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I. :Page 6 The Daily Nebraskan Wednesday, March 6, 1968 All America Meylah gets 1967 Novak i i ten . is. . , : irr" Zi&J ' I vtriSslT . (' - r Iff sp. , . j ' P-J, v7 f NSv W V- K q Several Husker standouts got off their last home shots at the Coliseum last Friday against Iowa State in the 93-92 overtime loss. Stu Lantz, left, shoots in two of his 23 points to remain second highest scorer in NU history. Tom Baack, center pumps in a pair of his 22, as he stayed on top of the career scoring list with 1,278. And Willie, right, perhaps even a more fa- miliar figure in the Coliseum than the players, gets off one of his last deadly ice cream passes of the season. Wayne Meylan, Nebraska's great two-time All American middle guard, has been voted the 1967 winner of the Tom Novak Trophy, presented by J. Gordon Roberts of Omaha. The trophy, established bv Mr. Roberts in 1950, is pre sented to the Husker senior who "best exemplifies the courage and determination despite all odds in the manner of Nebraska All American center Tom Novak." Sports writers and broadcasters who cover all Nebraska games vote on the award. Meylan was a near-unani- mous choice, missing on only one ballot as a voter paid tribute to tackle Jim McCord, who battled back from severe leg injuries to become a Hus ker star. Mr. Roberts will present the Novak Trophy to Meylan dur ing half-time ceremonies at the Spring Football Game, May 11. Past winners 19S0-Chtrlc Toogood (Uckltl 1851 Frak Simon (end) 1932 Ed Huimtnn (Ucklc) 1953 Ted Connor (tackle) 195 Bob Wkfner (guard) 1955 Rex rischer (halfback) 1956 LaVern Torcaon (guard) 1957 Jerry Brown (fullback) 15 Dick McCaahland (fullback) 1959 Harry Tolly (quarterback) io rai nscner .quarterback) 1961 Don Purcell (guard) 1962 Dwatn Carlson (luard) 1963 Dennis Claridge (quarterback) 1964 Uvle Slttler (center) 1965 Tony Jeter (end) 1966 Larry WiccholU (defeneive back) 1967 Wayne Meylan (middle guard) giuinnnniniNnimiiiiimimminniiiniiMiiiniiuininiininniNiiHttiiiiiiMiuiiiiiiHiiinnHiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiu ARGUEments Pony People Mention Ak-Sar-Ben and most people automatically think of horse racing. While it's true that Ak is well-known by many for long wieiuuuns spent mere unsuccessiuuy playing the ponies, uotn-ey 15 sjuig ai AK-aar-uen now. : AK-sar-iien is tne home ice rink for the Knights, Omaha's entry in the Central Professional Hockev one of the key minor circuits for the National Hockey League. Other teams in the CPHL include Fort Worth Tulsa, Kansas City, Dallas, Memphis, Houston and Okla homa city. . Knights Depleted When the NHL expanded from six to twelve teams m year, an of the minor leagues were dipped into deep, ly-for player strength. A second place team last year, Omaha's talent was virtually devastated by the NHL's ex- yamuun anu uie Anignis nave spent uus season in the gauows ot last place. The Knights' roster shows only one returning player aawui me iroo-of squaa ana meir parent NHL club, the New York Rangers, have been unable to do a sufficient jobjof plugging the drain. I While Omaha will probably lose at least $100,000 at the box office for 1967-68, they have -still outdrawn Dallas, Houston and Memphis. Their strong drawing attraction was pretty much in evidence this past weekend. Even though they lost at home to the Kansas City Blues on Friday night, 3,700 screaming faithful still showed-up for Saturday night's battle with the Memphis South Stars. Ak-Sar-Ben only holds Q.000. - Omaha 'Ice Town' I'm convinced that Omaha is a first-rate hockey town after seeing Saturday night's game. As lowly as this sea son has been, the crowd shouted as if the Knights were m- a title scramble. They were given an incentive by the wfeuu, iun.m mai pcnuu piay wmcn evenxuauy gave them a 2-1 lead. A Memphis comback though saw Omaha take a 3-2 defeat, but the fans were yelling up to the final OUCIl, The Memphis players were constantly heckled bv the ardent Knight supporters. One gentleman took special de- ugni. ui taunting ouutn aiar aetenseman Jack Chipchase -h icpeaieu biiuuls oi cmpcnase, you re a bum," "You bijf, dummy, Chipchase," and finally, with a poetic touch, "Fall on your face, Chipchase." - " The highlight of the evening's entertainment was a near iree-ior-au on tne ice, led by Memphis' Ted McCaskill and the Knights' Joe Johnston. While those two were slugging ilvout in the center of a mob, an Omaha partisan reached over the protective glass and dumped three cups ieer and a load of pop corn right on McCaskill. Z.Not surprisingly, the South Star forward became slight ljenraged and started wildly swinging his stick at the fan." When it was all over, Johnston and McCaskill wound up in the penalty box, separated by a policeman. No one knows what happened to the fan. ' L"." Fan Participation 7?Jh fans can legally take part in the activities too. Between the second and third periods, program numbers are-read and if you're one of the lucky three, you get to ga to center ice and try a shot at the goal. There's a cash prize if you score. ZZl just hope that some of the New York Rangers' top brass have made a few games at Ak-Sar-Ben this season While I am the first to say that the Rangers' main job is to produce a winner in New York, I'm sure if they realized how strongly Omaha is behind the Knights in a dis mal year like this, they'd make an extra effort to re stock the team for 1968-69. Could you imagine what Ak would be like if the Knights were at the other end of the staadings? 'Cats claim crown ?iiiiiiiiiiiirjmiiiii!Miaiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiii: Big 8 Standings Conf. Kansas State in 3 Kansas 9 4 Nebraska 8 5 Iowa State a 5 Oklahoma e 6 Missouri 4 9 Oklahoma State 3 10 Colorado , 3 10 Thursday! Games Nebraska nt Missouri Oklahoma at Colorado Saturday's Games Iowa State at Kansas Oklahoma State at Kansas Slate Ml Games 18 7 18 7 15 9 12 12 12 13 9 '6 10 15 9 15 No season tickets for prep tourney University of Nebraska tick et manager James S. Pitten ger remind all NU fans that since the High School basket baa tourney held here Thurs day, Friday and Saturday is not a university event, sea son tickets from NU will not be acceptable for admission to Coliseum games. It finally came to an end, but the Big Eight basketball race went out on the same note it had played all season long on a last-minute tip-in by Kansas State's Gene Wil hams. The long-armed Wildcat standout leaped high for the winner with just three seconds left at Ames as his team won 63-61, and virtually wrapped up the conference title and bid to the NCAA spot which goes with it. As this was going on, Kan sas was being forced into an overtime at Norman before edging the Sooners, 85-80, in the extra period. Wildcats to Wichita The win pushed K-State's record to 10-3, with only the Jayhawks at 9-4 possible con tenders. But since the Wild cats have beaten KU twice this season, they would go to Wichita even in case of a tie With Iowa State and Nebras ka both at 8-5 behind the two Sunflower State teams, the NIT bid to runner-up is still in doubt, but KU can win it Saturday when Iowa State visits Allen Fieldhouse. Nebraska takes on Missouri at Columbia Thursday night, and those two games will de cide the NIT league represen tative. K-State rally The Wildcats have staged a real rally down the stretch to win the closest Big Eight race for a long time, as they won eight of their last nine loop games their only loss be ing the 92-68 drubbing by the Huskers m Lincoln. In case of a Kansas win over the Cyclones Saturday and an -Oklahoma State win over the Wildcats the sariie night, the tie for the crown would occur and the Wildcats would automatically go to Wichita. That situation would seem to send KU to New York City for the NIT tourney as conference co-champions. liitiJiJiiiiiiritiiiiiirittiiiiiiriiiiiiiiiiiiMriiriiiiftitiiiiriiMiiitiitiiJiiiiitiiiiiiiMiiiTiiiiiiftitiiitiriiiiiiiiiii iMMitittiiiiinn tiriiiiiiin 1 11:111111 tiiriir r niiiiiiiiMirttiiiitif iniijiiiitiiijiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiijiti triu tiitiiiiiittifii ijiirurtf I the Broad view h Bon, Bowwau Huntin' for something . Yummy? Mr. Donut is the Place. Worlds Best Coffee 5121 O : 488-9928 mister Donut A wise old observer of sport once said "Some days you win, some days you lose and some days you get rained out." This simple adage can prob ably be used to describe al most anything that happens in any given sport on any given day and even the per formance of any one athlete on that day. Being a lazy and uncrea- tive sports writer, and not being in the mood to make up a new cliche, I will use the phrase to describe many of the events of the Big Eight Indoor Track and Field Cham pionships last weekend in Kansas City. tsetore tne prelims even started Friday night a group of about 30 small boys be gan chanting "We want Ry un." They continued their chants during a couple of the lulls in the action, but with no success. Ryun did not show up at all Friday night since he had chosen to compete in the only two running events without preliminary races, the mile and the two-mile. Unfortunately the small boys went home unsatisfied, but then the fans who saw the Kansas junior run Satur day night in the finals prob ably did not feel that satisfied at seeing his running either. Ryun ran to win both races, and nothing more. He was not out to set a record or even break eight minutes in the two-mile or even the magic four minutes in the mile. He did score six points for the Jayhawks in each event, but mat was all. Perhaps the little bovs would have been happy just to have seen their hero run, but I think the adult fans were a little disappointed hv his. effort, or 1 a c k of same. Another little boy. not one of the group, who sat behind me on the plane on my way back, was commenting to his father that they had a sort of show and tell on news events each week. His father sug gested that he take his pro gram from the track meet and the little boy said he was planning to. The man asked his son what he would tell the other youngsters and the boy re plied that he would tell them about the pole vault and the guy who jumped on the wrong side of the pit and maybe about the world rec ord. "Oh," said the father, "I didn't know you were that in terested in track. It isn t one of your better sports, is it?" "Oh yes," said the little boy, "Last year I beat all of the other boys in the first grade in the 25-yard dash." "Really, that's a long way," remarked the father. "Sure is," his son agreed, "but I made it." I decided afterwards that 25 yards might seem longer to a little boy because he is smaller and his legs are so much shorter. Twenty five yards would seem as far and perhaps be as far in the num ber of steps required in the 60-yard dash to the average college athlete. Amazingly enough some college athletes cannot run well over 60 yards. For ex ample, George Byers of Kan sas who set a world record in the 60-yard low hurdles Fri day night with a 6.5 clocking. Byers is a good runner in the 60-yard races, but when spring comes, and the 60 yards grow to 100 yards, you will not see Byers setting any j world records, or even fin ishing first in any major1 races. He is merely a short: sprinter and cannot make the i last 4Q yards i This can be contrasted to! the first heat of the 600-yard run Friday night where the last 147 yards made all the difference. The starter got confused and shot the gun to signal the last lap after the race should have ended (af ter the runners had run their 600 yards.) The slightly confused run ners were sure that the race was over and stopped any way. All except for one, Steve Rangel of Kansas who was urged on by his team mem bers to "finish the race." As the rest of the runners saw Rangel continuing the race they somewhat resumed their running, but at a some what uninspired dog-trot. Though Rangel set a new world record in the 747-yard dash, the officials ruled that the race had ended after the 600 yards. Though a group oi Kansas lans jeered the de cision, I think it was only part of a team effort and they really were not disappointed or upset. Effort by Forbes Perhaps the individual ef fort for the team was most apparent in the anchor leg of the mile relay that Nebras ka's Clifton Forbes ran. Forbes took the baton in sec ond place in the heat and, as he went around the first turn of the three laps he was to run, he seemed to slow down and hold his left leg. For a while he limped but then he continued to com plete the race staying second in the heat. After the race Forbes sat down and practically had to be lifted to his feet again. He had run about 400 yards with a pulled muscle just above the knee. Girrent Movies - - - a - a Hums ranisked k T neater. turn. Mtftt laeal njn. Mi fee LINCOLN CooperLincoln: 'Bonnie and Clyde', 7:00 and 9:00. Varsity: 'How To Save A Marriage And Ruin Your Life', 1:18, 3:20. 5:22, 7:24, 9:26. Stuart: 'The Penthouse, 1:15, 3:20, 5:15, 7:15, 9:20. State: 'The Graduate', 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00. Joyo: 'Pinocchio, In Outer Space', 7:00, 9:55, 'Nobody's, Perfect', 8:15. Nebraska: Foreign Film So ciety, 7:00 and 9:00. OMAHA Indian Hills: 'Gone With The Wind', 2:00 and 8:00. Dundee: 'Far From The Mad ding Crowd', 2:00 and 8:00. 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