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Wednesday, October 2, 1968
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by Randy York
Assistant Sports Editor
Don Shanklin and Paul Rogers, please step aside for
awhile. Baseball, yes, baseball (anybody ever heard of it
around here?), moves into the sport spotlight with the start
of the World Series Wednesday.
It's Bob Gibson and Denny McLain squaring off in
St. Louis' Busch Memorial Stadium. The opening clash has
received one of the biggest preliminary buildups in Series
history, simply because of the mound rivalry.
Sure, the Cards and the Tigers ran roughshod over
everyone en route to their respective flags. But what people
really want to know is: who is better, McLain, the prolific
31-eame winner or Gibson, the steady pacemaker who can
wear down a fresh supply of hitters in a 15-inning game?
TIME MAGAZINE thought so much of McLain's feats
this year that it devoted its cover story to mm two weeKs
ago. He may down 10 16-ounce bottles of Pepsi a day
(the figure used to be 15), but he still managed to produce
a 30-game season, marking the first time that it has been
done in 34 years.
And the organ-playing entertainer turned the trick at
age 24. Gibson is 32, IV2. inches taller than McLain and
10 pounds heavier. What's more, Gibby has just completed
his best season ever with 22 wins.
He's awful stingy too, carving a 1.12 E.R.A. this year
to shatter the all-time National League record. Gibby, a
graduate of Omaha Tech High School and who attended
Creighton University, is most noted for his endurance and
ability to progressively get better as the season wears on.
He started the year unimpressively with a 3-5 record
but then reeled off 15 consecutive victories. Gibson finished
the season with 13 shutouts and was the first pitcher ever
to whitewash eight teams in a single season.
Gibson's success story comes into focus with the timely
release of his new book, ' From Ghetto To Glory as told
to Phil Pepe In the book, Gibson describes just what it
is that makes the El Birdos click.
A few sample paragraphs:
"I know we are professionals and that rah-rah stuff is
not supposed to apply to us . . . and I know one more
thing. I know that every player who came over from another
team Cepeda, Maris, Bressoud, Jack Lamabe all of
them said the same thing.
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"IT IS difficult to explain as it is to understand. The
Cardinal team has always been like that as long as I've
been on it. All the guys seem to pull together."
This cohesvie or glue-like quality, Gibson believes,
spawns championship baseball teams.
Gibson continues, "There are no cliques on the Cardinals
we nave parties togetner, we go out togetner. 1 ve gone
out with Bob Skinner when he was on the team, and I
go out with Dal Maxvill a lot. We go to dinner or out
on the town in San Francisco or Chicago or Los Angeles."
"We don't have three separate groups like some clubs
where the Negro guys stay together, the Spanish guys stay
together ana tne white guys stay togetner."
The Cards will throw Gibson (22-9), Nelson Briles (19-11)
and Ray Washburn (14-8) against McLain (31-6), Mickey
Lolich (17-9) and Earl Wilson (13-12). Who would you take?
The fact that this is the Redbirds' third Series ap
pearance in the last five years might be considered whereas
the Tigers plunge into Series action for the first time in
23 years.
THE LAST time Detroit took the field in the classic
was in 1934. Remember the foe? Of course, the Cardinal
Gas House Gang, a collection of cut-throats who climaxed
a September run to the pennant with the Series' crown.
There was no stretch run this year, but the Series' script
should be the saiw The Cards will win it in six games
in this column's opinion.
True, the Tigers' momentum after they had already
clinched the title kept pace while the Cards dipped into
an abrupt slump. This has prompted many observers to
tag the Tigers as the likely choice. The oddsmakers, however,
have thrown their support to St. Louis, 8 to 5.
It all boils down to Gibson and McLain. Their II
lominating credentials do not solve matters any. Gibson
has been in the majors 18 years, McLain five. And perhaps
an important department overlooked by sideline skeptics
is that McLain has yielded 31 bomeruns, Gibson only 11.
Editor's Note This Is the
first in a five-part series on
the University's intramural
department.
by Mark Gordon
Sports Editor
Four years ago, nine flag
football fields were available
for intramural games, but
today with the elimination of
B team football a possibility,
the number of fields has
decreased to four.
With the football schedule
faced with a shortage of
space, University intramural
director Joel Meier's main
problem concerns finishing
the season before the snows
come.
"RIGHT NOW we're
playing double sessions at
each field to take up the lack
of playing fields," he said.
"Perhaps we. will finish."
The Lincoln Parks and
Recreation Department loan
ed the intramural department
the Woods Park area for flag
football games last fall.
Although the agreement was
for just the 1967 season, the
city has agreed to permit
games to be held this fall.
"Last season even with the
eight fields at Woods Park,
we had to play at every hour
and in every corner of the
field just to finish the
season," Meier said.
Yes, the Redbirds will take the
won't even have to pitch three times.
Series in six. Gibson
The elements overcame the
flag football program during
the 1964-65 academic year.
The football playoffs were
delayed until spring when the
grounds dried from the winter
snows and the football season
concluded after a four-month
interim.
During the 1964 flag football
season, three fields on east
campus, four fields on ground
presently occupied by the new
Wromen's Physical Education
Building and two football fields
where the current Mall park
ing lot is located were used
for football games.
Today, the three east cam
pus fields remain for possibly
another year and one additi
onal field has been
constructed on Vine Street be
hind Abel Hall.
TO ACCOMMODATE the
loss of five fields in four
years, Meier has placed
teams in smaller leagues.
eliminating several games for
each team.
Before the shortage of fields
occurred, Meier said teams
played a round robin schedule
in leagues with seven or eight
teams. Now teams play in le
agues of only five or six
teams with the top two clubs
in each league advancing to
a single-elimination A 1 1
University playoff schedule.
"This means that some
teams only play four games,
while a few years ago, they
used to be able to play six
or seven games at a
minimum," Meier said.
Four years ago 82 teams
played; three years ago that
number jumped to 92 and last
year a record-breaking 108
flag football teams entered
competition.
This year, with B teams not
entered yet due to a lack of
fields, the number has
decreased to 88. But if the
University can provide about
$170 to pay expenses to
schedule games at the Woods
Park Field at 33rd and 0
Streets, B football will be held
and the number of football
teams will approach 120.
"We have Woods Park
available for games," he said
"But we need about $170 to
pay a supervisor to watch all
games and to pay a driver
to haul all our equipment
back and forth from campus
to Woods Park."
HE SAID he has written to
the Dean of Student Affairs
office and he is awaiting word
if the additional funds can be
provided from another
source. The intramural
department has exhausted all
the funds from its current
budget.
Meier expects to be notified
this week if the money can
be raised and B football can
be played this fall.
'Obviously," he said, "that
would force us to cancel flag
football."
THREE FIELDS had been
planned for this fall behind
Abel Hall, but only one was
completed, according t.o
Meier. He added that the
University is expected to
construct three additional
fields behind Abel, with tern
porary lights, enabling five
games to be played there
nightly.
"With lights on three fields,
that will give us more space
than ever before, he said
"But you can't play every day
on a football field.
He noted that after one or
two weeks of constant
playing, the fields will have
no grass.
The plans for the project
have already been drawn up,
according to Meier, and they
are awaiting final approval
from the University business
manager before construction
can begin.
But even if B football is
held and the eight-field area
at Woods Park can be used,
future prospects for playing
fields remain less than op
timistic. Meier said that it is an
ticipated, possibly as early as
next fall, that the University
will construct buildings on the
three fields at east campus,
leaving the intramural
department with only one flag
football field.
'I'm really not satisfied
with it because it's just a
temporary situation," he ad
ded." But it is suitable if it
is made with the understan
ding that the University will
try to find a larger, better
situated area which will be
permanent."
Meier said the best ar
rangement for flag football
games would be to play all
games at one large field
rather than scheduling games
at various sites in Lincoln.
"I just hope we don't run
into the same situation we ran
into with the Men's Physical
Educaton Building," he said.
That was supposed to be a
temporary building back in
the early 1940s and it is our
permanent location today in
1968."
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MEIER SAID the new pro
ject behind Abel Hall, even
without the benefits he had
wanted such as greater-power j
lights, is still expensive.
The lights are expected to
cost $8,000 and the ground
must be leveled and the
debris removed.
"But we still need a
permanent field for the
future," he added.
Next Basketball and
Softball situations.
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The Falcons and the Dirty Old Men battle saw flag football action as the
University's intramural season rolls into its second week. The lack of play
ing space has caused teams to play at irregular times and on
Saturday mornings.
Husker 'cowboys' win second place
Omaha Air Force base team
socks it to NU in weekend tilt
JACK RICE of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch thinks the
Cards win the best-dressed team trophy too.
Rice says "Now, as General Doubleday said, "street
clothes do not make the baseball team, but the Cardinals
have been working all season on the premise that it helps.
"They have as fine a collection of Xehru jackets
medallions, turtle-neck sweaters and other mod refinements
as is available anywhere among the moneyed class pro
fessional athletes. They also could step out of their league
- yMu. mubB rrpreeauiuve u a campus competition
for most lovely sideburns."
The University Soccer Club
lost its second consecutive
Nebraska Soccer League
game to an Omaha area
squad, falling 3-1 to Offutt Air
force iiase Sunday at
Omaha.
The Omahan's led 1-0 at the
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Colorado's Mike Montler
dislocated a finger against
Oregon and left the game, but
didn't receive much sym
pathy from a fan in the Col
orado student section.
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"I came out for that one
play, and I heard some guy
holler, 'Tuition costs $091 a
semester,' so I hurried back
into the game," laughed the
offensive tackle.
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"Good breaks sometimes
come if your people are quick
and there," said Kansas
Jayhawk Coach Pepper
Rodgers. "It was like when
I bowl and get a hot hand
I can really go," he said
after the Jayhawks clobbered
Illinois 47-7.
"Carrying the football gives
me a strange sense of inner
feeling," says Oklahoma's
Eddie Ilinton. "I love to get
in the open field and make
all those guys miss me.
Sometimes it's to much fun
I actually break into laughter
when I fool a tackier."
end of the first half and
outscored the locals 2-1 in the
last period to win its opener.
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a center forward from
Turkey, scored the
University's goal midway
through the final period, but
team coordination crippled
the local's attack, Victor
Umunna. team captain, said.
"Our defense was real good
in comparison to last week,
but we have to improve our
team play," he said.
Umunna said two practices
have been scheduled this
weekend to prepare the team
for its next match on Oct.
13 against Kearney State
College.
Flayers should meet at the
Women's Physical Education
Building at 6 p.m. Friday and
I p.m. Saturday to practice,
Umunna said.
Umunna said the team can
use the two-week layoff since
several players were injured
against Offutt.
Players injuring legs were
Summar, who Umunna
estimated needed at least one
week before he would regain
top form, and , Chistopher
Nwakolumba, a right
halfback from Kenya.
The University of Nebraska
Intercollegiate Rodeo Team
finished second in total
number of points earned out
of thirteen schools at
Wisconsin State University in
River Falls, September 28
and 29.
This was the first National
Intercollegiate Rodeo in the
Great Plains Region this fall.
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results
The following are results
from the University Sports
Car Club rally Sunday:
runner-up for the Ail-Around i
Cowboy. He tied for first
place in steer wrestling and!
won third place in saddle
bronc.
Larry Radant won second
in calf roping and tied for
third place in ribbon roping.
John Sennett won fourh
place in steer wrestling and
sixth in ribbon roping.
Greg Phifer tied for third
in bull riding. Other members
of the rodeo team include:
Jerry Cosier, Don Cosier,
Mike Kucera and J. C.
Mcllatton.
The team will be traveling
to Ames, Iowa, October 18-19
for the Iowa State Rodeo, and
to Fargo, North
November 1-2.
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