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Friday, Oct. 25, 1963
Jayhawks, O-State Meet for 'Snake-Bitten' Title
By Roy Miller (Sports Editor)
Arkansas 21. Oklahoma State 0.
Texas 34. Oklahoma State 7.
Colorado 25. Oklahoma State 0.
Missouri 28. Oklahoma State 6.
You think Oklahoma State's next decisive loss automatically will be here Saturday when it plays KU?
Eliminate "automatically" then reconsider your confident prediction of victory for the Javhawkers.
Jack Mitchell. KU football coach, should receive the "understatement of the year award" for this quote he uttered this week:
"THEY (OKLAHOMA STATE) will be anxious for a victory, I imagine, when they come here Saturday."
So anxious, in fact, the Cowboys can be expected to give KU a close battle in the Band Day affair.
"The Waddies (O-State) have been as unlucky as a lame duck in a shooting gallery. In their first four games, all defeats, they have yielded seven touchdowns and two field goals after surrendering the ball on fumbles or blocked punts inside their 37-yard line.
The Jayhawks haven't been doing so well themselves lately. They lost 17-14 to Iowa State and 21-18 to Oklahoma in their last two efforts. Don Pierce, KU sports publicity director, says:
"IF NOTHING ELSE, Kansas and Oklahoma State will play for the snake-bitten championship of Big Eight football here Saturday.
"Kansas' misfortune is more serious. The Jayhawkers have run into their most prolonged injury outbreak since Jack Mitchell's first season here, 1958."
Arkansas scored its first touchdown against the Cowboys after recovering a fumble on the O-State 36.
Texas gained 13 points on two fumbles and a blocked kick. Colorado picked up three fumbles which led to touchdowns. And Missouri scored once on a fumble at the 20 and a blocked punt at the 37 last Saturday.
YET, THE hard-hitting Cowpokes command respect.
"They looked better against Missouri than Iowa State looked against Nebraska," Jack Scofield, KU assistant coach, said after scouting the game at Stillwater. "If they can just eliminate their fumbles, they're good enough to beat anybody they play."
Oklahoma State is the only team that has led Texas this season. The Cowboys jumped to a 7-3 lead when Walt Garrison, sophomore fullback, scored on a 48-yard run.
KU has only three lettered players left at tackle. Coach Mitchell moved 2 inexperienced players to second and third team left tackle Wednesday in an effort to replace three men lost on injuries.
BRIAN SCHWEDA, KU's starting left tackle, has lost three of his understudies. Richard Pratt is sidelined indefinitely with a fractured wrist, Tommy Thompson is out of action with a re-injured knee and, just Tuesday, John Garber suffered a fracture of the forearm and is lost for the season.
seen only limited action in four games this season, has been promoted to the second team. Mike O'Brien, a sophomore who has been bothered by a knee injury for two years and who still can't play full speed, was moved to the third team.
Bruce DeBey, a junior who has
"I hate to get an opportunity to play more this way," DeBey said after practice Wednesday. "But, I've been waiting for this chance for a long time. I think I can do a good job."
Small O-State Back Plays Like 'Monster'
When you have a halfback who stands 5-7 $ \frac{1}{2} $ and weighs 150 pounds, you don't consider him large enough for high school football. But those are the dimensions of Oklahoma State's top left halfback, Larry Elliot, who is one of the sharper performing Cowboys.
Elliot is the second of an Elk City, Okla., family to lend his football talents to OSU. The first was his older brother Jim, a 5-9, 160-pound "monster" who was the offensive quarterback spark for the 1960 Cowpoke squad.
The stubby halfback has a sturdy pair of legs that always seem to be churning. Plus this, he has pretty good speed (10.1 was his best high school 100), excellent balance and
what's most important in Coach Phil Cutchin's book, a burning desire to excel.
THE BIG EIGHT'S SMALLEST player gave a solid opening night performance under extreme conditions at Arkansas.
Elliot rushed four times for 19 yards, caught two passes for 11, returned two punts for 16 yards and raced back a total of 53 yards with two kickoff runbacks.
Larry made the rounds in high school. He won twelve athletic letters in football, basketball, baseball and track, including all-state football honors his senior year and second team all-state in baseball. He was always a starter in basketball, a high scoring halfback and a baseball shortstop who hit the ball at a 400 clip two springs ago.
"No, I Don't think my lack of size hurts me a lot," Elliott said. "In fact, it's sort of an advantage. Whenever you do something good the coaches or players are quicker to notice it."
O-State's assistant in charge of offense, Elwood Kettler, describes Elliott as "a 110-percent player all of the time."
"He enjoys playing the game and his great desire makes him an easy player to work with. Other than his fine attitude toward the game his greatest physical asset is quickness and balance," Kettler says.
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