Kansas Runners Win Cross-Country Title
Frame, Janzen Lead Hawks To Eighth Straight Crown
The Kansas cross-country team Saturday won its eighth consecutive Big Seven championship at Ames, Iowa, the longest winning streak ever put together by any KU athletic team.
Capt. Al Frame, a junior, took individual honors in 15:17. over the 3-mile course against 35 other runners. Teammate Lowell Janzen, a sophomore, took second, about 100 yards behind Frame.
Helping Kansas to its 21-point margin over runner-up Missouri were Tom Rupp, fifth; John Howell, sixth, and Grant Cookson, sixteenth. Only the first four finishers counted in the scoring. Rupp is a junior, Howell and Cookson sophomores.
Kansas won the low score of 14 points. Missouri was second with 35, followed by Oklahoma with 46, Colorado 54, Iowa State 90, Kansas State 97, and Nebraska 103.
In winning, Frame also established a new course record for the Ames course. The record was set just the previous Saturday by Walter Deike of the University of Chicago in a quadrangular meet—15:37.9.
It marked the eighth loop title for Coach M. E. "Bill" Easton in eight years on Mt. Oread. His first year here, 1947, he won the hill and dale flag and has repeated every year since. In each year a Kansas runner also has taken individual honors.
Frame last year finished 18th in the NCAA run-off as KU, with Wes jantee leading the way, captured the national title.
The top 10 finishers in the Big Seven meet:
Next Monday Kansas will go to East Lansing, Mich., to try to repeat as national champions.
1. Frame; KU; 2. Janzen, KU; 3. Keith Bacon, MU; 4. Ladd, LUD, U5. Rupp, KU; 6. Howell, KU; 7. Lynn Romann, MU; 8. Jim Wyatt, CU; 9. John Kick, CU; 10. Don Reed, OU
Russian Soccer Team Ties
Lausanne, Switzerland — (U.P.) — Russia's soccer champions, the dynamo team of Moscow, headed home today following a successful tour of Western Europe. The Russians were denied a clean sweep of their six-game exhibition tour yestreday, though, when they were held to a 1 to 1 tie by the Lausanne-Zurich All-Stars.
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Kansas holds a one-game edge, 28-27, over Missouri in football. Seven have been ties.
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Pistons Keep Lead in NBA
By UNITED PRESS
A tie-breaking goal by lanky Mel Hutchins with 13 seconds to play kept the surprising Fort Wayne Pistons a game and a half ahead of the resurgent Minneapolis Lakers in the Western division of the National Basketball association.
Hutchins, 6-foot, 6-inch former Brigham Young star, slipped underneath the basket for the goal that meant a 93-91 comeback victory over Milwaukee at Fort Wayne, last night, while the Lakers, sparked by Jim Pollard's 5 points, beat Syracuse, 99-92, at Minneapolis.
In the only other league game yesterday, the New York Knicks barely lasted to beat the Baltimore Bullets, 95-93, at Baltimore. Fort Wayne, scoring its sixth victory in seven starts, was forced to rally after trailing Milwaukee, 54-44, at halftime. The Pistons surged into a 69-65 lead at the end of three periods but the lead changed hands several times in the last period before Hutchins goal. Chuck Cooper of Milwaukee won scoring honors with 27 points while Andy Phillip led the Pistons with 23.
Against Missouri, this week's football opponent, KU has played 62 games since the series started in 1891.
The record for most points in a season by a KU player is held by Wade Stinson, who scored 84 in 1950.
Frosh Close Year With 10-2 Record
--any of the other powers. Even more ridiculous is that these same writers yearly cast their ballots for all-American teams.
The Kansas freshman cross-country team closed out its season last week with postal dual meet victories over Missouri, Colorado, and Iowa State and a loss to Iowa, giving the junior Jayhawks a 10-2 season record.
Top man for KU in each meet last week was Jerry McNeal. He covered the three-mile course in 9:41.
During the season KU also posted postal triumphs over Oklahoma, Indiana, Notre Dame, Michigan State, Nebraska, and Texas A&M. The other loss was administered by Oklahoma A&M.
Lions, Giants Take Pro Leads
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The Detroit Lions and New York Giants believe a simple offense and strong defense are the keys to National Football league success and are proving it by leading the respective division races.
By UNITED PRESS
New York didn't figure to play an important role in the Eastern division because it was the league's lowest scoring team in 1953 when it had a 3-9 record. But the Giants (6-2) took undisputed first place yesterday by beating the Philadelphia Eagles, 27-14. The teams started the game tied for first.
--any of the other powers. Even more ridiculous is that these same writers yearly cast their ballots for all-American teams.
Detroit took a big stride toward a record three in a row by handing the San Francisco Forty-Niners their worst defeat yesterday, 48-7. A record Detroit pro football crowd of 58,431 saw the Lions (6-1) take a two-game lead in the Western race.
The Cleveland Browns, another team which stresses perfect execution of simple plays, remain a halfgame behind the Giants after downing the Chicago Bears, 39-10, in the weekend's other key game.
The Los Angeles Rams (4-3-1) pulled into a tie with San Francisco for second in the Western division by beating the Chicago Cardinals in a rough game, 28-17. The Washington Redskins virtually ended Pittsburgh's Eastern hopes by edging the Steelers, 17-14. The Green Bay Packers opened the weekend play Saturday night by rallying to beat the Baltimore Colts, 24-13.
Detroit and Cleveland have played seven games, one less than the other 10 clubs.
San Francisco handed the Lions their only 1954 defeat, 37-31, last month and invaded Detroit with a chance to tie for the lead. But the Forty-niners were buried under a six-touchdown spree. Doak Walker led the Lions with 18 points on a touchdown, two field goals, and six extra points.
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Are the weekly football polls and the season's-end all-American teams really meaningful?
Much can be learned from the discoveries made last week concerning the weekly high school Associated Press team ratings.
The howls of protest were long and loud. So, in Friday's games three of the top teams took the field. The results: Pittsburg, fearing loss of its top rank, clobbered its opponent 58 to 0. Fort Scott, wanting to move into first place, won 66 to 0. Lawrence, wanting badly to move from second to first, but caring more for feelings, won 32 to 6.
The same situation has been happening among colleges, as in the two UCLA routs several weeks ago, all brought about by the almighty polls.
It was found that two sportswriters had turned in the most ludicrous examples of football ratings imaginable. Their motives seemed clear—to put their local teams first and to insure that other top teams be deprived of their true standings.
If such a situation can happen on such a relatively small scale as among the prep teams in Kansas, it can be seen what the results can be and sometimes are in similar national polls.
How, for instance, does a writer in Maine know if UCLA or Oklahoma is the better team? Again, how does a writer in Florida know just how to rank Ohio State and Notre Dame in relation to any of the other "powers?"
Many never see even one of the players for whom they vote. All they know is "what they read in the papers" or what some college publicity director turns out in such volume.
Each fall when the top eleven in the country is published storms of protest come from all sectors because such-and-such a fullback from that area is not among the select. How do these critics and writers really know who is better?
They do not. And, as such, the polls and player picks are almost meaningless.
The continuance of the polls will bring only hard feelings among all concerned. Such polls and picks tend to ruin the spirit of the game, especially in high schools where football supposedly still is played for the fun of it. Polls should be abolished.
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