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Potent Frosh Meet Varsity At 7 Tonight
By KEN BRONSON
Kansas Assistant Sports Editor Kansas basketball fans will get a preview of the 1953-54 basketball season when the Kansas varsity takes on the freshmen in the annual pre-season basketball game at 7 p.m. today in Hoch auditorium.
For the past week, Dr. Forrest C. "Phog" Allen and his assistant, Dick Harp, have held closed practice sessions for their prospective teams. Dr. Allen will handle the varsity tonight while Harp will have charge of the Frosh forces.
The Fash, anchored by 12 of last year's Kansas all-state selections, will have to bust an age-old tradition if they entertain any hopes of beating the Varsity. It never has been done in the long series. The closest any Frosch five ever came was when Ray Evans, Otto Schnellbacher, and Charlie Black were freshmen. That year the Varsity escaped with a 1-point victory.
Last year, the Varsity eked out a 53-47 win after the Frosh had led all the first period and outplayed the Varsity much of the game.
This year will see another impressive list of potential Jayhawker material in action for the first time. Heading the list from last year's Class AA state champion, Shawnee-Mission, are Gene Elstum and John Parker. From Class AA runner-up, Wyandotte, comes Harry Jett. Blaine Hollinger is Russell's contribution from its 1953 Class A championship team.
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Other all-staters include the state's leading Class AA scorer of last season, Bruce Wenger from Salina; Allen Hurst, a 2-time all-stater from Augusta; Lee Green and Lew Johnson, from Argentine; Gene Evans from Yates Center, and Gary Williams from Madison.
Heading the Varsity will be all American B. H. Born and Allen Kelley, co-captains of this year's team. Born, standing 6-9, should have little trouble over the shorter freshman team. He was the Jayhawkers' leading scorer last season with an 18.9 average.
Kelley, nicknamed "Machine-gun Keller" because of his rapid firing technique, is being counted on to provide the inspiration and leadership for this year's otherwise inexperienced team. In this role, he will be following the footsteps of brother Dean, who was the Jayhawks' guiding hand last year.
Returning to help this pair are six more lettermen who will see their first action of the season tonight. Two more lettermen, Harold Patterson and John Anderson, still are out for food because they're FIs's. Both, however, should be ready for the Dec. 10 opener with Tulane.
Listed as probable starters along with Kelley and Born are Bill Heittholt and LaVannes Squires at the guards, and either Larry Davenport or Jerry Alberts at the other forward.
Heiltholt, 6-3 junior from Quincy,
Ill., lettered as a freshman and again last season. He scored 59 points in 18 games in '52-'53 to rank as the seventh best Kansas scorer.
Squires, the 6-0 speed demon from Wichita East, spent much of last season in hospitals with a lung ailment. He did see enough action to earn a letter and this year should be hard to beat for a starting position.
The forward spot opposite Kelley still is undecided but Davenport and Alberts have the inside track at this stage of the season. Davenport was the sixth leading Kansas scorer last season, bucketing 133 points in 25 games. Alberts was the ninth high with 30 in 17 games. Both are juniors. Alberts standing 6-3 and Davenportitting 6-2.
The other two lettermen, Everett Dye and Eldon Nicholson, also are slated to see action tonight. Dye is a 6-3 beamount from Independence who saw some action last year and Nicholson, a 6-6 Pittsburg product, was used mainly as a replacement for Born.
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Section B
Friday,
SPORTS
November 20,1953
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Missouri Scores
MU Opp.
6 Maryland ... 20
14 Purdue ... 7
27 Colorado ... 16
7 Southern Methodist ... 20
6 Iowa State ... 13
23 Nebraska ... 7
14 Indiana ... 7
7 Oklahoma ... 14
16 Kansas State ... 6
Fourteen Men Will Bow Out In MU Battle
Fourteen Kansas seniors will be making their last appearances on the Memorial stadium gridiron tomorrow when the Jayhawks take on Missouri in the big Homcoming battle.
Ten of the 14 are linemen, including end Morris Kay and guard Bob Hantla, co-captains. Others KU will lose in the forward wall are ends Harold Patterson and Jerry Taylor; tackles Joe Lundy, Orville Poppe, and Bill Marshall; guards Joe Fink and Wayne Woolfolk, and centers Hugh Armstrong, Don Aungust, and Bob Braden. Backs bowing out are halfback Frank Cindrich and full-back Frank Sabatini.
Kay, 6-2. 191-pounder from St. John, has made his name by being a defensive stalwart through his two full seasons. Last year, when he was being counted upon as a starter, he was struck with a mild attack of polio and did not see any action, although he was given his second letter. He also doubles as a discus thrower and last spring placed fifth in that event in the conference meet.
Hantla, 206-pound Meade resident who stands 6-1, twice has made the all-Big Seven team as a defensive guard and his fine play this fall rates him as a possible repeater. He too is a 2-year letterman.
Landy was an offensive regular in '52 and this season has proved his worth as a full-time performer, for which he undoubtedly will be considered when all-star picking time comes up. Fink, a 2-year monogram winner, has played guard, line backer, end, and tackle on defense, and tackle both ways this year.
His pass snaring ability won plaudits this campaign for Harold Patterson, who has won letters in basketball and baseball. Last year he played halfback but successfully made the transformation to the line this fall. Jerry Taylor, the other senior end, also is noted for his pass receiving and general offensive work.
Cindrich, fifth best KU ball carrier last year, missed most of this season with a bad knee, and Hugh Armstrong, who started as a guard and was transferred to center, is out with a broken ankle.
Pictured, left hand column, top to bottom and left to right, are Hantla, Lundy, Sabatini, Taylor, Poppe, Braden, Armstrong, Right column, Kay, Fink, Cindrich, Aungst, Marshall, Woolfolk, and Patterson.
The other seniors have been used mainly in reserve.
Kansas Scores
Officials: Cliff Ogden (Wichita), referee; Mutt Volz (Nebraska), umpire; Roy Brown (Warrenburg), linesman; Ed Dubie (Tulsa), field judge.
Probable Starting Lineups
KU Opp.
0 Texas Christian 13
7 UCLA 19
23 Iowa State 0
27 Colorado 21
0 Oklahoma 45
6 Southern Methodist 14
0 Nebraska 9
0 Kansas State 7
14 Oklahoma A&M 41
| KANSAS | Pos. | MISSOURI |
| :--- | :--- | ---: |
| Morris Kay | LE | John Willson 183 |
| Joe Lundy | LT | Julian Boyd 206 |
| Joe Fink | LG | Tony Karakas 180 |
| Merle Hodges | C | Norden Stefanides 192 |
| Bob Hantla | RG | J. W. Shively 192 |
| Dick Knowles | RT | Charles Bull 198 |
| Hal Patterson | RE | Pete Corpeny 181 |
| John McFarland | QB | Vic Eaton 190 |
| Don Hess | LH | Bob Schoonmaker 188 |
| Bob Allison | RH | Ed Merrifield 178 |
| John Anderson | FB | Ray Detring 192 |
MUGameEnds Dismal Year Of Grid Fare
By STAN HAMILTON Kansan Sports Editor
Kansas' most pathetic football season in 11 years comes to a grinding, but welcome climax tomorrow when the Jayhawkers tangle here with Missouri in the big Homecoming battle. Kickoff time is 2 p.m.
Missouri, third-ranked in the Big Seven with a 3-2 record, and with a 5-4 over-all mark, comes into the old inter-state tussle highly favored, but past years have proved that odds and favorites mean little or nothing when the Tiger and the Jayhawk meet.
In that 1942 campaign KU walloped to a 2-8 finish and did not even bother to go through the motions and elect a captain. This year's sophomore-laden team can top that year by winning over MU, but the Tigers, having their best year since 1949, are out to grab a share of the runner-up position with Kansas State, which has finished its league season.
A Tiger triumph would bring them to within one game of KU in the all-time standings between the two eleven, the oldest rivalry west of the Mississippi river. Kansas now leads 28 games to 26, with seven deadlocks.
The season for Kansas has been anything but bright, while the Tigers have sprung several surprises—among them, wins over Purdue and Indiana. Last week MU took the measure of Kansas State, 7-0, and lost the preceding game to Oklahoma by only seven points. Its other league defeat was to Iowa State, 6-13.
Kassas, on the other hand, after whitewashing Iowa State and downing Colorado at Boulder for the first time since the Buffs entered the conference in 1948, has not been able to even resemble a football team for more than 15 minutes a game.
Kansas passing has been all but non-existent, although it sparkled occasionally Saturday against Oklahoma A&M. The ground game, the weapon which worked well in the first four clashes, has been ineffectual of late, and worst of all, the squad seems to have lost all its incentive, fighting spirit, or what have you, and is playing littlesly.
Missouri, however, has been an unpredictable team. It is the most minded team in the conference and has more first downs than even mighty Oklahoma.
On the ground, fullback Bob Bauman and halfbacks Skimp Merrifield and Schoonmaker pose real threats to the touted Jayhawk forward wall, which has risen up and staved off drives several times only to fall back again on other occasions.
Its pair of passing aces, Vic Eaton and Tony Scardino, have ranked high in Big Seven aerial statistics this fall, and their favorite targets, Bob Schoonmaker and Pete Corpeny, have stayed high in the receiving department.
Tiger coach Don Faurot, originator of the split-T formation, employs that offense plus various forms of the spread, and generally comes up with a top-notch play or two against Kansas.
Jayhawker Coach J. V. Sikes came up with a beauty against the aggies last Saturday—the John McFarland to Harold Patterson to whoever was near, pass-lateral combination—and has been working on several more new ones throughout the week's drills.
The probable Bengal starting line-up, still a question because of injuries, consists of five seniors, four juniors, and two sophomores. The MU line averages 190 pounds per man to KU's 195, and the visitors' back-field corps figures three pounds lighter per man than KU's, 187 to 190.
Sikes starting team is slated to be the same that answered the whistle in the Oklahoma A&M game five seniors, three juniors, and three sophomores.