Imported Huskers to vie with KU
By JERRY KLEIN Assistant Sports Editor
In world economics,it's bad business to import more than you export.
But Bob Devaney, Nebraska coach, has capitalized on making
Big Eight run is set Saturday
The Big Eight cross country championship will be decided this Saturday on Iowa State's three-mile course. The meet starts at 11 a.m.
The meet at Ames, Ia., is the 35th running of the championships, with KU holding 17 of the team titles, followed by K-State with seven. Oklahoma owns five, Iowa State two, and Oklahoma State, Colorado and Nebraska one each.
that unfavorable balance favorable.
Returning from last year's top 15 finishers are: Charles Harper (K-State), 14:23; Conrad Nightingale (K-State), 14:32; Tom Yergovich (KU), 14:38; Mike Tarry (K-State), 14:41; Wes Dutton (K-State), 14:43; Jeff Berven (Colorado), 14:46; Ray Smith (Oklahoma State), 14:57; and Chris McCubbins (Oklahoma State), 14:58.
SOME OF THE outstanding sophomores running in the meet include: Mike Kearns and Mike Peterson (KU), Ken Gallagher and Mike Houck (ISU), Skip Scholz (K-State), Tom Laubert (OSU), Craig Runyan (CU), Don Bischoff (NU) and Bill Blewett (OU).
Representing KU at the meet will be Tom Yergovich, Mike Hayes, Curtis Grindal, Mike Kearns, Larry Woelk, Mike Shea-hon and Mike Petterson.
Jim Ryum, KU's holder of two world's records and one American mark, will not participate in the contest due to a recurring back injury.
A look at his top two teams on the offensive and defensive depth charts will prove this. Devaney and his assistants have imported 24 of 44 players from out-of-state.
TOM YERGOVICH, KU's team captain, is the leading returnee from last year's second place team.
K-State won the meet last year and is favored to win again this year.
McCubbins of OSU, who was fifth in the NCAA cross country meet last year, is picked to win the individual crown. Last year it was won by KU's John Lawson.
THE THREE-MILE cross country conference record was set at 13:55.2 by OSU's Miles Eisenman in 1959. That was on a flat course, however, and should not be seriously threatened on the hilly ISU course.
The 1965 team standings at the Big Eight meet were: K-State-34, KU-58, OSU-86, CU-76, MU-118, ISU-149, NU-216 and OU-222.
KU has won the cross country event 16 of the last 19 years. At one time, KU won 13 straight crowns before OSU broke the streak in 1960.
NEW YORK —(UPI) The United States is the rubbish leader of the world, with the average American disposing of 1,000 pounds of trash a year, the Keeg America Beautiful, Inc., reports.
RUBBISH LEADER
Other countries are catching up, though, with Canada generating 1.000 pounds of rubbish per capita and India 200 pounds.
Still, this deviation from the norm has kept Devaney on top. His nine-year lifetime coaching record of 80 wins, 16 losses and five ties rates him, in percentage, as the best in the nation.
IN CONTRAST, Jack Mitchell, KU coach, has stayed close to the rules of economics. His depth chart shows that he chose 29 of his 44 players from Kansas.
More than 46,000 people, the largest crowd in Memorial Stadium, are expected here Saturday to watch Devaney's unbeaten and sixth-ranked dynasty play KU in the 54th Homecoming game. Kickoff is scheduled for 1:30 p.m.
DEVANEY'S first five years at Wyoming produced a record of 35-10-5, including a Sun Bowl victory over Hardin-Simmons in 1958.
After serving as an assistant coach at Michigan, he moved to Nebraska in 1961. Devaney teams have won 45 and lost only six games at Lincoln and they have won two of four bowl games.
Representatives of the Sugar and Orange Bowl watched last weekend as NU defeated Missouri, 35-0. Two committeemen from the Cotton Bowl will observe tomorrow.
FOR DEVANEY, the best strategy has been a mighty defense. If you watch the NU defensive players closely, they look as though they enjoy playing defense. They pursue. They hit hard. They are agile and big.
Their defense consists of a fiveman front, four linebackers and
two safeties. The front five includes Jerry Patton and Langston Coleman, ends; Jim McCord and Carel Stith, tackles; and Wayne Meylan, middle guard.
This mammoth group, which has allowed only 79.6 yards rushing per game, averages 6-2, 240 pounds per man. Patton is 6-1, 234; Coleman, 6-3, 197; McCord, 6-2, 251; Meylan, 6-1, 239; and Stith, 6-5, 261.
THE DEFENSE has given up 7.9 points per game.
On the other hand, the KU offense has averaged 10.7 points, 154.1 yards rushing and 70 yards passing.
During the past week, Mitchell has shifted its offensive backfield in hope of generating a more potent attack. Bill Fenton, who has not played this season because of a foot injury, will start at quarterback in place of Bob Douglass, who moves to fullback.
"FENTON'S FOOT is better," Mitchell said yesterday.
"The ground has been hard, and he really hasn't pushed the foot, either in going or stopping."
The 5-9,155-pound senior completed 35 of 104 passes including two touchdowns last season.
DURING yesterday's practice, the Jayhawkers worked on their kicking. "They're ready," Mitchell said.
Judging from past Homecoming games, KU has not been too ready. They have won 19, lost 30 and tied four.
Nebraska will be making its 25th appearance at a KU Homecoming. The Cornhuskers have won 20 times. And if Devaney's nation plays true to form, Kansas will be in. For a rough afternoon.
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Daily Kansan Friday, November 4, 1966