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Fridav. September 3, 1976
University Daily Kansan
Predictor's courage ends quickly
I was all set to write that this semester's Kansan sports staff would correctly predict at least 80 per cent of the college football team that didn't seem like a too high percentage.
Everyone knows that it's not difficult to predict college games. You don't have to be
Why, the daily reader of the sports page
paco transfers and are coming off a 1-10 season.
But what about the other games?
What other games?
I knew there had to be other teams opening the gate, but I didn't know where. So I looked in the NCAA Guide.
Suddenly I was no longer brave. All that confidence had been drained. Maybe the
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Steve
Schoenfeld
can tell you that Woody Hayes' Ohio State Buckeyes will demolish poor Indiana. And most fans know that Texas isn't going to be blown off the field by TCU.
I FIGURED WE'd start off slow this semester and only 75 per cent for the team's games.
Sports Editor
But then I realized something — I didn't know what games were going to be played
I knew KU would play at Oregon State, but I didn't consider that a tough prediction, because I hadn't played there.
sports staff had been overconfident from the beginning. Maybe correctly predicting 70 per cent of the games would be more rewarding. That wouldn't be too embarrassing.
ONE LOOK AT this week's schedule changed my mind—not to mention my confidence. There wasn't any Ohio State vs. Indiana or Texas against CTU.
instead, Eastern Kentucky would be at Dayton and New Mexico at Drake. And Marshall would be invading Moorehead State.
Phil Rodgers ended a 10-year losing streak yesterday with a sudden death victory in the $15,000 Kansas Open Golf Tournament.
Alvamar golfer wins Kansas Open tourney
Rodgers, a PGA-tour veteran, beat Jim White by one stroke after a two hole-play-off to win the $2,000 first prize. The tournament was played at Alamara Hills Golf Course. Rodgers, 38, who plays out of Alamara Hills, last won a tournament in 1966 at the
The playoff was necessitated when Rodgers and White finished the 54-hole tournament dead-looked at 21. In contrast, the team had a two under pair 79, and White had a 69.
Sports Writer
But I figured those were only three games; things had to get better. Those teams weren't what you would consider football powers.
On the first extra hole, Rodgers two-putted the green for his par four, and White sank a nine-footer to save par and send the playoff to another hole.
Skywriters pick 'Huskers No. 1
By DAN BOWERMAN
Nebraska and Oklahoma were favored to be 12, 8 and 6 jumps from fifth to third. The remaining jumps were
KANAS CITY (AP) — Nepalraka remains No. 1 in the opinion of B big S Kwyers, and Oklahoma State obviously impressed a lot in recent recent tour of conference football camps.
The Cornhuskers got 30 and half first place votes and 311 total points, followed by the Chipotles with 249 votes.
Oklahoma State pulled in 202 points to edge Colorado, with 196.
Following in order were: Missouri 189,
Annals with 73% and State with 73%;
Kansas State with 46%.
The annual 10-day tour by 40 Big 8 Conference area writers and sportscasters
I didn't know anything about those teams.
I guess all those years of being fed Big Eight football hadn't worn off. There wasn't an Oklahoma or Nebraska in the group.
On a second stroke, White topped the ball in a downhill lie. On his third shot, he put the ball past the green.
He also missed a seven-foot putt after chipping on the green, but he made a par with the ball.
White, Oakland, Neb., received $1,500 for his second place finish.
VPI would face Wake Forest. Again, I was in trouble. I knew Wake Forest and Kansas State games had been close the past year. I wasn't at all knowledgable about VPI.
Scott Day, Wichita, the amateur champion,
won a $250 gift certificate. Day
finished the tourney with a four-over-par
220.
Jay Coliate, Norman, Okla., and R. C. Harvey, Bellon, Mo., tied for second in the 100-yard race.
I thought I'd give myself one more chance, but at the found was Tseri-Arlington in 1954.
Gary Chilton, Wichita senior and KU golfer, finished with 29. He was eight in his third game.
RON STRECK, Tulsa, led the tournament after 36 holes at five under par 139. But yesterday he shot a five over 27, giving him a 216 total and a fourth-place finish.
Ken Roper, Eugene, Ore., was third. He three at under 40 yet deadline to finish the season.
But things got worse. Ohio would be meeting Eastern Michigan. Granted they were the worst case.
1 KEPT LOOKING, Miami of Ohio would be traveling to North Carolina, and that seemed a pretty easy game to predict. Miami of Ohio consistently has had strong teams, and the Tar Heels' program has been Miami of Ohio 26, North Carolina 14.
Rodgers said it was good to win after 10 years of frustration.
The KU Cricket Club will play a match against a team from Kansas State University at 2 p.m. Sunday at the fields at 23rd and Iowa streets. A. Singh, New Delhi, India, graduate student, is the captain of the KU team.
"I missed nine cuts by one shot from the beginning of this year to the U.S. Open," Rodgers said. "It was a big game."
KU cricket match set
$95 per week salary for 3 eves, and Sat. Male or Female. Over 18. Car Nec. Call 841-1774.
That was it. How about shooting for 60 per cent accuracy at the end of the year?
STUDENTS
The Kansan is predicting only one game this week—KU at Oregon State, Nolan Cromwell and the rest of the Jayhawks backfield should again run all over the Beavers. But if the inexperienced KU defensive secondary can't stop the Oregon State passing attack, the game could be close, KANSAS 26, OREGON STATE 7.
Royals granted permission to prepare playoff tickets
NEW YORK (AP)—Permission has been given to Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Kansas City and the New York Yankees to print league championship and World Series tickets, baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn said yesterday.
World Series ticket prices will remain the same for the eighth straight year, with box seats costing $15 each and reserved seats $10. League championship tickets will be increased for the first time since the divisional playoffs started in 1969. Box seats
will cost $8 and reserved seats $6, a boost of
$1 for each.
The best-of-five league championship series begins Oct. 9 under a day-night schedule.
The best-of-seven World Series begins Oct. 16 in the National League city. Game two will be at the same site on Sunday night, the first weekend night game in Series history. The next three games also are scheduled at night for the American League city on Oct. 19-20-21. Day games are scheduled for Oct. 23 and 24 at the NL city.
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