^{1/2}$, the Oklahoma junior went on to set the new record. The only other record that fell was in the 600-yard run. Joe Mullins of Nebraska ran his specialty in 1:12.3 to lower the record he set last year.
and then Cushman's leg causing it to fly from Cushman's grasp. The loss of the baton meant the loss of the meet.
The race that many were looking forward to never came off. Ted Woods of Colorado and Missouri's Jim Baker were expected to put on quite a duel in the 440 but Baker fell during Friday night's trials and did not qualify.
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With only two games remaining for all the conference teams, Oklahoma, Kansas State and Kansas are tied for first with the help of a tremendous defensive game by Oklahoma in its contest with the Wildcats.
The Sooners walloped the Manhattan boys, 58-35. Saturday afternoon in a regional television affair. Three sophomores, Jack Lee, Brian Etheridge and George Kernek, led the Oklahoma attack with 43 of the 58 points.
K-State was cold from the start as it trailed by 11 points at half-time, 26-15. The Wildcats only hit 20 per cent from the field while Oklahoma banked in 19 of 41 for 46 per cent.
In another Big Eight game Saturday, Iowa State squeezed by the Colorado Buffalooes in five overtimes, 83-80.
At the end of the first and second overtime, the score was tied at 69-69. Both teams scored two points in the third overtime to square it away again. In the fourth extra period, The Cyclones managed to tie it all over; this time at 75-all. But finally in the fifth overtime, Iowa State's Gary Wheeler and Larry Fie combined fine shooting to give the Cyclones their sixth victory of the conference season.
The Cyclones, trailing by as many as 11 points during regulation play, battled back to knot the count at 65-all as the gun sounded.
BIG EIGHT STANDINGS
W L Pct.
Oklahoma 8 4 .667
Kansas State 8 4 .667
KANSAS 8 4 .667
Colorado 6 6 .500
Iowa State 6 6 .500
Okahama State 4 8 .333
Missouri 4 8 .333
Nebraska 4 8 .333
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This should have left Woods with a clear shot at first but KU's Paul Rearick gave him a battle until they came off the last curve and the Buffalo widened his lead to take a decisive victory.
Nebraska, shifting into third gear after the intermission, downed the Oklahoma State Cowboys, 54-47. Horschell Turner hit on a jump shot with 16 minutes remaining in the second half to put the Cornhuskers in the lead for good. It was Nebraska's fourth league win against eight losses and tied them for sixth place in the conference standings with O-State and Missouri.
Miles Eisenman won his specialty, the two mile, to give Oklahoma State its only first. Don Meyers gave Colorado their second first place ribbon as he won the broad jump upsetting teammate Roger Toomey, the premeet favorite.
A three-minute cold spell proved to be the downfall of the Kansas' freshmen in the yearly encounter with the Missouri fresh as the young Tigers broke a 50-60 tie with three minutes remaining to win 74-62.
Junior Jays Lose to MU
Nolan Ellison and Jim Dumas were the big guns for KU as Ellison dumped in 17 points and Dumas scored 14. Ed Cahill had one of his best nights of the year by scoring 11 points.
Jim Winsnett of Missouri hit a bucket that tied the score 60-all, and from here on, it was all Missouri.
Kansas breezed to an eight-point lead at the end of the intermission and it looked like it was all the Jayhawkers game. But Missouri had different ideas as it outscored the junior Hawkers by 20 points in the second half.
Other junior Jays' who broke into the scoring column were, Ralph Heyward, 8 points; John Matt, 7 points; and John Williams and Roy Scott with 2 points each.
Oklahoma picked up three more firsts as Gail Hodgson won the mile, Mike Lindsay the shot-put and Larry Neely the high jump.
Kansas' running attack was sparked by double winner Charlie Tidwell who won both the 60-yard dash and the 60-yard low hurdles. Although Tidwell was the meet's only double winner there were several men who were double place winners.
Clif Cushman, in addition to anchoring the ill-fated mile relay team, won the 1000-yard run and placed second in the 600. Bill Dotson sophomore distance man took third in the mile and came back to take second in the half mile.
Billy Mills placed second in the mile and returned to take second in the two mile. Paul Williams was the other Kanan to take two places. He finished fifth in the broad jump and third in the 60-vard dash.
Bob Tague turned in a sparkling performance as he easily won his third straight Indoor 880 championship, becoming the first man to win this event three times. Curtis McClinton picked up the other first for the Jays when he edged Martin to win the 60-yard high hurdles.
Other Kansas point winners;
Bill Dryer, fourth in the shot-put; Ken Olson tie for fifth in the pole vault; and Dick Keith tie for second in the high jump.
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Missouri's high scorer was Joe Scott, with 18 points, and Charlie Henke contributed 16 before he fouled out with 7:19 remaining. Don Sarver added another 10 for the Tigers.
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Despite their unexciting 24.4 per cent shooting in the first half, the Tigers held the Jayhawkers to a slim lead in the first half, 37-34.
One week ago it was Kansas, K-State and Colorado, each with 7-3 records. After Saturday's action Kansas and K-State were still deadlocked, but Oklahoma displaced Colorado by whipping K-State's Wildcats 58-35. The Sooners defensive rebounding held K-State to its lowest point total for the season.
Kansas stayed in the race for the conference title by downing Missouri 85-72 Saturday night at Columbia. Wayne Hightower, the league's leading scorer, was the high-point man, hitting 27 for the Jayhawkers before fouling out with 4:31 left in the game. Bill Bridges contributed 18 and Jerry Gardner 17.
Hightower Paces Jays To 85-72 Rout of MU
But during the second half, the Jayhawkers took command, building margins as big as 15 points. For the game, the Jayhawkers hit 26 of 64 field goal attempts or 40.6 per cent.
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While the Tigers frequently took the lead in the first half, they were only able to tie the score once, and never to go ahead of Kansas after the intermission. With Hightower setting the pace, the Jayhawkers moved steadily ahead to win their eighth game of the season.
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