Sunflower classic starts Friday; KU to begin with Florida State
By JERRY KLEIN
KU's basketball team is favored to win its second successive Sunflower Classic when the Jayhawks open play against Florida State Friday at Ahearn Fieldhouse in Manhattan.
Tipoff is scheduled for 7:05 p.m. Kansas State meets Baylor in the second game.
The teams switch sites the following night and return here so Allen Field House. In the first game at 7:05 p.m. Saturday, K-State meets Florida State. The Jayhawks play Baylor in the nightcap.
Coach Ted Owens said yesterday he will open with the same lineup which started against Ohio State. The team's top two scorers, Rodger Bohnenstiehl (6-6) and Ron Franz (6-7) will be the forwards. In three games, Bohnenstiehl has averaged 21.3 points and Franz 18.7. Franz has pulled down 30 rebounds, Bohnenstiehl 24.
KU. WHICH WON last year's classic by defeating Maryland and St. John's, enters action with a record of 3-0. They have defeat d Arkansas, 73-57; Xavier (Ohio), 105-22, and Ohio State, 64-70.
Vernon Vanoy (6-8) will be the pivot with Phil Harmon (6-4) and Jo-Jo White (6-3) in the back-court. White has averaged 13.3 points, and scored a career high of 23 against Ohio State.
OWENS HAS NOT put the Jayhawks through much contact work this week. Instead, he has concentrated on "ironing out the
offensive and defensive problems."
Owens expects Florida State University to provide the Jayhawks with the most oposition.
FSU, considered one of the top teams in the Southeastern Conference, is undefeated under coach Hugh Durham, who succeeded the late Bud Kennedy.
SO FAR, THE Seminoles have defeated Valdosta, 62-58, and Rice, 76-72.
Durham plans to start Bill Glenn and Dave Ross, both 6-4,
at forwards with Dick Danford
(6-8) at center. Guards will be Ian Morrison (6-1), a transfer from North Carolina, and Bill Stewart (6-1).
The Sunflower Classic is the first of four doubleheaders and tournaments Florida State plays in December.
BAYLOR, Southwest Conference member, has defeated Arlington State, 104-74, and Centenary. 91-73.
Coached by Bill Meneefee, the Bears will open with guarus Randy Thompson (5-10) and Jim Turner (6-2). Darrrell Hardy (6-7) will be at center with Steve
Bartels (6-6) and Ed Thorpe (5-5) in the front court.
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COACH TEX WINTER said Galen Frick (6-5) and Earl Seyfert (6-7) are the forwards with Steve Honeycutt and Dennis Berkholtz, both 6-1, starting in the backcourt.
K-State lost its opener to Minnesota, 60-59, and then defeated Oregon, 52-45. Although Roy Smith (6-10) has been suffering from a charleyhorse, he will start at center.
In the past nine years, the 18 Sunflower Classic doubleheaders have attracted 203,700 fans. Despite a smaller gymnasium, K-State has averaged 12,378 per game compared with KU's 10,526.
6 Daily Kansan Thursday, December 8, 1966
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Big 8 grid closes mark-setting year
KANSAS CITY, Mo—(UPI)— The 1966 Big Eight football season will go down as the record-breakingest and passingest-ever year in history, it was revealed today when the conference released the final official statistics.
In all, 24 team and individual records were either broken or tied. Most were in the passing department.
The biggest individual record-breakers were Iowa State's amazing Tim Van Galder to Eppie Barney passing battery.
VAN GALDER ended his career with nine league passing
marks, most attempts season (295)
and career (579), most completions game (25), season (124), and career (260), most yards season (1,645) and career (3.455) and most total offense game (763) and 1 season (1,749).
Barney, the two time all-conference end, closed his career with three receiving marks: single game (11), season '55) and career (97).
Leading the team record performances was Oklahoma's passing proficiency, connecting on a record 55.9 per cent (85 of 152).
Hoopsters play 19 games
By GARY MURRELL
Nineteen games highlighted KU intramural basketball action Wednesday at new Robinson Gymnasium.
Delta Upsilon needed all of Jay Combs' 17 points to defeat Theta Chi, 34-31, in the first of five Fraternity "B" games.
In the final Independent "A" contest, the Blackhawks swamped Psychology, 51-27. Whit Vinzent tallied 16 for the Blackhawks, backed up by Mike Swofford who added 10. Howard Hruby led Psychology with eight.
Mark Powers and Robert Lynn scored 11 and 10 points, respectively, for Theta Chi.
Big Eight Standings
Naval ROTC pulled out a 36-34 victory over D. Functions in an Independent "A" game.
CONFERENCE GAMES
Bill Morton ladd Jolliffe to an easy 58-29 decision over Stephenson Hall by scoring 17 points. Les Blackard and Darian Meyer each added 10 points for the winners, while Bill Bundle scored 11 for the losers.
| | W | L | T | Pts | Op |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Nebraska | 6 | 1 | 0 | 143 | 64 |
| Colorado | 5 | 2 | 0 | 165 | 92 |
| Missouri | 4 | 2 | 1 | 61 | 78 |
| Oklahoma State | 4 | 2 | 1 | 77 | 79 |
| Oklahoma State | 4 | 3 | 0 | 157 | 75 |
| Iowa State | 2 | 3 | 2 | 116 | 130 |
| Kansas | 0 | 6 | 1 | 48 | 138 |
| Kansas State | 0 | 6 | 1 | 38 | 149 |
Battenfeld, with Allen Hermesch scoring 11, outscored Grace Pearson. 31-23.
Bill Vischer took scoring bonors for Kappa Sigma with 20 points as the Kappa Sig's run by a fired up Triangle team, 36-29.
Beta Theta Pi had little trouble burying Delta Sigma Phi, 78-18, as John Gill pumped in 20 points to lead the Beta attack. Ward Coleman, George Jackson and David Wood each contributed 12.
In addition, John Keller and Stan Pippin scored 10 points apiece.
Larry Savev tallied 10 in a losing cause as McCollum 6 fell to Law 5's balanced attack, 48-26. Fred Slicken scored eight for Laws.
Sid Kanter pumped in 16 to assist Beta Tau to a 35-19 victory over McCollum.
K. C. Kids easily defeated the Woolies, 45-23. Al Slater scored 19 points for the winners.
Templin 3 defeated Law 3 by a score of 41-28. John Stahl and Dick Welslinner each scored eight for Templin, and Harold Haun led the Laws with nine.
Warren Walters fired in 21 points to lead Pi Kappa Alpha in a comfortable 44-17 stomping of Sigma Chi in Fraternity "C" action.
Bob Mall with 10 points led Naval ROTC to a 28-22 victory over McCollum 2. Mel Sheesmith scored 14 points for McCollum.
Paul Dinovitz added 16 points for PiKA.
Alpha KappaLambda had trouble at first but came on strong to defeat Phi Kappa Psi 3, 26-23. Dick Mikesik scored 11 points for AKL.
Two other games resulted in Phi Kappa Psi winning 35-25 over Sigma Alpha Epsilon, and Sigma Chi edging Delta Tau Delta, 32-30.
In one of six Independent "C" contests McColum C escaped a rally by Ellsworth 7 and won 20-18.
In other Fraternity "C" games, Theta Chi beat Delta Upsilon 3 22-17, and Tau Kappa Epsilon routed the Betas, 30-9.
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