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Titans land 6 on all-WSUC teamThe Oshkosh Titans placed six players on the all-conference team selected by the coaches while co-champion Whitewater was accorded seven places.Claire Rasmussen, BrianBur-bery, Ron Car do and Pete Gab-rielson repeated as all-star selections while Paul Zelazek and Len Washington were named for the first time.For Rasmussen, it was thefourth time as an all-star. The senior from Green Lake has anchored the Titan defense as Coach Russ Young’s team came from also rans to contenders. There have been very few players who have won four first string all-star berths.Burbey was selected for the second straight season. Last year his selection was termed a surprise by some newspapers but this year the Titan senior from Niagara led the conference in rushing in each of his four seasons as a Titan running back.Pete Gabriels on was selected as center for the all-stars.at Madison Central as a running back and linebacker. 1 During his freshman season with the Titans he ran behind Burbey and Cardo and started the 1969 season the same way. Titan coaches said they had to make a spot forLen because he was just too good a football player to be sitting on the sidelines. He won an all-conference position as a defensive halfback in his first full season and is only a sophomore.Zelazek has been one of the steady offensive tackles who havemade the Titan rushing game what it Is, Myles Strasser won the rushing championship two years ago and Cardo captured the crown a year ago. Zelazek paved the way on ma.iy occasions and against Whitewater, in his final game, helped the Titan backs to a total of 210 yards.Offensively, John Yacukowicz and Dwight Anderson received honorable mention and defensively, Norb Mendleski, Dave Kanas and Greg Car Ison received mention._Freshman eagers lack size, will rely on speed, shootingThe Oshkosh Titan freshman basketball team will have good speed and good shooting but will be without the big man this season,“We’ll be a small but I hope a good shooting team,* freshman coach Dick Deasy said, “We’ll have to depend on speed and ballhaving joined the freshman team during second semester last season.Another possibility for the front line Is Dick Daun, a G-4, 200-pound forward from Chilton, Daim averaged more than 20 points a game in high school andr.mTld ffive the freshm.in fi priort
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Oshkosh Advance Titan
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, US
Thu, Nov 20, 1969
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