Monday, Sept. 13, 1954 University Daily Kansan
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PLAYER ROSTER
Name Ends Age Ht. Wt. Class Home
Anderson, John* 21 6-2 206 Sr. Grand Island, Neb
Bell, Bill 20 6-1½ 205 So. Raytown, Mo.
Bracelin, Don* 21 6-0 192 Sr. St. Francis
Fiss, LaVerne 20 5-11 184 So. Johnson
Flynn, Jerry 19 6-2 200 So. Amarillo, Tex.
Franklin, Bob 19 6-1 183 So. Parsons
Held, Joe 19 6-1 191 So. Topeka
Martin, Don 20 6-3½ 198 Jr. Larned
Rohde, Ted 25 6-2 187 So. Emerson, Neb.
Smith, Paul 20 6-2 192 Jr. Paola
Winkler, Ted 19 6-1 175 So. Spring Hill
Tackles
Blasi, Gene 20 6-3 215 Jr. Pratt
Bower, Ray 21 6-0 200 Jr. Norton
Corbett, Pete 19 5-11 205 So. Dariion, Conn.
Collins, Joe 19 6-1½ 214 So. Garden City
Drake, John 19 6-2 214 So. Attica
Fouts, Greg 19 6-1½ 203 So. Mission
Hull, Jim 19 6-1½ 215 So. Wichita
Preston, Bob 19 6-2 190 So. Lawrence
Rogers, Mike 20 6-4 210 Jr. Osawatomie
Vignatelli, Gene* 22 6-0 217 Sr. Franklin
Guards
Armstrong, Bill 19 5-10 200 So. Amarillo, Tex.
Budrich, Dud 20 6-0 218 Jr. Chicago
Burton, Charles 19 5-10 189 So. Washington
Gibson, John 19 5-9½ 190 So. Wichita
Hubbard, Bob* 22 5-11 201 Jr. Norwood, Ohio
Knowles, Dick* 21 6-1 205 Sr. Wichita
Pfutzenreuter, Don 19 5-6 155 So. Carlsbad, N. M.
Remsberg, George 19 6-1 198 Jr. Iola
Todd, Dick 20 6-0 200 So. Minneapolis
Wilkening, Herb 19 6-0 185 So. St. Joseph, Mo.
Centers
Black, Frank 19 6-3 217 So. Lawrence
Bixler, Bud (Capt)* 19 6-4 230 Sr. Middletown, Pa.
Keller, Bill 24 6-0 195 Jr. Pratt
Redd, Norman 20 6-0 190 So. Sublette
Reich, Dick 21 6-0 194 Jr. Steelton, Pa.
Snyder, Brock 18 6-2 180 So. Topeka
Quarterbacks
Buller, Bev 20 6-1 175 Jr. Lyons
Jaso, Al 20 6-1 190 Jr. Fairless Hills, Pa.
McFarland, John* 20 6-4 184 Jr. Osborne
Sandifer, Dick* 21 5-11 172 Jr. Stafford
Slaymaker, Tom 19 6-1 185 So. Kansas City, Mo.
Steinmeyer, Don 22 5-11 180 Jr. Topeka
Left Halfbacks
Conn, Bob* 19 5-11 185 Jr. Wichita
Dinsmore, Dwight 19 5-11 195 So. Wichita
Forsyth, Bob* 20 6-1 185 Jr. Medicine Lodge
Moody, Ralph* 20 6-2 196 Jr. Minneola
Right Halfbacks
Blowey, Dick* 20 6-0 184 Jr. Augusta
Davis, Bill 21 6-1 181 So. Wichita
Kramer, Dick 20 5-9 178 So. Hugoton
McIntosh, Terry 19 6-1 178 So. Chapman
Solter, Harry 19 6-0 175 So. Johnson
Sullivan, Rex* 21 5-11 176 Jr. Lyons
Fullbacks
Handley, John* 20 5-9 175 Jr. Kansas City, Mo.
Laughlin, Bud* 23 6-1 200 Sr. Kansas City, Mo.
Webb, Tom 19 5-11 190 So. Norman, Okla.* Indicates lettermen.
Included in the 36 returning Sooners are All-American candidates Max Boydston, Kurt Burris, and Gene Calame. In addition to bring the odds on conference favorite, Oklahoma is expected to be the No.1 team in the national ratings and has been placed in that position in two pre-season football polls.
By DANA LEIBENGOOD Kansan Sports Writer
For the ninth consecutive year the Big Seven conference is expected to be dominated by the Oklahoma Sooners, who return 36 of the 49 men from last year's Orange Bowl team. However, this year there is extra incentive for the rest of the conference teams because if the Sooners repeat as champs, the second place team will represent the conference at Miami on New Year's day.
poll.
Oklahoma is expected to face its toughest game of the conference season when it goes to Colorado Oct. 30. Two years ago Oklahoma was forced to come from behind in the final minutes of the game to gain a 21-21 tie. Oklahoma meets Missouri at Norman and should win easily.
Since Charles (Bud) Wilkinson took over the coaching reins at Oklahoma the Sooners have won seven championships and 37 out of 39 games with only two ties, 13-13 with Kansas in 1947, and 21-21 with Colorado in 1952, marring the record.
Orange Bowl Is Incentive for Big 7 Teams
Missouri is ranked in the top 20 teams of the Look magazine preseason football poll. The confer-ance is expected to get a preview of the Orange Bowl on Nov. 25 when Missouri meets Maryland. Maryland is the favorite team in the Atlantic Coast conference again
rebuilding and too small.
All four of these teams could, and probably will, pull some upsets on a given Saturday, but they don't have the strength to make a bid for one of the top positions.
The team most likely to win the trip will be the Missouri Tigers, coached by Don Faurot. The Tigers have a veteran team returning which includes all Big Seven Tony Seardino and guard Terry Roberts. Missouri is expected to receive its stiffest challenge in the fight for second place from Colorado, which has an outstanding tailback in Caroll Hardy and a fine backfall in Emeron Wilson. However, it is believed that the Colorado line will be too green this year to enable the Buffs to take second place in the conference.
the conference:
The rest of the teams in the conference look too weak to oust Oklahoma, Missouri, and Colorado from the top three positions. Kansas is rebuilding under Coach Chuck Mather; Nebraska is still feeling the effects of the dissension which hurt the team last year; Kansas State lost too many men by graduation, and Iowa State is rebuilding and too small.
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this year and can represent the conference because it has no rule forbidding a team from playing in consecutive years such as the Big Seven has.
Seven this. The Colorado line is the key to the Buffs choices for third place. The backfield is experienced, but the line will have to come around quickly for the Buffs to stay in the race, for it opens the conference season Oct. 2 after two early games with Drake and Colorado A&M.
Kansas' chances for an improved season fell sharply when Captain Lester (Bud) Bixler broke his right collar bone 20 minutes after fall practice opened. The break was in the same location as he broke it in the Varsity-Alumni game in May. To add to the Kansas difficulties, halfbacks Don Hess and Bob Allison
were lost for the coming season.
Hess, the team's leading rusher last year, was drafted, and Allison is ineligible for scholastic reasons. This leaves Kansas with only three starters back from last year, half-back Ralph Moody, end Don Bracelin, and quarterback John MacFarland.
Kansas State will have to find replacements for line stalwarts Tom O'Boyle, Ed Pence, Ken Gowdy, and Earl Meyer, and fieldaceairs Veryl Switzer. The Wildcats have back from last season Corky Taylor and quarterback Bob Dahnke, and a promising group of sophomores to help fill these large gaps.
help him these effects. Nebraska is still feeling the effects of the uprising against the coaching staff. Last year the team voted unanimously against Coach Bill Glassford in a movement to get the coach fired. However, he was retained because the school didn't want to pay off the remaining seven years of his contract.
Iowa State doesn't have enough men like all-conference fullback Max Burkett, and is expected to fill the conference cellar this season.
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