Toe ailment takes another KU back
The mental part of football, coaches say, is more important than the physical since the biggest thing is possessing the ability to do the right thing at the right time.
With only two days remaining before the Arizona game, however, Kansas coach Jack Mitchell is probably thinking just the opposite. After yesterday's practice session, a dissatisfied Mitchell said, "We didn't look too good...seemed slow and sluggish. We just need a lot of work."
AT THE SAME TIME. Mitchell also announced halfback Bill Fenton will be out the remainder of the season with a broken toe. The Lawrence senior first injured his toe in last season's Missouri game, then suffered a sprain during Monday's practice.
"It's the same injury as (Bob) Skahan s." Mitchell explained,
referring to his injured quarterback who is suffering from a severe sprin below the instep.
In other lineup changes, senior Richard Bacon will shift from fullback to right tackle. "We need more speed at this position and Bacon has been doing a good blocking job," Mitchell said.
ROGER RAWLINGS, who replaced the injured Harold Montgomery earlier in the week, will move to second team left tackle behind 265-pound Keith Christensen.
Halfback Bill Lynch, junior from Hutchinson, has been promoted to the starting left corner back position replacing sophomore Dave Morgan who has a charley-horse in his right leg.
KU co-captains for Saturday's game at Arizona stadium starting at 8 p.m. are Bill Perry, left guard, and George Harvey, linebacker.
Big Eight opening day attendance records were set Saturday when five games attracted 231,574 fans-an average of 46,315.
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Nebraska drew 60,794 against Texas Christian in Lincoln. Neb. It was the second largest crowd to watch an intercollegiate game last weekend.
Next in line was Oklahoma with 51,100; Missouri with 48,500; Colorado with 39,000; and Kansas with 32,000. Kansas State, Iowa State and Oklahoma State played away from home.
"I mean, it always seemed like when we got the ball, it would be three downs and punt. I never felt like we would make a first down. But today, we MOVED the ball."
MRS. JEAN MITCHELL, wife of KU's head coach, said after the Texas Tech game, "You know, last year I just hated to go to the games. I had no confidence at all.
(No doubt the coach's wife knew what she was talking about. KU is presently leading the Big Eight in all offensive categories except scoring. On the ground, KU gained 254 yards; in the air, 152 yards for a total offense of 406 yards in 73 attempts.)
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TWO BIG 8 football teams—Kansas State and Iowa State—might have thought the nationwide airline strike was still unsettled Friday. Not so. Instead, both teams were victims of late airplane departures and later arrivals.
K-State, planning to leave at 8 a.m. for the East, didn't become airborne until more than 12 hours later. After arriving in Newark, N.J., at 2:30 a.m., they traveled two hours by bus to West Point, N.Y.
At ISU, the wait wasn't so long—the Cyclones sat in the airport only three hours.
DAILY sports KANSAN
Young, talented group leads basketball team
Young but talented the 1966-67 Jayhawk basketball team will face its roughest season in years, beginning Dec. 1, Ted Owens, head basketball coach, said yesterday.
Three of the regular starters from last year's Big Eight champion (28-2) squad have graduated Owens said.
HE expressed confidence in last year's sophomores and juniors to fill the void left by the graduation of Al Lopes, Walt Wesley and Delvy Lewis.
Fall track squad full of youth, too
"Right now we are young, but I think we have fine physical ability," he said. "Only time will tell whether these boys can win."
OWENS said the two starters returning from last year's squad are Ron Franz and JoJo White. Franz, a 6-7 senior from Kansas City, is set to fill the position vacated by Lopes while White, who stands 6-3 and is a sophomore from St. Louis, will remain at his guard post.
In all there are five returning lettermen, Owens said. They are Rodger Bohnenstiehl, 6-6 junior, Collinsville, Ill., who plays either forward or center, Pat Davis, 6-2 senior guard, Topeka, and Bob Wilson, 6-7 senior forward, St. Louis.
"MUCH of our success depends upon rapid development of the sophomore squad," Owens continued. "I can see a winning team potentially, provided the sophomores come through."
Owens expressed great hopes for the following sophomore: Howard Arndt, 6-7 forward from Republic, Mo.; Jaye Ediger, 6-5 guard, Hutchinson; Phil Harmon, 6-4 guard, Tulsa, Okla.; Bruce Sloan, 6-5 guard, Kansas City, Mo.; Rich Thomas, 6-2 guard, Dietierich, Ill.; and Vernon Vanoy, 6-8 center, Kansas City, Mo.
This year's cross country team has the potential to be a top contender for the Big Eight crown, according to Coach Bob Timmons.
Last year Kansas State was the cross country conference champion, and KU was runner-up.
The only senior on the squad, Tom Yergovich, will be this year's team captain. Team members returning from last year's squad are: Curt Grindal, Mike Hays, Dave Mansfield, Ken Reeder and Allen Russell.
NEWCOMERS TO the varsity squad this year will be: Perry Britt, Mike Kearns, Mike Peterson, Dave Pitts, Ray Poteet, Jim Ryun, Mike Sheahon and Larry Woelk.
The first meet is scheduled for Saturday, October 1, at the Oklahoma State Jamboree in Stillwater.
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Thursday, September 22, 1966
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