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Bud Wilkinson, the perennial coach of champions at Oklahoma, has been under fire from the Dallas Times-Herald for allegedly practicing illegal recruiting practices, but Wilkinson has denied the charges.
Iowa State, almost forgotten in the deluge of Wilt Chamberlain publicity which is flooding the Midwest, will swing into basketball action Saturday night against Michigan State at East Lansing.
Iowa State Coach Bill Stran-
nigan figures he'll go with his
veteran starters—Gary Thompson
and Lyle Frahm at the guards,
Chuck Vogt and John Crawford at
the forwards, and Don Medsker
at center.
The Cyclones, who return all five starters from the team which won the Big Seven pre-season tournament last year, will return home Monday night to battle Houston, the defending Missouri Valley champions.
Coach Forddy Anderson at Michigan State has six lettermen left from last year, as does Houston. Iowa State will be rated the underdog in both games, with Michigan State picked to win by 10 and Houston figured as six points better than the Cyclones.
By DICK WALT (Daily Kansan Sports Editor)
The Times-Herald said Oklahoma had been contacting Grand Prairie, Tex., High School players prior to the end of the season, and added that one of the players contacted was still a junior.
Wilkinson replied that no coach from the Sooner staff had contacted any boys personally, but went on to say that letters had been written to each of the boys in response to a written request from an Oklahoma follower.
"We get a great deal of information from our fans and followers in many Texas cities," Wilkinson said. "When we do, we usually send out questionnaires."
"If the questionnaire reveals that the boy is an underclassman, we drop the matter. If he is a senior, we wait until the football season ends and then write him and his principal, asking permission to see him later."
The Sooners, by the way, will be out to settle the Big Seven individual scoring race Saturday afternoon in their annual battle with Oklahoma A&M. Halfbacks Tommy McDonald and Clendon Thomas have 96 points each, on 16 touchdowns aniece.
Well, we don't know exactly how they do it, but we'll vouch for the success of their system.
McDonald has gained 778 yards in 106 carries for an average of 7.3 yards per trv. and Thomas has
Campbell Wins Decathlon; Russia Reduces U. S. Lead
MELBOURNE - (UP) - Milton Campbell, a burly 22-year-old sailor from Plainfield, N. J., won the Olympic decathlon championship today with a record point-total in this most gruelling event of the games.
Campbell compiled a total of 7,937 points for the 10 separate events that comprise the decathlon over a two-day period. Rafer Johnson, a U.C.L.A. sophomore from Kingsburg, Calif., placed with 7,537 despite an injury.
The decathlon victory earned the United States its 20th gold medal of the Olympic games.
Russia Still Gains
Despite the American 1-2 finish in the decathlon, Russia gained on the U.S. in the race for the unofficial team championship. Soviet athletes earned a total of 50 points today in track and field, canoeing and shooting. America's haul for the day was only 29.
Thus at the end of eight full days of competition, the U.S. led Russia 347 points to 2694.
Campbell, who in 1952 finished second to America's Bob Mathias in the decathlon, broke Mathias' old record by 50 points. Campbell's total was 48 points short of Johnson's world record, however.
In the final five tests today, Campbell raced the 110-meter high hurdles in 14 seconds flat, threw the discus 147 feet, 5 1/4 inches, pole vaulted 11 feet, 1/4 inch; threw the javelin 187 feet, 3 1 inches, and ran the 1,500 meters in 4:50. Yesterday's first five decathlon events were the 100-meter dash, broad jump, shot put, high jump and 400-meter run.
Russia won two gold medals today, in the women's shot put event and in the 10.000-meter Canadian pairs canoeing championship. Tamara Tychkevitch upset world record-holder Galina Zybina of Russia to win the shot put with an Olympic record toss of 50 feet. 11 inches.
Australia's Betty Cuthbert became the first women's double winner when she raced home first in the 200-meter dash in an Olympic record-tying 23.4 seconds. Miss Cuthbert previously had won the 100-meter dash.
The first swimming champions of the games also were crowned. Jon Hendricks of Australia won the 100-meter freestyle race in the new Olympic record time of 55.4 seconds, Ursula Happe of Germany won the women's 200-meter breast stroke title in 2:53.1.
Jimmy Harris, the Sooners' senior quarterback, has completed an amazing 22 of 34 passing attempts for 455 yards and eight touchdowns. McDonald has hit on seven of 11 for 175 yards and two scores.
picked up 694 yards in 89 carries for a 7.8 average.
Harris and McDonald have each had one pass intercepted, which is half the total of Sooner aerials which have gone astray this season. That's 4 interceptions out of 141 passes tried.
Not to bad.
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Pentti Linnsvuo of Finland won the free pistol shooting championship, in which Oufft Finion of Egg Harbor, N.J., earned the U.S. four points by finishing third.
In addition to the Russian canoeing victory, gold medals in the sport also were won by Romania, Hungary and Sweden. Frank Havens of Vienna, Va., the 1952 winner in the 10,000-meter Canadian singles event, finished a disappointing eighth.
Indicating that current members of the Cleveland team will have to hustle and produce to keep their jobs, Farrell said that from now on the Indians, never known for their daring on the base paths, will be "fast, aggressive and interesting."
CLEVELAND—(UP)—Kerby Farrell, Cleveland's new manager who admits he is "not a patient man," today promised that the 1957 Indians will have "dusty uniforms and torn pants from sliding."
Jance-Lee Romary of Tarzana, Calif., placed third in the Women's foils fencing competition, won by Gillian Sheen of England.
New Indian Boss Wants Fast Club
Mickey Mantle, New York Yankee outfielder, and a Baxter Springs contractor Thursday announced their plans to build a lavish $350,000 motel near Joplin, Mo.
"We'll do a lot of running," he added, "and we'll bring back from spring training only the best and fastest players."
Missouri's first football coach in 1890 was A. L. McRae. That season the Tigers won two and lost one.
Mantle Pians Motel
KANU Will Carry All Cage Outings
All 1956-'57 basketball games, at home and away, will be broadcast by the KU sports network. Bill Griggsby, veteran sports announcer from Kansas City, Mo., has been signed to do the broadcasts.
The broadcasts are originated by the home station of the KU sports network, KANU, which is located at 91.5 megacycles on the FM dial, and may be heard within a 70-mile radius of Lawrence.
Aluminum Bowl Clash Dec. 22
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — (UP) — St. Joseph's College of Collegeville, Ind., will pit its light but tenacious line against Montana State's offense-minded Bobcats in the NAIA Aluinum Bowl Dec. 22.
Heavyweight Title At Stake Tonight
CHICAGO—(UP)—Light heavyweight champion Archie Moore, ancient gypsy of the boxing trails, and youthful Floyd Patterson, the "Kangaroo Kid," fight tonight for the vacant world heavyweight crown. The winner will be either the oldest or the youngest heavy ruler in ring history.
In the dazzling cone of light at Chicago Stadium, Moore of San Diego, Calif—39 or 42—is slated for 15 rounds with Patterson of Brooklyn—21 or 20—to determine which shall take the throne left vacant by Rocky Marciano's retirement last April 27.
Promoter Jim Norris expects a crowd approaching 18,000 to pay between $250,000 and $300,000 for the privilege of live-viewing the fight, which will be televised and broadcast nationally (NBC) at 9 p.m. (CST).
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