Sooners hope for NIT bid
OU nips Hawks in last 37 seconds
By DON BAKER Kansan sports writer
The high-flying Oklahoma Sooners moved into a tie for second place in the Big Eight basketball standings last night by defeating the Kansas Jayhawks, 82-77.
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Playing before a sell-out partisan home crowd the victory put the Sooners a giant step forward in their bid for a NIT invitation.
Oklahoma is now 18-7 overall
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compared to KU's 16-9 mark. The Sooners, Jayhawks, and Missouri Tigers are all tied for second place with 7-6 conference records.
The Sooners took command from the start and for a few minutes looked as if they would run away with it. With 13:33 remaining in the half OU led 17-6 before KU began to rally.
The Hawks scored eight of the next ten points to cut the OU lead to four, 18-14.
Oklahoma retained momentum however until the 5:55 mark when Aubrey Nash, KU sophomore guard, hit for two to give the Jayhawks their first lead. 30-29.
The determined Sooners quickly rallied though and left the floor at half time with a 43-39 lead
Chester Lawrence, 6-4 guard, kept the Hawks in the game with 13 first half points.
The Jayhawks took the lead for only the second time in the game with 14:01 remaining in the game when a Pierre Russell follow shot made the score 50-49.
The Sooners again rallied until a Roger Brown layin with 10 minutes showing on the clock made it 56-55 in favor of KU.
With OU fans yelling louder than ever the emotion packed game saw the Sooners control the tempo until the 5:55 mark when a Brown tipin gave KU a 66-65 lead.
The two teams traded baskets for the next three minutes before a Garfield Heard layup and a Scott Martin free throw gave the
After he retired from pro football, Christman went into radio and television work and had been the color man on college football telecasts since they began.
CHICAGO (UPI)—Paul Christman, 51, a former All-America football player at the University of Missouri, and a television commentator on college and professional football, died Monday of a heart attack.
Christman was admitted to suburban Lake Forest Hospital about midnight Saturday and placed in the cardiac unit. The hospital said that about 12:45 CST Monday "he had a severe heart attack and expired."
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Christman dies of heart attack
Christman broke into prominence as a single-wing tailback under Don Faurot at Missouri. Following a tour of duty in the service as a Navy lieutenant,
The three-day Kansas Relays to be run for the first time over the Jayhawks' new Jim Hershberger all-weather track is scheduled April 16-18.
The decathlon, a popular segment of the Kansas Relays for a number of years, will be returned to the Jayhawk track carnival this year and four other events are being added for the first time.
Christman, a star collegiate quarterback at Missouri in the early 1940s, later quarterbacked the old Chicago Cardinals, now the St. Louis Cardinals, to their only National Football League championship, in 1947.
Decathlon returns; Relays add events
New events announced last week by Relays director Bob Timmons are a master's mile for runners 35 and older, a marathon run of 26 miles plus two separate mile walks, one for high school walkers and the other open to all competitors.
Sooners a 72-69 lead with less than two minutes to play.
KU countered with a Lawrence free throw but a three point play by Martin put OU ahead 75-70 with only 1.09 remaining.
However, KU's doom was soon to follow as Oklahoma reeled off seven straight points to put the game away. The downfall began at the 0:37 mark when KU's Dave Robisch was called for both goal tending and fouling on a John Yule follow shot. The Sooner center sank the free throw and the Jayhawks were behind 75-78
Sooner fans began to rest easy but a three point play by Bob Kivisto followed immediately by a Lawrence steal and assist to Kivisto it 75-75 and it was anybody's game again.
Christman joined the Cardinals in 1945 and formed part of the "dream backfield" of Charlie Trippi, Pat Harder and Elmer Angsman.
Heard and Martin followed with two free throws apiece to make it 82-75 before Robisch got a tipin at the buzzer to make it 82-77.
He was traded to Green Bay in 1950 after helping the Cardinals to the NFL title in 1947. Christman served as a part-time coach with the Detroit Lions after retiring in 1950 and began broadcasting Cardinal games in 1958.
Robisch ended the game with 26 points to lead all scorers. Lawrence, who played the best game of his college career, added 18 to the KU total.
He broadcast college games and American Football League games for the American and National Broadcasting Companies from 1959-67 before joining the Columbia Broadcasting System as a football commentator and analyst in 1967.
Oklahoma had four players in double figures as Heard headed the list with 20 followed by Martin's 17, Yule's 16 and Bobby Jack's 11.
He is survived by his widow,
Inez, two sons and a daughter.
WSU adds 11th foe
WICHTTA (UPI) — Wichita State will meet Texas A&M in the "11th game" of four football seasons beginning in 1970, it was announced today.
All games will be regular season with three played at College Station, Tex. The only game slated for Wichita is the 1972 contest.
The series will begin Sept. 12, 1970.
The difference in the game came at the free throw line where the Sooners hit 24 of 28 compared to KU's 9 of 15. This offset the Jayhawk's 34-29 advantage in field goals.
The taller Jayhawks also outrebounded the Sooners. 54-38.
Kansas will close out its season Saturday night when it hosts Big Eight champion Kansas State. The game is already sold out.
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