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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Oct. 9, 1964
Ron Marsh
Bob Skahan
Tom Thompson
Ron Oelschlager
Four On Offensive Platoon
New Starters Ready for Cyclones
By Russ Corbitt (Sports Editor)
Four new offensive starters will take the field for KU at Ames, Iowa, Saturday in the Jayhawks' 44th battle with the Iowa State Cyclones.
Half of the starting backfield will be answering the starting call for the first time this season.
Ron Oelschlager, senior letterman who fractured a wrist in pre-season practice, will return to his starting fullback slot. Oelschlager performed at the slotback position last year, and was considered a good prospect for all-conference honors at fullback this season before his injury.
The Jayhawks will also welcome back senior letterman Ron Marsh, who underwent a knee operation last month. Marsh will start at right guard on the offensive platoon. Tom Thompson, another senior with two football letters, has been moved to the starting inside tackle slot on the offensive team.
CALLING THE signals for the Jayhawks will be sophomore quarterback Bob Skahan, who earned the starting duty by guiding KU 75 yards to a touchdown in the last three minutes of the Wyoming game last Saturday. The Columbus south-paw completed six of seven pass attempts in the drive.
Steve Renko will team with Charles Hess as defensive halfbacks. Renko quarterbacked the Jayhawks as a sophomore last year, and called the signals for the first three games of this season.
"ONE OF the reasons we're going to try Steve in the defensive secondary against Iowa State is because we lack size back there," Coach Jack Mitchell said.
Distance Men Go for No.23
The Jayhawks will have Bill Silverburg, who ran first last week against the University of Southern Illinois, team captain Herald Hadley, John Lawson, Tom Yergovich, Ken Holm, Bill Saul and John Donner.
Jayhawk Coach Bill Easton tags this as "our toughest meet." KU defeated the Chicago team last year. Running for CTC will be Al Carius and Jim Peterson, both Illinois graduates. Carius was the top Big Ten distance man in 1963, and Peterson held the honor in 1962. Peterson was the only CTC man to break into the KU seven-man team last year. He took the third top time at 14:38.
The KU cross country team goes for its second win of the season and its 23rd consecutive victory Saturday when it meets the Chicago Track Club at the Lawrence Country Club course at 10:30 a.m.
"The boys we have playing are good hitters and try hard, but we need more size against the big backs we are running into. Steve will continue to play offensive quarterback too, even though Bob Skahan has earned the starting job against Iowa State on performance."
Another defensive change moved George Harvey, 240 lb. sophomore guard, into Bill Perry's spot at linebacker. John Garber will hold down the other linebacker position as usual.
Jeff Elias, soohomore end who transferred from Miami last October, has fulfilled the transfer layout rule of one year, and will be used in relief of George Hornung at offensive
KU Fencing Team Opens at Wichita
The KU fencing team will participate in its first meet of the season at 10 a.m. Saturday, in Wichita, according to the fencing team captain, Tim Mitchell, Salina senior.
Two squads will represent KU consisting of five men and three women.
right end. The former Salina three-spec ace stands '64".
KU students will have a chance to see the men and women foil squads in action Oct. 31, at the Kansas Open Foil Tournament to be held here. Fencers from Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, North Dakota and Colorado will be here for the meet.
MITCHELL ALSO said Wally Hinshaw, sophomore quarterback, will be doing the punting for KU "in an attempt to get more altitude on the ball," for punt coverage. Mike Johnson, who has been doing the kicking for the Jayhawks, will continue to handle the kickoff and quick kick chores.
Iowa State will attack the KU defense with two fine runners who combine good power and speed—Halfback Tom Vaughn and Fullback
Tony Baker. Vaughn can go wide, off-tackle or up the middle on traps. Their best play is a split-T option to the fullback, a maneuver that hurt the Jayhawks last year in their 17-14 loss to the Cyclones at Lawrence.
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