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Wednesday, February 19, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Owens fiery winner, jack-in-the-box joker
By KEN STEPHENS Associate Sports Editor
Usually 14,000 fans pack Allen Field House for University of Kansas basketball games. Most of them know Ted Owens as the frequently fiery, jack-in-the-box coach.
From their vantage point it appears that he spends most of his time beating a path between the KU bench and the scorers' table.
They know him as a winner-207 wins during 11 years as KU's head coach. For some that is enough; they neither demand nor expect any more.
Only a few know him as anything other than the man who suddenly jumps up from the bench and walks at a furious pace during the game. It appears that he has a definite objective in making usually he had forgotten, why he had gotten up.
OWENS ALWAYS EXUDES that frenetic energy is relatively relaxed and can be calculated simply as a simple set of equations.
Even during practices Owens remains as intense and fiery as he is during a game. He says he is that way because he believes he must be.
"I have to be very demanding on the court. The players have to be disciplined," he says. "There are different times in a game when you have to count on all the players to together. I have to be able to argue them to responses in a similar manner."
Even though he is one of the first to admit that there hasn't been enough time to do other things with his players, Owens says a strong off-the-court relationship is im-
"OUR LRELATIONSHIP OFF the court is different," Owens says. "There are times when we also have to be a player's best friend."
Owens says that the development of that kind of relationship is difficult and that sometimes such a relationship never is developed.
"It's not because we haven't wanted to. It's just that plemonemon keeps some of the things we want."
Owens is quick to say that the continuing relationship he has had with some of his former players has been one of the things he made coaching a gratifying experience.
"I've tried very hard to separate my off-the-court life and my life on the court. When you're as wrapped up in it as I am it is difficult to do." Owens says.
It is when he is relaxed that Owens begins to exude the friendliness and humor that endears him to the handful of people who know him as Ted, not coach.
THOSE WHO DO know him in that way are his social companions, golf and tennis partners, his secretary and some former players, Dave Robsch, Jo Do White and Drilladev players, Dave Robsch, Jo Do White and Bud Stallworth, to negotiate alluring but beneficially expensive deductions for managers or agents.
Only a few know him the way Odd Williams, one of Owens' frequent golf guests.
"Ted has a tremendous sense of humor," williams says. "He's just a great practical man."
Williams says the quick humor of Owens has a sound, a round of golf much more entertaining.
Over the years Owens and Williams have engaged in a lively exchange of practical jokes. Williams says Owens has always had an edge in the exchange, however.
On one occasion Owens invited Williams to have lunch with him, Monte Moore, the radio voice of the Oakland A's, and John Miller. Moore's assistant.
HOWEVER, OWENS introduced Miller as Gene Tenance, the A&S first baseman and pitcher.
Oakland's current string of three World Series championships.
Williams, who had never seen Tenace, quizzed Miller extensively about major league baseball, the World Series and the A's. Of course, since Miller had traveled with the A's he was able to provide Williams with convincing answers to all his questions.
It was several weeks later, when Tenace's picture appeared in Sports Illustrated, that Williams discovered he had been duped by "one of my very good friends."
Williams says he thinks Owens never would have told him.
There are many stories, just like that one,
that leave the teller and the listener shaking
off.
"It ran like a top," he told Owens.
Owens pulled another good one, when Williams had just bought a new car.
After a round of golf, Owens beat
seven shots and disconnected
swearn sharp pin wires.
Williams limped home at an embarrasing speed of 10 miles an hour.
There was also the time when Owens and
shallwort used together to scare
squirrels out of gardens.
Stallworth had signed a professional contract and returned to Lawrence to visit Owens. He and his girlfriend arrived in a new Cadillac.
While visiting in Naismith hall, Owens and Stallworth agreed to make a bet on a game of pool. Stallworth thought he could play better so they agreed to play for each
See OWENS next page
No.1 Indiana now 25-0 gains all first-place votes
Intense coach
Ted Owens, head basketball coach at the University of Kansas, has proved himself to be a winner as well as an intense competitor during his 11 years at KU. Owens has been up and down on the bench but his record has seldom been down. He has won 207 games as KU's coach.
From the Associated Press
As Indiana's winning streak continues, so does Florida's, which has won five consecutive college ball poll. Associated Press college poll.
Fifth place above to Alabama with 495 points, just ahead of Louisville's 489. Kentucky was seventh with 376 with Arizona State No. 8 at 39. Marquette with 308 and Southern California, 159, complete the Top 10.
The AP panel, voting on results through Sunday, placed Maryland third with 716 points and moved defending national candidate Carolina State into the No. 4 slot with 576.
The only changes among the first 10 teams were N. C. State, which gained one place; Alabama, which moved up two places, and Ketucky, which slipped from fourth to seventh after suffering a five-point loss to Tennessee.
In the rest of the poll, Notre Dame jumped
The Hosiers swept all 45 first-place ballots for a perfect 900 points in this week's nation-wide pile of sports writers and broadcasters announced Tuesday.
That gave Indiana a comfortable 100-point grip on the top spot over second-place UCLA. The Hosiers raised their record to 348 against 1858 victory over Wisconsin Monday night.
The University of Kansas remained unranked for the third week in a row.
The Top Twenty, with first-place votes in parentheses,
record the throughput of the following
points for each hour from 10:16 to 11:59 and 12:49.
I. Indiana (45) 14.0 900
I. CA, IA 24.0 900
I. Maryland 18.2 715
I. California 18.2 696
I. Alabama 18.2 696
I. Tennessee 18.2 378
I. Kentucky 18.2 378
I. Hawaii N, M 18.2 378
I. Marquette N, C 17.3 388
I. OH, C 17.3 388
I. Notre Dame N 15.7 130
I. Pennsylvania N 15.7 130
I. N. Carolina N 15.7 130
I. Virginia N 15.4 99
I. Tennessee N 15.4 99
I. Arizona N 15.4 71
I. Texas N 15.4 71
I. La Salle N 18.4 42
I. Maine N 18.4 42
I. Pan American N 20.3 39
I. Miami N 20.3 39
Others receive votes, listed alphabetically, Clintland,
Cleveland, Charleston, Clinton, Columbus,
Michigan State, Michigan State, Middle Tampa-
land, New Las Vegas, New Mexico State, North Carolina,
Nebraska, Southern Louisiana, South Carolina,
Southern Oklahoma, Staunton, Tennessee,
Tennessee.
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Creighton and Arizona both made crisp advances. Creighton jumped to 14th from 20th place and Arizona picked up four spots to 15th.
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Pennsylvania took over 12th place, up two spots.
North Carolina slipped two places to No. 13.
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No. 16 belonged to Clemson, up two places. La dropped five spots to No. 17. Centenary made its first appearance among the Top 20 showing up in 18th place. Pan American, down four places to 19th from 15th, and Oregon State completed the poll.
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Thinclads win indoor meet host OSU, WSU tonight
After winning the U.S. Track and Field Federation (USFTF) indoor championship last weekend, the University of Kansas track team returns to action tonight when it will host Oklahoma State University and Wichita State University in Allen Field House.
The meet, which will include competition between the schools' women's teams, will begin at 6:30 p.m. with action in the field events. The track events will begin at 7 p.m.
KU put on an impressive performance when they won the prestigious USTFF meet in Oklahoma City last Saturday, by several outstanding individual efforts, the olyphant team by edging the powerful Pacific Coast Track Club 32-30.
Particularly impressive at Oklahoma City was freshman spinnert cipher Wiley. His ability to decrypt codes
"I was extremely proud of our team," coach Bob Timmons said Monday. "We beat an excellent field, and this should boost our confidence."
Wiley also finished second in the 60-yard dash with a time of 6.2 seconds and was a member of the winning mile relay unit. That mile relay team, Eddie Lewis, Wiley, broke the school's Smith, broke both the meet and the school records as it blazed to a 313.1. finish.
the tape to tap the 300-yard dash. Both were timed in 30.5 seconds.
Wiley, who had been unbeaten in the 60 this year, is expected to get tough competition from the board. Both State men have clocked at 6.1 seconds.
Other outstanding KU performer at the USTF meet was Danny Skea. He soared 51-10 in the triple jump to break the school record for the high field of competitors. Sealy then came back to finish second in the long jump with a leap of 25-1. Wichita State's Very Crawford, last year's Kansas high school champion, is expected to beat Sealy's toughest competition tonight.
FRESHMEN & COMMUNITY COLLEGE TRANSFER STUDENTS
(Plus any interested upperclassmen) The following schools will attend the 26th annual Principal-Counselor Freshman
CONFERENCE
Wednesday, February 19
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