Monday, Oct, 19, 1953
University Daily Kansan
Page 5
By DON TICE
The pre-season dopsters were having a hard time deciding whether Nebraska or Missouri would be runner-up in the Big Seven conference football race. It looks like they were all wrong however, for Kansas State is leading the conference with three straight victories.
The Cornhuskers were the first conference victim of the unexpected Wildcat surge when they went down 27-0 Oct. at Manhattan.
K-State opened its season against Drake with a 50-0 victory, and everyone thought it was just a case of a larger school against a smaller opponent, but it seems that such is not the case.
The only Wildcat defeat to date is a 13-14 loss to Colorado A&M. The Cats came back strong from that one to defeat Iowa State 20-22 the following weekend, and then pushed Colorado all over the field Saturday to the tune of 28-14.
Iowa State helped to confuse the picture by beating a hot-and-cold running Missouri team 13-6 at Ames.
Still owning a third place spot in conference standings despite its 45-0 shellacking at Norman Saturday, Kansas has the schedule in its favor, playing two of the three remaining conference games on home ground.
The Jayhawkers meet Nebraska at Lincoln Oct. 31, and then play Kansas State Nov. 7 and Missouri Nov. 21 in Memorial stadium.
Mighty Oklahoma has to play Kansas State, Missouri, and Nebraska on their respective home fields, but after watching Bud Wilkinson's powerhouse Saturday, we doubt if the Sooners' play in the Big Seven will make much difference in the final standings.
Not having seen the surprising Wildcats play, it would be hard to make a comparison, but it looks as if they are the only ones likely to give the Sooners any trouble.
It might be well to mention that Kansas has yet to meet K-State. Since the Wildcats are playing here, we will cross our fingers and predict a Jayhawk victory, although the game isn't going to be the "laughing matter" it has been for the past several years.
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From where we sat Saturday, it looked like the Jayhawkers suffered a severe case of shock early in the game and never did come out of it.
There is no doubt that Oklahoma is great, but they aren't that much better than Kansas. Never let it be said that the Jayhawks gave up. They were trying throughout the game, but they just seemed to do everything wrong. The Kansas tackling looked bad, but the Sooner backs were hitting so hard that anything but a good solid tackle just wouldn't bring them down.
Another thing that an outstanding team must have, and we put Oklahoma in that class, is good down-field blocking. Whenever a Sooner back got past the line of scrimmage he had lots of help to get him through the secondary.
But for the fact that Kansas had some fast men in the secondary on defense, the score might have been worse, since several times Oklahoma backs broke into the clear only to be brought down from behind.
When Oklahoma lost quarterback Eddie Crowder at the end of last season, other conference coaches heaved big sighs of relief, but they should have saved their breath.
Gene Calame, who took over at the quarterback slot in the second Sooner game of the season, is more than the answer to a coach's prayer. Not only is he a better runner than the departed Crowder, but he is almost as good at deception.
It is interesting to speculate what might have happened had Calame been calling the plays when Oklahoma played Notre Dame. Not that Buddy Leake was any piker at the job, it's just that Calame is better.
Two Undefeated HS Teams Lose Over Weekend
Two more Kansas high school football elevens left the unbeaten scene and one Southeast Kansas power was upset but otherwise the state's football powers had little trouble winning over the relativley calm weekend.
Wichita St. Mary's, winner of four games in a row, was beaten by Topeka, 25-0, Friday night in the capital city, Ottawa, unbeaten in four games met its waterloo in the fifth when unbeaten but twice-tied Shawnee Mission downed the Cyclones, 12-0. Pittsburg, beaten only by Springfield, Mo., was upset by unrated Ft. Scott, 27-7.
Most of the other large schools won as expected. Ark City, rated No. 1 in the state by last week's A.P. poll, nosed out Wellington, 13-0, to keep its five game winning streak intact. Wichita East, beaten only by Salina in its season opener, came back to notch its fourth straight win, defeating Newton, 33-6. The No. 4 team, Lawrence, had little trouble defeating Leavenworth, 38-0
Wyandotte, tied for the No. 5 ranking with Wichita West, defeated Argentine, 19-9, but West was beaten for the second straight week, losing to Wichita North, 14-6.
The No. 7 team. St. Joseph's Cadets of Hays, won over Ellis, 24-6 while Hays high, tied for the No. 9 position with Ottawa, beat Stafford, 26-7.
Other unbeaten who preserved their unmarked records were Inde-pendence, a 27-12 winner over Iola Haskell, who beat Hayden, 37-18; Ellinwood, a 24-0 vactor over Lyon City; Porter, a 24-0 winner at 39-0; Ness City, a 38-6 winner over Tribune, and Cherryvale, who beat Fredonia. 37-12
The other top Kansas high school teams winning over the weekend were Junction City over Abilene, 33-7; Great Bend over Pratt, 25-12; Palco over Wakeeye, 19-0; Coffeyville over Chanute, 27-6; Salina over Wichita Plainview, 41-0; El Dorado over Hutchinson, 13-9; St. Francis over Norton, 21-14; Garden City over Liberal, 25-1; Dodge City over Russell, 32-6; Winfield over Augusta, 13-6; Manhattan over Clay Center, 14-7, and Marysville over Beloit, 26-0.
Only one field goal has been kicked by Big Seven schools this season. That one, by K-State's Ed Pence, was in last week's game against Colorado.
Baseball's International league will receive $48,749.61 for relinquishing the Baltimore territory to the now-defunct St. Louis Browns of the American league.
Forty-seven 4-year colleges have not been beaten or tied so far this season. Two Kansas schools—Washburn and the College of Emporia—are on the elite list.
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ATO, Phi Delts Take Leads In Respective IM Divisions
By VIC VIOLA
Kansan Sports Writer
ATO swept into the Division IV lead of Fraternity "A" football Friday by pounding Kappa Sig 34-0 Friday, and Delta Upsilon lent the ATOs a helping hand by nipping previously unbeaten Sigma Chi 7-6.
In Division III idle Phi Delt Theta, with two wins and no losses, backed into first place as AKL handed Delta Tau Delta their first loss, 5-0, and Phi Kappa Psi smashed Phi Kappa Tau 52-0.
ATO 34. Kappa Sig. 0
D U 7 Sigma Chi 6
Unleashing a potent aerial attack which hit him during period, ATO beat Kappa Sig 34-9 to notch their second win against no losses. In the first half the passing combination of Pete Meckenstock to John Brose clicked for two counters. Brose took to the airlines in the third quarter, firing a touchdown pass to Terry Hull. Meckenstock accounted for the final scores as he connected with two scoring heaves to John Trombold. Trombold converted the four ATO extra points.
After nursing a 7-0 lead for three quarters, DU survived a last second threat to nudge Sigma Chi 7-6. DU's tally, which came in the first stanza, was set up when Harold Henson rambled deep into Sigma Chi territory with an intercept pass. On the following series of plays a toss from Bob Kaak to Bob Alpers netted the score. Kaak then pitched to Alpers for the extra point. With but seconds remaining Sigma Chi hit paydirt on a play that went from Fritzel to Farney to Johnson. The extra point attempt was batten down by Alpers to preserve the victory for DU.
AKL 6. Delts 0
AKL relied on a tight defense to knock the Delts out of a first place tie in Division III by a 6-0 count. Following an intercepted pass in the first quarter, Harold Bergston made a diving catch of a 30-yard pass from
Ray Birk for the game's lone tally. The most serious Delt threat came in the second period when they marched 60 yards downfield before the AKL defense stiffened.
Phi Psi 52. Phi K T 0
In the highest scoring game this year, Phi Psi went on a rampage to pin a 52-0 defeat on Phi Kappa Tau. Bob Anderson and Pete Fotopoulos each found the range for three scoring aerials while Tom Davidson tossed one. Carol Spreckman was top receiver, hauling in three touch-down passes with Anderson catching two and Max Murray and Dave Wilson grabbing one each. Wilson returned an intercepted pass for the final Phi Psi counter and Tom Pratt added a safety to round out the scoring.
Today's Independent "A" play; Jolliffe vs. Stephenson, Pearson vs. Sterling-Oliver, Oread vs. NROTC, and AFROTC vs. Jim Beam.
Topeka QB Club Sees Movie
A. C. Lonborg, KU athletic director, at the noon meeting of the Topeka Quarterback club today, showed movies of the KU-Oklahoma football game. Other coaches who were on the program were Dick Godlove of Washburn; Bob Briggs of Topeka High school, and Bus Mertes, K-State assistant coach.
Leading Big Seven scorer in all games played is K-Stater Corky Taylor, who has six touchdowns and a conversion for 37 points. The top Kansas man, Ralph Moody, is in a 6-way deadlock for sixth place with 18.
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