MRS. NANA (TED) OWENS
Ted Owens' wife aids in recruiting
One of KU's most avid basketball fans and the woman behind Big Eight Basketball Coach of the Year, Ted Owens, is Mrs. Nana Owens.
Mrs. Owens is an enthusiastic basketball fan. She never misses a home game and hopes to attend some games away next year, although she was unable to this year.
MARRIED NINE years, she knows most of the varsity players personally. She has at least met or had dinner with most of the players while KU was recruiting them.
"Ted spends a lot of time with the boys," she said, "and they're in and out of the house every so often."
Before games Mrs. Owens says he does not appear nervous, just eager to play. But after each game, especially when the Jayhawks win, "he comes alive."
OWENS LIKES to spend the afternoon before a game at home with his family. Although Mrs. Owens says he never can spend the whole day at home, he almost always finds time for a nap before he leaves for the game. He usually leaves at about 5 p.m. for each game.
"If there is a basketball game on television that afternoon," she said, "he watches it."
Owens is also very superstitious. He will wear the same suit to every game until they lose one. Then he changes. This season it looks like one of his suits got a real workout.
He particularly likes to wear one of his light weight sports coats.
"HE GOT A LITTLE chilly when he wore it to Colorado," Mrs. Owens said.
Kansas will enter four members of its swimming team in the 44th annual NCAA swimming and diving championship. March 23-25, at East Lansing, Mich.
The Jayhawks will be represented in eight events by Don
KU swimmers will go to nationals
Motel space to be scorce this weekend
Motel and hotel space in Lawrence is at a premium for the NCAA regional tournament this weekend.
Most motel and hotel managers report all rooms have been booked for several months.
The Holiday Inn Motel, 22nd and Iowa St., closed its seletype system Nov. 3 to reservations for the basketball weekend. A clerk said most of the occupants will be players.
The shortage is created by team members and fans who need accommodations.
The Virginia Inn Motel, 2907 W. 6th, has "been booked solid for a month-and-a-half," a clerk said.
NICK ROACH, assistant business manager for the department of athletics, said more than 1,000 tickets are available for Friday's games. Tickets for Saturday night's games have been sold out for several weeks.
Police authorities said they are anticipating large crowds from Omaha, Neb., Wichita and Kansas City. Topeka, Lawrence and KU police will be used to handle crowds inside the fieldhouse and traffic on surrounding streets.
Traffic will be guided to the east and west exits of the Kansas Turnpike or to main Lawrence throughways.
KANSAS TURNPIKE authori-
ties said extra men and toll gates will be used before and after each game.
The Yellow Cab Company in Lawrence said it plans to double the number of taxicabs in the Lawrence area to provide transportation for fans attending the tournament.
Sayers wins league title for rushing
NEW YORK—(UPI)—Halfback Gale Sayers of the Chicago Bears, former KU star, carries the ball as quickly as a long-tailed cat going under a rocking chair.
He proved it in 1966 by gaining 1,231 yards on 229 carries, making him the first halfback to win the National Football League's rushing title since Steve Van Buren turned the trick in 1949.
The official NFL records, released Saturday, showed Sayers gained an average of 5.4 yards per carry. He scored eight touchdowns.
Sayers' best performance was in the last game of the season against Minnesota. He picked up 197 yards in 17 carries to lead the Bears to a 41-28 win.
Leroy Kelley of the Cleveland Browns finished second with 1,141 yards on 209 carries—an average of 5.5 yards, the best average in the league. He also led the NFL in touchdowns with 15.
Cleveland won the team rushing title with 2,166 yards, and Dallas was second with 2,122 yards.
If she doesn't give it to you...
Pennington, Jim Askins, Jim Kent and Roy O'Connor. They qualified at the recent Big Eight meet where KU slipped behind winning Iowa State for second place.
PENNINGTON, a Prairie Village senior, finished 10th in the 500-yard freestyle last year becoming the only Jayhawk swimmer to score, ever, in the NCAA championship. He also was the only triple winner at the 1967 Big Eight meet. He set conference records in the 500 (4:53.4), the 400 yard individual medley (4:25.8), and the 1,650 freestyle (17:21.1).
Jim Askins, Wichita junior, will dive in the one and three-meter events. He leads all conference opponents in one-meter diving with 383.80 points and was second with 396.35 in the three-meter competition. The new pool has made a difference in Askins' diving this year, according to swim coach Dick Reamon.
Sophomores Jim Kent and Roy O'Connor are the other NCAA qualifiers. Kent, from Wichita, will be in the 200 yard butterfly, an event in which he holds the Big Eight record of 1:58.9 set at the conference meet.
O'CONNOR WAS runner-up in the 50 yard freestyle (21.8) and tied for second in time with 48.0 in the 100 yard freestyle, but was given third place by the judges.
"These swimmers are definitely ready for national caliber competition," Reamon said, "and there's a good possibility they'll bring back two or three All-America certificates."
An All-America certificate is earned by recording one of the top ten collegiate clockings during the year.
Russian puckers skunk Swedes
MOSCOW—(UPI)--The world champion Russian national hockey team routed Sweden's second team 10-0 Sunday in the Soviet team's last game before defending its crown in Vienna.
The loss was the Swedish team's fourth in five games in Russia, salvaging a tie in the remaining match.
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