Around the Big 8
In 17 of the last 18 seasons, the Big Eight Conference has had at least one team ranked in the final top ten nationally. Oklahoma, KU's foe in last Saturday's game, holds down second place among the nation's colleges, behind Notre Dame. The Sooners have finished first three times (1950-55-56) and second once (1949) in the final rankings.
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"There aren't any bad wins," claims Oklahoma State coach Phil Cutchin. "I can't take credit for the victory because those big boys in the orange shirts did it all," he added after the win over Colorado last week.
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Fair warning has been given: "I think it's kind of a reverse of the last couple of years when we seemed to play real well early in the season then sort of lost our momentum later," says Nebraska's Larry Wachholtz.
"This year, we have sputtered at the beginning, but we're doing things better each week. I think we're coming and one of these days..."
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"I'll tell you one thing," maintains Iowa State's Clay Stapleton. "I think KU is the most dangerous team in the conference. They have the best set of backs, and when it comes to quickness, they just scare me to death."
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"I'm happier than I have ever been before," enthused Oklahoma's Jim Riley after the Sooners' 18-9 victory over Texas. "Texas is a tough team. We're tough too. We played a bunch of winners, but we're winners, too, and we won today."
I wonder what he had to say about the KU game.
'66-'67 basketball begins
Has long history at KU
By RON HANSON
UDK Sports Editor
Kansas University is noted for a myriad of great accomplishments, students, faculty members and athletes over its first hundred years, but perhaps the most memorable facet of the school, for sports-minded persons at least, has been a tradition of great basketball teams, coaches and players.
With football just underway, it may be a little premature to talk of basketball, but, then, at KU, basketball has always been a topic of discussion no matter what the season.
The KU basketball story starts at the invention of the game. The originator of the game of basketball, Dr. James Naismith, was the basketball coach at KU from 1898 to 1907. Just one year after he invented the game, Naismith began his coaching stint at KU. It is interesting that he was the only Jayhawk basketball coach ever to have a career losing record.
AFTER NAISMITH retired he was replaced by a man often regarded as the greatest basketball coach in the history of college basketball, Dr. Forrest C. (Phog) Allen. In his 39-year career as head coach, Allen won more games than any other coach in college basketball. His teams won 24 league championships, two Helms National championships and one NCAA national title.
Under Allen, the Jayhawks went to the NCAA regional tournament four times and to the national tournament three. Each year the Jayhawks made the national tourney, they played in the championship game, losing in 1940 and 1953 but winning in 1952.
In the Olympic year of 1952, the KU basketball team had a season record of 28-3. In the regional and national tournament of that year, the Jayhawks won all four games with an average
victory margin of just under 20 points. In the final 1952 game, against St. John's, KU won 80-63, and its team was selected to represent the United States in the Olympics.
WHEN ALLEN retired after the 1956 season, the University built a fieldhouse bearing his name. It is the second largest indoor arena in the nation.
Allen, retired for age, was succeeded as coach in 1957 by one of his assistants, Dick Harp. Under Harp, the Jayhawks twice won the Big Eight conference title and once the Midwest regional championship.
In 1957, after winning the regional tournament, the Jayhawks played what is considered to be the most thrilling NCAA national championship game ever played. With a team centered around one of the greatest superstars in college basketball history, Wilt Chamberlain, KU's team lost the national title game to North Carolina in three overtime periods. It has been said of the KU and North Carolina teams of that year that no two teams had ever been so evenly matched.
FROM 1960 until last year, KU basketball fortunes declined a bit as the Jayhawks became a "soso" team in the Big Eight. Harp retired in 1964 and was replaced by present coach Ted Owens. In Owens' two years as head coach, the Jayhawks have revived tradition and had a 42-12 record. Last season KU won the Big Eight and just missed the regional title, losing to Texas Western by one point in the title game. Coaches do not play basketball, so no matter how inspirational or intelligent a mentor may be, he must have the good and the great players. KU basketball has had plenty of these. Over the years the Jayhawks have had no less than 20 players who have received all-America recognition. Names of some of the great ones
who played in the early days of the game are faintly familiar to most followers of basketball. They include: Paul Endacott, Ralph (Lefty) Sproull, Fred Pralle, Ray Ebling, Howard Engleman, Charlie Black, Ralph Miller and Ray Evans.
OF MORE recent times, Clyde Lovellette, B. H. Born, Chamberlain, Bill Bridges, and Walt Wesley have distinguished themselves as all-Americas from KU. Lovellette, Born and Chamberlain were also selected the most valuable player in the NCAA tournament they played. No other university can boast of as many most valuable players.
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6 Daily Kansan Tuesday, October 18, 1966
Big Eight standings
CONFERENCE
| | W | L | PF | PA |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Nebraska | 2 | 0 | 33 | 16 |
| Oklahoma | 2 | 0 | 68 | 11 |
| Missouri | 2 | 0 | 34 | 0 |
| Colorado | 2 | 1 | 61 | 32 |
| Oklahoma State | 1 | 1 | 11 | 17 |
| Iowa State | 1 | 3 | 62 | 94 |
| Kansas | 0 | 2 | 7 | 59 |
| Kansas State | 0 | 3 | 10 | 58 |
ALL GAMES
W L PF PA
Nebraska 5 0 106 36
Oklahoma 4 0 103 20
Missouri 4 1 94 38
Colorado 3 2 78 63
Oklahoma State 1 3 30 66
Iowa State 1 4 72 114
Kansas 2 3 65 109
Kansas State 0 5 24 107
Next Saturday's Schedule:
Kansas at Oklahoma State
Nebraska at Colorado
Iowa State at Missouri
Notre Dame at Oklahoma
Kansas State at Cincinnati
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