Fuesday. Nov. 23. 1954 University Daily Kansan Page
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Athletics Get 2 Pitchers in League Draft
New York — (U.P.) Major league club owners, concentrating on mound talent, selected seven pitchers, three outfielders, a shortstop, and a catcher yesterday in the annual draft of minor league play-
Most of the players were little known.
Parke Carroll, new business manager of the Kansas City Athletics chose Art Ceccarelli, a left-handed pitcher, from the old Kansas City Blues of the American association. He had a 15-12 record in 1954 and struck out 161 batters with Birmingham of the Southern association.
Kansas City also drafted Robert Spicer, a right-handed knuckle-ball pitcher from Los Angeles, who won 13 games while losing 16 last season.
Three clubs., Cincinnati, Kansas City, and the Chicago Cubs, selected two players each. Seven clubs—Baltimore, St. Louis, Philadelphia, the Chicago White Sox, Brooklyn, Cleveland, and the New York Yankees—did not select a single player in the draft.
The Fitzburg Pirates, who had first choice, came up with a surprise when they named outfielder Roberto Clemente of Montreal as their first choice. Clemente is a Brooklyn bonus player who batted 257 and was used mainly for defensive purposes last season. Branch Rickey Jr., who selected him, said he "can run and throw, and we think he can hit."
UCLA Tops UP Coaches Ratings
New York, — (U.P.)—UCLA, having completed the first perfect-record season in its football history, topped the United Press ratings today for the fifth straight week, and now awaits next weekend's wrapup games for approval as 1954 national champion.
After finishing their season with a resounding 34-0 victory over Southern California to clinch the Pacific Coast conference title for the second time in 15 years. The team No. 1 by 22 coaches on the 35-man United Press rating board.
That gave Coach Henry (Red) Sanders' men a 28-point margin over Ohio State and 43 over Oklahoma, both of which have been dogging UC LA in the ratings for the past four weeks. Ohio State, which wound up an unbeaten and untied season and won a bid to the Rose Bowl, was the first-place choice of eight coaches, while Oklahoma, with a 9-0 record and one game left to play, was the top pick of four.
Notre Dame, which retained fourth place, attracted the only other firstplace vote in this week's ratings.
The coaches will vote on the final 1954 ratings after next Saturday's games, which involve seven teams among this week's top 10.
UCLA swept through its nine-game 1954 schedule with a scoring average of nearly 41 points per game. Despite its impressive record, however, the Bruins are ineligible for the Rose Bowl because they played last year. The Rose Bowl berth went to Southern California, which dropped from sixth to 13th in the ratings after being trimmed by UCLA.
Army, which meets Navy in the annual classic at Philadelphia Saturday, ranked fifth once again, keeping the order of the top five teams exactly the same as last week. Navy and Indianapolis are ranked to sixth and seventh, respectively, followed in order by Wisconsin, Arkansas and Miami (Fla.).
Wisconsin and Miami were the week's newcomers among the top 10, both returning after an absence of a few weeks. Both advance five places from the previous week. Arkansas moved up one place, even though it was upset 7-6 by Louisiana State last Saturday.
Southern Methodist, like Southern California. dropped out of the top 10.
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THE CROSS COUNTRY TEAM—The boys look mighty pleased after placing fourth in the NCAA cross country race at East Lansing, Mich., yesterday. The team members are (left to right) Jan Howell, Tom Rupp, Allan Frame (who won the grueling run) Harold Hein, team mgr; Lowell Janzen, and G. Cookson.
Frame Wins Cross Country Title
Allen Frame, Big Seven cross-country champion, finished a little over nine seconds ahead of George King of N.Y.U. yesterday to win the 16th annual NCAA cross-country run held at East Lansing, Michigan with a time of 19:54.2.
The Kansas University cross-country team, defending NCAA champions, finished fourth in a tightly-packed group of 14 sectional teams. The KU squad had a final point total of 129 (low score winning).
Last year KU's Wes Santee won the event in a time of 19:43.5. The record for the grueling race set in 1952 is 19:36.7 held by Charles Capozoli of Georgetown. Santee is second and Frame is now fourth in the all-time standings.
First in the team race was favorite Oklahoma A&M with 61 points; second was Syracuse with 118 points; third was Miami of Ohio with 120. Penn State took fifth behind KU with 152 points.
Coach M. E. "Bill" Easton, his teams and individual performers, have captured more first-place trophies in the East Lansing meet than those handled by any other coaches.
After running with the pack most of the way, Frame, a junior put on a kick in the last half-mile of the four-mile grind to finish about 35 yards ahead of King.
Fred Eckhoff of Oklahoma A&M was third, George Gerry of Boston University placed fourth and Andrew Sowell of Pittsburgh was fifth.
The first Big Ten conference finisher was Rich Ferguson, of Iowa, who came in eighth. Oklahoma A&M had men place second, seventh, 10th, 19th and 23rd in winning.
Terry, a recent winner of the ICAA five-mile run. set a fast pace at the start but was overhauled by the others toward the close of the race.
Billy Tidwell of the College of Emporia (Kan.) State took sixth place.
Other KU runners their placements and times:
The Jayhawk team arrived in Lawrence airport about 6:30 p.m. last night by chartered plane. Coach Easton did not return with the group since he had to stop off in Chicago on the way back.
Jan Howell, 18th, 20:58; Lowell Janen, 27th, 21:13; Tom Rupp, 28th, 21:14, and Grant Cookson, 55th, 21:47. Rupp and Frame are juniors while the other boys are sophomores.
Last year Frame, Jayhawkier captain and a Summerfield scholar, ran 18th with a time of 20:37.5 as Coach Easton's team brought back the first national cross-country title in KU history. Al was the only returnee from last year's NCAA championship team.
Frame is Easton's sixth individual winner. A junior, he is a good bet to repeat his victory next year.
Fourteen schools had full squads entered for the team trophy. Before the meet Oklahoma A&M was the leading contender in the eyes of the experts—and the Cowboys held true to form.
But despite the Aggles win—in the future looks bright for Kansas track.
The 16th annual meet lost some of its color when 29-year-old Kukio Moriya, a Japanese star running for Wheaton College, failed to show up. He was a heavy favorite to take the individual crown.
King, last week's ICAA runner-up, finished second while Terry, the ICAA champion, dropped to fourth place. Fred Eckhoff of Oklahoma A&M crossed the finish line third and Arnold Sowell of Pittsburgh was fifth.
A pair of easterners, Terry of Boston and King of NYU, set a fast pace only to see Frame dash ahead at the three-mile mark and move to an easy victory.
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Army Favored To Whip Navy
Minneapolis, Minn. — (U,R)— The professional odds-makers have installed Army as a six-point favorite over Navy in their annual gridiron classic Saturday.
Notre Dame was rated 14 points better than Southern California, the Pacific Coast's Rose Bowl entry, and Southern Methodist was picked to defeat Texas Christian by six points.
The Minneapolis rating house which sets the official line on college football point spreads picked Oklahoma to defeat Oklahoma A&M by 21 points, the largest margin given to any team.
In games scheduled for Thanksgiving day Thursday, Utah was rated 13 over Utah State and Missouri 14 over Maryland. William and Mary vs. Richmond and Colgate vs. Brown were rated toss-ups, take your pick.
Dayton was given a one-point edge over Chattanooga and seven point favorites Thursday included Cincinnati over Miami of Ohio, Virginia Tech over VMI and Texas over Texas A&M.
Three other Thursday game were rated for 14-point spreads. Cornell over Pennsylvania, Wichita over Denver and Denver over Colorado A&M
In other Saturday games, Miami of Florida was picked over Florida by seven points, Georgia Tech was favored by 13 over Georgia, Mississippi by 13 over Mississippi State, Arkansas by 14 over Houston, and West Virginia by 19 over Virginia.
Other favorites included Boston College seven over Holy Cross, Fordham seven over Villanova, South Carolina seven over Wake Forest, Louisiana State seven over Tulane, Tennessee seven over Vanderbilt, Baylor seven over Rice,
Pacific Coast Coaches Blast Rose Bowl Rule
San Francisco,—(U.P.)-Pacific Coast conference football coaches and other officials today criticized the "no repeat" rule in the Rose Bowl regulations, but at the same time admitted there wasn't anything they could do abou it.
The PCC and the Big Ten signed a pact last year that has three more years to run in which it prohibits any team from going to the Rose Bowl two years in a row.
"The best team should be playing in the Rose Bowl. UCLA is the best team on the coast this year—so the Bruins should be playing in the Rose
Coach Jess Hill, who will lead his second-place Southern California Trojan's into the bowl against Ohio State on New Year's day, said:
Coach Red Sanders of UCLA agreed.
"I said before the season started and I repeat it," said Sanders, that the best team should play in the Rose Bowl."
But the coaches have nothing to do with making the Rose Bowl rules.
The Rules for the post-season game are set up by faculty representatives of the schools in the two conferences. These men usually are under orders from the college presidents.
The presidents in recent years have looked with arched eye-brows at the proportions of intercollegiate football and this is one of their means of forcing what they regard as a slight deemphasis on the game.
At the last meeting of faculty representatives, the Big Ten wanted to put in force a rule that a team could go to the bowl only once in three years. The Pacific Coast group wanted to win the championship champion. After hours of deadlock, the compromise of one team every other year was reached.
Brutus Hamilton, athletic director at University of California, said that the rule, as a whole, is a good one.
"In principal," said Hamilton, "it's a good rule. This year it happens there is a big gap between the first and second-place teams in the coast conference. Usually, there is little to choose between the two clubs."
The Rose Bowl won't be the only post-season classic starring teams with spotty records. Nebraska, beaten by Oklahoma last Saturday, 55-7, goes to the Orange Bowl at Miami. The Cornhuskers have been beaten four times this year. But under the Big Seven rules, too, Oklahoma cannot go to the Orange Bowl this year because it went there last season.
Arizona 13 over Wyoming, Auburn 13 over Alabama, Duke 13 over North Carolina, and Texas Tech 21 over Hardin-Simmons.
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