Wednesday. Feb. 14, 1962 University Daily Kansan
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University Daily Kansan SPORTS Freshmen Open Against K-State
All-state prep picks George Unseld, David Brill, Wayne Loving, David Schichtele and Mike Shinn are Coach Ted Owens' probable starters for tonight's KU freshman game at Kansas State. Tipoff time is 7:30.
Unseld, 6-7, will start at center with Shinn, 6-5, and Brill, 6-5, rounding out the front line at forwards. Loving, 5-11, and Schichte, 6-2, will be guards.
Coach Owens said Shinn will double as center. The vacant forward spot will be filled by Jim Gough, 6-7½. Owens said.
Richard Ruggles, 5-11, a key guard contender, is on the injury list.
The Wildcats' probable starters are Herb Graves, 6-4 from Chapman at center, Bcb McConnell, 6-1 from Mission, and Sammy Robinson, 6-0 from Parsons, guards, and Larry Cohan. 6-2 from Bonner Springs, and Steve Rogers, 6-3 from Scott City, forwards.
THE JAYHAWKER frosh, a team that may prove to be one of the better KU freshman editions, came within three points of defeating the KU varsity last fall.
Since their pre-season game Coach Owens feels his team's progress has been as expected. He said the team is better offensive than earlier in the season, but still needs improvement in defense.
Height will be the Hawk's strongest asset when they meet Kansas State. Among the 13 making the trip, the average height is 6-2. Seven players stand 6-5 or better.
THE JAYHAWKS, who posted a 1-3 record last year, meet a Wildeat quintet that topped Nebraska's freshmen 65-46 prior to the NUKSU varsity game.
Four fresh Wildcats scored in double figures.
Owens described the freshman Wildcats as a team without great size, but a team that plays well together. "We'll have to play real well to beat them," Owens said.
The Freshmen's next regular game will be a return match with the Wildcats here Feb. 22.
THE FRESHMEN will have a practice game at 5:45 Monday before the varsity-Oklahoma game with the University Daily Kansan Intramural "A" League All-Stars.
The fresh will host the current number one junior college team, Coffeyville on Feb. 24 previous to the KU-Oklahoma State game, and will travel to Columbia on March 1 to meet the freshman Tigers. The MU fresh have one victory to their credit, an overtime win over Iowa State.
By Steve Clark
A purpose of this column is to keep our readers informed of new athletic developments, or even be so bold as to suggest new developments. Today we have a proposal that might revolutionize the athletic world, namely the sauna bath.
The sauna bath is fraught with possibilities. It could make possible the 20-foot pole vault, 98-point individual per-game basketball averages, a 45-yard individual rushing average in football, a golf match where the winner would finish 13 holes with a score of 18, a two minute mile, and many other athletic feats deemed impossible.
We latched on to this idea while listening to a travelogue on Finland. Upon hearing mention of the sauna bath, we knew immediately this was the key to a complete athletic metamorphosis.
THE SAUNA BATH works like this: A person sits in a steam cabinet where the temperatures are close to 200 degrees. Upon the completion of the steam bath, the person runs and jumps into a lake of near-freezing water.
CAN'T YOU SEE the possibilities? Picture a sauna bath by Potter Lake. The time is about an hour before the Ohio State basketball game (we don't play them, but with the sauna bath, of course we would schedule them).
The young man narrating the travelogue said at first he was dubious of this ancient Finish custom, but after trying it he said, "You'll feel so good that you will feel like taking on the whole world."
This is the key, sports fans. This is what we need, a means of stimulation so our athletes will want to "take on the whole world."
The results: it is undoubtable in our minds that they would trounce the Buckeyes 247-3. Ohio State's all America Jerry Lucas would be held to one point. Yes it would be a great day for KU, and the athletic world.
Coach Dick Harp puts his basketball team in the sauna closet and lets them bask for about 45 minutes. He then turns them loose and lets them charge into Potter Lake. He then puts them on the Batmobile (the KU school bus) and takes them to Allen Field House where they suit up, and without warm-up, line up for the opening tip.
O world, here it is. We ask no personal recognition for this soon-to-be-great athletic device. As a matter-of-fact we don't claim it. Instead we contribute it to mankind. Athletic world, take advantage of it.
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"When we go up against the Buffaloes, we are going for an upset," said the Kansas Jayhawker's 6-1 forward Jim Dumas. "That's just what we will need to start our winning streak for remainder of the games."
"I'm really going out on a limb by saving that," he added.
Although the Jawhawkers have a 5-13 record. Dumas maintains a positive approach toward each game.
"NO ONE ENJOYS losing most of the time," said Dumas. "I think we can win every game we play. Even in those games when we're down six to eight points with a minute remaining, I still don't give up."
He said that he and his teammates are playing harder than ever, because the Jayhawkers are in a losing streak and want to win so badly.
"Coach Harp has helped our morale a lot. Some coaches take it out on their players when they are losing. He instills in us a will to continue to play and to win."
DUMAS IS a modern collegian who posses neither automobile nor wife, a rare double in today's national University circles. He excels in the classroom as well as on the basketball court, carrying a 2.0 (B) average in electrical engineering.
He is well-liked by his hallmates at Stephenson Hall as they elected him president for the first semester.
Dumas, though standing but 6-1, can jump six inches beyond the rim. He dunked the ball for the first time as a 6-0 junior at Topeka High School and as he says, "It's been easier to get up there every year since."
Dumas is the Jayhawkers' leading rebounder. He has 177 rebounds for a 9.8 per game average.
"THE MAIN THING about rebounding to me," says Dumas, "is that you've got to want the ball and go after it. You've got to forget the knots and bruises."
"The first time the ball went on the board I jumped as hard as I could. I thought I'd pulled some stomach muscles. But I kept on jumping hard and got the ball once in awhile. Then I realized I could get it some if I just tried hard.
"Of course it's tougher up here. I've got to be moving to get the ball. When the ball goes up on the board you have some idea of where it's going to go. You can't stand behind your opponent. I try to work into a good position where I can jump freely. With my size if I permit myself to be blocked out I'll have almost no chance to get the ball."
The shortest defensive assignment Dumas has enjoyed this year was against Oklahoma's 6-3 Tom McCurdy in the opening round of the Big Eight tournament. His other opponents have been 6-5 or 6-6.
Dumas consoles himself with this theory—"When we start a game I look at my man and the others and tell myself they're not so big. I know better, but it's a help for your frame of mind. This is a challenge to me. It motivates my jumping."
ROANOKE, Tex. — (UPI) — Byron Nelson holds the Professional Golfers Association records for winning 11 consecutive tournaments (1945); consecutive tours in the money (113) and for most victories in a single season, 19 in 1945.
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UNDERSIZED—Jim Dumas, 6-1 forward, will face Colorado's 6-5 Wilky Gilmore Saturday night when the Buffaloes meet the Jayhawkers.
Liston-Patterson to Sign Contract
The fight will be held in June at one of four proposed sites — New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia or Chicago.
Patterson already has accepted Liston as his next challenger and has authorized Championship Sports, Inc., to sign the 27-year-old Philadelphia kayo artist for the $10 million bout, it was learned by United Press International last night from an official source.
PHILADELPHIA — (UPI) — Sonny Liston is expected to sign later this week for his long-sought crack at Floyd Patterson's heavy-weight title.
Championship Sports promoted Patterson's last title defense against Ingemar Johansson at Miami Beach last March.
Listen, who has scored 23 knockouts while winning 33 of 34 professional fights, has been seeking a bout with Patterson for more than two years. However, the champion had insisted that Sonny first divest himself of his old managers, who reputedly had underworld connections, before he would give him a title shot.
Negotiations for the fight also were stymied when Liston twice
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The UPI source revealed that Lisbon and his attorney, Mort Witkin, started negotiating with Championship Sports officials as soon as Paterson gave the go-ahead signal for the title fight.
Tom Bolan, president of Championship Sports, declined to comment on the UPI report, insisting that "any statements about reported negotiations with Liston will have to come from Patterson himself."
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Liston, though, broke with his old managers and then placed himself in the care of a Catholic priest for rehabilitation. Both of these moves apparently convinced Patterson that Sonny merited a title bout.
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