Garden City Telegram from Garden City, Kansas • Page 11

K-State, Huskers to Clash Tonight for Tourney Title KANSAS CITY (AP) Nebraska and Coach Joe Cipriano beat Hank Iba's Oklahoma State Cowboys own game of disciplined, control offense to reach tonight's finals against Kansas State in the 22nd Big Eight pre-season basketball favorite. Nebraska kept the ball the last 2:43, and Bob Gratopp's rebound goal just ahead of the final buzzer grave the Huskers a 48-46 victory. At the end of the first half, Nebraska kept the ball for three minutes before Stuart Lants scored with five seconds left. "That was the first time this year we've' been quite so patient," Cipriauo -said in the dressing room. "We thought the important thing would be to College Scores By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Los Angeles Classic Semifinals UCLA 1C8, St.

Louis 67 Wyoming 94, Iowa 87, 2 OTs Consolation Tennessee 78, Sou. Calif. 68 Utah State 73, Minnesota 65 Rainbow Classic Semifinals Houston 77, Marquette 66 No. Texas 83, No'western 66 Consolation Hawaii 86, Submarine Forces Pacific 79 Ohio St. 85, Bradley 62 Far West Classic At Portland, Ore.

Semifinals Oregon St. 62, Wash. St. 61 North Carolina 86, Utah 84 Consolation Stanford 68, Oregon 64, OT Princeton 95, Texas 77 Su9ar Bowl Tournament First Round Davidson 51, Memphis 44 Vanderbilt 73, Mich. St.

63 Triangle Classic Championship Georgia 62, N.C. State 96 Consolation Army 50. Yale 49 All-College Tournament Semifinals Okla. City 78, Auburn 68 Brig. Young 97, va.

Tech 64 Consolation Xavier, Ohio, 101. Idaho St. 84 Fordham 80, Arkansas 73 Motor City Tournament First Round Niagara 113, Valparaiso 82 Detroit 80, Portland 69 Seattle Lesion Tournament First Round San Fran. 81, Col. St.

U. 65 Tex. 80, Seattle U. 72 All-Sports Association At Dallas, Tex. Championship West.

Ky. 98, California 86 Consolation SMU 91, Indiana 84 Big Eight Tournament Semifinals Kansas St. 74, Colorado 69 Nebraska 48, Okla. State 46 Consolation Missouri 65, Iowa State 63 Kansas 73. Oklahoma 57 Kodak Classic First Round Cornell 77, Holy Cross 71 Rochester 85, Navy 82 Cotton Bowl Midwestern, 94, Tarle- xm State 78 E.

Tex. St. 65, So. Tex. St.

62 East Texas Baptist 73. Austin College 39 Texas Wesleyan 93 Houston Baptis 82 Midwestern, 90, E. Tex. State 69 Texas Wesleyan 90, E. Texas Baptist 83 Classic First Round Mississippi 84, Furinan 82 Hardin-Simmons 77, Clemson 61 Evansville Tournament First Round Evansville 116, Montana 76 Fla.

St. 91, Geo, Wash'n. 69 t- i wait for the good shot against their tough defense." K-State, a 7-Ume champion, reached the finals for the llth time by stopping Colorado 74-6S on the clutch, 23-point shooting of 6-foot-7 Earl Seyfert, little Steve Honeycutt's 20-point game and a tough zone defsuse. Huge 7-1 Nick Pino also gave the Wildcats a lift. This is only the second time in the finals for Nebraska-, but the second time in the last three years, all under Cipriano.

The Huskers lost to Kansas in the 1965 finals. "Back home they call this tournament the Kansas-Kansas State Invitational," Cipriano said in jest earlier this week. Kansas has won eight crowns and has reached the finals 14 times. K-Slate, with Pino, 6-11 Mike Barber, 6-7 Gene Williams and Seyfert, is expected to have loo much size for the Huskers. But Nebraska's full-court press and its deadly free throw shooting could offset this.

Tex Winter, K-State, also has more depth. His bench has produced 35 points in the first two games, his starters 110. Nebraska has hit 43 of 46 free throws in the tourney for a -935 percentage, a pace well above the tourney record of .817. Iba's young upstarts, who knocked off title favorite Kansas hi the first round, again shot 50 per cent or better in each half for a tourney field goal mark of .575. a pace well above the tourney mark of .506.

K-State takes a 6-3 season record against Nebraska's 6-4 in the 9 p.m., CST final. Kansas, 7-3, a 73-57 winner Oklahoma, will met Missouri, 4-6, a 65-63 winner over Iowa State, in the fifth place game at 7 Colorado, 6-4, plays OSU, 6-5, for third place at 3 and Iowa State, 4-5, takes on Oklahoma. 3-7, in the seventh place game at 1. Missouri's Gene Pinkney won it with a 29-foot goal just before the final buzzer. Rich Bradshaw led the balanced Kansas team with 16.

A second 'straight sellout crowd of 10,500 is assured tonight. Rozelle Rules on Major League Jlmping GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) Professional football has no legal weapon to keep players from jumping between the two major leagues after playing out their options, says commissioner Pete Rozelle. But both the American and National Football leagues will soon have an arrangement to assure just compensation for the team which loses a player to the other circuit, Rozelle said. Such an arrangement is already in effect within, but not between, the two leagues.

Rozelle, in Green Bay to check on preparations for Sun day's NFL championship game, spoke at a news conference Friday before flying on to Oaklanc for the AFL title game there Sunday. Whether buying or selling Use Telegram Want Ads. Poke Pilot Expects Defensive Game Weather to Be Cold for Pro Rematch GREEN BAY, Wis. (AiP) reen Bay should feel right at home Sunday with the prospect of snow flurries, bone-chilling cold and cutting wind for the National Football League title game between the favored Packers and the Dallas Cowboys. Although the surface of Lambeau Field will be heated to 50 degrees by 14 miles of electric wiring beneath it, the temperatures in the rest of Packerland are expected to be in the middle teens by gam time at 2 p.m., EST.

The rematch of last season's game, which ended dramatically in a 34-27 Packer victory will be carried on network radio and television with the Green Bay area blacked out on television. Dallas flew in from the Southland Friday afternoon a few tours after the Packers completed their heavy work in another closed session. Both teams were to do little more than limber up until game time. "I feel it will be a defensive game," said Coach Tom Landry of the Cowboys, the Eastern Conference champions. "I don't anticipate another 34-27 score.

I think this one will be tougher. Of course, one side may get out ahead and run away with it as so often happens in NFL title games. I look for defense to predominate because both of us have had less time to get ready for this one." Vince Lomfoardi, confident of another fine performance by his Western Conference champs made no prediction. "I just hope it is a good ball game," said Lombardi, whose Packers are shooting for an unprecedented third straight league playoff crown. "I'd like to win it.

I'll be very much disappointed if we don't. Most of all, I'd like to see us play real well." The big prize, in addition to the prestige of the NFL title and an approximate $7,800 winning share per player (the losers will get about is a crack at the $15,000 Super Bowl jackpot in Miami, Fla. Jan. 1 against the American Football League champion. The Packers already know how sweet the Super dough can be, having beaten Kansas City last January in Los Angeles.

Summing up the differences between the defensive strategy of the two clubs, Landry said, "Green Bay is a containing team. They let you bend them a little with the run, but keep you away from the goal line. We try to shut off the run." Both coaches expect Bob Hayes, the former Olympic sprint champ to be a more important factor than last year, when he caught only one pass. "A guy like Hayes is going to catch some," admitted Lombardi. "Anything Bob does will be an improvement over last year," said Landry.

"He'll be more ready this time. He had a good year. When he didn't start well last year, Don looked elsewhere I think he'll be aiming at Hayes a few times Sunday." Saturday, Dec. 30, W7 Page 12, tiartlon Telegram Poke Kicking A Big Factor NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) Mention "placekick" to Louisiana State football Coach Charles McClendon and you automatically hit a sore spot.

Inability to make crucial extra points and field goals cost his team a possible undefeated season. With LSU ready to meet undefeated Wyoming in the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 1, McClendon is again concerned with the place- so much by his team as with Wyoming's ability to make them. The player causing the concern is Cowboy kicking specialist Jerry Depoyster, a 196- pound, 6-foot-2 senior from Bellevue, one of the best placekickers in college football. "Depoyster has missed a few," McClendon said, "But it's obvious fdom all those points he's scored that he makes a lot.

Ha is a dangerous weapon." To counteract that weapon, the LSU coach has instructed his squad, to prepare to dig in at the 40-yard line. "Depoyster seems at his best when he's farthest from the goal post," he said. Southern Gal Substitutes to Face Bjg Test PASADENA, Calif. (AP) Offensive guards Dennis Born and Fred Khasigian, substitutes during the past season, face the rugged test as starters for Southern California ia the Rose Bowl. They carry a tig part of the responsibility for opening holes through which O.J.

Simpson can dash, and the All-America halfback is the man USC counts on most against Indiana on New Year's Day. Three days ago the senior Born and the sophomore Khasigian were battling for single job-replacing Steve Lchmer who ia ineligible for the Rose Bowl because of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's junior college transfer rule. Then All Pacific 8 Mike Scarpace went out with torn knee ligaments and both of the understudies had starting assignments. Despite the loss of the two starting guards, Southern California remained a two touchdown favorite to turn back the unpredictable Big Ten dub led by sophomores Harry Gonao fit quarterback and John Isedbarg- er at halfback. Indiana came off a 1-8-1 record to post a 9-1 mark in 1967 and win the right to represent the Big Ten.

Gonzo completed 67 of 143 passes for 931 yards and nine touchdowns. He rushed for 512 yards as the Hoosiers proved themselves a solid club with a tendency to gamble and throw the opposition off stride. Simpson led the nation In rushing with 1,416 yards in bis first season with the Trojans and was runnerup in the balloting for the Heisman Trophy. The nighthawk feeds entirely on insects. The stomach of one bird was found to packed with a mass of living, glowing fireflies, another with 500 mos- quitos, a third with 1800 winged ants and a fourth with 60 grasshoppers.

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