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By JOHN McMILLION
Daily Kansan Sports Editor
Last Saturday the axe fell. The sports staff up until that day hadn't slipped below the .500 mark in predictions on any weekend and no one on the staff was below .650 percentage-wise for the whole season. Saturday changed all that.
Ohio State, TCU, Kentucky,
and Notre Dame scuttled everyone
but the sad news didn't end
there by a long shot. Only three
out of the seven even finished
over .500 and they just made it.
Tops for the week, finally, wai the sports editor with a 12 right, & wrong mark. Leo Flanagan and Sam Jones were next with a 11-9 record. Daryl Hall, Dick Walt, and Boy Lyle all batted an even 500 with a 10-10 mark, and Kent Thomas ended up last with a record of 9-11.
Jones Leads The Pack
Jones Leads The Pack
For the season, assistant sports editor Sam Jones has pulled into the lead. He has a percentage of .712 with 57 right and 23 wrong.
Following him are Hall and Walt with .706, Flanagan .675, McMillian .650, Lyle .637, and Thomas .612.
If things don't take a definite upswing this Saturday next week we may start running a pool on whether Princess Margaret will marry Peter Townsend. The odds are better on that one.
KU-Iowa State Alike
Kansas and Iowa State have basically the same type of team. Both are young and both are green. Iowa State displayed Saturday just what this kind of team is capable of when they beat Missouri 20-14. A team like the Cyclones or the Jayhawkers is the kind of squad which can upset the big boys and then blow one they should have won the next week.
There is a good chance that KU will beat someone whom they shouldn't have a chance with somewhere down the remainder of the schedule. Then again, there may come up some game where they have a chance and not do a thing right. That's what happens when you have a young ball club.
Against Colorado they could do no wrong. If they play that way the rest of the season they could win three or four of the remaining
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Colorado Hopes Drop; OU Injuries Not Bad
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All hopes that Colorado might whip Oklahoma by virtual default were dispelled today.
Optimism in the Colorado camp was high yesterday when word filtered out of Norman, Okla., that the Sooner squad was in a state of disrepair after a rugged outing against Kansas.
Trainer Ken Rawlinson reported that 27 Oklahoma players hobbled in to him for treatment of various hurts. This constituted a new high in team injuries. Rawlinson even predicted that five stalwarts might not see action Saturday at Norman.
And Coach Bud Wilkinson, wrapped in his usual Monday cloak of gloom, told the Oklahoma City Quarterback Club that his team just didn't have "the physical strength to beat Colorado."
But the OU squad put out the fire lighted by its superiors when it trotted out onto the field for practice. The entire team made practice. The sideline quarterbacks were hard pressed to find any player that looked as if he wouldn't be able to enter Saturday's fray, and trainer Rawlinson lowered his estimate of "doubtfuls" to two.
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At Boulder, the Golden Buffalooes listened to line Coach Marshall Wells describe Oklahoma's tight defensive system and running attack
OU-CU Top Game
five games. Against Iowa State they could do no right. If they play the same caliber of ball that they did against the Cyclones the remainder of the season they might lose them all.
The Oklahoma-Colorado game promises to be the top Big Seven encounter of the season. Both teams
In all probability, however, a balance somewhere between the two will be attained.
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At Manhattan, Kan., football drills were missed by 13 Wildcats injured in K-State's 34-13 mothering at the hands of Colorado. But Coach Bus Mertes expected most of the squad members to see duty Saturday.
Iowa State, still whooping it up after a mild but satisfying upset of Missouri last Saturday, ran through a light but spirited drill in preparation for their homecoming game at Ames with Kansas State.
Elsewhere, at Columbia, Mo., Missouri's first team held only a 30 minute workout, then heard a scouting report on the Nebraska Cornhuskers. Missouri, still seeking its first victory after five season defeats, meets Nebraska in a homecoming game at Columbia.
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Injuries Hit KU Gridders
A wave of injuries showed up yesterday in the Kansas football camp in the wake of a 6-44 loss to mighty Oklahoma last Saturday.
Seven players, regulars on either the first or second units, were held out of light drills which were held yesterday afternoon on the practice area near Allen Field House. Nursing injuries are Dick Reich, fullback, Al Stevenson, halfback, John Traylor, halfback; Jo h Drake, tackle; Lynn McCarthy, end; Paul Smith, end, and Jerry Baker, fullback.
Most of the injuries were of the knee and leg variety and a few are carry over injuries from before the Oklahoma contest.
Mather expressed satisfaction with Kansas' performance against Oklahoma and had nothing but praise for the Oklahoma team's tremendous hustle and desire to play.
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