Around the Big 8
By ROBERT STEVENS
Freshman football kicked off this weekend when the Colorado "Baby Bison" took on the McCook Junior College Team in Boulder on Friday night.
The KU frosh team does not start the season's play until Monday, Oct. 17, when they face the Oklahoma team at Norman. The two senior teams clash the preceding Saturday on the KU gridiron.
Other KU games in the freshman circuit include Oct. 28 at Kansas State, and home clashes with Nebraska on Nov. 4 and Missouri on Nov. 11.
KU's linebacker George Harvey has a secret when it comes to getting across the line so quickly from his backfield position.
"I watch the ball and don't listen to the quarterback's count," Harvey said. "When I see the center put the pressure on the football with his fingers, I get set and then go as soon as I see the ball move."
At some institutions, jersey numbers are retired. But, at Oklahoma State, they've made No.32 into the "workhorse shirt" and it appears to be on the back of a guy again who is ready to carry on the tradition.
It has passed down from all-Big Eight fullback Walt Garrison to Tommy Boone, regarded as the Cowboy's top power running prospect.
In succession, that number has been worn by Earl Lunsford, Larry Rundle, Jim Dillard, Garrison, and now the 204-pound Boone. Lunsford, Garrison, and Dillard rank second, third, and fourth on the all time Oklahoma State rushing tables, trailing only Bob Fenimore.
The site of the 1966 Big Eight Conference cross country championships has been changed to Iowa State University, Wayne Duke, executive director of the Big Eight, has announced.
The meet, scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 5, was originally to be held at the University of Missouri; however, a conflict in date with the Missouri Homecoming and the unavailability of housing in Columbia for cross-country competitors forced the change. Iowa State has an open football date on Nov. 5.
Kansas State is the defending champion and returns four of its top five performers from last year, including Conrad Nightingale and Charles Harper. Chief challenger this year is expected to be KU, led by Jim Ryun, world record holder in the 880 and mile, as well as American standard bearer for two miles.
Again this year, the distance for the Big Eight race will be three miles.
KU's cross-country team scored 60 points to finish third in its opening meet at the Oklahoma State Jamboree Saturday.
KU harriers take third
Abilene Christian won the meet with 57 points followed by defending champion New Mexico, 59; Oklahoma State, 73; Oklahoma Baptist, 98; and Oklahoma Christian with 155 points.
George Scott of New Mexico,
last year's winner, won the four mile race in 19:18.3.
Jim Ryun led all Jayhawkers and finished seventh in 20:26; Captain Tom Yergovich, ninth; 20:32; Mike Hayes, eleventh; 20:36; Curtis Grindal, sixteenth; 20:50; Mike Kearns, seventeenth; 20:54; Larry Woelk, twentieth; 21:24; and Rav Potette, thirtieth, in 22:31.
"I was real pleased with the team's performance. Although we
still have several injuries, I think we will come back," Timmons said, referring to four injured runners who did not compete.
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