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University Daily Kansan Monday, March 23, 1953
Spring Football Drills To Kick-off April 13
Kansas football coach J. V. Sikes will send his 1953 gridiron crew through opening spring drills April 13.
The Jayhawkers will close their 20-working-day period with their annual spring game May 16 in Memorial stadium.
"With the elimination of platoon football, it's going to be just like starting from scratch," Sikes commented. "There's not a single player who has earned a position yet. As far as our staff is concerned it's just like all of them are sophomores. They've got to show us they can play both ways this spring."
The Kansas head man listed two problems as the main worry for next fall. One is teaching his linemen to play both offense and defense. The other is filling all four spots in the starting backfield, with quarterback carrying top priority.
Sikes expects 26 lettermen to report for duty. By positions these include:
Ends; Paul Leoni, co-captain Morris Kay, and Don Taylor, Harold Patterson, and Don Bracelin.
Tackles: Bud Bixler, Joe Lundy,
Dean Ragon, Orville Poppe, Bill
Marshall, Don Mudloff, and Gene
Vignatelli.
Guards; Joe Fink, Dick Knowles,
Wayne Woolfoll, Don Aungst,
cocaptain Bob Hantla, George Helm-
stadter, and Hugh Armstrong.
Center: Warren Woody
Quarterback; none
Halfbacks: John Konek, Don Hess,
Frank Cindrich, and John Simmons.
Fullbacks: Frank Sabatini and John Anderson.
10-Meet Season For Track Team
The Kansas outdoor track team opens a 10-meet season this week in the 26th Texas Relays in Austin.
The Jayhawkers, defending Big Seven conference outdoor champs, will go against the top track clubs of the Midwest and West Friday and Saturday. Coach Bill Euston's crew met with the players and Drake Relays as well as three dual meets and the conference meet in Ames.
Dual foes include the usual lineup of Kansas State, Nebraska, and Missouri.
Fifteen point winners from last year's conference meet are returning to pace a squad of 50.
The schedule:
March 27-28: Texas Relays in Austin.
April 11. Nebraska in Lincoln.
 April 18. Kansas Relays.
April 24-25: Drake Relays in Des Moines.
May 2: Kansas State in Lawrence.
May 16: Missouri in Lawrence.
May 23-24: Big Seven outdoor in
June 6: Centrrel Collegiate con-ference in "Bulwarke"
June 19-20: NCAA in Lincoln.
June 26-27: NAAU in Dayton.
Bv UNITED PRESS
Poor Showing of 'Big Three' Worries N.Y. Yankee Manager
It still may be a bit too early for outright alarm, but manager Casey Stengel of the Yankees couldn't be blamed today for showing concern over the poor spring showing of his "big three" pitchers.
With a month of spring training behind them, Allie Reynolds, Vic Raschi, and Ed Lopat have shown little or nothing. It might be easy to explain their lack of progress by the fact that they are veterans and round into shape slowly.
Yet there are signs which make Stengel wonder if his three aces aren't beginning to show the wear and tear of four straight world-championship seasons. Roschi has been belted hard, Reynolds complains of a sore back, and Lopat has not pitched a single exhibition inning thus far.
Raschi was anything but impressive yesterday as he was thumped for nine runs in five innings while the Yankees staggered to a 13-11 victory over the Cincinnati Reds.
Max Surkont pitched one-hit, shutout ball for five innings as the Braves handed the St. Louis Cardinals their sixth straight defeat, 5-1. Johnny Antonelli yielded four hits while pitching the last four innings and Ed Mathews hit a homer for the Eraves. The Cards now have won only three out of 15 exhibition games.
Larry Jansen, a big question mark this season because of an aling back
3 Teams Entered In IM Swim Meet
Three teams have entered the men's intramural swimming meet thus far. They are Phi Gamma Delta, defending champions, Phi Kappa Psi, and Sigma Chi. Preliminaries will be at 2 p.m. Saturday and the finals will be run off at 7:15 p.m. next Monday.
All entries are due at 4 p.m. Thursday. Entries must be submitted to Walt Mikols, director of intramural athletics, in the intramural office.
The pool will be open for practice every evening this week except Thursday from 7 to 10 p.m. for 45-minute practice sessions.
--last year, held the Oakland Oaks of the Pacific Coast league to one hit in five innings. The Giants lost, 1-0, but Jansen's replaced shutout performance gave manager Leo Durocher hopes that the veteran right-hander has warded off the back miseries and is set for another 20-game season.
KU Ranked 3rd In AP Poll; Indiana First
Dean Kelley On All-Stars
An all-star clash between stars of the midget leagues in Kansas City, Kan., and Kansas City, Mo., will precede the big game. Clarence "Bevo" Francis, freshman scoring ace from Rio Grande, Ohio, will give a shooting exhibition at halftime of the East-West game.
Members of the West team, to be coached by Jack Gardner of Kansas State, are: Kelley; Dick Knostman and Bob Rousey, Kansas State; Tom Lillis, St. Louis; Ken Flower, Southern California; Delmar Dierksia, Iowa State; Harold Rogers, Oklahoma A&M; Johnny Swaim, Texas Christian; Andy Likens, Oklahoma City, and Harold Christensen, Brigham Young.
Kelley will team with all-stars from 15 states to give one of the top basketball attractions of the season. Net proceeds of the game will go to the Shrine hospitals for crippled children.
Kansas' Dean Kelley has been named to the West squad that will play in the second annual Ararat Shrine East-West basketball game Saturday night in Kansas City's Municipal auditorium.
The Kansas Jayhawkers, Big Seven conference champions and second-place finishers in the NCAA, were named to the No. 3 spot in the final Associated Press basketball rankings announced Saturday.
Kansas trailed the Indiana Hoosiers, NCAA champs, and Seton Hall, winner of the National Invitational tournament.
On the East team, to be coached by Illinois' Harry Combes, will be: Frank Ileh, De Paul; Leroy Ott, Bradley; Jim Kielly, Holy Cross; Allen Schutts, Springfield (Mass.); Paul Brandt, Columbia; Jim Bredar, Illinois; Irv Bemoras, Illinois; Pete Silas, Georgia Tech; Hank Bertekkamp, Tennessee, and Zippy Morocco, Georgia.
Coach "Phog" Allen's Kansans finished the season with a 19-6 record, but came through the latter part of the season to tromp several national powers and lost to Indiana by one point, 69-63, in the NCAA final.
Indiana earned 128 of the 139 first place votes cast by the nation's sports writers to seven for Seton Hall and four for sixth place La Salle. The Hoosiers had 1,476 points to 1,357 for Seton Hall, and 1,212 for Kansas.
Indiana's record for the year was 23-3. Seton Hall, which seldom ventured outside of its eastern domain, finished with 31-2.
Another Big Seven team, Kansas State, finished 12th for its lowest ranking of the year. The Wildcats led the nation for three weeks after La Salle had led the first two weeks.
One Opinion
The top 20 AP teams with points on a 10-9,8, etc., basis, (first place votes and season records including tournament games, in parentheses):
1. Indiana (128) (23-3) 1,476
2. Seton Hall (7) (31-2) 1,357
3. Washington (14) (19-4) 1,424
4. Washington (29-3) 1,041
5. Louisiana St. (29-3) 1,632
6. La Salle (5) (25-3) 484
7. St. John's (Brooklyn) (17-6) 449
8. Indiana A. & M. (31-2) 371
9. Dukes (21-8) 235
10. Notre Dame (19-5) 196
11. Illinois (18-4) 191
12. Kansas State (17-4) 168
13. Flys Cross (19-4) 165
14. Seattle (29-4) 119
15. Wake Forest (22-7) 80
16. Santa Clara (20-7) 64
17. Western Ky. (25-6) 64
18. Car State (25-6) 55
19. DePaul (19-9) 52
20. Southwest Missouri (24-4) 52
Volleyball IM Schedules
MONDAY
Robinson Annex Independent "A"
4:45 Set Ups-Club 316 (E)
Fraternity "B"
Last Chance-AFROTC (W)
4:45 SAE-Beta (W)
6:45 Phi Psi-ATO (E)
6:45 Phi Psi-ATO (E)
6:45 Phi Psi-ATO (E)
Fraternity "B"
6:45 Phi Delt-Sigma Nu (W)
7:30 Phi Gam-Kappa Sig (E)
**Robinson Gym**
Fraternity "C"
8:15 Belt II-Sigma Chi III (E)
9:00 Beta II-Phi Si II (E)
9:00 Sigma Chi Delt III (W)
**TUESDAY**
Robinson Annex
4:00 DU-Theta Chi (E) Independent "B"
4:45 AFROTC I-Jolliffe (W)
Fraternity "C"
9:00 Delt I-Beta III (E)
9:00 DU I-Delta Chi (W)
4:00 Sigma Chi III-DU II (E)
9:00 DU I-Delta Chi (W)
WEDNESDAY
Robinson Annex Fraternity "C"
WEDNESDAY
Delt I (E) Delt I (E) Delt I (E) V (E)
8:5h Phi
9:0h Delt L-Beta III (E)
9:00 Delt L-Beta III (F)
4:00 Phi Delt I-Phi Psi II (W)
4:45 Phi Delt I-Beta II (W)
4:45 Pmt Delt II-Beta II (W)
4:45 ATO III-Pht Delt V (F)
4:45 ATO III-Phi Delt V (E)
PhO PIH DIH
Shawnee-Mission Takes State Title
6:45 Delt III-Phi Psi II (W)
The Shawnee - Mission Indians, thwarted by a last second goal last year, left no doubt as to their superiority in Kansas high school basketball circles this season with a 49-40 victory over Wyandotte in Class AA state finals Saturday.
Russell pulled a mild upset in Class A, handing Kingman its first loss of the season, 54-49. The Sedgwick Cardinals won their first Class B title, beating defending champion Halstead, 45-44.
By STAN HAMILTON Kansan Sports Writer
Is Indiana really the basketball champion of the country? Was the Hoosiers' one-point triumph over the Jayhawkers conclusive proof of their superiority?
proof of their superiority.
Indiana has a really great team, but so does Kansas. But a one game "sudden death" playoff for such a rich prize as the national championship is inconclusive and inadequate.
As assistant coach Dick Harp commented after the Jayhawkers' 68-69 loss to the Hoosiers, "It is unfortunate we can't play Indiana in a summer series, as we did last year with the Peoria Caterpillars. I just wish we could play them tomorrow."
Many things can happen in a single-game playoff. A top-notch team can have one of those night-marish nights and be way off form, thus letting a team of poorer caliber walk off with the title, or a team might be unaccustomed to the type of refereeing they run into in the big game.
football, where the very nature of the game prohibits too many games in a short period, is the championship won in a single contest.
Why can't the NCAA do as the professionals do? The pro basketball title is decided in a best of five series. To win the baseball World Series a team must take four games. Ice hockey titles are decided in seven games. Only in
Couldn't the NCAA have a best two out of three for the crown, with possibly different referees for each of the games? The games could be played, say, on Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday nights. This arrangement would not make the contestants lose any more school or go through any unusual strain. The Washington Huskies, third place winners, for example, arrived in Kansas City Monday and did not get back to Seattle until late Thursday, so it seems an extra day of play would not impose too great a hardship on study time.
As for the three games in four nights, remember that KU played two games in two nights three times this year—SMU at Lawrence, the Manhattan regionals, and at the Kansas City playoffs, and in the pre-season tourney at Kansas City three games were played in four nights. Also the week-long NAIA tournament can be cited.
So why doesn't the NCAA get smart and give the fan series in basketball as they and the players deserve?
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