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University Daily Kansan
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Jayhawk Bobbles Cost As Alert Frogs Win
A number of costly fumbles and inability to produce a scoring punch when the chips were down cost the Kansas Jayhawkers a win in their opening game of the season Saturday night as the Texas Christian Horned Frogs defeated them 13-0.
Ixexperience was very much in evidence as the Jayhawkers outplayed the Frogs statistically, but failed to push over a single counter.
Jayhawker grid hopes for the remainder of the season received a severe blow in the second half when sophomore center Bill Nieder suffered an injury to his right knee which will bench him for the remainder of the season. According to Dr. Alex team, team physician. Nieder suffered a fractured ligament and torn cartilages. He is at the KU Medical center in Kansas City, and will be operated on sometime early this week.
Also injured in the second half was halfback Frank Cindrich. He received a strained knee and will be out of action from two or three days to a week. This may keep him on the bench for Friday night's game with UCLA.
The early part of the game was all Kansas as coach J. V. Sike's gridders pushed within the TCU 10-yard line on three occasions, and kept the ball in Horned Frog territory for all except the final three minutes of the first half.
The Jayhawkers took the opening kickoff and starting right halfback Ralph Moody punted to the TCU 43 when they failed to make a first down. On the second play from scrimmage left half Don Hess moved over the left side of the line to the Horned Frog 19. In the next seven plays the Kansans moved to the TCU 3, but the Christians took over on downs when Hess was stopped one foot short of a tally.
Game Statistics
TCU punted out to the 40-yard stripe, and on the next series of downs Kansas moved the ball to the TCU 23 where they lost possession on a fumble by quarterback Paul Smith. One the next play Don Bracelin pounced on a Frog bobble, and the Jayhawkers again moved in to the 10-yard line where the Frogs took over on downs on the four.
TCU KU
First downs 7 10
Rushing yardage 149 167
Passing yardage 0 27
Passes attempted 4 8
Passes completed 0 2
Passes intercepted 3 0
Punts 6 5
Punting average 48.3 36.3
Fumbles lost 5 4
Penalties 6 3
Yards penalized 37 35
Early in the second quarter Kansas again knocked on the touchdown door when the Jayhawkers took the ball on their own 47, rolled to the TCU 10 on runs by Hess and fullback Frank Sabitini, and a pass from Smith to end Harold Patterson, only to lose possession when Smith fumbled on the nine-yard line.
After a punt exchange early in the second quarter and a fumble by Smith giving TCU the ball on their own 47, the Horned Frogs scored their first touchdown of the game when halfback Danny Halmark
OUT WITH AN INJURY—Big Bill Nieder, sophomore center prospect who was slated for a lot of action this season, is lost to the Jaya-hawkers for the remainder of the season because of a knee injury suffered in the TCU game Saturday night. Nieder, who suffered two lacerated ligaments and torn cartlages in his right knee, will be operated on sometime early this week at the KU Medical center in Kansas City.
went off tackle and rambled 33 yards to paydirt. Quarterback Ray McKown converted to make the score 7-0.
The longest run of the game came on the next play when Hess took the TCU kickoff behind his own goal line and sprinted 64 yards down the sideline to the Frog 43. A penalty moved the ball to the 38, and then McKown intercepted a pass thrown by Bob Allison to end the Jayhawk scoring chances in the first half.
The Jayhawkers received the kickoff beginning the second half, and in the ensuing punt exchange, TCU's McKown booted the ball out on the Jayhawk three-yard line. Kansas ran four plays up to the 20, and then Hallmark intercepted a pass thrown by KU quarterback John McFarland on the 35-yard line. The Ravens over played later McKown were over making the score 13-0. The conversion failed.
Neither team made a serious scoring threat in the remainder of the game as the final score remained the same, 13-0.
Injured Brooks To Start Series
New York—(U.P.)—Outfielder Carr Furillo and first-baseman Gil Hodges, key sluggers in Brooklyn's modern version of "Murders' Row," were declared "definitely fit" today to be in the starting lineup when the Dodgers meet the New York Yankees in the first game of the World Series.
Manager Charles Dressen, still chipper after scouting the four-time world champion Yankees, announced that Furillo would return to action when the Dodgers meet the Philadelphia Phillies in their final series of the season beginning next Friday.
And Hodges himself laughed off speculation that he might miss the big series when he insisted he "could play to today if necessary."
Iurillo suffered a broken metacarpal bone in his left hand during his celebrated "no-punch" fight with Leo Durocher of the New York Giants two weeks ago while Hodges played through an abrasion crashed into the right field wall at County stadium, Milwaukee, a week ago.
Furillo has blasted out 21 homers and knocked in 93 runs while Hodges has knocked 31 homers and driven in 120 runs during the regular season. Both are eager to atone for poor showings in last year's series with the Yankees.
"It can take time to get back in stride after a layoff," said Furillo, who leads the National league with a .344 batting average. "I'm pretty sure I'll be able to play but I don't know how well."
Manager Casey Stengel of the Yankees, meanwhile, indicated that his champions' post-clinching rest period was ended with an announcement that the regulars would take over for the upper-berth kids beginning with yesterday's opener in Boston with the Red Sox.
With the two flag winners preoccupied with preparing for the Series, the main interest for the moment centered around the Milwaukee Braves' attempt to establish a new National League attendance record.
Major League Standings
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Player, Club AB. R. H. Pct.
Rosen, Clev. 568 103 18.31
Vernon, Wash. 583 98 196 .336
Minoso, Chi. 526 100 164 .312
Goodman, Bos. 497 72 155 .312
Busby, Wash. 562 65 173 .308
Woodling, NY 393 64 121 .308
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Furillo, Bkn. 479 82 165 .344
Irvin, NY 424 70 145 .342
Mueller, NY 447 152 150 .336
Robinson, Bkn. 471 107 158 .335
Snider, Bkn. 569 128 190 .334
Home Runs: Mathews, Braves 46; Campanella, Dodgers 41; Kluszewski, Redlegs 40; Rosen, Indians 40.
Runs; Snider, Dodgers 128; Gilliam, Dodgers 121; Dark, Giants Musial, Cards 117; Robinson, Dodgers 107.
Runs batted in: Campanella
Dodgers 142; Rosen, Indians, 136
Mathews, Braves, 131.
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In six grid contests over the weekend in which Big Seven elevens were involved, three victories went to conference schools and three went to outsiders. Oklahoma, which hosted Tuesday against Notre Dame at Norman, was idle.
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The Colorado Buffalos pulled the upset of the week by knocking off highly touted Washington, 21-20, in a battle of extra points at Seattle. The Buff's sophomore fullback, Homer Jenkins, although he didn't score, ran, passed, and quick-kicked the favored Huskies into submission.
Big 7 Grid Teams Break Even In Intersectional Contests
Underdog Oregon rolled into Lincoln and took advantage of a brace of bad passes by the Cornhusker center, and whipped Nebraska 20-12. The new Cornhusker single wing formation worked well enough to have won the ball game, but on two attempted punts, high centers stopped the kick and set up 6-pointers for the Ducks.
At Manhattan, the usually lowly K-State Wildcats set a score of records in downing a not-too-potent Drake squad 50-0, for their greatest point total since the 1949 50-0 rout of Fort Hays. Six 'Cats broke into the T.D. column, with Corky Taylor and Vervil Switzer getting two apiece.
The Iowa State Cyclones, using their superior numbers and heavier
power, scored twice in each of the first two periods and added another in the third, to whitewash the University of South Dakota 35-0 at Ames. Cyclone quarterback Bill Planton, who played almost the entire game, booted five conversions in that many attempts, and passed for one touchdown.
At Columbia, Mo., the MU Tigers lost their fourth straight game to the Maryland Terrapins. The visitors only led 7-6 at the half, but closed at 20-6, a score that was close to what was predicted.
And then, of course, Texas Christian university downed Kansas, 13-0. at Fort Worth Saturday night.
KU will be the first Big Seven outfit to play this weekend in a 7-game slate of non-conference outings. Friday night the Jayhawkers journey to Los Angeles to take on UCLA, which dumped Oregon State 41-0, last Friday night.
Nebraska will be at Illinois; Arizona will invade the mountain land to take on Colorado's Buffalo; Missouri will play host to the Purdue Boilermakers; Notre Dame invades Bud Wilkinson's lair at OK; Kansas State will be at Colorado A&M, and Iowa State plays at Northwestern.
Field House Ready in '54
Bixler Gets All-Star Rating
At least a ball of the 1954-55 slate of basketball games at KU will be played in the new fieldhouse, Charles Bennett, Topeka contractor for the building, told the Board of Regents Friday.
Bud "House" Bixler, Kansas' titanic tackle, already has been awarded one pre-season all-American accolade. He is on the honorable mention list of the all-American Academic squad (combining both grades and playing ability) annually compiled by SMU Publicist Lester Jordan. Bixler is a pre-med student with a B average.
The fieldhouse, which is to seat 16,000, should be ready for use by Dec. 1, 1954, Mr. Bennett said.
The $2½ million structure will undergo construction immediately, Mr. Bennett assured the regents. He said he has been told by steel mills that they would commence delivery of structural supplies by Oct. 1.
Santee Story In Post
A story on Wes Santee, "Sure, I Can Run the 4-Minute Mile," is in the Sept. 26 issue of The Saturday Evening Post magazine, which will go on sale this Wednesday. The author is Bob Hurt, a member of the Topeka Capital sports staff.
Two towering Kansas junior tackles, Bud Bixler and Dean Ragon, already have acquired nicknames for the season. The 6 foot, 5 inch, 232-pound Bixler has been labelled "House"; Ragon, a 228-pounder, has drawn "Big 'Un'."
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