Jayhawks down K-State 74-56
By RJICHARD LUNDQUIST
Flashy on offense and relentless on defense, the Jayhawks warmed up for Houston's Cougars with a resounding 74-56 victory over Kansas State Saturday night.
An Allen Field House crowd of 17,000 people roared their approval as KU pushed its season's mark to 22-3 and their conference mark to 13-1 by downing their cross-state rival for the sixth straight time.
What started out looking like a close game was turned into a rout by the aggressive Hawks with 10 minutes to go in the first half. Leading 13-12, KU stormed to a 30-12 advantage in the next six minutes. The cold-shooting Wildcats were never in the game after this.
LED BY THE outside gunning of Ron Franz and Jo White the Jayhawks shot 52% in pushing to a 38-20 half-time lead. Bothered by a tough KU defense, the frigid Wildcats connected on only 27 per cent of their first half field goal attempts.
The second half saw Phil Harmon join Franz and White in bombing away from long range as the Hawks forged to a 60-30
advantage with 11:14 to play.
From here on it was no contest as the waiving wheat could already be seen in the stands.
A balanced KU scoring attack saw four men in double figures. White was high point man with 19 followed by Franz with 15. Rodger Bohnstiehl and Vernon Vanoy chipped in with 11 and 10 points respectively.
But most impressive of all was KU's domination of the boards. Led by Franz with 14 and Vern Vanoy with 11, the Hawks out rebounded the Cats 44-31.
KANSAS STAE, shooting better in the second half, ended up with 35 per cent from the field, but this fell short of the Jayhawk's 49 per cent.
Dennis Berkholtz, held scoreless in the first half, came back with 16 in the second half to pace the K-State attack. He was the only Wildcat to score in double figures.
Kansas State finished their season with a 17-8 over-all slate and 9-5 conference mark.
By DON WALKER
Patrick beats KU's Ryun
"Never for a moment" did Villanova Track Coach "Jumbo" Jim Elliott doubt what would be the outcome of the meeting between Villanova's Dave Patrick and Kansas' Jim Ryun in the 880 final in the NCAA indoor track and field championships.
THE VILLANOVA junior sprinted away at the gun and stunned the crowd and competitors alike by hitting the quarter in 52.6, leaving Ryun in the pack 25 yards behind. Patrick hung on with a 56.3-second 440 as Ryun escaped a box and threw the capacity crowd of 9,533 into a frenzy as he closed the yardage and finished in 1.50.7.
"I didn't bring Patrick to lose," Elliott told an informal gathering of coaches and sportswriters Thursday, "and he'll win the 880. Just watch him."
Patrick's interruption of the Ryun era of middle-distance running was mollified by Ryun's
Patrick justified Elliot's confidence by employing a daring strategy to finish 15 yards ahead of Ryun in a world-record-with-qualifications time of 1:48.9.
comeback with a 3:58.6 mile Saturday, best in the world this year.
Before the second sellout audience and national network television, Ryun took command from the start and was never headed as he recorded quarter-mile splits of 58.0, 2:01.5, and 3:02.9.
RYUN'S EFFORTS contributed 9 of Kansas' 16 points which earned the defending national champion Jayhawks third place behind 1966 runner-up Southern California. SC dominated with 26 points and Oklahoma had 17.
"Southern Cal was unmistakably the power," Kansas Coach Bob Timmons said, "but we should have placed second. Too many things just went the wrong way."
The absence of sophomore pole vaulter Bob Steinhoff, Timmons said, definitely cost points. Steinhoff scratched from the competition after determining in his warm-up that an arm injury had not fully healed.
KANSAS' CHANCES again suffered in the high jump when Ken Gains bounced out of the landing pit on his first jump and lay momentarily stunned.
Heckling limited to banners
While the KU basketball team was shattering Kansas State basketball team's hopes for a second-place tie in Saturday's game, the KU supporters completely drowned out the Wildcats cheering section.
The rowdines of the crowd was gone . . . and so was much of the traditional KU-KSU heckling. The furor raised about the conduct of the home crowd at the KU-Colorado game must have dampened the spirits of the enthusiasts.
HOWEVER, ONE tradition did not change; the Kansas State cheering section was placed in its usual seating arrangement, high up in the southeast rafters of Allen Field House.
There was only a minimum of signs placed around the arena. There was a sign unfolded near the end of the game saying "Sorry 'bout that, Tex!" and the usual banner of "Kill Silo Tech." New Fraser Hall got into the act when some party rung letters in the windows of the north hall spelling out "Milk KSU" followed by a drawing of a cow's udders. A sign in the north end of the field house proclaiming that "All cats are pussys." Lights in Ellsworth Hall were turned on to spell Go, KU.
Daily Kansan Monday, March 13, 1967
Daniel's Jewelry
914 Mass. St. VI 3-2572
14 K Gold
three-dimensional
JAYHAWK CHARMS
$17.95
Alabaster, White, Blue Kid and Black Patent
813 Mass.
VI 3-2091
---