The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, February 11, 1966, Page Page 6, Image 6
Page 6 tminiiimmiiiiiijiiiiiitiiitiii mm. i l he sporting Life i 7 V -. State Dominated By Soplwmores 'it is just something I like to do," says Nebraska's Tom Baack about his shooting. This shooting has carried Baack to sixth in Big Eight Conference scoring and field goal accuracy and to the top in free throwing. More importantly, however, is that his proficiency has kept jumping up in the pres sure games the ninth-ranked Cornhusk-ers played 'ast week end in Oklahoma. Regardless of where he's taking his pokes from long range or the j iree tnrow line lie seems to get better in the close games. something unexpected of a j his tries. A sophomore, Kan sophomore, sas' Rodger BohnonstRhl, is Best example of his work i second in this division, too. was carved last weekend when he dropped eight of eight from the line and 17 of 31 from the field in the two four-point verdicts for the Nebraskans. This o u t p u t pushed his pcr-gamc average up almost two uoints. to 16.6. during the southern sweep, When the Huslers needed the points the most, Baack was fhere. Two came in the overtime against Oklahoma State, after scoring 15 during regulation time. Then he got 16 in the first half against the Sooners. When his team mates began to click in the second half, he went to feed ing and still finished with 25. his seasonal high. However. Baack is just one of three sophomores leading! Big Eight TEAM AU Games W L Pet. n. O. rt. 2 J83 1301 11M Nrbr.sk. . . . Kansas Colorado low SUlt . . Kanma btatt Oklahoma Okla. suit Missouri 13 3 .KB 9 8 .529 10 9 .526 8 t .5(10 12 .333 i 15 .167 2 15 .118 1333 1173 UTt 1231 1378 962 1119 1140 1204 1319 j 1153 I 1403 1017 I 1343 Conference Games h Pet. Pts. O. PL. Nebraska Kansas Kansas Stat . Iowa Stat . . . Colorado Oklahoma . . . Okla. State ... aiiasouri 1.04)0 1 .857 2 .667 4 .556 3 .500 .375 7 .125 7 .000 48(1 433 I 374 i 612 385 617 482 542 Yates New Foundation Chairman Burnham Yates, president of the First National Bank of Lincoln, was elected chair man of the Board of Trustees of the University Foundation Thursday afternoon. Yates, whose term is f o r two years, succeeds Ted Sick of Lincoln. George B. Cook of Lincoln was elected vice chairman TONBGHT AT 0:00 P.M. THROUGH FEBRUARY 61WCTUl nODUCTKMI Tiekrt Offtc. Optn ) a-.ni. Till t mm) , , Mm.. a.:-' rv m. w f"f rreair w auMii Mal .V MrwWMi V' .auM tmmt M I. CMtBf. It fn. i i ball League club Tuesday for individual statistical divisions ; remarks he reportedly made this week. For the fourth (about the club's head coach straight week. Iowa State's ! Harry Gilmer, its manage Don Smith is the best of the i ment and about other players rebounders with 122, an aver- j on the team. age of 13.6. This department' is wnere tne tirst-year com petitors have had a chance to take over. Second is Okla homa's Don Sidle fll.9). His teammate Willie Rogers is fifth i9.1). Nebraska's Stuart i Gilmer comes back at all, he Lantz sixth (8.9). and Iowa : might be the only one who State's Raul Duarte ninth docs-" (7.6i. The suspension was the Tops in field goal shooting filst made by tne Lions- Alex is Colorado's Chuck Vi!!'ams. ! Karras- a Llon defensive tack hn ha hit 58 nnr rpnt nf 1 le was suspended in 1963. but ! A relief center or forward. I Bohncnstiehl has hit 54 per ! cent. The only top not succumb- in? to thp snnlmmoro blit? :l was Walter ,vsley's scoring ; pedestal. However, Kansas' 1 Big Walter is not having j things easy. Sidle is moving i in. being pushed by Rogers, j both of whom are coming off their second straight big j weekend. In the last four! games. Sidle has hit for 88 1 points. Rogers, hovv'ever, has : outdone him with 96. pushing j his average from 15.5 to 19.8. Still holding the buffer one between the upperclassmen and the sophomores in scor ing is Missouri's Ronnie Cole man, who has a 20.7 mark Wesley's mark is now 21.9. Statistics LEADCRS THE STANDINGS I Recent Cm. &4-nr Feb. 5 Iowa stale 74 Colorado Kansas 77 Missouri Kansas St. 84 Oklahoma Nebraska 45 Okla. State Feb. 7 Colorado 65 Missouri Kansas St. 50 Okla. Slate Nebraska 85 Oklahoma Future fiam Feb. 12 Kansas Stat at Colara) Oklahoma State at Kansas tana State .1 Nebr.sk. Oklahoma at Missouri Feb. 14 Oklahoma State at Colorado Iowa Slate at Kansas State Feb. 15 Missouri at Kansas Loyola of the Soulh af Oklahoma Bit Elrht Conterrnce Individual Statistics Throurh Games of February 7. ltttifi t'ONFEREM F, GAMES ONLY FG Percentage (Minimum of S per iramei FT Perrentace (Minimum irf err came) and Harry R. Haynie of Lin-i!0""2 lopmenl - it's . . . tough enough executing the coin was re-elected president.; precise balance and rhvthm serving in a full-time capa city. The Board of Directors also elected two new vice presi dents, Gene Tallman and Ed ward J. Hirsch both of Lin coln. Re-elected as officers were Herb Potter, Jr.. of Lincoln, secretary and assistant treas urer, and Howard Hadley, Lin coln, treasurer. irffffl (Clti& 3:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. fea luring The 'Slightly' Fabulous Hrmttrtrs O dancing O oil-sale beverages Sports (irell To Fight In Golden Gloves Husker Guard Stan Grell would like to take some of the success gained with the N V. football team into the ring tiiis weekend for the Omaha Midwest golden gloves. Grell TKO'd his opponent in the Southeast Nebraska fi nals and hopes to offset h i s inexperience with aggressive ness. Bob Gibson Is Hoop Star St. Louis Cardinal pitcher Bob Gibson poured in 27 points Wednesday to help the Omaha Starlites beat t h e famed Boxholm Swedes. 100 to 95 in the Western Iowa In dependent Basketball Tourna ment. Gibson and his teammates will be back in Earling la. Saturdav to meet the Council Bluffs Silents. Gail Cogdill Suipendcd ! For the first time in their j 31-year history the Detroit Lions have suspended a play I er. Veteran end Gail Cogdill ; was given an indefinite sus ! pension by the National Foot- At ar meeting of the Flint Mich.. Junior Women's Club Cogdill reportedly said G i I- mer "doesn t know now to handle men and he's not ready for a coaching job. If his was a league and not : club suspension. Mays Said To Get S125.000 Willie Mays, the Most Val uable Player in the National League last season, has signed his 1966 contract with ; the San Francisco for a rec- san rranciseo tor a ord S"UI)I) sP"s columnist utfCK naniey wrote luesaay. Hanley wrote that Mavs signed his contract on M o n- . r . . i if ttiv lit aiy piat.!., nic uuiia aay lonowing a conference!.!, atilrl Ka-k akin ta mmifA n with Giant vice president , Charlie Feeney at Candlestick! Park. A S125.0fiO salary would represent a $20,000 raise for the All-Star center fielder. Walt Wesley Spins Records Kansas University's 6-fool-11 basketball star Walt Wes ley stayed in touch with Kan- i sans even while football held j the spotlight last fall. Wesley, nicknamed Big i Waldo, was a disc jockey on j the student station at K.U. "This is Bgi Doc with his, record show, hopin' to do j some good in your neighbor-' hood." is the war he came on i the air. Question: W li a t happens when a gymnast's suspenders flop loose? Answer: His points come down ! At least that's what hap pened last week at Arizona when Colorado's fine sopho more side horse man. Jack Ryan, maneuvered into and out of that problem. Ryan, wearing suspenders for the first lime, forgot to fasten them properly in back and they worked down over his shoulders midway through his performance. That d i s - of the side horse without wor- rving about vour pants fi- !-"u uaiunei s orosen 1001. nallv broke his concentration ! Gardner logged considerable and"he missed his closing dis-! time against both Iowa Stale mount 1 and Missouri, but was still off The miss cost him alsmotll? fT scoring only 14 and a full point and he lost his first competition of the sea son. Ryan, a National Gym nastics Federation national champ as a freshman last year, slipped to 8.6 alter av- no cover -charge The Daily in Brief eraging 9.5 in his December competitions. (10.0 is perfect.) But he hitched up his trou sers, tightened his suspenders, fastened them securely and spun a near-flawless 9.7 rou tine the next night at Arizona State. Ryan and his aspiring Col orado teammates launch Big Eight competition 'his week end against the two teams who have dominated the league's gymnastics picture. The Buffs dual Iowa State's defending champions Friday night at Ames then go to Lin coln for a Saturday afternoon match against the school which annually paced the league until the Cyclones moved into the picture t w o years ago. South Dakota State, which has never won more than nine dual meets in a season, goes after No. 8 on Saturday night against Nebraska's Cornhus kers. The match starts at 7:30 and likely will lure a big en- j thusiastic crowd. The Jaekrabbits will be out j to break the deadlock in the Cornhusker series in their favor. At present the series stands 6-6-2. State won last ; year at Lincoln by a 19-11 j score. For Mick Hurlburt. J a c k -, abbit heavyweight, it will be a case of climbing out of the j frying pan into the fire. He suffered only his second loss of the season to Wayne's tal ented heavyweight Bob Kruse by a 6-3 count. Coming up is a dual with the Huskers' Carel Stith. third place finisher in the 1965 Big Eight meet and the owner of a 7-1 dual record this season. KSU vs CU That 87-67 lacing Kansas State handed Colorado when j the two teams met in the Big i Eight tournament in Decern- j ber doesn't necessarily mean ' anything when the Wildcats j and Buffaloes collide here; Saturday night. i In f 1, n fii.ct nloflA tfiA Ruffe .kj f ij1, " 1 l'. formance ... in (he Kansas City game, the Buffs misfired an almost unbelievable SO times in 53 tries from the charity stripe. That performance came when ih Buffs were having a bad case of the free throw line flutters and they've sharpened up somewhat in the last fort night. CU hit a fine 23-for-30 in the 65-60 win at Columbia Monday sight and was 17-for-25 at Ames on Saturday. Secondly, the CU-Kansas State series has produced some of the most drastic form reversals in Big Eight history. And most of them have in volved CU comebacks. The Buffaloes, who host Oklahoma State Monday night following the Saturday night encounter with Kansas State, need victories both nights to retain any hopes for a high finish. Already a home court loser to second-place Kansas, the Buffaloes face a rough late-seasoi road with games at Kansas, .Nebraska, and Kansas State as well as a Boulder meeting with the red hot Cornhuskers. CU hopes should get an added boost with the con tinued healinn of Center ; r 1. r- i - i , i' j 12 P,nts ()n the tr'P- Ths Jn.ACTIOH-ADVEHTURE story of nine W; ' ON SKIS I'VE 2"e, V. VrEVER SEEN!" Telemark. Nnrwav ' ? Th-ir m;; Mi Kbll IVIItJJIUII. Stop the Nazis from develooina the Atom r W Bomb! r?!H-l7 NAVISION- COLUMBIA COLOR KIRK RJCHHRJD QOlfSSlAS ULLA JACOBSSON CO stirring Mffbraskan Switched To Basketball Defensive Minded Damm Comes From Bench To Smooth Attack By James l'carse Sports Editor Entering the world of Jim Damm is like taking a vaca tion from the tensions of the day. Seeing the non-stop gum chewer relaxing in his desk chair at the center of the room smoothes out the wrinkles of trouble. The same is true when the 6'2" sophomore guard comes off the bench to guide the Uni versity of Nebraska basket ball team. Damm, from Bellflowcr, California, is rapidly becom ing the best sixth man in the Big Eight. in his steady, even way, Jim says, "Sitting on the bench it is easier to see what to do. It is easier to come off the bench and play." If it hadn't been for a high school coach looking for bas ketball prospects in a sopho more physical education class back in California, however, Jim might not even be near Nebraska's bench. As a small boy. he found baseball to his liking, and played a lot of shortstop. As a 'matter of fact it wasn't until that sophomore year in high ; school that Jim picked up a basketball. But once he got the feel of the roundball it was bye, bye baseball. A hard worker with the de sire to end up on top, Jim took to the court. After spend ing a year as a junior varsity player, he moved into a start ing roll on the varsity team at Bellflower. "My junior year we proba bly had a better team than when I was a senior," Jim says, reflecting back on 23 and 5 season. Wasting little time in getting to the top in this new sport, Jim was an all league selection in his first year of varsity competition, and was the only junior so honored. "My coach and I both felt I improved a lot between my junior and senior year, but I wasn't as high in the league as a senior." recalls Jim. "Our team finished 19-6 and the lost four games late in the season when some bovs were sick." Jim credits the pattern of West Coast basketball for get ting him into college. Califor nia is the center of defensive basketball in the United States, and Jim is a fine ex ample of their program. "We played a lot of summer league. Maybe fifty games, and these guys were good." Speaking again of his high school days. Jim recalls. "We ran a countinuity fast break similar to what we use here at Nebraska. We used the fast break and press, but you can't run all the time." When he wasn't running or pressing, Jim was picking up his man at mid-court. "In high school ball almost all plays start with a pass to the forward." explains Jim ."We felt if we could cut that pass off we had half the battle won. From his performance as a freshman, and now as a soph omore here at Nebraska, it appears Jim learned his trade well. "He's a great competitor." says Coach Joe Cipriano. "He has determination and works hard. Jim gives you KiO'V all the time, and that's all you "TfiTMflST FXHITIWR - ' BILL STERN ' rioted portscaster " - ' M usA'r r jk t MICHAEL REDGRAVE JIM DAMM . . . knew Nebraska was interested. can ask for from any player." During the course of the cur rent season, Jim has come off the bench numerous times to shake the Nebraska fast break lose, or steal a pass on defense. Jim has some of the quickest and surest hands in the league, and he's still im proving. Admitting that he got to col lege on his defensive prowess Jim says you get used to not scoring. "After a while you enjoy fine defense. I'd rather lead a fast break than score. It's pretty basketball." Asked if he liked all the running Nebraska does. Jim sat up in his chair and beam ed. "Like to run? I love to run?': The son of a Union Pacific Railraod insurance in spector, Jim is majoring in business teaching. He has two brothers. One is seventeen ("He's going to be bigger than me.") and one is nine. Jim Order Track Tickets Mail orders for tickets to the 38th annual Big Eight Con ference indoor track cham pionships. February 25-26, at the Kansas City Municipal Au ditorium are now being ac cepted at the Auditorium box office. Tickets are priced at $2. $3, i and $4 for the Saturday night finals, with all seats for Fri day night's session set at $1. Mail orders are to be direct-' ed to the Municipal Auditori um, Kansas City. Missouri, and accompanied by 25 cents for handling charges. Mail or ders will be filled first, with tickets to go on sale over the counter at the Auditorium be- j ginning Monday. January 31. PIZZA il HUT j PIZZA J? textbooks supplies paperbacks bookstore Union Lower Level heart of campus UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE also has a married sister, but he's not sure of her age. "It's cither 21 or 22." What attracked Jim to Ne oraska? "I didn't know I'd get any scholarship offers," Jim be gins. "I was contacted by the University of Utah and Ne braska. I visited Utah and they showed me a good time. "But," he continues, "when I came to Nebraska the coaches were with me all the time. I got to meet people and do things. I knew Ne braska was interested in me. "When I returned home I was still undecided," says Jim thinking back on those days of indecision. men uoacn Potter came to dinner at our home. The same night Coach Gardner from Utah came to take me out to dinner. I'm not sure what happened," Jim says recalling the awkward posi tion, "but my parents were impressed with Coach Porter. I knew I'd get a chance to play at Nebraska and it would give me a chance to get away from home. I also knew Coach Cipriano played press and run." So Jim left his favorite ! leisure time fun, body surf ing, packed up his snowshocs and defensive ability, and came to Nebraska. He feels this year's Husker team is a team of men who have their own specialities, like Stuart Lantz and rebound ing, but at the same a group of guys who can all do it all. "I was disappointed in the fans last year booing some of the players, but this year they are great. They are real ly behind the team." Jim says as he examines the new in terest in Nebraska basketball. "Some of the old timers are even coming up to ns and asking why we don't lose a few so they can have their old seats back." READ NEBRASKAN WANT ADS I. f Stolen love that JEAN HONOR SEAN Merrynli '4'" VY Komentto '.;. uNfVEftsAt. 1 i' t. 'V Promise J4er s4nulli $ut Give J4er 46th & O Ph. 489-4601 Friday, Feb. 11, 1965 But Jim doesn't believe this year's edition of Nebraska basketball will lose to many. "We are ready to go on in. That last road trip was t h e thing we had to get over." But in his calm, assured say, Jim realizes there is a long way to go. "Everybody is out to get us now. It's going to be dog cat dog from here on in." Indeed there is a long way to go ot capture the Big Eight Crown. But as you look at the handsome Californian chew ing his gum and relaxing ev eryone around him, some of the bumps along that rugged road to the championship dis appear. NCAA Rule Approved A special meeting of the Big Eight Conference faculty rep resentatives Tuesday (Febru ary 1) developed plans for implementation of tlia NCAA's new 1.600 rule. This new piece of legislation passed in January of 1965, and refined at this January's NCAA convention, is now in effect and the table for trans lating the results of entrance examinations and rank in clas will be used in this year's re cruiting. The signing date for the in-tra-conference (Big Eight) leU ter of intent is February 8 for football. The basketball date this year for the Big Eight let ter is March 29 this date also applies to wrestling, swimming, and gymnastics. The date for the spring sports baseball, track and field, golf, and tennis is May 17, which is also the date for the inter - conference (National) letter for all sports. BAT PARTY IS Coming! DOORS OPEN 12:45 STARTS TODAY leads to terror SEBERG BLACKMAN GARRISON Roy's ivmiucictoi n ' 1 Xm. TECHNICOLOR L'rV'; picture tuna a