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KU Grid Season Seen in Retrospect
By CHUCK MORELOCK
Kansas
Kansan Assistant Sports Editor
Kansas again enjoyed another fairly successful postwar football season and in spite of a stiff schedule and injuries to key mer posted a 7-3 mark for 1952. $ \textcircled{4} $
The Jayhawkers took four straight games to open the campaign before falling to a powerhouse Oklahoma team. They rebounded to blank Southern Methodist but were plagued with injuries from then on to lose two of the last three games by one point.
KU 13. TCU 0
Texas Christian was the Jayhawkers' first victim, falling 13-0 in a game that was televised nationally.
Kansas took a 6-0 first quarter lead when Gil Reich passed to John Konek in the TCU end zone. The Jayhawkers hiked the lead in the third period to 13-0 on Reich's shrot flip to Bob Brandeberry.
The Broncos took a 9-7 halftime lead when Jack Daly kicked a 31 yard field goal. The Jayhawkers had gone ahead in the second period on Brandeberry's three yard plunge into the end zone.
Defensive ends Morris Kay and Don Bracelin played a great game to bottle up the TCU fumed spread formation attack. Tailback Ray McKown was the sparkplug for the Horned Frog attack and picked up over 100 yards on passing. However, the Jayhawkers defensive was tough in the clutch to hand TCU its first shutout loss in years.
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A rugged Santa Clara squad gave the Jayhawkers a tough fight in their second game before losing 21-9.
KU 21. Santa Clara 9
KU 21. CU 12
Hal Cleavinger and Reich teamed up to put Kansas ahead to stay in the third period. Cleavinger took a Santa Clara punt, gave the ball to Reich on a handoff, and Reich raced 70 yards down the sidelines to score.
Two tremendous goal line stands gave the Jayhawkers a 21-22 victory over Colorado and win number three for the season.
Kansas thwarted two Buffalo bids take the lead in the second half by stopping Colorado on the KU one and two-yard lines. Charlie Hoag scored the clinching Kansas touchdown when he raced 66 yards up the middle in the last quarter.
Hoag scored the other two Kansas touchdowns by taking a Jerry Robertson pass in the second quarter and plunging 6 yards into the end zone in the first.
KU 43, I-State 0
The Jayhawkers invaded Iowa State the following Saturday and came home with a one-sided 43-0 victory.
Hoag scored three touchdowns to lead the Kansas attack. Brandeberry, Reich, and John Simons scored three more to hand I-State the loss.
The Cyclones drove to the Kansas 2-yard line in the first half, but fumbled and were never able to threaten again.
KU 20, OU 42
Quarterback Eddie Crowder of Oklahoma dazzled a sell-out crowd of 40,000 in Lawrence to hand the Javahawks their first loss. 42-20.
Crowder gave the crowd an indication of things to come in the first quarter when he faked a handoff to Buck McPhail and passed to end Max Boydston all on the KU 20. Boydston ran the remaining distance for the score to tie the game at 7 all.
Crowder overshadowed a great passing exhibition by Jerry Robertson to lead the Sooners to victory. His faking and ball handling kept the Jayhawker defense confused all noodle players. Opposing homa backs to ramble at will through and around the Jayhawker line.
KU 26. SMU 0
Kansas roared back from the loss to blank Southern Methodist 26-0 before 30,000 in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas.
Haog had one of his greatest days of his football career in scoring three of the Kansas touchdowns.
Hoag made two great catches of Robertson passes and burst 14 yards through the line for the scores. The Jayhawker defense was outstanding and stopped two SMU drives deep in Kansas territory.
KU 26. K-State 6
Reich broke up a 6-6 deadlock by passing for two touchdowns and running for a third in a third quarter scoring spree in the Kansas State contest, won by Kansas 26-6. A Fighting Wildest team outlived
A fighting Wildcat team outplayed the heavily favored Kansas squad
The Rams, Chicago Bears and Eagles pulled the upsets that tightened the already close competition. San Francisco and Detroit started the day tied for the National lead, while Cleveland held a one game edge in the American.
Nebraska scored the tying touchdown late in the fourth quarter by recovering a Kansas fumble deep in KU territory. A 15 yard penalty on the next play moved the ball to the Jayhawk 1-yard line and allowed the Cornhuskers to score seconds later. Bobby Reynolds converted to give Nebraska a one point lead and the game.
Kansas played without Charlie Hoag, Harold Patterson, John Konek, and George Mrkonic and could not mount a consistent offense.
in the first half to gain the halftime tie. Kansas State ran out of gas after the intermission, however, to suffer its eight straight loss to the Jayhawkers.
Nebraska and the rain spoiled Kansas homecoming and the crippled
KU 13. NU 14
The Jayhawkers almost were upset on again on the following Saturday by Oklahoma A&M, but great defensive play in the clutch gave Kansas a 12-7 win.
KU 12. Oklahoma A&M 7
Los Angeles stretched its victory string to five by whipping San Francisco, 35-9; the Bears snapped a five-game Detroit winning streak, 77-72; behind the magnificent play of makeshift quarterback George Blanda; and the Eagles surprised Cleveland, 28-20.
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The Jayhawkers stopped the Aggies on the 1-yard line in the last quarter after previously halting several A&M drives. Bob Brandeberry plunged over for the winning touchdown early in the fourth quarter.
Seniors Take Class All-Star
Woodley Lewis returned a punt 83 yards to give Los Angeles a 7-0 halftime lead and Van Brocklin pitched a 46-yard scoring pass to end Elroy Hirsch early in the third period. Van Brocklin's passes also set up two short touchdown dashes by halfback Vitamin Smith in the last period and halfback Dwyer made the other Ram TD when he ran 54 yards with a fumble.
By RON PHILLIPS
New York- (U.R.)- It took five hours of coin-tossing to decide the various National Football League playoff possibilities and it looked like time well spent today as four teams shared the National conference leadership, while three others were tied for first in the American conference.
All seven top clubs have 6-3 records with three games to play. The National conference could end up in a four-way tie and the American could wind up in a three-way deadlock to back commissioner Bert Bell's prediction of the closest division races in the league's history.
The Los Angeles Rams, San Francisco Forty-Niners, Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers were deadlocked for the top spot in the National. The Cleveland Browns, New York Giants and Philadelphia Eagles shared the American lead after yesterday's action.
A final period safety was all that was needed by the seniors to topple the juniors 8 to 6. After a scoreless first quarter, the juniors broke through the senior defense in the second period for the first tally of the duel.
In the class championship football tourney playoffs Friday, the senior class walked off with the first place laurels.
The sophomore class won its consolation match with the freshmen by forfeit when too few freshmen were present at game time.
In the other games, the Packers crushed Dallas, 42-14; the Giants rallied to beat the Washington Redskins, 14-10; and the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Chicago Cardinals, 17-14.
Blanda, a "re-tread" quarterback, was the hero of the Bear victory over Detroit. Blanda, a place-kicking specialist playing his first full game of the season at quarterback, threw three touch-down passes—including the decisive one to end Ed Sprinkle with nine seconds to go—kicked three extra points and a 26-yard field goal. Jack Christiansen appeared to have won the game for the Lions when he scored on a 79-yard punt return with less than two minutes to go. But Blanda ate up 67 yards with two passes, then snapped a short TD pass to Sprinkle and kicked the game-winning point.
A rugged defense and the passing of Norm Van Brocklin—the same combination that enabled Los Angeles to beat the Cleveland Browns in the 1951 title game—gave the Rams an easy triumph
Jim Morehead, junior all-star sparkplug, instigated the touchdown by firing a pass to Bill Blair in the senior end zone. Both teams remained scoreless in the third quarter.
It was now or never for the seniors as the final period started, and they made the most of it. Al Armstrong and Bob Dunne, senior passers, began to find men open. After a surge of completed aerials the seniors hit pay dirt for the first time in the afternoon.
When the seniors missed their extra point attempt, the score was tied at 6 to 6. The upperclassmen started another offensive drive in the waning minutes of the game, however, and drove deep into junior territory.
An enthused junior defense proved impregnable to the senior drive, and the underclassmen took possession of the ball on downs. It looked as though the juniors were out of a hole, but Tom Johnson, senior lineman, thought differently.
This year's class tourney ended with each class ranked as they are at the University. The seniors placed first, juniors second, sophomores third and freshmen fourth.
Breaking through the junior offensive line, Johnson caught Morehead in his end zone for a safety and the winning points.
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Oliver Spencer, Kansas right tackle starter on offense, was placed on the NEA's first team all-American football squad, it was announced today.
NEA Selects Spencer On All-American Team
Two other Jayhawkers, along with seven other Big Seven performers, also won positions on the all-star slate. Gil Reich, defensive halfback and offensive quarterback for the Jules Sikes' football machine, was
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placed on the second defensive platoon, while Charlie Hoag, ace halfback hampered the last four games by injuries, received honorable mention.
Conference champion Oklahoma placed two on the first string offensive squad in center Tom Catlin and halfback Billy Vessels. The Sooners grabbed three other backfield positions in the honorable mention class.
Veryl Switzer, defensive performer at Kansas State, was on the second defensive platoon with Reich. Colorado and Nebraska each took one honorable mention position.
Walcott, Marciano Schedule Rematch
"I've agreed to box. Walcutt in
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"match would be, all, right, with me."
Chicago—(U.P.)—James D. Norris, president of the International Boxing club, today said Jersey Joe Walcott will get a rematch with heavy-weight champion Rocky Marciano in March.
Norris said the date and place of the fight will be announced soon, but at Los Angeles, Marciano's manager Al Weill said it would be held either in San Francisco or Chicago. The choice "all depends upon the details involved in each spot," he said.
Weill previously was reported to be holding out for a June match so that it could be held outdoors in New York's Yankee Stadium.
Spencer, co-captain with Charlie Hoag this season, raised eyebrows in every game this season with his terrific blocking. The 6 foot 2 inch, 220 pound senior from Ulysses along with guard George Helmstaddter was the only returning man from the offensive line when fall practice opened, and seldom saw relief from his right tackle slot.
Spencer was a member of the 1951 offensive second squad and was picked on the all-Big Seven team.
Reich was a double threat for the Javahawkers, splitting defensive and offensive chores. He was tremendous as a defensive back and clued several games by making clutch tackles to stop enemy threats. Reich spelled Jerry Robertson at quarter throughout the season and threw several touchdown passes.
KU Will Not Run In NCAA Meet
"We will stick by our team vote and general consensus of opinion and not enter the NCAA cross country track meet today," Kansas Track Coach Bill Easton has announced.
The Kansas squad decided it would be to its best advantage not to enter the meet in a squad meeting early last week and the NCAA was notified of the fact. However, stories released nation-wide Sunday had Kansas as one of the favorites and Wes Santee as one of the two expected individual leaders.
The Jayhawkers, after taking the Big Seven conference meet here a week ago, found themselves at the lowest physical ebb of the season. Art Dalzell, the squad's No. 2 man, and Dick Wilson, both ran in the conference meet under handicaps and wouldn't be ready for the national meet.
"We are going to try to duplicate our feat of last year in winning the three conference track titles, and there's no use killing our boys off now," Easton said. "We are giving them a good rest"
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