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University Daily Kansan Thursday. Nov. 20, 1952
18 Seniors Play Last Game Saturday
ROSSMAN
GISH
REICH
CLEAVINGER
ROBERTS
SPENCER
ROBERTSON
BRANDEBERRY
FISS
A. UNRUH
BOGUE
MAYER
HOAG
MRKONIC
MURPHY
STREHLOW
Kansas Needs Victory Over Missouri To Tie Tigers for Second in Big 7
By BOB NELSON Kansan Sports Writer
Eighteen senior footballers will play their last collegiate grid contest for KU Saturday in the Missouri game at Columbia, as Coach Jules V. Sikes' Jayhawkers seek their eighth win of the season in 10 starts.
Kansas enters the always highly contested Missouri clash with a 3-2 Big Seven record as compared to the Tigers' 4-1 mark.
Win or lose, Missouri is already assured of at least a second place tie. Kansas must win Saturday or drop to a fourth place deadlock with Colorado in the final conference standings.
Nine seniors are expected to start the Missouri game-five with the defensive eleven and four with the offensive platoon.
Two other key senior starters will probably see little or no action in the game due to knee injuries. These three-year regulars are co-captain Charlie Hoag, left halfback, and big George Mrkonic, defensive left tackle.
The five defensive senior starters are: Duane Unruh, left end; Dick Rossman, guard; Merlin Gish, left back; Dwayne Luebcke, Gil Hall, halfback, and Hal Cleaver safety.
The four offensive starters include: co-captain Oliver Spencer, right tackle; Jerry Robertson, quarterback; Bob Brandeberry, right halfback, and Galen Failk, fullback.
Seven additional players make up the senior group. They are: Jerry Bogue, offensive end-defensive halfback; Bob Mayer, defensive end; Bud Roberts, center; Chet Strehlow and Jack Rodgers, quarterbacks; Arch Unruh, quarterback-defensive halfback, and Pat Murphy, defensive halfback.
With the close and happy teamwork of the sophomores and juniors, the seniors have helped Coach Sikes steer his Jayhawkler club to an impressive 7-2 won and lost mark.
In 1950, as sophomores, the current seniors compiled an overall 6-4 record and finished fourth in the Big Seven race with a 3-3 mark. In 1952, the team visited in the opener, 7-14. Nebraska at Oklahoma, 13-33, and to Missouri at Columbia, 6-20. The first three setbests were at home.
Last year, the Jayhawkers chalked up an impressive 8-2 season mark and finished third in the Big Seven (4-2) behind undefeated champion Oklahoma and Colorado (5-1). Setbacks last year were to Colorado, 27-35, and Oklahoma, 21-33, both road rames.
Kansas has compiled an overall
Kansas has dropped a pair this season in nine games, both Big Seven games at home. The Jayhawkers had a nine-game winning streak broken by Oklahoma, 20-42, and were upset at homecoming by Nebraska. 13-14.
three-year record of 21 victories against eight defeats. In Big Seven play, KU owns a combined 1950. '51 and '52 record of 10 wins and seven defeats. The Jayhawkers have an impressive 11-1 non-conference mark.
The Sikesmen currently have an 11-game non-league winning streak that dates back to a 7-14 defeat to Texas Christian university in KU's 1950 home opener.
The seniors had the distinction of playing on KU's most highly ranked football team of all time. The Jay-hawkers' fine play in the Colorado game earned Coach Sikes the award of being selected as the UP's Coach
of the Week.
The Jayhawkers have been ranked among the nation's top 20 teams all year in the Associated Press sports writers) and United Press (coaches) football polls, Kansas moved as high as 6th in the UP poll (before Oklahoma game) and rated 7th in both polls following impressive comeback victories over Southern Methodist and Kansas State. The famous 1947 Orange bowl team never ranked any higher than 13th.
But, above all, the Jayhawker seniors want to whip the Missouri Tigers Saturday. A victory is a "MUST" to make their KU grid careers successful ones. Kansas must win in order to gain a second place tie with Missouri. A KU defeat would push the Jayhawkers into a fourth place tie with Colorado in the final Big Seven standings.
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