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Easton's Harriers Run at Oklahoma
Oklahoma university will face the Kansas cross country team this afternoon in Norman, Okla., as the power-packed Jayhawk distance team goes after its 27th consecutive hill-and-dale victory and the fifth victory this fall.
Kansas track Coach Bill Easton took his 5-man wrecking crew of Wes Santee, Art Dalzell, Al Frame, Lloyd Koby, and Dick Wilson to Norman early this morning by plane. The six will return tonight after the meet.
The run should not prove too tough for the Kansas, conquerors of both teams Oklahoma has lost to —Oklahoma A&M and Texas A&M. The Jayhawks defeated both Aggie teams in the opening encounter of the season, while the Sooners lost 34-21 to the Texas squad and 23-13 to their cross state rivals. Low scores win cross country runs.
The Oklahomaans are hampered seriously by the lack of experienced material, although returnee Warren House has not lived up to expectations. Sophomore Donn Ladd has been the only consistent high placer for the Sooner crew. He ran in 15:41 against Oklahoma A&M.
The Kansan men, on the other hand, have not lost a meet since Missouri pasted them in the initial meet of the 1947 season, the first that Easton coached here.
Since then Easton has directed his men to six consecutive Big Seven championships in as many seasons. Prior to his coming to Mt. Oread from Drake (where he tutored two national cross country championship teams) KU had won only one previous league title, that in 1928. Only Iowa State, with 11 titles, and K-State, with nine, now are ahead of Kansas in total crowns.
Individual league winners for Kansas have been Bob Karnes, 1947-48-49. Herb Semper, 1950-51, and Wes Santee, 1952. Santee holds the 3-mile record of 15:08.1. The old 2-mile record of 9:14.9, was set by Semper in his last year. The 3-mile run was initiated for the first time last fall.
The league meet will be run here next Saturday, about 30 minutes before the kickoff of the KU-Oklahoma A&M football game.
K-State Wildcats Add Final Touches
Manhattan — (U.P.) The Kansas State Wildeats put in a full 2-hour practice session yesterday as they put the finishing touches on their attack plan for the Kansas University contest at Lawrence Saturday.
Coach Bill Meek avoided body contact, working his charges only through dummy scrimages.
He welcomed back to practice Ed Pence, starting end, who had missed previous drills because of a bad cold.
The main attraction of the Oregon State basketball team this winter will be giant 7-foot, 3-inch sophomore center. Swede Halebrock. Four other Oregon State players stand 6-8, 6-7, 6-6, and 6-5.
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31 High Schools Entered in Run
A star-studded field of 16 teams goes after the Clas A KU Invitational high school cross-country championship here Saturday morning in the sixth annual meet over the 2-mile Jawhayk course.
An additional 15 schools will go for the Class B title. Maize high school and Bob Nicholson, the team titlist and individual winner last year, return to defend their titles.
Defending Class A champion Topeka and Stan Ridgeway are back to defend their titles. A close race is predicted however, between the Trojans and Emporia. In three meets this fall, Topeka has won two contests and the Spartans, one.
The course record is 9:40.3, set in 1940 by Charles Crook of Wichita East. Ridgeway won last year in 9:49.8, Nicholson, in 10:00.5.
Class A: Topeka, Shawnee-Mission, Wichita Earl, Olathe, Manhattan, Salina, El Dorado, Medicine Lodge, Emporia, McPherson, Haskell, Pittsburg, Highland Park, Wyandotte, Lawrence and Rosedale.
Class B: Maize, Nortonville, Cottonwood Falls, Frankfort, Tonovay Rural, Mineral, Central of McPherson, Oxford, Wakeeney, Bonner Springs, Hollyrod, Perry, Meade Bible academy, Conway Springs, and Richmond.
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New York — (U.P.)—A clearer picture of the lineup for the four major bowl games—Rose, Sugar, Cotton, and Orange—will emerge tomorrow from key gridiron battles in six conferences.
Baylor, Illinois Stanford, Okies Eye Bowl Bids
With the 1953 pigskin season rushing into its final weeks, Illinois, unbeaten leader of the Big Ten, can put itself in a commanding position in the chase for that league's Rose Bowl berth by beating Michigan, especially since one of its closest rivals will be jolted in the Ohio State-Michigan State fry.
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Oklahoma, leader of the Big Sever race which leads to a berth in the Orange Bowl at Miami, has a chance to go far ahead in that race if it beats Missouri as predicted. That's because second-place Kansas State is an underdog in its game against Kansas. In the Atlantic Coast conference, whose champion fills the other Orange Bowl spot, Maryland the nation's second-ranking team, will keep its lead secure as it plays an outside game against George Washington.
Stanford, topping the Pacific Coast conference with a 5-0-0 record, will really move out strong for the other Rose Bowl spot if it whips third-place Southern California. The odd-makers, however, are predicting otherwise—making Southern Cala a 6-point choice.
Baylor, anxious for the Cotton Bowl berth reserved for the Southwest conference king, will really take charge of that race if it wins as 6-point favorite over second-place Texas. On the other hand, a Texas win would throw the race into a deadlock.
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There's an excellent chance that members of the Southern conference will be allowed to play in bowl games. That was recommended by the league's special committee yesterday but must yet be approved by two-thirds of the league.
That means unbeaten West Virginia, riding the nation's top winning streak of 12 games, will have added incentive to avoid a letdown when it opposes VPI in a conference game. VPI has won three of four conference games but is expected to provide only token opposition for the mountaineers.
Outside the conference races, the major interest centers around Notre Dame's visit to Philadelphia where the nation's first-ranked team faces a battle-tested but weary Pennsylvania队. The Irish were bolstered by the return to active duty of Coach Frank Leahy, who communicated with the team from a sickbed during last Saturday's 38-7 route of Navy.
Weakened Frosh Grid Team Plays Little Tigers Today
A patched-up freshman football team will play the Missouri university fresh today at Columbia, Mo.
Kansas yearling Coach Wayne Replogle took a 48-man squad to Tigerland yesterday morning, but at least three will see no action, while a host of others are available for only limited duty.
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Both halfbacks who started it. Kansas State game which KU won, 67-32. were hurt in that contest and have not fully recovered. The alling men, Tom Kwapich and Ted Rohde, scored a touchdown apiece in that affair, but Rohde is awaiting an operation on a torn knee ligament. Kwapich may be used sparingly.
In their place Replogle said he would start John Schleicher, 5-9, 188-pounder from Kansas City, and Dwight Dimsmore, 5-11, also 198 pounds. Slated to answer the whistle at fullback is Otho Sweynz, Colby, 5-8, 190-pounder. Tom Slaymaker, 6-1, 184-pound Kansas Citian, who threw for three touchdowns and scored another himself against the Wildcats, will start at quarterback.
Probable starters at end for KU were to be Bill Bell, 6-2, 190-pounds, and Bob Preston, 6-1, 185. Tackles were set to be Jack Poe, 220-pounder, and Rog Brinkhoff, 225-guards, Charles Sprinkle, 198 pounds, and Dick Todd, 190. Frank Black, 6-2, 205-pound husky will open at center.
The Missourians will be after their first and only victory of the year, after losing 7-12 to Iowa State in their only other decision. Big Seven rules allow only two fresh contests a season.
The little Tigers, whose starting lineup has not yet been released, are almost an exact replica of Coach Don Faurot's varsity. They use the same troublesome sliding-T formation and occasionally shift into a wide spread. Replogle's charges use the same straight T as does the Jayhawker first team
Konsans on the disabled list are halfbacks Harry Solter, Art Miller, Bill Davis, Ronnie Haidu, Bob Franklin, and Jim Ridder; fullback Glenn Savage, and tackle-end Bob Mellott. Guard Bill Armstrong, who is nursing a badly sprained ankle, may play a bit, Replogle said last night.
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