Page 6 University Daily Kenson Friday Nov. 6. 1953
KU Stiffens for 'Cat Attack
By STAN HAMILTON
Kansan Sports Writer
In about 23 hours the big Sunflower state battle between Kansas and Kansas State will be under way in Memorial stadium, and the "experts" are predicting a slim KU victory.
The game should be a battle of ground attacks and defensive line play, because, as both elevens have demonstrated in their seven games thus far, neither has much of an aerial game. Instead, both have been content to grind out the yards on the ground.
The light Wildcats, enjoying their greatest season since the early '20s, come into the clash with a 5-2 mark, while the Jayhawks of Coach J. V. Sikes stand at 2-5. Each team will have two games left after tomorrow's clash.
Injuries on both squads may have much to do with the outcome. Tackle Joe Lundy and end Don Bracelin of the Jayhawkers picked up injuries last Saturday and have not practiced regularly this week. Quarterbacks John McFarland and Dick Sandifer have been hampered with knee trouble. All four, however, are slated to see action against State, but should any have to retire because of a recurrence, Kansas' fate may hang in the balance.
From Manhattan comes word that the Cats will be without the services of Dean Peck, left guard who has been starting for Coach Bill Meek, and right tackle Earl Meyer, who suffered a bad charley-horse in practice Wednesday. Meyer, too, has been in the opening 11 all year.
Should K-State turn the trick and upset the Kansans, it would mark the first time in nine years that the Wildcats have won the intra-state game, and the first time since 1939 that K-State has won in Lawrence. The over-all series record shows KU far in front, with 33 triumphs in 50 games. Three have been standoffs.
The teams have played four common foes this fall, and in three, K-State has piled up more advantageous margins. Both lost to Oklahoma. KU by 0-45, K-State by 0-34. Kansas State beat Nebraska, 27-0, while the Jayhawks lost to the Cornhuskers, 0-9. The Wildcats downed Colorado, 28-14, and Kansas best the westerners, 27-12, while both outfits downed Iowa State, KU by 23-0, and Kansas State by 20-12.
The great difference in the offenses of the two teams has been in the wag each has made most of their scores.
The K-Staters have specialized in a "one play, all the way" type of game, a formula the Jayhawks have found elusive all season. Seven times Corky Taylor and Veryl Switzerland, who alternate most of the time at right hallback, have gone more than 35 yards for TDs, while KU, aside from Don Hess' 66-yard scoring jaunt on KU's first play from scrimmage against Colorado, has not broken a runner all the way.
Each team has a pair of halfbacks among the top 10 ball carriers in the Big Seven, real challenges for the opposing linemen to shoot at, Taylor and Switzer rank third and sixth, respectively, while Ralph Moody is eighth, and Don Hess 10th for KU. Backing up this foursome are the two fullbacks, Bob Balderson of K-State, and Frank Sabatini, KU, who are 12th and 15th in the conference.
And, although the Jayhawkers have not passed for a touchdown all fall, McFarland, the No. 1 passer, holds down fifth position in the league in that category, just one notch below the Wildcat's Bob Dahnke.
As a team Kansas has gained 1,787 yards in seven games and K-State, 2,029. Their opponents have accumulated 1,760 and 1,626 yards, respectively. In pass defense, KU, by allowing only 35 per cent of the aerials thrown against it to find their marks, ranks fourth in the country in that respect, while K-State is seventh nationally.
Another item that might spell the difference is the number of yards each team has been assessed in penalties. KU has had but 198 yards stepped off against it, while the Wildcats have given up 517 to the officials.
Sikes yesterday ran the squad through a rugged 3-hour practice session and said the team spirit is excellent and that most of the injured players should be able to go the full distance in the game. Tonight he will take the players to Topeka for the night so they will not be subject to the pre-game excitement in Lawrence. They will return about 11:30 a.m. tomorrow.
Figuring that Oklahoma will down Missouri, Kansas by winning tomorrow would move into a second place tie with the Wildcats in the conference. A KU loss, though, would shove the Jayhawks down, pending the outcome of the Nebraska-Iowa State contest.
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| KANSTAS | Pos | K-STATE |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Morris Kay (191) | LE | Ed Pence (192) |
| Joe Lundy (204) | LT | Ron Marciniak (195) |
| Joe Fink (192) | LG | Tom O'Boyle (185) |
| Merle Hodges (190) | C | Ken Gowdy (195) |
| Bob Hantla (206) | RG | Price Gentry (192) |
| Dick Knowles (202) | RT | Ron Nery (195) |
| Don Bracelin (181) | RE | Ed Linta (180) |
| John McFarland (183) | QB | Bob Dahnke (170) |
| Don Hess (180) | LH | Gerry Cashman (165) |
| Bob Allison (196) | RH | Veryl Switzer (180) |
| John Anderson (204) | FB | Bob Balderson (180) |
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Injuries Slow Sooners, MU
By UNITED PRESS
Weakened by injuries, Oklahoma and Missouri both voiced pessimism today on the eve of their important Big Seven football meeting at Columbia.
At the same time, Bud Wilkinson, coach of Oklahoma, said he expected three of his athletes to remain on the sidelines. They were Joe Mobra, sophomore end, guard J. D. Roberts, and halfback Tom Carroll.
Don Faurot, the Missouri coach,
said he doubted that either Tony
Scardino, No. 1 quarterback and
chief passer, or Charles Phillips,
tackle, would start in tomorrow
afternoon's game.
Missouri sought its second major upset victory of the campaign—a triumph that would snap Oklahoma's long string of Big Seven successes. The Sooners have not been defeated in 38 consecutive conference contests.
Odds favored Oklahoma by as much as two touchdowns to win again and thus virtually clinch a sixth straight undisputed league championship.
Elsewhere in the Midlands, the Big Seven offered the traditional meeting of the Kansas state rivals—Kansas' Jayhawkers and 'Kansas State's Wildcats—at Lawrence; and Nebraska against Iowa State at Ames. Colorado will be host to Utah at Boulder.
In the Missouri Valley conference where Oklahoma A&M already has clinched a title tie, the schedule included. Detroit vs. Marquette a Milwaukee; Houston at Tulsa; Wyoming at Oklahoma A&M, and Denver at Wichita.
The KU football scoring to dat has been done by only half a dozer men. Hess has 20, Moody 18, Anderson, McFarland, and Allison six each and Handley five.
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DON BRACELIN, junior end from St. Francis, is K. U. player of the week for his sterling defensive game against Nebraska.
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