KU Team to Beat in Big Eight
By Dick Russell
KU is the team to beat for the Big Eight basketball title this year.
This is the consensus reached by Big Eight coaches at the preseason clinic and luncheon in Kansas City Sunday. All Big Eight coaches, with the exception of KU's Ted Owens, attended the clinic. Assistant coach Sam Miranda subbed for Owens, who was ill.
WITH WALT WESLEY, junior, leading the way, the Jayhawks are the pick for the Big Eight title and a trip to the National Collegiate Athletic Association playoffs. Tex Winter, Kansas
State University head coach, gives perhaps the highest evaluation of KU.
"Kansas should be a heavy favorite and a national power," Winter said.
KU practice begins Friday, but Wesley, the Big Eight's leading scoreer with a 23.5 average last year, won't be ready. He broke a small bone in his right wrist in a pick-up game last summer. The cast is being removed this week, and the "611" post man will be back in action soon.
THE TOP FIVE when practice opens will be Wesley, center; Fred Chana, Brookfield, III., junior, and Riney Lochmann, Wichita
senior, forwards, and Al Lopes, Providence, R.I., senior, and Del Lewis, Pauline senior, guards. All but Chana were starters last season.
Ron Franz, junior from Ward high in Kansas City, also figures prominently in Javhawk plans.
"If Franz comes through 100 per cent, he could make us a real good ball club," Miranda said. Sunday, "He's got fine offensive board moves, which is one of our team's weaknesses."
A transfer from Western Michigan, 6" forward Bob Wilson, is the best jumper of the team Miranda feels.
"But he hasn't played a competitive ball game in two years," Miranda said.
Nebraska Still Holds Lead Over College Football Pack
NEW YORK—(UPI)—Bruising Nebraska, which has employed a devastating rushing attack and an unyielding defense to batter four successive opponents, today retained its spot at the top of the major college football ratings although sternly challenged by undefeated Texas.
The Cornhuskers of the Big Eight received 13 first place votes from United Press International's 35-man board of coaches and a total of 319 points to narrowly edge the Longhorns, who solidified their runner-up position by earning 311 points.
"WE COULD USE guards," Miranda went on. "Lopes is the quickest rebounder on either board and is really playing out of position. If we use Jo Jo White at mid-semester, we may move Lopes to forward."
After a weekend almost devoid of major upsets, the top five teams in the UPI ratings all held their ground although the competition for third place, as well as first, grew fiercer.
White, 6"2? St. Louis, Mo., second semester freshman, will not be eligible until second semester. Whether the Jayhawks hold him out and give him an extra year of eligibility will depend on their position in the conference race.
Team Points
1. Nebraska, 13, 4-0 ... 319
2. Texas, 14, 4-0 ... 311
3. Arkansas, 1, 4-0 ... 247
4. Michigan State, 6, 4-0 ... 245
5. Georgia, 4-0 ... 165
6. tie Purdue, 3-0-1 ... 139
    Southern Cal, 3-0-1 ... 139
8. Notre Dame, 1, 3-1 ... 128
9. Mississippi State, 4-0 ... 53
10. Florida, 3-1 ... 48
Second 10—11. Alabama; 26; 12.
Duke; 25; 13. Missouri; 21; 14.
Ohio State; 20; 15. West Virginia;
9; 16. Louisiana State; 8; 17. tie
Stanford, Colorado and Kentucky,
5 each; 20. U.C.L.A., 3.
freshmen and two juniors, including potential starters George Moore, Willie Lee and Tim Marting, left the school.
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Swim Champ Dies
Charlie Rudd and Ronnie Coleman are returning starters, but the rest of the picture is hazy for the coach.
Opposition-
OKLAHOMA — Bob Stephens will employ a unique set-up at Norman this winter. He plans to
NEBRASKA — "We've got a chance to get over the 500 mark," coach Joe Cipriano said. "The sophomores are definitely the best shooters on the team."
COLORADO—Only 11 are listed on the Buffalo varsity roster. Sox Walseth, Colorado coach, looks for a representative team to emerge.
go two-platoon, alternating a team of five sophomores and another composed of veterans.
"I want to play the sophomores as a unit because of the confidence they gained on the freshman team together," Stephens said.
Pat Frink, with a 15.1 average, and Chuck Gardner, with an 11.5 average, are the top lettermen. Walseth also counts on three sophomores.
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. - (UPI) Burial services were held Monday for former swimming star Helen Wainwright Spelling, who died Friday at her home in Hampton Bays, N.Y., at the age of 60.
"If we're in the race with a chance to win it, we'll probably use him. He'll have to be a 40-minute player, though, before we'll start him second semester. Otherwise, we won't waste him," Miranda said.
Game time for the home games has been changed from 7:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. to enable a late-coming crowd from other areas to arrive.
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