Thursday, December 5, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
7
NU coach fields young, tall team
(This is the sixth of a series of Kansas reports on Big Eight basketball for the 1968-1969 season.)
Experience . . . or the development of it will decide how the Nebraska Cornhuskers fare in the 1968-1969 Big Eight basketball race. Head coach Joe Cipriano fields a young team of seven juniors and eight sophomores.
Cipriano enters his sixth season as head coach in the Big Eight. Last year the Cornhuskers posted a 15-10 overall season record. They won eight of 14 conference games to place third in the Big Eight behind K-State and KU.
Of the five returning lettermen, only Tom Scantlebury and Bob Gratrop hold down starting positions on last year's team. Nebraska lost six men through graduation, including All-Big Eight Stuart Lantz and Tom Baack.
Cipriano feels rebounding will be a major strength of his team this year because of their size. Nebraska matches the conference height average of 6·4% Their tallest is Bernard Brown, a 6-10 center. NU boasts six men 6-6 or taller and if they fielded their five tallest the average would be 6-8, slightly over the conference mean for that category.
Lantz and Baack both averaged 19 points a game and accounted for half of the Husker point production last year. Both men also enhanced NU's defense.
The Husker coach said he thinks that his overall depth is an important asset and, because of it, competition for the starting positions will be keen throughout the season. Four players return with starting experience. They are: Ken Cauble (6-7), Dale Van Seggern (6-7), Scantlebury (6-3) and Gratopp (6-5).
The quality of several sophomores that performed well on last year's freshman team offers a bright spot for the Huskers this year.
"LeRoy Chalk has good size (6-7, 210) and appears to have good board strength," said Cipriano. "Tom Bryan was a top scorer for the frost last year
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Other first-year men whom Cipriano hopes will help out are junior college transfers Marvin Stewart (6-3) and Jim Brooks (6-8). Stewart has good scoring ability and should help Nebraska in that category. Brooks, who can be used at either center or forward, should provide inside scoring and rebounding.
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"We feel our potential is good, but our success will depend on how well our young players jell as a team in their first year together," said Cipriano. "If some of our new players live up to expectations we feel we could become a contender in the Big Eight this year."
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"But." he adds, "this is asking a great deal from a group of inexperienced players. We must come up with some comparable scoring potential and improved defense if we are to show overall improvement."
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Kansas, Oklahoma State, Colorado and Kansas State are teams listed by the NU coach as title contenders. "It appears the Big Eight is headed for one of the most balanced races it has had in recent years," he said. "However, Kansas must rate as the early favorite."
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The Cornhuskers opened thier season with a 68-55 win over Wisconsin Saturday. They travel to Corvallis, Oregon, to play Oregon State Friday.
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Bolstered by its first-place finish in the Central Plains Invitational Nov. 24, KU's varsity fencing team will try to end a three-year losing streak when they draw swords against the KU alums Saturday.
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KC Metro, host to the Central Plains meet, posted an 8-1 record to finish right behind KU.
The alums have thwarted KU varsity teams in the past three encounters, winning 15 of 27 bouts last December.
At least nine former KU fencers are expected to compete in the annual meet in New Robinson, player-coach Steve Keeler said yesterday. Three members of the Kansas City Metro club formerly fenced on KU's squad and will probably participate in Saturday's meet.
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KU's varsity carved a perfect 9-0 mark to capture its second straight Central Plains title. Before the meet, Keeler had classified this tournament as the "first really important meet of the year." And Keeler was primarily concerned with KC Metro.
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Both teams sported 7-0 tournament marks when the two clashed. Metro's John Dillard edged Don Anderson, 5-4, in the sabre bout that opened the cru
cial match. Keeler evened the match by subduing Jerry Old, a 1960 All-America epee performer, 5-3, in men's foil.
Metro's Claudia Reiter, a talented fencer who competed in the World Youth Championships in Hungary, was favored over KU fencing newcomer Marilyn Shalz. But Miss Shalz, who only recently grabbed a first place in one of her first meets, stunned her experienced rival, 4-3, in women's foil.
"Her winning was an upset," Keeler said.
May shake-up Buffs' staff
BOULDER, Colo. (UPI)—Reports circulated at the University of Colorado yesterday that athletic director and head football coach Eddie Crowder planned a shakeup in his football staff following CU's 4-6 season this fall.
Crowder, however, was in Kansas City for a meeting of Big Eight Conference athletic directors and unavailable for comment.
Defensive coach Pat Culpepper was reportedly dismissed from the staff. His was the only name thrown out in the rumors.
Ken Muller, KU's epee fencer, then overwhelmed Ben Mercer, 5-2, to insure the match victory.
Third-ranked Wichita registered a 6-3 tourney record and almost tagged KU with its only loss, which would have knocked the champions into a tie with KC Metro.
Muller defeated Arnold Anderson, 5-1, to deadlock the match at 2-2, and the Jayhawk fencers won by scoring more touches (striking a valid target area) than Wichita.
Miss Shalz was not the only KU competitor to pull an upset. Although Norm Vander Kamp had practiced with the sabre only five weeks, he surprised two highly-touted opponents.
Vander Kamp, a member of the "B" team, defeated Wichita's top sabre fencer and the No. 2 Metro sabre man. The KU freshman did not realize he had won his bout with the Wichita fencer until five minutes later—because he had misunderstood the director's analysis of the action.
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