Friday, November 22, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
7
Tigers dig in for Hawks
By Ron Yates. Kansan sports editor
In 1891 KU and Missouri met for the first time on the football field. They have been doing it ever since and by so doing, have established the oldest football rivalry west of the Mississippi. In fact, their rivalry is the fifth oldest in the nation.
But, to pinch an old cliche, "history marches on" and this Saturday in Columbia, Mo. won't be a day for reflecting.
Members of the Orange Bowl committee will be wringing their hands in hopes of a KU victory—they want a 9-1 team New Year's Day, not an 8-2 team. On the other hand, if Missouri (heaven forbid) should win, then the Gator Bowl Committee can walk away from the game with that smug, contented look on their faces. They will have apparently gotten the better team for their bowl and the Orange Bowl would be left with second best. (Of course, Jayhawk fans would argue with this assumption.)
tans would argue with this assumption. Predicting this weekend's games requires extreme care. I'll have to shoot for 100 per cent in order to reach my personal goal of an .800 guessing average. What all this means is that I'll have to toss the coin a little higher this weekend.
Last weekend, the predictions were ready to go into the paper but somehow they didn't. I kept track anyway and wound up with a 15-5 record which brings the grand total to 129-45-5 for a .722 average.
Here we go for this weekend:
Colorado 25. Air Force 19 -Buffs stave off pesky Falcons.
Kansas State 24, Oklahoma State 20-Wildcats want to win four bad this year and the Cowboys must play in the "Den."
bad this year and the Cowboys must play it. Oklahoma 23, Nebraska 18-Huskers just can't seem to beat the Sooners when they need to . . . and they need to in order to get a Sun Bowl bid.
Iowa State—finished its season last week against the Cowboys.
KU 29, Missouri 25- Jayhawks and Tigers always mix it up well but because I am prejudiced I'll take KU by four. (How's that for reasoning?) Both teams want this game bad and the Tigers will really be up for it after losing to the Jayhawks last year 17-6.
OTHER GAMES
Penn State 40, Pittsburgh 17-Nittany Lions warm up for Syracuse next week.
Syracuse next week.
Purdue 25, Indian 14-Boilermakers avenge last year's 19-14 defeat.
Texas 30, Texas A & M 21-Aggies put up a fight, but Longhorns prevail. (Nov. 28.)
Longhorns prevail. (Nov. 28.) Arkansas 20, Texas Tech 16-Hogs wallow past slipping Red Raiders.
Raiders. Miami (Fla.) 24, Florida 13-Hurricanes breeze past toothless Gators.
Ohio State 20, Michigan 17—This is for the Rose Bowl.
20, Kentucky 19—Volt blast Wildcats
USC 34, UCLA 20—Trojans dispense Orange Juice all over vitamin conscious Bruins.
SMU 21, Baylor 13-SMU too much for Baylor.
SMU 21, Baylor 13-SMU too much for Baylor Syracuse 24, West Virginia 16-Orangemen plow up Mountainers
California 17, Stanford 10-Golden Bears are a little tarnished now, but should put down the Indian threat.
now, but should put them out.
Yale 23, Harvard 17—It's the 85th meeting for these two schools and rah, rah if it ain't gonna be a humdinger. (Apologies to THE colleges in America.)
Arizona 24, Wyoming 20-Picking an upset here.
Arizona 24, Wyoming 25 Oregon State 23, Oregon 13-Ducks can still swim despite being Orange Juice logged and they should swim about 10 better than Oregon.
Nittany Lions build on winning tradition
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. (UPI)—Penn State's football teams have turned in winning seasons since 1938, and Coach Joe Paterno believes that tradition has developed a sense of responsibility in his players.
"It helps a team to have a winning tradition," Paterno said. "The players go into the games expecting to win most of the time. Because of this attitude they are prepared to meet adversity. They realize it won't be the end of the world if something might happen.
The Nittany Lions, who are favored to stretch their season record to 9-0 tomorrow when they meet once-victorious Pitt in Pittsburgh, close their campaign
"Our squad has a real sense of responsibility because of this tradition."
against Syracuse Dec. 7. They will meet Kansas in the Orange Bowl.
"Because of their tradition, the boys have more pride, and that helps to win," Paterno said.
The Lions' last losing season was 30 years ago when they had a 3-4-1 record.
"We played like our lives depended on it today," was the way Oklahoma offensive guard, Ed Lancaster, summed up the Sooners' effort against Missouri last Saturday in a game won by the Oklahomans, 28-14.
"Sports Quotes"
"We've had the best two weeks of practice I've ever seen and I've been here five years."
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KU squad bound for nat'l meet
KU's harriers travel to New York where they will compete tomorrow in the NCAA cross country championships, and their final meet of the season.
Villanova, winner of the last two team titles, is expected to report this year. But individual champion Jerry Lindgren will not be back to defend his title.
The 7-man Jayhawk squad will be the same which won the Big Eight title, and last Saturday missed being Central Collegiate champions by one point. Miami (Ohio) defeated them 83-84.
KU enters into the meet with an impressive record. Before last Saturday's second-place, the Jayhawks had accumulated six consecutive team victories.
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It's last NCAA cross country title came in 1953. Individual winners for the Jayhawks have been: Herb Semper, 1950-51; Wes Santee, 1953; Allan Frame, 1956, and John Lawson, 1965. Last year's KU team placed in 13th place, and its top runner was 62nd.
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Going to New York will be juniors Roger Kathol and Paul Mattingly, sophomores Jay Mason, Thorn Bigley and Mike Solomon, and freshmen Doug Smith and Rich Elliot.
KU's victories have been posted at the OKlahoma State Jamboree, the Southern Illinois meet, the KU Invitational, the KU-OSU dual, the State Federation a.d the Big Eight Conference meet.
Nebraska was "helped" in its winning effort against Colorado by sniffs of oxygen each time a Husker player trotted off the field in the high, frosty altitude.
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