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University Daily Kansan Monday, Sept. 12. 1955
GENE BLASI Kansas Tackle
OU Hires New Swim Coach
Matt Mann, former Olympic swimming coach and head swimming coach at the University of Michigan for many years, was hired last week by the Board of Rogers of the University of Oklahoma.
Mann has long been recognized as one of the best swimming coaches in the business and developed such stars as Bumpy Jones, Alan Ford, and others. He recently retired at Michigan.
Oklahoma last year was troubled by reports of dissension among the boys and coach of the swimming team. The main trouble seemed to stem within the team.
Montreal Cuts John Anderson
The Montreal Alouettes, Canadian professional football team, have cut former KU fullback John Anderson from their roster to bring their total of U. S. players down to the required limit of 10.
Rohde, Ted (Road-ee)—Ranked second nationally in punting last year with 43.7 average on 29 kicks, a new single-season KU record... Willing, earnest hand who played end, halfback and fullback last season... Flashed considerable ball-carrying and defensive improvement during spring and could mature into good all-round back... Accounting major.
If the alumni, students, and supporters of Kansas football, or for that matter all sports, will only keep Granny's words in mind the 1955 season in the most successful in the school's history from the spectator's viewpoint.
By JOHN McMILLION Kansan Sports Editor
The immortal Grantland Rice once wrote, "For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes—not that you won or lost but how you played the game."
While Coach Mather's grid machine may be outmanned on several occasions this fall, we have a hunch that pound for pound they will seldom be outhustled. Displaying a superlative spirit in both fall and spring drills the Jayhawkers have that will to win which can well swing the balance in a tough game.
DUD BUDRICH
Kansas
Any fan can pat the team on the back and heap words of praise when they have won a game but it is only the real fan who can come up to a ball player and congratulate him after dropping a game to a superior foe. A fan who can't support a team which has done its best but has still been beaten is not worthy to call that team his own.
If the students of KU haven't got the intestinal fortitude to back their club, win-lose-or draw throughout the entire season can be expected. The club to keep in there fighting for the entire 10-game schedule, which is one of the toughest in the school's history.
Stalcup Needles Doc Allen
Sparky Stalcup, the genial cage coach at Missouri, fired the first shot in what will probably become a nation-wide needling contest last week when he brought up the question of Doctor Forrest C. "Phog" Allen's retirement as head basketball coach at KU.
Next, things started humming among the Board of Regents but before it went too far Chancellor Murphy made a statement to the effect that the situation was in the hands of the Regents but that he didn't believe in breaking a precedent.
to the fact that most of the legislators didn't really care one way or the other.
Stalcup said, "It looks like my friend Phog has again pulled off a master stroke of recruiting, in view of his talked retirement. If Allen retires as scheduled and Wilt holds good to the statement that he came to KU just to play for Phog I wonder who'll have the headaches then."
All of this is very nice except for one joker in the deck. According to the University's retirement rule requiring compulsory retirement at the age of 70 Dr. Allen will be asked to retire at the end of this year.
In an interview with the Kansas City Times last week Wilt Chamberlain, the seven foot plus center that KU has acquired, stated that he came to Kansas because he wanted to play for a good coach and "Dr. Allen is the best there is."
Last year a group of overly enthusiastic, if not too well informed, alumni introduced a bill in the legislature which would allow Dr. Allen to remain at KU past the mandatory retirement age. The bill passed, mainly due
Question Dropped Suddenly With that the whole question dropped from sight and Stalcup's sly remarks are the first which have after the whole speech 'Soccer' the whole mess will break again and it would probably be far better if it happened now instead of in the middle of basketball season.
For Dr. Allen this would be the best possible time to bow out of active coaching. Right now he is at the top of the heap and has just made the coup de grace in his acquisition of Chamberlain. We can only hope that after this season he will bow gracefully from the scene, perhaps to assume a position as chief talent scout for the University,
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