The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 3 December 1968 — Page 3

Tuesday, December 3, 1968

The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

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Rose Bowl bound Ohio State unseats USC at top team

NEW YORK (UPI)—Ohio State won the National Football championship the easy way—in front of a television set. The Buckeyes, who finished with a 9-0 record, watched Saturday as Southern California and Notre Dame battled to a 2121 tie in a nationally televised game. The tie dropped Southern Cal (9-0-1) out of the top ranking and paved the way for Ohio State’s second national championship. The United Press International Board of Coaches cast 28 of a possible 34 first

place votes for the Buckeyes, who won their first title in 1957. The Buckeyes amassed 334 points to easily outdistance Southern Cal, which received four first place votes and 277 points. Penn State, with the two remaining first place ballots, finished third, five points behind Southern Cal. Georgia remained fourth while Texas captured the No. 5 ranking, moving ahead of Kansas. Tennessee was seventh, Notre Dame moved up to eighth, Arkansas took ninth and Oklahoma finished 10th.

Notre Dame 4th, PU 11 in cage ratings

NEW YORK (UPI) — Notre Dame was ranked fourth and Purdue 11th Monday in the United Press International prescason college basketball ratings

by coaches.

Notre Dame gathered 114 points compared to 280 for which got 28 of the 35 firs^lace ballots; 215 for North Carc«a, and 165 for Kentucky. Notre Same was only one point ahead of Kansas. Purdue received 52 points compared with 56 for 10th place Cincinnati and 46 for 12th place St. Bonaventure. Other top ten teams were Houston, 6th; Davidson, 7th; New Mexico, 8th, and Villanova, 9th; In the second 10 were New Mexico State, 13; Ohio State 14; Western Kentucky and Duke, tied for 15; Santa Clara, 17; Southern California, 18; Florida, 19, and California, 20. NEW YORK (UPI) — The United Press International ma-

jor college pre-season basketball ratings with first place votes in parentheses. Team Points 1. UCLA (28) 280 2. North Carolina 215 3. Kentucky 165 4. Notre Dame 114 5. Kansas 113 6. Houston 86 7. Davidson 63 8. New Mexico 59 9. Villanova 58 10. Cincinnati 56

Second Ten Purdue was ranked 11th, followed by Alabama, Oregon State and Florida State. Michigan finished 15th, Southern Methodist was 16th and Missouri 17th. Ohio University and Minnesota tied for 18th and Houston and Stanford tied for 20th. Ohio State, a predominantly sophomore team considered an also ran in Big Ten pre-season predictions, displayed a powerful offense in becoming the fifth Big Ten team to win the title in the 19-year history of the UPI national championship balloting. Team Points 1. x-Ohio St. (28) (9-0) 334 2. x-SoCal (4)(9-0.1) 277 3. Penn State (2) (9-0) 272 4. x-Georgia (8-0-2) 227 5. x-Texas (8-1-1) 174 6. x-Kansas (9-1) 148 7. x-Tennessee (8-1-1) 106 8. x-Notre Dame (7-2-1) 104 9. x-Arkansas (9-1) 90 10. x-Oklahoma (7-3) 61 x-Completed season. Second 10—11, Purdue (20); 12, Alabama (17); 13, Oregon State (12); 14, Florida State (11); 15, Michigan (5); 16, Southern Methodist (4); 17, Missouri (3); 18, tie, Ohio University and Minnesota (2); 20, tie, Houston and Stanford (1).

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Mike O’Connell Dave Browning

Dale Barrett Tom McCormick Larry Downs

NBA standings

Baseball’s top brass say ‘hitting’ is key

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SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)—Are baseball fans sick and tired— and just plain bored— with tedious low scoring games dominated by the pitchers? A number of top baseball Grid stars meetNixon NEW YORK (UPI) — Notre Dame quarterback Terry Hanratty and four other college AllAmericas enjoyed the flavor of presidential sporting interest Monday when President-elect Richard Nixon took time out to exchange quips on the game. The four—Hanratty, Heisman Trophy winner O. J. Simpson of Southern California, tackle Dave Foley of Ohio State and tackle Bill Stanfill of Georgia-called on Nixon to present him with an autographed football in appreciation of his interest in the

game.

“I don’t think I can get to the Rose Bowl but it should be a great game,” Nixon told them. ‘‘But if I did I’d be caught right in the middle. I have some mixed emotions about the game. One of my great friends for many years is Woody Hayes (Ohio State coach) and my wife went to USC in ’37.”

officials who think that's exactly the way fans feel are going to try today to put some batting back in baseball—by passing a couple of new rules designed to make life tougher for pitchers and happier for hitters. For one, they’re going to try to cut the pitching mound down to a standard height of eight inches, so the supermen on the hill won’t be firing his thinderbolts down at the batter. For another, they want to give the pitcher a tougher

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DePauw cagers open home stand against Wabash tonight

DePauw University’s basketball forces, looking for one of their best seasons in two decades, open their home court sho’v tonight at 7:30 p.m. against Wabash College. The Tigers will carry a perfect 12-game home streak into the battle that will be preceded by a DPU-Wabash freshman game at 5:30 p.m.

The last time the varsity Tigers lost in Bowman was two seasons ago when they were dropped, 73,70, by Evansville. Since then, in a 12-game home stand during 1967-68, the Tigers haven’t lost in Greencastle. Elmer McCall will start five lettermen against the Cavemen in the 117th renewal of the long series.

Ready to go after dropping an 89-63 contest in Philadelphia Saturday night to Villanova are forwards Larry Downs, 6-5 junior, and Tom McCormick, 6-5 senior; center Mike O’Connell, 6-8 senior; plus guards, 6-0 Dale Barrett and 6-0 Dave Browning. Backing up this veteran unit McCall will have 6-4 sophomore Larry Johnson who hit five

Monday’s Results

Seattle 118 Phoenix 108 (Only game scheduled)

Tuesday’ Games Boston at Milwaukee

Atlanta at New York San Diego at Chicago Phoenix at Los Angeles

target by reducing the size of Seattle at San Francisc0

‘Boom or Bust’ Hoosiers open at Ohio U. tonight

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the strike zone. Both rule changes were endorsed Monday at a joint meeting of general managers and field managers. The meeting wasn’t a completely peaceful one: some pretty heated voices were raised and two of them belonged to general manager Paul Richards of Atlanta, a famed tutor of pitchers, and new field manager Clyde King of San Francisco, an

ex-pitcher.

Change Approved But in the end the group okayed the changes, which go before the playing rules com. mittee today for approval. If the committee goes along with the proposals, then it’s bad news for the pitchers. “We feel we may have helped some things,” said general manager Harry Dalton of the Baltimore Orioles, who is cochairpian of the General Managers Committee along with John Holland of the Chicago Cubs. Baseball commissioner William D. Eckert, who had asked the group to come up with “reasonable” recommendations “to make the game more attractive to the fans,” said he thought the meeting had been “extremely productive.” The action, at the annual winter baseball meetings in progress here, comes to the end of a fantastic 1968 season which was widely known as “the year of the pitcher.”

Cincinnati at Baltimore (Only games scheduled)

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Monday’s Results Dallas 112 Oakland 111 Indiana 104 Miami 109 Tuesday’s Games Dallas at Oakland New Orleans vs. Minnesota at Duluth New York at Denver (Only games scheduled) Brown's Rushing Record CLEVELAND < UPI >—Jimmy Brown, former star fullback of the Cleveland Browns, gained a total of 12.312 yards rushing during his National Football League career between 1957 and 1965.

BLOOMINGTON — Indiana’s “boom-or-bust” Hoosiers, who over the last three seasons have bounced from last to first to last in the Big Ten, hope to start the long climb upward Tuesday as they open the basketball season at Ohio University. The opener, first game to be played in Ohio’s new 14,000 - plus seat fieldhouse, will be televised by Indianapolis channel 13, starting at 7:30 E.S.T. As to what will transpire when the Hoosiers, 10-14 last season and tied for last in the Big Ten on a 4-10 mark, take the floor, even Coach Lou Watson professes to be in the dark. “Early games are a time for experimentation and we have to go on from there after we have had the opportunity to prove or disprove our abilities and potentials,” said Watson. Watson has ten returning lettermen, including three 1968 starters — 6-9 center Bill DeHeer, 6-4, forward Earl Schneider and 6-3 guard Joe Cooke, to work with, but plans call for a new look to the Hoosier offense. Although he will make use of the usual 3-2 offense, Watson has installed a double-post offense which may become basic if it works out. With it he will play DeHeer, whose great preseason practice indicates he may be in for a brillian season, inside with 6-6 Ken Johnson. It will permit Johnson, a strong rebounder but weak outside

shooter, to operate at maximum effectiveness. Slated to play the wings in the system are Cooke and 6-6 Mike Noland while 5-10 Larry Gipson, the lone sophomore to crash the starting lineup, takes the crucial point in the pattern, Gipson, like departed Vern Payne a product of Michigan City, greatly resembles Payne in play. Lettermen Bill Stenberg, 6-7; Schneider; Mike Niles, 6-4, and Rick Atkinson, 6-2 1/2, will have plenty ofopportunity to work in, while sophomores Jeff Stocksdale, 6-4; Kenney Morgan, 6-6, and Ben Niles, 6-5, figure

strongly.

“We may not be as quick as some Indiana teams in the past,” Watson said, “but I think we’ll still be able to run when the fastbreak opportunity is there. This could be one of the biggest overall clubs we’ve had and I’m confident it will be strong

on the boards.

“We didn’t shoot well last year but pre-season practice dicates we’ll do better.”

Ohio in previous games. The Hoosiers open their home season against Missouri on Dec. 7 in a Saturday afternoon game starting at 2 o’clock.

baskets at Villanova; 6-3 guard John Tolle, junior transfer from Davison; 6-1 sophomore guard Ralph O’Brien; and 6-3 forward Paul Blasdel. “We know very little about Wabash,” McCall said yesterday. “This will be their first game. We do know, however, that there are five lettermen hack from last year’s 9-11 squad, including Dave Moore who was named MVP in DePauw’s fourteam holiday doubleheader.” Moore finished the season will a 20 point plus average from his guard spot. Going with the 6-2 whiz-band from Winchester, Ind., Coach Rusty Nichols will Continued on Page 4

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Watson hopes the club has rid itself of the tendency to break down in decisive portions of a game. Those lapses cost dearly a year ago when no less than five games went down the drain

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Frosh win 2 Greencastle’s freshman cat' ers won a pair of games from Clinton here last night by scores of 52 to 25 and 66 to 29. Two games had not been sche duled, but was necessitated since both schools had large squads. Only one boy was allowed to pla; four quarters though, according to IHSAA rules. A boy could play two quarters in one game and two in the other. This explains thereasoi for a boys name appearing twice. A - game Score by Quarters

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in the closing seconds. Watson considers defense to be Indiana’s most pressing problem. “Frankly, we’re not a good defensive club at this moment. But the desire is there and we will improve. It is a club which works together and wants to redeem itself for last season, and I think it will improve as we go along.” Indiana holds a 4-2 edge over

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