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University Daily Kansan Tuesday, March 10, 1964
New Sooner Grid Coach Begins Spring Practice
NORMAN, Okla.—(UPI)—Gomer Jones, treating his new role as head football coach at the University of Oklahoma with a great amount of enthusiasm, sounded his first call for Spring practice today.
Jones, who succeeded Bud Wilkinson last January when Wilkinson resigned to run for the U.S. Senate, said he expects 85 candidates, including 28 lettermen.
Jones will be on somewhat of a spot this fall, as would be any coach who succeeded the remarkably successful Wilkinson. But, he contributed mightily to Wilkinson's successes, building powerful line after line through 17 years as Bud's "second banana." And, he knows all the inner workings of the Sooner attack and the well-manned team he inherits.
Jones says he will practice two weeks, four days each, and then take a week off for Easter vacation. The squad reassembles a week later and continues drills until the annual alumni game April 18.
EIGHT STARTERS are back. These include fullback Jim Grisham and tackle Ralph Neely, who were named to the second team of the 1963 United Press International All-America squad.
Other starters returning include guards Newt Burton and Ed McQuarters. Ends John Flynn and Rick McCurdy, center John Garrett and quarterback Bobby Page.
Nine alternates are back, including end Allen Bumgardner, tackles Jerry Goldsbby and Glen Condren, center Carl McAdams, guard Carl Schreiner, quarterback Tommy Pannell, halfbacks Larry Shields and Lance Rentzel and fullback Larry Brown. Defensive specialists Charlie Mayhue and David Voiles also return from the 1963 Sooner team that finished 8-2 and second to Nebraska in the Big Eight.
MIKE RINGER, who was the starting quarterback at the beginning of last season, appears to be recovering from an elbow injury that forced him to miss most of the campaign. But, he is not expected to scrimmage until after the Easter break.
Tackle Jim Riley, a 225-pounder from Enid, appears to be the top contender from the freshman ranks.
Gibson Named to Big-Eight Academic Team
Other sophomores-to-be who bear watching include halfbacks Ben Hart and Stan Crowder, quarterbacks Rodney Crosswhite and Buford (Boots) Bagby, fullback Jon Kennedy, halfbacks Eugene Ross, James Jackson and Jim Roberts and guard Ron Shields.
Halfbacks Bill Thomas and tackle Ronnie Smith, sophomores who could not play last season because of injuries, are expected to be in the thick of things this autumn.
Harry Gibson, who is as tough in the classroom as he is on the basketball floor, has been named to the Big Eight academic all-conference basketball team selected by three mid-western sports writers.
Gibson, a 2.5 mechanical engineering major, was starting forward on this year's team.
Gary Hassmann, a 3.0 mathematics and science major at Oklahoma State, heads the list of members of the academic all-stars.
Other members of the Big Eight academic honor team are Joe Gottfrid, 2.3 physics major from Kansas State; Max Moss, 2.5 veterinary medicine student at Kansas State and Jim Cooper, 2.4 history major at Oklahoma State.
The five Big Eight winners will be nominees for the All-American squad to be picked later this month.
The selection group for the Big Eight team was composed of Jay Simon, Daily Oklahoma, Oklahoma
City, the president of the Basketball Writers Association; Bob Hurt, Daily Capital, Topeka, and Jim Mackeler, Des Moines Register.
The basketball academic team is sponsored by the College Sports Information Directors of America.
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