Photo by Jim Wheeler
BIG BLUE BETS BIGGER .
... and Big Red is getting red-faced. From the looks on the faces of Nebraska fans, it's not hard to imagine what's just happened.
Jayhawk fans see red
By BOB KEARNEY
Kansan Staff Writer
For Lincoln, it marked the 75th renewal of a tradition-steeped football rivalry and the centennial celebration for its university.
And Saturday's scene equalled the occasion.
That scene was a kaleidoscopic red-fragmented throughout the city as fans bustled to the stadium then brought into sharp focus as 66,119 witnessed a football classic.
The red regalia that Nebraska accepts as commonplace dazzles more than a few visitors. And the Cornhusker football fever is widespread.
Even the menus at a local coffee shop are in the shape of a football with upcoming schedules imprinted. The color? You guessed it.
It's football madness in bright red, and game tickets are at a premium. A classified ad in a Lincoln newspaper read "Wanted: 4 or 6 Nebraska-Missouri football tickets." Another offered tickets for the KU-Nebraska game at a whopping $15.
The people themselves exude an air of confidence. Tall Nebraskans along the sidewalks will spot a Kansas license plate, and from under the broad-rimmed red cowboy hats come glares that seem to say "Big Red will get its revenge."
It was into this setting that some 5,500 Jayhawk backers ventured Saturday.
Marching bands injected "fight 'em" in the record
crowd during pre-game activity. Then the main event: the throng was ready to live or die with their Saturday afternoon gladiators.
KU's cheering strength was split into clusters at either end of the stadium, but the Jayhawkers roared in full stereo.
All of Lincoln rocked with the tumult that answered Nebraska's first touchdown. And an "almost" touchdown minutes later shook the stadium again.
For the Kansas fans, better times were forthcoming. But even the halftime hoop-la had an ominous tone. The Nebraska band, forming the years of memorable events in the school's history, spelled out 19 years of which 14 were marked by NU-KU
battles. Ten of the 14 were Nebraska victories, eight by shutouts.
The drama of the second half matched the pregame build-up. Tension went through the crowd like ripples of electricity.
You could almost feel 66,119 people breath deeply on every play of KU's winning touchdown drive. Then the "We're No. 1" chants from the delirious Kansas fans as the clincher scored.
And the Big Red boosters watched silently.
And while the scoreboard operator quickly removed the result, an optimistic KU band member changed the sign on the chartered bus.
No longer did it read "Charter."
Now it was "Miami."
79th Year. No.20
WEATHER
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, October 14, 1968
Partly cloudy and mild was the weather bureau's forecast for Monday. Twenty per cent chance for rain late Monday and early Tuesday. Winds from the south at 10-15 miles per hour. Tuesday should be cooler.
Live TV from space today
SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI) - Apollo 7 and its chip crew, preparing to enter televised show business, circled lightlessly around earth last night on their 11-day shakedown for a moon trip and the space agency said "we have never had anything this good."
"We're just pumping along," the
astronauts reported. "We're getting along real fine up here."
Mission controllers reported that Apc'o 7 and its astronauts, Walter Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham, already achieved, by the third day of the mission, nearly half of the planned objectives.
With each textbook-perfect orbit,
they brought closer to reality a Christmas time flight to the moon and back by the Apollo 8.
Schirra has promised to turn on the television camera aboard Apollo 7 at 10:43 a.m. EDT today to give earthbound viewers a glimpse of life on the ship—the first live telecast of Americans in space.
Will ask Code amendment
An amendment to the University Senate Code calling for living group representation as well as school representation will be presented at Tuesday night's All-Student Council (ASC) meeting.
The amendment provides that half of the Student Senate representatives be from schools of the University and half from living groups.
Bob Van Cleave, Salina Law School representative, plans to introduce the amendment because, he said, representation by school only "is not at all feasible."
The proposed Student Senate, which would replace the ASC, would have representatives from University schools only. Present ASC representation is by living groups and school.
The proposed code, which contains the machinery to put into effect the committee's proposals, calls for abolition of ASC and creation of a Student Senate. The Student Senate would join with the Faculty Senate to make up the University Senate and for the first time in University history, students
would have membership in the University Senate.
To become effective, the code and any amendments must be passed by ASC, the University Senate, the University Senate Council and the student body.
Last Tuesday the ASC passed three amendments to the code providing for open meetings of the Faculty and Student Senates and changing the number of signatures needed for student body president and vice president candidacies. The number was changed from 500 to one-thirtieth of the student body.
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Photo by Mike Gunther
PAM BRACKETT
KU claims 6th queen of Royal since 1959
At 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Pam Brackett, Lake Quirky senior, continued Kansas' reputation as the "home of beautiful women" when she was crowned 1968 American Royal Queen.
Miss Brackett, who competed with candidates representing 19 colleges and universities from eight states, became the sixth KU coed since 1959 to win this honor.
She knew she was going to win after it was announced at a breakfast on Friday morning, but "I couldn't tell anyone," she said.
"Judging was based 50 per cent on beauty, 30 per cent on
charm and 20 per cent on culture," Miss Brackett explained.
The panel of judges consisted of two women and six men, she said.
"They asked each candidate two questions, one in a serious vein and one in a lighter vein," Miss Brackett said.
She was asked if she could play a leading role in any drama, which play would she choose, and why? Miss Brackett answered that she'd like to play Joan of Arc because she had a "depth of spiritualism which was very beautiful."
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UDK News Roundup By United Press International First gold medal goes to African
MEXICO CITY—Neftali Temu, a 23-year-old endurance runner from Kenya who runs most of the time at high altitude, became the 1968 Olympic Games' first gold medal winner Sunday when he won the 10,000 meter run in 29 minutes, 27.4 seconds to lead an all-African sweep.
Charlie Greene, the former Nebraska star, twice tied the existing world record of 10 seconds flat in the 100 meter dash; Randy Matson, the Pampa strongboy, set a games record by leading shot put qualifiers with an almost nonchalant heave of 67-10/4, and Ron Whitney of Boulder, Colo., bettered the listed world record by taking a heat of the 400-meter hurdles in 49 seconds flat, thus setting an Olympic mark.
Chase in Delta
SAIGON-American GIs pushed a Viet Cong force through Mekong Delta swamplands in a day-long battle that ended up on the banks of a tributary and killed 24 Communist troops, U.S. spokesmen reported today.
GIs from the 9th Infantry Division spotted a Viet Cong patrol in the rice paddies east of Ben Tre, a small farming village about 30 miles south of Saigon, and drove them south, finally trapping them along a tributary of the Mekong River.
U. S. helicopter gunships joined the battle and the U.S. Command reported 24 Communist troops killed in an engagement that continued last night. No Americans were reported killed in the battle.
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