Tuesday, October 5, 1954 University Daily Kansan
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By JACK LINDBERG Kansan Sports Editor
How much does a uniform mean to an athlete? Until this past baseball season was completed it was said by many people that if any ball player put on the uniform of the New York Yankees, the player would automatically become a champion.
This is not always true, but in several cases it has worked out that way. John Mize, John Sain, Allie Reynolds, Johnny Hopp, Gene Woodling, and Ed Lopat all were brought up to the major leagues by clubs other than the Yankees. And most of them made a fairly respectable name for themselves, but many of them did not come into their glory until they were Yankees.
And many of them were past their prime years when the Yanks got them, too. Mize, Sain, and Hopp were going down hill when the Yanks got some more mileage out of their baseball bones.
Now, what does this all mean?
How does this relate toDoes a uniform make an athlete?
No!
Does a uniform help an athlete?
Who knows!
After three football games this year, which does not constitute a season by any means, the Kansas Jayhawks wore blue jerseys twice and red jerseys once. Through the years Kansas has come to be known as the "Big Red."
Ask most of the students on the Hill which was the best game, of the three, that the Jayhawks have played this year, and the answer would probably be the UCLA game.
As was mentioned before, uniforms do not make the players but the UCLA game was the game where the "Big Red" came back to life.
Red jerseys wouldn't have made any difference against Colorado. As Coach Chuck Mather said after the game, "If we could have scored two touchdowns first, the game would have gone entirely different." Matter said that most people expect to see a sloppy game when it is played in the rain, snow, or mud, but these same people expect to see a well played game when the sun is shining and the temperature is in the 80s.
"Heat is the worst enemy of a football player," Mather said. "With all the equipment he is carrying, and all the body contact he is performing, it is hard for him to keep going for very long."
Mather continued by saying, "They (Colorado) had too many fine backs for us to keep stopping all day, once they got started."
Big Seven Roundup
Tiniest MU Player Occupies Right Halfback Position
Columbia, Mo.—(U.P.)-The smallest man on the Missouri football team occupied the top right half-back spot today as the Tigers sharpened their attack for Southern Methodist here Saturday.
Coach Dice to the starting halfback post after Jack Fox was injured in the Kansas State game last Saturday. The number two right half, Bob Musgrave, has been out more than a week with an ankle injury.
The Tigers took only light cales-thenics yesterday in their short drill period.
Manhattan (U.P.)—Coach Bill Meek
listed three Wildecats as
obstructed starters when Kansas State
meets Nebraska at Lincoln Saturday.
They were center Pat Spagnololetti, shaken up in the Missouri game. George Debitetto, who missed the Missouri game with a head injury, and Jon Walker, a sophomore tackle.
Meek drilled his boys hard for two hours yesterday, attempting to overcome what he called their slump in the Missouri game.
Missouri
Ames, Iowa—(U.P.)—It was blocking, tackling and running today for the Iowa State Cyclones as Coach Vince Di Francesca concentrated on fundamentals.
The coach said the Cyclones would expect more of the basic practice all week—in order to touchen up the subs.
Lincoln, Neb.—(U.P.) —Nebraska football coach Bill Glass today planned to keep his second team intact for use against Kansas State Saturday, "because it played better defense than the first team," against Iowa State last Saturday.
A full squad reported for practice yesterday, except end Barney Alleman, who suffered a sprained ankle in the Husker contest.
Di Francesca said a definite turning point in the defeat at the hands of Nebraska last Saturday was because the reserves did not follow fundamental football techniques.
Glassford said center Bob Oberlin will be ready to go against Kansas State. Oberlin missed last week's game because of injuries. The coach also said he expected Ron Clark, a halfback, to be in condition to play against the Wildcats.
Duke followed with 116 points, Mississippi with 74, barely topping Southern California by one point; Notre Dame had 69 and Ohio State 60.
Coach Bud Wilkinson's Sooners, second to Notre Dame by 49 points in the previous week's ratings, had an open date in their schedule last Saturday. When the Irish were beaten, the coaches voted Oklahoma the top ranking on the basis of its earlier victories over California and Texas Christian.
The voting was so scattered that seven teams attracted first place votes. Oklahoma leading with 13. UCLA had only five compared to nine for Purdue, but picked up more votes for succeeding places and had a 39-point edge on the Boilermakers. Wisconsin and Iowa each had three first place votes, while Duke (ranked sixth) and Rice (ranked 11th) each attracted one.
Purdue's 27-14 upset-of-the e-week over Notre Dame, ranked No. I last week, produced a five-team race for first place in this week's ratings of the 35 leading coaches who make up the United Press rating board.
OU is Back in First Place Without Playing a Game
UCLA, winner in three straight games, was only three points behind Oklahoma, with three Big Ten teams-Purdue, Wisconsin and Iowa-following closely in that order.
New York—(U.P.)-Oklahoma moved up to the top spot in the United Press board of coaches' college football ratings today without having thrown a pass or bucked a line last weekend.
With points divided on the basis of 10 for a first place vote, nine for a second and so on down to one for a 10th place ballot. Oklahoma had 274 points to 271 for UCLA. Purdue had 232 points, Wisconsin 224 and Iowa (third last week) had 206.
After Duke, the top 10 was rounded out by Mississippi, Southern California; Notre Dame, which plummeted from first all the way to ninth, and Ohio State. Purdue, 14th last week, and Ohio State, which moved up from 11th place, were the newcomers among the top 10, replacing Penn State, which dropped from ninth to 12th, and Maryland, from sixth to 15th.
Oklahoma risks its top ranking next Saturday against 14th-rated Texas in an inter-conference clash at Dallas. The Sooners will be without Gene Calame, star split-T quarterback who injured his shoulder in the game against TCU.
Rice just missed a spot among the top 10. Behind the Owls among the second 10 group came Penn State, Stanford, Texas, Maryland, Minnesota and Florida. Michigan State, the 1953 mythical national champion, was tied with Texas Tech for 18th, and Navy and West Virginia were tied for 20th place.
The Big Ten conference thus placed four teams among the top 10, the Pacific Coast and the South two each, with Oklahoma of the Big Seven on top.
Series Shows AL Weakness
New York — (U.P.) — The World Series victory of the New York Giants was conclusive proof today of the deplorable state of affairs in the American League.
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Before the Series, the bombed out Cleveland Indians were hailed as the biggest winner in American League history on a record 111 triumphs. It was a false statistic which installed them as favorites in the classic.
For the Series disclosed that their record winning total was not actually a testimonial to their skill but rather an indictment of the other clubs in the league.
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This is not a knock at the Giant triumph, one highly deserved by a ball club which proved once again that it had been derrated. But it has to be a knock for the American League.
The Indians weren't "cheese champions." But their record number of victories was limburger, and thereby misleading, because they played in a three-team league—or a two and one-half team league.
While the Yankees finished second, they had the greatest second place total of all time with 103 victories. And the White Sox, in third place, while troublesome, still finished 17 games behind the Indians. After that you need binoculars to spot the rest of the field.
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As example, Boston, in fourth place, finished 42 games behind the Indians. Over in the National League, last place Pittsburgh wound up only 44 games back of the winning Giants.
Which simmers down to a matter of competition. The Giants had to be good to win in a tough league. The Indians, Yankees and, to a lesser extent, the White Sox, each fattened by knocking over a bunch of setups.
Don Pierce, captain of the 1940 football team, is now the sports publicity director at the University.
Kansas has only been represented in a New Year's Bowl game once, and that was in a losing cause, as they lost to Georgia Tech 20-14 in the 1948 Orange Bowl game.
Mather Shifts Two Halfbacks
Coach Chuck Mather shifted his backfield yesterday to fill gaps remaining from injuries suffered in Saturday's Colorado game. Bobby Conn, junior halfback, received a badly sprained neck and from all indications will not see action against Iowa State this Saturday. Junior center Dick Reich will probably see action this week end despite a chest injury.
John Handley will replace Conn at the No. 2 right half position behind Dick Blowey. At the left half-b Sophomore Dwight Dinsmore will move to the second squad to aid Ralph Moody who has been having leg trouble. Ted Rohde will continue at the second full-back slot behind Bud Laughlin to handle the Kansas punting.
matter felt his team played their best half of the season during the first two periods against Colorado. He believed the Buffaloes played by far their toughest game so far this year with an extremely fast backfield and strong line.
The squad drilled to correct offensive mistakes made Saturday and used a controlled scrimmage. Mather said he realized the Jay-hawks were going against a powerful Cyclone eleven at Ames this week, and would prepare the team accordingly.
Quarterback Club Will Show CU Films
The KU Quarterback club will meet tonight in the Union ballroom at 8 p.m. Films of the Colorado game will be shown and narrated by Coach Chuck Mather.
Coach Mather will answer any questions asked him by the club members, and will give a brief run on them against Iowa State's week, end.
Both men and women are urged to attend the meeting. Refreshments will be served.
Intramural Schedule
Intramural football games to be played Tuesday, Oct. 5.
All intramural games to be played yesterday were called off because of rain. These games will be played before the final games be-
Fraternity "A"
Kappa Sigma vs. Phi Kappa,
Field 1.
Delta Upsilon vs. Sigma Alpha
Epsilon, Field 2.
Phi Gamma Delta vs. Phi Kappa Tau, Field 3.
Tau, Field 3.
Sigma Chi vs. Delta Chi, Field 4.
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