We're No.1, Jayhawks!
Staff photo by Bill Stephens AL LOPES (LEFT) AND FRED CHANA Happy winners with souvenir
Tension builds as finish nears
By Eric Morgenthaler
A few came early.
Before the sun had set, they made their ways to Allen Field House and chose from the thousands of vacant seats.
They sat. They waited. They cheered for the inter-squad game in progress. Mostly they talked.
About the Colorado-Nebraska upset. About KU's chances in the nationals. About the game to be played in two hours.
IN THE CONCESSION area, a novice operator pushed the wrong button on a popcorn popper. White clouds of smoke billowed into adjoining refreshment booths.
R. O.T.C. officers, acting as ushers for the evening, dusted off their shoes with handkerchiefs.
Two seat-back venders passed their time snapping wet dish-towels at each other.
SLOWLY, people began arriving. Forty-five minutes before the game, lines were forming at the student entrance.
"Show your red card; we'll punch your blue one," the guards mumbled.
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A student on crutches fought crowds through three flights of steps and sunk into a balcony seat.
A group of women in bell-bottom slacks sought seats together,
finally gave up and sat apart.
A skinny bleached blonde asked her date. "Will this game really decide the Big Ten championship?"
THE EXCITEMENT of the game soon engulfed most of the audience. Wild cheers greeted every KU basket; loud boos rang out when a call was made against KU.
As the alma mater began, a middle-aged man made a sad attempt at harmonizing.
"I guess I'm just not as good as I used to be," he said to his wife.
"I guess not," she replied.
Three preschool children, uninterested in the game, bounced on the pole vault nadding
By Steve Russell
The Kansas Jayhawks sat back last night, let out a sigh of relief, and relaxed for the first time in a long while.
Two very young ladies argued
WEATHER
A four-year-old with a red blazer, red vest, and red tie fell asleep in his mother's lap.
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Clear to partly cloudy skies and warmer through tomorrow is the prediction of the U.S. Weather Bureau. Southerly winds are expected, with a low tonight around 40 degrees.
It's over at last and they did it. The Jayhawks won the 1966 Big Eight Basketball Championship by beating the Colorado Buffaloes in their usual mow'em down manner, 85-65.
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EVER SINCE that night at Lincoln when the Jayhawks fell a stride behind the Nebraska Cornhuskers in the Big Eight race, they have been under tremendous pressure, knowing they had to win them all to win the trophy.
As the race progressed the Jayhawks continued to build up momentum, defeating their last seven opponents by an average margin of 28 points. They took their first step toward clinching the crown when they defeated the Huskers here a week ago, 110-73, moving a half game ahead of them.
NEBRASKA came back to tie things up again, but the Jayhawks kept pace, and when the Cornhuskers fell to these same Colorado
Buffs at Boulder last weekend, the Hawks knew they had the title within their grasp.
All they had to do was beat the Buffs, and with the confidence of a championship team, they did what they had to do.
Kansas made it look easy, as it has made winning look easy for some time now.
With its blanket defense, it kept the Buffs contained, and proceeded to shred them to pieces with its well balanced scoring attack.
THE JAYHAWKS, theoretically, ended the game midway through the first half. In a six minute stretch they held Colorado to one basket, forced five errors, poured in 11 points and took a decisive 33-16 lead which was never to be threatened.
By half time the score was 44-25 and the Jayhawks had assured themselves of their first Big Eight title since 1960. The victory gave KU its 32nd conference title and its 19th championship in the history of the Big Eight, which was formerly the Big Six.
THE DEFENSE—what else can be said of it? Powerful Walt Wesley, Al Lopes, and Ron Franz blocked shots and grabbed rebounds. Del
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76th Year, No. 94
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY kansan Serving KU for 76 of its 100 Years
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Tuesday, March 8, 1966
Biggest raid in North
SAIGON —(UPI)— A U.S.military spokesman today disclosed that Air Force and Navy planes carried out the most devastating attack of the war on Communist North Viet Nam. Four planes were lost, presumably shot down by antiaircraft fire.
The raids were flown yesterday against military and communications targets from one end of the country to the other. They came as American and South Vietnamese ground forces wound up one of the most successful campaigns of the war in the South.
THE FOUR PLANES LOST, all from the Air Force, were two F105 Thunderchiefs and two F101 reconnaissance aircraft. All went
down in the panhandle region along the southeast coast.
The U.S. spokesman under security regulations could not reveal the number of sorties flown in Monday's raids but said the individual strikes were the most ever over the North. The previous known high was 240 sorties in a single day.
U. S. Marines and Vietnamese troops today ended Operation Utah which trapped the 36th North Vietnamese Regiment in a valley 330 miles north of Saigon. A spokesman said about 1,100 Communist troops were estimated killed since last Friday. 556 confirmed by body count.
THE MASSIVE AIR strike
Monday enabled U.S. pilots for the first time to hit the strategic Son La petroleum company near Dien Bien Phu.
The Thunderchiefs dodged heavy ground fire to unleash bombs and rockets on the target. They triggered a mushrooming secondary explosion that sent dark red flames into the sky and a smoke cloud rising 4,000 feet. Pilots said hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel stores were destroyed.
Other planes attacked a Surface-to-Air (SAM) missile site 22 miles west of coastal Thanh Hoa. Pilots of F100-Supersabres, F5 Freedom Fighters and F4C Phantoms struck roads leading into the region.
American embassy mobbed
SINGAPORE—(UPI)—A mob of 200 to 300 leftist students stormed the U.S. embassy in Jakarta today, throwing stones and Molotov cocktails, and setting fire to American cars, U.S. officials reported.
The leftists, carrying out the first anti-American demonstration since last fall's abortive Communist-backed coup, pulled down the U.S. flag and ran up an Indonesian flag.
While the leftists were demonstrating at the American Embassy, an angry horde of 8,000 anti-Communist students occupied the Indonesian foreign ministry, burned the building's contents and shouted demands for a new national cabinet.
Gymnasium move to start March 25
The scheduled movement of facilities from old Robinson Gymnasium to the new building on Sunnyside Avenue will begin March 25, according to George B. Smith, vice chancellor of institutional planning.
Most of the movement will be timed to coincide with the midsemester change in physical activity courses and spring recess.
First facilities to be moved to the new $1.45 million physical education plant are men's and women's lockers. The lockers will be disassembled beginning March 25. They will be reassembled in new Robinson, and will be available for use April 11. This is after the spring recess.
Other items of gymnasium equipment, office furniture, and miscellaneous equipment will be removed from the old structure, and installed in the new gymnasium during recess week.
"Physical activity classes for the first half of the semester will be ended and the second sequence will be only slightly interrupted the following week," Dean Smith said.