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Kent Staab, a veteran who has won battle spurs behind Fred Hageman for two seasons, will be the lone letterman holding the fort at center when Kansas opens against TCU Sept. 23.
Hageman, 6-5, 220-pound bulwark now with the Washington Redskins, was two-time all-conference. Also claimed by graduation was last year's No. 3 hand, Bill Burnison, who played his best football when shifted to guard in the stretch run past Nebraska, Colorado and Missouri last year.
STAAB HAS PERFORMED well enough to have been a regular for a lot of clubs. Hagman's authoritative tackling from middle-linebacker, and his blocking on the up-the-middle thrusts, will be sorely missed. But Staab is a fierce-tackling, far-ranging linebacker who is being counted upon to handle the job well.
How close the Jayhawkers can come to matching their fine 1-2 pivot punch of the last two seasons depends upon how much Staab can improve his blocking and the overall development of a converted third-string guard, Kent Converse.
The Larned 189-pounder is tough and eager. He showed considerable improvement in spring practice after his switch from guard. He is a stout defender who can reach Big Eight standards with improved offensive technique.
HELL BE OBLIGED TO improve to hold his ground against a flood of four promising sophomores. These include: Pete Quatrochi, Jim Becker, Tommy Thompson, and Larry Fairchild. Quatrochi and Fairchild split starting duty with last year's freshman club. The former finished spring drills at No. 3.
Thompson, a 6-2. 210-pounder from Springfield, Mo., was used at
HOW SOON THEY WILL BE ready to share the load in the competition the Jayhawkers face remains to be seen. But the mass competition should produce at least one hand who can be counted upon for help early in the season.
"Everyone of these boys is a good prospect," said Coach Jack Mitchell. "We expect them to be good football players."
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both tackle and center during spring practice and likely will continue such double duty part of fall practice. A starting tackle with last year's frsh club, he was considered the Jayhawkers' best yearling limeman.
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Two others in the picture here are holdover squadman Mike Bogard, who missed most of last season because of recurrent injury, and sophomore Fred Exline, who is a good snapper, but must-improve other phases of play to move higher.
The Oklahoma Sooners' hopes of rebounding from their 3-6-1 season of last year rides on the quarterbacking of sophomore Bill Van Burkleo and the Sooner defense.
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COACH BUD WILKINSON, without a capable field general since Jimmy Harris, 1959, hopes that Van Burkleo can fill the bill. The sophomore came off the bench in the Varsity-Alumni to move the Varsity offense impressively in a 6-22 losing cause.
Much hinges on the Oklahoma defense. In every one of the 12 years from 1948 through 1959 that Wilkinson's Sooners won the Big Eight conference, they also led the league in defense.
The key to whether OU will rebound this year may lie in the opening game. The Sooners initial encounter is at South Bend, Indiana, against the Irish of Notre Dame.
LAST YEAR THE SOONERS ranked seventh in defense. For the first time in 20 years OU gave up more points than it scored, 136-158. Oklahoma was out-rushed by five opponents—an unheard of thing.
Crippling injuries could knock the Sooners out for another year. Already seven key personnel have been hit with injuries and are out for indefinite periods of time.
IF THE SOONERS win, they might build up enough momentum to carry themselves to a successful year. If they lose, they could have another mediocre year.
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The Sooners do not open until Sept. 30th so they will have had four weeks to prepare for the Irish encounter.
In the Notre Dame-Oklahoma series the Irish have won three of the four games.
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The Jayhawkers meet the Sooners this year at Norman, Oklahoma, on October 28.
Patterson Traded
Harold Patterson, most recent three-sport letterman in Kansas history (1952-53), has been traded by Montreal to Hamilton in the Canadian football league. The high-leaping end-halfback—he also was all-Big Seven basketball forward in '54 and varsity shortstop in '53—will be playing his eighth season north of the border. Jim Letcavits, all-Big Eight end of '56 and '57, is playing his fourth season with Edmonton.
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