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University Daily Kansan Thursday, March 8, 1956.
Spring Football Drills To Start Next Thursday
With a rugged 10 game schedule next fall, the 1956 University of Kansas football squad will begin spring practice Thursday March 15.
About 90 are expected to report for opening practice.
Along with 22 returning lettermen, the squad will be supplemented with 28 highly-regarded transfers and 48 freshmen, who were good enough to win two of three games last season.
Three Out Of Reach
The Out Of Reach
Coach Mather is expecting 1856 to be Kansas City season in his three years as head Mather lists only Oklahoma, Texas Christian, and UCLA out of reach for hawkeyers.
Like everyone else, Mather again predicts powerful Oklahoma to win the Big Seven championship.
Lettermen To Carry Load
Letterbox To Carry Load Although Mather speaks highly of the transfers and freshmen, he said an improved group of lettermen will carry the bulk of Kansas' attack, and he would be disappointed if the returning starters failed to hold their positions.
Spring practice will be climaxed with an intrasquad game April 28. Juniors and sophomores will oppose a team of transfers and freshmen
Returning starters include ends, Lynn McCarthy, the club's leading tackler last year as a sophomore, and Jim Letcavits, its leading receiver; tackle Frank Gibson; centers Gale Wahlemeier, captain-elect, and Frank Black; guards, Bob Kraus, and Don Pfutzenreuter, quarterbacks Wally Strauch and Dave Preston, and halfback John Francisco, the club's leading ground gainer.
The other lettermen are Jerry Baker, Joe Held and Al Stevenson, fullbacks; Bill Bell, Don Martin and LaVerne Fiss, ends; John Drake, tackle; Joe Eaglowski and Tom Leo, guard; Norman Redd, center, and Ted Rohde and John Traylor, half-backs.
Transfers and freshmen most counted upon are:
Ends—Jim Simeno, transfer from St. Benedict's, with four years experience in Navy football, Dale Remsberg, freshman; Tom Russell, Ohio State transfer and the most outstanding lineman on Guam in 1954; Henry Grooms, Illinois transfer, Bruce Brenner, Cornell transfer, and all-Ivy League player as a sophomore, and John Walt, a freshman with service experience.
Tackles—Ron Claiborne, Rice transfer; John Husar, freshman; Eprelock, Cincinnati transfer; Tom Horner, William and Mary transfer; Pete Whitenight, freshman, and Roger Brinkoff, Pittsburgh, transfer.
Guards—Ray Lane, Northwestern transfer; Bob Lewis, Coffeyville Juco transfer who was all-Navy in Hawaii; Paul Swoboda, all-Navy in Hawaii as a center, and George Giovanos, South Carolina transfer.
Centers—John Wertsberger, Law-
rence High School player who didn't
play last fall as a sophomore; Bruce
Bynum, Oklahoma transfer, and
Walter Schmidt, freshman.
Quarterbacks—Bob Marshall, freshman, and Bob Mesire, West Point transfer.
Holfacks—Bob Heesing, Missouri transfer; Bob Robertson, South Carolina Juco transfer; Duane Mclntire, freshman; Ernie Russell, Western Reserve transfer; Bill Brill and Don Feller, D尔佐罗 Duco transfers.
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Moody Signs With Frisco Buller With New York Giants
Two Kansas football players, Ralph Moody and Bev Buller, have signed contracts with professional football teams for the 1856 season. Moody signed with the San Francisco 49ers and Buller with the New York Giants.
Moody, a physical education major from Minneola was the 49ers' 13th draft choice and Buller was New York's 26th pick. Moody has not yet been notified where San Francisco will hold its pre-season drills.
Buller is slated to report for the first New York practice session on July 23.
Although Moody and Buller have
signed contracts, they don't have to play if they decide against pro call.
Last season Moody started several games and was a regular halfback in 1954 until injured in the sixth game. The 196-pounder is exceptionally 'fast' for his size, running the 100-yard dash in .09.8. In 1954 he ranked second in the Big Seven in punt returns, averaging 16.6 yards on nine returns. Last season Moody carried the ball 38 times, good for 107 net yards, intercepted two enemy passes for 71 yards, and returned three punts for 64 yards.
Fullbacks—Jim Brooks, Cincinnati transfer; Homer Floyd, freshman; Pat Burke, Detroit transfer; Bob Howe, Cincinnati transef, and Bill Baker, freshman.
Buller, a Lyons business major, shared the quarterback duties with sophomore Wally Strauch last season after serving as the regular signal-caller in 1954. He had a net total of 49 yards on 35 carries last season and was the team's second leading passer. He also led in kickoff runbacks with 127 yards on nine returns.
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