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Oklahoma Given Nod In Big Eight; Nebraska Is 2nd EDITORS NOTE: The follow ing It the sixth of tight dis. pttchoi tiling up college foo. bell prospects in various sec tions of the country. (The Midlends) By WILLIAM COOK yn,'J,d pr, Internetionel KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI)-Re-member when the Oklahoma Sooner s won 47 consecutive games and 12 straight conference championships? Well, there's talk of a return to that kind of juggernaut in Ok lahoma. About the only folks in the Big Eight Conference who don't go along with this forecast of Sooner invincibility are the Ne braska Cornhuskers. That pretty much tells the Big Eight story for 1963. Oklahoma is the choice to win the title and Nebraska is supposed to be the runnerup. After that, Kansas and Missou ri should fighjt it out for third place, and Oklahoma State and Iowa State figure to battle for the top of the second division. Then comes Colorado and perennial aoormai Kansas state. Best In Years Oklahoma triumphed in 47 con secutive games during 1953-57 and held the conference crown a doz en straight years during 1947-59. Coach Bud Wilkinson, of course, isn't predicting repeats of such records. However, he admits the 1963 club may be the "best-balanced" in several years. Wilkinson has 28 talented letter men returned from the 1962 Or ange Bowl team which went un beaten in league play. The return ees include mightly fullback Frank Grisham and Joe Don Looney, a speedy, powerful halfback. The tough Sooner line, which shut out four of its seven Big bight opponents in 1962. is an chored by tackle Ralph Neely, 246. Quarterback is the Question mark at Oklahoma. The best bet is a talented but untried sopho more, Mike Ringer. Must Be Shown Noises coming from Nebraska indicate that the Cornhuskers must be shown that the Sooners are best. The optimism at Ne braska is based largely on quar terback Dennis Claridge, the league's 1962 player of the year. lornnusKer coach Bob Dcvaney. 1962 coach of the year in the Big Eight, has perhaps the beefiest line in the conference, headed by boo Brown. - 259-nound senior guard. Devaney is more realistic than the alumni. He points out that he has a good No. 1 unit but lacks depth. ine Kansas J ay hawkers may not field the best team, but half back Gale Sayers will make it one of the most exciting. Sayers scampered for 1,125 yards in 1962 much of it on breath-taking end runs. Kansas coach Jack Mitchell has 22 lettermen back but not a sin gle, seasoned quarterback. Sopho more Steve Renko, 205, appears to nave tne post sewed up. Missouri picked to win the crown in 1962, has been beset by injuries, plus disciplinary action which cost the Tigers halfback Johnny Roland, the Big Eight's leading scorer last year. Tiger coach Dan Devine also has quarterback woes. The im portant job apparently will go to an inexperienced sophomore, Gar ry Lane. Eastern Washington First On List For Linfield Team Linfield, currently holding a win ning streak of 21 straight regular season victories, will seek its 22nd consecutive verdict when coach Paul Durham's warriors travel to Cheney, Wash., and the 1963 sea son opener with Eastern Washing ton Saturday night. Art Pollard Races Sunday Art Pollard will be behind the wheel of a 1962 Mercury when the late model stock cars take over the Portland Speedway for Sun day's annual Western 300 classic. The change in driving assign ments -was announced by Dick Niles, owner of the Mercury team cars. Pollard, now of Medford, was the winner of the Pacific Coast Super Modified Sportsman cham pionship earlier this year at Port land, and has been among the top drivers in the northwest for the past several seasons. California's Jack McCoy will also be driving a Mercury a 1963. -.,- Other top entrants announced to date include: Keith Walker and Don Strong, Denver, Colo;, driving Fords; Bill Amick, Portland, track record setter at the Sacramento NASCAR 100-miler two weeks ago piloting a 1963 Dodge; Dick Brawn, Portland, driving a 1962 Chevrolet; Art Watts, Portland, a 1963 Ford; Carl Joiner. Portland, a 1963 Chevrolet; Royce Hagerty, Camas, Wash., a 1962 Chevrolet; and California aces Dick Getty and Jerry Draper, driving Chevrolets. The featured race of the cham pionships will be the 300-lap mara thon with 1961 through 1963 model cars competing for top honors. Speedway officials have announc ed that the entire grandstand will be reserved for Sunday's race. Re served tickets may be ordered from Northwest Sports Inc., 5345 SW Do ver Lane, Portland, for $3 each. Portland Open Starts Thursday PORTLAND (UPI) Defending champion Jack Nicklaus predicted Tuesday it will take "about a 272 to win the $30,000 Fortland Open golf tournament. The 72-hole tourney at the Col-umbia-Edgewater Country Club will get under way Thursday. A pro-amateur was scheduled today "The cours- is playing longer and I think it will take about 272 to win," the 23-year-old former Ohio State student said. "But would say this course is in the finest condition of any I have played since the tournament of Champions at Las Vegas in May. Nicklaus won last year's tourna ment with a 269. But he was as sessed two strokes of his total for slow play. Most of the 149 professionals entered in the four-day meet shot practice rounds Tuesday including three-time champion Billy Casper Jr. 'tnv i it) , J 'fe ''If Vj "&." . i' ' m- jv jfc it j HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION Sonny Liston performed before more than 20,000 people ot Stockholm Sweden amusement park Grona Lund. The heavyweight title holder attracted more people than Ingemar Johansson did when he came home after winning the champ ionship. , Quarterback Battle Featured Saturday When Oregon Takes On Penn State Team This will mark the second sea son in a row that the Wildcats have opened with the Savages. Last year Linfield scored a 13-6 triumph in McMinnville. Durham, who was named NAIA "Coach of the Year" following Lin- field's second straight undefeated .season last year, is more than a little worried about the opener with Eastern Washington. The Sav ages will be operating with a new coach, Dave Holmes, and a new system this year. Thus, the Wild cats will enter the Savage encount er without previous scouting dope or advanced material on Eastern Washington personnel. Linfield will continue its two-a- day workouts through Thursday be fore leaving Friday for Cheney. All-Conference tackle Pete Dengen is, and reserve quarterback Ken Scales returned to drills Monday after missing two days with injur ies. Dengenis was favoring a weak knee and Scales was nursing a bad back. Going into Linfield's final week of drills the Wildcat mentor must decide on three offensive starters. The three spots Durham has not settled on a definite starter are left end (tight end), right tackle and halfback. Three letter winners, Randy Chambliss, Howard Hoskcn and Brian Carter are waaine a hot battle for the tight end berth. Mississippi State transfer Chuck Kearney and three-year letterman Gary Olson are the candidates for the right tackle position. Durham has a host of players after the halfback post in Linfield's "Flying- 1 offense. I he edge would appear to favor one-year letterman Jerry Dressel. However, Leroy Fails, Olympic JC transfer, and John Lee, freshman from Hartford, Conn., could also gain the starting nod. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eu gene A spirited individual duel between quarterbacks Bob Berry and Pete Liske figures to add ex citement to Oregon's season foot ball opener against Penn State Sept. 21 at Multnomah Stadium. Berry, a solid all-around per former with the daring of a Miss issippi riverboat gambler, and Liske, one of the nation's top pass ers last seasons, will guide the Webfoots and Nittany Lions respec tively when the two squads meet in the night contest at Portland. The free-wheeling Berry enjoyed the finest sophomore season of any rookie quarterback in Oregon grid history. The stocky signal-caller paced the team in total offense with 1,110 yards and completed 62 of 115 passes for 995 yards and a nifty .539 completion percentage. Once again, Berry figures prom inently in Coach Len Casanova's offensive plans as he adds his skills and leadership ability to the "Firehouse Four" backfield, which features All - American halfback Mel Renfro. Liske engineered Penn State to a 9-2 record last fall and in the process wound up as the 12th lead ing tosser in the country. The Nit tany Lion field general flipped 91 completions in 162 attempts for 1,037 yards and an even dozen touchdowns. His completion percentage of .563 was third best in the nation, topped only by Dick Shine of Mary land and Tom Myers of Northwest ern. Faced with such a formidable passer in the opening contest, it's understandable why the Webfoots have spent considerable time hon ing their pass defense in fall work outs. ' The incomparable Renfro. half-1 perience and skill, figure to draw bLck Larry Hill and fullback Lu the key pass defense assignemnts Bain, a group boasting speed, ex-1 against the the Nittany Lions. Junior Coffey Recovering; '63 Future Still Uncertain This is another in a series of dispatches dealing with the 1963 prospects of major w es t coast college football teams. SEATTLE (UPI) The cast was removed from the broken foot of star University of Washington fullback Junior Coffey Tuesday, but Coach Jim Owens said he was making no plans to use the highly touted back soon. "We have no plans at all. We're just waiting for the reports from the doctors," Owens said. Owens said the foot will be X-rayed again this weekend. Until he broke his foot in prac tice Coffey had been touted as a potential AU-American. "We've had good workouts both before and after Junior Coffey was hurt," Owens said of the Big Six's 1962 top ground gainer who refractured his foot making a tackle. "And I haven't noticed any reaction on the part of the squad." . Without Coffey, Owens is down to 14 returning lettermen and expects a tougher season than last year when his team only bowed to top ranked Southern California, while winning seven and being tied in two. "We could be a good defensive team," Jim told a recent gather ing of the Big Six skywriters. "But we arc nowhere near last year's squad in experience and speed." , Coffey's spot at fullback is be ing sought by Charlie Browning a junior letterman up from last year's third string; and sopho more Mike Oits, who seems quite improved. Spread Offense Owens indicates that his quar terbacks, Bill Siler and Bill Doug las, also might be the fastest run ners in the backfield. So he will be operating from more . of a spread this season. , "Siler is a good passer but on an option play he probably would just as soon tuck the ball under his arm and take off," Owens said. Two sophomores figure to break into the first (purple) team in the two-platoon system which Owens plans to keep using. They are left-halfback Ron Medved of Tac oma and left end Joe Mancuso, a good pass grabber from the same nearby city. The bright spot is in the line where Owens tabs his veteran guards as "excellent" and his tackles "good. . Rick Redmond and Rick Sortun, both guards, are high on Owens, list. He feci!: that Redmond is a little stronger than Chuck Allen the huskies great guard of recent memory and can become as good a linenacker. "I wouldn't trade those guards for any others in the country," uwens said. Mike Briggs and Joe Ryan give Owens experience at tackle, while John Stupey, a converted guard, holds' down center. Back of him is another former guard, Fred Forsberg, which underlines Owens' statement, "graduation wiped out our ends, halfbacks and centers." Owens thinks that he might wind up using three quarterbacks, with a sophomore named Al Libke moving in to spell Siler and Douglas. Once more, Owens will use his first and second teams fo about equal periods during a quarter. "The new substitution rules fit into our playing pattern," he said. "Coaches that like to have all offense or all-defense units will have more problems. I like two way players." Owens, who doubles as the school's athletic director, is look ing for his team to mature. "We could get better as the season progresses if our kids grow up," he said, The schedule: Sept, 21 Air Force there; Sept. 28 Pittsburgh there; Oct. 5 Iowa here; Oct. 12 Oregon State here; Oct. 19 Stanford here; Oct. 26 Oregon there. . Wed., Sept. 18, 1963 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. 5 Machen KOs Wilson; j Ready To Fight Clay SANTA MONICA, Calif. (UPI) Heavyweight Eddie Machen, who successfully started on the comeback trail Monday night with a knockout of Ollie Wilson in Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, says he's ready to take on the Louis ville Lip, Cassius Clay, "right now." The 196-pound Machen, relaxing in his dressing room following his kayo of Wilson, 206, Miami, in 2:19 of the sixth round of a sched uled six-rounder, said he was "very satisfied" with the results of his first fight since a mental breakdown 14 months ago. "It was a big step for me," he remarked, "the whole eyes of the sports world were on me. I was more tense than any fight in my life." 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