Friday, September 20, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Green Bay may spoil early Viking dreams
Minneapolis (UPI) -The maxi test for Minny comes up this Sunday.
The ambitious Minnesota Vikings, entertaining title thoughts after scoring a record 47 points in their first game last week, come face-to-face with reality in the form of the Green Bay Packers, who have ended more pleasant dreams than an alarm clock during the last decade.
The game pits the only two unbeaten teams in the National Football League's Central Division and probably will be the last time this season any team meets Green Bay on an equal footing. The Packers are favored by eight points.
The Vikings, who compiled a dismal 3-8-3 record last season, have two things going for them: an amazing record on the Packers' home field and a vastly improved quarterback in Joe Kapp.
Minnesota has won three of its last four games on Packer sod, including an incredible 10-7 decision last year despite the fact that Kapp completed only two of 11 passes. They did it with ball control that time and plan to do it again, although Kapp's one year of NFL experience appears to have done him a world of good.
He completed 16 of 20 passes, including 11 in a row, against Atlanta last week.
"They were very impressive in beating Atlanta," said Green Bay Coach Phil Bengtson, whose team flogged Philadelphia 30-13. "And, yes, we do seem to have a little trouble beating the Vikings.
"Their backs-Bill Brown and Clint Jones are running real well. Gene Washington is a greatly improved receiver. And Joe Kapp is much smoother than he was a year ago.
Lawrence Lions will be good again
by Jack Pauley Kansan Sports Writer
Lawrence High School will once again have a good football team says Lion Coach Al Woolard.
Woolard cited better speed and some good pass receivers for his optimism. Twelve lettermen, including seven regulars from last year form the nucleus for this year's squad.
Top college prospects include Mike Cerne, a 180 pound senior fullback; Larry Dillon, 161 pound senior quarterback; Larry Kimball, 172 pound senior halfback; and senior tackles Geary King and George Schuler, 206 pounds and 220 pounds respectively.
"Cerne will undoubtedly be one of the most sought after athletes in the United States next spring," Woolard said.
Shawnee Mission North, Shawnee Mission East and Topeka figure to be Lawrence's toughest opponents during the season. All three games are away.
"Anyone who wants to play football at Lawrence High School is allowed to play," Woolard said. "We pick 55 or 60
for the varsity, while the rest play on the Little Lions squad. They have their own 8-game schedule."
Woolard, in his 19th season at Lawrence, said his players grow up dreaming of the day when they will play for KU.
Few of Woolard's football players go out of state to play college football. He could think of only three at the present time-two in Florida and one in Colorado.
Woolard recalls when he coached John Hadl, now quarterback for the San Diego Chargers and a former Lawrence High School and KU star.
"Hadl played on some Lawrence teams which helped run up a 49 game winning streak between 1956 and 1960. He graduated in 1957."
Discussing the new round-robin football tournament being considered for Kansas high schools Woolard said that if everyone else wants it, then so does he.
He originally came from Oklahoma where they have such a tournament. It works there, so he doesn't see any reason why it won't work in Kansas.
DETROIT: Shirtless Dick McAuliffe (right) joins others in dunking pitcher Denny McLain (left) in a whirlpool bath in the clubhouse Tuesday after the Detroit Tigers clinched the American League pennant by beating the New York Yankees, 2-1. (UPI TELEPHOTO)
Joe Willie's grade improving
New York (UPI)—Joe Namath's passing grade gets better with each season.
Namath, who passed for more yards than any other quarterback last season, retained his ability to eat up distance with his throws as he leads the pack today with a 10.4 average gain. The New York Jets quarterback was No. 1 in 1967 with an 8.16-yard average gain per throw.
New York's Don Maynard, who caught eight passes in last Sunday's victory over Kansas City, leads the league with 203 yards gained on receptions. Sid Blanks of Houston has snared the most passes, nine, in two games.
Dick Post, a second-year man, tops the ground gainers with 140 yards. The San Diego running back has carried the ball 16 times for an 8.8 average.
Kicking specialist Jan Stene rud of Kansas City is the leading
Wasn't His Day
NEW YORK (UPI)—Oscar Walker of Buffalo became the first National League baseball player to strike out five times in a nine-inning game on June 20, 1879.
This Sunday Begins a Fall-Sermon Series:
"When Always Is Heard A Discouraging Word"
Rev. Ronald L. Sundbye preaching
We invite you to come hammer out with us the possibilities of extending and deepening those "borders of our lives."
"Like a poem poorly written we are verses out of rhythm, couplets out of rhyme in syncopated time. And the dangling conversation and superficial sighs are the borders of our lives." — from "The Dangling Conversation"
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
10th and Vermont
Services at 8:30
9:30
11:00
"It is not for us to foretell the day, but the day will come when men will be called to utter the Word of God in such a way that the world is changed and renewed. There will be a new language, perhaps quite unreligious, but liberating and saving, like the language of Jesus, so that men are horridd at it, and yet conquered by its power..."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
scorer with 27 points, achieved on eight field goals and three extra points.
Rookie George Atkinson of Oakland leads in punt returns with a 41.0 average on 205 yards in five attempts.
Dennis Parte 'of San Diego is the best punter with a 58.5-yard average, Bob Neff of Miami tops the kickoff return leaders with a 60.5 average, and Ken Houston of Houston heads interceptions men with one theft for 66 yards.
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