New coaches, graduation losses
Big Eight faces big change
By MIKE WALKER
Stunned by the death of Head Coach Jim Mackenzie, Oklahoma's football squad now looks toward practice with a new head coach. Charles F. Fairbanks.
Oklahoma
BUT THE ADJUSTMENT will not be a great one. Fairbanks was offensive coach at Oklahoma under Mackenzie, and was considered the top man in line for the position upon Mackenzie's death.
Oklahoma's goal for spring practice is to evaluate and to decide placement of personnel. A big problem will be replacing Ben Hart. All-Big Eight split end. Oklahoma's passing game is now termed "weak." The coaches hope to improve the passing game to a status where the Sooners can throw the ball more.
TOM STIDHEM, who led the Big Eight in punting, was lost to graduation. Finding a kicker for the team is a major point of spring drills at OU. The defense will concentrate on improving its ability to stop the running attack.
The Sooners lost six men from the defensive squad: Bobby Robinson, end, Jim Riley, tackle, Rodney Crosswhite, back, and Rickey Burgess and Eugene Ross, linebackers.
From the offensive platoon, Oklahoma will do without the services of Ed-Hall, All-Big Eight tackle, Ron Winfrey, guard, Mark Kosmos, guard, Vernon Burkett, guard, and Ben Hart, All-Big Eight. It appears that the main task will be to replace these starters, but OU retains its quality backfield from last year.
Iowa State
The graduation of quarterback Tim Van Galder will force Iowa State to improve its running game.
ISU STRAYED last year from the basic running game of past years because of Van Galder's passing ability.
Head Coach Clay Stapleton said, "It is now our intention to
stress the running game as we used to do and use the pass as a striking weapon to keep the defense loose."
Iowa State will return most of the defensive unit it had last year. Stapleton feels that the defense yielded too much ground last year and can be overcome by great effort on the part of the players and the coaches.
"IF WE ARE able to develop a good, balanced attack, taking advantage of the running of Les Webster, Ben King, Willie Robinson, and possibly Bob McFherson and the receiving abilities of Tom Rushen, we could become a good ball club," the head coach said.
He feels the Big Eight should be better again this fall, with better balance than last year when the conference was supposed to be well balanced.
"Kansas and Kansas State will be greatly improved and none of the other teams appear likely to be anything but better than they were last year," Stapleton said.
Kansas State
K-State has gone all out on the football scene and seems to be reaping a harvest of high school football players. A new coach, construction of an athletic dorm, a proposed better-than-ever stadium, and carpeting and drapes in the locker room seem to be heralding in a new era of football at K-State.
BUT IT will take more than glitter and showmanship to build a good football team. However, new Head Coach Vince Gibson seems confident that he can start a winning tradition at Manhattan, and from the looks of things, he just might do it.
Gibson will introduce a new offense to K-State which will be built around a drop-back passing quarterback, utilizing the strength the Wildcats have at split end and flanker to balance the running strength of Cornelius Davis.
and he thinks that Bill Nossek at quarterback will fit in well with his new defense.
Gibson said he is impressed with what he has seen Davis do
Davis was the first Big Eight back to gain over 1,000 yards in a single season since KU's great Gale Savers.
A BIG PROBLEM for the Wildcats will be building up enough strength to utilize different platoons.
Oklahoma State
OSU returns 22 lettermen, half on offense and half on defense. The Cowboys lost their four starting tackles and will have to find new beef for the line.
Coach Phil Cutchin says experience-wise, it is the best situation he has ever had going into spring practice.
THE STILLWATER GROUP will see Ronnie Johnson again at quarterback, who came on strong late in the year and hit 60 of 126
Spain ousts US coeds
MADRID —(UPI)— Two University of California coeds attending the University of Madrid were ordered deported from Spain today for their anti-Vietnam war activities that led to the burning of six U.S. flags.
The Spanish government this morning gave the girls, Karen Winn of Walnut Creek, Calif., and Roberta Alexander of Los Angeles, until tonight to leave Spain.
The girls were arrested Tuesday by Spanish police who held them for questioning at a station house for six hours before they were sent home under house arrest.
A U.S. Embassy spokesman confirmed that the girls had been deported but then qualified it by saying that the decision still "w wasn't final."
Daddy of the car
passes for 659 yards and two touchdowns to rate 4th in the Big Eight passing race. He also punted 77 times for a 36.5 average.
Coach Cutchin said, "I hope there isn't a favorite, but if there is, I hope it is us. I don't know of anybody who has a tougher schedule than ours."
OSU opens against Air Force and then takes on formidable Arkansas and Texas.
BOSTON — (UPI) — Charles E. Duryea is honored on a plaque at the Massachusetts State House for making Springfield, Mass., "the birthplace of the automobile industry," notes the Automobile Legal Association. The plaque cites Duryea as "inventor and builder of America's first gasoline buggy 1892."
6 Daily Kansan Wednesday, May 3. 1967
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