Big Eight Christmas Conference
By JERRY KLEIN
Tickets go on sale Monday
Mail orders for tickets to the 21st annual Big Eight pre-season basketball tournament, Dec. 27-30, at Kansas City Municipal Auditorium will be accepted beginning Monday.
The tournament, which attracts more than 50,000 fans from the six-state area comprising the conference, matches all Big Eight teams in a four day. 12-game tipoff to the regular season.
In addition, more than 3,000 high school players and coaches participate in a clinic conducted by the conference basketball coaches Thursday morning, Dec. 29.
Many Big Eight Gridders are moving toward all-time records or spots on the various career honor rolls as the football season draws to a close.
Around the Big 8
By RON HANSON
Two quarterbacks are setting the pace, with Iowa State's Tim Van Galder as the ring leader. He needs only 142 aerial yards in his last two games to break the reign of Missouri's Paul Christman as the best of Big Eight passers with 3,129 career yards.
VAN GALDER HAS picked up his 2,998 by completing 223 of his record 528 attempts. He needs to complete only eight more to erase the mark of Colorado's former great Gale Weidner. Van Galder shows 3,248 total yardage, including 1,284 this year—the best in the Conference.
Nebraska's Bob Churchich, near a new career passing accuracy record, is also a quarterback close to the 3,000 yard breaking point. He is just 232 yards short of the 3,000 figure. He has hit .535 per cent of his passes to lead the Big Eight in this department. The record of .537 per cent is held by KU's Ralph Miller.
CORNELIUS DAVIS, the speedy Kansas State halfback, is almost a certainty to win the Big Eight rushing title and possibly could end up on the list of the top all-time conference rushers. He is 51 yards away from 1,000 yards for the year. His total includes five games in which he has rushed for more than 100 yards. If Davis makes the 1,000 circle, he will become only the ninth to do it, and the first to do it in 10 games since Jayhawk Gale Sayers in 1962.
Missouri's Charlie Brown, making a late-season surge even though having no chance of defending his rushing title, has a career total of 1,892 yards, just 108 away from becoming the 14th player in Conference history to gain over 2,000 career yards. In his race to become the all-time Missouri leader, Brown finds himself 143 yards short of Bob Steuber's 2,034 with one game to go.
On the defensive side, Nebraska's Larry Wachholtz is just one short of tying the seasonal-pass-interception record of eight held by KU's John Konek.
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OPENING ROUND pairings match Oklahoma State against Iowa State and Nebraska versus Kansas State, Tuesday, Dec. 27. Missouri plays Oklahoma and Kansas meets Colorado, Wednesday, Dec. 28.
Semi-finals will be played Thursday, Dec. 29, and finals Friday, Dec. 30.
Tickets are priced at $2, $3, $4 and $5 with priority in location given to those ordering for all four nights of competition.
Checks are to be made payable and sent to the Municipal Auditorium, Kansas City, with either a self-addressed stamped envelope or 25 cents mailing charges.
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Daily Kansan
Friday. November 18, 1966
Friday, Nov. 25th, 8:30 p.m.
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