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By ED HOWARD
Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
A score of 19-7 usually doesn't sound too good, but for an inexperienced team like Kansas to do that well against a national powerhouse like UCLA is a sign that the Kansas season will not be too bleak this year.
Both UCLA and future Jayhawker opponents got an early sign that Kansas will be mighty tough to beat this year. After being beaten by TCU, coach J. V. Sikes' men were apparently expected to lie down and play dead before the bruising Bruins.
But instead, the Jayhawkers nearly fought the Bruins off their feet. One of the main reasons for the loss was two blocked punts, both of which led to Bruin scores. Even after finding themselves that far back, the Kansans didn't quit, and came within 10 yards of a score in the fourth quarter before running completely out of steam.
Immediately after the TCU game things looked very bleak for the Jayhawkers chances in their remaining games, but after the Friday night game, the future looks much better. Of course, there is still the big problem of coping with mistakes made by the sophomores, but they are mistakes a fighting team can overcome.
Blocked punts are mistakes, mistakes caused by missed blocking assignments. And as seen in Friday night's game, they are serious mistakes. However, a team showing as much fight and drive as Kansas did can overcome those mistakes.
Coach Sikes will be the first to volunteer information that his team still made many mistakes, but the miscues were not as numerous as those made against TCU.
Sikes, more than pleased by his teams' showing against the westerners, was close to tears in the dressing room after the game. He had seen his inspired but green team go out to try to win against overwhelming odds. He had seen them fight, push, and batter their way through, over, and around one of the top teams of the nation, and then he had seen them lose by a couple of bad breaks.
He was clearly proud of the way they played. "Boys, I just don't know how to tell you how proud I am," he said. "I'm glad to be able to say I'm your coach."
"You played hard enough to win and you deserved to. We had some tough luck but we're coming. Now let's go on from here. We're not gonna lose any more," he said.
Just after Sikes left, co-captain Bob Hantla got up. "We got worn down tonight, men, and those blocked punts hurt," he shouted. "But the clubs we'll meet from now on don't have the horses this team did and we're going to get better and meaner. Let's get 'em all, just like Coach says," he finished, and the rest of the team agreed whole-heartedly.
Both teams were giving credit to each other. The Jayhawkers, while agreeing that all-American tailback Paul Cameron was good, were not in accord with UCLAn coach Red Sanders when he said Cameron was the "best left halfback in the United States."
Sanders gave Kansas credit for the best T-formation team he had seen since his Bruins were beat 35-0 in 1950 by California. He was especially high on the play of tackles Bud Bixler and Joe Lundy.
"They were terrific; great all-around players," he said. He gave reserve power as the chief reason for his club's victory. The Bruins numbered three deep at every position.
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If the representatives decide this, the Big Seven champion this year would meet either Maryland, Duke, North Carolina, North Carolina State, South Carolina, Wake Forest, or Clemson.
Reaves Peters, executive secretary of the conference, hinted that the main discussion point would be the always-present bowl games. Rumors have been making the round off in favor of presenting no-bowl stand and will try an experimental Orange Box bitch with the Atlantic Coast conference.
Big 7 Conference To Start Today
Also believed to be on the docket for the meeting are discussions on the "recruiting activities" of ex-Kansas State basketball coach Jack Gardner, and both live and filmed television broadcasts of conference zames.
Other questions that might come up are: shall track man who are ineligible at their school be allowed to compete in AAU or other meets, while they are not ineligible; should the freshman telegraphic track be made into regular duals; should the total number of basketball games be increased from 21 to 24, and should league basketball contests be played prior to the present Dec. 5 date?
Chairman of the group at this session is R. I. Throckmorton, Kansas State. T. DeWitt Carr, dean of the school of engineering at KU, is representing the University.
Leake Does Good For Oklahoma Team
Oklahoma's coach Bud Wilkinson has come up with another top-flight quarterback from all appearances. In the Oklahoma-Notre Dame contest Saturday Buddy Leake did an excellent job of keeping the versatile Irish on their toes.
Leake inherited the job this year because of the graduation of all-American quarterback Eddie Crowder. Leake, a mere halfback on last year's teams is filling the Crowder shoes with ease, and it looks like they are going to fit.
Monday, Sept. 28, 1953
University Daily Kansan
Top 3 Prep Teams in State Upset in Weekend Action
Upsets dominated last weekend's high school football picture with the state's top three teams dumped from their lofty perches.
The biggest surprise was 'Topeka' 8-7 win over awereason that blew the Lions' 11-game winning streak. It was also the first Topeka victory over a defending A. 58-yard punt return and a perfect placement spelled the difference in the defensive battle played before 6,000 fans in Haskell stadium.
Looping the state's major leagues for other week-end action, we find that in the Northeast Kansas league, Ottawa won its second straight, defeating Argentine, 14-6. Leavenworth ruined Highland Park's entry into the conference with a 19-12 triumph.
In the Southeast Kansas League, Coffeyville, after losing its opener to Ark City, beat Columbus, 29-7. Independence dropped Ft. Scott, 26-6 and Parsons rapped Iola, 31-0.
Lawrence had been ranked as the best in the state in last week's first A.P. poll with the Trojans holding down a tie for tenth position.
Second-ranked Dodge City, sporting the longest winning streak in the state—20 games fell before the lightly regarded St. Joseph's Cadets of Hays, 12-6, in another stunning surprise.
In the Ark Valley league Winfield beat Hutchinson 13-6 in the only game not having a bearing on the top ten teams.
The rest of the top ten drew somewhat better than their ranked superiors. No. 4 Wichita West dumped Newton, 21-0. No. 5 Wichita St. Marys defeated crosstown rivals. Wichita hatted six opponents, 6 each. Wichita shiled and No. 8 Wyandotte struggled to a 0-0 deadlock in their annual battle.
No. 7 Pittsburgh defeated Chanute, 13-0. No. 9 Arkansas City disposed of the ball, 12-3. Hays, ranked with Topeka in tenth place, was tied by Great Bend, 0-0.
Salina, third ranked after its opening win over Wichita East, came out of the paint in a narrow 5-4. Pherson. The Bullpupts grabbed a 14-13 victory on Salina's home field.
The Central Kansas league saw Junction City ramble past Emporia 20-7 and Marysville rip Manhattan. 32-0 in another surprise. Clay Center routed Ablene, 33-0 and Chapman
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The big games this week stack up as Shawnee Mission at Argentine and Lawrence at Atchison in the Northeast; Pittsburg at Springfield, Mo. in the Southeast; Junction City at McPherson in Central Kansas, and Topeka at Wichita North in the South.
Dodge City meets Hays at Dodge City in what could be the game of the year in the Southwest. In the Northwest, Hoxie travels to St. Francis in a game that might decide the title in the Northwest Kansas league.
The headliner in the North Central Kansas league sends unbeaten Marysville to Concordia. In the Ark Valley, two-time winner Ark City goes against Winfield and Wichita West, also undefeated, plays Hutchinson.
Record Set Against Kansas
The individual single game rushing record at Kansas State college, 96 yards, is held by Gerald Hackney, and was set in the Kansas game in 1948. Second in that department is Ted Maupin with 85 yards. That record was also set against Kansas, in 1951.
Ravens Beat Quincy On Atchison Gridiron
Atchison—(U.P.) St. Benedicts college defeated Quincy college, Quincy, Ill., 20-6 Friday on the Ravens Atchison gridiron.
It was the third straight win for St. Benedicts over their Illinois opponents.
The game was tied 6-6 at the half, but the Ravens added a pair of touchdowns and a safety in the last half for their victory margin.
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