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By JOHN McMILLION Kansan Sports Editor
Once upon a time a sport called football was originated. It rapidly became one of the most popular sports in America. After minor revisions it reached its present state, being played with 11 players at one time.
Back through the roaring twenties football was at its best. Through the week the coach guided the team and then on Saturday afternoon the spotlight shifted to the all-important man of the day, the quarterback.
In the good old days the quarterback ran the team. He gambled made the mistakes, displayed flashes of brilliance and periods of ignorance. But he still ran the team and the crowd loved it.
Then something happened to football. A rabid, raving breed of monsters called the Alums took over. There was only one word in their vocabularies. Win, Win, WIN. No more could the quarterback go out and run the team, make mistakes, display his talent. There was too much at stake to be trusted to a green kid.
So the coaches took over. They were forced to do so. No longer, with their jobs and futures depending on it, could they trust some bright-eyed, wet-eared youngster to run the football team on the field. So they did what they had to do, they started calling every play themselves.
However, the Grand Dragon of a high order of spineless do-notings, the NCAA, decided all this wasn't quite right. So legislation was passed which did away with the coaches calling the plays. Or supposedly it did away with it. Now, however, via signals and messenger boys, ala trainer and water boy, the coaches call the signals.
You can't blame them. They have to as long as the greedy, unsportsmanlike alums, and come to think of it the students too, insist on perfection every Saturday. As long as that is the case college football will not return to the golden era but will move more and more towards professionalism.
Just once again we would like to see a college football team, any team, take the field, the coach settle back, and a slender willow-armed individual called the quarterback take over. Sometimes the results could be surprising.
Oklahoma Next
The Oklahoma Sooners are next. They have already been conceded the conference championship, which they have won every year since the Big Six became the Big Seven, by virtually every team in the conference. Colorado is probably the lone exception that doesn't think the Sooners are invincible.
For KU a victory over the Sooners is about as possible as the University solving the parking problem. Facing facts, the Oklahoma club has got too much in too many places. However, if the Jayhawkers bounce back and play like they did at Colorado, they can give a creditable showing.
Cross Country Coming Up
The 1955 Cross Country season starts for Kansas this weekend at Stillwater when the Jayhawkers meet defending NCAA champion Oklahoma A&M. The boys who are on the cross country team are the unsung heroes of the school. Year in and year out the KU squad is among the best in the nation but student interest in the sport is low.
Cross country is probably the most strenuous sport in college competition today. This is especially the case at KU where the course runs vertical instead of horizontal. The boys on the cross country team really have to be in tip-top shape.
This year may be the year for Kansas to win the NCAA again. The KU squad is loaded. So come the first home meet let's have a little student support. It's a great sport.
Howie Fox's Body Sent Home
SAN ANTONIO, Tex.—(U.P.)—The body of former Major League pitcher Howie Fox was sent to Springfield, Gre., for burial today while a 22-year-old San Antonio man faced a murder charge in his death.
Fox was fetally stabbed early Sunday and his bartender, Hubert (Tex) Callahan, 42, critically wounded in a brawl outside Fox's tavern with 3 men. John Strickland, 22, was charged with murdering Fox and with assault to murder Callahan.
Fox spent seven years with the Cincinnati Redlegs and one year with the Philadelphia Phillies. His
lifetime major league record was 44 wins and 74 losses. He was with Baltimore in the International League and during 1954 when the Orioles joined the American League. He pitched for San Antonio in the Texas League last season.
Glassford Sad, Mertes Happy, Among Coaches
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Last Saturday's conquests and defeats were being rehashed by Big Seven coaches today before their teams settle down to stiff workouts that precede another round of grid scraps this weekend.
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The coaches took time for the usual recriminations and back patting after light workouts opened training throughout the conference camps yesterday.
Hardest pressed for an explanation in the losers column was Nebraska Coach Bill Glassford, whose team lost 27-0 to Texas A. & M. last Saturday.
A. and M. Coach Paul Bryant said after the game that his squad "hadn't faced a less-talented team."
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Replied Glassford; "We had great desire. If we could have kept from making crucial mistakes, we would have been in better shape. I think we held up pretty well against them. We got beat up a few times but we hurt ourselves with fumblies."
The Cornhusker Coach called for a letup in heavy workouts, although a rugged test Saturday against Pittsburgh loomed.
Mertes Happy
He termed the win "something the boys earned and collected." Kansas State faces a tougher test Saturday against unbeaten Colorado.
At Manhattan, Kan., Kansas State Coach Bux Mertes was in an exuberant frame of mind after a surprising 42-0 win over Marquette University.
At Oklahoma City, Sooner Coach Bud Wilkinson told an unbelieving quarterback club that "winning 22 straight games is not important."
Wilkinson said Oklahoma, rated third in the nation, "didn't move the ball well at all" against Texas but played wel enough defensively to gain a 20-0 victory.
Wilkinson Finds Cloud
The brilliant mentor was able to find a thin cloud on the Saturday horizon, noting that Kansas "is a very rapidly improving ball club."
At Columbia, Mo. Tiger Coach Don Faurot was itching to get into Big Seven play for the first time Saturday against Iowa State The
KU Freshmen Footballers Prepare For Three Games
A 45-man KU freshman squad is starting to shape up into an effective football unit, Wayne Replogle, freshman coach, said yesterday.
"I have never had a better disciplined group of boys," Replogle said. "Their general attitude is excellent—very mature. These boys, along with the transfer players, will undoubtedly help strengthen the varsity next year."
The freshman squad will play three games this year against freshman units from other schools. Their first encounter is with the K-State freshmen at 3 p.m., Friday, Oct. 14. here.
At quarterback, Coach Replogle named three boys who show outstanding ability. They are Robert Marshall, Warrensburg, Mo.; Richard Crescenze, Massillon, Ohio, and Kenneth Morris, Salina.
On Saturday, Oct. 29, they will journey to Denver, Colo., to tangle with the new Air Force Academy team. Missouri freshmen will be their opponents in their last game, which will be played in Columbia.
Two boys performing well at left half are Homer Floyd, Massillon, Ohio, and Buddy Merritt, Ellis. At right half the standout performer is Duane McIntire, Gardner.
Fullbacks pushing for the startin-
g position are William Baker,
Kansas City, Kan.; H. C. Palmer,
Atchison, and Mike Fisher, East
Hartford, Conn.
He put his squad through a light offensive scrimmage after watching movies of Friday night's 13-6 loss to Southern Methodist.
Missouri team has lost four straight against non-conference foes, but stands to pick up a victory against the Iowa clan.
Elmer Leurent, Brackenridge.
Oklahoma is the youngest school in the Big Seven, having opened its doors Sept. 15, 1892 in a downtown rock store on Norman's West Main St.
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The tackle position is another place where competition is keen. William Dryer, Great Bend; Ronald Dean, Massillon, Ohio; Larry Marcus, Mission and John Huser, Chicago, are the boys that are looking sharp at this spot.
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