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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, November 22, 1968
Owens to make loan to frosh
With football still in their minds KU students and basketball fans will nevertheless pour into Allen Field House Monday for the first basketball clash of the season-between freshmen and varsity.
Coach Ted Owens plans a onenight "tend-lease" program of some of the varsity players to the freshman squad for the 8 p.m. dress rehearsal only five minutes ahead of the season opener with St. Louis University Nov. 30.
"I haven't made up my mind just yet which players we'll use with the freshmen," Owens said, "but we are going to do this for two reasons.
"First, I want to give all the varsity players all the playing time I can, and second, the freshmen need the additional strength to make the game competitive."
Owens is working with eight experienced players and five newcomers in what he hopes will be his fourth consecutive 20-plus victory team.
Three varsity players who participated in early practices have recently quit the squad: sophomores Jim Hoffman and Ken Norgaard, and senior Rich Thomas.
In discussing the early practice sessions, Owens explained that he has worked "a lot more on team organization than on individual skills."
Owens has been particularly pleased with the early progress of newcomers Roger Brown, 6-10 pivot from Chicago; Pierre Russell, 6-3 forward from Kansas City (Wyandotte), and Tim Natsues, a junior guard who played the past two years at Fresno (Calif.). City College.
The other two sophomores are Dave Robisch, 6-9 forward from Springfield, Ill., whose 26-5 point average led the freshman squad to an undefeated season; and Fred Bosilevac, 6-4 forward from Kansas City (Rockhurst).
Top freshman players who'll be against the varsity are Bud Stallworth, 6-5, Hartselle, Ala.; Neal Mask, 6-6, Tulsa, Okla.; Aubrey Nash, 6-2, Hyattville, Md., and Bob Kivisto, 6-1, Aurora, Ill.
Everybody's THE game taking place tomorrow
By United Press International
This is the week of THE game, but it all depends where you happen to be.
In every section of the country tomorrow, a college football game will be played which bears the title of THE game. Many of the games are traditional rivalries while others will decide conference championships.
Some of the traditional match-ups include Michigan at Ohio State, Stanford at California, Yale at Harvard, Washington at Washington State, Kansas at Missouri, Southern Cal at UCLA, Oregon at Oregon State, Utah at Utah State, and South Carolina at Clemson.
Two of those—the Michigan-Ohio State (Big Ten) and the Yale-Harvard (Ivy League) will also decide league championships. Other decisive conference battles include the Kansas-Missouri (Big Eight) and Wyoming-Arizona (Western Athletic).
Most of the national interest will be focused on Columbus, Ohio, where second-ranked Ohio State meets fourth-ranked Michigan. In New England, however, people are more concerned with the Yales and the Harvards. For the first time since 1909, both teams are entering their traditional finale with undefeated records.
Michigan's offense has been solid all season, and Bump Elliott figures it should be good for
the Big Ten championship game with Ohio State.
"If it doesn't work, then we'll try something else. I guess." Elliott said.
The game also will decide the Big Ten's representative to the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day.
"We hope our regular plays work," was Elliott's understatement regarding the game that pit the Wolverines (8-1) against the Buckeves (8-0).
Those regular plays are built around record-breaking halfback Ron Johnson, who gained an incredible 347 yards and scored five touchdowns against Wisconsin last Saturday. This set an NCAA single-game rushing record, broke three Big Ten marks and a bevy of Michigan records, including one built by Tom Harmon when he was a Michigan star.
The 205-pound senior from Detroit now is Michigan's all-time rusher with 2,349 yards, replacing Harmon (2,134). With Johnson leading the Michigan offense, one of Elliott's problems is going to be the Ohio State defense, which he highly praises.
Of Buckeye roving linebacker Jack Tatum, Elliott said: "If I knew how we would play him. I probably wouldn't say anyway."
"It should be a good-hitting game," he adds.
N. D. State lies helpless at 9-0
New Mexico Highlands, also finished with a 9-0 mark, took third.
NEW YORK (UPI)—It's hard to believe that a team with a 9-0 record is helpless, but that's North Dakota State's current situation.
The Bison, who completed their regular season schedule last week, know their hopes for derailing San Diego State from a third consecutive small college championship lies completely with the unbeaten Aztecs.
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San Diego State, which retained its top ranking this week with 29 first place ballots, has two games remaining. North Dakota State's only hopes to surpass the Aztecs now lie with Tennessee State, which faces San Diego State Saturday, and major college Utah State, the Aztecs' opponent the following week.
"Sports Quotes"
Informed that Missouri had been beaten by Oklahoma, Colorado's Eddie Crowder said: "It is a surprising league. No, it is no surprise what Nebraska did to us today, though. That's what they
were supposed to do as determined by you experts (writers) back in July.
"Balanced teams are so much more numerous in the Conference it is a tough, tough league."
KU-Missouri; Away Game Bus Trip Saturday, Nov. 23,1968
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Bowl tickets still available
An approximate number of tickets requested was not determined because of the heavy amount of mail that has been coming into the department.
Tickets for the Orange Bowl contest between the University of Kansas and Penn State are still available, the KU athletic department announced last night.
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