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Mrkonic, Spencer Get All-Star Slots
Two more Kansas football players have been selected to play in post-season games. Oliver Spencer and George Mrkonic have been picked on the west squad for the east-west Shrine game in San Francisco Dec. 27. Spencer has also been selected to play on the north team in the Senior bowl game Jan. 3.
Spencer, co-captain for the Jayhawkers for the 1952 season, has been named to the all-Big Seven team the past two seasons. In 1951 he was selected on the Associated Press all-American second team and was picked on the NEA first string all-American team for 1952.
Spencer, 6 feet 2 inches (tall, and weighing 224 pounds, saw little action in his sophomore year in 1950 but developed rapidly last season to gain all-conference and all-American recognition.
Mkronic has been a first string tackle for three years, playing both offensive and defense. In 1951 he was named to the International News Service offensive all-American squad. He was all-conference in 1952.
Western players will be flown to San Francisco, and will practice at Stanford University. The eastern squad will drill at Santa Clara.
Spencer will fly to Mobile, Ala.,
for the Senior Bowl, after the game.
The contest, started two years ago,
matches seniors from the north and
south. Members of the winning team
will receive $500 and the losing
team members $400.
Spencer and Mrkonic have played
GEORGE MRKONIC Kansas Tackle
key roles in helping the Jayhawks post a 15-5 record for the 1951 and 1952 seasons.
Spencer provided great blocking power in the 1951 offensive line which saw Kansas run up one of its highest scoring seasons in KU football history. In 1952, he and guard George Helmstadter were the only returning men from the offensive line and the Jayhawk attack fell off, although Spencer continued his fine blocking.
Mrkonic was a standout in the 1952 defensive line which was tough throughout the season. Defensive power enabled the Jayhawkers to shut out TCU, Iowa State, and SMU, 13-0, 43-0 and 26-0. Santa Clara, Kansas State, and Oklahoma A&M were held to one touchdown and Nebraska and Colorado were restricted to two.
Blood Needs Year Build-Up
McCook, Neb. —(U.P.)—Albert (Toad) Harmon faces a year's lay-off in his campaign to keep the Red Cross blood banks flourishing. Harmon, who had donated 104 pints of blood, was told by doctors to allow a year for red corpuscles and hemoglobin to build up.
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Friday, Dec. 5, 1952
University Daily Kansan
OLIVER SPENCER Kansas Tackle
Phoenix—(U.P.)—The minor leagues wound up one of their most momentous conventions today with a plea to the major leagues to "help us before you destroy us."
President George M. Trautmann, who presided over the passage of legislation which could give the minors a break if the majors will support it in their big meeting next Sunday, said "we can only ask for a little cooperation."
The majors, beginning their meetings today in separate American and National league sessions will be asked to consider legislation which minor league officials think could "make or break the minors."
Minors Close Convention With Plea To Majors for Part of TV Receipts
"I have great hopes that the major leagues will discover some day that there is in this country a minor league system that can be destroyed." Trautmann said. "We can't demand.
And the majors had a little fight brewing on that in their own back yard before they ever consider proposals by the minors to give them a share of the receipts.
In the American league, six clubs, all but the Browns and White Sox, voted to continue an agreement whereby the home club can set up all of its own broadcasting and televisi- ing arrangements—as in the past.
First of all, the "have-not" big league clubs in smaller population areas and with less gate appeal, are demanding that the big guys like the mighty Yankees give them a share of their television receipts.
As it stands now, there would be no broadcasting or televising when the Browns and White Sox make a visit, but the other six clubs proposed an amendment to the league constitution which would force the others to comply. Since it takes a
nure-quarters majority to pass such a rule, it appeared that the Browns and White Sox would be cut out of their plan to black out broadcasts.
The National league had a similar problem but it was complicated by the fact that three or four clubs—the Cardinals, Reds, Pirates and perhaps the Braves—would hold the line against the so-called big city clubs in their vaster audiences.
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Big Ten Demands More Practice Time
Chicago — (U.F.) - Big Ten faculty representatives were expected to approve today a plan passed by conference coaches and athletic directors increasing spring football training from 20 to 30 days.
The coaches, meeting in Chicago, passed the proposal yesterday to prevent injuries because "the kids were not thoroughly prepared" and to give them more time to work with undeveloped talent.
The plan must be approved by the National Collegiate Athletic association convention before it can be put into effect.
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