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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, Nov. 19, 1957
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TOM SKUTKA—Freezing weather didn't stop this fleet Jayhawker cross country runner from taking first in the Missouri Valley AAU meet in Lawrence Monday. KU also won the team title with a low score of 15 points.
Skutka Wins AAU Cross Country
Sophomore Tom Skutka won the first annual 4-mile Missouri Valley AAU cross-country meet Monday.
he runners battled 20 to 30 mile per hour icy cold winds in imperatures. Skutka's time was 21:26.6.
Every member of the KU sevenman team placed in the top nine. Jerry McNeal was second, Brian Travis third, Cliff Cushman fifth, Bob Harrison seventh, Barry Crawford eighth and Don Greenlee ninth.
Jim Sanders of Missouri was fourth and Paul Whiteley, an unattached runner, was sixth.
Wayne Sulwold, KU freshman was thirteenth; Verlyn Schmidt, KU squadman, fifteenth, and Martin Mason, KU freshman, seventeeth.
The KU team had 15 points to 50 for Emporia State. These were the only two complete teams entered. A total of 24 runners were in the race, which was open to all amateur athletes.
Skutka also won the Big Eight cross-country meet Nov. 9. The KU team will enter the NCAA meet Nov. 25 at East Lansing, Mich., on the campus of Michigan State University.
JayhawkOpen Has 4 Entries
The first four entries in the Jayhawk Open Volleyball tournament, Nov. 29 and 30, have been received by the KU Volleyball Club.
The entries are the Topeka YMCA, the Omaha, Neb. YMCA, the Pine Street St. Louis YMCA and Washburn University.
Topeka should be the favorite, Kevin Jones, coach of the KU team, said. Gary Padgett, former KU basketball player, is on the Topeka team. Padgett played on the volleyball team which last year won the Armed Forces volleyball championship.
Omaha has two players who were named all-American in 1953. Last year Omaha was fourth in the Jayhawk Tournament.
The St. Louis club is a Negro group, which is moving from class B to championship competition. Three or four more entries are expected before the deadline, Nov. 23.
Champions Banquet Halted
GREENSBORO, N.C. — (UP) — Plans to honor the University of North Carolina's 1956-57 basketball champions with a banquet. Nov. 25, have been cancelled without explanation by the Atlantic Coast Conference.
While basketball coach at Northwestern University, KU athletic director Arthur C. (Dutch) Lonborg piloted the college all-stars to six victories in nine games against the professional champions.
Injuries Slow Basketball Team
The progress of the KU basketball team has been slowed by injuries and illnesses, Coach Dick Harp said Monday.
He said the team has not improved as rapidly as it should, because many of the men have missed practices. Ron Loneski was out three days with a bad leg, Alan Donaghue and Bob Hickman each missed a week, and Jim Hoffman was in the hospital with influenza last week.
Students and local fans will get a chance to see the team in action Friday in the annual varsity-freshman game. The first regular-season game for the varsity will be December 2 with Oklahoma State at Stillwater.
Coach Harp is Friday's probable starters will be guards, Bob Billings, 6-foot junior, and John Cieland, 6-foot, 3-inch senior; center, Wilt Chamberlain, 7-foot junior; forwards, Monte Johnson, 6-foot, 5-inch junior, and Ron Loneski, 6-foot $4^{\frac{1}{2}}$-junior.
He said Chamberlain, Billings and Loneski have all performed in practice as the coaching staff expected them to, but experience is needed by the rest of the team.
The team will work out Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week, Coach Harp said. There was no practice Monday.
Some of the top sophomore prospects who need experience to develop into first-string players are
Top Teams Enter IM Playoff Today
Intramural football begins a tightly packed playoff schedule today after wet grounds cancelled out another scheduled day Monday. The playoffs, scheduled to start Nov. 6 and end Nov.12, will have to get underway today or Wednesday in order to squeeze the match for the hill championship in by vacation time.
Standouts of the intramural league appear to be Independentents Jim Beam, undefeated since losing the first game of the season, and Hicks, with a 6-0 record. Fraternity A powers are Alpha Tau Omega and Phi Delta Theta, both undefeated in league play.
Prospects are that two of these teams will face each other in the hill championship game scheduled for Monday. The four Independent A teams will meet today and decide the winner on Thursday. The six teams in the Fraternity A playoffs will start quarterfinals today, play again Wednesday, and decide the championship Friday.
The Fraternity B schedule calls for the eight teams to finish quarterfinals by Thursday, the semi-fianls Friday, with the finals scheduled for Monday.
Not to be counted out in the Independent A race are the Chicken Pickers, with a 4-1 record after losing to Jim Beam earlier in the season, and Stephenson with a 4-2 record.
Other strong contenders in the Fraternity A league will be Beta Theta Pi, unbeaten in five games, and Delta Upsilon, standing 4-1. Other teams include Delta Tau Delta, 3-2, and Sigma Nu, 3-1.
Today's games:
Fraternity A—Alpha Tau Omega vs. Delta Tau Delta and Delta Upsilon vs. Sigma Nu.
Independent A—Hicks vs. Jim Beam and Chicken Pickers vs. Stephenson.
Missouri Has Two Sidelined
COLUMBIA, Mo. — (UP) — Veteran Ken Clemensen was guiding the Missouri Tiger attack for the first time in weeks today as sophomore Phil Snowden nursed injuries received in Saturday's stunning loss to K-State.
Clemsen, a 26-year-old senior who was a regular a year ago, advanced Monday along with tackle Don Hopkins. Hopkins was promoted to fill in for injured Bob Lee.
Snowden and Lee are expected to return to drills sometime this week
Hoffman, Donaghue, Hickman and Phil Raisor.
Coach Hard said he would have his men working on team organization this week, including several offense situations and team defense.
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"Oklahoma State has a fine team, as you can tell from its record," he said. "and they showed us some rough and tough football."
Coach Chuck Mather said the key to the victory was definitely KU's pass defense, which was responsible for intercepting six Oklahoma State passes.
Mather Praises OS
"Boy, does it ever feel good to win," was the team's comment as expressed by center John Wertzberger. With three straight victories behind them, the Jayhawkers are enjoying the sweet taste of victory, and plan to keep on winning.
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"Our men were in the right positions to get those interceptions; they were alert and took advantage of every opportunity," Coach Chuck Mather said.
Players Satisfied, Await MU Eagerly
"All we have to do now is keep playing for this next game as we have been in the last three," said halfback John Traylor.
Coach Mather said KU put forth one of its best team efforts of the season, with everyone on the team playing well.
A happy and confident Jayhawker football team shared noisy congratulations in the dressing room after Saturday's game, but they had already begun to think of the next game, Homecoming Saturday with Missouri.
John Peppercorn, sophomore end, said he thought the Oklahoma State line was as good as any in the conference, but KU just hit them first and hurt hard.
He said the OSU line was big and hard to move but lacked speed. The Cowpoke linemen weren't as fast as KU and they became tired toward the end of the game, Peppercorn said. "We just decided to hit hard, everybody worked together and we were able to win," he said.
Coordination Is Key
"After a few hard games in the middle of the schedule, we decided to start playing some tough football, the whole team got coordinated, and we have now won three straight games," he said.
Coordination is Key
The difference in KU's last three victories has been better coordination of the team. Pennercom said
A good team effort was responsible for Saturday's victory, said senior guard Bob Kraus. He said a big factor in the improved play of the last three games has been the fact that the team is finally fairly well together, with few men missing from injuries and illnesses, as was the case about the middle of the season.
Homer Floyd, junior halfback, said KU played one of its best games of the year Saturday.
"I think this game and the one with Nebraska were our best of the year," he said.
Floyd echoed the feelings of the entire Kansas team in saying that Oklahoma State has a very fine team. The Cowpokes had lost only one previous game this year, to Arkansas.
Mather Halts Monday Drills
Coach Chuck Mather said that fullbacks Homer Floyd and Don Feller, center John Wertzberger and guard Frank Gibson, all suffered slight injuries Saturday, but they are expected to be ready for action this weekend.
The Kansas Jayhawkers, with their three game winning streak now the longest in the Big Eight after Oklahoma's loss to Notre Dame last Saturday, took today off from regular drills although they did watch movies of Saturday's victory over Oklahoma State and heard a scouting report on this Saturday's foe, Missouri.
In addition Mather said that halfback Larry Carrier, who was out Saturday with a bruised hip, is expected to be ready for action. There is also a possibility that quarterback Bob Marshall may see limited action and quarterback Wally Strauch may be available for extra point duty.
Mather said the team would hold offensive and defensive drills Tuesday.
Lekagul Wins IM Badminton
Salwit Lekagul, junior from Bangkok. Thailand, won the University badminton singles championship of the fall intramural sports program by defeating Richard Laptad, Lawrence graduate student.
Don Pierce, KU sports publicity director, was an all-Big Seven center on the 1940 KU football team.
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