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By STAN HAMILTON Kansan Sports Writer
Crazy! That's the only word we can think of to describe football in the Big Seven.
Kansas State, after wallowing around in the conference cellar so long it almost had the bends, came up with probably the upset of the year by knocking off the Nebraska Cornhuskers 27-0, a loss which sent the northerners home with their heads bowed.
No conference eleven had lost to' the Wildcats since Colorado was a victim in 1949. The win also marked the first triumph over Nebraska since 1942, and the largest winning margin for the 'Cats in league play since their 47-7 romp in 1936 over Iowa State.
The Wildcats did win a Big Seven contest in 1951 over Missouri, but that victory was nullified because K-State was found to have used an ineligible player.
But that wasn't the only surprise on Saturday's slate—not by a long way. Powerful Oklahoma, picked by observers to be one of the top teams in the nation this year, did not rebound from last week's Notre Dame defeat as it was supposed to, and was lucky to tie Pittsburgh. MU came through a bit better than expected, winning by eleven, and the Kansas Jayhawks also followed suit and racked Iowa State.
The World Series, too, has taken some unexpected turns. After the 6-5 choice Yankees captured the initial two contests, and all but the most rabid Dodger fans had given up hope for a Brooklyn win, the Bums came back on Friday and Saturday to even up the series. Then yesterday the American league entry walloped Brooklyn to go 1-up with only one victory needed in two games.
No team has ever won the Series, by the way, after losing the first two games. In 1947, so far exactly like this year's classic, the Yanks took the opening two clashes, the Dodgers rebounded to take the third and fourth, and the Yanks took the fifth. Then in Yankee stadium, the Brooks captured the sixth to even it up and the Yanks, with the peerless relief artist Joe Page winning, took the finale, 5-2.
Had a nice long chat with B. H. Born Saturday. The all-American cage center and leading Big Seven score in '52-$-53, was a bit disturbed about the recent Trail concerning our opinions on crowds at college athletic contests. In that story we advocated letting fans voice their opinions in any way and at any time they wanted, whether at a college or professional game, and we also said hard losers were the best winners.
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Well, B. H. enumerated about ten or twenty reasons why he thought we were wrong on that first score. He explained that he thought sportsmanship, both by fans and participants, was the prime goal in college athletics.
"If there's one thing I'd like to do more than anything else," the lanky 6-9 Medicine Lodge resident said. "It's to beat K-State and Oklahoma A&M on their courts. Their home crowds are about the worst I have ever seen or heard, and their attitude toward the visiting team makes us want to win all the more.
"As for what you said about the fans having a right to boo or cheer because they are putting the athletes through school on their admission fees, I know that is not completely true here at KU. Every so often I have to write home for a little cash, so if I was getting a lot of money for basketball as you made it sound, I wouldn't have to do that, would I?"
The big senior has something there. We weren't using Kansas as an example—we never mentioned KU in the story—we were thinking more of schools with highly-publicized athletic subsidization programs as Oklahoma or Kentucky. Born's statement about the money
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evidently proves that KU is not that way.
We know of several athletes on Mt. Oread who have outside jobs—not the clockwinding once a week kind, either. Many varsity performers wait tables, teach phys. ed, classes, referee IM games, and other things for cash—something that would not be necessary if monetary handouts were common.
We have seen basketball players, who have been called for something by the officials, act innocent, hurt, angry, and so forth, but seldom do more than this. However, it is not uncommon to see a coach bound up off the bench to voice his disapproval.
As for sportsmanship, we still stick by our guns, with a note to clarify our stand. In the Big Seven and other games we have witnessed the past several years, most of the poor sportsmanship has been displayed by coaches, not the players.
Here we think our own Phog Allen is a shining example of excellent conduct. Allen hops up, yes, but usually to holler a bit of advice to the player, not at the referee. We have seen him leap up at the first glimmer of a Bronx cheer from the home crowd and plea for silence. And we hear from his charges that he constantly preaches good sportsmanship.
Four Jayhawkers have broken into the scoring column in the first trio of games. Ralph Moody, Don Hess, John Anderson, and Bob Allison, all backs, have tallied a 6-pointer apiece, and John Handley, also a back, has booted four conversions in as many attempts.
Leading Big Seven scorer after last weekend's games is K-State halfback Corky Taylor, with 25 points on four touchdowns and one conversion.
Phi Delts Win In Close Game
In Fraternity "A" intramural football games Friday Delta Tau Delta, Kappa Sigma, Alpha Tau Omega, and Phi Delta Theta won to complete the first round of play in that division.
Phi Delt 2. AKL 0
Friday's tightest battle saw the Phi Delts slip by AKL 2-0. The winning margin came in the first period when George Kenny blocked an AKL punt for the safety.
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Combining a potent aerial attack with a sharp pivot defense, Delta coast 34-B triumph over Phi Tu. In the first period a Jim Devlin to Dick Erickson pass netted the first Delt score and later in that quarter Bob Henningson stole a pass and dashed 70 yards to paydirt. Another interception by Bill Cunningham yielded a tally in the second stanza and he repeated the performance in the fourth to score again. Devlin tossed to Warren Diefendorf for the final Delt touchdown.
DTD 33-Phi Kappa Tau 0
ATO 19-Delta Upsion 7
Behind a varied attack ATO handed DU at 19-7 setback. The first ATO 6-pointer resulted on a Meckenstock pass, and Bob Traison notched the second straight shutout over I S, John Brose scoring the extra point. Trombold then snared a DU misfire and went 30 yards for the final ATO tally. DU's lone tally came as Bob Alpers connected with Jack Stone-street.
ATQ 19-Delta Upsilon 7
Dick Smith's passing led Kappa Sigma to a 20-0 victory over SAE Early in the fray Gene McClain gathered in a Smith heave to hit paydirt. Kappa Sig added another two points in the second stanza when Joice Nabbed an SAE back behind his goal line. To round out the scoring Smith passed to Dick Getto for two tallies in the final quarter.
Kappa Sigma 20-SAE 0
This afternoon play begins in the Independent "A" division with Sterling-Oliver vs. Jolliffe, Stephenson v. Battenfeld, ISA vs. Oread, and NROTC vs. Twin Pines. Pearson and Don Henry drew first round byes.
The 23 points scored by the Jayhawkers Saturday was the least a KU team has scored against Iowa State since 1949 when the Cyclones triumphed. 19-6. It was also the handed DU a 19-7 setback. The the Jayhawkers winning last year, 43-0.
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Erskine, Ford Pitch in 6th
The World Series today moved into the sixth and possibly the last game at Yankee stadium, with southpaw Eddie Ford to start for the Yanks and Carl Erskine on the mound for the Dodgers.
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Last Friday, in the third contest played at Ebbets field, the Brooks bounced back from their two opening losses to squeeze past the American leaguers, 3-2, on the strength of 14 strikeouts by Carl Erskine and a ninth inning home run by Roy Campanella.
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Erskine, who was batted out in the first inning of the first game, came back in this one and was practically untouchable. He smashed the 24-year-old record of 13 whiffs, set in 1929 by Howard Ehmke of the As, and held the Yanks to six scattered hits.
In the fourth contest Saturday, the Dodgers slugged four New York hurlers for 12 base hits and a 7-3 victory to even up the series. Ford, who was to start today's game, opened on the hill for Casey Stengel in this one, but a 3-run salvo in the first KOed him. Tommy Gorman, Johnny Sain, and Art Schallock followed but the Dodgers kept pecking away to gain the decision.
Attendance at the World Series to date has been 244,981, in five games, three of which were at Ebbets field which seats only 35,000. Net receipts so far total $1,407,221.00, of which $691,341.61 goes into the players' pool.
men yesterday the Yankees roared back to batter four Brooklyn flingers for 11 runs on 11 hits, seven of them for extra bases, to go one up, 11-7.
The big blow, a grand slam 4-bagger in the third by Mickey Mantle, gave the winners an early lead, and homers by Gene Woodling, Billy Martin, and Gil McDougald iced the win. Homering for Brooklyn were Billy Cox and Junior Gilliam.
3 Schools Lose Perfect Records
It was a relatively calm weekend for Kansas high school grid teams with most of the state's top-ranked elevens winning as expected. A few upsets dotted the picture as three of the state's undefeated powers left the unbeaten and untied scene.
High-ranking Pittsburgh was one of the teams to taste defeat for the first time as the Dragoons were fitted in an interstate match, 6-0, by Springfield, Mo.
McPherson and Junction City, two of the powers in the Central Kansas league, battled to a 6-6 deadlock. The state's two top-ranked teams, Topeka and Wichita West, both had minor scares last week before pulling out one point victories. The top-ranked Trojans had to use another punt return and the educated toe of Jim Humbert to edge Wichita North, 7-6, Thursday night and second place West just egged past Hutchinson, 32-31, in a scoring marathon Friday night.
The Lawrence Lions started another winning streak Friday night as they opened defense of their NEK title. The Lions roared past Atchison, 37-0. In other NEK action, the Lions opened with a score of 0; Shawnee Mission squeezed past Argentine, 12-7 and Ottawa breezed by Highland Park, 35-20.
In the Ark Valley, Arkansas City thumped Winfield, 21-12; Wellington dropped Newton, 13-0 and East outscored ElDorado, 27-20.
It took a former high school passing combination of Dick Thomas and Joe Collier, Northwestern's aces in-the-hole, to defeat Army, 33-20, Saturday.
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