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Jayhawks Strike Early, Late for 15-14 Victory
University Daily Kansan
By Russ Corbitt (Sports Editor)
If there were any suicides committed in Kansas, Oklahoma or Missouri Saturday, the odds are fairly high that the victims may have been some of the 44,000 spectators at the KU-Oklahoma game who arrived late or left early.
KU recorded its first victory over the Sooners at Memorial Stadium since 1946 by scoring on the first and last plays of the game for a 15-14 edge.
The winning play will remain lodged for some time in the memories of the capacity crowd, either with delight or disappointment.
WITH ONLY a few seconds remaining in the game, and the Jayhawks trailing, 14-7, a fight broke out on the east sideline after Sooner Rick McCurdy interfered with Gale Savers on a pass pattern.
After a brief melee of helmet swinging, shouting and shoving, order was restored and the Jayhawks were presented with the ball on the OU 26 with eight seconds remaining.
out to halfback Dave Crandall, who ran wide to the left, stopped and threw across the field to Skahan on the 30. As time ran out, the sophomore quarterback cut diagonally across the field, shook off a few Sooner defenders, and barely got his foot in the end zone before going out of bounds.
With no time remaining, Coach Jack Mitchell and the Jayhawks elected to go for the two-point win rather than the kick for the tie. On a reverse going from Quarterback Sid Micek to Crandall to Mike Johnson, the junior halfback swept around right end and edged into the other corner of the end zone for the two points that gave favored OU its third defeat in four starts.
Quarterback Bob Skahan pitched
THE JAYHAWKS' only other points came on Gale Sayers' 93-yard touchdown return of the opening kickoff, and the extra point kick by Gary Duff.
Several hundred spectators had not yet taken their seats when the KU All-American took the boot on his own seven-yard line, cut through the majority of the Oklahoma defenders, eluded two more at his 40, shook off a diving tackle attempt at the five, and pranced into the end zone.
Oklahoma scored its 14 points in the second quarter, and dominated all the offensive statistics except the final score. The Sooners had 20 first downs to KU's 11, 255 yards rushing to 101, and 97 yards passing to 91.
IN A RIOTOUS KU dressing room after the game, Mitchell said he thought the fight before the final play possibly inspired his team to the victory.
"That could have been what keyed them up to make that finish," the KU coach said. "And if it took a fight to do this, who's opposed to fighting?"
Larrabee Wins First To Boost U.S. Hopes
TOKYO—(UPI)—Mike Larrabee, a 30-year-old mathematics teacher who almost missed the Olympics because of injuries, churned from behind today to win the 400 meter dash and Edith McGuire of Atlanta scored a record victory in the women's 200 meters to give the United States a total of 31 gold medals for the games.
But Mitchell added that he thought the game was rough but not dirty. "I don't think in all my years I have ever seen a game as viciously played as this one. The way everybody hit and then kept on hitting was really something."
Last Friday's intramural football centered around the B division, with Phi Gamma Delta overcoming the Delta Upsilon No. 2 team, 14-6, and ROWB downing MBA No. 2, 6-0. Alpha Chi Sigma and JRP batted down to a 6-6 tie, with Alpha Chg getting the win in sudden death.
Close Games In IM Action
The Phi Gams' Dave Norris is the sparkplug of the team. His passes to John Hondros and Rick Hyter accounted for the TD's and his throws to Gary Gradinger and Don Walsh were good for the conversions. Quarterback Steve Walsh connected with Rick Solum for the DU's only score of the game.
The Alpha Chi Sigma-JRP tie was decided in a sudden death play-off, as the Alpha Chi men charged ahead 31½ vards to JRP's seven.
In today's A team action Lambda Chi Alpha will meet Sigma Nu, Sigma Chi will take on Phi Gamma Delta, and Spectre will take on the Misits.
In the B league Beta Theta Pii battles the Phi Kappa Phi's, Delta Sigma Phi meets the Triangles, and Stephenson plays Jolliffe.
The U.S. won a silver medal in the equestrian team event but suffered a sharp setback in the 1,500 meter run when Tom O'Hara and schoolboy Jim Ryun of Wichita failed to qualify for the final, leaving only Dyrol Burleson of Cottage Grove, Ore., to carry American hopes.
RUSSIA BROUGHT its gold medal total to 16 by winning the women's discus, men's individual epe fencing and welterweight Greece-Roman wrestling and collected five lesser medals for a total of 48 gold, silver and bronze. The U.S. leading total jumped to 71 medals overall.
Larrabee, who lives in Fillmore, Calif., charged up from third place in the stretch to score by a yard over Yale student Wendell Mottley of Trinidad in 46.1 seconds.
Miss McGuire, silver medalist in the 100 meters, led all the way in the 200 and hit the tape in 23 seconds to slash two-tenths off the Olympic mark set in 1960 by another Tennessee State star, Wilma Rudolph.
Distance Runners Walk Over Drake
The KU distance men ran over Drake Saturday, 17-38, as the Jayhawks nabbed the first four and the seventh place in the cross country meet at Des Moines.
John Lawson and Bill Silverburg topped the old course record of 19:55.8 set by Larry Kramer of Iowa three years ago. Lawson's time was 19:45.5 and Silverburg's was 19:47. Teammates Tom Yergovich and Herald Hadley took the third and fourth slots, with Lowell Paul's 20:58 bringing him in seventh.
This was KU's third win of the season and 23rd consecutive victory
The last-second touchdown play was not executed as it was planned. Mitchell said. Skahan was supposed to take the lateral from Crandall and then throw to one of his receivers downfield. But, seeing no open receivers, Skahan improvised and earned the hero medal.
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THE KU DEFENSE had to resort to gang tackling to stop the hard-running OU backs, led by fullback Jim Grisham and halfback Lance Rentzel. KU linemen George Harvey, Brian Schweda and Bill Walters, and defensive backs Gary Duff and Charles Hess all were in the double figures in the assisted tackles department. Harley Catlin, John Garber and Bob Robben also made their presence known to the Sooner ball carriers.
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Grisham, with 104 yards, and Rentzel with 61, were the game's leading rushers. Sayers had 36 yards on 13 carries to lead the Jayhawks. Skahan continued to demonstrate his passing accuracy with five completions in eight attempts.
The win may have been costly for KU in the injury department. Steve Renko, playing as a defensive back, suffered a shoulder dislocation in the opening minutes of the game, and may be lost for the remainder of the season.
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