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University Daily Kansan Wednesday. Oct. 22, 1952
By BOB NELSON Kansan Sports Writer
For the second straight week, Coach Jules V. Sikes' Jayhawker football team will receive a severe test Saturday afternoon when it battles the underrated Southern Methodist Mustangs in Dallas' fabulous gridiron palace—the Cotton Bowl.
The Kansas freshmen football team will play two games this season against conference freshmen teams.
The KU-SMU clash, the first football meeting between these grid powers, is a very important contact for Kansas. The Jayhawkers are now at the crossroads of their 1952 season. A victory Saturday over SMU is listed as a MUST on the Kansas football slate.
Coach Hub Ulrich's 43 man freshman squad will open the season against Kansas State Thursday in a night game in Manhattan. The game will start at 7:30 p.m.
Frosh 2-Tilt Season Opens Thursday Eve
Entering the second half of its 10-game schedule, Kansas owns a 4-1 record and is rated 15th in the AP's national grid poll. The Jayhawkers still have five tough ones to play—SMU, Kansas State, Nebraska, Oklahoma A&M, and Missouri.
As nearly every sports writer covering the game indicated, Kansas is still a great team . . . a team that could have easily led 27-21 late in the third quarter with a little luck.
Personally, we feel Kansas is much better than its 15th rating. In fact, it's hard to see how KU could lose much, if any, national prestige in losing 20-42 to the Mighty Sooners, a solid No. 3 choice in this week's poll.
The second and final game will be here Friday afternoon, Oct. 31, against the Missouri freshmen.
The Jayhawkers' current 15th rating probably isn't an injustice, but at the same time, KU has a golden opportunity to bounce back strong this Saturday and regain much of its lost prestige. And we fully believe the Jayhawkers will do just that.
Oklahoma's great offense against Texas left sports writers without adequate adjectives to describe what they thought they had seen. Most of them termed it one of the greatest displays of deceptive offensive power ever seen in the Cotton Bowl, or for that matter, in the long Texas-Oklaoma series.
--balance.
Here's one solid vote of confidence in KU's ability to whip the Mustangs Saturday.
The Jayhawkers will be out to show their gratitude to those who still regard them as being among the top 10, even though some football writers want a closer check on KU's comeback trail before moving Kansas up the ladder.
Yet a week later here, Oklahoma team officials and players admitted a much better overall game against Kansas than they did against Texas.
Saturday's big game with SMU is the real acid test to see just how good Kansas really is. Can the Jayhawkers live up to all the nice things said about them following the Sooner defeat? How well will they rebound after having their two-year nine-game winning streak snapped.
Our prediction . . . an impressive comeback victory, Kansas 27, SMU 14, the same touchdown margin that Georgia Tech beat the Mustangs.
By defeating the Mustangs, Kansas will have hurried its second toughest test of the season and thus own a 5-1 record. Barring an unforeseen upset, KU could well win its final four contests and finish with a great 9-1 season record, the best since the 1987 Orange. Bowl win in the 8-0-2 mark. By finishing 9-1, KU would likely finish among the top 10 and be in line for a major post-season bowl hid.
An impressive win Saturday would likely move the Jayhawkers up several notches in the national grid poll. Having beaten TCU, 27-13 and 13-0 last year and this season, much interest will center on this game to see if Kansas can make it three in a row over Southwest Conference teams.
In Southern Methodist, Kansas will be playing a truly great young unpredictable team. The Mustangs are always extra tough to beat at home in the Cotton Bowl. The Mustangs' 2-2 mark to date doesn't even start to tell of SMU's overall power—a good offense and defense team balance.
One Jayhawker Leads In Big Seven Statistics
Although the Jayhawkers still have only one individual leader in the Big Seven football chase, the men of Coach Jules Sikes are pressing hard in three more departments.
The only KU leader is backfield flash Charlie Hoag who, strangely enough, leads in the pass receiving department. The Oak Park, Ill., speedster has hauled in 8 aerials for 239 yards, 75 yards ahead of Oklahoma's Max Boydston. Despite the fact that Kansas is one of the top teams in passing, no other receiver is listed in the top 15.
In the passing department Jerry Robertson, who had the second greatest passing day in Kansas history against Oklahoma, used his 205 yards against the Sooners to pull within three yards of the leader, Tony Scardino of Missouri.
The Tiger quarterback has hit on 27 completions for 450 yards while Robertson has connected on 25 for 447. The Dallas ace has tried only 52 flings.
Reich is in second place in punt returns with a 19.6 yards average for 14 runbacks, KU's Hal Clewain-ranks fourth in the same department with 10.0 yards in four returns.
Reich again is ranked in the punting department. The Steeltown, Pa., all-around player has booted 21 times for a 34.5 yard average and an eighth place standing in the
conference. George Mrkonic is right behind Reich with 31.6 per boot.
Kansas has two backs listed in the rushing department. Hoog is in fourth place with 323 yards while Bob Brandeberry is 11th with 188 yards. Although he only gained 70 yards in the Kansas fray, Oklahoma's Buck McPhail continues to lead the rushers with 484 yards.
Oklahoma flash Buddy Leake continues to lead in the scoring column having tallied six touchdowns and 18 extra points for 54 points. Hoag ranks second with 42 points on seven TD's.
Weak U.S. Bids for Davis Cup
New York — (U.P.)— The United States will bid to regain the Davis Cup from Australia with its weakest team in years.
That point was indicated last night when the U.S. Lawn Tennis association announced the selection of Vic Seixas of Philadelphia, Hamilton Richardson of Baton Rouge, La., and Straight Clark of Pasadena, Calif., to the team that will travel to Australia.
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Fearless Fraley Picks Kansas Over Mustangs
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By OSCAR FRALEY
Balfour's
United Press Sports Writer
New York-Fraley's Follies and the weekend football winners, with some other rueful reflections on the college grid scene.
Game of the Week
The East
California over Southern Cal—Both teams are unbeaten and have fine offensive and defensive records. This is one of those old rivalries where anything can happen but California gets a shaky vote on its offensive shade.
Penn over Navy—Guys who catch punts are poor insurance risks.
Army over Columbia-Scrimimages were designed for impoverished dentists.
Princeton over Cornell—Linebackers have the most fun.
Syracuse over Holy Cross—And wind up with the most bruises.
Also: Harvard over Dartmouth, Yale over Lafayette, Pitt over West Virginia, Temple over NYU, Boston college over Fordham, Bucknell over Colgate and Boston University over Lehigh.
The Midwest
Wisconsin over UCLA-Fat full-backs look like fan dancers in red flannels.
Michigan over Minnesota—Left handed linemen are better off than left-handed catchers.
Michigan State over Penn State —Midget ends went out with the moustache cup.
Notre Dame over North Carolina Guards with gout don't charge well.
Also: Purdue over Illinois, Indiana over Northwestern, Ohio State over Iowa, Colorado over Nebraska, Kentucky over Cincinnati, Oklahoma Aggies over Detroit, Villanova over Xavier, Missouri over Iowa State and Oklahoma over Kansas State.
The South
Duke over Virginia—Football "breathers" are a bore.
Mississippi State over Alabama— Usetts are like dyed blondes.
Maryland over LSU-More fun watching the Reds and Pirates.
Upsets are like dyed blondes.
Georgia Tech over Vanderbilt—
They're here to stay.
Also: Tulane over Auburn, Tennessee over Wofford, Clemson over South Carolina, George Washington over WMI, William & Mary over Richmond, W&L over VPI.
The West
Oregon State over Washington State-Service teams cause panic.
Santa Clara over Idaho—And they really rack 'em up.
Oregon over Montana—Losing to 'em still is a defeat.
Stanford over Washington—Beating 'em means nothing.
Also: Colorado Aggies over Utah
State and Wyoming over Utah.
Texas Aggies over Baylor-Chinese laundryman "Wong Way Wun" have saying.
The Southwest
Texas over Rice—"No tickee, no shirtee."
Mississippi  over Arkansas—Confu-
ucus re-write for bettors.
Kansas over SMU—"Buy tickee,
lose shirtee."
Also: Arizona over Hardin-Simmons and Tulsa over Wichita.
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