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KU, TCU To Open Season In Ft. Worth
KANSAS
PLAYER WT. POS.
McCarthy, Lynn 191 LE
Drake, John 209 LT
Kraus, Bob 205 LG
Black, Frank 242 C
Remsberg, George 242 RG
Blas, Gen 212 RT
Lettaviti, Jim 179 RE
Strauch, Wally 172 QB
Francisco, John 170 LH
Blowley, Dick 185 RH
Reich, Dick 210 FB
INFANTS CHRISTIAN PLAYER WT.
Engram, Bryan 195
Hamilton, Norman 225
Williams, Joe 200
Fitts, Hugh 214
Dixon, Vernon 205
Cooper, Don 210
Williams, O'Day 190
Curtis, Charles 185
wink, Jimmy 190
wink, John 180
Hallbeck, Vernon 205
Coach Abe Martin's Frogs hold a decided edge in the series with a record of 8 wins against 2 for the Jawhaws. Two games ended in a last year the TCU team beat Mather's team 27 to 6. The only Kansas victories occurred in 1951 and 1952. In 1946 and 1947 the games ended in scoreless ties.
At 8:00 p.m. tomorrow on Amon-Carter field in Forth Worth the 1955 edition of Coach Chuck Mather's football machine will get its initial test when it meets always tough Texas Christian University of the Southwest Conference.
Fine TCU Team
TCU boasts what may well be its finest team since the pre-war era With a strong junior line which
JIM LETCAVITS Kansas End
Texas Christian returns 26 lettermen from last year and lost only three men who could be termed as regulars. Among the returning squad men will be 11 of the top 13 ball carriers, three of the four top passers, 10 of 12 pass receivers, and two of the top three punters.
obtained a world of experience last year and a pair of breakaway backs and a revitalized aerial game the Frogs should field a well-rounded offense.
Biggest worry to Martin in the pre-season pondering was what to do about filling the shoes of Buddy Dike, the sophomore full-back sensation last year who was wrecked in the sixth game by a kidney injury.
Kansas will probably have to take to the air or sweep the ends to have much effect against the Frogs. Tackle to tackle the TCU line is one of the best in the West and is
Many TCU Lettermen
converted guard, 6 foot 2 inch
pound Vernon Hallbeck, has
made Martin and the rest of the
TCU coaching staff forget all about
Dike from the reports leaking out
of fall practice. Rumor has it that
Hallbeck is a better power runner than Dike and is harder to bring down as he has a twisting, running motion.
Friday, Sept. 16, 1955
anchored in the center by a potential All-American, Hugh Pitts. Pitts will furnish a strong test to the ability of Frank Black, KU's 242-pound pivotman.
Kansas will be in much the same position which TCU found itself in last year when they finished with a season's record of four wins and six losses. Five sophomores will start for the Jayhawkers and inexperience could hurt them in some tight spots, especially at the first of the season.
Two Sophomore Ends
Two sophomores, Jim Letcavis and Lynn McCarthy, will start at the end slots and both have looked good in practice. If they get in trouble however, two able seniors, Paul Smith and Don Martin, are around to back them up.
The most dangerous threat to Mather's hopes for a victory will probably be the TCU passing attack, a department in which they were woefully inadequate last year. In fall practice junior quarterback Charley Curtis looked exceptionally good and in the intra-squad scrimmage last week tossed four touchdown passes.
Tomorrow night's game will be broadcast by seven stations of the KU Sports Network and also by WREN of Topeka. The game will be broadcast at 7:45 p.m. over WREN; KANU of KU; KSAL, Salina; KWH-K and KBWB. Hutchinson; KSOK, Arkansas City; KAYS, Hays, and at 1:45 p.m. Sunday KLWN, Lawrence, will schedule a rebroadcast of the game.
Major League Standings
The team left from Kansas City by air at 10:30 this morning and will arrive back in Kansas City at 11:40 am. Sunday. A crowd of about 25-, 000 is expected for the game.
National League
W L Pct GB
Brooklyn 93 52 641 —
Milwaukee 81 65 551 12 ‡
New York 74 70 154 18
Philadelphia 73 73 500 20
Cincinnati 73 76 486 20
Chicago 69 77 473 24
St. Louis 63 82 434 30
Pittsburgh 57 87 396 35
Yesterday's Results
St. Louis 3, Brooklyn 2 (12 innings).
American League W W L Pct. GB
Cleveland 90 56 616 —
New York 88 56 611 1
Chicago 86 60 589 4
Boston 82 62 569 7
Detroit 72 73 497 17¹
Kansas City 61 84 421 28¹
Washington 51 91 359 35
Baltimore 47 95 331 41
American League
YOU'LL DOTE ON A DQ FLOAT
Swimming Hours Set For Robinson Pool
1835 MASS.
The Robinson Gym swimming pool will be open for free swimming periods commencing today. Hours for male students will be from 4 to 6 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and from 2 to 4 p.m. on Saturday. The hours for female students haven't been established as yet.
Football Starts Tonight; U.C.L.A.Meets Texas A&M
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UCLA, the nation's No. 1 college football team last year and a contender for the same title again this year, inaugurates the country's 1955 gridiron season tonight by meeting upset-minded Texas A and M under the lights at Los Angeles' Memorial Coliseum.
Other games on tonight's arelight program include Catawba-Davidson, Drake-North Dakota State, and Utah State-San Jose State.
Then, without even waiting for the American League to settle that wild pennant race, the punters, plungers, and passers start going all
out tomorrow in a heavy slate of games that includes an interesting nationally-televised clash between Miami (Fla.) and Georgia Tech.
In some of the best of these, Pittsburgh is favored by six points over California, Iowa State by six over Denver, Kansas State by seven over Wyoming, Maryland by 20 over Missouri, Texas Christian by 20 over Kansas, and Oregon State by 19 over Brigham Young.
The Pacific Coast Conference competition opens with Southern California favored by 19 over Washington State and Washington by 14 over Idaho.
10p non-league night games in the Southwest finds Texas favored by seven over Texas Tech and Baylor by 20 over Hardin-Simmons.
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