Friday, October 4, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
7
Saturday's predictions
By Ron Yates, Kansan sports editor
After last weekend my football prediction average fell from. 787 to .750. The weekend "guessing" record was 18-7 which brings the grand total of wins and losses for the year to 33-10-1.
Bombarded since Saturday with "I told you so's" after I had predicted that KU would be upset by Indiana, this weekend I do not intend to be so free with my "upset intuition" when KU meets New Mexico. The Jayhawks should take this game without too much trouble ... though they can not afford to get careless against the Lobos. In fact, there should never be a game in which a team as precisioned as the Jayhawks should let themselves turn in a sloppy show.
Here we go:
Big Eight
Colorado 26, Iowa State 17-In the conference opener for both teams there should be a lot of contact, but the Buffs should wear down the Cyclones as the game progresses.
Kansas State 23, Virginia Tech 20—Wildcats did not look like dormats in their loss to Penn State last week and they should slam the door in Virginia Tech's face Saturday in revenge for last year's 15-3 defeat.
Nebraska-Open date. But the Huskers will be watching and waiting and preparing for KU next weekend when the two meet in Lincoln.
Oklahoma—Open date.
KU 31, New Mexico 10-Jayhawks should peck the Lobos to pieces.
Texas 21, Oklahoma State 10-Longhorns must begin to win sometime and this should be a winning day.
Other Games
Purdue 31, Northwestern 7-Boilermakers should roll over Wildcats.
Florida 17, Mississippi State 13-Gators may need more than Gatorade to turn back a surprising Mississippi State team.
USC 24, Miami (Fla.) 21-Trojans will have a battle on their hands.
LSU 27. Bavlor 16-Tigers continue to roll.
Penn State 28, West Virginia 24-Lions find Mountaineers much tougher than Navy and Kansas State, but Penn State size and quickness should prevail.
Notre Dame 35, Iowa 13—Irish take out frustration of losing two in a row to Purdue on Hawkeves.
Syracuse 19, UCLA 17-Picking the Bruins to get upset here by a pretty good Syracuse team.
Ohio State 27, Oregon 13—Buckeyes should take care of Oregon. Mississippi 27, Alabama 19—Ole Mills shuts off the Crimson Tide. Georgia 17, South Carolina 7—Bulldogs pull it out late against a good Gamecock team coached by Paul Dietzel.
Arkansas 23, TCU 18-There is a wide open race in the S.W. Conference this year and both teams are still in it, so this will be a good battle.
Arizona State 28, Wyoming 20-ASU is more powerful than Cowboys.
Houston 34, Cincinnati 10—Cougars too strong for Cincy
Houston 34, Cincinnati 10-Cougars too strong for Cincy. Michigan State 27, Wisconsin 13-Spartans have too much for Wisconsin.
Tennessee 33, Rice 14-Vols are after another bowl bid.
Hutchens still plenty tough as 174-pound KU linebacker
Kansan Sports Writer
By JACK PAULEY
Pat Hutchens came to Mason City, Ia., in 1964 wearing a Little Rock, Ark., high school letter jacket. He was a transfer student from Little Rock in the middle of his sophomore year.
In Mason City, he started for two years as a linebacker and offensive halfback. His senior year, Hutchens was named to a first-team berth on Iowa's All-State team as a 160-pound halfback.
"I wanted to play football at the University of Arkansas, but they weren't interested. They told me I could come and try out for the team, but I didn't care for that," he said.
"I wanted to go South to play football. I didn't want to play in the Big Ten, and I didn't want to play in Iowa," Hutchens said.
Now, three years later, Hutchens is a 174-pound linebacker at KU.
Kansas, Iowa State, and several small schools offered him scholarships.
"Yeah," was his answer when asked if he liked KU's style of football.
"The coaches emphasize speed and quickness instead of size," he said. "That's good for me. The coaching staff is very good also."
He couldn't remember who was the toughest player he ever had to tackle, but he admitted that there were many.
Many Kansas players share his biggest thrill in college football.
"I'd say that the Nebraska game last year was the biggest," he said.
Pepper Rodgers commented about Hutchins in the March 20, 1968 issue of the Kansas City Star:
"We've got a boy—Pat Hutchens—who weighs 170 pounds. He'll never play professional football. He'll never be famous. But he'll knock your brains out. I think just as much of him as I do of John Zook."
As a sophomore last year, Hutchens started every game at defensive halfback. This year he
was switched to linebacker-a position he likes better.
However, he admits he would rather be starting every game at another position than playing second-team linebacker.
That second-team status didn't bother Hutchens against Indiana last Saturday. He made five solo tackles (tie with Emery Hicks in that department), and assisted on five more for a total of 10 tackles, second only to Hicks.
Hutchens will start against New Mexico tomorrow in place of the injured Mickey Doyle.
Off the field, Hutchens is an individual who has something to say about anything and everything. He likes to make people laugh, and will do just about anything to accomplish that end.
Not that he has to, because he is a funny guy. He likes to tease, like the way Johnny Carson would tease Ed McMahon or a guest like Zsa Zsa Gabor.
Pat Hutchens
See them in person
At The
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U.S. Olympians 'descend' to air-thinned Mexico City
ALAMOSA, Colo. (UPI)—When America's Olympic team members leave here to go "up" to Mexico City for the highest summer Olympics in history, they really will be going down in altitude.
Alamosa, a tiny agricultural town in the middle of Colorado's mountain-rimmed San Luis Valley, which has played host to a good-sized contingent of Olympic hopefuls during the past few weeks, is 7,540 feet above sea level.
The U.S. Olympic Committee chose Alamosa, a favorite training spot for long-distance flash Jim Ryun, as the training site for basketball, wrestling and marathon teams, in order to help the athletes get used to the thin air of Mexico City.
Mexico City is only 7,440 feet high.
A group of scientists in Washington recently confirmed this fact. Reporting to the Pan-American Health Organization, the scientists said individual efforts would be a strong factor in Mexico City next month, but "there is only an outside chance of participants in endurance sports setting new records."
But in many cases, it appears that altitude will have little or no effect on performances.
The research team said athletes from sea level adjust higher altitude in a short time.
Most agree that the altitude makes a difference mainly in endurance sports, such as long-distance track and swimming, but that it will not affect the outcome of sports which require short bursts of speed or energy, the "spurt sports."
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