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THE SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
Friday, July 12, 1968
Rodgers predicts tight league race
By RICK FOLKMIRE Kansan Staff Reporter
KU football coach Pepper Rodgers hinted that he expects a tight Big Eight Conference race this fall as he listed seven schools as possible contenders for the title in a recent interview.
"WE'RE BETTER physically," said Rodgers who also emphasized that KU would field a much improved team from that which began the 1967 season. Excellent quarterbacking, good receiving, better fullbacking and a solid defensive front line along with a hard core of experience are expected to bolster the team which jumped to the first division last season from a tie for last the year before.
The Jayhawks' mentor seemed to expect his team, which finished in a tie for second place last season with a 5-2 conference record, to be among the list of title contenders.
Quarterback Bobby Douglass heads the list of top players returning this fall. Douglass was the Big Eight back of the year as the total offense leader in 1967 with 1,741 yards rushing and passing. All-Big Eight defensive end John Zook, tight end John Mosier who was the 1967 sophomore-of-the-year, middle guard Emery Hicks, split receiver Donnie Shanklin, and offensive tackle Keith Christensen are also considered the top Jayhawks returning.
Tailback Don Autry, fullback John Riggins and split end George McGowan have been rated as the team's top newcomers, with Autry and Riggins coming up from the freshman team
OVERALL DEPTH is considered the number one problem. The rebuilding of the entire split side of the offensive line is necessary after the graduation of all-conference guard Johnny Greene, tackle Harold Montgomery and split end Ben Olison. An improving defensive secondary is needed by the Jayhawks who managed only 10 interceptions last season, although, as Rodgers points out, most of them came at the end of the season.
and McGowan a junior college transfer.
A number of position changes are being made in the Jayhawks' personnel so as to have the best 22 players starting the game at a time says Rodgers. Grant Dahl, a junior, is being changed from defensive to offensive tackle; Dave Aikins from center to offensive guard; Pat Hutchens from defensive halfback to linebacker; and Donnie Shanklin from split receiver to tailback.
As for the record, KU can do no worse in its first three games, which are all non-conference clashes, than last season when the Jayhawks dropped their first three games.
THIS YEAR Kansas opens with Illinois and then takes on Big Ten Champion Indiana in KU's home-opener. New Mexico will be the last of the non-conference opponents in the first meeting between the two schools.
The Jayhawks will meet their first Big Eight opponent in Nebraska. Oklahoma State, Iowa State, Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas State and Missouri will follow in that order.
Newspaper intrigues Davis in The Hague
"The Newspaper" was the most interesting.
That dramatization presented and interpreted news events in a
That's what Jed Davis says about plays for young people that he viewed recently in The Hague, Netherlands. Davis directs the University of Kansas Theatre, including theatre for young people, and teaches speech and drama.
J-camper puts shot
Lou Ann Thomas, Kansas state girls champion shotputter, took first place last Saturday in the Missouri Valley District Track Meet. She is attending the journalism division of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp. Miss Thomas of Wamego, topped girls from all over Kansas and Missouri with her 38 foot seven and one-half inch toss in the meet held in Kansas City.
Miss Thomas also won the Junior Olympics held June 6 in Lawrence with what was then a state record throw of 37 feet 11 inches.
She started putting the shot three years ago to "keep it in the family." Her brother is a former champion shotputter and holds several records.
Last year she threw the shot 36 feet four inches which was good enough for sixth in the nation.
Lou Ann Thomas is athletic director for wing seven south in Lewis. She plays basketball, softball and volleyball.
highly stylized, non-realistic manner, interspersing ballet and pantome with dialogue, Davis reports. "It was like an exposure to violence with a wide dramatic range utilizing many contrasts," he said.
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DAVIS WAS attending a conference of ASSITEJ, the French abbreviation for International Association of Theatre for Children and Youth.
A combination of Dutch professional groups did the current affairs stage collage called "The Newspaper."
Davis also remembers vividly, but for different reasons, "A Negro Girl's First Day in School" by the Scapino Ballet. "It was totally over-simplified and unclear," he said. "It enacted the European conception of America's racial problems — a false contrived concept—but left the Russians ecstatic."
Oklahoma is Big-8 pick
With a record outpouring of votes in the 23rd annual Big Eight football poll, newsmen of the midlands picked Oklahoma by a landslide to retain its conference championship in the 1968 race.
The Orange Bowl kings of last season received 116 first place ballots from the 157 sports writers and sportscasters who took part in the survey conducted by Kansas sports information director Jay Simon.
The previous record for participation was 142 votes in 1963.
Nebraska was second choice by a slim margin over Kansas, although the Jayhawks received one more first place vote than the Cornhuskers. KU was accorded the top spot by 14 forecasters, but in over-all voting the Huskers gained a 24-point edge for the runnerup position.
In another close race, Missouri shaded Colorado for fourth by 43 points despite trailing the Buffs in first place votes, 6 to 8.
None of the pollsters cast a first place ballot for Oklahoma State, Kansas State or Iowa State, which finished sixth, seventh and eighth in that order.
Only three voters picked the Sooners for a second division finish and just one thought Iowa State would wind up higher than sixth. Kansas and Colorado were the only schools receiving votes for all eight positions.
A year ago Nebraska was first in the poll, but wound up in a tie for fifth with Oklahoma State. The Sooners, who swept to the title with a 7-0 record, were picked for third.
Only twice in the last eight years has the winner of the poll gone on to claim the championship. Nebraska was correctly forecast for the title in 1965 and 1966.
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Points
Oklahoma 222
Nebraska 461
Kansas 485
Missouri 632
Colorado 675
Oklahoma State 892
Kansas State 1082
Iowa State 1203
NOTE — To determine total points multiply the number of votes for each position by the number of that position.
PREVIOUS PREDICTIONS
Picked How Year to win Voters Finished 1946 Missouri 30 Third (tie) 1947 Kansas 53 First (tie)
1948 Missouri 41 Second
1949 Oklahoma 42 First
1950 Oklahoma 41 First
1951 Oklahoma 71 First
1952 Oklahoma 66 First
1953 Oklahoma 75 First
1954 Oklahoma 56 First
1955 Oklahoma 76 First
1956 Oklahoma 59 First
1957 Oklahoma 67 First
1958 Oklahoma 75 First
1959 Oklahoma 81 First
1960 Oklahoma 92 Fifth
1961 Kansas 104 Second (tie)
1962 Missouri 134 Second
1963 Oklahoma 142 Second
1964 Oklahoma 137 Second
1965 Nebraska 108 First
1966 Nebraska 100 First
1967 Nebraska 124 Fifth (tie)
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