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University Daily Kansan Friday, Nov. 12, 1954
KU Hopes to Win No.1 From the Oklahoma Aggies
There is some hope around here that Kansas can snap its two-4 year losing streak against Oklahoma A&M tomorrow at Stillwater.
Not that the Cowboys represent a soft spot on the Jayhawk schedule. Nobody could find a lame duck when the slate was surveyed at the head of the season. And there aren't any now.
Besides, the Aggies, playing under J. B. (Ears) Whitworth, always have been rugged for Kansas, even when the Jayhawkers were free-wheeling through 1950, '51, and '52. T h EAggies clapped and thumped down to the final whistle even when Kansas had a grip on them.
Last year, A&M recovered some of the interest due in a seven-game Jayhawk winning streak with a 41-14 ripping here.
No, Kansas' hopes are not based on any expected sag in traditional Aggie stainchness. The key is how much the Jayhawkers can improve for the fourth straight week. Just three weeks ago the Kansans sank to a post-war low in that 65-0 humiliation by Oklahoma.
When the statistical tables came across the board following this one, they showed the Hawkers with only 625 yards of total offense through their first five games. This figures out to an average of 125.2 yards per game, 80 rushing and 45.2 aloft.
Since that time, however, Kansas has been on the upswing. It reached 185 yards of total offense in the mud and rain at Dallas against SMU. It climbed to 205 against Kansas State and to 344 against Nebraska here last Saturday. This didn't halt the chain of defeats, but it did reflect definite progress.
Through their last three games, then, the Hawkers have averaged 244.6 yards in total offense and slightly more than 14 points per game. Such a pace isn't going to alarm the opposition. But it represents a pretty good bootstrap act since that record thrashing at the hands of the Sooners.
All this too, has been accomplished without the club's top rusher, Ralph Moody. The big left half went out early in the SMU tussle with a spinal injury, Terry McIntosh, a converted sophomore quarterback, has stepped into the breach surprisingly well. Fullbacks Bud Laughlin, Tommy Webb, and John Anderson have come along. So have right halffabs Dick Blowey and Rex Sullivan.
More important though is an item of sharper blocking. A couple of weeks ago Coach Chuck Mather dipped deep into his reserves and came up with a tall, sinewy sophomore named Bob Preston at guard. He and Don Pfutzenreuter, the amazing 153-pounder, have been scything well on the sweeps. So have Blowey and the two ends, Don Martin and Bill Bell. Tackle Dick Knowles has chipped in with some good downfield licks. Swinging wide all afternoon, the Jayhawks rolled overland for 249 yards against Nebraska, and scored twice on sweeps. Mather's favorite weapon.
Us usual, A&M will mount a sturdy defense featuring two stout lines. Only Wichita with 22, and Detroit at 19, have scored more than two touchdowns against the Waddies this season. And A&M flattened the Titans, 34-19, in their latest start Saturday.
Injuries sent the Pokes into a mid-season slump which cost them three games, but they are rolling back now, having blanked Tulsa 12-0, just ahead of Detroit. Their overall record is 4-3-1.
Pittsburg Wins 27-0 Over Northeastern
Pittsburg, Kans., (U.F.) - Pittsburg State's Gorillas outplayed Northeastern State of Tahlequah, Okla., in every department last night to mark up a 27-0 football victory.
The Kansas team scored two touchdowns in the first period, one in the third quarter and another in the fourth.
Quarterback Ray McDaniel threw two touchdown passes and fullback Gene Waynesburg plowed 25 yards for a score for the longest run of the game.
OU Has Worst Practice So Far
Norman, Okla. 0.17 - Storm clouds hovered over the Oklahoma football team today in the form of sluggish practice sessions and apparent unwillingness or the student senate to cooperate with the players.
"This is the poorest practice we have had all year," Coach Bud Wilkinson said after Thursday's drill. "There is no chance of our being ready to play a hard game against Missouri Saturday. I had hoped by Thursday our squad would show some indication of being ready to play. But they didn't, not even on the last day of practice."
Meanwhile the student senate took action not expected to bring cheers from the football team.
The senate earlier voted to stage a holiday on Wednesday, Nov. 24, the day before Thanksgiving. A Wednesday holiday will not benefit the team since its members will have to stay at Norman anyway to practice for the Oklahoma A&M game Nov. 27.
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Foes Practice At Stillwater
Stillwater, Okla.—(U,P) —Gridiron
fees Kansas and Oklahoma A&M
shared the same practice field here
today as they applied final touches
to the plays they will use in to-
morrow's game.
The Jayhawks, flying in from Kansas, were due to work out on the Aggie campus in the afternoon.
The Oklahomaans will be seeking their fifth victory against a tie and three losses.
Kansas will be trying to end a 14-
game losing streak.
With Bud Laughlin back in shape, Kansas is expected to open with a backfield of Bev Buller at quarter, Terry Mcntosh and Dick Blowey at halves and Laughlin at fullback.
Aggie quarterback Tom Pontius will start his second college game after handling the job effectively against Detroit last Saturday.
A&M counters Laughlin with its own standout full, Earl Linsford, and the two big fellows might hold the kev to the ball game.
He will be flanked by halffacks Keith Kashwer and Harvey Romans.
New York — (U.P.)— Jimmy Slade, fifth ranking heavyweight contender from New York, signed yesterday to meet Floyd Patterson of Brooklyn in the feature fight at Madison Square Garden, Nov. 19. Slade replaces Willie Troy of Washington, D. C., who withdrew because of shoulder pains.
Slade to Fight Patterson
Bowl Bid for One
Arkansas, OSU, OU, Yale Are Headed for League Titles
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Arkansas' surprising Razorbacks are favored to win the Southwest conference's bid to the Cotton Bowl Saturday while Ohio State Oklahoma and Yale are expected to clinch ties for the Big 10 7 and Ivy group titles.
Cincinnati is favored to beat Wichita and retain its unbeaten and unfied status along with Ohio State, UCLA, Arkansas and Oklahoma. But the Bearcats could have trouble against a rugged Missouri Valley opponent that has a 6-1
Arkansas, which was supposed to be a "patsy" when the season started, has been installed as a six-point favorite over SMU at Fayetteville, Ark. A victory would enable the Razorbacks to clinch the conference title and the automatic Cotton Bowl bid that goes with it.
Ohio State, meanwhile, is a seven-point choice to defeat Purdue at Lafayette, Ind., and thereby clinch at least a tie for the Big 10 crown. The Buckeyes then would have to beat Ohio State by aviation to oppose Southern California in the Rose Bowl by heating Michigan on Nov. 20.
Oklahoma, ranked third in the nation behind UCLA and Ohio State, is favored by 20 points to beat Missouri at Norman, Okla., while Yale is a 13-point choice over Princeton. The edge of possible play was passing from these games, however, lahoma is inelegible even if it wins the Big 7 title and Yale does not play post-season games.
All the other teams ranked among the nation's top 10 are favored—despite the wave of upsets which has claimed two or three of the elite each week.
Fifth-ranked Notre Dame is a lop-sided 26-point pick over North Carolina at South Bend, Ind.; sixhranked Army is 20 points over winless Pennsylvania although the Cadets won't have aailing Coach Earl Blaik to guide them; eighthranked Mississippi is 14! points over Houston; ninth-ranked Iowa is seven over Minnesota and 10th-ranked Navy is an "out choice" over Columbia.
In the NCAA's televised game of the week, Georgia Tech is rated a seven-point favorite over Alabama at Atlanta, Ga., while in intersectional games College of Pacific is seven points over Marquette and Nebraska six over Pittsburgh. In other games,
Midwest: Kansas State is 13 over Iowa State, Nebraska six over Pitt while Michigan State vs. Michigan and Indiana vs. Northwestern are "even."
Southwest: Rice is seven over Texas A&M, Oklahoma A&M, 19 over Kansas and Texas Tech 21 over Tulsa.
Auburn Player Is Making His Own Place in the Sun
Auburn, Ala.—(U.P.)—A six-foot, 185-pound Birmingham, Ala. youth named Jim Pyburn is making sure this fall that Auburn football fans will remember him for his own exploits and not merely as somebody's big brother.
Jim's brother, Ralph, was an end and captain of the 1949 Auburn team. Jim's an end, too, and well established as a great pass receiver and an offensive star. He leads the Southeastern conference with 22 catches for 365 yards so far this season.
Last weekend, when thrice-beaten Auburn chopped off the six-game winning streak of the University of Miami (Fla.). Pyburn came into his own as a defensive star and proved he's the kind of a guy who will beat you one way if he can't do it another.
Miami, well forewarned, came up with the right defensive formula for Pyburn's pass-catching and he didn't record a completion all afternoon. At the three-quarter mark, Miami led 13-0 and seemed to be a shoo-in.
But then Pyburn came crashing through on fourth down and spilled the Miami quarterback for a loss that gave Auburn the ball and, a few minutes later, a touchdown and extra point.
In the closing minutes, Pyburn and a teammate again hit the Miami quarterback so hard he fumbled, and Auburn was back in business Pyburn took the opposing tackle yards out of a play on which fullback Joe Childress drove through the resulting hole for the tying touchdown. The extra point which followed gave Auburn its upset victory.
Game charts show that Childress ran off tackle behind Pyburn 10 times against Miami and gained 50 yards on those plays.
With four victories and three one-touchdown defeats, Auburn has had only a fair season. But Pyburn's end play has been a bright spot in every game and Coach Raiph (Shug) Jordan is counting on more of the same in the stretch drive against Georgia, Clemson and Alabama.
The University of Florida took a 19-13 decision over Auburn, but Pyburn's ability brought a solid tribute from a well-qualified critic, Florida end Coach Foldberg, twice an all-American flankman at West Point.
"Pyburn has the greatest hands and timing that I have seen," said Foldberg. "He caught five passes against us and three of them were
the 'circus' catches you dream of an end making but seldom see.
"On defense, he's uncanny. We ran toward him for a while but soon found this unound. He sheds blockers like they weren't there."
Pyburn's ability to out-jump defenders and make impossible-looking catches has caught the imagination of Auburn fans. Some of them claim he can highjump six feet in football gear, and several thousand saw him leap completely over a Florida State defender to block a punt that set up a touchdown.
In the spring, the slim, blond Pyburn turns to baseball. Last season, as a sophomore, he led the SEC in hitting with a 432 average, and also topped the conference in total hits, runs batted in and total bases.
Kansas City, Mo.—(U.P.)-Operating policies and procedures in dealing with infractions will be established at a meeting here Sunday of the Ethics committee of the National Collegiate Athletic association.
Athletic Group To Discuss Rules
NCAA executive director Walter Byers made the announcement. He said the committee serves under the chairmanship of A. B. Moore, of the University of Alabama, and has the responsibility of investigating any incident which is deemed by the NCAA council to be detrimental to the welfare of intercollegiate athletics and contrary to the principle of ethical conduct as defined in the association's constitution.
"The committee will use this meeting to establish policies and procedures," said Byers. "Consequently, I am not at liberty to discuss any phase of the committee's business until it has determined its methods of procedure and the manner in which it plans to handle cases which may come before it."
Page to Pilot Birmingham
Birmingham, Ala., Nov 12—(U.P.) Phil Page, former major league pitcher who piloted Birmingham to fifth place in the Eastern league in 1954, has been named to manage the Birmingham Barons of the Southern association.
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