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Frosh Gridders To Play Missouri
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Bill McKinney LE Lynn McCarthy
Tim Howell LT Ted Stahura
Julius Jensen LG Bill Taylor
Norman Capps C John Wertzberger
Charlie Schmidt RG Joe Eaglowski
Jim Sharp RT Burt Stueve
Frank Czapla RE Jim Letcavits
Bud Mercier QB Wally Strauch
Billy Mills LH John Francisco
John Stout RH Bill Horn
Joe Wynn FB Max Adams
Officials: Mel Vigola, referee, Newt Currier, umpire, and Wayne Probasco, head linesman.
Friday. Nov. 5, 1954. University Daily Kansan
Kansas and Missouri freshman football teams, each beaten in their first outings of the season, will try for a victory, when they meet Monday at Memorial stadium at 3 p.m.
The Jayhawk freshmen bowed to Kansas State, 19-31 in their opener while the Tiger Yearlings fell before Iowa State, 7-26.
Dick Shine, freshman coach and his staff have changed the frosh lineup at five spots since the K-State encounter. Lynn McCarthy, St. Peter, Minn., 200 pounder, will take over at left half for Jim Allison, Raytown, Mo., who is out because of illness. Bill Taylor, 180 pound guard, will open in the place of Jim Wells, Ellinwood, Ks., also on the sick list. Wally Strauch will start at quarterback. Bill Horn, 190 pound Mentor, Ohio, product will move to right half, with Max Adams, 196 pound Paolan taking over Horn's vacated fullback slot.
Three football players from Massilion, Ohio, Joe Eaglowski, right guard, Jim Letevits, right end, and John Francisco, left half, have been picked for starting berths.
Top Tiger prospects, expected to be a main factor in Missouri's play, are: Frank Czapla, high school All-American from St. Louis, and Joe
oach Scoring Senior—L a r r y Davenport, K a n s s forward, scored 105 points last season and KU tied for first place in the Big Seven basketball conference. Coach Forrest C. "Phog" Allen plans to use the Newton stalwart as a starter this year.
Topeka, Maize To Defend Titles In Invitational
Wynn, Heet Raytown, Mo., fullback.
They will fight a record field of 25 entries, 22 of which will compete full five-man teams. Gun time for the two-mile hill-and-dale grind is 9:30 a.m. for class B and 10 a.m. for class A. Competitors and their coaches will be guests of the University at the KU-Nebraska homecoming game in the afternoon.
Togeka and Maize will defend their titles in the seventh annual University of Kansas Invitational High School cross-country meet here tomorrow morning.
Both Topeka and Maize will be shooting for their third consecutive championships, and the Trojans for their fourth overall.
Neither 1953 individual champion, Arlan Stackley of El Dorado, and Roman Velasquey, of Gardner, is returning. However, the class A field will carry one past king in Topeka's Stan Ridgeway, who won as a sophomore in 1952, but fell to fifth last year.
Favored over the defending champion Trojans will be Wichita East, which won the Ark Valley derby Saturday, and Emporia which whipped Topeka and Haskell, both strong clubs, in the Haskell Invitational here Saturday.
Top individual contenders are expected to be Haskell's Billy Mills, who won the Invitational in a sparkling 9:33.5, almost seven seconds under the current KU record; Bob Harrison, Olathe, who was just a second behind Mills here Saturday; Julius Lincoln, Topkka, who ran third in the same race in 9:40.3, a mark which equals Charles Crook's meet record for Wichita East in 1950; and Craig Gardner and Tom Rodda, of Wichita East, who ran 1-2 in the Valley derby.
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During this same era, A. C. "Dutch" Lonborg, present KU athletic director, was burning up the Missouri Valley with his "fingerlike" determination and dependable play. "Dutch" was all-Missouri Vallev for the three years he played.
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By RICHARD RUMSEY
Since the days of the immortal Tommy Johnston, KU's first triple-threat football back, the Kansas football machine has moulded many illustrious athletic "giants." About 1919, Howard "Scrubby" Laslett trampled all Kansas gridiron foes with his seldom equalled line smashes and "end-arounds".$^{\textcircled{4}}$
The extraordinary feats of the 1922 captain, Pete Jones, who was elected all-Missouri Valley for three straight years were nearly eclipsed by his successor, fullback Harold Burt. Burt was elected captain in 1923 and, besides winning all-Missouri Valley honors, was chosen as honorable mention all-American by many sportswriters.
KU Has Had Its Share of Grid Greats
Another shining member of this galaxy of stars that glowed so brightly in the early and middle 1920s was the captain of the 1926 team, Harold Zuber. It was that same year that guber's booming punts of 75 and 85 yards kept at bav an always tough Missouri Tiger.
Few have not heard and marveled at the abilities of the 1924 captain, Charley Black. The tales of his breakaway runs and "clutch" playing are still murmured in reverence wherever football fans gather.
During the latter part of the 1920s, such stellar athletes as all-Missouri Valley tackle Reginald "Babe" Smith, 1927 captain Harold Hauser and 1930 captain "Stew" Lyman assured themselves of a spot in KU's mythical Hall of Fame.
Versatile decathlon star Jim Bausch, considered by many as the greatest "all around" athlete ever to step onto the gridiron, was
chosen on several all-American teams. During the early 1930s, the names of such immortals as "Iron Man" Charlie Smoot, quarterback Elmer Schaake and Forrest Cox told a story that still echoes through the minds of many spectators.
In 1934 Ormand Beach, considered by Notre Dame coach Knute Rocke, as the best linebacker he had ever seen, was jarring the league with his blocking and hammering line plunges.
After the passing of such stars as Rutherford B. Hayes, Dean Nesmith, Tommy McCall and Mila Clawson, Ray Evans, probably one of the most colorful backs in Kansas history, began one of the most illustrious football careers the midwest has ever witnessed. Evans was All Big Six choice for three years and reached the all-American pinnacle as a senior. Many of his records still stand. Ray still holds the record of the most passes completed during a season. It's a good bet that all-American end Otto Schnellbacher was on the receiving end of many of these tosses. Schnellbacher who later became famous in the professional ranks, holds the record of 25 passes caught in one season. This record was tied by all-Big Seven end, Paul Leoni, in 1951. Big Mike McCormick won all-American honors during this same era at the tackle position.
Grantland Rice predicted that Charlie Hoag would be the greatest sophomore halfback in the nation. His play his sophomore year earned him all-Big Seven and hom-
orable mention all-American. Even though he was hampered by injuries his remaining two years, Charlie is still considered a real Kansas gridiron "great."
The feats of the 1952 captain, Oliver Spencer, still leave a vivid impression on the minds of many Jayhawker fans. "Ollie" was voted rookie of the year last year in the professional ranks.
Gil Reich, playing under the two-platoon system was selected on Grantland Rice's first string all-American team this same year. Few athletes can ever hope to attain the football intelligence that Reich perfected to such a high degree.
Some famous, perhaps even a few immortal KU football players have, for obvious unintentional reasons, not been mentioned in this brief history. In the near future many more names no doubt will be placed on the same select honored plane as these former Jayhawk immortals.
Griffith to Fight A's Move to K.C.
Washington — [O.P.] — Clark Griffith, president of the Washington baseball club, says he will continue to oppose transfer of the Philadelphia Athletics franchise to Kansas City.
"As far as I'm concerned the club is NOT going to Kansas City." Mr. Griffith said. "I have been against it all along and I NOT going to retreat now. I never retreat. I always go forward."
ways go on.
He says he is sure President Walter (Spike) Briggs of Detroit will join him in opposing the transfer and that he is hopeful other club owners will too.