Wednesday, February 28, 1968
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The Daily Nebraskan
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ARGUEments
Sneaking Up
While you'd never know it here in the Midlands with
basketballs still flying, baseball is starting to take its
place for 1968 as the 20 major league squads are now
assembling in Florida and Arizona for spring training
and a meaningless exhibition season.
Place-by-place predictions would be little more than
mere guesses now since it's only February. When the time
for my fearless forecast comes in April (I can tell all of
vou are just waiting on the edge of your chair), I know
I'll have a difficult time with it by just glancing at a
few of the teams now.
In the superior National League, the teams to keep
an alert eye on seem to be the Chicago Cubs, Los Angeles
Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals, all because their 1967
finishes were vastly different from 1966.
Invincible Cubbies
The Cubs, accurately called the "invincible team of
destiny" by Chicago radio station WLS, soared all the
way to the third slot after a tenth place finish in 1966.
With Billy Williams and Ron Santo becoming established
stars, and guys like Randy Hundley, Glenn Beckert,
Adolpho Phillips and Don Kessinger taking their places
as genuine major leaguers, the Cubs don't intend to be
bumped from their lofty perch.
The pitching on Chicago's North Side also looks se
cure with 20-game winner Ferguson Jenkins, Rich Nye and
Ken Holtzman leading the way. In 1967, Holtzman posted
a 9-0 mark as a week-end hurler since he was taking six
months of National Guard training. Cub fans' eyes brighten
with the prospect of Holtzman around for all of 1968.
Team To Beat
World Champion St. Louis certainly deserves to start
the season bearing the "team to beat" label after racing
from sixth place to decisively take the pennant last sea
son. Whether they can do it again hinges largely on Or
lando Cepeda and Roger Maris, who both had years like
most people thought they were no longer capable of. I
have my doubts if they both can do it again, thus en
dangering the Redbirds' hopes for back-to-back flags.
Is it a fluke to go from first to eighth in one season?
The Dodgers will be out to prove it was. While there is
still no Sandy Koufax around, some important trades
make the Dodgers look quite impressive on paper. This
team could make great strides upward, but the top couple
of rungs will probably be out of reach this year unless
manager Walt Alston can get a phone to the broadcast
ing bullpen and call in Koufax.
A year ago today, I would have sooner thought Kan
sas State would beat Nebraska in football than I would
have thought we'd all be wondering if Boston could re
peat as American League champs. The American League
has now had four different pennant winners in as many
years and Boston hardly looks like the team to grab two
in a row. I really think the Red Sox just lucked out last
year in a weaker league which has lost four out of the
last five World Series and five straight All Star games.
It should be interesting to see if the Minnesota Twins
or Detroit Tigers can bring a pennant home after both
coming oh-so-close in 1967. The 1966 champion Baltimore
Orioles are in about the same position as the Dodgers, but
the Orioles probably have as good a shot at the flag as
anyone.
No Pennant
A pennant doesn't seem to be in the prospects for
either the Chicago White Sox or New York Yankees in
1968. Things have been so dismal attendence-wise, on Chi
cago s South Side the last two years that they are taking
nine home games, one with each team, to Milwaukee
this season. The White Sox blew it royally last year and
finished fourth. They were probably lucky to land that
high and will have a hard time reaching it again.
New York is just not the same team it was in the
early 1960's. I had an opportunity to watch a four-game
series between them and the White Sox last year, and
while all of the contests were very close, the Yanks lost
three. In past years, when the Bronx Bombers were in a
close game, everyone feared "five o'clock lightening", a
late inning Yankee rally to give them the win. While New
York has some fine young players, "five o'clock lightening"
is still a thing of the past.
Sorry About That
I hope I haven't made all of you American League
fans too gloomy. After all, the National League doesn't
have a Charley Finley. Now that he's moved the A's to
Oakland, the colorful insurance executive will be able to
start a season without having the wrath of his home town
on him. At least not until after opening day.
Volleyball tournament
accepting entries now
Entries are now being ac
cepted for the intramural All
University volleyball tourna
ments. Deadline is 5 p.m.,
Tuesday, March 5.
There will be no entry fee
charged for the tourney, and
all teams must provide their
own officials: one for net of
ficiating and another as line
man and scorekeeper.
Double-elimination tourneys
will be staged for fraternity
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Husker
I Happenings
Friday
Basketball Iowa State. Coliseum, 7:38
p.m. froh Intraequad t:15).
Indoor Trace Big Eight champion
hips lit Kansas City.
Saturday
Indoor Track Blf Eight at Kansas
City.
Gymnastics State high achool cham
pionships. Coliseum.
Wrestuna; Oklahoma, Coliseum, 7:30
p.m.
Thursday
Basketball at Missouri.
Swlmmlnf Big Eight championships
at "Lawrence, Kan.
Friday
wimmlaf Big Eight championships
t Lawrence. Kan.
Wrestling Big Eight eaampionships
at Boulder. Colo.
Big 8 dominates
In 1966 the Big Eight laid
claim to 11 of the 22 finalists
of the National Collegiate
Wrestling Championships,
won by Oklahoma State. The
Cowboys had three individual
champs; Iowa State, finishing
second, had one; and Okla
homa, finishing third, had one
tltlist.
"A" teams; Selleck, Burr,
Cather and Abel "A" and
"B" teams; and independent
entries.
Winners in all brackets will
they compete for the all-University
championship.
Players may compete for
on'v one team and official
volleyball rules will govern
all matches.
A sc edule of available
courts will be posted on the
I-M bulletin board. Managers
should sign up for an open
court.
Send all entries to room 102,
Men's P.E. building.
Defending Champions
Fraternity A
Selleck
Gather
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Independents
Beta Theta PI
Fairfield
Custer
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The Group
Fraternity B .' Delta Tau Delta
"orm B Keaton B
All-University Beta Theta Pi
NU avenges Lawrence loss, stays in race
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Husker coach Joe Cipriano charges happily off the bench as his team
opens a big lead over the Rock Chalk gang from Kansas. Husker guard Jim
Damm, left, is nothing but smiles also.
Yell squad
practices
in March
Freshmen students interest
ed in trying out for the Uni
versity yell squad may sign
up in the activities room 132
of the Nebraska Union.
Applications will be accept
ed until March 7.
Tryout practices will begin
on March 11 and end on March
19. These practices are not
mandatory for acceptance in
to the yell squad. '
The preliminary elimina
tions will be held on March
20 and final eliminations will
be held on March 21.
Well represented
The Big Eight was well rep
resented in 1967 post-season
football bowls, as Nebraska
played in the Sugar Bowl.
Missouri's Charlie Brown and
Gary Lane were named out
standing players in the Hula
and All-Star games and Iowa
State's Eppie Barney was
outstanding in the Blue-Gray
contest.
1 -Si ate wrestler
meets Waterloo
. . . Don Buzzard dropped from team
Ames, Iowa Don Buzzard,
senior 177-pounder from Wa
terloo, Iowa, has quit at Iowa
State, it was announced by
coach Harold Nichols.
This stripped the Cyclones
of a veteran who had finished
second at 191 pounds in the
National Collegiate meet the
past two years.
Nichols held Buzzard out of
the Minnesota meet and
against Nebraska in order to
give him more time to study.
Buzzard finished his exams
then left Ames for his home
in Waterloo.
2 replacements
Jason Smith, sophomore
167-pounder from Ankeny, and
Rod McDonald, 177 - pound
sophomore from Morning Sun,
have wrestled at 177 in sev
eral meets this year. Nichols
did not indicate what shift he
would make to fill the vacant
spot in upcoming meets.
Buzzard was 6-2 when he
quit, both losses coming at
the hands of Oklahoma
S t a t e' s national champion
Fred Fozzard.
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Stuart: 'The President's Ana
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Varsity: 'Billion Dollar Brain',
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Joyo: 'The Last Safari', 7:15,
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Sports Editor
The Nebraska Cornhuskers,
playing their best of the year
when it counted, led the
visiting Kansas Jayhawks by
as mucn as 17 points Monday
night in the Coliseum, then
had to come through with
free throws down the stretch
for a crucial 76-69 Big Eight
triumph
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Big Eight
Standings
Kansas Stat 8 S
Iowa State . 7 3
Nebraska 8. 4
Kansas 7 4
Oklahoma 5
Missouri .. 3 8
Oklahoma State 3 8
Colorado 2 9
Game Wednesday
Iowa State at Colorado
All Games
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Playing before the most
spirited and raucous capacity
crowd of several seasons.
coach Joe Cipriano's Huskers
showed they'd learned their
lessons well at Lawrence. An
aggressive NU defense, man-to-man
most of the way, cut
off the inside lob shots which
had throttled the Nebraskans
10 days before at Allen Field-house.
Slow start
Both teams started out slow.
feeling each other's defense
out, both coaching staffs re
peatedly out on the floor
directing the attack or shout
ing instructions when they
could be heard above the
screaming NU fans and a
sprinkling of Jayhawk follow
ers.
Kansas and Nebraska
traded a one-or two-pomt lead
nine times in the first nine
minutes of play before a long
jumper by Sfuart Lantz put
the Huskers out at 13-12 and
they built a lead of 17-12 with
11:42 remaining in the first
half.
Kansas fought back to take
a 19-18 margin with 8:10 in
the half, but that was the
last they were to see of a
lead, as Cip's starting five
gained a 24-19 bulge and
maintained a four- to seven
point lead out to a 38-31 half
time edge.
NU offense sparks
The Husker fans roared
their approval when the team
left for the dressing room,
swinging a mock Jayhawk
around the floor by the neck,
but they hadn't even warmed
their lungs up yet for what
was to come.
The Huskers exploded dur
ing the first eight minutes of
the second half for 21 points
led during the spurt by Lantz
and sophomore star Bob
Gratopp with nine apiece.
At the same time Nebraska
shut off the KU offense, hold
ing the Hawks to just 11, as
they flashed out to an un
velievable 17-point lead and
the fans went wild.
The Huskers then cooled
down to warm and watched
the Hawks keep their poise
and attempt to eat away the
lead. '
Too close
And they came close enough
to throw a scare into the
crowd, and probably Cipriano
when KU guard Rich Brad
shaw stole the ball and made
an easy layup to bring them
to a deficit of lust five at
70-65 with 1:52 left to go.
It was then, however, that
the earlier lead paid off, as
the steam went out of the
rally and they had to turn to
desperation fouling in the fi-
nai two minutes.
Charities save it
Four different Huskers
cashed in on at least the
first of each of the four last
minute fouls KU committed,
as they finished out the scor
ing with six charity points
for the 76-69 final margin.
The hustle and inspiration
which won for Cip's crew
shows itself best in the re
bound department, where the
Huskers out-rebounded t h ?
much taller Jayhawks bv
42-31, not counting team re
bounds. The NU victory aga; i
throws the Big Eight tiff
race into another round o
confusion as it heads rtowi'
the stretch with the finish in
sight.
The Kansas State Wildcats
with a win at Missouri, moved
into the lead, placing idle
Iowa State second, the Hus
kers third and Kansas, who
led and looked almost home
free after defeating NU last
weekend, mired in fourth.
The Huskers get their shot
at the Cyclones Friday night,
after Colorado hosts the
Iowans tonight, as NU makes
its final home appearance.
Lantz would up high with
22, Gratopn right behind with
21, and Roger Bohenstiehl
collected 20 for KU.
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