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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, January 10, 1969
Jets anxious for Colts
FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla.
(UPI)—Weeb Ewbank had to apply the brakes Thursday because he discovered his New York Jets were hitting too hard and moving too fast toward their big Sunday Super Bowl date with the Baltimore Colts.
The Jets went through their final major practice session and Ewbank said there would be no more contact work until game time in Miami's Orange Bowl Sunday.
"I had to caution them not to get as rough as they did yesterday," Ewbank explained. "We don't wanna lose a ballplayer. The way they were going at it, they scared me for a while. You certainly don't want to come up with an injury at this point."
The Jets, according to Ewbank, were at peak condition for their first Super Bowl test ever as early as last week.
"That's the problem," he said.
"You have to try to calm 'em down. The boys are all in excellent shape. What I have to do now is slow 'em down a bit."
For perhaps the 500th time since he brought his Jets down here last week, the
extraordinarily patient Ewbank was asked whether he had found any weakness among the Colts he felt the Jets could exploit.
Displaying that extraordinary patience, he said simply: "Thev're a great team."
Repeatedly, Ewbank has dodged answering only one question—which AFL team do the Colts most remind him of? "I know which one," he says, "but I'm certainly not going to tell you."
Some of his players, however unwittingly let the cat out of the bag. They say the Kansas City Chiefs are the AFL team the Colts remind them of most.
The chubby Jet coach continued saying he thinks his AFL champs will give a good account of themselves against Baltimore Sunday, but no matter what they do or whatever the final score, he thinks they have a fine ball club and nobody has to apologize for them.
"I can't understand all these references to their (Baltimore's) superiority and our not having any chance supposedly. Right now, if you listen to people talk, it would be foolish for us to dress Sunday, but we're going to."
Namath worries Shula
BOCA RATON, Fla. (UPI) -Lenny Lyles, the veteran defensive captain of the Baltimore Colts, rated the Joe Namath-directed New York Jets' passing attack among the best in pro football Thursday and said, "it's not going to be easy out there Sunday."
The Colts, like the Jets, concentrated on defense in their workout in pads Thursday. The National Football League champs will begin tapering off Friday and Saturday for the Sunday afternoon Super Bowl meeting with the Jets.
"We're not chafing at the bit at this point. We're just working along the way we regularly do. We don't want to be ready too soon," said Baltimore coach Don Shula.
Lyles, who has been playing eight years in Baltimore's defensive backfield, said of the Jets, "They have fine receivers and we know Namath can throw the ball. He's been together with his receivers for four years and when you work together that long it makes a big difference. New York has one of the best passing attacks in football.
"Their passing game is not
much different than what we work against in the NFL. Anybody can beat you if they execute well—or if you don't execute well. New York doesn't do too many things wrong. It's not going to be easy out there Sunday."
But Lyles said he figured by Sunday, "I'll be good and ready."
Shula said that in two days of working on the Colt offense he has installed "nothing especially new, although we always have one or two different wrinkles.
"But I don't think this is going to be a game that will be won with a lot of gimmicks. Good hard football is what this game will be."
The Colts expect to enter the game at full strength. Shula said that Lyles had recovered from a mild case of tonsilitis and that Bubba Smith's sprained ankle "is getting better every day."
Looking toward what the Jets might throw at his team, Shula said, "I don't believe Weeb Ewbank (Jets coach) is going to deviate much from what they have been doing all season. He has three good linebackers and a good, tough defense."
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At the beginning of this week it appeared Kansas, riding the crest of a 13-1 season record, would easily be the first school to reach 1,000 basketball victories.
The Kansan and KU's sports information department has them at 991.
The Wildcats' venerable head coach, Adolph Rupp, claims his boys made number 1,000 by beating Mississippi State last Monday. He's adding in a five-game sweep at the International Universities Tournament at Tel Aviv, Israel, in August of 1966.
By ROBERT ENTRIKEN JR.
Kansas Sports Special
Now, one way or another, Kentucky seems determined to make it.
The NCAA official count has Kentucky at 995 after the Mississippi State win. It doesn't include the Israel junket.
MISTER DONUT
Lawrence
Kentucky's sports information director, Russell Rice, now claims the Wildcats have 1,002 career victories-or 997 by NCAA count if two more wins he has unearthed from 1903 and 1907 are accepted.
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KU-Kentucky in sudden deadlock
At the start of the season the Kansan and KU sports information director Jay Simon (not to mention the Associated Press, United Press International and Sports Illustrated) had Kentucky at 983 victories. This was based on figures compiled by noted basketball historian Bill Mokray of Boston.
Rice said yesterday that his school had 987 at the start of the season—and that Wednesday he had found two more early victories.
Early Kentucky records showed no result for five games played before 1907, Rice said. He said he spent a day scanning
old newspaper microfilms and found an 11-10 victory over Lexington YMCA in 1903 and another over what is now Transylvania College by a 16-14 score in 1907. The other three games were losses.
No one seems to know where the discrepancy between Mokray's figures and Rice's is.
However, taking the NCAA total of 995 (we won't count that trip to Israel either) and adding the two that Rice found (which were legitimately scheduled games and will probably be accepted), Kentucky now has 997.
So does Kansas.
What this means is this: Root like crazy for Florida or Georgia or Tennessee. According to Rice Kentucky will have its hands full against those foes. But their schedule and KU's match evenly to that point. We both need three wins.
Here's the schedules to that point:
point:
Saturday, Jan. 11
Kansas at Missouri
Florida at Kentucky
Monday, Jan. 13
Kansas at Iowa State
Georgia at Kentucky
Saturday Jan. 18
Kansas at Kansas State
Kentucky at Tennessee
The rub is that the Kentucky-Tennessee game will be televised. As in the Big Eight, Southeastern Conference television games are played in the afternoon rather than at night.
If both of us win the next three games, Kentucky gets there first by a matter of hours. Rice gives Jayhawk fans a glimmer of hope, though.
"We haven't beaten Tennessee at Knoxville since I don't know when," Rice said, citing the Wildcats' 1966 season where they lost but two: Tennessee at Knoxville and Texas Western in the NCAA Tournament semi-finals.
So come a week from Saturday, when KU plays K-State and Tennessee plays Kentucky for number 1,000, cheer loudly for the Hawks and the Vols- and hope it's a wet day for Wildcats.
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AKRON, Ohio (UPI) — Attendance at auto racing tracks will show a total of more than 60 million persons for 1968, predicts Larry G. Truedsale, general manager of racing for The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company.
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