University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Dec. 3, 1953
Page 5
By KEN BRONSON
Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
Football season is now almost over around the country and is over here at Kansas but after thumbing through the new edition of "Encyclopedia of Sports," we came across some statistics that we thought were very interesting.
Over the entire nation, Notre Dame has the best won-lost-tied record of any college team since the sport was launched by Princeton and Rutgers in 1869. The Irish have turned in a success percentage of 80.7 since taking up the game in 1886. They have won 406 contests, lost only 85, and tied 33.
For instance, did you know that Kansas, Colorado, and Nebraska have been playing football longer than any other Big Seven school. This trio has just completed 64 years of action while Iowa State and Missouri have 63 years in the sport, Oklahoma has 59 years, and Kansas State is the baby of the conference with 58 years of performance.
Kansas is third in the all-time standings, having won 301 games while losing 212 and tieing 41. The remaining conference teams, in the following order with won-lost-tied records in parenthesis, are Missouri (291-240-34), Colorado (271-166-22), Iowa State (248-222-32), and Kansas State (202-240-36).
During this stretch, Nebraska has the "winningest" record. The Cornhuskers have captured 340 victories, including only three this year, to rank above Oklahoma, which has won 314 games. Nebraska has lost 172 games and tied 36 during this span while Oklahoma has lost 143 contests and tied 43.
Yale, with a success percentage of 78.6, is the runner-up while Princeton, with an 77.5 average, and Michigan, with a 76.1 mark, follow close behind.
Still on the subject of football. .We hope someday the Jan. 1 football contests, which are commonly referred to as "bowl games,' will return to the idea of getting top-notch talent to perform.
Pennsylvania has played the most football games, 759, and Yale has won more than any other team, 534.
The Orange Bowl learned its lesson last year but evidently the Cotton and Sugar bowls didn't hear about the colossal blunder. What do these two bowls do this year? They sign four teams who have a combined won-lost-tied record of 29-7-4.
The Orange Bowl can be rated as the outstanding attraction New Year's Day. Under the Big Seven-Southern conference working agreement, Maryland, the nation's No.1 team in both final press polls, and Oklahoma, kingpin in the Big Seven and rated fourth and fifth in the AP and UP polls, respectively, meet in the Miami carnival.
The Rose Bowl again will have fielded two high caliber eleven in Michigan State and UCLA. But the Cotton Bowl, with Rice and Alabama, and the Sugar Bowl, with Georgia Tech and West Virginia, are a long way from having the necessary top-rate talent.
Alabama has a season's record of 6-2-3. If that is the best the Cotton Bowl could do, we wonder why the Dallas big-shots didn't play themselves. Even Kansas State, with a record of 6-3-1, would be just as good a choice.
The Sugar Bowl probably made the biggest blunder. West Virginia, a team with an 8-1 record, was chosen to compete with a Georgia Tech team which also had a good 7-2-1 mark. But anyone interested in looking beneath the surface would find that the Mountaineers don't belong in the same stadium with the Rambling Wrecks.
West Virginia probably has played the weakest schedule for any team that was selected in the final top 10 national teams. Who did they play? No one. That is, unless you count VMI and VPI powerhouses. Who handed the Mountaineers their only defeat? A team by the name of South Carolina, another powerhouse in Southeast football.
Ohio State, Southern Cal Lead Attendance Marks
New York—(U.P) College football attendance increased in the East, Midwest and Rocky Mountains this season while Ohio State and Southern California were the individual leaders, a United Press survey of 117 schools revealed today.
The overall national average, based on the attendance figures of 576 games, showed an almost infinite gain of one one hundredths of one per cent. A total of 13,114,542 spectators (an average of 22,690) saw 578 games in 1952 compared to a total of 13,116,354 (an average of 22,771) which viewed the 576 games surveyed this year.
The 27 eastern colleges gained a total of 154,829—a percentage increase of 6.79—of which the University of Villanova accounted for 88,606. Villanova's figures were swollen by the 97,802 spectators at its opener with Georgia—a game for which ticket sales were promoted by a chain grocery store.
Other significant gains in the East were made by Harvard, Prince- on, Pittsburg, West Virginia and Fordham.
The Midwest, with seven colleges averaging 40,000 or more a game, showed an increase of 2.09 per cent over 1952. Total attendance for 81 games this year was 3,178,911 for an average of 39,246 compared to the 1952 figures of 3,113,790 and 37,973 for 82 games.
An average increase of 501 spectators in 52 games enabled the Rocky Mountains to show an increase of 4.25 per cent over 1952. Total attendance in 1952 for the 11 schools was 424,527 in 53 games compared to 442,583 in 52 games this year.
The Far West, on the other hand,
suffered a drop of 3.03 per cent. The Midlands was off 2.77 per cent and the South dropped 1.76 per cent
Total attendance in the Southwest dropped 6.96 per cent—1,355,022 this year compared to 1,434,880 last year—but there were fewer games played by the teams surveyed this season. On the average, Southwest teams drew 29,667 spectators at each of 45 games this year while in 1952 they attracted 29,283 to each of 49 games.
Ohio State, individual national leader in 1951 and 1952, averaged 79,759 fans at each of five games for a season total of 398,798. In 1952, the Buckeyes averaged 75,651 in six games for a total of 453,911.
Southern California, which played one more game than Ohio State, took over as the team leader with a season figure of 412,727 although the Trojans' game-average of 68,795 was lower than the Buckeyes' average.
In addition to Ohio State and Southern California, the sectional leaders were Pennsylvania in the East, Miami in the South, Texas in he Southwest, Colorado in the
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Miami averaged 31,894 for a 223,259 total. Texas averaged 47,750 for 274,-500. Colorado averaged 27,278 for 113,640 and Oklahoma averaged 48,-877 for 234,385.
Other colleges which averaged 49,000 or more per game were UCLA, California, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Rice.
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Hayes Suspended By Boxing Board
Detroit —(U.P.)— Norman Hayes, young Boston middleweight, was under indefinite suspension by the Michigan Boxing Commission today for an "indifferent performance and not being in shape" against Garth Panter last night in their 10-round at Olympia.
Panter, 23-year-old free-swinger from Salt Lake City, gained a unanimous decision against Hayes, a private first-class in the Army.
Floyd Stevens, Michigan's boxing commissioner, announced the suspension after the bout. He said other boxing commissions would be asked to concur with the ban.
Johnny Buckley, Hayes' manager termed the suspension "lousy."
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A meeting of all intramural basketball managers and officials will be held at 4 p.m. Friday in Room 202, Robinson, Walt Mikols, men's intramural director, announced today.
Play will start in three classifi-facations Monday and the deadline date for all entries is 4 p.m. Friday.
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