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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, March 20. 1962
By Steve Clark
There is much speculation along the basketball-coach market as to who will succeed Doyle Parrack as the University of Oklahoma's basketball coach.
Parrack resigned under pressure Friday in a move that surprised few,
THE CONTINUALLY growing list of possible successors to the post includes KU freshman basketball coach Ted Owens. Owens is an Oklahoma graduate and well-liked by Sooner fans.
Owens is remembered in Boomer-
Soonerland for his two-handed,
deadly accurate set shot. He is the
last person to shoot the two-handed
set shot in the Big Eight.
OWENS WOULD be a wise choice for the Oklahoma post. He is well-versed in basketball theory, an excellent teacher, and a good recruiter.
To watch Owens shoot the monstrosity is like watching Grandma Moses. With the advent of the jump shot and the one-handed set, his two-handed shot appears strictly old fashioned.
He works exceptionally hard at recruiting. The number of miles that Owens travels in a single season to watch high school players is incredible.
Owens seems very happy at KU. His transformation from a Sooner to Jayhawk was a rapid one and now he
appears to be an ardent dyed-in-the-wool Jayhawker.
The Oklahoma position is a tempting one. There is usually a desire to return to one's alma mater to coach. Also Owens was raised in Oklahoma and his parents and many friends reside there.
ANOTHER NAME that has yet to be mentioned, but is sure to be before the speculation is over is Thornton Jenkins, Missouri's assistant coach.
Jenkins was disappointed when he did not receive the MU head coaching post, and is intimating that he can be lured away from Tigerland.
Jenkins too is a top recruiter and there were some Big Eight followers who thought Jenkins, if head coach, could lure the top Missouri high school products to Columbia.
AT PRESENT MU is batting with St. Louis University for the top cage prospects. Since the Billikens put strong emphasis on basketball, many of the better players end up performing for John Bennington.
Oklahoma's problem is recruiting Big Eight caliber ball-players, and either Owens or Jenkins could fill this assignment capably.
The OU athletic board will probably wait several weeks before making a decision and in the meantime there will be a long seemingly endless line of rumored prospects gracing the sports pages.
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Battenfeld defeated Jolliffe last night in the finals of the Men's Scholarship Halls ping-pong tournament.
Battenfeld Wins Ping-Pong Match
Milt Swafford, Hugeton freshman of Jolliffe, and Chuck Thompson, Halstead freshman of Battenfeld, met in the final. Swafford won, but the victory had no effect on the final team scores and Battenfeld walked away with a traveling trophy.
Other members of the winning Battenfeld team are Jim Tilford, Wichita sophomore, and Les Siegrist, Hutchinson freshman.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — (UPI)— Bobby Nichols shot a near record 64 yesterday and collected $2,800 for his first tournament victory on the PGA tour since turning pro in 1960.
Nichols Wins Tournament
Sports in Brief
Kansas' appearance in the Bluebonnet Bowl football game last December netted the school $82.554.12.
April 23, but it is possible we'll finish before that," he added.
Bowl officials announced yesterday that Kansas and Rice, the two participants, each drew that amount. The stadium, which seats 70,000, was sold out for the game but only 52,000 attended because of a steady rain.
Kansas won, 34-7, for its first bowl victory in history.
The 30-year-old Kansas State coach said, "I don't know how much better we will be—how we will compare with the other teams—but I do know that the added competition on all positions will encourage the most rapid improvement of our individuals."
MANHATTAN—(UPI) — Seventy-eight candidates reported to head coach Doug Weaver yesterday as Kansas State held its first spring football workout in 70-degree sunshine.
Weaver said he plans to get in the allotted 20 spring workouts as quickly as possible.
"We will skip Fridays and Sundays, but otherwise we'll work every day the weather allows, barring injury troubles. We tentatively have set our spring intra-squad game for
KANSAS CITY. Mo. — (UPI)—A large appreciation night crowd is expected to watch the Kansas City Steers tonight when they take on the New York Tapers in Municipal Auditorium.
The Steers open their final home stand of the season after becoming the city's first professional sports champions in 15 years. They won the first-half American Basketball League title and have clinched the second-half Western Division crown
Appreciation night is being sponsored by the Jaycees.
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