Kansas coaches target McVea Unseld in vital signing week
Kansas football coach Jack Mitchell and basketball coach Ted Owens await letter of intent from Warren McVea and Westley Unseld as both prep stars consider multiple offers. Recruits pace, with several schools pursuing them, while Owen and Mitchell balance hopes of top talent amid a busy signing period.
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Dick the Bruiser: a fearsome wrestling figure with ruthless edge
Jim Murray profiles Dick Afflis ring persona Dick the Bruiser, a menacing wrestler famed for brutality and a volatile temper. The piece compares his fearsome image to dangerous animals and wartime officers, noting his football talent, athletic scholarship, and notorious bite as part of his brutal persona.
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Dick Afflis
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Karras
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Hitler
Freddy Blassie
Rat Fink
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Coffeyville Ace Signs KU Letter
Al Lopes a 6 5 juco All American from Coffeyville has signed with Kansas University joining Lawrence High’s Bo Harris and Leavenworth’s Ron Lang. Lopes averaged 16 points a game as guard forward and will be eligible this season as coach Ted Owens seeks backcourt scoring. Lopes hails from Providence R I and weighs 185 pounds.
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Leavenworth
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Britain’s Cup Yachts Stall In Dock For Repairs
Britain's America's Cup contenders Kurrewa V and Sovereign are sidelined in Gosport after collisions and damage. Sovereign, owned by Tony Boyden, repairs a keel. Kurrewa fixes a leaky sternpost, delaying September Rhode Island challenges.
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Yachts to resume trials before final U S tests
The troubled sailor notes that the two yachts will restart training trials on Sunday. A third set of trials will run off Nab Island in the English Channel before both vessels are shipped to the United States for final trials off Rhode Island.
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Coast juniors are tops in 1968 USGA junior golf
California produced the winners of both USGA junior golf championships. Gregg McHatton, 16, of Whittier won the National Junior and Janis Ferraris, 16, of San Francisco won the Girls Junior. In the all San Francisco Amateur Public Links final, Bobby Lunn, 18, beat Steve Opperman, 21.
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Whittier
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San Francisco
Bobby Lunn
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