Friday. Nov. 6. 1953
University Daily Kanoon
Page 7
By DON TICE Kansas Sports Editor
Here we are at the end of another editorial reign which will see a new sports editor taking over Monday.
We began this first half semester on an optimistic note, predicting big things for the Big Red team. Oh well, win a few—lose a few—some will be rained out.
In reality, if one would care to look at the statistics, the prediction wasn't such a bad one. The only team that has out-played the Jayhawks on paper—final score not considered—is Oklahoma.
However here we are, with a 2-5 record. It seems one has to have hold of the ball when he goes over the goal line before it counts six points. The Kansas runners, while going great guns in midfield all season, have consistently dropped the ball, literally and figuratively, when they got within scoring reach.
One Kansas supporter asked us the other day if there were any alumni in the glue business. He allowed as how there ought to be some solution to the Jayhawkers fumbleitis troubles. Perhaps the added incentive of playing the boys from the Cow college up the river will furnish the added goal, or stick-em, needed.
At any rate, the Jayhawkers are going to need something more than statistics tomorrow if they hope to beat the determined Wildcats from Kansas State.
Since 1944, when Kansas last suffered the worst of all football tragedies, a loss to K-State, the Jayhawkers have scored 280 points to 41 for the Wildcats.
Since Kansas State won 18-14 in 1944, the closest content was in 1948 when the Jayhawks squeezed by 20-14. And then there was that 55-0 romp in 1947. In total games, Kansas has won 33 to 14 for the Wildcats, with three ties, and has run up a scoring edge of 834 to 341.
Can we let such a record as this be marred? Let's hope not. The Big Red team will be out there trying every minute of the game to morrow and the least we poor peons of the weaker sex or weaker muscles, for want of a better excuse, can do is to get out and yell our heads off.
The coaching staff has indicated that the team is really pointing for this one, particularly the native Kansans. So, as a parting shot as sports editor, we predict a thumping victory for Kansas tomorrow.
-KU-
Recently a nationally circulated sports magazine came out with its picks of the top 10 basketball teams in the nation for the 1953-54 season. Kansas was ranked fifth in that poll. That we won't argue too much with, because Coach Forrest C. Phog Allen's team will have to prove it still has the fire that took it to second place in the nation last year before too many bouquets can be thrown its direction.
However, Indiana, the team that beat the Jayhawkers out for the coveted top spot last year, was ranked third, and that we will argue with.
Indiana lost one man, a substitute at that, off of their team from last season, and yet was ranked no better than third. The teams ahead of them—Duquesne and Kentucky!
Balderdash!! Duquesne had a fairly impressive 21-8 record last season, and lost only one starter, but we seriously doubt if it can live up to top national billing. It just isn't that good, even on paper.
Emu—With no tears in our eyes we bid you adieu and wish Stan Hamilton a happy, winning reign as Kansan sports editor.
Opening the battle for the Hill championship, Beta, Phi Gam, Phi Delt, and ATO scored first round playoff victories Thursday to advance to the semi-finals of the Fraternity "A" bracket. Phi Gam will tangle with ATO and Beta will meet Phi Delt in Monday's semi-final round.
Phi Gam 14-7 tie, Phi Gam pushed across a fourth quarter touchdown to nose out Phi Pi 14-7. For Phi Gam, which copped the Division II title during the regular season's play, it was the fifth straight win of the season.
After a scoreless first quarter both squads marched to paydirt in the second period for a 7-7 half-time deadlock. Phi Gam's 6-pointer came on a 50-yard scoring heave from Glenn Jones to John Griffiths. Bob Clawson's kick split the uprights for the extra point.
Phi Psi countered with a Bob Anderson to Carroll Speckman payoff pitch that covered 45 yards. Then in the fourth quarter, Jones found the range once again for the Phi Gams as he fired to Loren Wheeler for the deciding marker. Clawson again toed the PAT for insurance.
Later that same stanza John Strawn climaxed a Beta drive by tossing six yards to Mulliken in the end zone. In the third period the Beta defense again asserted itself as it blocked a DU punt to notch another safety.
Beta 17. DU 6
Beta, defending Hill champion,
jumped to a 15-0 advantage at half-time
and then protected that margin in the second half to subdue
DU 17-6. It was the fifth triumph without a loss for the Betas, Division I champs.
Al Mulliken tallied the first Beta TD in the opening period when he snared a DU aerial and dashed 60 yards to paydirt. Darrel Simpson booted the extra point for a 7-0 Beta lead. The Beta defense accounted for a second quarter safety as Dick Judy trapped DU's passer in the end zone.
DU put together a successful fourth quarter drive with Bob Kaak passing to Dick Folck for the score. It was the first TD scored against the Betas this year.
ATQ 19: Delta Cbi 0
Phi Gam 14. Phi Psi 7
ATO 15, Delta Chi 9
Backup up a balanced offense with airight defensive play, ATO shut out Delta Chi 19-0. The win gave ATO, co-titlist in Division IV, a 4-1 record on the season.
ATO marked up its initial TD in the second frame on a John Brosse to John Trombol pass. Opening the third period Pete Meckenstock took over the passing chores as he fired to Bob Toalson for six points. Trombol converted for a 13-0 lead at the three-quarter point. In the final stanza Toalson raced to score after grabbing another Meckenstock heave for the final 19-0 count.
Phi Delt 20, Lambda Chi 13
With their fifth straight win
4 IM Teams Advance in Playoffs
Air ROTC Riflemen Have Two Matches
The University Air Force RCFC rifle team will fire against Washburn university and Kansas State college teams in separate meets beginning at 8 a.m. tomorrow.
The team first will face an AF-ROTC team from Washburn, and the KU scores will be used against Pennsylvania university in a telegraphic meet. After this match KU will face a combined Army and Air Force rifle team from K-State.
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the season the Phi Delts advanced into the semi-finals by outscore Lambda Chi 20-13. George Kinney, Mike Chalfant, and John Dicus each registered counters for the Phi Delts, while Kinney and Jim Fee each notched an extra point. Dick Walt and Paul Fore rambled for Lambda Chi 6-pointers with Walt adding an extra point.
Today's playoffs get underway in Independent "A" and Fraternity "B." In Independent "A" Jim Beam meets Stephenson hall and NROTC encounters Liabona, while Battefeld hall and Twin Pines moved into the semi-finals with byes. Frat "B" play finds Beta I vs. Sigma Chi, and Phi Delt vs. Beta 2, with Phi Psi and Phi Gam advancing with byes.
The Colorado cross country team puts its string of eight consecutive victories on the line Saturday as it meets Iowa State at Ames.
BEAT K-STATE
Toneka OB Club Ribs Sikes
Topeka —(U.P.) Coach J. V. Sikes of Kansas took some good-natured ribbing during a Jayhawks Quarterback club meeting here yesterday. The coach, whose Kansas footballers have been plagued with fumbles in games this season, was harked off by a Kirkpatrick, president, Kirkpatrick commented: "No coach can prevent fumbles—but maybe these handles will help." Sikes predicted a close battle Saturday with Kansas State,
Bevo Adds Politics to Ball
Gallipoli, Ohio — (U.P.) — Clarence (Bevo) Francis, the Rio Grande college basketball center who scored almost 2,000 points last season, has made a successful entry into politics. By a write-in vote, the 6-foot-8-inch athlete was elected constable of Raccoon township. He got 15 write-ins to five for the incumbent, Ernest Blazer.
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