Wednesday, Jan. 14, 1970 University Daily Kansan
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BASKET FOR BUTCH — Three-year-old John (Butch) Eskridge, son of assistant basketball coach Jack Eskridge, finds a little help from 6-foot 8-inch Wayne Hightower makes scoring easy. Hightower is a member of the Jayhawker freshman team. The freshmen play Kansas City, Kan., Junior College here Feb.4.
Hawks,KS on Top Of Big Eight Race
An early look at the Big Eight conference race shows the unpredictable KU Jayhawks riding the crest of the league along with the pre-season favorites, Kansas State.
The Jayhawkers' televised meet with Oklahoma Saturday night will be their first game with a team in the top half of the conference standings.
KU has knocked off Oklahoma State, Missouri and Iowa State in the past two weeks after finishing December with a disappointing 3-7 record.
All-powerful Kansas State goes again luckless Missouri at Columbia with the Cats looking for their 13th victory of the year.
Big Eight conference basketball teams continue their scramble for positions in the standings Saturday with two other games on tap.
Iowa State plays Nebraska at Lincoln where the Huskers are undefeated this year. Oklahoma State and Colorado are idle.
Oklahoma, Nebraska and Colorado are within striking distance with 2-1 records. The Sooner and Buff losses both came by lopsided
Baker Slips by C. of E.
EMFORIA, Kah. (UPI)
Baked led at the half by four points
had to go into overtime last
night to defeat College of Emporia.
68-66
Jim Kean hit a 30-foot field goal to give Baker the win. Baker tied the score at 61-all with one second of regulation time left when Terry Herman scored a tip-in.
The halftime score was 37-33.
Rich Freeman led Emporia scoring with 20 points and Herman got 19 for Emporia.
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scores to the Wildcats. Nebraska lost to the Buffers by six points at Boulder in the conference opener
The Oklahoma game should give some indication of how far the Jayhawkers have come since the New Year. KU will be shooting for the 500 per cent mark in this one.
The Jayhawkers have improved steadily of late and have been getting some outstanding performances from Bill Bridges and Al Donaghue. Bridges has led the team in rebounding in all recent games. Donaghue filled in for Ron Loneski against Iowa State and came through with 19 points to lead all scorers.
K-State is third-ranked nationally. The Wildcats take a long winning streak against the Tigers who have now dropped eight straight. The Cats' latest triumph was a 90-45 pounding of Oklahoma. Missouri has yet to win from a conference team.
Iowa State has suffered two disappointing losses after pushing K-State to the limit in the conference opener last week. The Cornhuskers, paced by a pair of Indiana sharp shooters, Herschell Turner and Al Maxey, are on the upgrade and now post an 8-5 seasonal mark.
Trackmen Drill for OU
The KU track team, although anchored by two national champions and 14 returning lettermen, may have its hands full when it takes on Oklahoma University in the opening meet of the indoor track season Feb. 2.
The dual meet at Allen Field Hotte will mark a number of firsts in KU track history.
OTTAWA, Kan. — (UPI) — Oitawa overcame a two-point half-time setback last night to defeat Friends, 78-67 in a Kansas Conference game.
The meet will be the first afternoon indoor match ever run at KU. Starting time for the first running event is 4 o'clock. The match will also mark the running of two new events. They are the 600 and 1,000 yard runs.
Ernie Shelby and Charlie Tidwell are the national champions on the KU team. Shelby, the team captain, competes in the broad jump and sprints. Tidwell, a sprinter and hurdler, set a national record in the 60-yard dash last year with a time of six seconds flat.
Vince Driski scored 22 points for Ottawa and Virgil Puetz got 15 for Friends.
All-American Norm Stewart is starting his second season as freshman basketball coach at MU.
Ottawa Defeats Friends
In addition the Jayhawkers have three Big Eight indoor champions. They are high jumper Bob Cannon, miller Tom Skutka and half-miller Bob Tague.
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In the distances running for Kansas will be Berry Crawford, Brian Travis, Skutka, Bill Mills and Dan Ralston.
"OU is loaded. It has the largest squad in the Big Eight, with more boys returning than any other school," he added.
can get," Bill Easton, track coach, said.
"At any rate, the meet will be one of the closest and most interesting of the season. It could be decided by the outcome of the mile relay. In that race, five points is awarded to the winning team and none to the losing team," said Coach Easton.
Bob Covey, Bob Lida, verne Gauby, Willie Jones, Paul Rearick and Art Henry will represent KU in the 440 and 600-vard runs.
Paul Williams will team with Shelby and Tidwell in the sprints. Bill Tillman, Bob Okerstrom and Darwin Ashbaugh will be in the hurdles.
Mike Lindsley, one of the greatest weight men ever to come from England, is also on the OU squad.
Leading the Sooners in the meet will be three men from foreign countries, Gail Hodgson and Ernst Kleynhans, both from South Africa, will compete in the distance events.
KU also has its share of outstanding stars.
In addition, OU has three good runners from this country. They are sprinters Dee Givens and John Pellow, and half-miler Bob Ringo. Pellow is the OU back who scored two long touchdowns against Kansas in the fourth quarter of the OU-KU football game.
In the broad jump Shelby will get help from Williams and Tom J. Kelly, Jack Stevens is the lone pole valuet.
"Our team looks good, but we
have had some minor injuries that have hurt us. The squad's manpower is thin and we need every man." Easton said.
Bill Dryer and Jerry Foos will fill the hole left by the graduating Al Oerter in the shot put.
Dick Keith will add strength in the high jump, teaming with Cannon.
"There should be several close duals in the meet." Faston said.
Kansan Is No.1 Choice for Army Coaching Post
By United Press International
Dale Hall, a native of Parsons,
and a member of the famed Davis
and Blanchard Backfield, is the
leading candidate to succeed Earl
Blaik as Army's head football
coach.
Blaik, one of the most successful football tutors of the current generation, surprised plebes and generals alike last night by retiring as the cadets' head coach and director of athletics at the military academy.
Blaik has repeatedly endorsed Hall as his logical successor when he turned in his resignation. After Hall's playing days at West Point on Blaik's greatest squad—the 1944 national champions—the Kansas native served as an assistant coach at Purdue, New Hampshire and Florida before returning to the Point as a choice in 1956.
He will surrender both positions Feb. 15—on his 62nd birthday—to accept "one of several opportunities either in television or business."
"If they are looking for a successor on the present staff, Hall is the man," one Army spokesman admitted. "However, Vince Lombardi also must be considered a strong candidate."
Lombardi, a guard on Fordham's celebrated "Seven Blocks of Granite" during his undergraduate days, helped Blaik install the T-formation at West Point after World War II.
Although Blaik's retirement shook the Army brass, it was almost common knowledge that he had been dissatisfied with certain policies at the Point, especially the long-standing ban against participation in Bowl games.
Navy has engaged in two postseason contests in recent years and even the fledgling Air Force Academy sent a team to the Cotton Bowl New Year's Day. However, Army officials have steadfastly refused to accept bowl bids—and this undoubtedly irked Blaik and may have prompted his resignation.
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Phi Kappa Psi and Beta Theta Pi won Fraternity A intramural basketball games yesterday.
Phi Psis,Betas Win Bob McMichael Hits 19
Phi Kappa Psi defeated Sigma Phi Epsilon, 57-44, with Bob Mc-Michael leading the way with 19 points. Stan Kirshman added 11 points to the Phi Psi cause. Jim Westhoff scored 14 points for Sigma Phi Epsilon.
Beta Theta Pi defeated Kappa Sigma, 51-44. Jack Spotts scored 12 points for the Beta's, but Fred Hageman earned game high with 15 points for Kappa Sirma.
Harlan Graban led the Physics to a 38-33 victory over the Raiders with 16 points in the only Independent A game played.
Other results;
Independent B — Phi Beta Pi 27
Battenfield 16; Hicks 48, Stephenson 13; Newman 32, Empire 25;
Varsity 38, Carruth 18; Nu Sigma
Nu 35, Rochdale 18; Oedatures 33,
Jolliffe 27; GDI 47, Air Force 22;
Burros 51, Foster 10.
Independent C — Navy 43, McCook 23.
Fraternity B — Phi Delta Theta 26. Phi Kappa Psi 22.
Tomorrow's Schedule
Fraternity A — Sigma Nu vs.
Chavez Ravine Oked For Dodger Stadium
LOS ANGELES—(UPI)—The Los Angeles Dodgers celebrated their biggest victory since coming to Los Angeles today as the California Supreme Court upheld their contract with the city for construction of a baseball stadium in Chavez Ravine.
While attorney Phil Silver already has announced his plan to appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court, Walter O'Malley, Dodger owner, said he hopes to break ground on the stadium within 30 days and have it ready for the opening of the 1960 season.
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Tau Kappa Epsilon, 4:15; Phi Kappa vs. Delta Chi, 5:15.
Independent A — Jolliffe vs. Foster, 6:15; Stephenson vs. Pearson, 7:15.
Fraternity C — Sigma Alpha Epsilon II vs. Beta Theta Pi I, 4:15; Phi Delta Theta IV vs. Phi Kappa Psi I, 4:15; Alpha Tau Omega IV vs. Sigma Chi IV, 5:00; Sigma Alpha Epsilon I vs. Beta Theta Pi III, 5:00; Phi Gamma Delta vs. Phi Delta Theta III, 5:45; Alpha Tau Omega III vs. Sigma Chi III, 5:45; Lambda Chi Alpha vs. Delta Tau Delta, 6:30; Delta Upsilon I vs. Alpha Tau Omega II, 6:30; Phi Gamma Delta VI vs. Sigma Nu, 7:15; Alpha Epsilon Pi vs. Sigma Chi I, 7:15.
E-State Stops Washburn
TOPEKA, Kan. — (UPI) — Emporia State gained its first Central Intercollegiate conference victory night, stopping Washburn 74-68.
Emporia led at the half, 37-31. Jim Fraley led Emporia scoring with 22 points and Larry Elliott and Gaylen Mote got 17 each for washburn.
Both schools now have 1-1 conference records.
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