By KEN BRONSON
Kansan Sports Writer
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There comes a time each fall when thousands of sports writers migrate to their typewriters and begin the dubious task of picking that weekend's collegiate football winners. We haven't tried our luck yet this year, and believing that we can do as well as several hundred of the other prognosticators, we are going to divulge our picks for this weekend's winners.
Kansas over Nebraska—The Jayhawks are out for revenge, and after dropping two games in a row, want to get back in the win column. The Cornhuskers will be extra tough because of home-coming but the Jayhawks are a little tougher. Let's call it KU 21. Nebraska 7.
Oklahoma over Kansas State—The Wildcats have been rolling along fine until this game. The Sooners are just as powerful as ever and can play football when they have to. Their squeeze past Colorado last week probably opened their eyes. We say it will be Oklahoma 35, Kansas State 14.
Colorado over Iowa State—The Buffs played Oklahoma all the way before losing in the last 30 seconds. Anyone who can do that deserves to win over a team like Iowa State. Make it Colorado 40, Iowa State 6.
Indiana over Missouri—The Tigers, who whipped Nebraska last week after a disastrous weekend at Iowa State, have the material to use against the Hoosiers. But Indiana is playing at home which gives them an edge of about six points, 20-14.
A quick look around the rest of the nation and we see. . . .
The East—West Virginia over Penn State, Syracuse over Holy Cross, Marquette over Boston, Princeton over Brown, Cornell over Columbia, Yale over Dartmouth, Harvard over Davidson, and Bucknell over Lehigh.
The South—Maryland over South Carolina, LSU over Mississippi, Army over Tulane, Georgia Tech over Vanderbilt, Alabama over Georgia, Auburn over Florida, Wake Forest over Clemson, Duke over Virginia, Mississippi State over Texas Tech, Tennessee over North Carolina, William and Mary over North Carolina State, and Virginia Tech over The Citadel.
The Midwest—Navy over Notre Dame in the upset of the year, Michigan over Penn, Illinois over Purdue, Minnesota over Pitt, Wisconsin over Iowa, Michigan State over Oregon State, Ohio State over Northwestern, and Drake over Bradley.
The Southwest—Baylor over TCU, SMU over Texas, Rice over Kentucky, Texas A&M over Arkansas, and Oklahoma A&M over Tulsa.
The West—UCLA over California, Southern Cal over Oregon, Stanford over Washington State, Utah over Washington, Denver over New Mexico, and Wyoming over Brigham Young.
There, we did it and we're glad. We guarantee you a better than .750 average or we won't try it again.
-KU-
Incidentally, for students not making the trip to Nebraska, there is still plenty going on here on the campus tomorrow. The KU crosscountry team will tackle unbeaten Missouri here tomorrow morning at 11 a.m. As usual, the race will begin on the baseball field and end in the stadium. Running in a preliminary to the collegiate race will be eight state high school cross country teams.
Then Sunday morning basketball practice begins for the defending Big Seven champs. The start of basketball practice always starts the mind to wondering, "Is it really basketball season already?" Well, it isn't yet, but it won't be long.
Kansas State's "dream team" of 1953 gets a chance for national recognition, undisputed leadership of the Big Seven and a tremendous boost toward the Miami Orange Bowl tomorrow when it collides with the mighty Sooners of Oklahoma at Manhattan.
Sooners Rated 14 Points Over Kansas State
But most of the experts figured it would turn out to be a nightmare for Bill Meek's K-Staters.
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Long the door-mat of the conference, Kansas State has caught the fancy of the conference this season, winning five of its first six starts to move into tomorrow's game with a perfect loop record. As a result, the show-down battle has generated such interest - a sellout crowd of 20,000 has been assured for Memorial stadium.
Undefeated in two conference starts, Oklahoma appeared much too strong in the line and in depth for Kansas State, already triumphant over Nebraska, Iowa State, and Colorado.
Despite pessimistic reports from Norman, Oklahoma was rated a 14-point favorite, but some followers anticipated an even wider margin. They expected the Sooners to rebound with a vengeance in the wake of their disappointing showing last week against Colorado—a team that was beaten only in the final 36 seconds of play on a 51-yard touchdown run by Merrill Green.
Four other games, including the final for Oklahoma A&M in the Missouri Valley conference, were on the week-end Midlands bill. Last-place Tulsa will meet A&M at Stillwater. The Cowpokes were 2-touchdown favorites to grab the victory that would clinch at least a title tie for Coach E. B. Whitworth's squad.
Chicago — (U.P.)— Bantam Ben Hoagan today stood unmatched in the esteem of his fellows in professional golf.
Ben Hogan Selected Top Golfer of 1953
Elsewhere in the Big Seven, Kansas opposes Nebraska at Lincoln, Iowa State invades Boulder for a meeting with Colorado and Missouri as an intersectional battle with Indiana at Bloomington.
Hogan, by a count of 803 out or 1.000 ballots returned, last night was named the Professional Golfer of the Year for 1953, the year when he won the U.S. Open tourney, the Masters tournament and the British open.
The sturdy little Texas golfer won the top annual pro honor previously in 1948, 1950, and 1951.
If "Comeback of the Year" honors were to be passed out this year, the award should go to KU's co-captain end Morris Kay. Kay missed all of last year's games because of a slight attack of polio.
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Unbeaten Missouri to Face All-Victorious KU Runners
Kansas track coach Bill Easton Saturday morning will send his cross country wrecking crew of Wes Santee and company against undefeated Missouri university here is an effort to post KU's 26th straight 3-mile victory. The meet will start at 11 a.m.
Easton will use the same array that has defeated Oklahoma A&M, Texas, and Drake so far this season—Santee, Art Dalzell, Al Frame, Dick Wilson, Lloyd Koby, and Trom Supp.
Tiger Coach Tom Botts will send juniors Ken Hershey and Lynn Romann, and sophomores Vic Walker, Keith Bacon, Don Roeder, and Bill Bradshaw to the starting line to try to halt the Kansans, Big Seven tiltists the past six years.
Only the times of five men of each outfit count in the final scoring, but should the sixth man of either team finish ahead of any runner of the opposing team, he will increase his team's winning total.
Missouri, in two meets this fall.
Kansas will close its dual season next Friday against the Oklahoma Sooners at Norman. The league meet will run here Nov. 14, just prior to the Oklahoma A&M grid game.
Class B—Maize, Nortonville, Cottonwood Falls, Frankfort, Tonovay-Rural, McPherson Central, Oxford, Wakeeney, Bonner Springs, Hollyrood, Perry, Meade Bible academy, Conway Springs, and Richmond.
HS Harriers To Run Nov.7
For the Jayhawks, Santee has crossed the finish line first in each dual, a habit he has had since the initial meet of the 1952 season, when the 3-mile cross country was inaugurated in the Big Seven. Prior to that the distance was only two miles.
The meet, with 13 more teams enered than ever before, will start at 0 a.m.
has won both, low score winning. It beat Iowa State at Ames, 17-19, and downed Kansas State 13-23 at Columbia. Romann took first against the Cyclones and Hershey was the winner over K-State.
Defending team and individual champions in both classes are returning for another shot at the title. In class A Topeka and Stan Ridgeway won last year, and Maize, with Bob Nicholson taking first, won in class B.
Class A—Shawnee-Mission, Wichita East, Olathe, Manahide, Salina, El Dorado, Topeka, Medicine Lodge, Emporia, McPherson, Haskell, Pittsburg, Highland Park, Wyandotte, Lawrence, and Rosedale.
Sophomore Al Frame, 1951 KU invitational high school cross country champ from Wichita, pulled a surprise in the opener against A&M and Texas by capturing sixth place. Last week, when he was sidelined with a cold, Rupp stepped in and copped seventh against Drake.
Sixteen class A and fifteen class B high school cross country teams next Saturday morning will run here over a shortened 2-mile course in the sixth annual KU interscholastic cross country meet.
Prep Harriers Run Tomorrow
Schools entered in the meet, which will begin at 10:30 a.m., just before the Kansas-Missouri Big Seven dual at 11, are Haskell, Wyandotte, Topeka, Shawnee-Mission, Olathe, Highland Park, Emporia, and Nortonville.
Eight Kansas high schools tomorrow morning will compete in the 2-mile Haskell invitational cross course on one of shortened course on the KU campus.
The world's richest horse race, the $270,000 Garden Stakes, will be run for the first time tomorrow at Camden, N.J.
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