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By CHUCK MORELOCK Kansan Sports Editor
Charley Hoag racing 66 yards up the middle for the clinching touchdown against Colorado . . . Gil Reich returning a Santa Clara punt for 70 yards and a TD. . . . B. H. Born firing in 44 points for a new Big Seven scoring record. . . these are some of the highlights of the 1952-53 KU athletic season that will long be remembered by Jayhawker fans.
Few Kansas teams have surprised so many fans and writers as the 1953 Jayhawker basketball squad. Stripped of all but one starter from the 1952 NCAA championship crew and slated to finish in the Big Seven's second division, the Kansans fooled everybody when they won their second straight league crown. Then they went on to win the NCAA regionals in Manhattan and mangled powerful Washington, 79-53, in a first round game in the finals tourney in Kansas City. Indiana spoiled the Kansas dream of another national title with a nerve-racking 69-68 victory in the championship game. But few KU fans were disappointed over the loss. After all, they said, who would have thought the Jayhawks would have gone this far before the season?
But there was that thrilling 21-12 victory over Colorado, the opening game shutout of TCU, and the 26-0 blanking of SMU in the Cotton Bowl to offset these blots on the record of the finest teams in Kansas history. The Jayhawkers couldn't handle quarterback Eddie Crowder and his terrific Oklahoma teammates in that crucial mid-season game in Lawrence, but they kept their seven year winning streak going against Kansas State with a 26-6 victory in Manhattan. And they handed Iowa State one of its worst defeats in postwar history with a 43-0 shelling in Ames.
It was a year that had its ups and downs, a year that saw the Jayhawkers take their lumps along with their successes. Fortunately, the ups were in the majority. There was the football squad, which didn't come through with that undefeated season as predicted by so many rabid Kansas fans, but which waded through one of the stiffest schedules in KU history to post a 7-3 record. Added to the rigorous schedule was a heavy injury toll which wrecked the Jayhawks in two of their final three contests. Crippled by the loss of key performers, the Kansas dropped three games by one lone point each, to Nebraska 13-14, and Missouri 19-20.
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B. H. Born was named the most valuable player in the NCAA tournament, played in Kansas City's Municipal Auditorium. He was the Big Seven scoring leader and was picked to the Helms Foundation all-American team. Last year he warmed the bench. . . The 5-11 Kelley brothers proved that hustle can make up for a lack of height . . . Gil Reich and Harold Patterson demonstrated that football experience is no handicap on the basketball court . . . Kansas State was beaten twice, 80-66 and 80-78, the latter victory marking the first time the Wildcats had lost on their fieldhouse floor in 27 games.
The golf team was undefeated in regular season competition; the tennis squad had a 6-3 mark. The swimming and baseball teams had losing seasons but showed promise for the future.
Wes Sante climaxed another great year with a record-shattering 4:06.3 mile in the Big Seven outdoor track meet. The Jayhawkers won that event plus the conference indoor championship in Kansas City. Drake was beaten for the 13th straight Jayhawker dual victory — four titles were won in the Texas Relays.
All in all, it was a highly successful year for Kansas. The Jayhawkers dropped a few along the way, but continued to maintain their reputation as one of the leading athletic powers in the Midwest.
Colorado Wins Gets 4th Place
Colorado led off with six straight hits and a 5-0 lead and went on to take an 11-8 victory over Iowa State in Boulder yesterday. The victory, the final Big Seven baseball contest of the season, boosted the Buffs into fourth place.
Colorado, shut out Monday by the Cyclones, sent starting Iowa State pitcher Bob Herman to the showers before a man had been retired. The big blows in that first inning explosion were doubles by football star Zack Jordan and Larry Horine and a home run by Frank Bernardi.
The loss dropped the Cyclones to fifth place in the final Big Seven standings. Oklahoma, which swept a two-game series with Missouri in Norman last week, won the conference championship by eight percentage points over Nebraska. The Sooners finished at 7-2, the Cornhuskers at 10-3. Missouri was third with 9-5. Kansas was sixth with 4-8 and Kansas State wound up in the cellar with a 2-10 record.
Five homers were hit in the game, three by Iowa State. Bob Taylor, Ken Bawek, and Dave Campbell connected for the Cyclones and Dick Corbetta added another for Colorado.
The Sooners, after a slow start, rolled to the Big Seven title in 1951 then went all the way to win the NCAA championship.
Ron Garramone, who pitched after only two days of rest, weakened in the late innings, but had enough left to go the distance. He gave up 11 hits.
Blues Keep Lead With 5-0 Shutout
Kansas City and Indianapolis remained a game apart in the torrid American Association pennant race today as both clubs scored shutout victories in a couple of tough ball games.
The league-leading Blues beat off challenging St. Paul, 5-0, in last night's game to hand on to their one-game margin. Kermit Wahl homered for Kansas City in the fourth to start balls rolling. Bob Cerv connected for a two-run homeer in the eighth to account for the bulk of the scoring.
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Rookie southpaw Dick Tomanek kept Indianapolis in the running with a brilliant 1-0 six-hitter over Columbus. The Indians scored their seventh in an unearned run in seventh with two hits and a Red Bird error.
Charleston switched places with Toledo for fifth place with a 5-2 win over the Sox. A three-run rally in the eighth proved the margin, in spite of a four-bagger by Toledo's Sam Jethroe in the top half of the same inning which temporarily tied the game at two-all.
Minneapolis continued its campaign to embarrass the first-division teams by defeating Louisville, 8-5, despite three home runs by the losers.
Charles Gets KO Marciano Scouts
Milwaukee —(U)(P)— Ezzard Charles, former heavyweight champion, said today that his easy knockout victory over Larry Watson was "just further proof" that he was entitled to another shot at the heavyweight title.
Rocky Marciano, the current heavyweight champ, was at ring-side for a little personal scouting. He never had seen Charles fight before and said he was "impressed" by Charles style.
Charles dropped Watson to the canvas six times before the Omaha, Neb. light-heavyweight went down for the final time in the fifth round of their scheduled 10-round bout at the Milwaukee arena last night.
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Oklahoma exploded for six runs in the top half of the third inning to whip Houston, 7-4, in the first of a best two-of-three series for the Region 5 NCAA baseball championship in Houston yesterday.
The Sooners collected five of their eight hits in the third. OU shoved across a single run in the sixth.
The Cougars went ahead with two runs in the first to jump off to a 2-0 lead before the Sooners came through with their third inning spree. Houston added two more runs in the third but were held scoreless after that.
Mac Sanders, a sophomore left-hander from Wichita, was the starting and winning pitcher. He held the Cougars to seven hits. Oklahoma made four errors, Houston three.
Houston used two pitchers. The teams will meet again today. OU won the NCAA championship in 1951 and Missouri, last year's Big Seven champion, went all the way to the finals before losing to Holy Cross in the championship game. Oklahoma whipped Kansas twice this season, winning 19-1 and 4-2 in Norman.
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