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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Oct. 14, 1955
KU Invades Oklahoma But With Little Hope
Take the Cleveland Browns, add the Los Angeles Rams; mix well with seven or eight coal miners from Pennsylvania and Kansas might have a winning combination when they meet the Oklahoma Sooners in Norman tomorrow at 2 p.m.
Naturally the Browns, Rams and the seven or eight coal miners will have to be on the field for the entire OU homecoming game, as the Sooners are rated the strongest they have been since 1943.
Bud Wilkinson claims he doesn't have a really great team, it's just a "slowly improving team that has a new back field and new ends."
A look at the past record will give Kansans a look at what has happened the last two years when the Jayhawkers have had to play the Sooners. The Okies have picked 110 points in two games, on a two year aggregate of 1,070 yards net rushing.
OU Has Won 22 Straight
In the face of these figures, and Oklahoma's twin strings of 47 consecutive conference games without defeat and 22 consecutive wins against all opposition, talk of defensive improvement may sound a bit foolish.
Possibly the one glimmering ray of hope may be Chuck Mather's switch to a two platoon system to keep a fresh team on the field at all times. However, even this slight ray has a dark patch as six of the 22 listed on the two platoons have been named on the injury list.
Heading the list is Ralph Moody,
The scampering Jaxhawker, injured at Boulder against Colorado two weeks ago, is still not in the best of shape, especially to see action against the Sooners.
John Traylor, a staunch speedster, will not make the trip to Norman because of a rib injury suffered during the Iowa State game last Saturday. Also on the doubtful list are guard Joe Eaglowski and tackle John Drake.
In an effort to strengthen the faltering KU backfield, Mather has switched Al Stevenson to right half from his normal fullback spot. Gene Blasi was suffering with a charley-horse earlier in the week. Dave Preston had a twisted knee.
The situation for winning, by Kansas that is, appears to be as
Bob Duncan's conversions after touchdown passes from Wheeler to Welch and Clinkenbake gave Tau Kappa Epsilon a 14 to 12 victory over Lambdi Chi Alpha in the Fraternity A division.
TKE, ATO, SAE Win In 'A' Division
Sigma Alpha Epsilon defeated Phi Kappa Tau team 26 to 0 as Burk passed to Morrissey for three touchdowns and connected with Sharpe for the other tally. Nangle's touchdown for Phi Tau was called back because of a penalty.
ATO rolled over Phi Kappa 32 to 0 in another "A" game with Jim Trombold throwing four touchdown passes. Cooper, Martin, Bird, and Trombold scored for ATO.
B Division Scores
Phi Delta Theta 25, Delta Chi 0
Kappa Sigma 32, Acacia 0
INTRAMURAL SCHEDULE
Fraternity "A"
Beta vs. AKL, Field 4
Fraternity "B"
Sig Ep vs. Phi Gam, Field 6
Phi Psi vs. Beta, Field 7
bleak as any "charge of the Light Brisade."
Mather Is Optimistic
Chuck Mather, as optimistic as he can be in this situation, doubts the defeat will be as bad as the 65-0 shellacking painted on KU last year, on their own home grounds in Memorial Stadium.
The only real hope is that the Sooners have an off day. As the Duke of Wellington once said, "The next greatest misfortune to losing a battle is to gain such a victory as this."
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By JOHN McMILLION Kansan Sports Editor
Friday again and it's beginning to be the darkest day of the week. If these football predictions don't improve we may start writing society. But for better or for worse here they are once again.
For the KU-OU game nobody picks the Jayhawkers. Bob Lyle says it will be OU 33, KU 6; Dick Walt picks it OU 47, KU 0; Sam Jones OU 35, KU 0; Daryl Hall OU 42, KU 6; Leo Flanagan OU 45, KU 7; Kent Thomas OU 41, KU 0, and your's truly OU 35, KU 7.
Nine Picked Alike
Everyone agrees on nine games. The concensus of opinion finds Notre Dame beating Michigan State, Ohio State over Duke, Pittsburgh over Nebraska, Michigan over Northwestern, Illinois over Minnesota, UCLA over Stanford, Maryland over North Carolina, Kentucky over Mississippi State, and TCU over the Texas Aggies (watch this last one).
Biggest difficulty was picking the Iowa-Purdue, Wisconsin-Southern California, California-Oregon, and Rice-SMU games. Lyle, Jones, and Hall took Iowa, the rest Purdue. Lyle, Walt, and Jones took Southern Cal, the rest Wisconsin. Jones, Hall, and Flanagan all picked Oregon to beat California with the rest of the staff looking for a comeback by the Bears. Lyle, McMillion, and Jones all pick SMU to beat Rice with the rest following the Owls.
Two On A Limb
In the Texas-Akansas game and the Georgia Tech-Auburn game two of the writers manage to break away from the herd and go off on a tangent. McMillion and Flanagan both look for Auburn to upset Tech and Lyle and McMillion both look for Arkansas to stop Texas.
Lyle goes out on the limb by himself three times. The "Ivy League" kid picks Penn State to beat Navy, Iowa State to down Missouri, and Alabama to top Tennessee. He is joined rather reluctantly by Sam Jones on another wild pick as both writers take Oklahoma A&M over Houston.
Results So Far
For the rinks Lyle has a 41-19 mark and a percentage of .671 and McMillion and Thomas are last with 40-20 marks and percentages of .666.
So far this year Dick Walt, Sam Jones, and Daryl Hall are leading in the averages. All three have picked 46 right while guessing wrong on 14. This gives all three a percentage of .766 which isn't too bad. Flanagan with a record of 43-17 has a percentage of .716.
Mostly Conference Games Slated For This Weekend
By UNITED PRESS
Southern California and Wisconsin, Rose Bowl rivals three seasons back, clash under the lights at Los Angeles tonight in a big intersectional game that opens a weekend of college football that otherwise will be devoted mainly to conference games.
This time the odds-makers figure Wisconsin, unbeaten, untied, and ranked eighth nationally despite the graduation of fullback Alan Ameche, will win.
A tight battle is expected in the only other major game on tonight's arc-light program, a skyline conference battle in which Denver, the host, is a two-point pick over Utah.
Michigan, Maryland, and Oklahoma, the current "big three" in the national football rankings, set the style for the day by sticking within their own league. And all three are heavy favorites—Michigan by 21 points over Northwestern; Maryland by 21 over North Carolina in the Atlantic coast conference; and Oklahoma by 28 over Kansas.
However, Notre Dame, the nation's No. 4 team and not a conference member, is the favorite in the nationally-televised 'game of the week.' The unbeaten, untied, unscored on Irish invade East Lansing, Mich., to face Michigan State, the nation's sophomore-studded no.11 team which is burning to avenge last year's 20-19 loss.
Georgia Tech, Texas Christian, and U.C.L.A., ranked 5-6-7 nationally, will be occupied with important conference matters. Tech is a seven-point choice over Auburn; Texas Christian is a 10-point favorite as it shoots Jimmy Swink and Co. at Texas A. & M.; U.C.L.A. is favored by "only" 19 over coast rival Stanford.
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