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Monday. Nov. 30, 1959 University Daily Kansan
By Jim Trotter
Football is all but forgotten now along the Jayhawker trail especially with the basketball season looming like a giant on the horizon.
The Jayhawkers will open their 59-60 campaign Saturday at Evanston, Ill., when they meet the Northwestern Wildcats. The Northwestern game will be the first match of a hectic 8-game schedule before the Big Eight tournament opens in Kansas City.
The Big Eight coaches rated Kansas first followed by Kansas State and Oklahoma. No coach rated the Jayhawkers less than second in the power-packed loop and Kansas State fell as low as fourth in the poll which was published recently in the Topeka Daily Capital.
AFTER NORTHWESTERN, Kansas will meet, in turn, Texas Tech, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Kentucky, San Francisco, Brigham Young and St. Louis. Only Texas Tech and San Francisco will be home games with the latter as one game of the annual Sunflower doubleheader series.
WHERE THE JAYS will finish in the conference doesn't mean as much right now as the kind of team we will field. Coach Dick Harp has come up with a solid club revolving around All Conference center Bill Bridges, two fine backcourt men in Al Donaghue and Wayne Hightower and a pair of dazzling guards in Dee Ketchum and Bob Hickman.
Before the season starts, the Jayhawkers are ranked as the logical first, second or third place finisher in the conference, depending upon whose poll you happen to believe in.
As for the other polls, the second place finish was given to the Jayhawkers by a group of eastern sportswriters who are "experts" on Sunflower basketball teams, and the third place finish tag came from south of the border, down Oklahoma way.
Backing up this probable starting lineup are several outstanding cagers who could break into the starting lineup before the season is over.
Our first home game is a week from tomorrow (Dec. 7) against Texas Tech. A full student section in Allen Field House could very well mean the difference between a winning and losing season.
Soph All-Stars Upset Seniors
By John Peterson
Warren Leitch passed and kicked the Sophomores to victory. Leitch hit Les Nesmith on a three-yard pass play to cap a Soph drive which spelled out victory.
A determined group of Sophomore All-Star players pushed across a touchdown with two minutes left and added the deciding extra point to defeat the Senior All-Stars, 7-6, last Monday in the annual Senior Class Intramural football challenge
The senior squad opened the game like they were going to push the Sophomores off the field as Dick Endacott, Beta, hit Ken Welch, Phi Gam, for a touchdown on the third play of the game. The extra point was missed.
No serious threats were mustered
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during the second quarter. The Sophomore squad controlled the bail throughout the second half.
After the Senior team relinquished the lead, they made a desperation effort to catch the Sophomores. It fell short as a field goal from the ten-yard line was blocked by John Falletta. The key play in the Senior's march deep into Sophomore territory was a 40-yard run by Endacott on the end of a double pass behind the line of scrimmage. The Seniors advanced into the finals in Memorial Stadium by defeating the Freshmen team, 13-7, while the Sophomores beat the Juniors, 3-0.
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Kansas rounded out its crosscountry season over the holidays as Billy Mills out paced all other native-born runners in both the NCAA and the AAU championship meets.
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Mills ran the four-mile, NCAA course in East Lansing, Mich., in 21:6 minutes Monday placing sixth.
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Mills placed third in the AAU meet Thursday as he rounded the six-mile, Louisville, Ky. course in 32:50.
Houston University's Al Lawrence, a 28-year-old imported sophomore from Sidney, Australia, was the winner of both meets.
The other season wins were against Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma.
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"We won't resume workouts until Dec. 9." Missouri Coach Dan Devine said. "Then we will practice for 10 days, take a five-day Christmas vacation, and return to the practice field on Dec. 25."
Orange Bowl - bound Missouri gridders take a 10-day vacation before resuming workouts for their Jan. 1 clash with Southeastern conference champion Georgia.
Devine is worried about the Miami. Fla.. contest.
The Missouri coach is particularly worried about the Bulldogs' well-balanced offense.
"Georgia will be the best team we have faced this year," the Missouri mentor moaned last night. "They have lost only one game all year (South Carolina) and were good enough to finish ahead of Mississippi and LSU in the Southeastern conference."
Bob Lindrud, the only other Kansas runner in the NCAA placed 11. He ran the course in 24:48. Lindrud didn't run in the AAU meet.
Like every other season since 1948, this one has been proven successful for the Jays.
The cross-country team tallied up its 34th consecutive dual meet victory over a conference foe and won its 13th Big Eight championship title.
On Oct. 24, the Jays whipped Arkansas, 16-42. Mills garnered the individual honors in that meet also.
The Jayhawk harriers handed MU a crushing 16-45 defeat in the season's opener. Mills and teammate Brian Travis set the pace in that meet.
The season's only defeat came Oct. 16 at Chicago where the Jays saw a 22 consecutive dual meet victory string broken by the Chicago Track Club.
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"They can run . . . and they can throw. They probably have the best all-around offense of any team we have faced this year." Devine said.
The following weekend Tom Skutka led KU to the season's final dual meet victory as the Jays downed Oklahoma 19-43.
Georgia carries a 9-1 record into the fracas. Missouri, which won the right to represent the Big Eight conference by finishing second to Oklahoma, is 6-4 for the year. Oklahoma was ineligible to return under a
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Regular-season play closed last week, with Oklahoma and Colorado posting victories in the season finales. Colorado rallied in the second half behind sophomore passing wiz Gale Weidner to defeat the Air Force Academy 15-7, and Oklahoma erased a 7-3 halftime deficit to hand cross-state rival Oklahoma State a 17-7 licking.
The standings:
All Games
| | W | L | Pct. | Pts. | Opp |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Oklahoma | 7 | 3 | .700 | 234 | 146 |
| Iowa State | 7 | 3 | .700 | 248 | 73 |
| Missouri | 6 | 4 | .600 | 125 | 110 |
| Okla, State | 6 | 4 | .600 | 181 | 151 |
| Kansas | 5 | 5 | .500 | 163 | 134 |
| Colorado | 5 | 5 | .500 | 144 | 175 |
| Nebraska | 4 | 6 | .400 | 108 | 160 |
| Kansas State | 8 | 2 | .800 | 109 | 266 |
Conference
| | W | L | Pct. | Pts. | Opp. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Oklahoma | 5 | 1 | .833 | 164 | 55 |
| Missouri | 4 | 2 | .667 | 82 | 53 |
| Kansas | 4 | 3 | .500 | 79 | 64 |
| Iowa State | 3 | 3 | .500 | 83 | 62 |
| Colorado | 3 | 3 | .500 | 92 | 134 |
| Nebraska | 2 | 4 | .333 | 62 | 99 |
| Kansas State | 1 | 5 | .167 | 60 | 15 |
Three Kansas Players Tabbed All-Conference
KANSAS CITY - (UPI) — Three members of the 1959 United Press International All-Big Eight Conference football team are repeaters.
Iowa State tailback Dwight Nichols, Oklahoma fullback Prentice Gautt and Kansas end John Peppercorn were named to the All-Conference first team last year. All are seniors.
Kansas, which tied Colorado and Iowa State for third place, landed the most players on the mythical first team. The Jayhawkers are represented by Peppercorn, center Fred Hageman and halfback Curtis McClinton.
Others named to the first team include end Russ Sloan and tackle Mike Magae, Missouri; tackle John Stolte, Kansas State; guard Jerry Thompson, Oklahoma; guard Don Olson, Nebraska and quarterback Gale Weidner, Colorado.
Weidner and McClinton are sophomores; Olson and Hageman are juniors and the rest are seniors.
Kansas placed two men on the second team in halfback John Hadl and guard Benny Boydston. Receiving an honorable mention were tackle Ken Fitch, fullback Doyle Schick and end Dale Remsberg.
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