Wednesday, February 7, 1968
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Wildcats invade Saturday in clash of
No time for deep breath after
by GEORGE KAUFMAN
Sports Editor
Husker coach Joe Cipriano
Is not exactly the stay-at-home
type of person, but nes
mighty glad to be finished
with one trip his recent tour
of Oklahoma.
Cip and his Huskers were
only there for three days, and
thev didn't Ret in much sight
seeing at all. For Saturday
nisht they did battle with the
Oklahoma Cowboys at Still
water and emerged with an
important 63-62 Big Eight vic
tory.
Monday night the Huskers
did what they failed to do last
vear. killing their conference
crown hopes. Nebraska de
feated the Oklahoma Sooners
in a battle down to the wire.
883, for a sweep of the Red
Earth series and a renewed
outlook on the stretch run of
the league battle.
Balanced attack
Unlike the Oklahoma State
affair, in which senior stand
out Tom Baack had to carry
the offensive load with 28
points while no other Nebras
kan could break into double
figures, the Huskers met the
Sooners with a balanced at
tack with four of the NU start
ers with 17 points or more.
Soph guard Tom Scant! e
bury "bit well from the outside
to lead the parade with 23
points; Stu Lanti, after being
held to just seven at Stillwa
ter, was great offensively and
defensively with 19 points and
15 rebounds; NlTs all-time
scoring leader Baack hit 18
and sophomore Bob Gratopp
contributed 17.
. The whole team did a tre
mendous job," was all Cipri
ano could say about the two
wins. He pointed out that
while Baack has been his
most consistent scorer, a com
plete team effort was needed,
especially defensively, against
a team like Oklahoma State
and Henry Iba's slow-down
typeofgame. .-
31 for Sidle
The Huskers failed to shut
down OlTs great Don Sidle
Monday night as be poured in
34 points, but it is interesting
a look at the box score, Willie
Eogers, usually a top gun for
the Sooners, was the only
other Oklahoman Is double
figures, and he just barely at
10. Garfield Heard was also
held below past performances
at nine.
The Huskers had leads of as
much as 12 points several
times,'- but Sidle, after KU's
Soplis
aidMU
indoors
Columbia, Mo. Sopho
mores should lend more qual
ity depth to Missouri's indoor
track squad this year than in
the past.
Though Steve Herndon, the
Tigers' premier high jump
er, is gone, coach Tom Botts
says all other events ''should
be as good or better than last
year."
Mizzou rallied surprisingly
last year to tie the Huskers
for second place in the 1967
Indoor Championships at Kan
sas Citv, with Herndon ana
long-jumper Gary Rainwater
taking first-place meaais.
Rainwater returns this year,
along with Glenn Ogden, two-
mile: Bill wells, mile; traig
Endicott, Ted Nykiel and
Frank Lewis, middle dis
tances: Steve Hallibutton, 440;
Paul Sims, hurdles; and Char
lie Beck, pole vault
Harriers help
Mizzou should have good
depth from the 880 up, due to
an outstanding cross country
team.
Distance runners Elliott Ev
ans and Dave Compton are
two of Botts' best performers.
Evans has run a 8:00.2 two
mile and Compton will com
pete in the mile. Sophs Brent
Slay in the 440 and Ray Dunn
in the 800 will help out there.
One of the Tigers' more her
alded regies hurdler and
440 Tr.an Joe Simones has a
pulled muscle which will pro
bably keep him out of indoor
competition. But Botts has a
plentiful youth corps which he
hopes will take up the slack.
Oglea, who has run regu
larly amoer nine minutes in
conference two-mile action,
will jilso be hampered in the
indocr part of the season by
a &JthcrBome hip, but is ex
pected to come along luickly
Sm th utusatr portion of the
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A TIME FOR THINKING ... as Husker coach Joe Cipriano and a young Coliseum fan seem to ponder
facing Nebraska in the wide-open Big Eight basketball race. For further thoughts on the subject,
Dale von Seggern fouled out
midway through the second
half, led a Sooner rally which
almost caught the Nebraskans
down the stretch.
Speed helps
Only the NU speed and
quick fast break broke up the
momentum of the Oklahoma
comeback attempts, and the
Huskers were forced to play
it to the buzzer when the
Sooner offense wouldn't let
them stop and let the air out
of it.
As Cipriano proudly points
out, the full court press also
played a key role in the vic
tory. The two wins cap a five
game league victory streak
for Cipriano's crew, bringing
them from a discouraging 0-2
early mark to a three-way tie
at the top with Iowa State and
Kansas State at 5-2. And no
body's looking past Kansas
yet despite the trouble the
Jayhawks have had recent
ly winning in usually-impene
K-Stater Willis set sight
on college far from home
Manhattan Like lots of
young men, Ray Willis wanted
to attend college as far from
home as possible. So he winds
up in Manhattan, only a six
hour drive from Pauls Valley,
Okla., where he grew up.
'Oh well, it's one state
away, grins Willis, a mem
ber of Kansas State's basket
ball team. "Don't get me
wrong, I liked it at home but
I'd seen all there was to see.
What's there wiH be there
from now on."
Willis will not be at K-State
from now on, much to Coach
Tex Winter's regret He's a
transfer from Cameron, Okla.
Junior College and classified
as a senior. It's too bad Kay
wiH not be able to plant his
tightly wound 6-1, 180-pounds
into a Wildcat uniform much
longer because he's finally
catching on to Winter's deli
cate offense which probably
seemed as far away to him
as Pauls Valley last season.
Lost at first
"I was lost," Ray confirms.
I was confused all the time
about what to do on the floor."
That was a year ago. Wil
lis, although he admits the of
fense still seems slightly mys
terious, has caught on well
enough this season to be sta
tioned at either forward or
guard.
Basketball i s nl exactly
teeming with 6-1 forwards but
he makes up for his physical
deficiency with aggressiveness
and the ability to jump. And
Winter admires Ray's ability
to shoot inside.
Playing forward probably
brings back memories of the
Pauls Valley football team
where Willis served as a half-
hack and linebacker. "It's
about as rough," he grins.
'My lack of size hurts under
the goal because the big guys
shove me around. It's hard
to keep position. Somebody's
always pushing me out
1 feel more comfortable at
forward than guard, though.
There's less movement at for
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trable Allen Fieldhouse.
Ted Owers' Hawks barely
fought off an Oklahoma rally
in Saturday's televised Big
Eight contest and just es
caped dangerous Oklahoma
State Monday night, 52-50.
And CSpmnn and the rest
of the Big Eight coaches can't
keep from smiling when they
Big
Eight
i Standings
W.
Nebraska 5
Iowa State 5
Kansas State 5
Kansas 4
Missouri 3
Oklahoma 3
Oklahoma State 1
Colorado
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think that Kansas still has the
deadly swing through Okla
homa left on its schedule.
The Wildcats also got a
scare Monday night, from the
team which shocked the Jay-
hawks art Allen Fieldhouse J
ward and the type of moves
feel more natural to me. I don't
have to handle the ball as
much, either."
Willis, it's safe to say, was
accustomed to the running
game when he arrived on th
K-State campus. "At Cameron
we averaged something like 32
points a game," he recalls. ""I
think my last year there we
had a 27-4 record and lost to
Moberly, Mo. in the finals of
the national tournament"
Moberly, to set the record
straight was being coached at !
the time by Cotton Fitzsim
mons. Winter's new assistant
at K-State.
Willis almost forgot basket
ball back an junior high school.
'We had a coach who ran us
a lot," Ray grins. "I figured
he was runnin' me too much
so I quit But I sat back and
watched all my buddies play
for about a year and eouldnt
stand it. I went back out my
sophomore year."
Willis and several of his
teammates never have been
known to talk much but Ray
says the Wildcats play then
best when lots of chatter oc
curs in the dressing room pri
or to the game. "When we get
quiet look out," he says.
Norman, Okla. Charles
"Plain Ole Charlie" Shivers
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earlier, Missouri. Ted Winter's
cagers had to sneak through
a last-minute basket to clip
the Tigers at Manhattan, 69
67. Which brings us to the fact
that the Huskers feel much
better about the future in the
conference race and especial
ly about their immediate fu
! hire, when they meet Kansas
State at the Coliseum Satur
day night
"We sliU have to play them
one at a time," says Cipriano,
lest everyone get carried
away by the new-found opti
mism in the Husker camp.
And the Wildcats are a good
place to start
After tripping the Wildcats
for the Big Eight tournament
championship in December,
the Huskers traveled to Man
hattan and suffered their sec
ond conference defeat Cipri
ano's players obviously wont
forget that ;
K-State also presents some-'
thing of a problem to Cipri
4Paiu Ole Charlie9
when heavyweights
is not so much interested in
getting to the top as he is in
staying off the bottom.
The 19-year-old sophomore,
whose normal class is 177
pounds, has inherited the un
enviable assignment of han-
Charlie Suiters
Scared to death
dling heavyweight duties for
the Sooners.
Most college heavies, such
as Michigan State's Jeff
Smith, Michigan's Dave Por
ter and Oklahoma State's
John Ward, range from 230
to 245 pounds.
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the same kind of fast, run-and-shoot
game the Huskers use.
And this will require switch
ing gears from the Oklahoma
series.
But the Huskers have shewn
they play well at any speed
in the league, and perhaps the
Coliseum atmosphere after the
trip wul help.
' Kansas State win be using
their zone defense on cs,"
foresees the Nebraska coach,
"and it wiH be interesting to
see how it effects us."
Starting line-p?
There are indications that
Nebraska is finally getting
settled on a semblance of a
starting line-op, a rarity un
der Cipriano, who likes a lot
of changes and substitutions.
"We Ye closer to stay!
with our starting line-up now
than we ever have been," says
Cipriano. But he quirkly adds.1
"Of course Jim) Damm did
a good job for us on the Okla
"face" all three
Hard to smile
"It's hard to smile when
you're staring at those big
fellas," Shivers deadpans.
In dual matches with the
Spartans, Wolverines and
Cow-pokes, Oklahoma had its
victories sacked before the
heavyweight finale. Each time
coach Tommy Evans elected
to forfeit the' final bout rath
er than risk injury to "Plain
Ole Charlie."
"Boy! Was I glad!" grins
the bespectacled Shivers. "I
was scared to death. Each
time I hoped the final match
didnt depend on me.
"Funny thing, most of the
heavyweights I face sit there
on the bench smilin great
big, waittn to get a shot at
me," Shivers went on. "Es
pecially Porter. He smiled all
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maybe not so close, after all.
The starters on the trip
were Baack. Lanz, Scan tie-
bury, Gratopp and Von Seg
gern. It's getting to be a sports
cliche in his unbelievable Big
FJght basketball scramble,
but it's still true that the
match-up against K-State Sat
urday is a must for the Husk
ers and will throw a lot of
light on Nebraska's chances
for the crown which has just
escaped them fee past three
years.
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ARGUEments
By Harry Argue
The time has come for some more booing at home
basketball games.
That's right. Booing.
Effective Home Weapon
It's a simple fact of life that booing can be a. most
effective weapon of the home crowd. Unfortunantly, it's
a weapon we haven't been utilizing as much as we could.
Not
High
How do I justify booing ?
First of all,- this Is not high school basketball and
the purpose of the college game is not to build character.
Like it or not, the purpose is to win.
Second, the other Big Eight schools are not exactly
known for their hospitality to visiting teams during the
game.
Not Poor Sportsmanship
I don't really consider booing during the games to
be poor sportsmanship. There is a time and place for
good sportsmanship like before and after the games.
As far as I'm concerned, there should be nothing but po
liteness and friendship between all the Big Eight schools
except during the games themselves.
During the games when we're at home, though, the
situation calls for large-scale booing of the visiting team
to harass and bother their concentration, thus giving the
Huskers a true home court advantage.
Tip The Scales
Also, the more partisan the Husker fans are via boo
ing, the more the officials may be pressured into giving
the doubtful calls the ones that could go either way
to Nebraska.
Count It Out
I like the idea of the yell kings counting to 10 as
the Huskers press their opponents in the back court When
the count reaches "10" and the official hasn't whistled
the ball over to Nebraska, he should be informed of his
mistake. The counting almost certainly frustrates the visi
tors, even if the cheerleaders do count just a little biJ
fest
But Not For NU
But I want to make one thing clear: Booing should
be reserved exclusively for the visiting team, there is
no room for booing the Huskers here for anv reason, even
if the crowd thinks they've made a bad play or think
the coach made a wrong decision.
Such booing can only help the visiting team.
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Gymnastics
State.
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Indoor Track Oklahoma
State, Memorial Stadium, 1:39
p.m.
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