University Daily Kansan
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1. JOHN McMILLION Daily Kansan Sports Editor
"The biggest bunch of fair-weather rooters as I've ever seen" is the way one KU football player described the students and alumni of KU. His opinion is shared right down the line by the majority, if not all, of the Jayhawkers.
At Missouri the other night they had a pep rally. Over 2,000 students turned out. To date Missouri has lost six straight games. Before the pep rally they had lost five games. But still they had over 2,000 students at their pep rally.
We've Got A Good Team
Here at Kansas we've got a good team that, with the possible exception of the Iowa State game, hasn't dropped the ball all season. Fans at Colorado were amazed at the way the light KU squad outplayed and outhustled the Bucks before succumbing to superior depth and thin mountain air.
In every game this year the Jayhawks have played their hearts out against superior odds and they've earned the respect and admiration of every coach and team they have faced.
Spectators Sit On Tails
Yet, with some of the most exciting football that anyone could ask for being offered every Saturday, the KU spectators just sit there on their tails and view the proceedings with apathy. They might as well stay home in bed.
It is about time the students in this school forget about their parties and their social life and get out and let their hair down. It's your team, support it. Go home at night after a game so hoarse you can't talk for a week, then you'll know you've done your part.
A good slate of three home games await us after this weekend. All three will be close and all three could end up KU victories. So from now on let's give 'em hell.
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Peace Pacts
The peace-pact between Kansas and Kansas State has been signed. It is a good thing. There is no sense in marring buildings and statutes on various campuses just to display an adolescent burst of enthusiasm.
However, if the enemy should attack the only honorable thing to do is defend the homeland. So if anyone makes a move toward the goal posts at any of the remaining home games, let's get down on that field and put a screeching halt to it. It's our duty, anyway you look at it.
However, if no move is made toward our goal posts then we shouldn't be the first ones to start anything. I believe it would add a great deal to the spirit of fooball here at KU if some of the good old rock-em-sock days came back. It's just like baseball, they're trying to kill it by making it a ladies tea party sort of thing. A little hellraising never hurt anyone.
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Big 7 Coaches Lay Off Rough Scrimmages
At Columbia, Mo., Coach Don Faurot squeamishly subjected his team to their first scrimmage work of the week, and saw halfback Joe Wynn hobble off the field with an injured ankle. Faurot planned light drills only until his undermanned squad faces Colorado at Boulder Saturday.
Cause of the lapse from mundane practice rigors was an awesome mid-season toll of the injured and weary.
The usual mid-week thunder of clashing football gear was strangely absent in Big Seven camps today with coaches studiously avoiding rough workouts and scrimmages.
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Kansas State Coach Bus Mertes glove-handled his Wildcats through long and light defensive drills with the admission he knows of no way to stop the seemingly unbeatable Oklahoma Sooners.
At Lincoln, Neb., Coach Bill Glassford warned fans against over-optimism about the Huskers' chances over Kansas. Advised Nebraska was established a 13-point favorite over the crippled Kansans, Glassford replied: "There's no such thing as point favorites."
Iowa State College, the only conference team to escape Big Seven duty Saturday, spent the evening under lights on a high school field in preparation for Saturday night's game with Drake in Des Moines.
In the lair of the Oklahoma Sooners at Norman, a third string quarterback was sidelined when he rubbed against poison ivy while
White Sox Barter With KC, opez, Finigan Targets
CHICAGO — (U.P.)— Vice President Chuck Comiskey of the Chicago White Sox is wasting little time in taking over where his old general manager, Frank Lane, left off.
Comiskey and Manager Marty Marion are now dickering with the Kansas City Athletics for a pitcher and an infielder, a few hours after Comiskey sent Chico Carrasquel and Jim Busby to Cleveland for Larry Doby.
The 29-year-old Sox vice president said Chicago was interested in pitching and infield help, while picking pecans. Coach Bud Wilkinson said he was preparing for Saturday's game "just as hard as all the others because Kansas State probably will play its best game of the year."
The Huskers have only ten seniors on their squad, but 25 sophs.
the Athletics were looking for pitchers.
It was believed that infielders Hector Lopez and Jim Finigan were the main targets of the White Sox' dickering. Lopez batted .290 during the past year as a third-baseman. Finigan, who hit .301 as a rookie in 1954, dropped off to .250 this season but remained a potent batter with 70 runs-batted-in.
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