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Mrkonic Wants to Beat MU Before He Leaves Kansas
By CHUCK MORELOCK
Audience: Senior Citizen
A "keyed up" but not overconfident Kansas team will meet Missouri at Columbia Saturday and the Jayhawkers "really want to win this one badly," according to George Mrkonic, 22-year-old, 6 foot 2 inch, 127 pound tackle.
George, first string tackle for three years, pointed out that the Jayhawk-Tiger clash will be the last college game for several KU senior players and that they would like to wind up their Kansas football careers with a victory over the arch-rival Tigers.
If the Jayhawks can whip Missouri, much of the credit will probably go to the big McKeesport, Pa., senior. George, who was named to the International News Service all-american team in 1951, has been one of the mainstays in the Kansas defensive line which has sparkled throughout the 1952 season. At the present time, he is troubled with a knee injury and sat out the Oklahoma A&M game Saturday.
He was a fullback at McKeesport high school in his freshman and sophomore years and was shifted in his junior year to defensive tackle and offensive end. The 1947 squad won the state title and played a post season tilt in the Orange bowl in Miami, Fla., on Christmas night, against a Miami high school team.
George came to KU in the fall of 1949 and nailed down a tackle shot on the freshman team. He played both on offense and defense and did most of the yearlings' punting.
The team stayed over to see the Orange bowl game on Jan. 1, 1948 which matched KU against Georgia Tech. George says that he had not heard much about the Jayhawk team but was "impressed" with them even though they dropped a 20-14 thriller to the Georgia Tech squad.
George won a first string line position at the start of his sophomore year at Kansas. He played offensive guard and defensive tackle and was chosen as one of the outstanding sophomore linemen in the Big 7.
In 1851 he was a defensive tackle only, and climaxed a great year by being picked on the INS all-American squad.
He started the first five games of the 1952 season by playing both ways. He injured a knee in the opening game with TCU, but was able to play until he had it badly banged up in the Nebraska contest.
George stated that the brilliant Oklahoma quarterback, Eddie Crowder, was the main factor involved in the 20-42 loss to the Sooners last month. "Crowder and his faking beat us," George said.
He lists as his biggest thrill in his KU football career the 27-13 victory over TCU at Fort Worth in 1951. The 1952 win over the Horned Frogs was also thrilling to him as he pointed out because the game was televised on a nation-wide hookup.
Rugged Charlie Toogood, 1950 all-conference tackle from Nebraska, is the toughest lineman George has faced. He rates Bobby Reynolds of Nebraska, Billy Vessels of Oklahoma, and Jerry Norton of SMU as the top backs he has played against.
George, a physical education major, will graduate in June. He is in advanced AFROTIC and hopes to play a year of pro football with the Los Angeles Rams before receiving his commission and subsequent call to duty in February, 1954. He must finish two hours by correspondence courses this summer which allows him the 1 year interval between his
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Big Ten May Drop Rose Bowl Games
One of the main cogs in the New York Yankee's drive to the American league pennant and the World Series title, Mickey Mantle, is in Lawrence today as a guest of Liberty Memorial High school at its annual football banquet for the school's four teams tonight.
He was married to Ruth Clayton of Lawrence in December, 1951. They have a bouncing baby boy who, according to George, "is almost big enough to play my position."
Mantle's coach in high school in Commerce, Okla., Allan Woolard, is now the head football coach at Lawrence. The young star appeared at the downtown quarterback meeting last night and will attend the dinner tonight.
Dr. John A. Hannah, president of Michigan State college, predicted that the forthcoming Rose Bowl game on New Year's day would be the last as the post-season game is now set up.
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graduation and active duty.
He said that he thinks the Big Ten conference will drop out of Rose Bowl competition after the game this year.
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Beta Theta Pi Takes IM Fraternity Crown
By RON PHILLIPS
Kansan Sports Writer
Beta Theta Pi and Jim Beam will clash this afternoon at 4 p.m. for the hill championship.
In one of the biggest upsets of the intramural football season, a smooth Beta Theta Pi squad dethroned defending fraternity champions Phi Gamma Delta yesterday 27 to 7. Other contests saw Jim Beam roll over Pearson 21 to 0 for the independent championship Beta Theta Pi trump Sigma Chi 38 to 0, for the Fraternity B section hill championship.
The victors showed a much more coordinated aerial attack than the Phi Gams, Capitalizing on the sharp passing arm of John Strawn, the Beta's hit pay dirt early in the first period on a pass to Bob Dunne.
Never slacking in their hot pace, the Beta's struck home again in the third period when Strawn passed 20 vards to Bill Ressler.
Phi Gam couldn't solve the Betas' strong defense in the first half as they remained scoreless for the first time this season.
Wally Beck saved the Phi Gams from a bitter rout by leaping high in the Beta endzone for a tally in the final period.
The Phi Gams were a completely broken team after their lone score as they allowed Strawn to pass
9th Bowl Game Gets Approval
Kansas City, Mo.—(U.P.) A ninth football bowl game the Refrigerator Bowl at Evansville, Ind.—has been certified by the NCAA committee on extra events, officials at the NCAA headquarters here announced.
The certification brings to nine the number of bowl games approved by the NCAA committee as meeting NCAA requirements and regulations governing post-season contests.
The announcement today was made the thursday headquarter in Kansas City.
The other bowls are the Rose Bowl at Pasadena, Calif.; Cotton at Dallas; Sugar at New Orleans; Orange at Miami, Fla.; Gator at Jacksonville, Fla.; Tangerine at Orlando, Fla.; Sun at El Paso, Texas; and Salad at Phoenix, Ariz.
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touchdown aerials to Jim Floyd and Mark Rivard.
Jim Beam marched to its second straight independent division championship by shutting out Pearson 19 to 0. Little or no opposition was given by the scholarship boys as they gave up touchdowns in each of the first three periods.
Bill Porter started the Jim Beam scoring in the opening period when a 30-yard pass found Charles Brether in the Pearson end zone. Huckey snared another of Porter's aerials in the next period for the second Jim Beam tally.
After an onslaught of aerial advances in the third quarter, Jim Beam drove to the Pearson 5-yard line. From that point Porter fired a dump pass to Jim Gurley in the Pearson end zone. Jay Kubik capped the afternoon's scoring for the victors by trapping a Pearson tailback behind his goal line for a safety.
Beta Theta Pi's B team captured the Fraternity B hill championship title by knocking off the Sigma Chi B squad 36 to 0. Since there are no independent B division teams, the hill championship was decided in the fraternity section.
A 20-yard pass from Curt Nettles to Bob Reed registered the first Beta tally in the first period. Sigma Chi added two points to the Beta cause by dropping the ball in its own end zone for an automatic safety.
Nettles notched the second Beta tally with a pass to Marlon McCue in the second quarter. Francis Prosser completed his second conversion of the afternoon on the following play.
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