Owens' Spouse Bolsters Team
Behind every successful man there stands a woman, and KU's basketball coach is no exception to the rule. But KU's Ted Owens has more push than most, because behind him are three women, his wife, "Nana," and two daughters, Nancy, 6, and Kelly, 3.
Mrs. Owens, who real name is Nancy, is one of KU's most avid basketball fans, and says she has never missed a home game since Owens has been at KU.
"I FEEL DIFFERENT than the average spectator. I know what goes into each play. When I go to a game, I can get more out of it than other people, because I know what effort goes into the game," Mrs. Owens said.
She prefers sitting directly behind the players' bench, but "I get so excited at the games, that I'm afraid they might be called on a technical four or something."
THE OWENS MET at Cameron Junior College, Lawton, Okla., in 1958, when Owens was a combination coach and history teacher. Mrs. Owens, then Nana Amis, was a coed in one of his classes, the History Before the Civil War.
"Students in the class used to call it 'Uncle Teddy's story hour,' because Ted would draw diagrams of plays and tell stories from a joke book about Columbus.
"On game days he'd come in and say that he would take roll at the game." Mrs. Owens said.
THE TWO EVENTUALLY found they had mutual friends and she began helping him grade papers "and one thing led to another."
They began dating in March, and because they had kept their relationship quiet, several people were surprised when they were married that June.
After they were married, Mrs. Owens enrolled in her husband's class of History After the Civil War.
"I GOT A BETTER GRADE before the Civil War," the attractive young blond said.
She completed her study at Cameron Junior College, and when she moved to Lawrence, enrolled as a junior in the School of Fine Arts.
One painting she did, which
Boner-of-Year Goes to NBC
DALLAS—(UPI)—The Dallas Bonehead Club "Bonehead of the year" award will be presented Friday to the NBC news department for its broadcast of a professional football game and the Gemini 7 Launch Dec. 4 on the same screen at the same time.
"THIS IS OUR only way of expressing the sorrow we have for those poor souls in the NBC TV news department who must have sat up many a night trying to decide which program should have priority, then in a moment of complete frustration, threw common sense to the wind and blundered their mistake across the screens of millions of unbelieving television viewers," the Bone-heads said.
William B. Monroe, NBC Washington bureau chief, will accept the trophy of walnut and silver topped by a large silver nut.
JIM MARSHALL, defensive end of the Minnesota Vikings,received the award last year for his 66-yard, wrong-way run with a fumble for a safety against San Francisco.
hangs above the fireplace in the home, is an impressionistic picture of a busy European market place. One of the signs on the street reads. "Ted's."
Marshall started out for Dallas to accept the trophy but got on a wrong flight and ended up some place else.
"It just seemed to fit there," she said.
Her life as wife of a basketball coach has been a string of strange episodes.
ONE MORNING at about 3 a.m., a prankster called the Owens residence, posing as a water maintenance engineer. He said there was a leak in one of the water pipes, and was calling the neighborhood to locate the leak. He asked Owens to check the drains in his house, look at the floor in the basement, and finally to check for water standing in the yard.
After Owens put on his hat and shoes, and had checked the house and yard, he hade his report to the man on the phone, that he could see no water.
The Owens family asked their neighbors the next day about the water leak, and none had received any phone calls. But Sam Miranda, assistant coach, also had received a call.
PLAYERS, who are unable to go home during holidays because of basketball practice, find the Owens' house a friendly home away from home.
This Christmas, Walt Wesley and Al Lopes were dinner guests, she said.
"They don't eat anything in particular. They just eat great quantities of everything."
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