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University Daily Kansan
Friday, Oct. 29, 1954
By JACK LINDBERG
Kansan Sports Editor
Some persons run into bad luck trying to pick football winners, but last week was utterly ridiculous. Of the 23 games that were selected one ended in a tie, and the correct choice was made on only 11. Throwing out the tie makes a percentage of .500. Where does an alien go to register?
Our season record now stands at 84 correct guesses in 122 games and a percentage of .680, and this is pretty lucky.
The games scheduled for this week are just as tough to predict as ever. Three conference games are being played in the Big Seven—all of them difficult. Colorado always has been tough on Oklahoma at Boulder, Nebraska and Missouri that played good but last week making it hard to tell which team can keep a good edge, and the two Kansas rivals play and no one can actually tell how this game will turn out.
If it weren't unethical we would rather wait until Monday to make the choices, but because it would be difficult for us to do that sort of thing, here we go.
Kansas State over Kansas: From all available information it seems as though the Wildcats have a slightly better line than the Javahawks and with more depth, Coach Bill Meek still two-platooons his team and the K-Staters will probably wear the Hawks down. Now that Kansas has found it can score more than one touchdown in a game the team will give the Wildcats a full afternoon of football.
Oklahoma over Colorado: The Buffaloes are undoubtedly disturbed over their loss to Nebraska last week and will want to show their fans that it shouldn't have happened. But the Buffs are playing Oklahoma and the Sooners are the wrong team to pick on. Gene Calame will be back in uniform for Oklahoma, too.
Missouri over Nebraska: Both schools are still in the running for an Orange Bowl bid, and if the Cornhuskers win both schools will still be in the running. The Tigers, after being hot and cold on alternate weeks, have finally settled down to the task of playing good ball every week, and should be able to hurdle Nebraska.
Iowa State over Drake: If all the games were like this it would be easy to come up at the end of the season with a good prediction average. It is not a question of the Cyclones being stronger than Drake,
it's just that the Bulldogs are playing out of their class.
TCU over Baylor: The Horned Frogs seem to look a little better each week and they have been playing a pretty tough schedule. Their only losses are to undefeated Oklahoma and Arkansas. They have defeated Kansas, Southern Cal, Texas A&M, and Penn State. Baylor has a 4-2 record, too, but the team hasn't been as impressive as TCU.
UCLA over California: The Bruins, since winning 21-20 over Washington, have run up 133 points in their last two games. The Bears, with Paul Larsen throwing passes, will put up a good struggle, but not good enough.
SMU over Texas: One of these Saturdays the Longhorns are going to break out in a rash of touchdowns and run some team right off the field. But everyone has been saying this every week and it hasn't happened as yet, so the Mustangs get the nod as the winner. And besides, those SMU backs can run, and there are a lot of them.
Oklahoma A&M over Tulsa: The Aggies have lost three in a row, but the Golden Hurricane hasn't won a game this season. The Aggies will even their season with this one.
Other big games look like this:
Duke over Georgia Tech, Purdue over Illinois, Michigan over Indiana, Wisconsin over Iowa, Michigan State over Minnesota, Notre Dame over Navy, Oregon over Washington, Alabama over Georgia, Arkansas over Texas A&M, Army over Virginia, Ohio State over Northwestern, Penn State over Penn, West Virginia over Iowa, Stanford over Washington, Stanford over Washington, State, Houston over Wichita, Yale over Dartmouth, and Lawrence High over Ottawa, in the game here tonight,
K-State Halfback Says 'Team is Ready'
Manhattan — (U.P.) Co-captain and left halfback Corky Taylor expressed the attitude of the Kansas State football team in their preparation for Saturday's collision with Kansas.
"We are ready," said he. "We'll be even more ready Saturday."
The Wildcats worked on passing and kicking yesterday against KU formations and finished off with off returns under the fieldights.
Coach Bill Meek said only a 30-minute drill will be held today.
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Independent "A"
Oread 1. YMCA 0
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As intramural football play moved into the final stages yesterday, three independent and two fraternity teams scored victories in the touch football leagues. With the completion of these five games, the season will wind up today with six makeup contests.
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The YMCA team was forced to forfeit their contest with Oread due to lack of team members. The two squads are in the independent "A" league.
Jim Ream 20.69'ers 12
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Jim Beam 20, 69 ers 12
In the championship game for the top position in division II of the independent "A" league, Jim Beam won a close decision over the 69 ers 20-12. Both teams came into the contest undefeated with Jim Beam in need of victory to take the division lead. The 69 ers still have one contest to play while Jim Beam has finished its season's play and will now enter the Hill playoffs.
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**Independent "A"**
Field 1. Phi Chi vs. 68ers.
Field 2. AFROTC vs. Oread.
Field 4. NROTCH vs. YMCA.
**Fraternity "A"**
Field 5. Sigma Chi vs. Delta Chi
**Fraternity "B"**
Field 5. Phi Gamma Delta vs. Kappa Sig.
Field 6. ATO vs. Beta I.
Five Tech Players Are Suspended
Atlanta — (U.P.) — Georgia Tech faced a tough November grind of our straight major foes today without Billy Teas, its chief offensive threat, but with possibly more team unity than since the season opened.
contest with the victors showing a slight edge scoring three touchdowns to the 69'ers two scores.
Normally easy-going Coach Bobby Dodd tossed star halfback Teas and four other players off the squad yesterday for training rule infractions in only the second disciplinary measure of its type Dodd has taken in 10 years at the Engineers' helm.
The surprise decision came only two days before Tech's game with Duke, which preceded three straight contests with Southeastern conference foes Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia.
Don Henry 13, Phi Chi 6
Don Henry won its first victory of the season over a winless Phi Chi squad, 13-6.
In the first quarter, Don Malone passed to Raul Cuadrado for the Phi Chi touchdown. Don Henry took the lead in the second half as Roland Tatsuguchi threw to Herb Pearson and Chuck Mader for touchdowns. The extra point was added by Gary Duncan on a pass from Tatsuguchi.
Fraternity "A"
In Delta Chi, 7 of 9
in the feature game of the afternoon. Delta Chi upset the favorite Phi Gams in an overtime period after the two teams played to a scoreless tie at the end of the regulation game.
In the overtime period Forrest Horgland passed on a series of plays to John Spanbauer, Bob Babcock, and Earl Knauss for 44 yards. For Phi Gam, Art Miller passed to John Griffith for a 20 yard gain during the four downs, but a loss gave the ma net of ten yards. Delta Chi was awarded the victory by one point by the 34 yard edge over the Phi Gam total.
Phi Delt 39, Sigma Chi 2
The Phi Delta Theta team easily moved over the Sigma Chi's as they scored six TD's and added three extra points for the 39-2 victory.
who kicked Chi Sigma Chi scored two points when they trapped the Phi Deltas behind the goal for a safety.
Don Sifers passed for Phi Delt and hit J. P. Jones twice, and Jim Steerman, Ed Miller, Dan Crietz, and Bill Sayler for touchdowns. Extra points were added by Jones as he booted two, and Tom Phoenix who kicked the other.
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