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Friday, Sept. 28, 1962 University Daily Kansan
Around the BIG 8
Past Powers Meet
It's a combat between the nation's two most celebrated collegiate pigskin powers of the past quarter century. Impotent as the Monroe Doctrine the last three years, each is struggling to climb back into national prominence.
NORMAN, Okla. — (Special) — Notre Dame, the football team that has humbled Oklahoma three times on national television, will try to do it again here Saturday.
Oklahoma, fresh from its 7-3 conquest of a stout Syracuse aggregation here last week on a 60-yard run by fullback Joe Don Looney with only 2:07 left to play, will go for its seventh straight win, not nearly as impressive as the previous strings of 47 and 31 under Wilkinson, but a heartening improvement for the Sooners.
KICKOFF AT OWEN FIELD has been set back to 2:37 p.m. CST to accommodate the national telecast. So strong is the pull of an Irish-Sooner pairing that a sell-out throng of 61,718 is expected. On Monday only 1,500 seats remained unsold.
Notre Dame has yet to play, and alumni of both schools from the Great Lakes to the gulf are arguing whether that's good or bad. Oklahoma got some badly-needed experience for its sophomores (Wilkinson used 18 against Syracuse) but Notre Dame is unscouted.
EACH TEAM HAS been cruelly beset by casualties. Oklahoma played Syracuse without two starting backs, QB Tommy Pannell and RH Melvin Sandersfeld and Wes Skidgel, promising sophomore reserve. Pannell won't play this season. Sandersfeld and Skidgel are practicing but probably won't recover enough mobility to play against Notre Dame.
Coach Joe Kuharich's fullback, Mike Lind, Irish captain who punched across two touchdowns during Notre Dame's 19-6 victory over Oklahoma last year, had knee surgery in July and may postpone his debut another week. An injury also took guard Tom Goberville.
Notre Dame retains Daryle Lamonica, 202, and Frank Budka, 190, its two lettered quarterbacks who engineered Kuharich's huskies to a booming 367-yard rushing total over Oklahoma last year, the record rush ever yielded by a Wilkinson team.
Monte Deere, 166-pound defensive back of last year and Norman Smith, 181-pound sophomore, quarterbacked the Sooners adequately against Syracuse after Pannell broke his ankle. However, in no game this season will Oklahoma concede as much quarterbacking experience as it will Saturday to Lamonica and Budka.
Notre Dame's superior desire has been the difference in past games of this series. It carried Coach Frank Leahy's Irish to an upset 27-21 win in 1952 and Coach Terry Brennan's Irish to a 7-0 shocker in 1957, the victory that scissored Oklahoma's all-time record skin of 47 consecutive triumphs.
If it weren't for the Irish tructu-
lence, Oklahoma might lead the
series 3-2 instead of trailing it 1-4.
However, Wilkinson's new team, despite its crippling backfield injuries, showed plenty of belligerence against Syracuse which was held without a touchdown for only the third time in its last 42 games. Missouri's 1961 club was the only opponent Oklahoma has barred from the end zone in its last 23 games.
Was MU Win Fluke
COLUMBIA, Mo. — (Special) — Was it a fluke, that 6-0 Missouri win over Minnesota at Minneapolis last year — a triumph abetted by foul weather and the Gophers' light regard for an untouched Tiger squad?
If that early combat exposure was helpful to Ol' Mizzou, it also gave Minnesota a good "book" on Tiger formations, and halfback Johnny Roland's individual talents. Also, that victory cost MU the services of two senior regulars, guard Tom Hertz and end Don Wainwright. Hertz lamed a knee and Wainwright suffered a concussion.
Minnesotans, fans and players alike, figure it was — and the holdover heroes from their Rose Bowl championship squad aim to get that one back when Missouri revisits Northrop Stadium this Saturday. Kickoff is at 1:30 p.m. CST.
IT WILL BE the 1962 debut for Coach Murray Warmath's squad, a group fortified by 16 returning lettermen, including Bobby Bell, the rangy 217-pound All-America tackle. Missouri opened last Saturday by beating California, 21-10, at Berkeley.
Roland, the 191-pound rookie, won a place in the United Press International's Backfield-of-the-Week on his three-touchdown spree and 171 net rushing yards. He tied a Mizzou single-game record on runs of 2 and 58 yards, and a 6-yard pass from Vince Tobin.
Gone are little Ron Taylor and dazzling Sandy Stephens, the rival quarterbacks of a year ago. This time, their understudies, Jim Johnson, — a big, senior left — and Duane Blaska will be leading their respective teams.
MISSOURI RIPPED through Cal defenders for 381 rushing yards, and some 55,000 customers expect the vengeful Gophers to put a severe crimp in the Bengals' operations tomorrow.
"He doesn't play like a sophomore. He plays like a senior—an awfully good senior."
Johnson, a 55-minute performer against Cal, has veteran backfield accomplices in Bill Tobin at right half and Andy Russell, fullback, along with Roland — described by Butch Nash, Gopher scout, this way;
Tiger fullbacks Russell, Paul Underhill and Gus Otto harvested 141 net yards between them against the Bears, and Tobin picked up 63 more — so the Missourians showed a diversified punch.
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9th & Vermont
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
The show is billed to be one of the most colorful ever presented at a Boston football game.
The Jayhawkers and the Terriers are both smarting from opening losses. The Terriers lost a heartbreaker to Buffalo 27-23 while the Kansans fell 6-3 to Texas Christian University here.
Against Buffalo, the Terriers showed several weaknesses. Their passing game was effective although nowhere near as potent as had been hoped. Their running game, however, lacked much stability. BU officials conceded however, that the Terriers made a much better debut than they did a year ago. There were no fumbles and very few penalties on either side.
Worship 9:00 & 11:00 a.m.
Church School 9:45 a.m.
THE AFFAIR which is schedt a special night in which the Shri will feature a 150-man Shrine marching patrol, a 50-piece Shrine brass band and a 25-piece Shrine oriental band.
The Terriers will outweigh the Jayhawkers both on the line and in the backfield. The Boston line averages 216 pounds compared to KU's 205 pounds. In the backfield BU averages 204 while the Jayhawkers are only 188 pounds.
KU meets Boston University at Boston in the first Shrine "Bean Bowl."
The Kansas Jayhawkers will make the first of what it is hoped to be two bowl appearances tomorrow night.
The biggest man in the Terrier line will be center Don La Tona at 240 pounds. Opposite him will be KU's 200-pound center Pete Quatrochi.
KU Meets BU In Bean Bowl
BU coach Steve Sinko remodeled his offense this season from a winged-T to a lonesome end formation. Running at the lonesome end position will be Bob Horton, the fastest man on the BU squad. KU assistant coach Tom Triplett who scouted the Terriers last Saturday reports that the 6-2, 205-pound Horton is "strong and nifty."
The Terriers are reported tough as long as their first unit is on the field, but a lack of depth and an unfamiliarity of new offensive assignments make them vulnerable.
In the last meeting between the two squads, the Jayhawkers won 28-8
7. The only remaining holdover from that game is KU's 6-5 quarterback Lee Flachsbarth, who is presently sidelined with an injured shoulder and knee.
Flachsbarth, in that game, connected for 176 pass-run yards as the Jayhawkers won easily.
The Network will broadcast the game to 16 stations. Among area stations carrying the game are: KANU - FM (91.5) Lawrence; KMBC (980) Kansas City, Mo.; WIBW (580) Topeka, KSAL (1150) Salina, and KVOE (1400) Emporia.
Patronize Your Kansan Advertisers
The Jack Mitchell show will be carried following the game.
Kansas-Boston Game To Be Broadcast
The Kansas Jayhawker-Boston Terrier football game will be broadcast over the KU Sports Network beginning at 5:30 p.m. Saturday.
Handling play-by-play will be Kansas' "Most Outstanding Sportscaster" the past two years, Tom Hedrick, while KU basketball coach Dick Harp will provide color.