Betas, Law Team Win Football Finals
A stout defensive Law team will tackle the seemingly unbeatable Beta Theta Pi offense tomorrow for the Hill A division intramural touch football championship.
By Russ Corbitt (Assistant Sports Editor)
Adding interest to the championship game will be the fact that the Law quarterback, Morgan Metcalf, is a Beta alumnus who led his former team to four consecutive Hill championships.
The fact that Metcalf is familiar with the Beta plays seems to be a big advantage, but the Law team may need more than knowledge to stop the Betas who are seeking their sixth consecutive Hill championship.
THE LAWS WON the Independent A title yesterday with a 6-0 victory over HIDK.
The winners scored in the first quarter on a 45-yard pass play from Metcalf to Kent Berkley. The extra point attempt failed, but the six-point advantage proved to be good enough for the victory in the hard-fought defensive game.
Tempers flared throughout the game, both on and off the field, as a few law students, cheering their team to victory, objected to several calls of the officials.
MEANWHILE, ON the adjacent field, more than 100 Beta Theta Pi's, Phi Gamma Delta's and their dates rooted for their respective teams in the fraternity A title game.
The pinpoint passing of Beta quarterback John Atkinson again paved the way for the Beta victory. Bill Geiger was Atkinson's favorite target, scoring on two touchdown passes, and hauling in several more for long yardage.
Once, again the undefeated Betas emerged victorious, 27-6, even though the Phi Gams gave them one of their tightest games of the season.
The B division finals will be played at 4 p.m. today. Beta Theta Pi No. 1 will play Sigma Chi for the Fraternity division title, and Navy will meet JRP for the Independent championship. The two winners will also meet tomorrow for the Hill B title.
THE BETAS MARCHED downfield for a score the first time they had the ball. A three-yard Atkinson to Geiger pass climaxed the drive. Bob Swan booted the extra point to give the Betas a 7-0 lead.
The Betas extended their lead to 14-0 in the second quarter on a seven-yard TD pass from Atkinson to Mike Vineyard. Swan again converted the extra point.
KU Kegler Improves
Listed in doubtful condition after a poor showing at Nebraska two weeks ago, Bill Ryan redeemed himself in high fashion Saturday night with a 710 three-game bowling average.
By Willis Henson
Just two weeks ago, Ryan rolled at Nebraska. Coach Bascom Fearing looked at him with a critical eye after the meet.
The Wichita freshman led the Jayhawks to a third round victory in the Kansas-Nebraska Conference of the National Intercollegiate Bowling Association. Ryan's average enabled KU to bring home 11 of a possible 12 points from a meet at Wichita.
"BUT HE HAS been building up steadily since." Fearing said.
Ryan also replaced Donald Kahl, Tulsa, Okla., junior, as high scorer on the KU varsity bowling team. Ryan has a 190 overall average. Kahl is within reaching distance at 189.
The bowling standings have been a see-saw affair all year long. Kansas is now in first place with a 22-14 win-lost record. Nebraska is a serious challenge in second place at 21-15. Kansas State, 19-17 is third, followed by Wichita University at 10-26.
Coach Fearing was unusually pleased at the last showing. "We got breaks and won it in the tenth frame," he said.
"JUST THOSE few pins at the end determined the game. The boys played hard," he said, "played hard all day."
"Ryan had a fine day," he added with pride.
In preparation for the next match at Kansas State University, Fearing put the team through a work-out at 4:30 p.m. Monday.
John Hammond, Olathe freshman, also drew praise from Fearing. Hammond has been rolling consistently high games at the regular Monday sessions. His current average is 178 as compared to 184 which is considered good for top bowlers here. Fearing pointed out that it is very much possible for Hammond to replace any of the current starting bowlers.
FEARING IS ALSO coaching a women's bowling team, which will start play in December. Betty Jo Member, Fairway junior, Alice Lyle Griffith, Lawrence sophomore, and Grace Roberman, Lawrence junior, will bowl on the women's team.
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ONE MISSED—Bill Geiger of Beta Theta Pi misses a pass in yesterday's intramural football finals. Steve Wickcliff defends for Phi Gamma Delta.
- Photos by Don Black
ONE CAUGHT—Geiger, captain of the victorious Betas, catches a pass from quarterback John Atkinson. Another Beta, Harold Dresser (left), looks on. The B division finals will be played at 4 p.m. today on the intramural football fields.
Soccer Team Prepares for Homecoming
A few weeks ago it appeared KU wouldn't have any varsity soccer team this year.
But, after Coach Tom Hedrick's squad has grown from two members to 37, Hedrick, director of the KU Sports Network, has designated Saturday as KU's soccer homecoming.
The KU team will play Kansas State on the soccer field adjacent to the intramural football fields at 2 p.m.
Hedrick credits most of his team's success to Mihail Gligorie-
Two weeks ago, KU beat the Wildcats. 3-2. at Manhattan.
The Jayhawks will be entering the homecoming battle with a two-game winning streak. KU defeated the Kansas City Soccer Club, 3-2, there Saturday.
vits, Thessalonike, Greece, junior.
"This captain I've got is great," Hedrick said. "He ought to get all the credit. All I do is make sure we have referees and the team catches its bus for away matches.
"I won't even be able to watch the team in its homecoming. I'll be broadcasting the KU game with Colorado at Boulder."
Hedrick is so pleased with the KU soccer team now he has scheduled a home-and-home series with the Kansas City International Club for late November and December.
This Kansas City International team is a semi-professional outfit," Hedrick said. "I seriously think this KU team is going so well right now that our goal by spring is to play the national champion team from St. Louis
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Nine of KU's starting eleven are foreign students, Hedrick said.
Hedrick thinks Saturday's meeting with Kansas State will be a "whaleuva match. And, since this is a homecoming game, I hope a lot of people will see it."
Hedrick reports no homecoming queen will be chosen nor will the KU marching band perform. There may not even be any floats.
But, just the same, it's KU's soccer homecoming.
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