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By KEN BRONSON
Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
The biggest game being played around the state today is to guess who the new Kansas football coach is going to be. You can get odds on this man and that one but no one knows who the coach is going to be.
That is, no one knows until tomorrow morning at about 9:30 when the official word is supposed to be given. Having done little guessing so far on this one particular phase of KU athletic life, we decided the best thing to do would be to wait until tomorrow like everyone else.
Nevertheless, let's take a quick look at all this hush-hush and the men who seem to have the inside chance for the post according to most sources.
A week or two after the post was vacated by the resignation of Jules Sikes, most of the talk centered around Volney Ashford, Norris Patterson and Jack Mitchell as the best possible candidates. Pete Elliott, youthful Oklahoma assistant, and Terry Brennan, Notre Dame aide, were mentioned often at first but their popularity seemed to subside as the days dragged on.
Other names entered the race along the way, among them being Sid Gillman, Cincinnati head coach; Lou Saban, Washington assistant; Earl Edwards, Michigan assistant; Darrel Royal, Edmonton, Canada, professional coach; Dee Andros, present Kansas assistant; Eddie Erdelatz, Navy coach, and Wayne McConnell, College of Emporia mentor.
But it was not until the NCAA meeting in Cincinnati that the "experts" really were jumping while trying to predict the outcome of the race.
It was at this meeting that A. C. "Dutch" Lonborg, Kansas athletic director, spent all his spare time interviewing prospective coaches. It was all in the deepest secrecy—Lonborg wouldn't talk, the interviewee wouldn't talk, and the sports writers about went crazy trying to guess who Lonborg was interviewing.
When the meeting was all over still no one knew who the coach was going to be, or for that matter, who Lonborg had talked with. But new names found their way into print—Otto Graham, Jim Myers, and other lesser ones—as being candidates and front-runners for the job.
It leaked out Monday of this week that Delmar Anderson, head coach of Albion, Mich., college, had been interviewed by Lonborg in Cincinnati and that Lonborg had received strong recommendations for him by Paul Brown, coach of the pro Cleveland Browns, and Biggie Munn, Michigan State head.
It was then that everyone hopped on the Anderson bandwagon, that is, until Tuesday when the word came from Massillon, Ohio, that Chuck Mather, a successful high school coach of that place, would be in Lawrence Tuesday to talk with Lonborg.
This could have been a serious leak from the Iron Curtain which surrounds Lonborg and his athletic board. They wanted nothing told about the new coach until he was hired. But the home town of Mather shattered that idea with its release telling of Mather's trip.
Mather was here Tuesday alright, probably conferring with Lonborg. But a doubt still remains in some people's minds that Mather is the right man.
Ashford still has his backers, Mitchell has his backers, and so it seems that the others are in the same category.
But backers or no backers, the Board of Regents are going to release the name of the new coach tomorrow.
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By STAN HAMILTON Kansan Sports Editor
The Jayhawk cage team, still smarting from its narrow 50-54 loss Tuesday to Oklahmoa A&M, will run into a team of near equal ability to the Aggies Saturday night—always rugged Kansas State, at Manhattan.
The Wildcats, too, are out to reverse directions after absorbing a surprise 75-88 loss Monday to Nebraska at Lincoln. That defeat marked their second setback to the up and down Cornhuskers, the first being in the opening round of the loop pre-season tournament at Kansas City.
The last time the Wildcats beat the Jayhawks was in the final game of the pre-season tournament at Kansas City last season, but then NCAA play-off bound KU whipped them 80-66 and 80-78. Since the Big Seven was organized in 1948 K-State holds the upper hand in the intrastate rivalry, 10 games to seven. In the over-all standings, KU is or top. 107 victories to K-State's 70.
In recent years since the advent to the Wildcat coaching post of now departed Jack Gardner the annual Wildcat-Jayhawk basketball tussle always has been hard fought as would a national title game. In recent seasons have played the area sports spotlight from the MU-KU football games.
But this year Kansas Coach F. C. "Fhog" Allen will not be up against Gardner, but instead Tex Winter, former K-State assistant and Marquette mentor last season. It will be the first meeting for the two leaders.
The Wildcats, bolstered by four returning lettermen from last year's Big Seven second place outfit, have not lived up to their advance notices as their 7-4 record will testify. Included in this record are three triumphs over winless Washington and single victories over Denver, Wyoming, Iowa State, and Colorado, and losses to Indiana, Michigan State, and two to Nebraska.
The 'Cats have scored 767 points, or 69.7 per contest, and have held the opposition to 720, 65.5 per game.
Kansas, on the other hand, while not looking to be as good as last year's upset kings, has racked up six triumphs and has lost three, all to a trio of the nation' top fives.
Losses were to Tulane, Louisiana State, and Oklahoma A&M, while wins have been chalked up against
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So probably Saturday's game, which has been a sell-out since the early days of September, will turn into a free-scoring fray as has been the rule in the past seven games between the two outfits.
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The K-State lineup, as Kansas', has its exceptionally big men and also its "midgets." Top man is 6-11 Jerry Jung, who has been improving since a poor start. Jesse Prisock (6-5) and Gene Stauffer (6-0) are sure to start, and cinches to see action are guards Kent Poore (5-8/2) and J.R. Snyder (5-10/2).
Against this Allen can be counted upon to use his giant 6-9 center B. H. Born, who will be backed up by "tall men" Larry Davenport (6-2), Harold Patterson (6-1), Bill Brainard (6-3), and Harold McElroy (6-5). The shorties who should give the Wildcats a hard time of it are Al Kelley (5-11), Dal Dobbs (5-11), and Jack Wolfe (5-8).
It'll be a ball game and the 12-500 fans who cram into the massive
The Philadelphia Phillies have acquired pitcher Murry Dickson from the Pittsburgh Pirates for infielder Jack Lohrke, pitcher Andy Hansen, and $80,000.
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