Friday, November 15, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Jayhawk Jottings
By BOB KEARNEY Assistant Sports Editor
KANSAS STATE'S frustrating football saga invites ribbing from Jayhawk devotees. The Wildcats, over the past dozen years, have endured a 20-97-2 record. "Lose" received ho-hum acceptance, but now it's the driest four-leter word in Vince Gibson's vocabulary.
PURPLE PRIDE, the Gibson-copyrighted byword, has become a mania as much as a study in futility. Vince and his "We gonna win!" cry brought K-State boosters (there were a few die-hards) out of the woodwork in 1967. And the Wildcats defeated Colorado State, a football non-entity, in the '67 opener before proceeding to lose nine straight games.
"WILL BE" is now the medicine that sustains K-State followers. Its sophomore-dominated club "will be" the Big Eight kings of the future. Its freshmen, rated the best anywhere by pro scouts, "will be" on the bandwagon to success. Recruiting "will be" aided significantly by the finest athletic dormitory in the country—now more noteworthy for its purple carpeting than the football players it houses. Its new 35,000-seat stadium, scooped out of the Kansas farmlands, "will be" an added recruiting boost—though now it resembles a scene from "Hud" to see the Wildcats file into the pit for another massacre.
FLATTENED by Missouri in its last home appearance (56-20). Vince and his Wildcats offered such impressions three weeks ago. My apologies, Kansas State. Three weeks ago, such observations might have been appropriate. But now it's time to say something nice about our Kaw brethren.
TO A DRIZZLE—drenched Oklahoma crowd, the Wildcats almost broke those losing shackles. It was closer than the final 35-20 count—the Sooners scored on the game's final play after K-State's last-minute gamble. Then last week, one of those sophomores engineered a stunning 12-0 upset of Nebraska. Quarterback Lynn Dickey completed 15 of 28 passes for 217 yards, hiking his season total to 1116 yards on 88 of 104 passes. Another sophomore, Max Arreguin, boomed a record 50-yard field goal along with a 28-yarder.
OF GRAPE JUICE and glue-fingered pass receivers—that's the K-State story. Split end Dave Jones holds conference records for pass receptions and yardage (115 for 1,724 yards), including 34 catches for 442 yards this fall. Speedster Mack Herron, a :09.3 juco transfer sought by 170 schools, has been electrifying with 29 receptions for 482 yards. Of his seven touchdowns, two were on kickoff returns of 99 and 100 yards. Two lettermen and seven sophomores comprise the defensive unit, along with two juco transfers—middle guard John Stucky, the 220-pounder who leads the club with 79 tackles, and 225-pound end Manuel Barrera, who has thrown opposing backs 11 times for 61 yards in losses.
SATURDAY, the Wildcats hope to stun bowl-conscious KU at Manhattan. Nothing would better climax K-State's climb to football respectability. "It's hard to start from the bottom," says Oklahoma Coach Chuck Fairbanks of Gibson. "You can't just wave a magic wand. It takes years of hard work and recruiting, and he's made a lot of progress." K-State was still in contention in the fourth quarter in six games last year, and the 'Cats have a respectable 3-5-1 mark this night. Nobody is looking down their noses at Vince's boys anymore.
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With a record of six straight victories, including the Big Eight championship, the KU cross country team travels to Chicago where they will compete in the Central Collegiate championships tomorrow.
"For example, Bowling Green, Kent State, Ohio U., Toledo and Western Michigan will be there from the Mid-America conference—and that conference is the best in cross country in the United States," Timmons explained.
Track coach Bob Timmons believes it will be a very tough meet. "I don't know very much about the other teams, but most of the power areas in cross country will be competing," Timmons said.
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Defending team champion is Miami (Ohio). KU took seventh place last year, running behind Miami (Ohio), Western Michigan, Notre Dame, DePaul, Kent State and Drake.
KU harriers to Chicago
Kent State's Sam Bear, last year's individual winner, graduated. But back will be teammate Ed Norris, who placed second with an identical time. Top Jayhawk was Roger Kathol, 28th.
The harriers will run five miles around a figure 8 course in Washington Park, starting at 10:30 a.m.
Because of the tough competition the Jayhawks will face, Timmons said it made the runners "very anxious to compete."
Though the KU squad has only participated once in a meet more than five miles long-at
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