Monday, Oct. 11, 1954 University Daily Kansan Page 1
By JACK LINDBERG Kansan Sports Editor
It is now quite apparent to most Kansas football fans that the only way to produce a winning football team is to have a boosters club similar to the set up at the University of Oklahoma.
A college or university can not pay the players outright, but a booster club can give the boys extra money along the way, which is not against NCAA regulations. There have been cases in Oklahoma where Kansas football players have been given the use of automobiles and houses, complete wardrobes, watches, and spending money, in addition to the usual room, board, books, tuition, and part time job.
Try to put yourself in the position of a better than average high school player. You like to play the game. Does it actually make any difference to you where you play? Are you going to play for the state school that offers practically nothing except "Die for dear old Rutgers," or are you going to start using your business sense and take the best offer?
And you must realize that the present KU players are not underpaid. Just using rough figures it comes out that the average KU player is paid more than $1,500 a year, or $150 a game. Sound impossible? Figuring room rent at $15 a month for nine months—$135; meals at $50 a month—$450; tuition at $80 a semester—$160; Books at $20 a semester—$40, and jobs that pay $75 a month for the average player—$675. This totals $1,540.
It looks like either KU is not getting its money's worth, or that better players cost more than this.
College football is big-time business. The stadiums throughout the country have to be filled every Saturday to pay expenses. Losing teams do not fill stadiums. If better football players cost more than $1,500 a year KU is going to have to pay the price. If they don't pay the price, there are two solutions: drop football all together, or de-emphasize the sport and start playing other teams that don't heavily emphasize the sport.
It is a custom in this country to replace losing football coaches. This is a bad tituation, but it prevails, and the schools themselves are the only one who can change it. Remember, the coach cannot play. The coach can only teach, and if he does not possess the material to teach, he has had it.
One game does not constitute a season, but the imported Ohio freshman team couldn't keep pace with the Kansas players at K-State Friday. The varsity losing complex must have rubbed off on the freshmen. No one likes to look at the gloomy side forever, but the losing streak has now reached 10 straight with no end in sight.
We wonder if J. V. Sikes has stopped laughing yet.
Pro Football League Returns to Old Form
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With the champion Detroit Lions looking better than ever and the Cleveland Browns showing some of their old punch, it looked like the same old story today in the National Football league.
Coach Buddy Parker's Lions humiliated the high-scoring Los Angeles Rams yesterday, 21-3. Brilliant defensive play held the Rams, ranked as one of the top threats to Detroit's bid for a record third straight championship, without downward for the first time in 55
Cleveland, defending Eastern Division champion which took a 28-10 whipping from the Philadelphia Eagles in its first start, crushed the Chicago Cardinals, 31-7. The Cardinals are one of the league's weakest teams, but the Browns, with Otto Graham completing 14 of 18 passes for 266 yards and three TDs, won the rain-lashed game with surprising ease.
Y. A. Tittle, San Francisco's injured quarterback, came off the bench to lead the Forty-Niners to a 23-17 victory over the Green Bay Packers; Charley Conerly threw four touchdown passes to lead the New York Giants to a 51-21 victory over the Washington Redskins, and the Chicago Bears scored a 28-9 triumph over the Baltimore Colts in other games.
The Philadelphia Eagles took undisputed first place in the Eastern race Saturday night with a 3-0 record by rallying for a 24-22 victory at the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Detroit (2-0) and San Francisco (2-0-1) are tied for the Western lead but the Forty-Niners, have played one more game than the
Detroit's defensive line, anchored on 350-pound guard Les Bingaman, limited the Ram runners to 65 yards. The Lion secondary, led by rookie Bill Stits and Carl Karilivacz, halted Norm Van Brooklin's passes when it counted.
The Lions practically insulted the Ram defensive unit by starting Tom Dublinski instead of regular quarterback Bobby Layne. Dublinski played the entire first half on offense and collected all the points the Lions were to need when he plunged a yard to end an 83-yard first period march.
Lions and have "lost" it in the tie column, which does not count in the standings.
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6,926 Federal Employes Fired Or Resigned, Report Discloses
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Washington — (LLP) — The government disclosed today that 6,926 federal employees had been fired or had resigned from their jobs under the administration's loyalty-security program.
The Civil Service commission released the new figures on loyalty-security discharges. The new total compares with 2,436 reported last March as having been ousted or resigned.
The Commission said that of the new totals 2,611 employees had been fired because of security reasons and 4,315 had resigned before determination of their cases had been completed.
The Commission said that of these who were fired or had resigned there was information against 1.743 indicating, in varying degrees, subversive activities, subversive associations, or membership in subversive organizations.
The Commission said that in 618 cases it had information indicating sex perversion. And it said the files of some 2,272 contained information indicating conviction of felonies or misdemeanors.
The new report covers the period from May 28,1953, through June 30,1954.
Its release is certain to set off more Democratic-Republican political debate over how effective the Eisenhower administration program is ridding the federal payroll of subversives and other security risks.
Sen. Olin D. Johnston (D-S.C.) said last week that the administration claims about its program is 'the biggest 'big lie' in our American history.'
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The report showed that most of those who were fired or resigned under the security program were employed by the military services, the Veterans administration, and the Post Office department.
The report showed that one employee had been fired from the super-secret Central Intelligence agency while 74 had resigned while their cases were being considered.
The report disclosed that five persons had been dismissed from the State department and 207 had resigned. The report showed there was information indicating subversive activity in 70 of the cases and sex perversion in 94 of the cases.
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