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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, November 6, 1968
● Keith Christensen ●
--kee rightfielder, whose managerial techniques have often been compared to those of a Marine drill instructor, later piloted the Baltimore Orioles to the American League pennant and a World Series victory in 1966. He was fired by the Orioles midway through the 1968 season.
Big 8 team rankings
RUSHING OFFENSE
Kansas G Att. Yds.
 7 417 223.
Missouri 7 482 1952.
Okahoma 7 349 1429.
Colorado 7 348 1496.
Iowa State 7 388 1306.
Oklahoma 7 393 1166.
Okla, State 6 261 635.
K-State 7 263 652.
PASSING OFFENSE
Att.-Comp. Yds. Avg.
Okla. State 189-93 1118 186.3
K-State 207-10 1187 169.6
Kahoma 125-10 971 154.6
Nebraska 142-94 1081 164.4
Colorado 147-76 1000 142.9
Kansas 121-64 926 132.9
Iowa State 190-79 1046 130.8
Missouri 137-56 837 119.6
Avg.
318.7
278.9
238.2
213.7
162.9
158.0
105.8
93.1
| | G | Att. | Yds. | Avg. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Kansas | 7 | 538 | 3157 | 451.0 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | 470 | 2396 | 399.3 |
| Missouri | 7 | 619 | 2789 | 398.4 |
| Colorado | 7 | 495 | 2789 | 398.4 |
| Iowa State | 7 | 542 | 2187 | 312.4 |
| Iowa State | 8 | 558 | 2349 | 393.6 |
| Okla. State | 5 | 450 | 1753 | 292.2 |
| K-State | 5 | 470 | 1839 | 262.7 |
| SCORE | G | Pts. | Avg. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Kansas | 7 | 298 | 42.6 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | 173 | 28.8 |
| Missouri | 7 | 198 | 28.3 |
| Colorado | 7 | 162 | 23.1 |
| Iowa State | 8 | 154 | 19.0 |
| Nebraska | 8 | 132 | 19.0 |
| K-State | 7 | 132 | 18.9 |
| Okla, State | 6 | 80 | 13.3 |
RUSHING DEFENSE
| | G | Att. | Yds. | Avg. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Missouri | 7 | 325 | 708 | 101.1 |
| Nebraska | 7 | 313 | 815 | 116.4 |
| Kansas | 7 | 351 | 1167 | 166.7 |
| Iowa State | 8 | 442 | 1645 | 205.6 |
|ahoma | 8 | 404 | 1636 | 205.6 |
| K-Site | 6 | 124 | 1612 | 23.6 |
| Colorado | 7 | 392 | 1656 | 236.1 |
| Okla. State | 7 | 361 | 1570 | 261.7 |
PASSING DEFENSE
Nebraska 168-70 807 115.3
Missouri 154-54 810 115.3
Kansas 169-73 905 129.3
K-Site 160-74 961 137.3
K-State 152-75 1084 154.9
Okla. State 152-68 962 160.3
Oklahoma 163-90 1005 167.5
Iowa State 210-124 1580 197.5
Huskers recruit Green Bay backs
TOTAL DEFENSE
| | G | Att. | Yds. | Avg. |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Missouri | 7 | 478 | 1518 | 216.9 |
| Nebraska | 7 | 481 | 1622 | 231.7 |
| Kansas | 7 | 520 | 2072 | 296.0 |
| Colorado | 7 | 555 | 2017 | 296.0 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | 547 | 2268 | 378.0 |
| Kentucky | 6 | 576 | 2696 | 385.1 |
| Iowa State | 8 | 652 | 3225 | 403.1 |
| Oklaho, State | 8 | 513 | 2532 | 422.0 |
Nebraska has recruited Green Bay's backfield! That is, the Huskers have recruited, in two installments, the backfield of West High School in Green Bay. Back in 1966, West had Terry Tagge at quarterback, Dave Mason and Jim Anderson at halfback, and Dennis Gutzman at fullback.
SCORING DEFENSE
In 1968, Anderson, a sophomore, has been converted to a defensive back spot. Gutzman is a second-unit defensive end. Mason is the No. 1 split end on the freshman team, and Tagge is the No. 2 freshman quarterback.
SCORING DEFENSE
**Missouri**  **G**   **Pts.**  **Avg.**
Nebraska 7     70    10.0
Kansas 7     96    13.7
Colorado 7     100    14.3
Oklahoma 7     130    14.6
Iowa State 6     153    25.5
K-State 7     205    25.6
OKla. State 7     195    27.9
Okla. State 6     192    27.9
KU tackle faces OU third time
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Keith Christensen, who was named Big Eight Lineman of the Week Monday, is qualified to talk about Oklahoma's football team.
The 6-4, 267-pound offensive tackle for KU has started against two varsity OU teams. Of the three games, football fans will probably remember last year's game most vividly. Sooner quarterback Bob Warmack fired the game-winning pass with 1:02 remaining in the game to defeat the Jayhawks 14-10.
"Our offensive execution wasn't as good in that game," Christenstrom recalls. "OU threw some new defenses against us."
This Saturday Christensen will be butting heads with the same OU player for the fourth time. "He'll be All-Big Eight," he said of John Titsworth, his opposite on the Sooners' defensive line. The KU tackle added that Titsworth a 6-3, 212-pound tackle, will be his toughest individual 'opponent on the Big Eight schedule.
Christensen learned that he was named Big Eight Lineman of the Week shortly before Monday's practice. "I was kind of surprised," he said.
Riggins will play despite bad foot
A cold rain cut short KU's football practice yesterday.
Although sidelined by a twisted ankle, fullback John Riggins is expected to be ready by Saturday.
Coach Pepper Rodgers, whose third-ranked Jayhawks meet Oklahoma Saturday, said, "I expect a good football team they've had ever since they started playing football there."
Rodgers said Oklahoma has "four or five of the best players in the league and a lot of people from last year's team that beat us."
OAKLAND, Calif. (UPI)— Burly Hank Bauer has a stock answer ready these days for that first question.
Four hungry kids bring Hank back
"I've got four reasons," he says with a grin, "Three sons and a daughter—and they all eat real well."
The question, of course, is why anyone would return as manager of the Oakland Athletics after having once experienced owner Charles O. Finley's brand of employee relations.
The crewcut Marine combat veteran parted company with Finley with two games left in the 1962 season after managing the then Kansas City Athletics for $1\frac{1}{2}$ years. Bauer quit when the owner refused to tell him if he would be rehired for the next season.
Drill Sergeant Techniques The one-time New York Yankee rightfielder, whose managerial techniques have often been compared to those of a Marine drill instructor, later piloted the Baltimore Orioles to the American League pennant and a World Series victory in 1966. He was fired by the Orioles midway through the 1968 season.
McLain gets MVP award
NEW YORK (UPI)—Danny McLain, the 31-game winner for the world champion Detroit Tigers, was named by the Baseball Writers Association of America (BWAA) as its unanimous selection as the American League's Most Valuable Player for 1968.
"I got goose pimples all over," McLain said when informed of the award by Detroit general manager Jim Campbell.
The 24-year-old McLain is the youngest player to receive the award since 1944, when Hal Newhouser was named. It was also the first time since Newhouser that a Tiger won the honor, and the first time an American League player had won both the MVP and the Cy Young Award, which goes to the top pitcher.
Teammate Bill Freehan was the only other player named on every ballot, for the first 10 choices, cast by the 20 members of the BWAA voting committee composed of two writers in each AL city.
Freehan was second in the voting, Boston's Ken Harrelson third, Tiger Willie Horton fourth, and Baltimore's Dave McNally and Cleveland's Luis Tiant tied for fifth.
The volatile Finley, who has gone through eight managers in as many seasons as A's owner, rehired Bauer after bouncing Bob Kennedy, who piloted Oakland to the club's best record in two decades during his single season at the helm.
Finley, a Chicago insurance executive, has informed his new field boss—with an "I'm not trying to put any pressure on you, Hank" aside—that he expects the A's to win their division next year. Describing the 1962 episode as "a little stupid," Finley says Bauer's aggressiveness and determination should push the A's to the top.
The gravel-voiced Bauer, who offers no apologies, also predicts a first place finish in the A's six-team division of the American League. And he expects to win it with the same old Bauer methods.
"The main problem with managing is having to deal with 25 different ballplayers. I try to treat them all the same; the way I liked to be treated when I was playing. Everybody says I'm a tough Marine; I'm not. I only get tough when they goo up."
"I was 39 and figured I could still play 100 games for three or four more years," Bauer remembers. "Mr. Finley called me in and asked if I'd like to manage in the minors. I told him 'No, I spent to much time in the minors as a player.'
Bauer, at 46, is a heavy set six-footer who has added only a few pounds since Finley plucked him out of the Kansas City outfield midway through the 1961 season and installed him as manager.
Moves From Outfield
He got that job in typical Finley fashion.
"Mr. Finley then asked me if I ever wanted to manage. I said yes, and he hired me on the spot." Another former Yankee, Joe Gordon, was fired to make room for Bauer.
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