By STAN HAMILTON Kansan Sports Writer
What does it take to produce a winning team in a given sport? Is it ability, determination, good sportsmanship, desire, coaching, teamwork, guts, rough play, being bad losers, or what?
Most high school and college coaches today make a special effort to drill sportsmanship into their players, with the idea that even if they don't win many games they will be looked upon as excellent sports.
Now this may be all right in high schools where football is played for the fun of playing, but in colleges, with MOST athletes getting through school on their athletic ability only, this is pure hogwash.
The only difference today between big college athletics and professional sports is that the college athlete must at least attend so many classes per week and must meet certain grade requirements. So why all the fuss and cry for good sportsmanship on the field for the glory of the old alma mater?
Here let us say we are not advocating dirty or unnecessary rough play. But why should players go out of their way to be nice to opponents? One seldom sees a runner heading the ball in the end zone of a team who doesn't do his best to knock the shortstop into left field—just good hard play, and playing to WIN.
The late Knute Rockne, acknowledged as a true grid master in his many winning seasons at Notre Dame, once said, "Give me 11 hard losers and I'll give you a winning team."
And don't forget Leo Durocher's classic, "Nice guys don't win pennants."
In this vein, we have read and heard of various campaigns in recent years to promote better sportsmanship among college fans. Now, we are not advocating complete bad manners among home fans, it seems that rabidly partisan home crowd will help the home team in many ways.
There seems, to us, to be nothing wrong with a bit of booing or showing of displeasure at athletic contests. It's bad sportsmanship, you say, but go to any professional baseball game and you will observe few fans who stay silent and restrained more than an inning or two.
The players and the umpires are baggers, fans, so why not hold them down as the plaques.
Which brings up another point—with college athletics so highly commercialized today, why shouldn't the college student or any other rooter who pays to see the game, and who, in effect, is helping the gladiators get through school, have a right to voice his feelings at such a contest? Let the money-provided do as he pleases, long as this does not cause bodily injury to the contestants or tear up the seats. College heads over the nation continue to plea for excellent sportsmanship from their home fans, so the college will be held in high esteem for its non-partisanship and its good sportsmanship. Yet these same educators, claiming all the while that their "institutions of higher learning" are lily-white, turn their backs on athletic subsidization and handouts.
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Athletic scholarships are perfectly O.K. with us—after all who isn't proud of the fact that our Jayhawkers won the NCAA title in 1952 and were the runnersup last year? Who wouldn't puff up his chest if the Red and Blue played in the Rose Bowl?
All fine and dandy, but someone is helping those men get through school so they may push the name of the University of Kansas far and wide. And why shouldn't that person be for a glimpse at the team, have the right guaranteed in the Bill of Rights—freedom of speech?
No one is injured if a chorus of Bronx cheers falls upon his ears, just as he is not bothered by a wild ovation if he kicks a 35-yard field goal. If we, as colleges, are going to be at least semi-professional in one respect, let's go all the way and let the fan have his way, rather than forcing him to do his griping in the barbershop or fraternity house the day after the game.
Red Peppers to Attend Rally
Red Peppers are required to attend the pep rally to be held at 9 p.m. tomorrow in front of the Student Union, is was decided at the group's meeting Tuesday. Election of officers will be discussed at the next meeting, 5 p.m. Monday in the Jayhawk room of the Union.
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The Kansas City Blues had a onegame lead going into the second round of the final playoff series in the American Association today by whipping the Toledo Sox, 5-2 at Toledo.
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A crowd of 6,700 fans watched the speedy Luis Marquez score Toledo's first run. After slamming a fleet-footed Puerto Rican stole, home.
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The Blues collected 10 hits off Toledo hurlers George Estock and Glenn Thompson, who relieved in the fourth, while Coleman allowed the Sox only four safeties.
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It would be rather disheartening to break a world's record and come in second, but this happened to Wes McGraw as he headed to summer during his European tour.
Santee ran a scorching 1:48.9 in the half, eclipsing the old mark of 1:49.2 by three-tenths of a second, but it so happened he was running against Mal Whitfield, to whom world track records are old stuff. Whitfield nosed Santee out with a 1:48.6. And someone had the nerve to say Santee was burned out because he got beat.
Santee marked up a record of his own, however, when he paced the 1.500 meter in 3:44.2 in Goteborg, Sweden, for a new American record. Overall, the slender Ashland senior marked up 19 victories in 25 starts, running against some of the best in the world, which would be good in anybody's book.
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Oklahoma will spot Notre Dame an over-all team playing weight advantage of 9 pounds when the two teams play Saturday at Norman. The Sooner line averages 193 and its backfield averages 179 as against the Fighting Irish' average of 206 and 182.
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Kansas Leads Big 7 to Action
Kansas Leads Big 7 to Action Kansas leads Big Seven teams into action this week when it meets UCLA Friday night in Los Angeles. Action Saturday pits Notre Dame at Oklahoma, Nebraska at Illinois, Purdue at Columbia, Iowa State at Northwestern, Arizona at Colorado, and Kansas State at Colorado A&M.
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