Runners travel to Chicago
KU's Cross-Country team will run in the Central Collegiate Conference meet in Chicago today but without Jim Ryun and Mike Hayes.
Ryun, world record holder in the mile, is sidelined with strained muscles in the lower back.
Hayes, the team's number two man, turned his ankle in a meet earlier and is out indefinitely.
ASSISTANT KU Track Coach John Mitchell reported to the Kansas yesterday that a seven-man team left Thursday afternoon with Head Coach Bob Timmons for Chicago.
Mitchell said Tom Vergovich and Mike Petterson would replace the injured athletes in the five-mile race.
Others making the trip are Curtis Grindal, Mike Kearns, Gene McClain, Mike Sheahon and Dave Mansfield.
About 165 athletes are scheduled to participate. Mitchell said three runners should provide the spectators with excitement.
"Oscar Moore, Southern Illinois University Olympian, is one of the fastest in the event," Mitchell said. "And there are Sam Bair and Pierson Lorandeau, both of Kent State University, who rate as top contenders for the NCAA race."
Injuries have hampered the KU team, but Mitchell thinks the group can overcome them with a concerted effort.
KU to host championships
By GARY MURRELL
More than 400 collegiate track stars from 53 schools will compete in the 28th annual NCAA cross-country championship meet on the KU course Nov. 21.
KU track and cross-country coach Bob Timmons who is the meet director said the first 15 finishers in the college division championship at Wheaton, Ill., Saturday will also qualify to run here.
Timmons expects about half of those entering to participate in the trial run Sunday, Nov. 20.
LAST YEAR 391 athletes entered the event.
Some top individual performers entered are Gerry Lindgren, of Washington State University; Oscar Moore, Southern Illinois University, and Chris McCubbins, Oklahoma State University.
Timmons said the Big Ten and Mid-America conferences are next with five teams. Western Michigan University, a member of Mid-America, won the team title last year and will be back with another strong team according to Timmons.
Leading the conferences in entries is the Big Eight with seven of its schools. The University of Nebraska is the only league member not yet entered.
John Lawson, former KU track star, was the 1965 winner, giving the Jayhawks their fifth NCAA individual cross-country champion since 1950. Herb Semper won the title in 1950 and 1951, Wes
Santee in 1953 and Allen Frame in 1954.
The schools entered are;
Abilene Christian College, Auburn University, Bowling Green University, Brigham Young College, Colorado State University, the University of Colorado, the University of Connecticut, Drake University, Duke University, the University of Florida, Georgetown University, Georgia State University, the University of Houston, the University of Indiana, Iowa State University, the University of Iowa, and Kansas State University.
THE UNIVERSITY of Kansas, Kent State University, Memphis State University, Miami of Ohio, Michigan State University, the University of Minnesota, the University of Missouri, Montana University, Navy, New Mexico University, North Carolina University, Northwestern University,
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Around the Big Eight
By RON HANSON
UDK Sports Editor
KU's Dave Morgan may be leading the Big Eight and the nation in punting with his 44.7 average, but he's just small cheese in the Jayhawk punting department. In fact, if just averages are considered, he ranks no higher than third! Tops in this department is Don Shanklin, who shows a 49.6 mark. Right behind him is J. C. Hixon, owner of a 49.0 average. The catch is, though, that Shanklin has kicked but three times and Hixon only once. Morgan has booted 36 times.
Earlier this year, he broke the Kansas State season rushing mark of 605 yards. Last week, he surpassed the entire 1965 team's rushing total for the season, which rested at 745 yards.
Kelly is the first to admit what Cooks has meant to him. "His blocking is as important to me as
CORNELIUS DAVIS, the Kansas State runner who leads the Big Eight in rushing with his 341 yards, an average of over 105 yards per game, has passed another Wildcat milestone.
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"YOU JUST follow me through those holes, little boy, and you won't get hurt." is the command Colorado's Wilmer Cooks gave the Buffs' scrambling little quarterback, Dan Kelly, when the little Irishman took over the team's controls.
my breathing. I couldn't get along without either," said Kelly.
Opening round pairings for the Big Eight Pre-Season Basketball Tournament in Kansas City Dec. 27-30 have been announced. The Jayhawks will meet Colorado. In other games Iowa State plays Oklahoma State; Nebraska takes on Kansas State; and Missouri plays Oklahoma. KU has won the Christmas tournament two years in a row.
Talk about old home week at last Saturday's KU-Nebraska game, one interesting twist centered around the captains for the game. Representing the Jayhawks for the flip were Sandy Buda and George Harvey. Nebraska's pair were Bob Churchich and Larry Wachtholz.
WHEN BUDA was a high school senior, he captained Creighton (Omaha, Neb.) Prep and Churchich was Omaha North's captain in a game won 7-0 by Prep. In the annual high school all-star game the following August, Buda and Wachholtz co-captained the North Stars.
The Big Eight expense formula for teams in post-season competition provides that for the Gator, Orange, Cotton and Sugar Bowls, the competing Conference team be allocated $75,000.00, plus $25.00 per mile one way via the most direct air route for travel; for the Elbebonnet, Sun and Liberty Bowls, $50,000.00, plus the same $25.00 per mile.
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