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University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, Sept. 22. 1957
Sikes Blames Loss To Inexperience
"Even though TCU has a good team, our boys pretty well defeated themselves," was the way head coach J. V. Sikes summarized KU's defeat by the Horned Frogs Saturday night.
Sikes, speaking after yesterday's practice session, said his inexperienced backfield, made up of from two to four sophomores, made too many mistakes to win. He cited inexperience as the big factor.
He ran the Jayhawkers through straight plays without pads in yesterday's practice, but indicated that they were due for a scrimmage today.
Frank Cindrich, right halfback was on the doubtful list for the UCLA game Friday night, as the result of a badly bruised right knee
Coupled with that loss, Bill Nieder, stellar sophomore center, be out for the rest of the season with two lacerated ligaments in his right knee. Nieder, who played behind Merle Hodges, is due to undergo surgery this week at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City.
Sikes said that Dick Knowles has been moved from right guard to right tackle in an effort to make the line stronger. He cited dissatisfaction as his main reason for the change.
Looking ahead to UCLA, Kansas foe Friday night in Los Angeles, Sikes was far from optimistic. After reading over a scouting report made by assistant coach Hub Ulrich, Sikes said the Pacific Coast team was as good as it had been rated by pre-season pickers, which was within the first five teams of the nation.
7 T-Teams Remain for KU
He could find no weaknesses that the UCLAns had, adding that they were strong in every position with veterans.
Kansas will face the same number of wing and T-teams it tacked last year. TCU abandoned the spread and used the sliding-T against the Jayhawkers Saturday, but Nebraska has added the single-wing to its recent use of the T. SMU has junked its numerous wing formations for the T, but the Jayhawkers pick up a new single-wing foe in UCLA, which replaced Santa Clara's T-minded Broncos on the schedule. Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kansas State are sliding-T elevens; Iowa State and Oklahoma A&M standard-T advocates.
Move to Strengthen Center
Recent switches on KU's 1953 football squad have found Don Aungst, lettered guard, and Norman Redd, sophomore guard, moving over to center. Aungst is a 6-0, 18-5-pound senior from Harrisburg, Pa.; Redd is a 6-0, 190-pound rookie from Sublette.
IM Season Set To Start Sept. 30
The fall intramural program will swing into action Wednesday, Sept. 30, with the first kickoffs in touch football.
The deadline for entries in all fall sports—football, badminton, golf, handball, tennis, and horseshoes—is 4 p.m. Monday, according to Walt Mikols, director of men's intramurals. A meeting of all intramural managers will be held then in room 202 Robinson gym.
Last year Beta Theta Pi won the Hill title in football by defeating the independent champion Jim Beam team, 13-0. In badminton, Dick Gray, Oread hall, was champion; in horseshoes, Walter Cole; handball, Bill DeVry, Sigma Alpha Epsilon; tennis, Don Franklin, Beta Theta Pi, and in golf, Bob Haynes, Sigma Alpha Epsilon.
Doubles victors in the various sports were Beta Theta Pi, badminton; Kappa Sigma, horseshoes, and Phi Kappa Psi, tennis.
Blues Advance To Playoff Finals
Deadlocked at three games apiece, the Toledo Sox and the Louisville Colonels go to battle tonight to determine who will meet Kansas City in the finals of the American Association playoffs.
The Kansas City Blues won the fourth and deciding game of their best of seven series against Indianapolis, 2-0, last night behind the five-hit pitching of southpaw Bob Weisler.
Louisville's Harry Agganat wil-
appeed an eight-inning him to give
the Colonels a 3-2 victory over the
Rams from their series at
three games each.
The Colonels were trailing, 2-1, in the eight inning when Charley Maxwell triplied as the ball bounced over the head of left fielder Luis Marquez. Bro Browne's fly ball scored Maxwell, and a moment later Agganis rapped his homer over the right field wall.
Indianapolis never threatened the Blues who scored their winning runs in the first inning on walks to Jim Brideweser and Vic Power, and a triple by Bill Skowran.
Columbia, Mo.—Passing and pass defense occupied Missouri University's Tigers in drills yesterday, as coach Don Faurot tried to improve his chances against Purdue's aerial game.
Big 7 Briefs
It was a pass in the final minutes of play Saturday that gave Maryland its second touchdown edge over the Tigers.
The coach also announced that a Kansas City boy, Tom Morrell, would be moved up to fill the halfback spot left vacant when Guy Rose broke his leg in the Maryland tilt.
Lincoln, Neb.—University of Nebraska's Huskers scrimmafug against Illinois plays yesterday in preparation for their first encounter of the season against a Big Ten team at Champaign, Ill.
Coach Bill Glassford said his boys "weren't discouraged a bit" by their 20-12 defeat last Saturday by Oregon.
Glassford said his team lost be-cause it "didn't shift defensively the way it should have."
Manhattan, Kan. — Kansas State
Wildeca, inspired by their 50-0 win
over Drake Saturday, bore down
in drills yesterday against Colorado
A. & M. T-formation plays.
Ed Pence, the starting left end, missed the session. He was nursing a broken nose suffered in the Drake game.
The Cats tackle the Aggies at Fort Collins, Colo. Saturday night.
Boulder, Colo.—(U.P.)—Colorado university football coach Dal Ward and his staff said today they were worried about possible over-confidence when their charges meet Arizona Saturday after their week-end victory over the University of Washington.
The squad, just back from the 21-20 triumph over the Huskies, worked out in light drills yesterday and heard backfield coach Frank Prentup, who scouted Arizona's loss to Utah last weekend, warn them against the big Arizona line.
The only injury of any consequence to come out of the Huskie clash was to sophomore end Dick Lusk. He received a bruised hip muscle and is a doubtful starter against the Arizona club.
Little Man With Big Name
Shortest player on KU's 1953 squad is Don Pfutzenreuter, 5-6 right half from Carlsbad. N.M. He also is the lightest at 145 pounds. Tallest and heaviest is Bud Bixler, 6-5, 232-pound junior tackle from Middletown, Penn.
Members of the Women's Athletic association who have transferred from other universities and colleges are asked to attend a meeting at 4 p.m. Thursday in Robinson gymnasium. Intramural teams and activity clubs are open to all students.
WAA Meeting Thursday
Ability to Handle Youth Labels Stengel as Great
New York—(U.P.)-Casey Stengel earned recognition as one of the great managers of all time and the first to guide a team to five straight pennants because of "an unusual ability to handle young players," according to general manager George Weiss of the Yankees.
“There is no point in discussing whether Casey is one of the great managers,” Weiss said. “His record is on the books for anybody to read. The point that is interesting is why he is one of the greats.”
"Moreover," Weiss continued, "we knew that Casey was willing to place unlimited confidence in young players and we required a manager who was skilled at working with young players. Harris was not fired because the Yankees lost the 1948 pennant. He would not have been retained even if the Yankees had won it.
"Stengel's problem throughout the succession of pennant winners was to work the young players coming up from the farm system into an aging team and at the same time to keep it to a team he managed to do it is one of the great managerial feats of baseball history."
Roll back the calendar to early 1949. Popular Bucky Harris, who led the Yankees to a pennant in 1947, had been fired at the end of the 1948 season. Then the Yankees started the baseball world with the announcement that Stengel—who never had come close to winning a pennant as a big league manager—was their new manager.
It was Weiss who suggested that Stengel be appointed the new manager but the self-effacing general manager insists on using the pronoun "we" when recalling the steps leading to Casey's appointment.
The man who was to lead the Yankees to their greatest accomplishment came to the team in a clown "-baseball's funny man."
"We completely disregarded the derogatory things that were written and said about Stengel." Weiss recalled. "We knew he was one of the finest baseball men in the country. He is 100 per cent baseball. He lives it day and night and has no outside interests.
The young players with whom Stengel worked were catcher Yogi Berra, infielders Gil McDougall, Gerry Coleman, Joe Collins and Billy Martin, outfielders Mickey Mantle, and Hank Bauer, and such pitchers as Whitey Ford and Tom Gorman.
Each proved a key man in at least one pennant victory.
Santee to Appear on TV
Wes Santee, Jayhawk distance star will be interviewed at 5 p.m. Wednesday on WDAF-TV, channel No 4, in Kansas City, Mo. Jay Barrington, sports director for the station will conduct the interview.
Sikes Ranks 28th In Won-Lost Mark
Kansas head football coach Jules V. Sikes ranks among the top 40 major college coaches with a won-lost percentage of .674. The 48-year-old mentor, ranking 28th, has won 62 contests and lost 30.
Other Big 7 coaches in the list include Oklahoma's Bud Wilkerson, 2nd, and an .873 average; Iowa State's Abe Stuber, 19th, with a .700 mark, and Missouri's Don Faurot, 26th, with a .683 average.
Hornsby May Quit Baseball
Chicago – (UF) – Rogers Hornsby, a manager who can't seem to hold a steady job, said today he might like to try a new line of work.
"I don't know much about any-
thing," he said, "but I'd
be willing to learn.
Hornsby, who has been a baseball manager more times than some players have been on third base, was asked if he had received any offers since getting fired from the Cincinnati Reds Thursday.
"Nah," he said. "Give 'em time." He laughed. "If you hear anything, let me know."
Hornsby, who has also managed the St. Louis Browns, the Chicago Cubs, the St. Louis Cards, the Boston Braves, and several minor league clubs, said money wasn't the big consideration in getting another job,
He said he'd be drawing a salary until Jan. 1 and "I guess I can eat hamburgers for awhile."
He said he just wants to "keep working." He indicated that he feels there are a few more years of work left in him.
Free Swimming Hours Set
Free swimming hours in the Robinson gym pool for both men and women were announced today by Henry Shenk, associate professor of physical education. The pool will be open from 4 to 6 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays and from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturdays for men, and from 4:15 to 5:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays and from 11 a.m. to noon Satursdays for women.
4 Married Men on Team
Kansas numbers four married men on its 1953 football squad: Jerry Taylor, Wayne Woolfolk, Bob Braden, and Dick Kramer.
GLEE CLUB
Sing with the University Men's
MONDAY - WEDNESDAY 5 p. m.
Auditions 4-6, Rm.131 Strong,Tues.,Wed.,Thurs.,Fri.
Sing with the University Women's
WOMEN
GLEE CLUB
MONDAY - WEDNESDAY 3 p. m.
Auditions 4-6, Rm.131 Strong,Tues.,Wed.,Thurs.,Fri.