Jayhawks Honored by Three Top KU Supporters at Banquet
Chancellor Clarke Wescoe athletic director Wade Stinson and coach Pepper Rodgers headlined a Kansas Union banquet honoring the 1967 Kansas University football team. About 500 attendees heard seniors speak and saw Rodgers perform a forward roll as he accepted the Big Eight Coaches Somersault Champion trophy. Capt. Mike Sweatman and Rodgers received standing ovations. Wescoe praised the season’s pride and KU’s rising program.
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UCLA
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Bobby Douglass
Mickey Doyle
Johnny Jackson
John Zook
Dale Holt
Ormond Beach
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Rodgers Renders Yale Carols on TV Show
Kansas coach Pepper Rodgers announced at a team banquet a television first featuring a taped Christmas carol segment on his show before the NCAA video game. He planned a Rodgers rendition of Jingle Bells among selections celebrating KU's 5-2 league mark after beating Missouri. Critics offered mixed views on the performance.
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Baldwin Cagers Rally For Narrow 61 60 Win
Baldwin High grabbed a 21 point final period rally to beat Wellsville 61 60 in a Jayhawk League showdown in Wellsville. Baldwin trailed 53 40 entering the fourth before catching fire as Wellsville cooled.
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Eudora Falls to Spring Hill in Jayhawk League Clash
Eudora High rallied for 26 points in the final period but Spring Hill held on to win 68 54 in a Jayhawk League game at Spring Hill Friday night.
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Eudora High
Spring Hill
Kansas University Football Awards Banquet Honors 1967 Seniors
Seven Jays earned trophies at KU’s annual football awards banquet in the Kansas Union. Seniors Sweatman Bouda Greene Hixon Jennings Kreutzer Munkres Dercher Olsson Perkins Rawlings and captain Sweatman received rings or trophies as teammates praised the coaching staff and a 5 5 season tied for second in the Big Eight with five conference wins.
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Jack Perkins
Roger Rawlings
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Jayhawks Open Chicago Test Against Loyola Ramblers
Kansas University basketball heads to Chicago Stadium for a late night cross town showdown with Loyola of Chicago after a 1 1 start and a 57 01 loss to Louisville. Loyola enters 2 0 with high scoring averages and easy wins.
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Local hunters bag first deer of season near Lawrence
The firearms deer season opened Friday morning. Dave Higgins of Route 1 and Bill Van Tuyl of 102 Providence each bagged one deer Friday evening. Higgins, hunting his first time, shot a 110-pound doe about three miles west of Lawrence. Van Tuyl took an eight-point, 140-pound buck between Lawrence and Lecomp ton.
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Lawrence
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Lecompton
Lawrence Sophomores Edge Ottawa In OT Victory
The Lawrence High sophomores upset Ottawa 37 33 to force overtime where Dell Kennett and Jim Coffey scored to seal the win. Mitt Winter led Lawrence with 10 points as Gary Hammer and Don Whitehead added six each and the team improved to 1 2 before traveling to Leavenworth next Thursday.
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Leavenworth
Tonganoxie Bounces Hiawatha In Big Seven League Clash
Tonganoxie High pulled away in the fourth quarter to beat Hiawatha 62 to 44 in a Big Seven League game at Tonganoxie. Hiawatha kept within six points until the final period when height proved decisive and Tonganoxie outscored them 23 to 11.
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Hiawatha
Tonganoxie
Tonganoxie Player Paces Scoring in Narrow Victory
In the fourth quarter John Duncanson led Tonganoxie with 28 points and 13 rebounds, sharing the top scoring with 28 while Larry Lamb added 10 rebounds. Danny Wyrick 11 Robbins 10 Moore 8 West 4 Putthoff 4 rounded out the scoring for Tonganoxie with Lamb praised for alert play by coach Jerry McPherson.
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Tonganoxie
Duncanson
Danny Wyrick
Finney Robbins
Mike Moore
Bill West
Greg Putthoff
Larry Lamb
Jerry McPherson
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