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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Rugby's 5th grueling year at KU includes three-game fall schedule
By Bob Kearney Assistant Sports Editor
Rugby, the illegitimate offspring of soccer, sets forth on its fifth season at KU this month.
Three matches are scheduled—all at home—with the opener set for Oct. 19 against Missouri. Also slated are Oct. 27 and Nov. 2 games with the Kansas City Black Hawks and the St. Louis Blues, respectively.
The sport developed from soccer in 19th century England. In soccer, or association football, the ball can be advanced toward the goal only by kicking or butting with the body. But in 1823, a Rugby School soccer player carried the ball toward the goal.
Voila! Rugby!
Its success at KU reached a
Shanklin in 3-way stats lead
KANSAS CITY (UPI) -Don Shanklin's field day against Indiana has given the little Kansas tailback the Big Eight lead in individual rushing, tandem offense, and scoring after two games.
In two games, Shanklin has totaled 252 yards rushing on only 13 carries for an unbelievable 19.4 yards-per-carry average. His rushing statistics alone give him the tandem offense lead—a combination of rushing and pass receiving—and he has scored five touchdowns.
Shanklin totaled 317 yards in rushing and kick returns and scored three touchdowns against the Hoosiers.
Oklahoma tailback Steve Owens, who scored twice and netted 164 yards rushing in the Sooners' 28-14 win over North Carolina State, moved into second place with 230 yards rushing in two games.
Oklahoma's Bob Warmack leads in passing with 18 complements in 41 attempts (.439) for 300 yards. Warmack has thrown five TD passes in two games.
Colorado's Bob Anderson, second in passing with 273 yards, leads in total offense with 387.
Warmack is second in total offense with 365 yards, and Kansas' Bob Douglass, last year's total offense leader, is third with 336.
Other individual leaders are Eddie Hinton, Oklahoma, pass receiving-12 for 214 yards; Bob Coble, Kansas State, punting-15 for a 44.7 average; Roger Wehrli, Missouri, punt returns-15 for 225 yards and a 15.0 average; Jeff Allen, Iowa State, kickoff returns-six for 165 yards and a 27.5 average.
peak last spring with a No. 3 national ranking. The KU club was the undefeated champion of the Heart of America Union and placed second in the Mid-America Cup tournament in Chicago, finishing with an 8-1 record.
To gain its high national rating, KU crushed then third-ranked Indiana, 8-0, in the tournament semi-finals. A controversial 8-6 loss to St. Louis in the finals marred a perfect season.
"With only one referee, many things go undetected," says Crowther. "If he isn't right on top of the play, he can miss a lot."
None of the players on the 15-man amateur teams wear padding—and no substitutions are allowed for injured players. Also, no timeouts are permitted during the 40-minute halves except for serious injuries.
"The heaviest action is during the spring," says Mac Crowther, president of the KU club. "We'll play nine games along with the tournament, and we may even go to the Bahamas."
Even that which the referee does detect is violent, grueling action. Rugby is perhaps most noted for its roughness.
"Team captains will usually modify those rules unless it's tournament competition," says Crowther.
The captains may agree to having subs, allowing five minutes to remove injured players from the field, and reducing the halves to 30 or 35 minutes.
Rugby uses an oval-shaped ball similar to the American football, and the game is played on a field of 110 yards maximum length and 75 yards maximum width.
Players may kick or carry the ball but may not block for the ball-carrier. When tackled, the
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Scoring can either be byy kicking the ball between the uprights or by carrying it across the goal line. But the ball must be touched to the ground in the endzone for the score or "try."
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Co-captains for this year's club are Ralph Johnson, Dayton, Ohio, senior, and Jay Clancey, Prairie Village senior. Crowther, a Dayton, Ohio, senior, was team captain last year.
KU's opener on the 19th gets underway at 11 a.m. "so that we can be finished before the Oklahoma State football game," says Crowther.
Falcons hire 'Dutchman
ATLANTA （UPI）-Norman Van Brocklin, the "Dutchman" who built the Minnesota Vikings into a team of NFL caliber, yesterday got the call to try to do the same with the Atlanta Falcons.
Van Brocklin, 42-year-old former all-star quarterback who has been on the sidelines since leaving the Vikings in a huff in 1966, was named by Falcons' president Rankin Smith to replace ousted coach Norb Hecker.
Hecker, 41, was hired by Smith when the multi-millionaire insurance executive bought into the National Football League prior to the 1966 season. The Falcons' record under Hecker was 4-26-1. Atlanta went 3-11 in its first season, a lastplace 1-12-1 last year, and 0-3 so far this season.
Rumors that Hecker was on his way out and that Van Brocklin might be his successor had been cropping up for months.
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