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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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."
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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.
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