Grid offense tallies 4 touchdowns
By Ron Hanson
The KU football team marked the beginning of the final week of spring drills Friday with a scrimmage in Memorial Stadium in which the offensive team scored four touchdowns.
The first touchdown for the offensive blues came on an eighty yard run by fullback Mike Harris. Later quarterback Dave Bouda threw a 45-yard scoring pass to Les Steckel who made an outstanding diving catch of the ball in the end zone.
SCORING the third touchdown was end Jeff Elias who took a 20-yard pass from number one quarterback Bob Skahan for the score. The final tally of the day
came on a two-yard plunge by Ron Coates.
Head coach Jack Mitchell said he was pleased with the line play of both teams but he was disappointed with the offensive backfield.
Mitchell said, "With the exception of Skahan, the offensive backfield performance was the biggest disappointment of spring practice to me."
MITCHELL SAID that while Skahan was "absolutely tremendous" the other backs were either running the wrong way, not cutting properly or not looking for daylight.
Oklahoma surged ahead of KU in the race for the Big Eight All-Sports championship last weekend with the conclusion of three conference spring sports.
WITH ONE fell sweep of its three-game series with the Tigers, the Sooners turned a sixteam race for the baseball title into a virtual runaway.
The Sooners' 2-1-3 finish in outdoor track, tennis and golf at the University of Missouri gave them a two point lead over the Jayhawks. The only points remaining are those from baseball, and Oklahoma seemingly has those cinched too, as they took the baseball lead from Missouri last weekend with only one week of play left.
OU cinches All-Sports
The unheralded Sooners, bouncing back from a last-place finish and a 7-20 all games record in 1965, have a magic number of one to lock up the Big Eight baseball championship. That one could be a Sooner victory at Colorado, an Oklahoma State loss to Kansas, an Iowa State loss to Nebraska or a single rainout.
Nebraska, in the third place
The play of both offensive and defensive lines was highly praised by Mitchell.
spot for the All-Sports crown, can't finish ahead of Oklahoma in baseball and Kansas is last in baseball.
had nose guard Ken Wertzberger, ends Bruce Peterson and John Zook, tackles Jerry Barnett and Larry Dercher, and linebackers Mike Sweatman and George Harvey.
In what will be their 24th All-Sports crown in 38 years of competition, the Sooners are leading with 34 points, followed by Kansas with 36 and Nebraska with $ 36 \frac{1}{2} $ Oklahoma State is fourth with $ 46 \frac{1}{2} $ Colorado next with 49 Kansas State sixth with $ 49 \frac{1}{2} $ Iowa State next with $ 52 \frac{1}{2} $ and Missouri last with 56.
The Jayhawks' workout schedule for this week will include only three practice sessions as the team is preparing itself for Saturday's annual intra-squid scrimmage in Memorial Stadium.
Mitchell said, "The defensive group was hitting and pursuing beautifully and the offensive lines had to be good because they had to block darn near every foot of the way for our backs to gain anything."
Whereas in the previous scrimimages this spring only the offensive unit was allowed to score, Saturday's intra-squad scrimimage will take on the pattern of a regular game with two separate teams making efforts for scores.
Soccer's been kicked around KU for years
By David Finch
Foreign sports have been a common sight at KU. The current craze this semester is rugby, but the oldest of all football games, soccer, is a perennial favorite.
First mention of soccer on campus was made in a University Daily Kansan dated March 15, 1922. The article read, "Soccer will be started by the department of physical education with a preliminary meeting in the gymnasium Friday at 4:30 p.m. of all those interested in the game.
"ANY STUDENT IN SCHOOL is eligible to enter. This work may be substituted for regular gymnasium exercise with arrangement with the instructor."
There is a lapse of 25 years before the next mention in the pages of the UDK, but in the May 5. 1947, issue was seen, "A soccer team made up of Latin American students attending the University defeated a similar team from the University of Missouri by a score of 3 to 1 here Saturday."
"Soccer, the granddaddy of all forms of football known today, got its start by strange happenstance in 11th century Britain. English workers digging at an old battle site after the Danes vacated the country in 1042, found a skull presumably belonging to one of their former enemy.
A feature story in the September 19, 1949 issue explained the history of the game to KU students.
"In one of its earliest forms soccer was played between adjacent English communities. Teams often numbering several hundred each would meet midway between the two towns and attempt to kick the bladder to the rival's community.
This team soon saw action, for in the April 24, 1951 issue— "The University of Kansas soccer team defeated Oklahoma A&M Sunday afternoon 5-1, but sidelined their leading fullback in doing so.
"STILL BITTER WITH memories of the Danish occupation, the men began kicking the skull back and forth among themselves. The idea caught on among a group of boys watching the workmen. The boys substituted an inflated cow bladder for a skull, and the game was born.
"Soccer was known merely as 'football' in England until the latter part of the 19th century. An 'unsportsmanlike' run with the ball by a Rugby College student accidentally produced a new form of the sport. Running with the ball soon won recognition and demanded distinction from the original game."
MARCH 13, 1951, SAW this article in the UDK. "More Americans are wanted on the newly organized soccer team which represents 16 nationalities.
KU SAW SOCCER ACTION again this year. In the fall semester the team, captained and managed by Bob Evans, a graduate student from Wales, compiled a 6-1 record. The only defeat was against Ottawa, by 1 goal to 0, but revenge was gained in the return game, when the Jayhawks won 8-0.
FOR THE SCRIMIMAGE, the starting offensive backfield had Skahan, halfbacks J. C. Hixon and Junior Riggins and fullback Harris. The starting offensive line had ends Elias and Dave Waxse, tackles Keith Christensen and Harold Montgomery, guards Larry White and Bill Greene and center Bill Wohlford.
Evans will be back next year, as will most of the team, so soccer will be seen again this fall semester.
The number one defensive line
KU HAS WON the all-sports title for the conference the past two years and although currently second in this year's race, it could easily drop to third because of its last place ranking in baseball.
Oklahoma has won the conference titles in swimming and tennis this year and has had first division finishes in eight of 11 sports, including baseball.
KU's first place finishes this year have come in basketball and indoor track.
6 Daily Kansan Tuesday, May 17, 1966
After a grueling day Allen Palmquist walked into the house and took off his cap.
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