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Mitchell Says KU Is Going Downhill; Injury at KSU
Kansas football Coach Jack Mitchell said yesterday his club may have reached its peak.
By United Press International
After watching the Jayhawks stumble through what he termed "the worst practice of the season" Mitchell said, "I'm afraid we're going downhill. Maybe we've reached a peak and have started down. You don't stand still.
"YOU IMPROVE OR GO DOWN. You don't know what your peak is until you start down. We had no zip, no quickness, no speed," he said. "We'll just have to play a bad game before we find out that we've got to pick up."
The Jayhawk's play Kansas State Saturday — the 59th meeting between the cross-state grid rivals.
Kansas State developed a punting problem when specialist John Drew was knocked out of action with
sprained muscles in his foot. His top two understudies, Harold Haun and Dave Laurie, also are on the shelf.
That leaves the punting chores up to Jack Richardson and Dick Masters, who took their first cracks at the kicking game in yesterday's practice.
MISSOURI STRESSED DEFENSE in its drill yesterday, as Coach Dan Devine prepared the Tigers for Saturday's game with once-mighty Oklahoma.
"It's impossible to figure out how they lost five games." Devine said after viewing films of Oklahoma games thus far. "They're probably the best one-and-five team in the country." Oklahoma won its first game last week after five consecutive defeats.
A crowd of 47,000 is expected for the Oklahoma-Missouri game.
By Bill Sheldon
With the coming of the varsity-freshman basketball game as part of the Homecoming activities, the campus sports focus will swing from the fast recovering Jayhawker football squad to Allen Field House for a look at what is supposed to be one of the weakest Kansas basketball teams in recent years.
Certainly, on paper, the KU roundballers are in no position to make any verbal challenge for the league crown. And, realistically, there apepats but a slim chance for the inexperienced Hawkers to sneak in among the elite—a position much frequented by Dick Harp coached teams.
BUT, ALL IS NOT forlorn as practice for the season opener here against Arkansas Dec. 1 moves into its final weeks.
Saturday the varsity had an abbreviated scrimmage with the frosh and showed to be a better team than they have been credited for to this point.
Of course the team operates around its fantastic guard duo of senior Jerry Gardner and junior Nolen Ellison—both starters last season.
GRANTED, ASIDE from these two, there is very little to discuss
on the favorable side of the ledger But, even though there appears scant ability and experience both along the front wall and on the bench, there may be enough surprises in Harp's coaching valise and among the potpourri of unknown talent scrambling for the three front line positions to make a respectable season of things. Certainly, Messrs. Gardner and Ellison have enough spark, genius, trickery, and craftsmanship to surprise many a foe and provide a great many laughs and thrills for what is hoped to be throngs of fans.
Against the frosh, these two flipped and flitted their way from boundary to boundary with finesse and luck to exhibit a fast break which may be as devastating as it was at times last season, like at Colorado and here against Iowa State—both easy KU wins.
KU's capable backcourt tandem seems to have an amazing collection of maneuvers which they can employ to befuddle even the best.
An explanation and description of the talents of the Jay wizards could go on for ever, so, in the interests of our advertisers, the subject will be left for the present, and brought up again when an outstanding first year team clashes with an interesting varsity Friday night.
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The Kansas-Missouri freshman football game Friday at Columbia may be a duel of halfbacks.
The duel will be between KU's right half, Gale Sayers, and MU's left half, Johnny Roland, if the latter's back injury heals.
Wednesday, November 8, 1961 University Daily Kansan
KU-MU Freshman Gridders to Meet
In the Jayhawker's first outing, Sayers scored all three touchdowns in a 21-6 win over Kansas State. Roland, 190-pound Corpus Christi all-stater, scored once and passed for the other touchdown in the Tiger's 21-12 loss to Iowa State.
Leon Delassus, left end, 172; Billy Meadows, left tackle, 200; Steve Thimmesch, left guard, 220; Dave Holsinger, center, 180; Kent Rich, right guard, 190; Anthony Piskulich, right tackle, 200; Ron Snyder, right end, 196; Mike Jones, quarterback, 180; Roland or Bill Leistritz, left halfback, 200; Vince Tobin, right halfback, 177; and Gus Otto, fullback. 205.
Probable starters for the baby Bengals are:
The division I, fraternity A section, intramural football championship was decided last night as Beta Theta Pi took a 22-0 win from Delta Tau Delta in one of the most spirited games of the season.
Betas Maintain Skein; Win 22-0
Kickoff time is 2:30 p.m.
The winners scored in the first quarter on a 35-yard pass interception, over a wide-open covering 15 yards to move to the title with an undefeated record.
The Delta, who may join the Betas, Phi Delta Theta, and Phi Gamma Delta in the play-offs, finished in a second place tie with Delta Upsilon.
A coin toss between the two twice beaten squads (Delts-DU) will determine the team entering the playoffs.
In another A game, the Phi Gams dropped another defeat on Sigma Phi Epsilon, winning 19-2. Also, Sigma Alpha Epsilon won by forfeit over Delta Upsilon.
In fraternity B play the Betas pounded Phi Gam No. 2, 46-6 and Phi Delt No. 2 won by forfeit over Sigma Nu.
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